US DAY OF RAGE: OCCUPY WALL STREET, BEGINS TODAY (Sept. 17, 2011)

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Revolution is happening in the USA
source: press tv

Inspired by the popular uprisings in Muslim countries, the anti-imperialist 'Occupy Wall Street' protests are creeping with vigorous rapidity into other states in the USA.


Basically highlighting the economic plight taking hold of the country, the protesters of the 'Occupy Wall Street' Movement are seeking to introduce the factors behind the plight.

One of the posts on the Occupy Wall Street website reads: “We are unions, students, teachers, veterans, first responders, families, the unemployed and underemployed. We are all races, sexes and creeds. We are the majority. We are the 99 percent. And we will no longer be silent.”

The protesters have targeted the Wall Street because they want “to create a national narrative and have it be known how the states are taking state revenues that are being funneled to banks and corporations and then you layer on top of that the fact that they're not obligated to pay their fair share of taxes, and so that's billions and billions of dollars that could be put toward job creation and creating solutions to the housing crisis,” Rachel Laforest, the executive director of the Right to the City Alliance has told ABC News.

It is very painful to see that the middle-class Americans who have been reduced to abject poverty should now swallow their pride and capitulate to any humiliating position as they have lost their veritable status.

The protests are reaching other states as well. American activists are going to begin “Occupy Los Angeles” in solidarity with the Occupy Wall Street protests. Similar protests are taking place in Chicago and other major states. Although some cynics have tried to downplay the protests in New York and reduce them to sheer acts of protests by loafers, the truth is that they have already expressed their intention for these protests: they feel deceived by a system which has allowed Wall Street to wallow in its avarice and cause a financial meltdown and virtually shut down the country's economy. The demands of the protesters are gradually coming to light as they are being more organized. One of the innovative measures adopted by the protesters was the launching of a new Tumblr blog called “We Are the 99 Percent” in reference to the fact that 99 percent of Americans are experiencing economic hardship while only one percent are in possession of an ideal life. The blog features a series of handwritten notes regarding different economic hardships including debt, unemployment, lack of health insurance and few available jobs. It clearly and painfully states:

We are the 99 percent. We are getting kicked out of our homes. We are forced to choose between groceries and rent. We are denied quality medical care. We are suffering from environmental pollution. We are working long hours for little pay and no rights, if we're working at all. We are getting nothing while the other 1 percent is getting everything. We are the 99 percent.

Taken aback by the recent developments in the country, Washington is seeking desperately to dig a way out without further ado as other internal and external crises have begun to shake the very pillars of the American political system. One of the main crises challenging the US government is widespread poverty crippling the entire country. A report released in September by the Census Bureau reveals that another 2.6 million people plunged into poverty in the United States last year, bringing the number of the Americans living below the poverty line to 46.2 million people, that is, the highest number in 52 years. In other words, 15% of the USA- one in six Americans - are considered poor. The number of children living in poverty has increased in 42 states. The report containing these chilling numbers comes as a great shock to the US President Barack Obama, who is currently getting ready to pass a jobs bill, and this can well be, as Ron Haskins, a director of the Center on Children and Families at the Brookings Institution notes, yet 'another cross to bear by the US administration' and 'one more piece of bad news on the economy.”

There is yet another crisis which is dipping the country into more poverty: that is, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. The US military costs exceed $3.7 trillion and can reach as high as $4.4 trillion, according to the research project “Costs of War” by Brown University's Watson Institute for International Studies. (http://www.costsofwar.org). In a radical move, “Costs of War” brought together over 20 academics to reveal the expense of war in lives and dollars in order to unveil the ugly face of the US lies. The war expenditures have been imposed on the US citizens' taxes which could have been used for the welfare of the people.

Calamity upon calamity is coming to the US government and Washington is taking a head-in-the-sand position in the face of the new protests which started on Wall Street on September 17 and have spread to other states. Strangely enough, the protests have not been accorded due coverage by Western media which conversely monitor the developments in North Africa and the Middle East with eyes wide open.

As the situation stands, a revolution is manifestly bound to happen no matter what the consequences might be. Under the influence of the popular uprisings in the Islamic world better known as 'Arab Spring' inspired by Iran's Islamic revolution back in 1979, the American community has begun to wake up and has decided to carve out their own fate instead of feeling their way in the dark.

