Anyone following the Occupy WallStreet Movement?

[John Phoenix]

I have been following this thing since it started through another popular forum Abovetopsecret.com.

For those who don't know, the Occupy WallStreet Movement started when a group of people got together and decided they would protest the heavy involvement of Corporate America on our Government, Laws and Lives. On Sept 17th they met at WallStreet to protest by occupying the area with peaceful demonstrations. Now, weeks have passed and the movement is growing with more people showing up to support the cause every weekend. Many people have not left the area at all. That's the idea, to get entrenched and occupy standing firm. 10's of thousands of people have shown up to support this cause.

This may actually turn into The New American Revolution many people including myself believe is wanted and needed in this country.

Occupy " Your City Here" websites are popping up all over the internet encouraging people to occupy thier local town squares and government areas to protest. There are new chapters in Los Angeles, Chicargo , Boston, New Orleans just to name a few examples.

If this movement is actually able to get positive change accomplished it may be a very good thing for e-cig users everywhere. It would help lessen the influence of Big Pharma on the FDA and it's intrusion into our lives.

Note: This is a bi-partisan movement made up of all peoples in America no matter what political, religious, ethnic. etc affiliation they belong to. The single goal seems to be

Occupy WallStreet or Occupy Your City Here, is leaderless resistance movement with people of many colors, genders and political persuasions. The one thing we all have in common is that We Are The 99% (We Are the 99 Percent) that will no longer tolerate the greed and corruption of the 1%.

More here: Occupy Wall Street | NYC Protest for American Revolution

and here: Occupy Together.|.Home

 

[FantWriter]

I think it's great -- I won $20!

I bet someone it'd take less than two weeks before someone co-opted the movement or they sold out. It took only ten days before the basic impetus (which I applaud in principle, if not in practice) began to be taken over by people pushing other agendas.

I'm sure most of you are much too young to know about it, but we tried many of the same things, for the same reasons, during the 60s.

It didn't change anything then; it won't change anything now.

 

[mmsjs5]

http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/fo...ousands-protest-against-wall-street-week.html

 

[John Phoenix]

I understand how you feel FantWriter. I advocate caution. If this is the start of a new revolution things have to be done right. I think today with the internet and other technology this movement can make a bigger impact than it did then. In, especially today's desperate need for economic and political change, more common Americans are fed up with Corporate America.

In the 60's you had groups on college campus's protesting or organized marches with a beginning and an end. Here you have people of all walks taking it to the streets all over the country and they plan to stay for as long as it takes. I think The People have a better chance this time.

If we are going to do this thing we have to be sure it's done right and we are not tools for someones agenda that we would not as Americans agree with.

We cant do it by force, they have all the big guns. We can't do it from within the legal system, that has been tried for 30 years and has gotten us nowhere. I still want to know, whats the goals and whats the plan to get to those goals. Protesting is great but you have to follow up on it. Just the act of millions of people taking to the street alone won't cause anything to change.

How radical can you get and still be effective without crossing that line into violence? Not very unless you have really solid goals and plans to get there. I guess we will know by watching this thing play out.

Sure some factions have tried to hijack the momentum of this movement for their own agenda (socialists) but if you read the forums of the sites listed above and the list of demands to Congress being proposed, it is true blue Americans who honestly want democratic change who are spearheading this effort.

List of demands: PROPOSED LIST OF DEMANDS (please help edit/add so this can be submitted for consideration to those maintaining the official list) | OccupyWallSt.org Forum

Thanks for the link mmsjs5, I hadn't seen that.

 

[John Phoenix]

Hey xg4bx and Scarlet Fire, apparently the mods thought your comments were a little too rough for public consumption. Still, I am interested to know your thoughts. Perhaps you guys can re-post them a little more PG.