Unions, MoveOn.Org Set to Join Occupy Wall St. For Massive March on Wednesday
- Posted on October 5, 2011 at 11:17am by
Buck Sexton
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Occupy Wall Street is set to create a perfect storm of leftist protest groups today in lower Manhattan to form its biggest march yet.
Unions, community organizers, and even more college students are swarming together at Occupy Wall Street on its 19th day. Occupy Wall Street organizers have already posted a game plan for today on their site:
“On October 05, 2011, at 3:00 in the afternoon the residents of Liberty Square will gather to join their union brothers and sisters in solidarity and march. At 4:30 in the afternoon the 99% will march in solidarity with #occupywallstreet from Foley Square to the Financial District, where their pensions have disappeared to, where their health has disappeared to. Together we will protest this great injustice.”
Those set to join in on the fracas today include the liberal group MoveOn.org, Working Families Party and United NY. The Chinatown Tenants Union and the Transit Workers Union have also signaled their intent to join the swelling marchers’ ranks. The Transit Workers Union alone has 20,000 members in the New York City area.
On top of that, the Occupy Wall Street organizers are calling for a 2PM walk out of college students across the United States. And the protest organizers are using Twitter and Social Media to rally protests in other cities.
Similar “Occupy” movement have sprouted up in Boston, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Seattle, among others.
The Occupy Wall Street Movement has received criticism in the media for its lack of a clear message or definable goals beyond rage at Wall Street and general perceptions of injustice in society. Protest organizers claim it draws inspiration from the Arab Spring in North Africa and the Middle East. There are environmentalists, anarchists, and communists spread among the group.
But a muddled message certainly hasn’t slowed down the protest at all. And the labor unions could provide a major manpower boost, as well as on-the-ground organizational assistance.
President Michael Mulgrew of the United Federation of Teachers, the sole bargaining agent for 75,000 New York City public school teachers, has publicly endorsed the demonstrations, stating:
“The way our society is now headed it does not work for 99% of people, so when Occupy Wall Street started … they kept to it and they’ve been able to create a national conversation that we think should have been going on for years.”
The conversation is likely to kick up into a higher gear if there are mass arrests like the 700 this past weekend, or acts of violence or destruction break out.
One thing is for sure– It’s going to be loud and hectic on the southern tip of Manhattan today.
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Comments (181)
NuffSaid
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 11:49amWhile you union cksrs are there, can you get that Global Warming thing to fire up again?
It’s only Oct. in North CA and we’re freezing, you miserable, undependable as****s!
Report Post »Delta_River_Folk
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 12:03pmI’m sure they have nothing better to do. Probably getting paid through the Federal Government somehow.
As usual:
A Straight Forward, BOLD, OUT of the BOX solution to our Nation’s Fiscal Policy
1) Shift 100% of tax collection from the Federal Government to individual State Governments, (as originally outlined in the Constitution and upheld by the Supreme Court on multiple occasions before the 1900’s)
2) Delegate more than 70% of the federal governments spending to state governments (e.g., Health and Human Services, Housing, Education, Energy, Agriculture, Labor, Social Security, entitlements, etc..)
3) States would provide the federal government with enough money to cover the spending not previously delegated to individual states (e.g., National Defense, Foreign Diplomacy, and other items originally outlined in the Constitution)
4) Each state would be responsible for a percentage of the federal government’s spending based on state’s population
Let’s put the “s” back at the end of the United State’s’
Report Post »KickinBack
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 12:28pmGet out your popcorn and get ready for the show. Nothing like a series of more zombie movies coming out of wall street.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 12:28pmKind of takes that “grass roots” aspect right out of this “movement” (more like B.M.) doesn’t it!
TEA!
Report Post »Iam4EnoughALREADY
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 12:38pmWhen you don’t stand for SOMETHING— You will stand for ANYTHING!
Report Post »TH30PH1LUS
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 12:41pmI no longer believe it’s a “muddled message”. I believe the message is being INTENTIONALLY HIDDEN, because it is so anti-American, that it would be rejected outright if spoken cogently.
