Me too!
 

Too bad it got no press and the walkers were not allowed onto the (my) square (trespassing). We're not FOX news I guess!

I haven't heard anything about the rally. Do you have any information about the local organization(s) who organized this rally? A link perhaps. Thanks.

I am pleased, reading the posts on this topic, to see that there seem to be more people in The Villages who share my views and values than I had thought and I am pleased to see that they have expressed themselves on this topic. :mademyday:

Unfortunately its discussions like this why I had to terminate my political forums membership after a couple of weeks.

John

Where is Joe McCarthy when you need him?

:popcorn:

Bill :)

I don't know any more than when I asked the question at the beginning of this thread which has become very long. Just the same old same old from the same old. With a few wonderful and interesting postings too.

Are they left or are they right or are they...JUST right?

From the link I supplied earlier in this thread....

"Unions and community groups organized a rousing finish to a week of actions on jobs and corporate greed here Oct. 14. Hundreds marched and picketed Bank of America and then Chicago's Board of Trade and Federal Reserve Bank, the site of Occupy Chicago.

"Jobs, not cuts," chanted Bob Reiter, secretary-treasurer of the Chicago Federation of Labor to the starting rally at Federal Plaza. He then added, "We are one," the labor movement's unity chant.

"The labor movement stands in solidarity with the people occupying Wall Street, Boston and Chicago. One percent control the wealth and the political agenda of this country," he told the rally.

Reiter told PeoplesWorld.org that in order to pass a jobs bill it's less about the strategy in D.C., and "more about the people, the 99%, in the country."

"The labor movement never took its eye off the ball" in terms of the economy and jobs, he said. The occupy movements, he said, and the labor movement "joined together" on these issues."

http://peoplesworld.org/jobs-not-cut...ccupy-chicago/

Notice key words..."labor movement"....."community groups".....PeoplesWorld,org (communist newspaper)...pretty clear, no ?

What Fox News says about the 99%
 

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2011/...y%27re_Against

Critics of the growing Occupy [COLOR=blue ! important][COLOR=blue ! important]Wall [COLOR=blue ! important]Street[/COLOR][/COLOR][/COLOR] movement complain that the protesters don’t have a policy agenda and, therefore, don’t stand for anything. They're wrong. The key isn’t what protesters are for but rather what they’re against -- the gaping inequality that has poisoned our economy, our politics and our nation.

In America today, 400 people have more [COLOR=blue ! important][COLOR=blue ! important]wealth[/COLOR][/COLOR] than the bottom 150 million combined. That’s not because 150 million Americans are pathetically lazy or even unlucky. In fact, Americans have been working harder than ever -- productivity has risen in the last several decades. Big business profits and CEO bonuses have also gone up. Worker salaries, however, have declined.

Most of the Occupy Wall Street protesters aren’t opposed to free market capitalism. In fact, what they want is an end to the crony capitalist system now in place, that makes it easier for the rich and powerful to get even more rich and powerful while making it increasingly hard for the rest of us to get by. The protesters are not anti-American radicals. They are the defenders of the American Dream, the decision from the birth of our nation that success should be determined by hard work not royal bloodlines.

Sure, bank executives may work a lot harder than you and me or a mother of three doing checkout at a grocery store. Maybe the bankers work ten times harder. Maybe even a hundred times harder. But they’re compensated a thousand times more.
The question is not how Occupy Wall Street protesters can find that gross discrepancy immoral. The question is why every one of us isn’t protesting with them.

According to polls, most Americans support the 99% movement, even if they’re not taking to the streets. In fact, support for the Occupy Wall Street protests is not only higher than for either political party in Washington but greater than support for the Tea Party. And unlike the Tea Party which was fueled by national conservative donors and institutions, the Occupy Wall Street Movement is spreading organically from Idaho to Indiana. Institutions on the left, including unions, have been relatively late to the game.

Ironically, the original Boston Tea Party activists would likely support Occupy Wall Street more as well. Note that the original [COLOR=blue ! important][COLOR=blue ! important]Tea [COLOR=blue ! important]Party[/COLOR][/COLOR][/COLOR] didn’t protest taxes, merely the idea of taxation without representation -- and they were actually protesting the crown-backed monopoly of the East India Company, the main big business of the day.

