Show solidarity with protesters on wall street OCCUPY BINGHAMTON!

[Guest Guest]

Still sounds to me like you are making a personal choice to be the consumer you think they want you to be.

 

Stop buying! It is the law of supply and demand. If people had a little self control the demand would fall, leading to cheaper products, THAT MORE PEOPLE COULD AFFORD. With more consumers, the corporations would make just as much money. So it comes back to the gluttonous consumption of the people.

You ivory-tower conservatives need to come down to earth some time.

 

 

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[Guest guest]

You ivory-tower conservatives need to come down to earth some time.

 

 

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Riiiiiiiiiiight. And by contrast, you directionless losers protesting "Wall Street" - Obama's largest donor group - need to stop posing for the cameras and uttering random liberal cliches lacking any reason or coherence.

[The Mole]

If the anti-corporates really believe in what they spew they would tell the truth as to what happened to American jobs and banking. Years ago there were protectionist measures in place to insure American jobs were not off shored. Why were these in place? Because thanks to American Unions the hands of greedy businessmen were forced to provide safe working environments and good pay. All of what is happening now would have happened years ago if it wasn't for these measures. What every protester fails to see and wont admit to is that thanks to NAFTA and GATT which opened up the door for offshoring, former American made prducts are now being produced in 3rd world countries. The news media wont show you the fact that when American jobs first went to China, people were lucky if they got a dollar a week. They got lousy medical, lived in shacks and really lived the 3rd world lifes style. All at the sake of American jobs. This offshoring helped to create a whole class of povery here in America as the lack of jobs became prevalent. Now China's economy is booming for some but for many that are working hard, the bennies and dollars don't trickle down and lets not forget the fact that they cant strike. Strike and you're liable to be shot. Now look at who came up with NAFTA and GATT. That's not hard to do. Sure there's great masses of money that was made but who really got us into this mess??? Wall St???? The CEO's???? HECK NO !!!! Your own government opened the door that allowed American jobs to flow out of this country not too unlike the floodwaters that ran through our streets. Now on to banking. Any bank likes to loan money provided there are certain guarantees in place. Nobody is going to make a bad loan unless somebody tells them to and that their money is covered. Now guess who told the banks to loan money to people that couldn't afford the payments ???? Why our wonderful government of course !!!!

 

There's no need to dwell in the past but there is a certain need to understand who has really put us in the mess and who is really profiting. It's not you, or me, or the protesters or the Unions. The guys making the bucks are the politicians. Those very power brokers that you elect, that are sworn to protect you and that you think are looking out for American interests. If you want to march then lets all march. We will all, march on Washington D.C. and throw the liars, the crooks, the puppets, the power brokers that laugh and spend your money while the country goes to crap. It isn't only republicans or democrats or independents or socialists..... It is a system of governemnt that has empowered its' elected officials to the point that they don't have to be held accountable and when asked they dare you, dare you..... How dare you question my intentions.

 

America has a problem and it starts in Washington. This country needs an enema !!!

[Guest Guest]

Get off fixed news people. stand up and support the restoration of America! let go of the greed!

 

“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.”

― Malcolm X

[Guest Guest]

Get off fixed news people. stand up and support the restoration of America! let go of the greed!

 

“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.”

― Malcolm X

 

You actually support those burned-out losers? Restoration of America? Who are you kidding? Your ilk is what is wrong with this country.

[Guest Guest]

The corporate shills like you that blindly believe their industry financed politicians are what's wrong with this country.

 

Be afraid. Be very afraid.

[Guest Guest]

Just what we need - leftist nuts taking over Binghamton. Oh, wait a minute. That already happened - Matt Ryan, side kick Tarik, Leah Webb, Rennia and most of the council. Most likely Ryan will be with the new generation of hippies, maybe with a rainbow flag tied around his shoulders like supergirly. And the beat goes on...

[Guest Guest]

Stephen Lerner, a controversial anti-capitalist SEIU organizer, is one of the forces behind the protests on Wall Street and nationwide, according to quotes obtained by a socialist activist who doubles as a Washington Post columnist.

 

WND was first to report Lerner was the brain behind some of the economic protest templates being used by the Occupy Wall Street campaign.

 

Lerner recently laid out a mass economic protest plan intended to bring down the stock market, and boasted his plan could be used to cause a new financial crisis. His ideology prompted some conservative critics to go so far as to label him an economic terrorist.

