IMPORTANT: Speak out about the Wall Street protests even if you are not in NY

[markpkessinger]

In another thread ( http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x1998319 ) I posted a link to an email form for Mayor Michael Bloomberg's office, encouraging folks to register their objections over the police brutality towards the Occupy Wall Street protesters. One person responded that he would do so, but that he doubted it would do any good since he is not from New York. Please don't let the fact that you are not a resident of New York prevent you from registering your objections. The NYPD and the mayor's office are counting on the coverage blackout by the mainstream media to shield them from public scrutiny of their response to the protests. A large number of emails from around the country will get the message through loud and clear that their actions are being witnessed. Again, the link to the mayor's office's email is: http://www.nyc.gov/html/mail/html/mayor.html .

[patrick t. cakes]

1. kick and Rec.........nt

[Zanzoobar]

2. What are those people protesting?

[Earth_First]

4. The Corporate GREED which has poisoned this country in the nest which harbors them...

It's about the economic inequality that is sponsored by Wall Street and the attack on the Working Class Poor...

[Zanzoobar]

5. Isn't it sponsored by the government?

[Dragonfli]

6. It's more like the government is sponsored by them, $$$ can't buy you love but it can buy government

It can even buy a president :-(

[Zanzoobar]

13. So then, shouldn't they be protesting government?

[Dragonfli]

17. People are doing that too, This is a protest against the head of the snake, best to go

after the bosses rather than the henchmen sometimes.

[Zanzoobar]

18. Looks more like the tail of the dragon

[Dragonfli]

19. When you make huge donations and then your policies are enacted, you are no tail.

The Chamber of Commerce is a big money player, anything in this document look familiar to you?
http://www.uschamber.com/sites/default/files/110905_jobs_letter.pdf

I would suggest seeing the documentary called "Capitalism a Love Story".
You haven't studied this very much and it is a good primer.

Goldman Sachs was the largest contributor to Obama and they have much of their alumni running Obama's financial team, that is no accident, neither is how much money they received to pay their gambling debts for them. They will want more as well as they took much of that money and bought other companies with it instead (not to mention the billions in bonuses that went to those that ruined our economy)

[HappyMe]

7. Corporations like Apple,

who enable them to text, call, and send pictures? The corporation that provides their celll phone service? If they get hurt - corporations like - hospitals? If they get arrested - Limited Liability Corporations like lawyers? The corporations that their parents work for that enable them to protest?

[white_wolf]

9. I've never understood this argument at all.

We live in a capitalist society, everything is made by corporations, even cloths. So unless you expect people to go naked, they have no choice. I'm going to address a few of your examples. As to cell service, the government could easily provide cell service. As to hospitals being corporations, that is one of the greatest problems in our society, hospitals should be ran by the government for the benefit of the people, not the greed of a few. As to the lawyer example, I'm betting a lot of the legal issues will be covered by the NLG and ACLU. Oh, and your final statement is rather rude, implying that the protestors are living off their parents, you do realize that a lot of the protestors are protesting because they can't find work, even with college degrees.

I have to ask, though. Why are you so devoted to defending Wall Street and corporations?

[patrice]

10. Does any of that give corporations the right to be oppressive? There are those of us who

can see what's happening to us and respond more or less effectively, but there are plenty who never know what potentials they lost before they lost them. If they have human rights doesn't that matter? If they have value, Real or arbitrary, doesn't it matter to the economic system that that value is lost before it is developed? So even if you're one of the ones who is awake and functional aren't you losing untold opportunities to the systemic regression of others?

Just because corporations do all that good stuff doesn't mean that we must or even should accept the harms that they cause. We're the market aren't we, if we more effectively rejected the harms and corporations more authentically adapted (instead of just dodging and doing everything they can think to do to avoid functional adaptation), wouldn't they be better more innovative, more successful corporations and wouldn't our life together with them be better for them and us, perhaps in ways beyond our best dreams even?

[patrice]

3. K&R

[texanwitch]

8. I was at the last Halburton protest here in Houston a few years ago, the Houston cops attacked us.

Everything was peaceful and then the cops on horses went crazy.

The cops had their badge numbers covered with black tape, something to look for.

We won, the cops didn't chase us off.

I have some scary ass video of the protest, I was almost killed by a police horse.


The cops are not your friends at these protest, they belong to the rich.

[louslobbs]

11. K&R

Lou

[markpkessinger]

12. Kicking again

[Marrah_G]

14. Kicking

[EFerrari]

15. I used the form you posted to write to the mayor.

Thanks, Mark.

[senseandsensibility]

16. keep this kicked

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[Scuba]

20. K&R