Now the US government which is wont to poke its nose wherever there is a popular uprising in order to reap its future benefits has to sit down and observe with perturbation the revolution which is spreading everywhere and drowning the entire political system.

-- Ismail Salami is an Iranian journalist and author. A prolific writer, he has authored numerous books and articles on the Middle East some of which have been translated into more than ten languages. His analysis can be found on many other online publications such as Veterans Today, Global Research, Palestine Chronicle, Dissident Voice, Foreign Policy Journal, Media Monitors, Salem News, Opinion Maker, Intifada Palestine, Iran Review, Counter Currents, Turkish Weekly Journal, Intrepid Report and Ramallah Online.

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Protesters march on NYPD headquarters
source: press tv

About 2,000 anti-corporate demonstrators marched Friday from a protest camp they have occupied near Wall Street to the headquarters of the New York Police Department.

The noisy but peaceful rally was the largest since anti-Wall Street activists occupied a small park in lower Manhattan two weeks ago to protest corporate bailouts and corporate influence in politics.

HIGHLIGHTS

It was the first time the protestors tried marching on New York's high-tech police headquarters at One Police Plaza, the nerve center of one of the world's most sophisticated security services. Rawstory

More than 1,000 people marched past City Hall and arrived at a plaza outside police headquarters in the late afternoon. Reuters

Some held banners criticizing police, while others chanted: “We are the 99 percent” and “The banks got bailed out, we got sold out.” Reuters

The protest came less than a week after police arrested 80 people during a march to the bustling Union Square shopping district, the most arrests by New York police at a demonstration since hundreds were detained outside the Republican National Convention in 2004. MSNBC

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‘Occupy Wall Street’ Protesters in NYC Decry Corruption, GreedPosted by Sean ⋅
October 1, 2011

Since mid-September, several hundred protesters have been camped out on a plaza in the heart of New York’s financial district. They call their leaderless movement “Occupy Wall Street” and they are opposed to what they say is a government controlled by corporate money and the growing income gap between the very wealthy and the rest of America.

The office workers and construction crews who lunch in Zuccotti Park on weekdays have had to make way for the colorful, messy encampment. They step around the home-made signs arrayed along the plaza making the demonstrators’ anti-corporate case: “Capitalism is a Violent Monopoly!” and “There Is No Economy on a Dead Planet – End Corporate Ecocide.”

Community organizer Naif Littles spelled out the basic agenda.

“We need to stop these huge corporations, particularly the big banks on Wall Street, from controlling our members of Congress,” he said. “The top 400 richest Americans have more wealth than 150 million Americans combined.”

Most of the protestors appear to be in their 20s. Some say they have huge college debts, but can’t find jobs. Julien Harrison has a master’s degree, $50,000 in student debt, and wants to be a teacher. He’s been able to find only manual labor.

“Of course, they’re laying off teachers all over the country,” he said. “It’s getting more and more competitive. I just came from Portland. There’s people with Ph.Ds, masters, undergraduate degrees competing to be a barista at a coffee shop.”

So, he’s a fulltime protester, for now. The demonstrators have made themselves at home, setting up a first-aid station staffed by an emergency medical technician, a haphazard library along one wall of the plaza, and a “kitchen,” where donated meals – mostly pizza – are distributed. Some have even brought in armchairs, and queen-size mattresses. Others nap on the cement.

Hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons was the most recent celebrity visitor to offer support. Actress Susan Sarandon and filmmaker activist Michael Moore also have stopped by.

“I’m here in solidarity to all the people who are protesting the money-grab and the fierce class warfare that’s been waged on the poor and under-served,” Simmons told the crowd. His listeners recited his words back to him, using what the group calls a “human mic” to amplify the sound, since megaphones are not permitted in the park.

New Yorkers and tourists at Zuccotti Park have varied reactions to the ragtag incursion. Richard Oranger, who said he worked in insurance, expressed contempt.

“Lazy bum Marxist freeloaders,” he said. “Their sign right there saying capitalism doesn’t work? Oh yeah, it doesn’t work?” He gestures sarcastically at the skyscrapers above. “Capitalism built this city up!”

