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Occupy Wall Street Launching First Nationwide General Strike In America Since 1946
Rumors have been flying for a week that the Occupy protesters will be launching a nationwide general strike. We have been biting our tongue waiting for a formal decision.
Mother Jones tweets:
From our reporter at #occupyoakland General Assembly just now MT @timmcdonnell: General strike passes with 1184 votes of approval
JackalAnon tweets:
STRIKE APPROVED FOR NEXT WEDNESDAY! GENERAL STRIKE FIRST TIME IN THE USA SINCE 1946!
(The last American general strike was also in Oakland).
The strike will occur on November 2nd.
One of the founders of the Tea Party – conservative Karl Denninger – supports the strike (and see this).
Occupy Wall Street in New York has also been considering a proposal for a general strike. And there are also rumors of a global general strike next year.
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lindaamick: Just watch faux news, we know what side their on....1%
It's because those repubs don't want power taken from them. They were the anti-status quo, and they had election sweep, but got highjacked by mainstream Republicans and now OWS is true grassroots movement anti status quo, even if scared Tea Party try to paint them to be socialist, most they're not.
We were Tea Party, but start to notice the Tea Party change after election into corporate agenda. I still think Ron Paul is good candidate and would stop bail out of Wall Street, and too big to fail. But worried about how he will stop exploiters. How libertarian can effectively stop the expoloiter who is rich. I know court system, but many places judges are paid for too.
Yeah, I'd strike, but it's hard when you don't have a job.
I agree this won't amount to much. The thing is, people with jobs and making decent cash aren't seeing the same struggles as everyone else.
Back in 2001 when I lost my job, I saw the writing on the wall. Instead of getting mad, I knew eventually this would affect everyone.
People that think this is just a temporary downturn or they are untouchable, are wrong.
If you're struggling and you need some consolation, realize that soon enough everyone will be hurting.
I'd prefer a boycott on purchases, but more so, some type of political movement. There needs to be an OWS candidate for president. GET ER DONE!
OWSers should run fat, rich, Hollywood Hypocrite Michael Moore. He well represents this gaggle of campus Reds and urban Cosmics. 2 Nov. is an off-day for me so, to protest this fearsome "General Strike", I will go out and do some work. Earn some money. To buy another gun.
It ain't about a job for gods sake.
It's taxation without representation...plain and simple.
You know... the kind of thing that starts revolutions.
Wake the phuck up will ya!!!
Let's not forget the other problem of representation without taxation. There are plenty of people out there who don't pay a thing yet always vote en masse to get more money sent their way.
Yes, they're called "illegal aliens."
"It's taxation without representation...plain and simple. You know... the kind of thing that starts revolutions."
Pretty much.
But for the 99%, theres always PayPal...or not ;-)
"Organizers of Occupy Portland say they fear as much as $20,000 donated to the group through a PayPal account has disappeared.
They also say the group's finance committee has hijacked the demonstration's Internet domain name and filed for incorporation against the wishes of the group's decision-making body."
http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2011/10/in_downtown_portland_fears_tha.html
Huh...note to self...put responsible people in charge of group finances.
Good comment from that article: "Maybe some of the groups behind this think that way. Groups like ACORN, which in other guises is backing some of these "Occupy" parties. But most of the gullible "yoots" at these demonstrations are not analytical thinkers. They aren't educated enough to know much about "anarchist theory," or the hard core authoritarian purposes behind ACORN, A.N.S.W.E.R. and others. They are stuck in developmental arrest in the rebellious adolescent stage, looking for a reason to act out, while wrapping themselves in the cloak of some high-sounding theory. Banging their empty joint compound buckets and shouting "F the USA!" Joined by gray-haired 60s nostalgics.
And some are genuine idealists who imagine they are smarter and more virtuous than the thousands of years of civilization that have come before them and set about reinventing spociety on their own. They form their committees and assemblies and are frustrated and puzzled when the "drum circles" ignore their "consensus decision" to not bang their drums all night. They are dismayed to find out that a few bad apples "infiltrated" their well-meaning finance committee and stole their money---and not one of them will make the connection that that is precisely what happens on the "Wall Street" they are busy excoriating. What a surprise to find there are criminal types in the world who might "infiltrate" an organization whose purpose is to disobey the law (calling it "civil disobedience.") And what a shock to discover "homeless" people hogging the food, because they think it's someone else's responsibility to give them what they want without their having to earn it for themselves. Or people stealing their property and "redistributing" it to themselves. Don't they know only the "1%" are deserving of having their property stolen?
There are many lessons to be learned from all this, but I doubt many will learn them. "
It really is like a bunch of little microcosims they are experimenting with.
They are discovering people will lie, cheat and steal within their ranks to get what they want...at the expense of the whole. A known known rediscovered somehow.
I know there are some who are frustrated. But some of this is ridiculous. They can't all be pascifists and this malleable.
