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Oakland Becomes Epicenter of Occupy Movement: Thousands March in ‘General Strike,’ Banks, Port Targeted

Oakland Becomes Epicenter of Occupy Movement: Thousands March in General StrikeBanks, Ports Targeted

OAKLAND, Calif. (The Blaze/AP) — Thousands of Occupy Wall Street protesters escalated their tactics beyond marches, rallies and tent camps Wednesday and moved to disrupt the flow of goods at the nation’s fifth-busiest port.

Protesters were arrested as they held a sit-in at the headquarters of cable giant Comcast in Philadelphia. Military veterans marched in uniform in New York, angry at their dim job prospects. And parents and their kids, some in strollers, formed a “children’s brigade” to join the Oakland, Calif. rallies.

 

“There’s absolutely something wrong with the system,” said Jessica Medina, a single mother who attends school part time and works at an Oakland cafe. “We need to change that.”

Oakland Becomes Epicenter of Occupy Movement: Thousands March in General StrikeBanks, Ports Targeted

In Los Angeles, New York and other cities, demonstrators planned their own rallies in solidarity with the Oakland protesters, who called for Wednesday’s “general strike” after the city became a rallying point last week when an Iraq War veteran was injured in clashes with police.

Even the discount clothing chain Men’s Wearhouse boldly declared that it stands with OWS by closing its stores Wednesday. The Blaze’s Mike Opelka contacted MW for comment but did not receive a reply.

Oakland Becomes Epicenter of Occupy Movement: Thousands March in General StrikeBanks, Ports Targeted

Protesters, city officials and business leaders were optimistic the strike would be peaceful. There was little to no visible police presence all day. At a briefing, officials described the protests as peaceful and orderly and said no arrests had been made.

Oakland Becomes Epicenter of Occupy Movement: Thousands March in General StrikeBanks, Ports TargetedOakland Becomes Epicenter of Occupy Movement: Thousands March in General StrikeBanks, Ports Targeted

Potentially minimizing any significant disruptions at the port, leaders of the longshoremen’s union said they could not call for members to join the protests under their contract with the port.

Organizers say they want to stop the “flow of capital.” The port sends goods primarily to Asia, including wine as well as rice, fruits and nuts, and handles imported electronics, apparel and manufacturing equipment, mostly from Asia, as well as cars and parts from Toyota, Honda, Nissan and Hyundai.

On Wednesday morning, the port was operating as normal and most longshoremen had shown up for work, according to port and union officials.

Craig Merrilees, spokesman for the International Longshore and Warehouse Union, said its members were not being called to strike, but that they supported the protesters.

Oakland Becomes Epicenter of Occupy Movement: Thousands March in General StrikeBanks, Ports Targeted

The members “are supporting the concerns raised by Occupy Oakland and the Occupy movement to speak up for the 99 percent and against the corporate greed that is wrecking America,” Merrilees said.

Elsewhere, police in Philadelphia arrested nine protesters who staged a sit-in inside the Comcast lobby. Officers handcuffed them and led into police vans as supporters cheered.

One protester, Bri Barton, said she was there because the gleaming Comcast tower represents excessive wealth in a city with many blighted neighborhoods. “It’s hard for me to see this and that existing in the same city,” she said.

In New York, about 100 military veterans marched in uniform and stopped in front of the New York Stock Exchange, standing in loose formation as police officers on scooters separated them from the entrance. On the other side was a lineup of NYPD horses carrying officers with nightsticks.

“We are marching to express support for our brother, (Iraq war veteran) Scott Olsen, who was injured in Oakland,” said Jerry Bordeleau, a former Army specialist who served in Iraq through 2009.

The veterans were also angry that returned from war to find few job prospects.

“Wall Street corporations have played a big role in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan,” said Bordeleau, now a college student. He said private contractors have reaped big profits in those countries.

In Boston, college students and union workers marched on Bank of America offices, the Harvard Club and the Statehouse to protest the nation’s burgeoning student debt crisis.