Retired social worker Diane Lloyd wholly approved.

“I’m extremely angry,” she said. “In my opinion most of the problems, the economic problems were caused knowingly by financiers. They are making tons of money after hurting tons of people, and Main Street is suffering.”

“I think it’s very true,” agreed Anne Glass, a tourist from Ireland. “It’s the same all over the world. Same in Ireland. Greedy people, that’s all it is.”

The protest began with a call in July by a group called Adbusters, but has no formal organization. Protesters meet each day to discuss strategies and goals. Everyone has an equal voice. The demonstrators also assemble for rallies in support of workers and other causes, and for frequent marches on Wall Street.

“We are the 99 percent,” they chant. And “Banks got bailed out, we got sold out!”

New York police are with them wherever they go. During a march on September 24, police arrested about 80 people, and used what several onlookers said was undue force. One high-ranking officer, a deputy inspector, sprayed pepper spray in the faces of several demonstrators, including a group of women who had been fenced in by police netting. A police spokesman said the department is investigating the incidents.

There has been no violence since then, and protestors make a point of thanking the police and chanting “professionalism, courtesy, respect!” as they set out on their marches.

Some critics say that “Occupy Wall Street” is too unfocused to gain traction. Supporters reply that it is an exercise in direct democracy – and that their aims are coherent. They say they will keep their demonstration going even into the winter months. Several other New York community groups and several labor unions have announced they will join in the rallies, and meet in Washington for a similar protest being planned a few blocks from the White House.

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'Revolts to spread to 40 US cities'
source: press tv

The ongoing protests against corporate corruption and Washington's financial policies in New York and several other US cities will spread to 40 major American cities, a political activist tells Press TV.

“It is a beginning. There are already 'Occupy' actions planned for 30 to 40 other American cities,” Kathy McConaghie said on Saturday.

“We are leading up to the October 2011 occupation in Freedom Square in Washington D.C, which will be an ongoing occupation and will involve many, many groups of people who intend to stay there,” she added.

The rallies originally started in New York two weeks ago under the name of “Occupy Wall Street” when activists and demonstrators announced their intention to seize the heart of the US financial transactions in protest at dire economic conditions believed to be caused by the excessive greed of the America's big corporations.

The movement has now grown dramatically and spread to other major cities across the country.

McConaghie predicts that the corporations and the media would try to put more pressure on the movement in order to make it seem without any outlined objectives.

However, the activist argues that the American nation is “awakening,” saying, “As more people join this movement, its outlines will be fleshed out and it will be less likely that they can be marginalized.”

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The Best Among Us
source: http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/10...best-among-us/

Choose. But choose fast. The state and corporate forces are determined to crush this. They are not going to wait for you. They are terrified this will spread.
This is what it means to be alive. They are the best among us

by Chrish Hedges

“There are no excuses left. Either you join the revolt taking place on Wall Street and in the financial districts of other cities across the country or you stand on the wrong side of history. Either you obstruct, in the only form left to us, which is civil disobedience, the plundering by the criminal class on Wall Street and accelerated destruction of the ecosystem that sustains the human species, or become the passive enabler of a monstrous evil. Either you taste, feel and smell the intoxication of freedom and revolt or sink into the miasma of despair and apathy. Either you are a rebel or a slave.

To be declared innocent in a country where the rule of law means nothing, where we have undergone a corporate coup, where the poor and working men and women are reduced to joblessness and hunger, where war, financial speculation and internal surveillance are the only real business of the state, where even habeas corpus no longer exists, where you, as a citizen, are nothing more than a commodity to corporate systems of power, one to be used and discarded, is to be complicit in this radical evil. To stand on the sidelines and say “I am innocent” is to bear the mark of Cain; it is to do nothing to reach out and help the weak, the oppressed and the suffering, to save the planet. To be innocent in times like these is to be a criminal. Ask Tim DeChristopher.


