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Occupy Wall Street is an ongoing demonstration in New York City.[4] The protest was originally called for by the Canadian activist[5] group Adbusters; it took inspiration from the Arab Spring movement, particularly the Tahrir Square protests in Cairo, which initiated the 2011 Egyptian Revolution.[6]
The participants of the event are mainly protesting against social economic inequality and corporate greed, among other concerns.[7] Adbusters states that, "Beginning from one simple demand – a presidential commission to separate money from politics – we start setting the agenda for a new America."[8] The protest's organizers hope that the protestors themselves will formulate their own specific demands, expecting them to be focused on "... taking to task the people who perpetrated the economic meltdown."[9]
Adbusters Media Foundation is a not-for-profit, anti-consumerist, pro-environment organization
Originally posted by Daedal
reply to post by BlackStar99
What I can't believe is there's this much information on here since September 17th.
Originally posted by illuminatislave
Hmmm....they don't seem to be financed by TPTB if this is who is behind OWS. And their message is consistently anti-corporate.
The protest's organizers hope that the protestors themselves will formulate their own specific demands, expecting them to be focused on "... taking to task the people who perpetrated the economic meltdown."[
Originally posted by Daedal
True but the part I don't like is this:
The protest's organizers hope that the protestors themselves will formulate their own specific demands, expecting them to be focused on "... taking to task the people who perpetrated the economic meltdown."[
Originally posted by AutumnalDusk
I'm always cautious. Like any CSI/Profiler would do, "always follow the money trail". AJ did this, as well, (for whatever you think of AJ), but the whole OWS/"bankster" theory is certainly part of his usual M.O.
I do not support any one particular view, nor do I discount any, at this point. I will, however, look a gift horse in the mouth, if said horse appear Greek, in nature.
Who donates to AdBusters? (information outdated, but interesting, to me, at least).
I am not promoting *anyone's* agenda, here, only offering Devil's Advocate perspective.
As always, YOU should make the final determination.
What's the best way to kill something? Make it fashionable.
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Originally posted by illuminatislave
Originally posted by Daedal
True but the part I don't like is this:
The protest's organizers hope that the protestors themselves will formulate their own specific demands, expecting them to be focused on "... taking to task the people who perpetrated the economic meltdown."[
What part of that causes you concern? Allowing the protestors to formulate their own demands?
I kind of think that this "organized chaos" that is OWS actually helps to keep the shills out. No leaders that are prone to being corrupted by power and influence, if you catch my drift, but one goal from people covering all walks of American life.
The goal is clear to me: End the marriage between our government, wall street, and the other major corps that have #ed us right in the street
If that is the goal of OWS, then I support that. But I definitely want to know whose hands are involved in this.edit on 3-10-2011 by illuminatislave because: (no reason given)
Occupy Wall Street began with a call to action on the blog of Vancouver-based advocacy magazine, Adbusters, in July. On Sept. 17, protesters began occupying a park near the New York Stock Exchange. “We’re the people who catalyzed this thing, but we’re not the people who are running it,” said Adbusters co-founder Kalle Lasn. “The people on the streets who have the guts to sleep out there night after night, those are the people who are really driving it.”
Originally posted by v1rtu0s0
Ad Busters is a popular alternative magazine. It's very radical, and some would say 100% correct in it's analysis of the system.
Ad Busters is not a mystery, and they come up with these gimicky ideas all the time.
Unions are working to direct the energy of the anti-banker protests into their leftist agenda. “The challenge is, how do you transfer protest into power?” asked Robert Master, legislative and political director of the Communications Workers of America and a co-chair of the Working Families Party. “At the end of the day, you have to figure out a way to take this energy and turn it into legislation that really changes people’s lives.”
The Working Families Party is an ACORN front. ACORN enthusiastically supported the election of Obama, although this is supposedly not allowed under its non-profit 501(c)(3) tax status.