Occupy Wall Street: Global Disruption

[OceanAnnie]

Occupy Wall Street Plans Global Disruption of Status Quo May 1

".....Organizers say they hope the coordinated events will mark a spring resurgence of the movement after a quiet winter. Calls for a general strike with no work, no school, no banking and no shopping have sprung up on websites in Toronto, Barcelona, London, Kuala Lumpur and Sydney, among hundreds of cities in North America, Europe and Asia...."

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-...ns-global-disruption-of-status-quo-may-1.html

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How is this a positive thing? It hurts everyone. What good will it do to further drag down economies? They sound like terrorists to me.

 

[Christopher Robin]

Double post. Oops.

 

[Christopher Robin]

Occupy Wall Street Plans Global Disruption of Status Quo May 1

".....Organizers say they hope the coordinated events will mark a spring resurgence of the movement after a quiet winter. Calls for a general strike with no work, no school, no banking and no shopping have sprung up on websites in Toronto, Barcelona, London, Kuala Lumpur and Sydney, among hundreds of cities in North America, Europe and Asia...."

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-...ns-global-disruption-of-status-quo-may-1.html

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How is this a positive thing? It hurts everyone. What good will it do to further drag down economies? They sound like terrorists to me.

I agree with your assessment, but only wish to add...

 

[Gumbo4x4]

OWS is still trying their thing? I thought they'd moved on to some new fad

 

[RitaE]

no work, no school, no banking

those Occupiers are working hard to cement their image as total deadbeats

 

[mvazul]

no work, no school, no banking

those Occupiers are working hard to cement their image as total deadbeats

 

[OceanAnnie]

I just don't see what "good" can come from this. Why would anyone want to be tied to this movement?

 

[luvmy3]

no work, no school, no banking

those Occupiers are working hard to cement their image as total deadbeats

 

[Warren W]

Is this true?

 

[OceanAnnie]

Is this true?

Yes. It's been planned for a very long time.

 

[suzannen]

Everyone in my NYC office (a non-profit) are all groaning over this and truly hoping the predicted rain will keep everyone home! These idiots are only going to hurt all of the regular workers trying to commute to work and every mom-and-pop small business open - the very same 99% they claim to want to represent.

Occupy Wall Street plans mass May Day demonstration to shut down NYC
Protesters to target bridges, tunnels and finance biz buildings; Mayor Bloomberg vows quick police response
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york...lans-snarl-city-traffic-day-article-1.1069632

 

[Magic Mom]

I just don't see what "good" can come from this. Why would anyone want to be tied to this movement?

I don't get it either.

 

[Deb in IA]

I think it will not be too much longer before this thread gets poofed for being "political", but I think the Occupy people are just plain nuts and attention hounds.

 

[Imzadi]

I just don't see what "good" can come from this. Why would anyone want to be tied to this movement?

The only "good" that has come out from being tied to this movement is that many, many NYC cops made a LOT of overtime babysitting the Occupiers.

Our city is so much in debt. So many programs and just recently many schools had to be shut down for good, and this city has to funnel funds into this.

 

[OceanAnnie]

I think it will not be too much longer before this thread gets poofed for being "political", but I think the Occupy people are just plain nuts and attention hounds.

That's the thing. The organization doesn't "claim" any political affiliation. People can surmise, but the movement is about changing the economy using terrorist tactics.

We have other threads about the Occupy movement. It wasn't poofed before because people were discussing the impacts of the movement. The movement fizzled out because of the cold weather. Now that it's warming up, so is the movement.

It's current events.

 

[topolino]

I once asked an Occupier just what it was exactly that they stood for. Her exact response was, "We really don't know what we stand for". I began to laugh and she began to backtrack.

Though she was just one voice among hundreds of thousands, I honestly feel most of them deep down feel the same way. And it speaks volumes.

 

[Colleen27]

I once asked an Occupier just what it was exactly that they stood for. Her exact response was, "We really don't know what we stand for". I began to laugh and she began to backtrack.

Though she was just one voice among hundreds of thousands, I honestly feel most of them deep down feel the same way. And it speaks volumes.

I think you're right, and I'm generally sympathetic to the movement. It is an expression of the anger and frustration that are rampant in the working class right now, and I don't think it has coalesced into a more coherent movement because of the impossibility of pointing at any one cause of or cure for the problems they're so upset about. How do you condense an expression of outrage at the culmination of 30+ years of political, social, and economic trends that have undermined the earning power of the middle class into a soundbite?

 

[bigredbill]

I'd say this movement fizzled out fairly quickly as they received more media attention. IMO, the "occupiers" were trying to represent the 99%. Unfortutely for them, I don't believe the average American, who works hard to support themselves / family and takes the issues that we face today seriously, felt like they had a lot in common with these folks. While the occupiers may have had a legitimate message, it became obscured quickly by the odd-ball antics, comments, and crime that ended up taking center-stage.

 

[OceanAnnie]

I'd say this movement fizzled out fairly quickly as they received more media attention. IMO, the "occupiers" were trying to represent the 99%. Unfortutely for them, I don't believe the average American, who works hard to support themselves / family and takes the issues that we face today seriously, felt like they had a lot in common with these folks. While the occupiers may have had a legitimate message, it became obscured quickly by the odd-ball antics, comments, and crime that ended up taking center-stage.

I think you are right on a lot of points.

But they have heated back up. They are more organized and have big plans. I hope their plans fall flat. If they don't, they will have an impact.

 

[Mokat76]

I find it telling that they're so "committed" to the cause that they only come out when the weather is nice. I guess it's too uncomfortable to be actively engaged when it's snowing/raining...

Unfortunately, they can still do a lot of damage and probably will. And that will cost the rest of us a lot of our tax dollars and/or hard-earned pay as we all clean up after them.