They say total outstanding student loans exceed credit card debt, increase by $1 million every six minutes and will reach $1 trillion this year, potentially undermining the economy.

“There are so many students that are trying to get jobs and go on with their lives,” said Sarvenaz Asasy of Boston, who joined the march after recently graduating with a master’s degree and $60,000 in loan debt. “They‘ve educated themselves and there are no jobs and we’re paying tons of student loans. For what?”

The day’s events in Oakland began with a rally outside City Hall that drew more than 3,000 people who spilled into the streets and disrupted the downtown commute. Protesters hung a large black banner that read: “Occupy Everything, DEATH TO CAPITALISM.”

The crowd included students, families with young children and many people wearing labor union T-shirts. “Shut down the 1 percent. We are the 99 percent,” they chanted.

Oakland let city workers use vacation or other paid time to take part, and officials said about 5 percent took the day off. About 360 Oakland teachers didn’t show up for work, or roughly 18 percent of the district’s 2,000 teachers, officials said. The district has been able to get substitute teachers for most classrooms, and where that wasn’t possible children were sent to other classrooms, he said.

“I came here because the schools are in the (same) boat as everyone else,” said Steve Neat, a fifth-grade teacher.

“We have five schools being closed here in Oakland. We have class sizes skyrocketing. We have cuts, cuts, cuts, just like everyone else. And the 1 percent, their share of the wealth is growing, and it’s time for that to stop. It’s time for some of that wealth to be shared out to all of society,” he said.

Oakland Becomes Epicenter of Occupy Movement: Thousands March in General StrikeBanks, Ports Targeted

Some protesters broke off from the rally to picket at nearby banks. All three banks located within blocks of the plaza were closed, though that didn’t stop protesters from chanting and waving signs outside.

At a Citibank branch, more than a dozen protesters blocked the entrance, some with fake $100 bills taped across their faces. They held signs with messages such as “Share the Billions with the Millions.” About 200 people chanted outside a Wells Fargo branch, where graffiti was scrawled on the wall. The messages read “The 1 percent won’t back down“ and ”Who’s robbing who?”

Further away from the rally, vandals shattered a Chase bank branch and splattered ink all over an ATM. Someone later taped a note to the shattered glass that read: “We are better than this. … Sorry, the 99 percent.”

Oakland Becomes Epicenter of Occupy Movement: Thousands March in General StrikeBanks, Ports Targeted

In front of the Oakland Public Library, about three dozen parents brought toddlers and school-age children for a stroller march in a “children’s brigade.” Demonstrators handed out signs written as if in a children’s crayon that read “Generation 99% Occupying Our Future.” People attached the signs to their baby backpacks and their strollers.

By the time the group made its way to the main rally, it numbered about 200 adults with their children.

Like others, Marisol Curiel, an Oakland residents who brought her two sons, ages 2 and 4, in a double stroller, said there was a need to tax the wealthy to benefit families and schools and to make sure there are opportunities and jobs for children when they grow up.

“Normally I would be the type of person who would watch it from the sidelines,” she said. “But being able to have a presence and also a chance to be more educated seemed really important. All of this will affect not just now, but our future.”

Oakland Becomes Epicenter of Occupy Movement: Thousands March in General StrikeBanks, Ports Targeted

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  • joe conservative
    Posted on November 2, 2011 at 8:50pm

    I agree, time to let the lead start flying. These idiots have no clue what life is all about. They have crimes being committed within their own ranks, yet refuse to report it. Then they‘ll be surprised when the police don’t help them. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNc7h-8DGcQ

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    • ghostsouls
      Posted on February 6, 2012 at 12:17pm

      It’s funny now that the OWS has turned so violent and the anarchists in the country have taken it over, there is no more love speeches form obama and pelosi…..I can’t wait for the occupy people to protest the DNC…… that’s going to be fun!!!!