Maybe the SOAP UNION will show up and wash the crust off of the yeasty hippies that have been camped out?
Report Post »I support God's Israel!
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 12:50pmLiberals may have a handle on the greed on Wall Street, but they are going about this ALL WRONG. Without God, it will get violent and downright dirty, tainting everything they are want to change.
I am wondering WHY, if Glenn Beck KNOWS all this stuff about this protest, doesn’t he just send people down there to tell them the truth. I know he probably cannot go because of security, but aren’t there people on the RIGHT SIDE who can go down there, get on a soapbox with a bullhorn and tell these people the TRUTH, since most of them don’t even know why they are there or are just there to be PART OF SOMETHING??????
Here is a PERFECT opportunity for the right to infiltrate (like they do to us) and spread the word that there is another way to handle all this. Protest is good. Assembly is great. However, ANGER, HATRED, AND VIOLENCE IS NOT and this is where it is heading down there.
Report Post »azjoannie
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 12:51pmLet’s see – unions and moveon.org – two of the president’s favorites – doing his bidding?
Report Post »DanWesson455
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 12:55pmNeed to buy one of those fire fighting air planes….fill up the tank with pig mush poop. Let it loose over the top of this crowd. They probably wouldn’t notice the smell. It would still smell like the guy standing next to him.
Report Post »AvengerK
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 1:16pmAnd there’s the first sign that this will degenerate into violence…the unions will be involved. In one sense I’m appalled by that notion..and in another I‘m glad because the left will show it’s ugly face once more and continue to self immolate. By all means….“occupy” away. The longer this goes, the worse it gets for the left.
Report Post »sofaking obvious
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 1:34pmIt‘s not as if they’re missing work to be there. Just an opportunity to leave mom and dads house for a few days.
TEA!
Report Post »13th Imam
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 3:05pmDelta River
Report Post »Please run for President
MIBUGNU2
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 12:05amUsefull Idiots, Spooky Dude has to be smiling….
Report Post »1389AD
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 3:29pmSpooky Dude is pretending to be upset, while secretly profiting from the mayhem in various well-hidden ways.
Report Post »jado1981
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 11:46amWAIT!!!!! These people aren’t protesting because frito-lay doesn’t fill their bags all the way to the top with chips? I was so ticked, I was about to protest in the streets.
These protest are such a Cluster F, of idiots who are just mad at something, it doesn’t matter what you are mad about, just get ticked and get out in the streets and start saying, “My rights…” , “Corporate greed…“ or ”No jobs…”
Report Post »cemerius
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 12:00pmYeah I know huh? “Product may have settling after packaging”……even Frit o lay thinks we are stupid by reducing their chips a couple at a time…!!! While we are at it let’s protest Taco Bell and their false bottom refried beans!! ha ha
Report Post »Lucy Larue
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 2:07pmJADO1981,
It’s orchestrated.
It’s a lot bigger than the IDIOTS who are the useful tools camping out in the park and ordering pizza.
This is how TOTALITARIANISM begins!
“Those who do not know History are DOOMED to repeat it!
Get your on People. Get your learn on.
Report Post »Mao, Stalin, Hitler, Castro, yadda, yadda, ALL relied on the SHEEPLE…,not the people.
1389AD
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 3:30pmLucy Larue is right. See:
http://1389blog.com/2011/10/06/days-of-rage-occupy-america-protestors-posers-and-useful-idiots/
Report Post »1776er
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 11:45amI wish I didn’t have a job and could waste away my life sitting on the curb contemplating the future of this country while a guy takes a dump in the trashcan right next me.
Report Post »cemerius
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 11:47amI am glad I have a job or I’d be in jail right now for beating these people with a baseball bat!
Report Post »I support God's Israel!
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 12:53pmCERMERIUS,
Report Post »Oh yeah, beating people to death is the right way to go?? Maybe you are the moron. Maybe we should beat you to death? YOUR WORDS ARE JUST PLAIN STUPID, EVIL, AND WITHOUT MERIT. Peaceful assembly IS Constitutional and legal. They may not understand why they are really there (useful idiots), but then why doesn’t someone go down there and explain it to them. THEY WOULD BE A HERO TO ME. The TRUTH HAS NO AGENDA.
rcrosby66
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 11:44amAs Jesus did to the demons the had entered the man on the shore of Gadarenes. Let’s cast this “legion” or “mob” into the swine where they belong and hope they run into the river and drown themselves.
