The Oakland Strike Is Getting Huge And Has Already Slowed Down The Nation's Fifth Biggest Port
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[QUOTE=Phsykotik;33110856]Can someone please explain this to me?
All I hear or read is, "Occupy with us!"
I respond, "What the fuck for?!"
Seriously, what the hell is the goal of any of this?[/QUOTE]
You realize the Oakland General Strike and the Occupy movement aren't the same thing right?
The Oakland General Strike happened because of police brutality directed at the Occupy protesters, and there are definitely lots of the same people in both, but they're not the same thing.
[QUOTE=Medevilae;33111007]The destructive minority present in the protest perverts the message of the entire thing.
Was kind of sickening to see the couple assholes vandalizing, while the peaceful protesters, through remaining peaceful, can do nothing but stand aside and tell the others "hey don't do that".[/QUOTE]
Why should a minority represent the rest of the movement
[QUOTE=Medevilae;33111055]It doesn't represent them, but the violence and vandalism that has happened speaks just as loud as the chants of the civil majority. It becomes associated with them.[/QUOTE]
It only speaks just as loudly because people like yourself and those in the mainstream media overstate it.
[QUOTE=Van-man;33110951]Have you been living under a rock for the last month or so?[/QUOTE]
No, I just don't care about updates that much, my life is more important to me than whatever the hell else is in the world.
And I understand that they are all different events, but I look up, "Occupy" on the Internet and I find all sorts of different groups that, despite my attempts at finding their goal (any individual group/city thing), I find nothing but, "Help us! Be the 99%!"
That is not very motivating for me. But whatever. I don't live in Oakland, or anywhere near New York.
Does anyone know if Seattle has to deal with any of this?
[QUOTE=Phsykotik;33111204]No, I just don't care about updates that much, my life is more important to me than whatever the hell else is in the world.
And I understand that they are all different events, but I look up, "Occupy" on the Internet and I find all sorts of different groups that, despite my attempts at finding their goal (any individual group/city thing), I find nothing but, "Help us! Be the 99%!"
That is not very motivating for me. But whatever. I don't live in Oakland, or anywhere near New York.
Does anyone know if Seattle has to deal with any of this?[/QUOTE]
Seems a bit shortsighted to criticize the movement when you haven't done much research other than looked at pictures of people on Google Images holding signs saying "We are the 99%"
[QUOTE=Kopimi;33111318]Seems a bit shortsighted to criticize the movement when you haven't done much research other than looked at pictures of people on Google Images holding signs saying "We are the 99%"[/QUOTE]
I am not criticizing.
I am asking what it is about.
And saying that as it is, I haven't a clue, and have no intent to help.
And that I can't easily find out. I mean, I am content with my life, why should I support people that are trying to change it?
I will admit, I haven't a clue what they want to change, but I cannot understand their motive.
And I have been to their websites, not Google Images.
[QUOTE=Phsykotik;33111204]No, I just don't care about updates that much, my life is more important to me than whatever the hell else is in the world.
And I understand that they are all different events, but I look up, "Occupy" on the Internet and I find all sorts of different groups that, despite my attempts at finding their goal (any individual group/city thing), I find nothing but, "Help us! Be the 99%!"
That is not very motivating for me. But whatever. I don't live in Oakland, or anywhere near New York.
Does anyone know if Seattle has to deal with any of this?[/QUOTE]
It's not motivating for you because you don't know what the phrase "we're the 99%" represents
It means that in America, the top 1% of the population has 40% of all the wealth, and their income continues to increase while everyone else's remains stagnant
That's unjust and it's why people are protesting
The movement is focused around banks because they're the ones who manipulate the economy for their own gain and share a huge amount of the blame for its current state
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