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An Occupy Oakland protester places an anti-violence message to the broken window of a Chase Bank branch in downtown Oakland, Calif. on Nov. 2, 2011
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The Occupy Oakland protesters shout outside of a Wells Fargo bank branch in Oakland, Calif. in an attempt to shut down the bank as they call for a citywide general strike on Nov. 2, 2011.
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A man shouts as he marches in an Occupy Oakland march on Nov. 2, 2011, in Oakland, Calif.
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A small group of Occupy Oakland protesters smash windows at a Wells Fargo bank branch on Nov. 2, 2011, in Oakland, Calif.
msnbc.com reports:
OAKLAND, California — Thousands of Wall Street protesters marched in the streets of Oakland and picketed banks on Wednesday as they geared up to disrupt operations at the nation's fifth-busiest port.
Demonstrators in Los Angeles, New York, Chicago and Philadelphia held solidarity actions Wednesday.
Read the full story here.
The "Occupy" movement is now in its sixth week, and Wednesday the epicenter was back in Oakland, Calif., where people flooded the streets again in what they called a day-long strike to shut the city down. NBC's Miguel Almaguer reports.
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god bless them all. it is time for people to wake up and see that we are being robbed.
Some of those guys in black are police provocateurs. Google search
Police Infiltrators and Agent Provocateurs At Occupy Oakland, Documented Fact.
Steve: You are absolutely right. Notice how these three with their identities concealed, are doing their thing OFF TO THE SIDE, while the occupy protesters march by in the street, unable to see them. One of the three seems to be standing guard (Hammer raised in the air) as the protesters march by him. His back is turned to those breaking the window as he distracts the few marchers who may turn in his direction (as one appears to be doing) by waving his hammer in the air (and probably yelling obscenities at them).
If the occupy group caught these people they would surround them and capture them for the police, thus the "guard". The most important theme of "Occupy" groups is NON-VIOLENT protests, such as those where seated protesters were pepper-sprayed by the police. It is the NON-VIOLENT PROTESTS that gain public support, not criminal action. Occupy groups ARE NOT RIGHT or LEFT oriented, contrary to media reports that try to equate these groups with the old "Hippies" of the 1960's.
If these groups were violent they would immediately be swept off the streets and arrested, if they weren't shot first. There are more law-abiding citizens than "Occupiers" and many such law abiding citizens are part of the Occupy movement. Those directly threatened by these groups are seeding them with these criminals in an attempt to disband them.
Compare the photos of the marchers in the real "Occupy" movement marching by in the street to the photos of these hired thugs. The marchers are our friends and neighbors. The thugs are thugs - criminals we all try to avoid. Hopefully they are not police who are hired to do this. They appear skilled and well trained at what they do - destruction. "Occupiers" have no such trainng and no motivation to destroy.
"Occupiers" are trying to stop the destruction of our country by those people who hired these thugs to disrupt the movement. Once one is alerted to this, it's obvious. If you still doubt, take another look at the people who are marching and see if you don't recognize them as your friends.
yes indeed! They are 1% Anarchists seizing an opportunity to squelch a movement. They will fail.
Corporate Occupation of the United States
We are at war. Our corporate controlled government (through corporate lobbying and election funding ) is out of the peoples control. People want government control back. Makes sense to me... I feel US corporate capitalism (corporatism) is based on an economic fascism: To have a corporate being where the chain of command eventually muddles all responsibility to any human being. These corporate beings are running your life and controlling your government. (Enough to really make an individual mad and protest.) The corporate being does not exist, and when it comes to face it's corporate responsibility, it is a piece of paper. That is plain and simply wrong. Restore capitalism to individual responsible chains of command, or this war will be lost.
Sign the petition to amend the Constitution for revoking corporate personhood:
movetoamend.org
steve, maybe someone changed the definition of "proof" while I was not looking, but nothing I read contained anything close to proof and none of the sources that came up with this pitch have an ounce of credibility. This is a weak allegation at best. It's just an attempt to sway public opinion that occupiers are being oppressed. Hopefully that will become more and more difficult for them to do as Americans tire of these tactics by protesters that are anything but peaceful. They are menacing and threatening and the support the cause was enjoying in the beginning will fade soon. Enjoy it while it lasts.
You have to just love it when a peaceful protest resorts to violence. This act alone erases most of the progress that has been made and needs to be dealt with by the police. Destruction of property, public or private, is nothing more than criminal and should not be tolerated.
Is this what they call peaceful? No wonder the police are forced to step in, and then the Police become the target. These groups are a bunch of gang thugs, out of control spolied "children". Grow the frig up already and contribute to this society instead of taking us back decades at a time. You have all lost your credibility with these stunts.
What I want to know is this -- How is it that nobody has gone to jail for the financial disaster of 2008 ? Shouldn't the people who rated junk debt as AAA (and profited from it) go to jail ? Shouldn't CEO's who got up in front of a mic and declared their company sound (when they knew the company was crumbling) go to jail? Not only did these people NOT go to jail but they even got bailed out with our money and preserved their bonuses in the process! Now these same companies are screwing over the working guy by taking away pension,healthcare plans, foreclosing on your house, and most importantly sending American jobs to India. The game is rigged against your average working stiff and that's why I sympathize withy elements of the OWS movement.
The hooded black-clad thugs breaking windows are trained criminals. They are hired to disrupt and discredit the "Occupy" movement by those who are threatened by it.
In this photo one can see the real "Occupy" protesters marching in the street, oblivious to this destruction. One of the marchers has turned towards this scene and is distracted by a hooded "guard" in black, who waves a hammer in the air to distract the marcher from the criminals who are breaking the glass behind him. This guard is necessary to protect the thugs from being surrounded and captured and turned in to the police by the NON-VIOLENT "Occupy" movement.
Compare the images of the real "Occupy" participants passing by in the street to those of these hired thugs. The marchers are our friends and neighbors. The thugs are thugs - criminals we all try to avoid. Hopefully they are not police who are hired to do this. They appear skilled and well trained at what they do - destruction. "Occupiers" have no such training and no motivation to destroy.
"Occupiers" are trying to stop the destruction of our country by the people who hired these thugs to disrupt the movement. Once one is alerted to this, it's obvious. If you still doubt, take another look at the people who are marching and see if you don't recognize them as your friends.