Report Post »doctroprint
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 11:43amSomething something its time to put away your bedroom slippers
Report Post »and put your marching boots on. Something something, something!
CatB
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 12:32pmYes — called out to action by our Community Organizer President!
TEA!
Report Post »Popp40
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 11:43amConservatives….please it is time for us to join together and organize. The Liberals already have and now we need to catch up. They are organized and have a plan, however, we do not. Plus, they are currently in control of our government….it is time we come together and show our solidarity just as the left is doing!
Report Post »doctroprint
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 11:49amFear not Popp40 we are here! We are ready! We will strike when needed. Keep your powder at hand and inform the ones you love to be prepared!
Report Post »cemerius
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 11:49amI understand your sentiments here but I am worried that is exactly what they want us to do! If two “organized” groups were to meet and clash because of the 10%’s on both sides then the “brown shorts” of the Fed governemnt will come crashing down!! Just like Glenn has pointed out Bottom Up inside out…..
Report Post »cessna152
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 11:53amSee, evil always has an agenda. Our agenda is the truth.
Report Post »Evil will co-opt, steal and cheat to get what they want, we won’t.
Evil will live off of a corrupt system, we won’t.
However, evil will self destruct as it is obviously doing. They have the money, they have the media but they don’t have the truth so they will lose.
BetterDays
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 12:02pmThere is only two ways to stop this and both are out of our control, for the most part.
A.) either: Active duty military leaders choose to uphold the constitution and act NOW to do so, or
B.) Congress calls for the immediate arrest of the entire administration for culpabilities in High crimes and treason.
The odds are slim to none, and slim has travel plans soon.
Report Post »Do NOT give them what they desire, you KNOW what I mean, wait, let it play out, let THEM make the egregious error FIRST, then show them how it’s supposed to be done until there are no more here to show.
JeffandHolly37
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 12:21pmDon’t worry, The Tea Party will hit them were it hurts, election 2012! If you think 2010 was a Tea Party Election, just wait for 2012, it will be epic, and it will get rough up until the election. These folks will stop at nothing to make sure the BHO is still the president. The Silent Majority will not let that happen!
Report Post »Citizen
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 12:27pmthe way to stop it is to educate our children and friends and take a moral stand and be righteous.
stop supporting democracy – we are a republic
stop supporting unions and union indviduals the unions are supporting this anarchy – SO STOP HELPING THEM or you are helping the very people who want to destroy your country.
Report Post »Rillobymorning
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 1:30pmWe already have, Popp….it’s called the Tea Party. We’re just not a mob minded bunch. We have jobs to do every day in support of our families, serve God in our churches and communities and choose to protest in a far more peaceful and civilized way.
Report Post »banjarmon
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 11:40amThe brown stuff will HIT the FAN…and it is not going to be good!!!
Report Post »JennyLovesAmerica
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 11:40amSooo… why do they want to recruit Tea Party members if they think we’re all racists?
The Tea Party must come alive, full force again closer to this next election! We must let them know our country is going our way, not theirs!
Report Post »Attilashrugs
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 11:37amWe all know who these protestors are. They are from the “Working Families Party” a front group of yutes who have no family to support and have no desire to work. They scam the public electoral funds racket by getting signatures that make them seem like an actual political group ad then they donate it to ACORN et al.
Report Post »These punks are the wimpish “muscle” of the Globalists, big talk against Wall St. silent about the Fed.