 

Writing in the Washington Post on Tuesday, columnist Harold Meyerson, the vice-chair of Democratic Socialists of America, quoted Lerner describing how a coalition is fomenting the current economic protests.

 

Here's the rundown on Obama's ties to "communists, socialists and other anti-American extremists" – all in "The Manchurian President."

 

Lerner described himself as part of that coalition, referring to the organizations behind the demonstrations as "we."

 

Lerner told Meyerson: "It's a confluence of planned and unplanned demonstrations … . We build on each other. We go ping-ponging back and forth."

 

The Occupy Wall Street unrest first started Sept. 17 with a protest called the "Day of Rage."

 

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Planners used their own website – USDayofRage.org – which told protesters to "bring your own tent." That website is now a sister site for the Occupy Wall Street initiative.

 

The website is not specific about the purpose of the protests other than calling for "integrity" to be "restored to our elections."

 

The site accuses corporations of using "money to act as the voices of millions, while individual citizens, the legitimate voters, are silenced and demoralized by the farce."

 

In March, ACORN founder Wade Rathke announced what he called "days of rage in 10 cities around JP Morgan Chase." Rathke was president of an SEIU local in New Orleans.

 

The planned Sept. 17 protest seems to have been the culmination of Rathke's efforts.

 

WND reported how those efforts were organized by Lerner, an SEIU board member who reportedly visited the Obama White House at least four times.

 

Lerner is considered one of the most capable organizers of the radical left. He recently organized the SEIU's so-called Justice for Janitors campaign.

 

As part of his planned protests, Lerner called for "a week of civil disobedience, direct action all over the city."

 

His stated aim was to "destabilize the folks that are in power and start to rebuild a movement."

 

In an interview about the Wall Street protests, Lerner outlined his goals: "How do we bring down the stock market? How do we bring down their bonuses? How do we interfere with their ability to, to be rich?"

 

'Economic terrorist'

 

Lerner came under fire in the conservative blogosphere and digital news in March after he laid out an economic plan some claimed amounts to economic terrorism.

 

In an oped titled "This can be our moment," published in the radical In These Times magazine, Lerner calls on followers to "go on offense" and "make Wall Street pay for the trillions it stole from us."

 

Lerner outlined his campaign to "stoke simmering discontent into concrete, concerted direct action to challenge corporate extremism."

 

Lerner's campaign was intended to sow "the seeds of a movement that turns the tables on them [Wall Street]."

 

The Blaze.com first posted a video of Lerner addressing a conference in which he stated the aim of such an economic campaign would be, among other things, to "bring down the stock market."

 

Lerner continued, "There are actually extraordinary things we could do right now to start to destabilize the folks that are in power and start to rebuild a movement."

 

During the presentation, Lerner called for a mass strike by mortgage payers that, he said, could cause a new financial crisis.

 

Stated Lerner: "And so the question would be, what would happen if we organized homeowners en masse to do a mortgage strike. Just say if we get, and, and, if we get half a million people to agree, we'll all not, we'll agree we won't pay our mortgages, it would literally cause a new financial crisis."

 

Lerner's plan had him dubbed an "economic terrorist" in headlines by writers for American Thinker and a multitude of blogs. TheBlaze.com owner Glenn Beck used the "economic terrorist" label for Lerner, as well.

 

Forecast for American cities: Confrontation, intimidation?

 

There are other indications a coalition of radicals and unions is planning chaos using the current economic crisis.

 

WND reported that a slew of extremist organizations, some tied to Obama, are preparing protests to coincide with major NATO and G-8 summits in Chicago next May.

 

Foreshadowing possible violent confrontations, some of the same radical trainers behind the infamous 1999 Seattle riots against the World Trade Organization have been mobilizing new protest efforts geared toward world summits as well as the current economic crisis.

 

The NATO and G-8 summits are not the only focus of radical groups.

 

WND reported Heather Booth, director of a Saul Alinsky-style community organizing group, the Midwest Academy, was among the main speakers at the "2011 State Battles Summit" in June at the Hyatt Regency Capitol Hill Hotel in Washington, D.C.

 

Booth's husband, Paul, also was a speaker at the union summit. Paul Booth co-founded Midwest Academy in the 1970s.

 

The four-day summit was organized by the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, or AFSCME, with participation from the AFL-CIO, the nation's largest union.

 

An official schedule for the event, obtained by WND, declared: "Our union is under unprecedented attack in every state. Extremist politicians want to weaken us as we head into 2012. Their tactics include budget cuts, layoffs, privatization and the denial of our very collective bargaining rights."

