| Occupy Wall Street - News, Blogs, Videos & other coverage |
OWS is growing and spreading all over the
world. One way you know it is a genuine movement of The People is that the corporate media tried very hard to pretend it did not exist.
At first there was very little press coverage, and much of that
was from non-American sources (Britain's independent Guardian provided
excellent coverage from the beginning, now more alternative media are
covering it here in the USA, while many Corporate Media outlets are
dedicating increasing amounts of time to ridiculing or attacking it
(thus verifying that the OWS movement is the best thing to happen to
this country in many decades!)
We make no claim that the items
linked on this page provide comprehensive coverage. But every item
linked is very good, very informative, and highly recommended by Lake
County citizens who are following OWS closely.
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Reinstate Glass-Steagal succinct summary US banking industry and how repealing Glass-Steagal led to our current situation LINK TO VIDEO
http://front.moveon.org/this-powerful-clip-is-exactly-why-we-support-occupywallstreet/?rc=fbs&id=32303-20008608-5cnb%3Dux
The Story of Citizens United - from the creator of The Story of Stuff - crash course in the Supreme Court case that sold out the people - LINK TO VIDEO
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5kHACjrdEY
Alan Grayson defends OWS and the American People
Grayson totally squashes so-called "comedian" PJ O'Rourke, who was
trying to ridicule the OWS movement. Nothin' but the facts, ma'am. VIDIO HERE
Listen to
the huge eruption of cheers and applause from the audience when Grayson
makes his points. THAT is the sound that strikes
fear in the hearts of Wall Street and its subsidiary, the US Congress.
It is the sound of people UNITED in their emotion and ideas, and UNITED
in directing their anger at the real CAUSE of our economic problems.
20
percent of this nation's wealth, accumulated over two hundred years,
disappeared in 2008, thanks to the crooks, gamblers and liars of Wall
Street. And not one of the crooks has been held accountable. Instead,
they were rewarded. With OUR money.
We have Occupy Wall Street to
thank for the fact that people are FINALLY saying what needed to be
said (Grayson was always saying it, but no one wanted to listen to him
then). Those crazy kids have already changed the whole tone of national
dialogue, and the effects have only just begun to be felt. Watch as the
ripple spreads!
Why Bill Maher supports OWS starts out funny, ends powerfully video
http://front.moveon.org/why-bill-maher-supports-occupywallstreet/?rc=daily.share&id=32307-20008608-42nhN4x
“These people down
there, they are not the counter-culture, they ARE the culture. They don’t want
free love, they want paid employment. They don’t hate capitalism, they hate
whats been done to it. And they resent the Republican mantra that the market perfectly
rewards the hard working and punishes the lazy, and the poor are just jealous
mooches who want a hand out. Yeah, cause if there’s one group of people who
hate hand outs, its Wall Street.”
ARTICLES, Blogs, Commentaries:
Backlash to Occupy Wall Street Is Going to Be Powerful & Polarizing LINKWhy Occupy Wall Street Is Bigger Than Left vs. Right LINK
12 Most Absurd Laws used to stifle OWS movements around country LINK
A member of the 1% tells the 99 percent to expect much lower wages LINK
A corollary to Upton Sinclair’s famous saying, “It is difficult to get a man to understand something if his salary depends on his not understanding it” is “People promote ideas that help them secure or preserve a privileged position on the totem pole.”
10 Craziest things said about OWS LINK
(right-wing think-tank American Enterprise Institute toured OWS first hand, and observed of OWStreeters, "These people are conservatives, they just don't know it" Perhaps it is the AEI's preconception of "liberals" that was askew, before? Corporations have spent billions to keep the Conservatives vs. Liberals divide as wide as possible, because when the people are divided, their oppressors flourish. 99 % of us have more in common with each other than we have with the 1%. Hopefully, the real moral of the AEI's positive experience touring OWS is that WE NEED TO STICK TOGETHER, we have more in common than we know, and the 1% is screwing us all.)
Working Americans stand with OWS LINK
5 Reasons Why the Right is Terrified of OWS LINK
Why OWS has Already Won LINK
One Month In, Occupy Wall Street Protesters Appear Poised to Change US
Politics LINK
THE CHARTS that went VIRAL - interactive pie charts and graphs that tell the story of where America's economics has gone so horribly wrong
original Business Insider story: http://www.businessinsider.com/income-inequality-charts-2011-10
Original
charts
http://www.stateofworkingamerica.org/pages/interactive#/?start=1917&end=2008
Wall Street
insider created CHARTS that show why people are so angry
http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/682259/ex_wall-streeter_%28and_creator_of_viral_charts_on_inequality%29_on_why_wall_street_must_acknowledge_protests/
Right's Lame Attack on Occupy Wall St. LINK
Poll after poll shows that twice as many Americans support OWS as oppose it!
Yes, the Right has every reason to be terrified. And the Right’s response to
OWS illustrates how out of touch with reality the Right has become.
Why Rush Limbaugh Is Freaking Out About Occupy Wall Street HEREAndrew Breitbart's Pathetic Attempt to Smear Occupy Wall St. LINK
Breitbart's latest attention grab illustrates just how
afraid the right is of the 99% of Americans who are waking up to the injustice
and corruption of the 1%.
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