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Monday Marks the One-Year Anniversary of 'Occupy Wall Street': Has the Movement Made a Difference?
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2012/09/16 21:25:05
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On Monday, protesters will gather near the New York Stock Exchange to celebrate the one-year anniversary of the Occupy Wall Street movement. People in more than 30 other cities around the world will also mark the occasion by attending rallies and marches.
One year ago, on September 17, 2011, a group of young people began camping in Zuccotti Park to protest corporate greed and economic inequality. The gathering quickly grew in numbers, also spreading to other cities around the country and globe. Occupiers became known for the slogan “We are the 99 percent!” and were occasionally joined by celebrities.
On November 15, 2011, New York City police officers shut down the encampment. One by one, Occupy encampments around the country were raided and dismantled. The loss of the encampments, combined with the movement’s lack of leadership or specific demands, caused Occupy to splinter and lose momentum. These days, the Occupy label has been co-opted to protest everything from climate change to illegal immigration.
So SodaHeads, what do you think? It’s been a year since Occupy Wall Street began. Has the movement made a difference?
One year ago, on September 17, 2011, a group of young people began camping in Zuccotti Park to protest corporate greed and economic inequality. The gathering quickly grew in numbers, also spreading to other cities around the country and globe. Occupiers became known for the slogan “We are the 99 percent!” and were occasionally joined by celebrities.
On November 15, 2011, New York City police officers shut down the encampment. One by one, Occupy encampments around the country were raided and dismantled. The loss of the encampments, combined with the movement’s lack of leadership or specific demands, caused Occupy to splinter and lose momentum. These days, the Occupy label has been co-opted to protest everything from climate change to illegal immigration.
So SodaHeads, what do you think? It’s been a year since Occupy Wall Street began. Has the movement made a difference?
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FanOreilly 2012/09/16 21:36:00Yes
+26OWS has taught Americans that murdering, raping, rioting and demanding other people's money means at least one political party will love you.
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It showed me how many in this generation are OPENLY socialist. It showed me how close the Democrat party is to "coming out" and saying that they are socialist as well. It showed me that just because you have a bunch of kids dressing up and pretending to be Woodstock hippies....doesn't mean it will yield good ideas or good music.
Encounter at the Bridge
by Ron Jolliffe
Setting: Rural area. Dark, blustery, cold evening. Winter. Man crossing bridge hears sound. Looking up he sees a person apparently intending to jump to his death.
Man: Hey! Don't Jump!
Man: What do you mean there's nothing to live for? Nobody cares? I care about you. You are a fellow human being. Don't jump!
Man: Well, I also care about you because I am a Christian.
Man: What? You are a Christian too? Well then, why don't you come down? We have a lot in common, I'm sure.
Man: What? Does it matter? Catholic or Protestant? Well, I'm Protestant. Just come down. There's a strut just below you to the left.
Man: What? Continental or British Isles Protestant? Actually, I belong to the tradition that developed in the British Isles.
Man: You are too? That's wonderful! Hang on tight while you stretch to the shelf about 30 inches below you on the right.
Man: You're joking, right? This is unreal. Here you are threatening to jump. I'm trying to save you and you really want to know if I belong to the Anglican or the "real" Protestant tradition? Well, no, I'm not Episcopalian.
Man: Look, just reach with your arm to the right and see if you can grab that guyline. You are so obstinate! Yes, I belong to the Reformed and not to th...
Encounter at the Bridge
by Ron Jolliffe
Setting: Rural area. Dark, blustery, cold evening. Winter. Man crossing bridge hears sound. Looking up he sees a person apparently intending to jump to his death.
Man: Hey! Don't Jump!
Man: What do you mean there's nothing to live for? Nobody cares? I care about you. You are a fellow human being. Don't jump!
Man: Well, I also care about you because I am a Christian.
Man: What? You are a Christian too? Well then, why don't you come down? We have a lot in common, I'm sure.
Man: What? Does it matter? Catholic or Protestant? Well, I'm Protestant. Just come down. There's a strut just below you to the left.
Man: What? Continental or British Isles Protestant? Actually, I belong to the tradition that developed in the British Isles.
Man: You are too? That's wonderful! Hang on tight while you stretch to the shelf about 30 inches below you on the right.
Man: You're joking, right? This is unreal. Here you are threatening to jump. I'm trying to save you and you really want to know if I belong to the Anglican or the "real" Protestant tradition? Well, no, I'm not Episcopalian.
Man: Look, just reach with your arm to the right and see if you can grab that guyline. You are so obstinate! Yes, I belong to the Reformed and not to the Lutheran tradition.
Man: OK, OK. My family comes from Scotland, not Ireland, so we are part of the Scottish Reformed tradition. Now, will you please try to place your right foot about 18 inches below you onto that truss. Why? Because I care about you. You are a fellow human being, a Christian, a part of the same national church heritage from which I come. So, please!
Man: There's a large bolt you should be able to reach with your left hand. No! I'm not a part of the National Church. My family came from the Seceders.
Man: I can't believe it! Yours did too! What a small world. Brother, be careful. There's a steel arch that you can now reach just below you.
Man: By the way, do you belong to the group of Seceders that were also Burgher, or anti-Burgher?