Picture by @fiascostreeteam
Choose. But choose fast. The state and corporate forces are determined to crush this. They are not going to wait for you. They are terrified this will spread. They have their long phalanxes of police on motorcycles, their rows of white paddy wagons, their foot soldiers hunting for you on the streets with pepper spray and orange plastic nets. They have their metal barricades set up on every single street leading into the New York financial district, where the mandarins in Brooks Brothers suits use your money, money they stole from you, to gamble and speculate and gorge themselves while one in four children outside those barricades depend on food stamps to eat. Speculation in the 17th century was a crime. Speculators were hanged. Today they run the state and the financial markets. They disseminate the lies that pollute our airwaves. They know, even better than you, how pervasive the corruption and theft have become, how gamed the system is against you, how corporations have cemented into place a thin oligarchic class and an obsequious cadre of politicians, judges and journalists who live in their little gated Versailles while 6 million Americans are thrown out of their homes, a number soon to rise to 10 million, where a million people a year go bankrupt because they cannot pay their medical bills and 45,000 die from lack of proper care, where real joblessness is spiraling to over 20 percent, where the citizens, including students, spend lives toiling in debt peonage, working dead-end jobs, when they have jobs, a world devoid of hope, a world of masters and serfs.

The only word these corporations know is more. They are disemboweling every last social service program funded by the taxpayers, from education to Social Security, because they want that money themselves. Let the sick die. Let the poor go hungry. Let families be tossed in the street. Let the unemployed rot. Let children in the inner city or rural wastelands learn nothing and live in misery and fear. Let the students finish school with no jobs and no prospects of jobs. Let the prison system, the largest in the industrial world, expand to swallow up all potential dissenters. Let torture continue. Let teachers, police, firefighters, postal employees and social workers join the ranks of the unemployed. Let the roads, bridges, dams, levees, power grids, rail lines, subways, bus services, schools and libraries crumble or close. Let the rising temperatures of the planet, the freak weather patterns, the hurricanes, the droughts, the flooding, the tornadoes, the melting polar ice caps, the poisoned water systems, the polluted air increase until the species dies.

Who the hell cares? If the stocks of ExxonMobil or the coal industry or Goldman Sachs are high, life is good. Profit. Profit. Profit. That is what they chant behind those metal barricades. They have their fangs deep into your necks. If you do not shake them off very, very soon they will kill you. And they will kill the ecosystem, dooming your children and your children’s children. They are too stupid and too blind to see that they will perish with the rest of us. So either you rise up and supplant them, either you dismantle the corporate state, for a world of sanity, a world where we no longer kneel before the absurd idea that the demands of financial markets should govern human behavior, or we are frog-marched toward self-annihilation.

Those on the streets around Wall Street are the physical embodiment of hope. They know that hope has a cost, that it is not easy or comfortable, that it requires self-sacrifice and discomfort and finally faith. They sleep on concrete every night. Their clothes are soiled. They have eaten more bagels and peanut butter than they ever thought possible. They have tasted fear, been beaten, gone to jail, been blinded by pepper spray, cried, hugged each other, laughed, sung, talked too long in general assemblies, seen their chants drift upward to the office towers above them, wondered if it is worth it, if anyone cares, if they will win. But as long as they remain steadfast they point the way out of the corporate labyrinth.

This is what it means to be alive. They are the best among us.

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American Spring? 'Occupy Wall Street just the beginning'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sygV7...&feature=share

Police in New York have violently dispersed an anti-Wall Street rally, arresting more than seven hundred people after a dramatic showdown on Brooklyn bridge. Thousands joined the movement dubbed 'Occupy Wall street' - in protest against what they call corporate domination. Radio host and author Stephen Lendman says the ever expanding protest shows awareness is growing among Americans that the country is run by people they never elected.

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US Protests: 'People aware Wall Street is real enemy'
source: RT NEWS

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBx9w...&feature=share

Police in New York have violently dispersed an anti-Wall Street rally, arresting more than seven hundred people after a dramatic showdown on Brooklyn bridge. Thousands joined the movement dubbed 'Occupy Wall Street' - in protest against what they call corporate domination. James Corbett, editor of independent news website http://www.corbettreport.com says the police brutality may provoke an escalation of violence.

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and THE FILIPINOS AWARE, "THE OLIGARCHS" (KAPAMILYA INC, KAMAG-ANAK INC, LUCIO TAN, MANNY PANGILINAN ETC) ARE REAL ENEMY.

HUMANDA KAYO!