The American People are indeed weak. The one true thing Obladee has said. “The way our society is now headed it does not work for 99% of people.. ” really? Are the pudgy little soft fingered professional left pan-handling for their Starbucks? For all the “crisis” I really do NOT see it except in TV land. The only crisis is the sense of crisis that has been deliberately inculcated for 3 years now. There are poor amongst us. There always will be. But, to be poor in 21st Century America is to have at ones fingertips conveniences that Chinese and Roman Emperors would not even dream. The poor in America are FAT. They have AC, cable, Premium Channels, they lack in nothing but pride. Do they believe shaking down the producers of wealth for even more goodies will assuage their sense of shame? I doubt it. Shame is easily turned to anger, and this we see today. There MUST be something wrong with the system if someone that has not taken the time to postpone instant gratification and learn a skill must come hat in hand to those who have learned
Attilashrugs
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 11:41amto be useful.
Report Post »Love_John_Galt
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 12:43pm“Wealth is the product of man’s capacity to think.” AR
To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical. -Thomas Jefferson
You can’t make a weak man strong by making a strong man weak.” -Abraham Lincoln
Atlas WILL Shrug… sooner or later.
Report Post »imd1
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 8:53pmThe part that I think you are incorrect about, is that these people are not like us…They do have (false) pride, they feel no shame…I would hide my face and never be in public if I was like them.
Report Post »Popp40
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 11:35amWatch the violence start now that the unions are involved…..the civil unrest will raise which may give Obama the perfect opportunity to declare Marshall Law…..and there goes the Constitution….which is what he wants. Think about it people….
Report Post »NJTMATO
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 11:45amYou’re correct Popp!!! I’m prepared.
Report Post »tnchick
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 1:54pmI hate to nitpick, but over and over I keep seeing “Marshall Law” — isn’t it “martial law”? If I’m wrong, I stand corrected.
Report Post »Wolf
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 3:15pmTNChick- you are correct: it‘s ’martial’ law, named so due to the military presence… irks the hell outta me to see people spelling ‘marshall’, as in police officer. Just goes to show how few people really luk at wut their riting (sic) ;)LOL
Report Post »V-MAN MACE
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 11:35amOccupy the FEDERAL RESERVE, Not WALL STREET!
Report Post »BetterDays
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 12:12pmNot many here are aware that the FED IS the Fascist Global Governance mechanism it is.
Report Post »That’s sad, because we seem to have forgotten the lessons Glenn taught us, DO YOUR OWN HOMEWORK !
These protesters are about as “sheepole” as people can be and not Bahhaaaaa all day long while eating grass. But they are NOT our concern, we can’t educate a mob, but we must be aware of WHOM is behind this sordid affair. It’s Obama and his globalist Elite Fascist buddies, luckily they are VERY FEW, copy and paste the membership lists from the Council on Foreign Relations ( google for further intel on listings ) and make a PAPER COPY.
Any snake without a head withers and is no more.
Love_John_Galt
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 12:50pmAnd after the FED, how about taking over Ft. Knox.. oh wait, I think it is empty these days. What happened to the Gold?
Decoded – Wednesdays 9pm http://www.history.com/shows/brad-meltzers-decoded/episodes/decoded-season-2#slide-1
Report Post »Slarker
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 11:32amClassic Marxist-Leninist interpretation of dialectical materialism. These idiots put matter before thought. Hence, no real goals or objectives, just chaos.
Report Post »IntransigentMind
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 11:39amNo, they have goals. They’re simply absurd and pointless:
Report Post »http://markamerica.com/2011/10/03/their-demands-demonstrate-their-insanity/
don young
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 11:30amThe civel order only applies to the tea party and republicans not to unions or dems civil disorder is ok who is going to stop them they have the aproval of holder and obama the only way to stop them is when the god fairing people have enough and stop there maddness.
Report Post »jskol
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 11:30amThese people are so stupid, do they not know they are protesting everything that Obama has done and stands for, they are protesting democratic party policies. Most of the fat cats as they call them on wall street are liberal democrats. They are trying to recruit college students to protest on campus. It is their policies that have caused the cost of a higher education to grew at 2 -3 times the cost of inflation. The student loans they can not pay back because of no jobs. Everytime the government gets involved in anything they screw it up and then want to be heros for trying to fix their mistakes,
It is their Policies Stupid.
