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Subscribe to RSSFor nearly a month the Occupy Wall Street protesters have been camping in Zuccotti park, but that may change soon. Mayor Bloomberg has announced that cleaning crews will soon begin to clean the park and that protesters will be allowed to return as the work is completed.
The panorama image above was taken on Oct. 11 and consists of over 75 images stitched together with software to represent an immersive view of Zuccotti Park.
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Phil Lendz offers a free shave to a customer at the Occupy Wall Street encampment in Zuccotti Park.
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Congress should get their Pink Slips..................
"Help Wanted.....Responsible individuals to work out tough
financial problems with the best interests of the Majority of
The
People of the
USA!!!!!!!!!!!>>>>>>>>>>>
Eliminate Tax Loopholes for Corporations and set a flat tax on them...
Set a higher Tax percentage on Corporations with a High percentage of
overseas jobs...
Give a Tax break to corporations that create jobs in the USA....
I think we should all take a step back and try to understand both sides, rather than bash...
From the side of the 'Employed': I would imagine that we have negative feelings towards the protesters, not because we disagree with what they are protesting, but because we see people of ability, people with passion and people with dedication, wasting those qualities in a park, doing 'nothing'. We don’t understand their reason for protesting, and simply brush it off as a bunch of loafs wasting their time. Sure the unemployment rate is high, but what we see is that any one of these protesters can easily hitch themselves a job if they route their passion and effort towards a job search...the fact that we woke up this morning to go to work and produce, and there are people who woke up in a tent so that they can hold a sign and shout all day completely infuriates us. We don’t hate you, we hate that you could be curing cancer, or inventing something incredible, but instead you've given up.
From the side of the Protesters: It’s not that they are protesting because they can’t get a job... It’s not a congregation of the unemployed 10 or so percent of the population who need a place to meet up and vent their problems...It’s more of a congregation of people (employed and unemployed) who have reached their breaking point. I don't follow politics at all, but in the bit I read about these protests, its more about the principle that decisions are made, taxes are increased, bailouts are issued, healthcare is revamped, and the people who are suffering from the side effects of these decisions are not the same people that are making the decisions... it’s the people that are protesting...it’s the employed, the small businesses, its you and me ... it’s the diligent workers who bust their butts to provide a meal for their families, only to find out that the dinner table has been pulled out from under their meals...the silverware has been taken, the portions have been depleted...the harder they work, the more they lose...the more we all lose.... no they aren't a bunch of useless loafs...they are a bunch of hard working individuals that are on strike until a time when they won’t see their hard earned assets in the hands of a greedy decision maker.
You don't have to agree or disagree with either side, but you should at least attempt to understand the other side before putting them down. I am currently on the side of the 'employed,' however I’m not ignorant to the fact that I am closing in on my breaking point.
In a democratic Republic, citizens have the fundamental right to voice their protests and concerns and when ignored, have the right to voice these by protest marches. Lest we forget, you who are so negative in your comments about these protesters, have ignored the fact that this country was founded on such protests. Remember the Boston tea party, when the then citizens boarded ships in the harbor and tossed imported tea into the water? Did they ask permission to come aboard and get a permit to toss the tea overboard? NO. The protest was " NO taxation without represenation". This led to the revolution and founding of a new government, for the people and by the people. The reason was money, taxes....liberty just made more palatable. It seems we are headed today in that direction! We the people, really do not have true represestation today! Elected represetatives to Congress are not doing so. Instead once elected, they are taking their directions from the 1%. The ones who really got them elected thru large contributions and paid lobbysts. This country is no longer a true republic with little or NO REPRESENTATION! Can you blame the 99% of the people who want to change that???
Eliminate farm subsidies to Non-family farms....
Eliminate Government subsidies to Oil corporations.....
Tax Wall Street and create a tighter set of rules..............
Limit Public Company'Officer's and Board of Director's Pay to a
ratio that is
in line with the rest of the World.....