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and THE FILIPINOS AWARE, "THE OLIGARCHS" (KAPAMILYA INC, KAMAG-ANAK INC, LUCIO TAN, MANNY PANGILINAN ETC) ARE REAL ENEMY.

HUMANDA KAYO!

that Kapamilya Inc., Kamag-anak Inc., as well as ABiaS CBNonsense and OINKquirer, are obviously blatant OLIGARCHS, but could you elaborate more on Lucio Tan and Manny Panglinan?


Villar also once mentioned about these Oligarchs attacking his person and family to put in position their incompetent puppet that this country is now suffering from, saying he cannot be as clean "as these hypocrites are," and among those mentioned are the Cojuangcos, Madrigals and Aranetas.

not to mention the Makati Business Club that put in position an incompetent tourism official who wasted millions with a plagiarized and utterly mediocre slogan.

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US protesters vow cast-iron resolve
source: press tv
oct 3, 2011

Anti-Wall Street protesters have pledged to press ahead with their demonstrations, despite the detention so far of hundreds of the demonstrators by the police.


Hundreds of protesters have poured onto the streets in New York and other major US cities to protest at poverty, unemployment, corporatism, social inequality, and other shortcomings that have been plaguing the country for more than three years amid a nationwide economic crisis.

"In an hour or two, we'll be somewhere else protesting," said a spokesman for the demonstrators in New York on Sunday, Reuters reported.

Latest news reports have put the number of those detained by police in the NYC metropolitan area alone at more than 1,000.

The rallies originally started over two weeks ago under the banner 'Occupy Wall Street,' when activists and demonstrators announced their intention to seize the US financial district in protest at the dire economic conditions, which they said were, caused by corporate greed.

Similarly, many demonstrators have taken to the streets in Chicago and Los Angeles. They have been carrying antiwar placards and expressing frustration with the country's high unemployment rate, which stood at 9.10 percent for August.

Some of the protesters say the idea to occupy the financial center was inspired by the popular uprisings of the past months in the Middle Eastern and North African countries.

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"Occupy" protest movement takes over LA
source: press tv
oct. 3, 2011

Several hundred demonstrators are now occupying Los Angeles City Hall.


The "occupy Los Angeles" event follows ongoing protests aimed at Wall Street in New York.

The Occupy Los Angeles movement is part of a coordinated nationwide effort.

Protesters here are rallying against a number of issues including limiting corporate profits, job creation and cuts in government money toward education.

Demonstrator say they are frustrated at the special treatment banks receive at a time when many Americans are struggling.

A large number of them are unemployed, despite looking for a job for several years. And some of them dropped out of college in order to join the occupy movement.

Los Angeles Police officers have been monitoring the demonstration from the start.

Protesters say they're aware of the questionable tactics police in New York are using on protesters who are occupying Wall Street.

Volunteers from the National Lawyers Guild are at City Hall, educating protesters about their legal rights in the event that they're confronted by police.

But activists say they believe the police will eventually side with them, because their future is at risk too.

Protesters say the occupy movement is tapping into the fear and concerns shared by people across America.

They say that's why the protests are getting larger each day and spreading from coast to coast.

Protesters say they plan to occupy city hall for as long as it takes to send their message.

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NY Violence: 'Media happy to show protests but not in our backyards'
from RT news

A wave of public discontent in the U.S. shows no sign of abating, following Saturday's protest, where hundreds of peaceful demonstrators were arrested, sparking accusations of heavy-handed policing. Defiant anti-Wall street activists refuse to back down, saying more marches against corporate greed and social inequality are in the pipeline. Both the crackdown on Wall street and the way existing financial institutions are run, show that 'U.S. democracy' is just an empty phrase - that's according to UK-based investigative journalist Tony Gosling.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AAlh2LwaEM

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Wall Street protesters approve 'Declaration of Occupation'

http://www.presstv.com/usdetail/202528.html

The New York City General Assembly - the decision-making body for the "Occupy Wall Street" protest in lower Manhattan - approved a statement of purpose on Friday amid concerns that the movement lacked a clear message.


As corporations enjoy near record profits and Americans face staggering unemployment, protesters have pledged to occupy Wall Street in lower Manhattan until something is done about corporate greed and the influence of the wealthy on American politics. The protesters have been camped out in New York's old Liberty Plaza, now called Zuccotti Park, since September 17.