 

Continued the flyer: "New challenges require new energy and new thinking. We encourage union activists to attend this conference and bring their creative ideas on how to overcome the challenges ahead."

 

Heather Booth participated in a panel entitled, "Our Message, Alliances and Best Practices."

 

Paul Booth delivered the opening remarks for the union conference.

 

Another speaker at the union event was John Podesta, who co-chaired President Obama's transition team.

 

Podesta is president of the Center for American Progress, which is heavily influential in advising the White House. The center is funded by philanthropist George Soros.

 

Mideast revolutions coming to U.S.?

 

Citizen Action of Wisconsin, an arm of Booth's Midwest Academy, is part of the Moving Wisconsin Forward movement, one of the main organizers of the major Wisconsin protests in February, as WND first reported.

 

The protests were in opposition to Gov. Scott Walker's proposal for most state workers to pay 12 percent of their health care premiums and 5.8 percent of their salary toward their own pensions.

 

WND reported at the time speakers at the rallies likened the Wisconsin protests to the ongoing revolutions in the Middle East and North Africa while calling for similar uprisings in the U.S.

 

'Redistribution of wealth and power'

 

Obama himself once funded Midwest Academy. He has been closely tied to Heather Booth.

 

Booth has stated building a ''progressive majority'' would help for ''a fair distribution of wealth and power and opportunity."

 

Her husband Paul is a founder and the former national secretary of Students for a Democratic Society, the radical 1960s anti-war movement from which unrepentant radical Bill Ayers' Weather Underground splintered.

 

In 1999, the Booths' Midwest Academy received $75,000 from the Woods Fund with Obama on its board alongside Ayers, In 2002, with Obama still serving on the Woods Fund, Midwest received another $23,500 for its Young Organizers Development Program.

 

Midwest describes itself as "one of the nation's oldest and best-known schools for community organizations, citizen organizations and individuals committed to progressive social change."

 

It later morphed into a national organizing institute for an emerging network of organizations known as Citizen Action.

 

Discover the Networks describes Midwest as "teach[ing] tactics of direct action, confrontation and intimidation."

 

WND first reported the executive director of an activist organization that taught Alinsky's tactics of direct action, confrontation and intimidation was part of the team that developed volunteers for President Obama's 2008 campaign.

 

Jackie Kendall, executive director of the Midwest Academy, was on the team that developed and delivered the first Camp Obama training for volunteers aiding Obama's campaign through the 2008 Iowa Caucuses.

 

Camp Obama was a two-to-four day intensive course run in conjunction with Obama's campaign aimed at training volunteers to become activists to help Obama win the presidential election.

 

Also, in 1998, Obama participated on a panel discussion praising Alinsky alongside Heather Booth, herself a dedicated disciple of Alinsky.

 

The panel discussion following the opening performance in Chicago of the play "The Love Song of Saul Alinsky," a work described by the Chicago Sun-Times as "bringing to life one of America's greatest community organizers."

 

Obama participated in the discussion alongside other Alinskyites, including political analyst Aaron Freeman, Don Turner of the Chicago Federation of Labor and Northwestern University history professor Charles Paine.

 

"Alinsky had so much fire burning within," stated local actor Gary Houston, who portrayed Alinsky in the play. "There was a lot of complexity to him. Yet he was a really cool character."

 

With research by Brenda J. Elliott

[Guest Guest]

I am often amazed at how much my parents were able to do with so little. Both of my parents were blue collar types who scrimpped and saved their entire lives. Money was always tight, and some years we didn't take vacations. Our cars were always old, and my sister and I rarely had designer label clothes. My parents often did without to provide more for my sister and I. In spite of it all, we were happy as a family and I look fondly on my childhood. Yet throughout my parents life they were able to buy a nice modest home, put their two kids through college and retire with a comfortable lifestyle.

 

Is it more difficult today than it was in yesteryear? On the surface I would say no. No doubt that we face a different set of challenges, but I think its human nature to always think that the hear and now is always worse than other times. The challenges that earlier generations were no less challenging to them.

 

THe difference that I see is that the current generations are impatient and not as tough and steeled as our ancestors. They didn't have the luxury to sit and whine and opine about the current state when things are bad. Gone are the days when people would work and save for a "luxury" item. Now it's throw it on your credit card and worry about it later.

