Occupy Wall Street

Occupy Wall Street Info, draft of demands and Twitter Feeds

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A first draft of demands from people @ OccupyWallStreet here:  http://bit.ly/pBs5Ju – more info on the protests here: http://www.adbusters.org/campaigns/occupywallstreet

Twitter tags to follow: #OccupyWallStreet #OccupyWallSt #TakeWallSt #OurWallSt

Twitter accounts to follow: OccupyWallSt / OccupyWallStreetNYC
(there are more cities joining in, to find them do a Twitter search for “Occupy”)

To all you people out there – you have my full support – rock on! It seems like you’re doing so much good with the time, besides of course just the fact that you’re there. But I also love the work shops, culture groups, your general assemblies, the tests and development of direct democracy at meetings, etc. I find you great. Big hugs!

 

Bail out the people instead of the banks

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Just read an article in the Guardian where the IMF managing director Christine Lagarde tells Europe to bail out the banks – again. Excuse me? What? So after having bailed out our banks, and them seeing them one year later going on with business as usual, paying out massive bonuses instead of using profits to provide better conditions for the people – we should bail out the banks again?

Well.

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