“As we gather together in solidarity to express a feeling of mass injustice, we must not lose sight of what brought us together,” the declaration stated. “We write so that all people who feel wronged by the corporate forces of the world can know that we are your allies.”


“As one people, united, we acknowledge the reality: that the future of the human race requires the cooperation of its members; that our system must protect our rights, and upon corruption of that system, it is up to the individuals to protect their own rights, and those of their neighbors; that a democratic government derives its just power from the people, but corporations do not seek consent to extract wealth from the people and the Earth; and that no true democracy is attainable when the process is determined by economic power.”


"We come to you at a time when corporations, which place profit over people, self-interest over justice, and oppression over equality, run our governments. We have peaceably assembled here, as is our right, to let these facts be known." Raw Story



FACTS & FIGURES

On September 17th, 2011, men and women of all races, backgrounds, political and religious beliefs, began to gather in a nonviolent protest in New York to protest against greed and graft on Wall Street and the ensuing ramifications on U.S. polity and economy.


The protests have now spread across the nation as the U.S. police have embarked on a crackdown on protesters, arresting hundreds of them amid the mainstream media's sparse coverage of the unprecedented recent protests in America.


The movement, now in its third week, has spread from a handful of protesters in New York's Zuccotti Park to demonstrations in Boston, Washington, Denver, Los Angeles and other cities. Pri.org


In Seattle, protesters gathered at Westlake Park on Saturday morning to protest against corporations influence on the government. More than 100 people participated in "Occupy Seattle," according to the event's organizers.

On Friday, about 2,000 anti-corporate demonstrators marched from a protest camp they have occupied near Wall Street to the headquarters of the New York Police Department.

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Occupy Washington inspired by Arab spring
source: press tv
http://www.presstv.com/usdetail/202409.html

Starting on October 6, 2011, thousands of concerned Americans will assemble in Freedom Plaza, in Washington DC to protest the U.S. war in Afghanistan and alleged government corruption.


According to David Swanson, an American activist and author and one of the organizers of the protest movement 'Occupy Washington' is an idea put together back in May or June inspired by the Arab spring.


He told Press TV's US desk that 'Occupy Wall Street' has been another source of encouragement for the organizers of this event. He said being corrupted is an active decision on the part of government officials.

Swanson says he expects a lot of young and old people to be joining in.

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Times grow harder for the US working class

Oct. 2, 2011 - According to figures released last week, median wages have continued to fall across the board in the U.S. since 2006, and have never fully recovered from the 2000-01 financial crises when the dotcom bubble burst.


The latest income figures from the U.S. census bureau show that the downward pressures that have been felt for years are spreading to the rest of the middle class.


For male workers in the U.S., the long-term trends are even bleaker. What's happened to the American man since the early 70s is quite dramatic, said Michael Greenstone, a senior fellow at the Washington-based Brookings Institution think tank.


To put that into perspective, in real terms it takes men back to where they were in the 1950s, said Mr. Greenstone. I don't think there's been a period in American history where you've seen such a large, systemic, long-term decline. FT.com



HIGHLIGHTS

The trend towards more liberalized trade policy and the steady deterioration of union power since the Reagan presidency has killed jobs. Financial Times


As the labor force has fractured and becomes more flexible, increasing numbers of men have started working part-time or in short-term contracts. When part-time workers are included, the median wage for the U.S. man has dropped 28 per cent since 1970 in real terms. Brookings Institution


In the 1950s, about a third of the U.S. workforce was unionized; by 2006 the figure had dropped to 12 per cent. As a result of this decline, and a more flexible job market, the path whereby a young man would choose a profession, train, join a union and follow in his father's footsteps is increasingly rare. FT.com





FACTS & FIGURES

The number of "low income jobs" in the U.S. has risen steadily over the past 30 years and they now account for 41 percent of all jobs in the United States. Businessinsider.com


According to a new report from the AFL-CIO, the average CEO made 343 times more money than the average American did last year. economyincrisis.org


The poorest 50% collectively own just 2.5% of all the wealth in the United States. Businessinsider.com

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Occupy Wallstreet - Occupy NYPD HQ Plaza 30th September 2011 - No Sound

Captured from Fox News Helicopter Cam.