Well there is always Bitcoin....
If people want to really hurt the establishment, then we need to boycott large corporations from Black Friday thru Xmas. I have read estimates that many businesses earn 20-40% of their yearly business just from Xmas shopping. Were not going to get people to stop buying presents, but, maybe we can convince them to shop at smaller local retailers instead of giant Corps.
Lets turn Black Friday into Red Friday!
Giant corps are getting global. A local boycott in US may hurt them a bit, but won't kill them.
If we want to try real capitalism for the first time then this is exactly what I was thinking as well. My initial flash thinking said boycott X-Mas entirely, the whole point is lost on people anyways these days. But after I thought about it, capitalism rewards the productive and discourages the lazy or the thief. I told my wife we are going to up our X-Mas budget this year and go
to local shops having an organic experience of a month of X-Mas starting in mid-November.
If Americans refused to buy from corporations bribing our government officials, we would recapitalize the county in a healthy manner and that also eventually heals banks and stock market. Politicians would have no choice but to follow the money.
Now from a political stand-point it makes sense for every American to understand trade imbalances and what is being subsidized overseas. The power of taxation can and should never be granted to an actor that can indemnify themselves of accountability, like the US Fed, a private central bank. Public and private arguments are worthy, so the concept of accountability of the steward of the money supply must remain a constant, vigilent focus as Thomas Jefferson well understood.
And the 3d pyramid model for government died in 1776. Who let it be reinvented and encouraged it? Now we have an another Monarchy with toothless parliment and a king answering to financeers.
My initial flash thinking said boycott X-Mas entirely, the whole point is lost on people anyways these days.
Just an observation, but there's no efficiency in typing "X-Mas" with a capital X, capital M and dash. So that's a pretty conscious effort to do consistently. I wonder, then, what you think "the whole point" of "X-Mas" is.
I assure you it has not been as lost as you may believe...
In addition to CD's prose this morning, this is the best idea I have read in a long time. It's simple and probably THE most effective thing that could ever happen in this country.
If people were to generally boycott incessant consumerism, we would turn this nation upside down within a month. All of these big corporations operate on thin margins, foreign labor and borrowed cash flow.
It is a new form of civil rebalancing. One using the correct concept of money. The world will be watching the experiment of real capitalism when it is truly needed most in a world that is decentralizing and can no longer turn a knob to leverage up 40 to 1.
Attempts to tamper with the experiment should be met with commesurate force including the use of technologies to directly finger puppet masters and sabotage personal revenue streams, up to and including the use of all weapon technologies at each level of antagonism. If the antagonist intent is global war, more surgical tools will be utilized including guaranteeing no seed can self-replicate tampering with the experiment in the future.
America should glady share the test results of the experiment and telegraph them across the globe but no need to offer debt traps to steal property or boots on the ground. The experiment results will be open to be searched on Interwebs. Failure to educate then becomes a personal problem in winning or losing.
I'm in. I will only buy for the kids, and I will only buy used toys for them. There's a personal benefit to buying used toys for kids instead of new. You don't have to spend all day getting the toys out of their packaging.
The perfect Christmas gift? Physical Silver.
If enough people do it, the banks will fail.
Then I will help you create and syndicate a memo for the masses. 603-953-3388. I am finding better bargains with localized shops now then big box retailers and big box reminds me of how I view convient stores. If you don't know this yet, get out of the house and see for yourself.
Lifting consumer spirits and revacapitalizing correctly shouldn't be met with much resistance outside of the obviously crooked and violent, revealing themselves fully.
Here's a better idea. Yes - Boycott the banks, but Boycott the stores as well, at least the corporate chains.
All the junk you buy your kids and loved ones, that they really don't need, just prolongs the Ponzi that enslaves them.
Sometimes less is more.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sfmoms/detail?entry_id=100442
I like the general strike idea. Why not?
I'll be carrying an "on strike" sign in front of retail stores on 10/27. This is a fucking GREAT idea! If enough people do it, this will scare the shit out of the 1% and their minions.
You'll be striking in front of retail stores so that their goods and services will be made unavailable? If you have it your way, you'll be scraping in the dirt for grubs by Spring.
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I'll be in my storefront, cleaning my .308, with a green beret, duck whistle, and a camo vest. Should do a job on the so-called 99% carrying "on strike" signs. :D
If you have a .308 to defend your property then your more than likely a local retailer. If you were local to me I would be spending at your shop. Hell even Greenapan is indirectly shouting at you to spend regionally. Tol bad that priest of the money temple didn't realize this time was different a decade ago.
Are you calling for civil war? How long do you think it will take before they will declare a "Federal Emergency" and martial law?
Contrary to distored and unrealistic beliefs, martial law in the U.S. could never be effectively implemented. It could work in the large metro areas for about two weeks--after that poof. Could never hold up because the fascists would start losing paychecks (it's all about the money brother).