 

Apples and oranges. Back in the day, your parents HAD JOBS! They performed their job satisfactorily and kept their job. They were also given benefits like health care, vacation, sick days, retirement, promotions, etc. Now, companies use temp workers or part timers. Even nursing is now doing this. Translation, NO BENEFITS!

Give it a few years. You will reach that magical age of 50. Then no amount of skills will keep you in "the race".

[Guest guest]

If corporations ran the government, how did we get Obama, the most anti-business president since FDR? Why would corporations arrange such a hostile business climate, where every business sits on its cash, afraid to hire because they don't know how much labor will cost them in the near future because of ObamaCare? Why would corporations make the government hobble them with coils upon coils of new regulations?

[Guest Guest]

You ivory-tower conservatives need to come down to earth some time.

 

 

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Wow. What a deep and thought provoking statement. Other than it is only in your pot addled mind and totally inaccurate. Get a job, loser.

[Guest Guest]

If corporations ran the government, how did we get Obama, the most anti-business president since FDR? Why would corporations arrange such a hostile business climate, where every business sits on its cash, afraid to hire because they don't know how much labor will cost them in the near future because of ObamaCare? Why would corporations make the government hobble them with coils upon coils of new regulations?

[Bee]

 

Wow. What a deep and thought provoking statement. Other than it is only in your pot addled mind and totally inaccurate. Get a job, loser.

 

Anachronistic thought...

[Navin R Johnson]

I can't wait to go down to watch the idiots protesting in the occupy binghamton on the 15th. My thought is how are they going to get there? Maybe in their car that was manufactured by a big company and was financed by a big bank that they are protesting against. And how do they buy the gas to drive it? Oh yea another big company. When they are done I bet they will stop and grab a big mac from....oh yea another big corporation. After that they will go back to their house or apartment that was built or financed by a big bank. All the time they will be wearing their clothes that they bought from gap, or old navy (another big business) that manufactures these clothes somehwere in asia. So unless these twits show up for their "march" wearing nothing but a smile, and get their by walking to it, they are nothing but hypocrites.

[Guest Guest]

You're missing the point (intentionally or not). It is not to destroy or eschew big corporations, but to change the way they do business so that they look at more than the good of the shareholders.

[Guest Guest]

You're missing the point (intentionally or not). It is not to destroy or eschew big corporations, but to change the way they do business so that they look at more than the good of the shareholders.

Everyone is a share holder whether they know they are or not.

[Guest guest]

https://www.nytimes....ch-graphic.html

[James Bonham]

You're missing the point (intentionally or not). It is not to destroy or eschew big corporations, but to change the way they do business so that they look at more than the good of the shareholders.

 

 

That makes sense. But, if not for the stockholders how do they remain in business?

 

This is my last on this because there is no way in hell the idiots trying to justify this crap can be serious.

[Guest Guest]

So in your world, a business can't stay open without stockholders?

 

Ever hear of private investors?

 

Here's a link for you -

 

http://www.aa.org/?Media=PlayFlash

[Guest the 99%]

Here's a youtube video of an actor giving Maj. Gen Smedley Butler's "War is a Racket" speech.

 

 

 

 

Check out the related videos for some interesting history lessons.

 

Semper Fi

[Guest Guest]

So in your world, a business can't stay open without stockholders?

 

Ever hear of private investors?

 

Here's a link for you -

 

http://www.aa.org/?Media=PlayFlash

Wow aren't you stupid. So you would rather have a small group run a corporation invest their money bring back the profits and share it between them rather than spreading the wealth amongst a large group of investors. GOOD LORD YOUR AN DELETED

[Guest Guest]

How about just ratcheting down the greed level a little???

 

Any "shareholder" that doesn't even work, other than to attend meetings about the same, and screams about investments so that thousands get laid off should be done away with --- immediately.

 

And, to the posters saying these protester's are hypocrites because they don't live in caves, well, wow.

 

Spectacularly poor reasoning.

 

It would seem many people have simply had it.

 

Not surprisingly.

[Guest Guest]

The 99% are growing louder and larger every day.

 

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjqqtx57YNc

[Guest Guest]

Once the weed runs out, they'll disappear in a hurry .

[Guest Guest]

The 99% are growing louder and larger every day.

 

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjqqtx57YNc

 

Nothing compared to the Tea Party. Who wants to support tree hugger anarchists who constantly get arrested? They need to grow up. They demand $20.00/hour minimum wage. Twenty bucks and hour to flip a burger? DELETED