Friday, December 2, 2011

What should #OWS do?

"Imagine you walked into a bank, applied for a personal line of credit, and filled out all the paperwork claiming to have no debts and an income of $200,000 per year. The bank, based on these representations, extended you the line of credit. Then, three years later, after fighting disclosure all the way, you were forced by a court to tell the truth: At the time you made the statements to the bank, you actually were unemployed, you had a $1 million mortgage on your house on which you had failed to make payments for six months, and you hadn’t paid even the minimum on your credit-card bills for three months. Do you think the bank would just say: Never mind, don’t worry about it? Of course not. Whether or not you had paid back the personal line of credit, three FBI agents would be at your door within hours...."

- Eliot Spitzer

http://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2011/11/the_7_trillion_secret_loan_program_the_government_and_big_banks_should_be_punished_for_deceiving_the_public_about_their_hush_hush_bailout_scheme_.html

Protesters greet CEO of Wells Fargo at NCSU - Business - NewsObserver.com

Protesters greet CEO of Wells Fargo at NCSU - Business - NewsObserver.com

#OWS movement makes visible the fact that the Wall Street banksters are still walking free and still extorting taxpayer money for their high stakes gambling addiction.

Wednesday, November 23, 2011

Don't Sit This One Out - What's Your Vision for Occupy Wall Street? | Truthout

Don't Sit This One Out - What's Your Vision for Occupy Wall Street? | Truthout

1). Take journalism out of corporate profit making.

2). It is time for Congress to do it's job as political leaders and to finally earn their $179,000 salaries. Why should we have to give them solutions? If we have to do that for them then Congress is utterly useless.

Monday, November 21, 2011

The Moral Power of an Image: UC Davis Reactions - The Atlantic

The Moral Power of an Image: UC Davis Reactions - The Atlantic

The immoral use of power to suppress protest against injustice. This time it is the fact that banking CEOs robbed from their own banks and the people of America. They still walk the streets free while we suffer from their depravity.

The tent cities of the OWS movement are representative of the tent cities in America that are out of sight and mind.

http://www.businessinsider.com/lakewood-new-jersey-homeless-tent-city-2011-9?op=1

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