Americans today also support taxes. In fact, two-thirds of voters -- including a majority of Republicans -- support increasing taxes on the rich, something the Occupy Wall Street protests implicitly support. That’s not just anarchist lefty kids. Soccer moms and construction workers and, yes, even some bankers want to see our economy work for the 99%, not just the 1%, and are flocking to Occupy protests in droves.
I’ve even met a number of Libertarians and Tea Party conservatives at these protests. So the critics are right, the Occupy Wall Street movement isn’t [COLOR=blue ! important][COLOR=blue ! important]the [COLOR=blue ! important]Tea [/COLOR][COLOR=blue ! important]Party[/COLOR][/COLOR][/COLOR]. Occupy Wall Street is much, much broader.

Maybe it’s hard to see your best interests reflected in a sometimes rag-tag, inarticulate, imperfect group of protesters. But make no mistake about it: While horrendous inequality is not an American tradition, protest is.And if you’re part of the 99% of underpaid or unemployed Americans crushed in the current economy, the Occupy Wall Street protests are your best chance at fixing the broken [COLOR=blue ! important][COLOR=blue ! important]economy[/COLOR][/COLOR] that is breaking your back.

The "Left" has been so jealous of the success of the Tea Party that they have been trying everything they can to TRY to capture that success.

They were caught flat footed because they thought that only the "left" were able to function as protesters. Usually driven in by bus, or forced to attend by unions, or paid to attend by a Soros organization.

Good Luck, it isn't having any effect.

It's about the jobs!
 

OK... make this a political party issue.... If it makes you feel better. *shrug*

If you hear what they are saying and read the signs, you will not find one sign that points to any political party. When this movement first started, the right said it was their movement and now it's the left. I've seen groups from both sides yeah it and both sides nae it!

I don't know why it ALWAYS has to be US against THEM. Maybe you are all right... I'm stupid because I think we are all a part of this country. I think we could learn by listening to each other and learning from each other.

Now... can we try to put our heads together and figure out how to bring the jobs back to this country for our children???

"Adbusters founders cheer their Occupy idea

The Canadian Press Posted: Oct 14, 2011 12:53 AM ET Last Updated: Oct 14, 2011 10:34 PM ET

With roots that reach as far as Cairo's fertile Tahrir Square, the Occupy protests roiling Wall Street will finally come full circle this weekend as they blossom in Canada, where they were conceived by Vancouver-based Adbusters.

Just a few short months ago, staff members at Adbusters' magazine — one of the seminal agents of the modern-day culture-jamming movement — watched, rapt, as scores of ordinary Egyptians took to the streets to depose a dictator and end decades of brutal repression at the hands of their government.

"We had sort of a communal, 'Aha!' moment," Adbusters co-founder Kalle Lasn recalled in an interview.

"We started wondering whether the same kind of tools that were used in Egypt, and the sort of regime-change philosophy, couldn't be applied to America."

The ensuing conversation eventually led to the Occupy Wall Street movement, an international uprising against economic inequality and corporate influence on the U.S. federal government.

The campaign, which began on Sept. 17 as an occupation of Manhattan's Zuccotti Park, has generated waves that have engulfed dozens of American cities and spread to countries around the world.

On Saturday, it arrives in several Canadian cities, including Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver."

http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2...adbusters.html

Could you please supply a link to validate this comment in your post...

"When this movement first started, the right said it was their movement"

The movement in question...ie., the jobs not cuts group was very much the ongoing marriage of Moveon and the union movement !

Sorry... I wasn't talking specifically about the "jobs not cuts" movement I was talking about the bigger movement "Occupy". I'm sorry I wasn't clear.

As pointed out in another post. This isn't just in the US, the Occupy is worldwide. While it is about many things it is very much about jobs.

I know (again I'm talking stupid), but, why wouldn't we be at least "trying" to work for the same goal?

:mademyday: Angie you are one wise woman in my humble opinion. I hope one day to meet you. Thank you so much for your words in this and your previous post.

Suzanne