Goldman Sachs To Be Tried By People's Court in Zuccotti Park

[kpete]

Goldman Sachs To Be Tried By People's Court in Zuccotti Park
Goldman Sachs will be tried this Thursday, November 3, for crimes against the American public. Cornel West, noted civil rights activist, and Chris Hedges, Pulitzer Prize winner, will be among those presiding, and testimony for the prosecution will include individuals who have been directly affected and harmed by the actions of Goldman Sachs. The trial is open to the public, and if you can't make it? Tune in to WBAI (99.5 FM in New York) or online at www.wbai.org this Thursday, from 10 AM to 12 noon, where it will be broadcast live. If the government won't do it? We'll take it into our own hands.

Sourced from AlterNet
Posted at November 1, 2011, 10:05 am
http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/688793/goldman_sachs_to_be_tried_by_people%27s_court_in_zuccotti_park/

[sabrina 1]

1. Someone should bring along the Senate Committee's

report on the Financial Meltdown. Sen. Levin was interviewed on TV right after the Bi-partisan Committee finished the report and referredit to the DOJ. But then OBL was killed and there was nothing much else on then 'news' for a while and no one mentioned that report again on the Corporate Media.

[FreakinDJ]

2. Most Excellent

[Cerebral Assassin]

3. What's the point?

And this will accomplish...what, exactly? OWS should spend less time on pointless street theater and more time ensuring a permanent legacy.

[nadinbrzezinski]

4. Street theater pushes an establishment.

Oh and it's far from useless and quite in the populist tradition of the US.

:hi: welcome to du.

Pull up a chair. We all learn from each other.

[Cerebral Assassin]

7. Not helping

Having a corporation 'put on trial' by 'The People's Court' only plays into the hands of the people who want to paint the entire movement as consisting soley of radical loons. It gives them a comical sound bite to endlessly replay in a loop and an opportunity to trivialize it with jokes about Judge Wapner and daytime TV. OWS has an uphill battle as it is, without spotting advantages. Especially for a bit of pointless symbolism that, in the end, will affect nothing, change nothing, and produce nothing. If OWS wants to be kept in the news, there are better ways to do it.

[wickerwoman]

5. It keeps the movement in the news.

and it helps to educate people.

It's not OWS's job to fix the economy or the government. That's up to voters. It OWS's job to keep the spotlight on the issues and to help inform people. And this "pointless street theater" does both.

[Rex]

6. Right, glad nobody listened to you.

They would all have stayed at home. Series. :eyes:

GFS is a cancer on the capitalist system and should be burned at the stake...as an organization.

[adamuu]

14. better than posting comments on message boards, hey ? n/t

[mmonk]

8. Wish I could be there to record it.

[lunatica]

10. I think it will be recorded

This revolution doesn't need to be televised when it can be recorded by the people in it. The people have the power to disseminate in their gadgets right now.

I will be listening and watching. The media has become obsolete.

[mmonk]

12. I'm sure it will.

[SpiralHawk]

9. Cool - this event will be circulated globally

not much the corporate media (R) can do to block knowledge of this basic debate on democracy and corporations. It will be all over the place on the net.

[lunatica]

11. It's occurred to me that the media has become obsolete

The tools the people have now are far superior to anything the media has. Contrast twittering something and the entire world knows about it, whereas the media showing up to make a 30 second tape to be aired on a story they barely cover for a few seconds or minutes and see which method is more powerful and more far reaching.

The media has made itself obsolete. It's a dinosaur now. All it takes is for us to realize the incredible power of our ability to communicate and we leave every other method of dissemination in the dust.

[SpiralHawk]

13. Agreed. Corporate media (R) has made itself irrelevant

...by virtue of having been on bended knee for so long, and for filling the air waves with trash and RW propaganda.