This is the original clip, without a soundtrack

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6Kor...&feature=share

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OCCUPY TORONTO OCT 15: Protesters Rise Up @ King & York

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDN9Y...&feature=share

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Wall Street occupation inspires Canadian protesters
Josh Visser, CTVNews.ca Staff

Inspired by protesters along Wall Street and in other U.S. cities, hundreds are expected to occupy Toronto's Bay Street in two weeks to air their various grievances against the financial system and its wealthiest companies.

The protest near Wall Street in New York is entering its third week, and doesn't appear to be slowing down. In fact, a police crackdown has only emboldened protesters and some are now expecting the "occupation" to continue into the winter.

The organizers of Occupy Toronto plan to descend on King and Bay Streets on the morning of Saturday, Oct. 15 to set a base of operation to prepare for a march on that Monday. Organizers hope the occupation will last into the following week.

It's not clear how or if the goals of the Occupy Toronto organizers differ from their American counterparts. In the U.S., the main complaints have been bank bailouts, the lack of financial oversight that led to recession, foreclosures and high unemployment.

Canada bailed out its auto industry but not its banks, and many of the problems that have plagued the American financial system do not have easy parallels north of the border.

But the U.S. protests suggest Occupy Toronto could have a greater reach than its core demonstrators, which includes veterans of the G20 in summer 2010.

Recently, some unions have begun demonstrating with the Wall Street protest, which suggests the movement could receive some well organized and heavily financed support.

Some commentators have compared the protests to a left-wing version of the initial stages of the Tea Party movement. However, one of the main criticisms of the New York movement is that it is leaderless and has dozens of different answers for "why are you here and what do you want?"

The Occupy Toronto Market Exchange held its first meeting on Sept. 29. The group had about 2,400 "likes" on Facebook as of Friday evening, with more than 600 people planning on "attending" the action.

A video clip posted to YouTube on Friday encourages protesters to "occupy" the intersection at King Street West and York Street on Oct. 15, "as part of a global movement."

On the west coast, protesters are organizing a similar demonstration on the same day in front of the Vancouver Art Gallery. By Friday evening, more than 800 people said they planned to attend that protest, according to Facebook.

Both events are apparently scheduled to last until Dec. 31.

Spurred on by the success of similar protests, demonstrators across Canada have been trying to mobilize via social media.

Protesters in Edmonton intend to hold a brainstorming meeting on Oct. 6 ahead of an "Occupy Edmonton" protest, according to a Facebook event.

Cities such as Calgary, Saskatoon, Montreal, Winnipeg and Regina also have Facebook pages but it's unclear whether protesters have arranged any meetings yet.

Demonstrators from all of the above cities have also been posting messages to Twitter, using the hashtag "#Occupy" followed by the city's name.


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15 October - United for Global Change

For more info, visit: http://15october.net

http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=4y3X2VFruLM

OCTOBER 15TH – UNITED FOR #GLOBALCHANGE

On October 15th people from all over the world will take to the streets and squares. From America to Asia, from Africa to Europe, people are rising up to claim their rights and demand a true democracy. Now it is time for all of us to join in a global non violent protest.

The ruling powers work for the benefit of just a few, ignoring the will of the vast majority and the human and environmental price we all have to pay. This intolerable situation must end.

United in one voice, we will let politicians, and the financial elites they serve, know it is up to us, the people, to decide our future.

We are not goods in the hands of politicians and bankers who do not represent us.

On October 15th, we will meet on the streets to initiate the global change we want. We will peacefully demonstrate, talk and organize until we make it happen.

It’s time for us to unite. It’s time for them to listen.

People of the world, rise up on October 15th!.

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^^ makikisabay kaya ang sangkaterbang yellow jejemons nyan, eh yung idolong binoto nila na santong dilaw according to the gospel of Oligarch puppet media ay tuta din ng Oligarkiya.

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Thanks for sharing these news items. As revealed in reports and news items in the global meltdown, peak oil, climate change, and food crisis threads, we are seeing the effects of combinations of problems--debt-ridden economic systems, financial speculation, unemployment, rising food prices, oil production decline, droughts and floods--leading to more social unrest.

Some writers believe that what we are experiencing is the 1930s but worse.