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  • Tri-ox
    Posted on November 2, 2011 at 8:47pm

    Thanks obama!

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    • INOGAWD
      Posted on November 3, 2011 at 6:28pm

      Was there ever a doubt this would end up in CA???
      All the Radicals will leave the East Coast to join in…
      Oakland and SF…..PELOSI’s District!! NICEEEEE!!
      Like to see the Botox Queen join right in, Stupid Bitc**..
      She and Obama indorse these actions ?????

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    • Anarchy_in_the_USA
      Posted on November 3, 2011 at 7:17pm

      Look at the pics….these are metrosexual sissyfied mommy‘s boy’s with their skinny jeans that have been and will continue to be outcasts. They are such p***y’s that they have to tear up property because when it comes down to it they cannot stand toe to toe with anyone.

      FYI – OWS Fairy’s, when the system colapses you won’t be ones who come out on top, you will continue to remain on the bottom, like the panty waste to have always been and will continue to be.

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    • sambachico
      Posted on November 4, 2011 at 7:38am

      This will simply provide more excuses for more police, less rights and more government.

      This destructive behavior will simply be the start of many more to come. This is what democracy AKA mob rule looks like w/ a touch of anarchy. The tea party would never behave as such. Don’t you think the DHS/FEMA is gearing up to ‘protect us’ with these riots? Welcome to the new order of unions and gangs working together.

      It‘s too bad the protests weren’t actually peaceful. Maybe something positive could come out of this, like actually spotlighting the federal reserve for the beast it actually is, but it’s more socialist european style attitudes wanting a handout. The income inequality is real, but government cannot fix this, it will only make it worse.

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  • LoisLane1951
    Posted on November 2, 2011 at 8:46pm

    Absolutely the police are being set up.
    They can’t take the day off like the rest of the city workers. They are sworn to protect life and property.
    However, wouldn’t it be too bad if they all suddenly got a virus or something…all at the same time?
    Who remembers the Blue Flu?

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    • CatB
      Posted on November 2, 2011 at 8:51pm

      Everyone … Please watch this new video .. very good.

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=OQGq4M-dAUE

      If you agree please post and share!

      TEA!

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    • Tronix
      Posted on November 2, 2011 at 9:24pm

      Catb
      Nice video.

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    • UrbanCombatSurvivor
      Posted on November 2, 2011 at 9:58pm

      What makes you think this whole thing isn’t about the overtime for the union cops? Why would they take a day off when they’re all getting hard core overtime with this scam?

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    • Californiasodbuster
      Posted on November 3, 2011 at 12:12am

      Thank You, great video.

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    • Restored One
      Posted on November 3, 2011 at 1:09am

      Oakland has become the epicenter because Van Jones is running the show, from behind the scenes for now. This is the city where he was supporting cop killers. It has come full cirlce for him. He will come out of the dark when someone is killed. And I am sure that he betting on it being a black delinquent youth killed by a white cop. How is it that this grass roots movement started in NY and within a couple of weeks Oakland has become the epicenter? Hmmmm. As Beck said today, start dropping Van Jones name when talking about the protests to the ignorant uninformed. Within weeks hopefully half of those people will remember that you warned them and wake the F up.

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    • Ortho
      Posted on November 3, 2011 at 10:41am

      @CATB I watched, I prayed, I will organize, I will vote and I will share this video.
      Thank You

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  • marcomark63
    Posted on November 2, 2011 at 8:37pm

    well the city of Oakland just showed how inept they are. Not acting like employers and demand they go to work or be fired. No they pay them vacation pay or sick pay. If their demands are met, all the polictical, union jobs will be gone.

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    • hidden_lion
      Posted on November 2, 2011 at 9:05pm

      Reddenblack-
      Who do you think will really be hurt by this action? Most tea party folks are the ones who have stockpiled food, ammo, and have backup generators….So what if no products enter the country through the cesspool of Oakland, CA? No when all you hippies start getting drug induced munchies, you may be startled to find out there are none to be had….you shut it down. Wait until the drug lords find out they can’t get their shipment….you are all tools..

