"We, the members of the Society of Jesus, continue to be lifted up in prayer, in lament, in protest at the death and destruction that continue to reign in Gaza and other territories in Israel/Palestine, spilling over into the surrounding countries of the Middle East."
And OWS in Nerw York is planning further mass disruptions impacting the general public. OWS is mobilizing to disrupt public transporation, by blocking access to the subways thereby preventing very ordinary people from getting to work, school and therir doctor's appointments and back to their home. Subway riders are definately not the top 1% of income earners. So why disrupt the lives of ordinary people who have no role in the class warfare power struggle that OWS is promoting? This planned disruption is just another attention getting tactic by OWS without meaning or purpose. OWS disruptions tactics on the public need to be stopped. If need be send in the National Guard to restore public order. OWS elitist are not above the law.
Joe Ferullo at ncronline gives a pretty good summary - and nobody can accuse ncronline of being anything but ''progressive'.
http://ncronline.org/blogs/ncr-today/whats-next-occupy-movement
I'll be at Trenton next week protesting fracking. Time to get involved. The rest are sheep and can get sheared.
The OWS et al. is doing much more. Visit the website(s); visit a local gathering. I happen to think the NYC cops did them a favor because it IS true: it was time to bring more attention to the community projects they've begun than the tents.
It is a good question as to who has a role. Does each person have to get layed off before they have a reason to get involved. This is a crisis which has been in the making for years. A financial culture which once championed humane management along with the profit motive has devolved to a culture which seeks profit without regard to its human affliction. About twenty years ago Arthur Ryan, the then Chairman of Chase Bank responded to his mutual fund manager's request that he raise the company's stock value, not by creative strategies but by simply laying off people and compelling employees to do double work. He then went on to Prudential and did the same. That culture has come to roost. It is a fatal mistake to see the OWS people as sloppy and violent. Better to take a closer look. These are young people who were thrust into a job market which greatly diminished their opportunities. These are not criminal. These are morally motivated people who seek justice. Naturally there are going to be some aberations.
The move is to keep American working. Not to call in the National Guard to harass its own citizens.
Bill, specifically, how is this movement creating more American jobs?
If they want to stand up for the 99%, they should first make sure that they're not providing cover for criminals and hooligans, and then they should consider doing something that doesn't make life even more difficult for average working Americans, small business owners, etc.
1. Politicians were not owned by special interests
2. The media was not wholly controlled by special interests (the only liberal media is Free Speech TV and Link TV supported by donations)
3. Campaign reform removed big money from the electoral process
4. Scientific truths such as human-caused global warming and negative environmental effects of unregulated exploitation of resources were not suppressed.
As things are, this is the only avenue left for producing change.
Now, if someone rubbed feces on my house, I'd be really upset. But we have to put these things in perspective Putting benzene in my drinking water is much, much worse. I can wash the feces off my house wall and it will nourish my shrubs. Benzene will not make anything healthy. Benzene is a component of fracking chemicals pumped into the earth at a pressure of 1000 atmospheres. Even if this is the pressure at a depth of 7500 feet, you still need 700 atmospheres of overpressure at the surface to provide this.