Man: Anti-Burgher! This is unreal. Who would have thought two total strangers could have so very much in common? There's a span support just beneath your right foot. Then I think I can reach you to help you down onto the hand-railing.
Man: By the way, do you belong to the Old Light or the New Light branch of the Anti-Burgher Seceder Scottish Reformed Protestant Christian faith?
Man: New Light?
[With a swift and forceful push, the man knocks the would-be suicide victim off the hand-railing on which he has just placed his feet.]
Man: Die, you heretic!
Ron Paul, on the other hand, just wants to take politicians out of the picture. Instead of being at the mercy of politicians who enact legislation that give corporations more power, we'll just be at the mercy of the corporations themselves.
Ron Paul's plans will not fix the problems the US is having, it'll just make it so that corporations don't even have to waste time bribing politicians to get their way. Sure.
. 1. "I hope that's not where we're going, but you know if this Congress keeps going the way it is, people are really looking toward those Second Amendment remedies and saying my goodness what can we do to turn this country around? I'll tell you the first thing we need to do is take Harry Reid out." —Nevada GOP Senate candidate Sharron Angle, floating the possibility of armed insurrection in a radio interview, Jan. 2010
2. "It is not enough to be abstinent with other people, you also have to be abstinent alone. The Bible says that lust in your heart is committing adultery. You can't masturbate without lust! ... You're going to be pleasing each other. And if he already knows what pleases him and he can please himself, then why am I in the picture?" —Delaware GOP Senate candidate Christine O'Donnell, advocating against masturbation in a 1996 MTV interview
3. Tea Party candidate Ken Buck, after being asked why people should vote for him for the Colorado GOP Senate nomination: ''Because I do not wear high heels. ...
. 1. "I hope that's not where we're going, but you know if this Congress keeps going the way it is, people are really looking toward those Second Amendment remedies and saying my goodness what can we do to turn this country around? I'll tell you the first thing we need to do is take Harry Reid out." —Nevada GOP Senate candidate Sharron Angle, floating the possibility of armed insurrection in a radio interview, Jan. 2010
2. "It is not enough to be abstinent with other people, you also have to be abstinent alone. The Bible says that lust in your heart is committing adultery. You can't masturbate without lust! ... You're going to be pleasing each other. And if he already knows what pleases him and he can please himself, then why am I in the picture?" —Delaware GOP Senate candidate Christine O'Donnell, advocating against masturbation in a 1996 MTV interview
3. Tea Party candidate Ken Buck, after being asked why people should vote for him for the Colorado GOP Senate nomination: ''Because I do not wear high heels. She has questioned my manhood, and I think it's fair to respond. I have cowboy boots, they have real bullsh*t on them. And that's Weld County bullsh*t, not Washington, D.C., bullsh*t.'' Buck was referring to an ad run by his opponent, which decried third-party spending on behalf of his campaign and urged Buck to ''be man enough'' to run the ads himself (July 21, 2010)
4. 'We took the Bible and prayer out of public schools, and now we're having weekly shootings practically. We had the 60s sexual revolution, and now people are dying of AIDS." —Christine O'Donnell, during a 1998 appearance on Bill Maher's 'Politically Incorrect'",
5. "People ask me, 'What are you going to do to develop jobs in your state?' Well, that's not my job as a U.S. senator." —Sharron Angle, May 14, 2010
6. "By integrating women into particularly military institutes, it cripples the readiness of our defense. Schools like The Citadel train young men to confidently lead other young men into a battlefield where one of them will die. And when you have women in that situation, it creates a whole new set of dynamics which are distracting to training these men to kill or be killed." —Christine O'Donnell, during a 1995 C-SPAN interview when she was press secretary for Concerned Women for America
7. "What I don't like from the president's administration is this sort of, 'I'll put my boot heel on the throat of BP.' I think that sounds really un-American in his criticism of business. I've heard nothing from BP about not paying for the spill. And I think it's part of this sort of blame-game society in the sense that it's always got to be someone's fault instead of the fact that sometimes accidents happen." —Kentucky GOP Senate candidate Rand Paul, May 21, 2010
8. "I think that two wrongs don't make a right. And I have been in the situation of counseling young girls, not 13 but 15, who have had very at risk, difficult pregnancies. And my counsel was to look for some alternatives, which they did. And they found that they had made what was really a lemon situation into lemonade." —Sharron Angle, explaining why she is against abortion even in cases of rape or incest, July 8, 2010
9. "I don't want to be associated with those people, but I also don't want to limit their speech in any way in the sense that we tolerate boorish and uncivilized behavior because that’s one of the things freedom requires is that we allow people to be boorish and uncivilized, but that doesn't mean we approve of it." —Rand Paul, taking issue with the Civil Rights Act of 1964 while arguing that government should not prevent private businesses from discriminating on the basis of race, interview with MSNBC's Rachel Maddow, May 21, 2010
10. "We needed to have the press be our friend ... We wanted them to ask the questions we want to answer so that they report the news the way we want it to be reported." —Sharron Angle, during an interview with Fox News Channel's Carl Cameron, Aug. 2, 2010
Also, I've watched the documentary, Have You?