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    • Kraus79
      Posted on November 2, 2011 at 9:23pm

      @Reddenblack – a temporary annoyance will be over soon. Then it’s business as usual. No one will remember what they did.

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    • GhostOfJefferson
      Posted on November 2, 2011 at 9:43pm

      Hi red N’ black,

      Nobody shut down here. Sorry. We’re all still working, happy and content. :)

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    • UrbanCombatSurvivor
      Posted on November 2, 2011 at 10:01pm

      Are you paying attention at all? What they want is ALL union jobs, what news have you been watching that you think otherwise???

      These are communists, demanding that everything be unionized. They don’t want to work and earn, they want everything given to them at the expense of those who do work. That, my friend, is union to the core.

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    • stinkybisquit
      Posted on November 2, 2011 at 10:33pm

      @Reddenblack Thank goodness we stocked up on food, water, electronics, ammunition, etc. Did you?

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    • drago
      Posted on November 2, 2011 at 10:38pm

      Correction, thats “outside of cali”

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    • wavy1953
      Posted on November 3, 2011 at 12:18am

      The loudest protesters are the rapests, looters, and haters.

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    • Gryphon Moor
      Posted on November 3, 2011 at 3:55pm

      Oakland clarified the perception that the rest of the country maintains, that is, that California is the epicenter of nuts and perverts.

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  • judy1270
    Posted on November 2, 2011 at 8:34pm

    Obama, wanted anarchy…………….
    Well he has it.
    We are going down………… just like ‘ Flight 93………….
    We don’t have anyone to say, Lets Roll…………..
    I’m watching ,my country burn right before my eyes.
    All we, can do now………….. is lock and, load………….Be ready.

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    • Rajabear1
      Posted on November 2, 2011 at 8:49pm

      Amen.

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    • CatB
      Posted on November 2, 2011 at 8:52pm

      @JUDY1270

      Watch and share this video if you agree….

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=OQGq4M-dAUE

      TEA!

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    • Dustyluv
      Posted on November 2, 2011 at 8:54pm

      Its only Oakland….gee the armpit of America will be lost, we will be better off if it goes away anyway….

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    • AxelPhantom
      Posted on November 2, 2011 at 9:31pm

      Rumor has it (via Jamie Dupree) that occupy is planning on sending protesters to Iowa to “occupy” all of the GOP campaign offices there prior to the primaries. Wonder how that’ll work out?

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    • ErinLindsey
      Posted on November 2, 2011 at 9:48pm

      If the protests get any more violent, I think the person to blame wont be the wealthy, or even the poor. I think we’ll be able to lay the blame for any violence on Obama and the democrats (and a lot of the republicans) The politicians need to stop politicizing everything and do their jobs.

      Obama is fanning the flames (heck, he’s pouring gasoline and napalm on it)

      It’s not good when you have a president who is so willing to let the country go all to he l l just so that he can cause a crisis. I’m blaming Obama and the democrats for everything going on.

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    • Californiasodbuster
      Posted on November 3, 2011 at 12:24am

      @akel, no worries, i know the people of Iowa will dissolve your expectations in a heartbeat, i can count on one finger how many lowlifes will get shut down, get a life.

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    • AxelPhantom
      Posted on November 3, 2011 at 12:43am

      Hey, Cali
      New here aren’t you? Where precisely did I say that I wanted them to succeed?

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    • Californiasodbuster
      Posted on November 3, 2011 at 12:45am

      @AXLE
      Sorry, i may have read your post wrong, please accept my sorry reply.