I wonder who they edited out of the 360 degree panorama picture? See for yourself. Zoom in on the guy holding the round white photography screen/filter and pan slowly to the right. You will see floating heads, bodies cut in half, and a photographer taking a picture of a ghost...
Nobody was deliberately edited out of the image. This panorama is a composite of about 65 seperate images which are stitched together with software. Since the crowd is in constant motion, people will not always match up if they happen to be at the edge of an individual image.
Good work, I find it interesting. Maybe you can put together a photo expose of the individuals that make up the group. Capture who they really are instead of projecting political theory on them. If you do that, it would truly be unique. I am finding that the media is using the protest to put their own political points across. Obviously this group is diverse and their concerns might be fringe just like in a bell curve.
These protesters are NOT countering the Tea Party. The Tea Party has a clear objective and come clear plans. This "movement" has neither. They are Tea Party Wannabees. It's mostly a fitful poo flinging. They really should be flinging their poo in Washington, not Wall Street.
Of course the Tea Party had a clear objective and clear plans, The Koch Brothers didn't get to be billionaires by setting up operations in which the participants would actually hear one another out and work toward consensus in addressing the issues they eventually chose to tackle.
The Koch Brothers, in forming the Tea Party as in their other ventures, had a very precise, concise plan in mind, and they hired the people they knew would work furiously to make their bosses happy without a word of backtalk.
Many people are licensed to hunt in several states. Just because someone has a PA license doesn't mean he or she can wander into WVA and start plugging bucks. You have to be licensed in any state where you want to hunt. Likewise, Gulf Coast residents of FL can't just go all up in Alabama's Kool-Aid without the proper paperwork. Then there are people who vacation at hunting resorts that are halfway across the country from their home state. Point? Many of the license applicants in the states mentioned in this post might have several licenses each, pending on their travel plans and proximity to state borders. Your numbers are likely incorrect, if taken at face value.
@chula1...........nice analogy, tell that to the "red neck" citizens who fought England for liberty so you could deliver such a selfserving statement of contempt.
I realize this is going to be responded to in many cases with the type of unthinking, “reactionism” that can only be found on the internet but I can't honestly say I see a protest going on. What I see, to be totally honest, is a squatter's camp in the middle of New York. And frankly, what I read is a lot of comments from those squatters in a private park complaining because the owner(s) of that park have dared to insist that they follow rules when using a park they only have due to the generosity of the park's owners. What I would like to see are people who genuinely believe in something and standing up for their beliefs rather than a few organizers and a lot of others who just want to “feel” like they're doing something. Control is good, that feeling of control you get when you’re part of a “movement” but I still don’t get the message of the movement. Is it “If you make more than someone else you should give away your money to that person and go live in a park?” Just asking.
Keith
I'm afraid you have that exactly backwards, Keith. In order to receive a variance to build their nearby high-rise, the developer promised to provide a park, for public use, in perpetuity, of the people. In return the people, through their city government, granted the variance. A deal was struck. The people are living up to it by using the park,,*and more*, because they are voluntarily taking care of maintenance of the park. The owner of the highrise are living up to the deal as a matter of contract law, not generosity. They kept title to the property but assigned the usage rights to the people. They have no standing to ask the people to leave.
The message of the movement is that the public has awakened and will no longer silently suffer economic injustice and corporate domination.
Do you believe that the framers of the Constitution intended that corporations should have the rights of citizens?
Do you believe that foreign owners and managers of corporations should have the right to secretly give unlimited sums to influence our national elections campaigns, while your contributions are strictly limited, and listed on the internet for all to see?
Do you believe it is fair that corporations can use otherwise-meaningless paper transactions to legally declare their profits from US operations to have occurred overseas, and thereby avoid paying taxes on TRILLIONS of dollars in income?
People in the Occupy movement tend not to believe these things. Crap, we can hadly even believe that they even came to be. If you agree, please visit. Talk to some folks.
