"Occupy Wall Street" is where people have come to oppose exploitation of American Values for profit.

The sign says:

"I was deployed to Iraq 4X"


"5 of my friends are dead."


"1 of my friends is missing his arm."


"1 of my friends killed himself."


"I have been blown up twice by a roadside bomb."


"Hearing fireworks makes me nervous"


"I can't sleep at night,"


"All so bankers and war profiteers could get richer."


"I am the 99%"


www.occupywallst.org


The message use to attempt to dilute the movement is that the protesters have somewhat of an aimless goal.  No clear message.  It sounded like those speculations were attempting to create an air of 'druggies' that followed the movements in the sixties.  The message from the Occupy Wall Street movement is very clear, there has been exploitation of American values by corporations that seek profits over responsible leadership.  In carrying out huge profits to corporations the CEOs have literally destroyed the Middle Class economy that has made a global economy possible.  


The wars, the poor, the unemployed, the uninsured, the working poor, the pollution, the Climate Crisis, the trashing of the educational system and the list goes on and on and on.


The outsourcing of jobs do real damage, not just to the USA labor market, but, to children when no law in third world countries stop the CEOs from exploiting them.  Americans get complaints that there labor is too expensive.  Well.  I guess so, especially when they are trying to make a living wage.

A photo from US National Labor Committee's report on conditions inside a Microsoft supplier's Chinese factory

Microsoft investigateschild labour claims at Chinese supplier (click here)


11:30 AM Friday Apr 16, 2010

By Stephen Foley

Computing giant Microsoft is investigating claims that Chinese factory staff are working in sweatshop conditions to make its products.

A three-year undercover investigation by a workers' rights campaign group found that teenagers lived and worked in cramped conditions at factories in the Guangdong province of China, earning just a few dollars a day.

And while the factory owner, KYE, said that it complies with child labour laws and with Microsoft's code of conduct, the investigation was told that many of the students at the factory on so-called "work-study" programmes were in fact aged 14 or 15.

The Pittsburgh-based National Labor Committee (NLC) published photographs smuggled out of the factory, showing workers slumped asleep at factory lines during a half-hour break.

It said that workers were forbidden to talk or go to the lavatory during production hours, and workers who dropped products were punished by being made to clean the bathrooms…


Depending on where one receives information, the children are as young as 12 years old in China's factories where nearly 50% of all tech companies have their manufacturing plants.  And it isn't as if they don't know it.  The child labor problem with companies that OUTSOURCE is enormous and has been for a long time.  This is not new.  Yet, Americans tolerate poverty conditions for their families in a growing percentage and our country carries debt when corporations and the wealthy should be paying higher taxes.

Apple reveals increasing child labor problem (click here)

Peter Clarke

2/21/2011 8:59 AM EST

LONDON – Apple, the company that has set mobile phone and computer trends with its iPhone and iPad, has reported it has a growing problem with its Chinese suppliers using workers under the legal age of 16 years.

Apple has published it latest annual report into the employment practices of its suppliers and revealed rising underage labor, despite its own efforts to address the problem....

There are many, many reasons for the protests by "Occupy Wall Street" and all are valid and real.