Occupy Wall Street PROTESTERS Not Letting Up - Nationwide

[ApatheticNoMore]

My impression is that they're not necessarily protesting capitalism in total (at least not all of them, since it's a large group of individuals, each with their own opinions and ideas), but rather the non-capitalistic aspect of our capitalism where the too big to fail banks and wall street have been bailed out, saving them from that unfortunate part of capitalism called bankruptcy and failure

Oh I definitely think there's an element of that. Crony capitalism is certainly a rigged game, and it has been widespread ever since the economic crisis.

I'm finding occupy wall street has a lot more mainstream appeal than frankly I expected, but that's just the impression I get when I hear people talk about it locally. I mean not just appealing to the people where I'd go: DUH, but to people I wouldn't have pegged ....

[Gregg]

I read where that could be the largest untapped voting bloc (marijuana smokers) in the US - 100 million.

Short of a referendum legalizing pot, how do you get that bloc to the polls? Doritos?

[redfox]

http://motherjones.com/politics/2011...rcent-creators
An interesting article interviewing the person who coined the phrase We Are the 99 percent.

[Alan]

http://motherjones.com/politics/2011...rcent-creators
An interesting article interviewing the person who coined the phrase We Are the 99 percent.

Actually, they co-opted the phrase.
Back in 1947, the American Motorcycle Association, while describing "outlaw bikers", referred to the 99% of motorcycle riders who were law-abiding citizens and the 1% who were not. The Hells Angels then adopted the phrase "1 percenter" to describe themselves and "99 percenter" for the rest of society.

[Rogar]

You know, I've been following this since before it hit mainstream news. Initially, whether from some organization efforts by Adbusters or not, there seemed to be some specifics on a wish, suggestion, or demand list. As other groups have joined in it really seems to have become a directionless free-for-all. The most I am getting out of it is, stop corporate greed, we want jobs, I'm tired of the 99%/1%. At least that is what is coming through in the media.

I'm not seeing one unified actionable concrete demand or suggestion. It's really unfortunate, with all the attention it's getting, as it seems like a wasted effort that had the potential to be productive. In my old working days a similar thing would have been described as a b**ch session.

[creaker]

I'm not seeing one unified actionable concrete demand or suggestion. It's really unfortunate, with all the attention it's getting, as it seems like a wasted effort that had the potential to be productive. In my old working days a similar thing would have been described as a b**ch session.

So, you're saying it's kind of like our folks in Washington?

[loosechickens]

Interesting piece this morning on CNN regarding the "Perfect Storm" conditions for mass disapproval of Wall Street.......which means that this COULD catch on with a much larger percentage of folks than you think. There is really a LOT of common cause in the grievances expressed by everyone from the Tea Party to unions to the unemployed, and youth, and Wall Street fat cats are certainly a place to look for some of the excesses, greed and powermongering that has been happening to depress the opportunities and lives of the 99% of us in this country, while shoveling hundreds of billions of the wealth created by that 99% into their bottomless pockets.

http://www.cnn.com/2011/10/07/opinio...html?hpt=hp_t2

[Rogar]

So, you're saying it's kind of like our folks in Washington?

Well, over time Washington seems to have done a few things to encourage the protest? Plus they get pay and benefits.

[Dharma Bum]

Well, over time Washington seems to have done a few things to encourage the protest?

Apparently they failed to educate everyone about how taxes work so gullible people still regurgitate misleading charts.

[ApatheticNoMore]

You know, I've been following this since before it hit mainstream news. Initially, whether from some organization efforts by Adbusters or not, there seemed to be some specifics on a wish, suggestion, or demand list. As other groups have joined in it really seems to have become a directionless free-for-all.

I'm getting that impression too. That it is becoming more directionless. It lacked concrete proposals before, but I think it at least had a general thrust which I think was: enough with the absolutely incestuous relationship of government with industry (and yes I see no way to do that with so much money in politics).

It's really unfortunate, with all the attention it's getting, as it seems like a wasted effort that had the potential to be productive. In my old working days a similar thing would have been described as a b**ch session.

Yea I really don't see it that way, because a solution is not arrived at today, it's not productive. I mean I know we expect instant gratification and all but ... I think the potential (potential not certainty) of many useful movements spinning off of this initial movement exists.