The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #140645   Message #3245198
Posted By: Stringsinger
26-Oct-11 - 03:24 PM
Thread Name: BS: Wall Street Protesters...
Subject: RE: BS: Wall Street Protesters...
It is important that OWS does not try to become a single issue movement. There are many different issues that OWS embraces and they all are contingent on one another.

America is now under siege and is headed toward an American Spring standing in solidarity with the oppressed people of Egypt, Syria, Bahrain and other countries.

Atlanta police have displayed riot squad police on horseback and 53 arrests have been made.

This Occupy Atlanta is a peaceful protest with the occupiers feeding and caring for the poor in Atlanta who have been pushed to the dark corners and are now abandoned. Mayor Kasim Reed has been disingenuous in his negotiations with the Occupiers using a kind of deception and violating his promise to allow the protesters to remain in Troy Davis Park (aka Woodruff Park) until November 7th. He has attempted to use local clergy as a dodge when they were unable to agree on how to meet. It wouldn't have mattered anyhow because the Mayor's mind was made up. This is the typical show of force that is being employed everywhere from Oakland to New York. Their statement is "We are the authorities and you people are nothing."

Free speech has been compromised in America and only given to those corporations that can pay for it.

This movement is not going away, it's just getting started.

If you don't know what OWS is about, you haven't been paying attention.