High profile arrests are made to deter involvement. What the establishment needs to ask, "Is there a reason not to be involved?"
NEW YORK (click title to entry - thnk you) — Police in New York arrested about 30 protesters including veteran civil rights activist Cornel West during a demonstration by the Occupy Wall Street movement.
A New York Police Department spokesman said the protesters were arrested on Friday because they were "blocking the entrance" of the local police precinct in New York's Harlem neighborhood. They were charged with "disorderly conduct."
Several hundred people were demonstrating in Harlem over the controversial police practice of stopping and patting down people to determine whether they are carrying arms, according to the American Civil Liberties Union.
West, an outspoken Princeton University professor, was freed shortly after his arrest, according to an Occupy Wall Street video....
The new Pioneer movement is multi-generational. Without question. There are generations of Americans seeking relief from oppression. It is incredible to think about, but, decades of activist movements have resulted in oppression due to Wall Street. Wall Street buys conservatives as if at a puppy mill and they do the dirty business of conducting corruption even at the lives of Americans while talking out both sides of their mouths.
...Like the people in Ocuppy Wall Street, (click here) and the other Occupy groups around the country, we didn’t have a set agenda. We were frustrated after millennia of a subordinated status and we were exhilarated by our camaraderie; we knew that in Iowa City, Lawrence, Kansas, and all over the west coast others were joining the demonstrations.
I remember looking up at a private men’s club along the route. A trio who might have been drawn by Thomas Nast was standing at the window, holding highball glasses, their faces reddened by whiskey, looking down at us with mingled incredulity and scorn. We cheered and marched on....
Decades and decades of oppression of women. The female citizen is still second class.
The Vatican recognizes the oppressiuon all too clearly. Catholics need to pay attention. Now, is the time to examine the conscience.
Wall Street is smoke and mirrors. That was never more evident than 2008.
Greed is not moral. For the runaway train created by prior administrations in DC there can be nothing more than distain. Wall Street seeks nothing but profits at any cost. After the USA rescued the banks in 2008, they continued to collapse the USA economy and achieved political dominance while continuing victimization of the innocent. The American citizen never expected what would come next. Americans were convinced rescuing the banks would save the economy. It didn't. It provided an opportunity for greater greed and greater victimization of the 'hand that fed them.' The people that trusted Wall Street to conduct themselves morally were betrayed and there is absolutely no reason to trust again.
The #Occupy Wall Street movement is a global movement with huge potential to create a parallel universe of economic opportunity with a moral tone that can sustain the millions if not billions betrayed.
The Vatican recognizes the oppressiuon all too clearly. Catholics need to pay attention. Now, is the time to examine the conscience.
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Vatican Calls For Economic Equality, Sweeping Reform Of Global Financial System (click here)
Greed is not moral. For the runaway train created by prior administrations in DC there can be nothing more than distain. Wall Street seeks nothing but profits at any cost. After the USA rescued the banks in 2008, they continued to collapse the USA economy and achieved political dominance while continuing victimization of the innocent. The American citizen never expected what would come next. Americans were convinced rescuing the banks would save the economy. It didn't. It provided an opportunity for greater greed and greater victimization of the 'hand that fed them.' The people that trusted Wall Street to conduct themselves morally were betrayed and there is absolutely no reason to trust again.
The #Occupy Wall Street movement is a global movement with huge potential to create a parallel universe of economic opportunity with a moral tone that can sustain the millions if not billions betrayed.