Report Post »Blackhawk1
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 11:53amI love their chant
What do we want…………..WE DON’T KNOW
Report Post »When do we want it………..NOW
cosette
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 6:35pm@ Blackhawk When do we want it?….. Before the cold weather sets in. In which case we’ll return to our parents warm home and be back after the spring thaw. P.S. Where are these fools relieving themselves. The stench must be unbearable.
Report Post »W@nd@
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 11:28amhmmmm
Report Post »Hitler is a word everybody understands
i guess only some people lose their jobs over using it Not?
code green
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 11:27amAfter 700 arrests you would think they would remember that if you mess with the best, you get your but kicked by the best.
Report Post »Sic-em NYPD
sempek1
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 11:26amWhere’s our “civil” president in all of this? He’s glad this is happening. It‘s his mentor Soros’ way of “leading.” What evil, losers.
Report Post »ares338
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 11:26amSomeone is certain to get hurt and it probably won’t be the police! I used to have a small amount of respect for union members but I think it’ all gone now.
Report Post »michael48
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 11:26amsocialistards picketing socialistards…these folks are truly “conflicted”…excellant job of indoctrination, but “conflicted nevertheless…carry on comrades…comedy and serfdom serves you well…
Report Post »sempek1
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 11:25amTalk about desperate! These are Obama’s people! If he’s re-elected, they’ll be calling the shots and ruining our country.
Report Post »dmforman
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 11:32amI see more and more people being swayed by these people, because the average American is not a thinker. They do not dig deeper into what is and isn’t being said, who organizers are, or think about consequences for their actions and what would happen if the organizers get what they want.
Shoot, Obama got elected on Hope and Change and no one asked him what he meant or tried to get bigger details. The upcoming elections will make or break our country and we who do not believe Obama is the best person for the job, need to get behind a candidate so that we do not get a republican puppet as our candidate.
Report Post »W@nd@
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 11:24amso are these the big guns? the ones the PUSH HARD ?
Report Post »and get the thing to turn into complete upheavel?
It is coming…they have to hurry
there is an election coming
they are bound to lose
they have to have the upheavel to suspend the election right?
drattastic
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 11:24amThey see their ideology failing along with their president and are becoming desperate . But it won’t help them . They are going down in 2012.
Report Post »Rillobymorning
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 1:40pmNot if Van Jones, SEIU, Move-on.org can convince these brainless wonders to get violent. That’s just what Obama needs to declare Marshall law and suspend the 2012 elections. Don’t forget their bible is “Rules for Radicals”.
Report Post »Mandors
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 11:23amHas anyone considered the irony that if these no talent losers get their revolution, they are exactly the types who get sent to gulags for having no useful skills to the State?
Report Post »dan@AL
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 11:47am+1 on that! I have a job and I would assume they dont. If they do have a job it must be a h3!! of a job to get that much time off and still pay your bills. OH wait! I forgot this is the element of society that if they all vanished over night no one would care. They leach of the working people for the grants and welfare while we work to support it. They complain about no job, well fast food is always hiring and before I would become a filthy piece of welfare trash I would flip burgers, pick up trash or do what ever. I man who is able to work and doesnt is not a man, a man who is unable to work physically or mentally is a man who deserves our help. STOP FEEDING THE TRASH WHO WONT CARE FOR THEMSELVES AND CARE FOR THOSE WHO CANT CARE FOR THEMSELVES
Report Post »rjoco1
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 11:22amWhat happened to the civil rhetoric rule?
Report Post »GhostOfJefferson
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 12:43pmIt’s still in place. It only applies to non-socialists. You have to read the fine print on the rule. If any of us formed a counter protest and one of had a sign that said “The left are idiots” you can guarantee a huge outcry from the entire media about how uncivil we are (and racist, and stupid, and neener neener heads, etc).
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 11:22amSo it is being ratcheted up one more notch now with the goon squads moving into the public; they will use violence and destrcution to make events happen. Soon enough steel will be drawn and blood will flow unless God himself interveins.
God help us, for the storm is ashore, and we are awaiting the worst yet to come.
Report Post »MidWestMom
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 11:33amYep.
Report Post »As I commented in another thread: We ain’t seen nothing yet.