Pictures of Occupy Wall Street, with the song "For What It's Worth"

Run time: 02:42 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6eQL_MqhYM   Posted on YouTube: September 29, 2011 By YouTube Member: MeowShawnMeow Views on YouTube: 698   Posted on DU: October 07, 2011 By DU Member: DianaForRussFeingold Views on DU: 1534

 
Pictures of Occupy Wall Street, with music from Buffalo Springfield.

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and the photos of police assaulting protesters are disgusting. The cop with his hands inside a woman protester's shirt and the cop twisting one of the grandmother's arms behind her back just piss me off. :kick: & Rec.

I still remember watching the "news"... Sad how It's still as relevant today!!!

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"They have purposely covered up oil spills, accidents, faulty book keeping, and inactive ingredients in pursuit of profit.

They purposefully keep people misinformed and fearful through their control of the media.

They have perpetuated colonialism at home and abroad.

They have participated in the torture and murder of innocent civilians overseas.

They continue to create weapons of mass destruction in order to receive government contracts.
They have deliberately declined to recall faulty products endangering lives in pursuit of profit.

They have donated large sums of money to politicians supposed to be regulating them.

They continue to block alternate forms of energy to keep us dependent on oil.

They continue to block generic forms of medicine that could save people’s lives in order to protect investments that have already turned a substantive profit.

They have continuously sought to end the rights of workers to negotiate their pay and make complaints about the safety of their workplace.

They have held students hostage with tens of thousands of dollars of debt on education, which is itself a human right.

They have consistently outsourced labor and used that outsourcing as leverage to cut workers’ healthcare and pay.

They have influenced the courts to achieve the same rights as people, with none of the culpability or responsibility.

They have taken our houses through an illegal foreclosure process, despite not having the original mortgage.

They have taken bailouts from taxpayers with impunity, and continue to give CEO’s exorbitant bonuses.

They have perpetuated gender inequality and discrimination in the workplace.

They have poisoned the food supply, and undermined the farming system through monopolization."

was a Top Ten hit. The youth movement then was about the war in Viet Nam, the empowerment of women, awakening of environmental awareness and our passions were intensified by drugs, free love, and rock and roll. I personally had feelings that "weren't exactly clear" about the war, being raised by conservative parents in one of the reddest of the red states, but I became involved in anti-war protests when the boys my age who had been drafted right out of high school started coming home from the war. They were often drafted within weeks of graduation if the boy hadn't been accepted by a college, and when they came back a few years later, they all had been hurt. My fiancee spent seven months recuperating from bullet wounds in a Tokyo hospital and when he came home, he broke up with me. In a way that is not possible today, those of us with the capacity for empathy, shared that pain. Now the military is cut off from the population. 28% of current armed services members joined because they couldn't find any other job. They have to keep re-enlisting until some of them go crazy. The soldiers have been grievously wronged, students who diligently prepared themselves to make meaningful contribution to our society are jobless, people who worked all their lives have had their investments stolen the equity in their homes stolen and we are told that none of this is against the law and the law can't be changed just now because the powers that be quite like it that way. Balance of power needs to be restored and today's OWS protests are the first step toward it. It won't be easy because power is never ceded once gained so we'll have to fight for our share. A fair share. Every grievance you listed needs to be addressed and we can address them if we stick together and do the right thing for each other. I'm excited by OWS and hopeful for peaceful change. Popular protest worked then and did get the country on the right track, but from experience I know it's much harder than you may think it will be to keep it on the right track. Peace. :hippie:

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:hug: Thank you so much for sharing your experience!:loveya:
:yourock:

:loveya: And thank you for listening. :hug:

- The time has come.......

Seems fair since the rich have been feeding off the poor for about 30 years now.

Some idiot RWer said the OWS are "pitting Americans against Americans". I read that as it's sad to see Americans treating Americans in this way.