AW13,
I do not disagree with you either. What I said was congress is owned by corporations and our laws are written by millionares for millionares on both sides of the isle.
Have you noticed that the people on the right are whining about SS going broke? Did you ever hear one of them suggest that the ceiling be lifted on the wealthy for contributions?
You can paint it as both parties being owned, but the republiKKKons are the party that caters to big business. The republiKKKons are the party that hates the poor and the needy. Hates the people who get their hands dirty.
RepubliKKKons are the party that put profits before people. Put profits before the enviroment. Put profits before children. Put profits before health.
It should be crystal clear which party defends the 99% and which party defends the 1%.
Just reported on the networks news: Obama has received more contributions from Wall Street than all other presidential candidates put together. Go figure!
Looks like a Phish concert. Where are the fire dancers and light shows?
Capitalism is not and never has been a form of government.
Whereas the occupiers are entirely clear as to what they are there for (to oppose economic injustice and corporate domination) you are *utterly* unclear on the very difference between a form of government and an economic system.
You blame our president, as well as: "and etc,etc...Steinhouser" for the *fact* that you are not getting a Social Security increase. But even us young folks know that you *are* getting an increase:
Why the lie, Larry? Has your generation no sense of honor?
I look forward to seeing you proove to me that you are a man of honor by return turn here to first thank our president "and etc,etc...Steinhouser" for your impending increase, and then apologizing to our president "and etc,etc...Steinhouser" for spreading a vicious lie about them.
And please, Larry. in the future, try to conduct yourself in an honorable fashion.
Thank you, sir.
I wish I could join the protesters but I'm one of those distasteful. disabled. people the GOP and Tea Party scorn. I worked for 42 years before becoming disabled. Despite this our government would happily see me croak rather than make sure I can afford the meds and help I need to survive.
My retirement funds should have provided a modest retirement but oops, they crashed with Wall Street. I would have lost everything if Bush had been able to pass through his retirement plan. As it is I still have a few dollars left as long as my health remains stable.
For 42 years I was forced to pay into a retirement system the government now wants to eliminate. It wants the Wall Street vultures who stole my retirement to oversee my retirement funds.
Bless all of you who are out there protesting for those of us who can't. I will let my representatives know that I support your efforts and would join you if I could.
I love it! the unaware still don't get it, they still want a theme their calling the protestors democrats, socialist.
anti-capitalism and so on. I don't know it either, but what I do understand is that this about we cannot continue to do things as we have been having a government that is being controlled by the super wealthy.
but it don't stop with one thing its a whole slew of things from taxation fairness, regulations to control these mega-banks and corporations as well as changing the government and placing controls on them.
This not republican against democrats its about taking our government back having washington work for the people and not just for the ones that fill their reelection money chests.
What you see today is the start the recruitment phase, and as you can see its all over this country and the world politicians don't think they have to work for the people the protestors have been , marginalize, demonized and called unamerican by the very own representatives. how's that for a servant of the people. These are the one that do not see what is in front of them, they are on their way out. And those super lobbyist jobs are going to no longer their for them to pick away at this government.
So you see alot of things need changing I just mentioned a few. we need you your parents and your children. The american dream is no longer possible lets take back america.
This can and must be done not through violence illegally or with malice, but though the constitution, bill of rights, and all that has been afforded to us as Americans.
To OWS this country still builds great Americans, THANK YOU
I'm surprised, the 360 degree photo shows, its actually pretty small ...
I can empathize, as someone from the early 70's, who understands the 'spirit' of the young people, etc ... I went to some protest once in Washington DC from Ga Tech in 1971 or so... but didnt even u-stand what the 'protest' was about, but it sure was fun to camp /sleep on the White House lawn and watch the National Guard buses drive by ... and march thousands of us down to the white house where bands of the day were singing the next day ... a big party, was all it was to us.