Today is the three month anniversary of the Occupy Wall Street movement in america. Time magazine has named The Protester
the 2012 Person Of The Year. Clear issues have emerged from
the Occupy Movement:
46 million americans now living at the poverty level, 52 million americans do not have health insurance (9 million have lost health insurance in the last two years.) Rising education costs and simultaneous lack of jobs for graduates. 10% general unemployment rates, and 24% unemployment rates for military vets and students More than one million americans are homeless, many of them for several years already, while simultaneously there are more than 1.5 million vacant homes, and Bank of America has used Bulldozers to destroy many of them. 25% of millionaires pay lower tax rates than working class americans pay, investment and dividend earnings of the rich are taxed at much lower rates than the much higher tax rates on the wages earned of the working class. While the rick keep their money our communities suffer deep cuts and lay-offs of firemen, police, school busses, libraries, medical care, state parks are closed, and the list goes on.
Financial institutions have knowingly sold bad, losing investements to unsuspecting consumers, the super rich manipulate the stock market high and low with large transactions and virtually rob everyone else who has invested. Politicians make decisions based on what benefits the corporations that financed their campaigns and not based on the best interests of the millions who voted for them. Issues such as approving the payroll tax cut (which people want) and approval of the Keystone oil piplene (which politicians want) are tied together as a "package deal."
Politicians have become rich far beyond there average $100,000 a year salary through (what is illegal for the rest of us) insider trading and by bouncing back and forth between congress and the white house and executive positions such as Karl Rove and Fox News, Condaleezza Rice and Chevron, Dick Cheney and Haliburton, his net worth is $23 million. Newt Gingrich $20 million, Bush family $60 millioin, Collin Powell $45 million and CEO of a Natural Gas company, Donald Rumsfeld $15 million, Diane Fienstein $75 million, and the list goes on.
Food is grown with seeds that are intentionally sterile so that no one can plant a seed in thier yard and grow it and instead have to go buy more, and the list of things that the 99% are protesting goes on.
Homeless Camp in Florida 2009. This is not a new problem and it is not a photo from an occcupy movement in the last three months.
One thing the Occupy Movement did is to be a common umbrella for multiples of what used to be seperate issues and seperate protests. The realization that there is a systemic breakdown world wide is at the core or the 99% movement and it has become a vehicle of solidarity world wide, yet ouir politicians and in turn our media continue to claim they don't know what the 99% wants and verbally attack all of us.
Newt Gingrich said poor kids should clean toilets in their schools, and that protesters should take a bath and get a job. A few hypodermic needles are found around occupy encampments and the media reports wide spread drug use without mentioning the possibilty that someone there could be diabetic.
Police Departments have used excessive force against protesters, arrested journalists and the Seattle Police Department is confirmed by the United States Justice Department of having a pattern of excessive force and violating the constitution pre-dating the Occupy demonstrations yet their Chief and the Mayor accuse protesters of instigating violence.
There are many uneasy similarities between american discontent and discontent in Tunisia and all of the other countries in the world who's citizens have been protesting this past year; unemployment, government corruption, governement control of the news and sucha s Karl Rove working for Fox News and Newsweek, and the arrests of journalists.
More than 5,000 people have been killed while protesting in Syria lately, thousands of people still fill the streets in Egypt, Rome, Greece, Israel, Chile, Tunisia, Belgium, Hong Kong, London, Canada, Aregentina, Australia, India, Turkey, Hondurus, Ireland, Yemen, Jordan, Venezuela, and the list goes on, and the issues are all the same, unemployment, price hikes, food, education and government corruption.
The Occupy Movement will not go away. Camps will continue to be set up to illustrate the economic woes of americans, marches will still occur, freeway overpasses will be occupied during rush hours, police precincts will be blockaded, Occupy Work Groups will create all kinds of different ways to have their message heard despite media bias and suppression.
As we move into 2012 the Occupy Movement also moves into a second phase of operations. This will be through the internet and social media and will be defining issues and proposing solutions. Er are all the 99% and this is where your own voice, your own opinions, your own ideas and solutions can be shared between one another. The internet is a massive database, it's contents easily monitered and categorized by statistics.
My own Facebook account has grown from 200 friends two months ago to 1,200 friends today, all of them fellow Occupy brothers and sisters. The Occupy Face Book pages of cities around the world have grown from zero to 4,000, 10, 000, 30,000 and more around the world in three months. Statistically it is like voting. Show your own solidarity by joining, but this is not enough. We must discuss together what our opinions are and what change we would like to make.
Corporate media has lost its way. It tells us only what it's owners want you to hear. It no longer provides un-biased editorial and opinion, now is your chance to become a journalist and a politician yourself. Write commentaries about the articles you read and the videos you view, share your own opinions, ideas, and solutions. By compiling statistics of your ideas, opinions, and solutions a defined plan propsed by the majority will take form.
Do not be afraid of being watched by those you consider your adversary, this is an opportunity to speak to them directly, this is what we want because it is not enough "to preach to the converted" progress is only achieved by educating those outside of your circle of friends. There is talk that those in power who do not want the Occupy message to be heard want to censore the internet and suppress your free speech but don't worry about that either. if that were to happen it would ignite such passion that even the elderly and crippled, homebound and shut ins will find the strength to fill the streets and spread the word coast to coast if that is what is necessary.