We will face something much more scary than martial law in the not-too-distant future: societal chaos.
Next you will be on your knees, fellating your banker.
U some kind of perverted hypnotist, there?
Ooohhh...what a big manly man you must be.
Unless you're a woman of course. That's it! I bet you're a big manly woman! You'll look great in that beret, babe!
You should leave your fetishes for HuffPost, "Mark". :D
Yea Right, isn't it past your bedtime? And whats the duck whistle for??
When you hear the whistle, DUCK!
Hey Mayhem,
You talk big. Why don't you give your store address? Perhaps you will find some customers around here.
11250 Waples Mills Road, Fairfax, VA 22030 (it's the building between the Charlton Heston memorial and the Ted Nugent statue). :D
what is your stores name ?
so i can be sure
never to spend a dollar there again...
Big Mean Mary's house of crap?
You sound like one of these:
Pentagon Seeks to Manipulate Social Media for Propaganda Purposes
?
From the guy who posts with headlines "Police Brutality....Peaceful Protesters." Who's the propagandist here, GW?
Are you listening to what you all are saying? Do you realize how easy it is to get the OWS crowd off message (as I've done here) because THERE IS NO MESSAGE. And with NO MESSAGE, the predictable outcome is an escalation of undirected rage into violence.
Go back to your first post on OWS and see where I and others said that this was going to achieve nothing but elevated civil unrest. Well guess what??? You're no longer posting about some morally commendable movement...you're posting about violence. I say time to take your toys and go home.
What do they mean by "strike"? Aren't 90% of these people unemployed?
85% of OWSers claim to have a job. Probably, apparatchiks taking sick-days.
No. You only assume that in your closed little mind.
Read a bit about the marine that was attacked by the thugs. He had a job. Until he got shot in the head by the thugs.
I see a lot of jealousy in these posts. The OWSers are out there kicking and raising hell and many of you do nothing but whine that they do fit your particular agenda. Boo hoo
Are you hiding behind your screens and keyboards? Screw up your courage, get off your arss and do something for the greater good. Nothing risked - nothing gained.
"kicking and raising hell" is supposed to be the "positive" in this scenario, right? If you cannot articulate the kind of government you want, pursuade people to your thinking and gain the support of a significant portion of your countrymen, it's a tad early for "raising hell." Try raising a candidate in an election cycle first, why don't you?
The founders were behind their pens long before they were behind their guns.
Ok Melin so what is your real name and phone number so I can properly decide if I choose to decide to conduct trade with you? Crickets coming...
Falling back into a 3d government model may have been an inevitability but 4d model of government has already been proven. The temple priests of finance have decided their god now, not priests and insist upon a conrinuation of the pyramid.
So I guess Moses was right after all. His people could only be free by literally leading the mule of labor into the desert in an attempt to make it to the Promised Land. Nowadays we have better, more targeted tools to liberate but the analogies are fitting. And like Moses, watch the Pharoah chase him and squander his army down to nothing and become easy prey after.
The Pharoah will also use new tools but has locked himself into 3d thinking on matters. A shame 2B people including the Egyptian people under the Pharoah will have to die for this purpose to be reminded of such a simple lesson. Ah well, we are all imperfect after all.
What do you think got the founders behind their pens? Bliss and harmony? I think not.
I gotta call busllshit here. The founding fathers didn't have a permanent form of government until well after the war.The Articles of Confederation were kinda thrown together.
The Constitution was adopted on September 17, 1787, 4 years after the Revolutionary war ended. That was no easy task and wasn't done by a bunch of soldiers right?
Fuck man, crack a book before you talk shit.
they wrote volumes long before any of the works you cite. They knew their history, their philosophers and formed the principles of our founding with a wealth of knowledge behind their ideas.
There study of philosophy, religions and governments included evolution, shapes, geometry and foundations. They were dealing with centralization in extremis like now but nothing is linear and the more rapid centralization is pushed the faster it begins decentralizing.
King George pushed rapid centralization of the colonies through banking just like today. So big boom, big pop, big issues to deal with oh and then the most powerful military on earth to chase those wascally wabbits Continental Army all around the colonies until over extended and pushed off the continent.
Washington seemed to dislike this game as did Moses. But nonetheless you only get one side or the other to play with when you reach the tipping poins of centralization. No thanks, not going to purposely choose evil even under threat of death. And the faster Pharoah chases that leadership the faster they over extend toward extermination. Since the weapons tools are very widespread and nasty these days and the death toll will be high, choosing evil means forgiving will be a lot harder this time around for Pharoahs. Probably make a lasting example of them with 2B dead.
The best game would be for 99% and the .0001% to not play. Besides we're a decade or two from building the Quantum Computer. There will be large new existences to explore but our government type will also be 4d so greed-fest Pharoahs will probably find our new world more dull. No boom/bust models to build and use for exploitation. Oh no..