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    • Californiasodbuster
      Posted on November 3, 2011 at 1:12am

      @ AXEL, I was caught up in the negativity of the story, i am on your side, sorry for my ineptness

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  • TRONINTHEMORNING
    Posted on November 2, 2011 at 8:34pm

    There is no doubt; conservatives are better thinkers than liberals. Because of honor, dignity, love of country, love of God, love of others; we think more about reality and future planning than the libs. Their evil schemes always fail–may take time, but they always fail Because of our brain trust and soul trust, we can beat these destructive people in 2012; in all aspects. I am convinced prayer, education, and action will defeat the ignorant and evil left of this country. Let’s go!

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  • Stoic one
    Posted on November 2, 2011 at 8:30pm

    Disturbing…. very disturbing..

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    • Redd
      Posted on November 2, 2011 at 8:37pm

      Oakland is van jones turf.

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    • lvamervet
      Posted on November 2, 2011 at 8:39pm

      This is off topic ….. but could someone tell me if they are having a problem with the way the home page loads………. I cannot find a problem on my end……
      It always loaded smoothly……. NOW it loads in steps.. IT IS DRIVING ME CRAZY!!!

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  • MastrSSG
    Posted on November 2, 2011 at 8:29pm

    Kill Em All and let God sort them out!

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    • hidden_lion
      Posted on November 2, 2011 at 8:36pm

      God won’t have anything to do with them, let the DOGS sort em out. Dogs need to eat too.

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    • drago
      Posted on November 2, 2011 at 10:35pm

      @Mastrssg
      You stole my line dangit:P But im with you on that.

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    • Bill Rowland
      Posted on November 3, 2011 at 6:22am

      Masterssg – thats the old SOG motto. We were using it as early as the 60s. Still a good one – It really went ” We can’t tell the good guys from the bad guys so kill them all and let god sort em out”.

      OMG

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  • venom95washere
    Posted on November 2, 2011 at 8:21pm

    It is a risk you take.

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  • vennoye
    Posted on November 2, 2011 at 8:17pm

    If any of you still live in California or NYC, it is time to get out!! Fruit and nuts have taken over!!

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  • dontbotherme
    Posted on November 2, 2011 at 8:16pm

    Good job obama & cohorts. Try real hard to tear us apart & destroy our Country. You will damage us, but we will prevail.

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    • hidden_lion
      Posted on November 2, 2011 at 8:34pm

      The country is already destroyed, we just haven’t come to terms with it yet. Time to purge the waste and start again.

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  • oathkeeper10
    Posted on November 2, 2011 at 8:16pm

    What Oakland and the bay area needs is another great quake. maby that would shake some sense into them, on second thought, probably not.

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    • LinkedIn G
      Posted on November 2, 2011 at 10:33pm

      Probably right after they throw the Police and Firefighters under the bus. Libbytards never look beyond the present.

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  • kentuckypatriot
    Posted on November 2, 2011 at 8:15pm

    The story said the protests were “ peaceful”. HMM< the first picture doesn't look too peaceful to me. And protesters, please STOP grouping me in with your ridiculous 99%. I, and I alone speak for myself. I don't need any filthy flea baggers to speak for me.

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  • ares338
    Posted on November 2, 2011 at 8:13pm

    If you would get a degree in something besides “Social Studies” there might be a job for you, but it might start off at Union Wage so you should join a union and intimidate people.

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  • obamabirthcertificate.net
    Posted on November 2, 2011 at 8:12pm

    Had enough of these anti-American socialist’s yet? Fight back by enforcing the Constitution to preclude Obama from promoting socialism in America!

    How to quickly understand Obama’s ineligibility and what you can do about it!
    http://www.obamabirthcertificate.net

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  • johnannegalt
    Posted on November 2, 2011 at 8:12pm

    Heh heh.. these fools make me laugh. –> http://markamerica.com/2011/10/31/occu-pests-vote-to-liberate-oakland/

    “LIBERATE OAKLAND!!” ..yeah.

