As Occupy Wall Street rolls into its first month of protests I shot a few clips in and around the circus atmosphere.
Handmade signs are the budding business being created by the P.I.C. (Protest Industrial Complex)
The protests in Zucotti Park are relatively tame and organized, but when the protestors leave those confines is when the shit hits the fan.
This weekend the protestors took over Times Square with their handmade sign bullshit and the NYPD decided to bring out their mounties. Pretty soon this protesting is gonna reach a fever pitch and that is when the video footage is REALLY gonna get exciting.
I still don’t think people are getting the message right from the Occupy Wall Street protests. These kids AREN’T anti-capitalism even if some of their ranks espouse anarchy and or socialism.
The issue is simple… Until we inject some compassion into our capitalism we are going to quickly run out of people to exploit. Unfortunately, that issue doesn’t concern Wall Street bankers.
Peep this list of demands from #OccupyWallStreet and kindly note the *nigga please* designations alongside the most reedirk of these demands…
Demand one: Restoration of the living wage. This demand can only be met by ending “Freetrade” by re-imposing trade tariffs on all imported goods entering the American market to level the playing field for domestic family farming and domestic manufacturing as most nations that are dumping cheap products onto the American market have radical wage and environmental regulation advantages. Another policy that must be instituted is raise the minimum wage to twenty dollars an hr.
Demand two: Institute a universal single payer healthcare system. To do this all private insurers must be banned from the healthcare market as their only effect on the health of patients is to take money away from doctors, nurses and hospitals preventing them from doing their jobs and hand that money to wall st. investors.
Demand three: Guaranteed living wage income regardless of employment. *NIGGA PLEASE*
Demand four: Free college education.
Demand five: Begin a fast track process to bring the fossil fuel economy to an end while at the same bringing the alternative energy economy up to energy demand.
Demand six: One trillion dollars in infrastructure (Water, Sewer, Rail, Roads and Bridges and Electrical Grid) spending now.
Demand seven: One trillion dollars in ecological restoration planting forests, reestablishing wetlands and the natural flow of river systems and decommissioning of all of America’s nuclear power plants.
Demand eight: Racial and gender equal rights amendment. *NIGGA PLEASE*
Demand nine: Open borders migration. anyone can travel anywhere to work and live.
Demand ten: Bring American elections up to international standards of a paper ballot precinct counted and recounted in front of an independent and party observers system.
Demand eleven: Immediate across the board debt forgiveness for all. Debt forgiveness of sovereign debt, commercial loans, home mortgages, home equity loans, credit card debt, student loans and personal loans now! All debt must be stricken from the “Books.” World Bank Loans to all Nations, Bank to Bank Debt and all Bonds and Margin Call Debt in the stock market including all Derivatives or Credit Default Swaps, all 65 trillion dollars of them must also be stricken from the “Books.” And I don’t mean debt that is in default, I mean all debt on the entire planet period.
Demand twelve: Outlaw all credit reporting agencies. *NIGGA PLEASE*
Demand thirteen: Allow all workers to sign a ballot at any time during a union organizing campaign or at any time that represents their yeah or nay to having a union represent them in collective bargaining or to form a union.
These demands will create so many jobs it will be completely impossible to fill them without an open borders policy.
Our whole AmeriKKKan system been based on inequality from the rip. Generation after generation of white has bought into the system lock, stock and barrel with the knowledge that as long as they didn’t intermarry any Blacks they could always be one golden ticket away from having to remember the famine, poverty and plagues that chased them from Europe.
Now #OccupyWallStreet wanna be starting something. Get the fux away from my capitalism #OccupyWallStreet because for every 1000 whites who become middle class there is one Black who gets to join their ranks. I dream of being that one Black someday in the near future, hopefully before these damned protestors ruin it all.
All kinds of people are acting like NYC could never become a Republican haven meanwhile we will have had twenty straight years of GOP mayoralty.
In this week’s election to replace Rep. Anthony Weiner’s vacated congressional seat we see a Republican winning the traditionally Democratic district. Some of the areas included in this district are Coney Island, Canarsie, Flatbush and the Rockaways. NYC’s changing demographic and normally low voter for special elections are to attribute to this power shift.
I do consider the election of Robert Turner to be a paradigm shift for local and national elections because once again we can see who has the ability to get the word out that there is a seat up for grabs. The Democratic machine shows its laziness or worse, its inability to inspire voters to take the time to cast their votes. This isn’t a good sign for the incumbent Democrats who want to regain their posts in November or in 2012.
Jacqueline Onassis might be America’s first queen. She was definitely the first First Lady to have a public reverence which was equal to and if not greater than the President. Maybe that’s a stretch, but I can remember how respectful the media had been with her during my awareness.
She was beautiful and dutiful. Now we are about to read a memoir from her which puts some of her most intimate thoughts and maybe some of the thoughts that she should have kept more intimate into the public record. She was privy to information that we can only politely call ‘sensitive’. It’s funny and sad what becomes public after someone’s death but even America’s Camelot was still just ultimately a fantasy fairytale.
I’m sorry to learn that MLK’s dalliances were dinner table discussions amongst the Kennedy clan, especially since JFK was getting it in with equal aplomb. It’s obvious now why she became such a fiercely private person after the assassination of the President. Once her world was rocked with the truth about her husband she realized she was not immune to the disease that is power and politricks.