Love your brothers and sisters world wide. Like a bird there are no borders. The 21st century is a new millenium, a new industrial revoltion, one world, one people, one economy, one future.
the 2012 Person Of The Year. Clear issues have emerged from
the Occupy Movement:
46 million americans now living at the poverty level, 52 million americans do not have health insurance (9 million have lost health insurance in the last two years.) Rising education costs and simultaneous lack of jobs for graduates. 10% general unemployment rates, and 24% unemployment rates for military vets and students More than one million americans are homeless, many of them for several years already, while simultaneously there are more than 1.5 million vacant homes, and Bank of America has used Bulldozers to destroy many of them. 25% of millionaires pay lower tax rates than working class americans pay, investment and dividend earnings of the rich are taxed at much lower rates than the much higher tax rates on the wages earned of the working class. While the rick keep their money our communities suffer deep cuts and lay-offs of firemen, police, school busses, libraries, medical care, state parks are closed, and the list goes on.
Financial institutions have knowingly sold bad, losing investements to unsuspecting consumers, the super rich manipulate the stock market high and low with large transactions and virtually rob everyone else who has invested. Politicians make decisions based on what benefits the corporations that financed their campaigns and not based on the best interests of the millions who voted for them. Issues such as approving the payroll tax cut (which people want) and approval of the Keystone oil piplene (which politicians want) are tied together as a "package deal."
Politicians have become rich far beyond there average $100,000 a year salary through (what is illegal for the rest of us) insider trading and by bouncing back and forth between congress and the white house and executive positions such as Karl Rove and Fox News, Condaleezza Rice and Chevron, Dick Cheney and Haliburton, his net worth is $23 million. Newt Gingrich $20 million, Bush family $60 millioin, Collin Powell $45 million and CEO of a Natural Gas company, Donald Rumsfeld $15 million, Diane Fienstein $75 million, and the list goes on.
Food is grown with seeds that are intentionally sterile so that no one can plant a seed in thier yard and grow it and instead have to go buy more, and the list of things that the 99% are protesting goes on.
Homeless Camp in Florida 2009. This is not a new problem and it is not a photo from an occcupy movement in the last three months.
One thing the Occupy Movement did is to be a common umbrella for multiples of what used to be seperate issues and seperate protests. The realization that there is a systemic breakdown world wide is at the core or the 99% movement and it has become a vehicle of solidarity world wide, yet ouir politicians and in turn our media continue to claim they don't know what the 99% wants and verbally attack all of us.
Newt Gingrich said poor kids should clean toilets in their schools, and that protesters should take a bath and get a job. A few hypodermic needles are found around occupy encampments and the media reports wide spread drug use without mentioning the possibilty that someone there could be diabetic.
Police Departments have used excessive force against protesters, arrested journalists and the Seattle Police Department is confirmed by the United States Justice Department of having a pattern of excessive force and violating the constitution pre-dating the Occupy demonstrations yet their Chief and the Mayor accuse protesters of instigating violence.
There are many uneasy similarities between american discontent and discontent in Tunisia and all of the other countries in the world who's citizens have been protesting this past year; unemployment, government corruption, governement control of the news and sucha s Karl Rove working for Fox News and Newsweek, and the arrests of journalists.
More than 5,000 people have been killed while protesting in Syria lately, thousands of people still fill the streets in Egypt, Rome, Greece, Israel, Chile, Tunisia, Belgium, Hong Kong, London, Canada, Aregentina, Australia, India, Turkey, Hondurus, Ireland, Yemen, Jordan, Venezuela, and the list goes on, and the issues are all the same, unemployment, price hikes, food, education and government corruption.
The Occupy Movement will not go away. Camps will continue to be set up to illustrate the economic woes of americans, marches will still occur, freeway overpasses will be occupied during rush hours, police precincts will be blockaded, Occupy Work Groups will create all kinds of different ways to have their message heard despite media bias and suppression.
As we move into 2012 the Occupy Movement also moves into a second phase of operations. This will be through the internet and social media and will be defining issues and proposing solutions. Er are all the 99% and this is where your own voice, your own opinions, your own ideas and solutions can be shared between one another. The internet is a massive database, it's contents easily monitered and categorized by statistics.
My own Facebook account has grown from 200 friends two months ago to 1,200 friends today, all of them fellow Occupy brothers and sisters. The Occupy Face Book pages of cities around the world have grown from zero to 4,000, 10, 000, 30,000 and more around the world in three months. Statistically it is like voting. Show your own solidarity by joining, but this is not enough. We must discuss together what our opinions are and what change we would like to make.
As of Jan 2013 I had more than 5,000 politically active
FaceBook friends and I was off line most of 2013.
Do not be afraid of being watched by those you consider your adversary, this is an opportunity to speak to them directly, this is what we want because it is not enough "to preach to the converted" progress is only achieved by educating those outside of your circle of friends. There is talk that those in power who do not want the Occupy message to be heard want to censore the internet and suppress your free speech but don't worry about that either. if that were to happen it would ignite such passion that even the elderly and crippled, homebound and shut ins will find the strength to fill the streets and spread the word coast to coast if that is what is necessary.
Love your brothers and sisters world wide. Like a bird there are no borders. The 21st century is a new millenium, a new industrial revoltion, one world, one people, one economy, one future.
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