    “They actually claim the right to shut down a City of four-hundred thousand people on the basis of a vote among 1607 people, some of who are undoubtedly not residents of Oakland. If you wonder about the legitimacy of their claims to being the “99%,” you’ve just had it answered: They are able to count votes in their pathetic crowd, and yet they are unable to recognize that they are not even 1% of the town in which they’re rallying. This is really disturbing, not because their math skills seem flawed, but because of what it indicates about their mind-set: They are willing to interfere with the lives and livelihoods of 400,000 fellow citizens on their say-so. Who elected them? Who appointed them?

    Nobody.

    This is what “Democracy” looks like?”

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  • progressiveslayer
    Posted on November 2, 2011 at 8:10pm

    Obamazombies orchestrating their own demise,what‘s even better is they don’t know it.‘The fundamental transformation of America’? The Marxist in chief has to bring the system down and make everyone equal,a Marxist utopia like Cuba and the old soviet union.
    Note to Barry,it never works,been tried before and it always ends badly.

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  • mils
    Posted on November 2, 2011 at 8:09pm

    I believe our nation is being set up for a fall. These people will not change anything with these “demonstrations”..
    They are demonstrating at the wrong place….they need to be on Obama’s door step.
    The longer we let things go on…the worse it gets.
    Oakland of all places, parasites paradise..

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  • flyoverbob
    Posted on November 2, 2011 at 8:08pm

    Parents this is a good time to change the locks.Just put their clothes on the front porch with a note.The note should say,after you get a job come visit for a couple hours.
    In some cases like when they are 35 yo you may just need to move to another state

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    • godhatesacoward
      Posted on November 2, 2011 at 8:15pm

      Change the locks and get another dog.

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    • R0bespierre
      Posted on November 3, 2011 at 12:58am

      Unemployment isn’t 10% (or greater) because people are lazy, comrade.

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    • Texas Sheepdog
      Posted on November 3, 2011 at 4:19pm

      You’re absolutely right, Robespierre – the unemployment rate did NOT get to be 10% because people are lazy. It got to be 10% because of the carefully planned and orchestrated attacks the current administration has executed against every sector of American private business.

      I find it interesting that no one in the infamous 99% movement ever notices that their political leaders/handlers are in the notorious 1% they claim to hate so much? But that’s actually irrelevant, because the sole purpose of all of the “Occupy” demonstrations is to create chaos and destruction. The incoherent babblings to the contrary by the participants is pure window-dressing.

      We’re watching Basic Communist Instigation 101 in action. It’s been S.O.P. in every nation where a totalitarian government has been established. Just one problem: here in America, we have a different foundation, a different heritage – and a different “take” on it. So, I wouldn’t count on it working the same way here.

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  • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
    Posted on November 2, 2011 at 8:07pm

    Everyone, the eyes of most people have been on the OWS gaggle of useful idiots; what we are now seeing happening in Oakland may become the flashpoint that Obama needs to brign the top down across the board…watch and be observant, something is coming down the line soon.

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    • Buck Shane
      Posted on November 2, 2011 at 8:50pm

      @ Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}

      So here’s what we do. We get a list of people who participated in these “occupy” gatherings, then … we don’t ever hire them. We Black (if you’ll pardon the expression) List them.
      By doing that we will help them. We will have made all their arguments true.
      They will thank us for it. They can protest for the rest of their lives.

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    • R0bespierre
      Posted on November 2, 2011 at 10:26pm

      Workers don’t need employers when they run the factories themselves, Buck.

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    • Ortho
      Posted on November 2, 2011 at 10:32pm

      Snowleopard, yes this is only a dress reheresal but many of us are ready. Something big is coming, don’t know what but certainly feel it. We will make Greece look like a picinic I am afraid.

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    • Buck Shane
      Posted on November 3, 2011 at 12:02am

      @ R0bespierre
      The why don’t you?

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    • Buck Shane
      Posted on November 3, 2011 at 12:11am

      Sorry “Then” why don’t you?

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    • R0bespierre
      Posted on November 3, 2011 at 12:57am

      Why don’t we what? Run the factories and means of production ourselves? That’s called “socialism” comrade, and give us a little time, won’t you?

