Their chief target is Wall Street, but many of the demonstrators in New York and across the U.S. are also thoroughly disgusted with Washington, blaming politicians of both parties for policies they say protect corporate America at the expense of the middle class"At this point I don't see any difference between George Bush and Obama. The middle class is a lot worse than when Obama was elected," said John Penley, an unemployed legal worker from Brooklyn.The Occupy Wall Street movement, which began last month with a small number of young people pitching a tent in front of the New York Stock Exchange, has expanded nationally and drawn a wide variety of activists, including union members and laid-off workers. Demonstrators marched Thursday in Philadelphia, Salt Lake City, Los Angeles and Anchorage, Alaska, carrying signs with slogans such as "Get money out of politics" and "I can't afford a lobbyist..
Anyway, in case you haven't seen it, I have collected a bunch of video from the protests on Wall Street (Sept. 25) and posted them below. Have a look at what the news media DIDN'T show you! Warning: some of the protest videos contain profanity. By the way our counterparts over in Great Britain held protests of their own on Oct. 10 to protest their big bailout: Click Here to See Protests In London But while their message might be a tad muddled, all are united by their anger over what they say is a broken system, a system that serves the wealthy and powerful at the expense of the rest.
Protester Brendan Burke insists he and the others are fighting for more than 99 percent of the American population.
"Everyone has this problem," he said, "White, black. Rich or poor. Where you live. Everyone has a financial inequity oppressing them."Sympathetic protests are popping up in other cities, including Los Angeles; Boston; Washington; Providence, R.I.; Albuquerque, N.M.; and Spokane, Wash., with many demonstrations taking place Saturday.
While they may have a ways to go before attaining tea party-like influence, Occupy Wall Street backers say they hope their message will continue to gain momentum -- and will ultimately be heard in the 2012 elections.
In fact, some tea party members have been down to Liberty Square to lend their support. Both groups are fed up with the status quo.
NOTES & COMMENTS:
These protestors represent a broad spectrum of the American people... those who care about corporate lying, cheating, stealing, and RIPPING US OFF every chance they get. NO! 'Trickle-down' is not working! This country has been sold right out from under us! You call that democracy? We give these big corporate banks literally 1 TRILLION DOLLARS to bail them out because they have RIPPED OFF their customers so many times, for so many years... steadily increasing their fees, literally manipulating their customers into missing payments (becuase we have all been living on the edge of what we can afford) or over-spending (so they gan profit off of the penalties!)... we can nmot afford to pay our bills, because our money has been stolen from us! And, with Republican support, these corporations and SO MANY other big corporations have done the same thing (cheat people out of their hard earn money)... to the point where ordinary people have no more money left for them to steal! So, what does our government do? We bail out the crooks! We stand by while these same companies take the bailout money and continue to RIP US OFF, lay off workers... foreclose our homes... raise our rates... they take the all money we 'loaned' them and they grab up small companies, buy up patents, build new facilities over-seas... outsource... and give their executives and share holders huge 'profits'--those aren't 'profits' those are bail-out funds that ordinary American citizens and our children will be paying for decades to come!! GIVE ME A BREAK!!
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