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    • Lord_Frostwind
      Posted on November 3, 2011 at 2:58am

      Robespierre

      HA! Oh that‘s the best one I’ve heard all day. “Run the factories and the means of production ourselves” oh that is just too much. I’ve lived in Ohio, just outside the Rust Belt, and I’ve seen just how intelligent the workers are. If most could operate a lemon stand for a day and turn a profit I would be impressed.

      These Marxist and Socialist pipe dreams of “equality, and Social Justice” are the saddest jokes in human history. There will always be someone who is better, a hierarchy will always exist, power will always corrupt, and the few people who know how to run the factories will simply become the new employers, just under a different user friendly title. The very premise upon which the ideology is founded is a flawed one. Yet somehow no matter how many corpses you crawl over, how many lives are destroyed, and how far the clock gets turned back on civilization you continue to pursue the notion.

      If you want to challenge that notion, try to remember the life of the real Robespierre. Live by the guillotine, die by the guillotine.

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    • Buck Shane
      Posted on November 3, 2011 at 8:37am

      @ R0bespierre

      You must be quite intelligent. If you have the ability to run factories, you must be in demand – there are not many with your skills. You could negotiate significant remuneration from your stockholders and then run the manufacturing facility on a equal pay basis. The janitor and the skilled mechanic could make the exact same amount – and of course, you would have to divide your salary among the workers. If someone was lazy or inept, they would still make the same as you, even though you would need to work hard to run the facility, but that’s what you want, so its ok.
      If you are not profitable enough to pay enough to you skilled people, they will find another job down the road, and if they can, others with the same skills can also, so you will not be able to replace them. That ought to improve you output, but the lazy, unskilled people will love it – until you go under.

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    • ExpertShot
      Posted on November 3, 2011 at 8:42am

      @ Robes – There’s only one problem with your little scenario. The OWS crowd hasn’t been able to even run their protest successfully when everything has been given to them (money, food, etc) with no work expected, so how in the hell do you think they’re going to be able to successfully run a factory, b/c that takes hard work??

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  • possom
    Posted on November 2, 2011 at 8:07pm

    Editing free speech won‘t get you very far quit editing my post’s!

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  • possom
    Posted on November 2, 2011 at 8:04pm

    Tool’s!

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  • Shasta
    Posted on November 2, 2011 at 8:03pm

    Beck was right again, the police are being set up!

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    • mils
      Posted on November 2, 2011 at 8:05pm

      yep, again

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    • Kraus79
      Posted on November 2, 2011 at 9:30pm

      They are being sized up for the riots that are being planned.

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    • SamIamTwo
      Posted on November 3, 2011 at 6:23am

      Yep, repeating what failed countries are doing…downloading into the circular round…commies with masks = chickenshits.

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  • possom
    Posted on November 2, 2011 at 8:02pm

    Muslim tool’s!

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  • Shasta
    Posted on November 2, 2011 at 7:59pm

    And the mayor is actively supporting this. She should be so proud.

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    • Walkabout
      Posted on November 3, 2011 at 9:20am

      The mayor is an idiot. She is a discredit to her race.

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  • onez2many
    Posted on November 2, 2011 at 10:33pm

    You are SO right!!! Wait until the DNC in Charlotte!! We haven’t seen anything yet.

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  • rose-ellen
    Posted on November 3, 2011 at 8:31am

    They ARE afraid because they’re on the wrong side of history.Right wing calvinist pull yourselves up by your bootstraps-if you’re rich you must be good,work till you drop-meets greedy moneymaking hypercapitalism-is giving way to enlightened european style socialist/capitalist democracies. All jobs will be unionized-a guaranteed income or job for all citizens, universal health care, free higher education for citizens who qualifye-less work yrs-not more-will be the culture of 21stc america.You puritanical provincials will catch up will enlightened european style democracies-You’ll finally get a parliament too.

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