US Day of Rage Planned 9-17-11: Bring Down Wall Street ..
Organizers plan to start on Saturday September 17 and want participants to “occupy” the area for “a few months,” according to the movement's website.
Kalle Lasn, co-founder of the venerable counterculture magazine AdBusters, has taken to Twitter and other websites to help organize a campaign encouraging tens of thousands of Americans to stage a sit-in - peaceful and non-violent.
“People have a right to protest, and if they want to protest, we’ll be happy to make sure they have locations to do it,” New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Thursday at a press conference.
“As long as they do it where other people’s rights are respected, this is the place where people can speak their minds, and that’s what makes New York New York.”
Called a Marxist mob by Front Page Magazine, the Day of Rage website is seen differently by different groups of people. Where some see "leftist mob" others see "anarchists" and others see citizens assembling peacefully.
Organizers of tomorrow's event have stressed the mass protest will be nonviolent in nature - and that people should bring their tents. The Day of Rage Twitter account recently tweeted, "We'll change the name US Day of Rage, which IS NONVIOLENT, when Pentagon changes name of Operation Enduring Freedom, which IS VIOLENT #USDOR"
The original “Days of Rage” took place in Chicago in 1969. That year, members of what was later to become known as the Weather Underground inspired four days of riots and demonstrations against The System.
The Canada Free Press (not associated with Muncie Free Press) wrote:
"Behind the bandanas meant to disguise their identities are ACORN activists and the riffraff of major unions like the Service Employees International Union, SEIU—the ones who frighten 14-year-old boys home alone."
One citizen. One dollar. One vote.
According to the movement's website, they have two major things in mind.
Only citizens should make campaign contributions.
Campaign contributions by citizens should not exceed $1 to any political candidate or party.
The website for the movement sums up their demands.
“Unfortunately, free and fair elections are a thing of the past in America. Because of recent Supreme Court decisions, money is flowing freely and unaccountably into the American electoral process. Elections will be swayed by interests opposed to those of the United States. Corporations, even those owned by foreign shareholders, will and do use money to act as the voices of millions, while individual citizens, the legitimate voters, are silenced and demoralized by the farce of American Democracy.”
NEW YORK - New York City is set to experience a "Day of Rage," a non-violent and peaceful assembly of the people on Constitution Day in the United States. Turning on a television set or looking in Google News won't give you much information about the event, however.
Organizers plan to start on Saturday September 17 and want participants to “occupy” the area for “a few months,” according to the movement's website.
Kalle Lasn, co-founder of the venerable counterculture magazine AdBusters, has taken to Twitter and other websites to help organize a campaign encouraging tens of thousands of Americans to stage a sit-in - peaceful and non-violent.
“People have a right to protest, and if they want to protest, we’ll be happy to make sure they have locations to do it,” New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Thursday at a press conference.
“As long as they do it where other people’s rights are respected, this is the place where people can speak their minds, and that’s what makes New York New York.”
Called a Marxist mob by Front Page Magazine, the Day of Rage website is seen differently by different groups of people. Where some see "leftist mob" others see "anarchists" and others see citizens assembling peacefully.
Organizers of tomorrow's event have stressed the mass protest will be nonviolent in nature - and that people should bring their tents. The Day of Rage Twitter account recently tweeted, "We'll change the name US Day of Rage, which IS NONVIOLENT, when Pentagon changes name of Operation Enduring Freedom, which IS VIOLENT #USDOR"
The original “Days of Rage” took place in Chicago in 1969. That year, members of what was later to become known as the Weather Underground inspired four days of riots and demonstrations against The System.
The Canada Free Press (not associated with Muncie Free Press) wrote:
"Behind the bandanas meant to disguise their identities are ACORN activists and the riffraff of major unions like the Service Employees International Union, SEIU—the ones who frighten 14-year-old boys home alone."
One citizen. One dollar. One vote.
According to the movement's website, they have two major things in mind.
Only citizens should make campaign contributions.
Campaign contributions by citizens should not exceed $1 to any political candidate or party.
The website for the movement sums up their demands.
“Unfortunately, free and fair elections are a thing of the past in America. Because of recent Supreme Court decisions, money is flowing freely and unaccountably into the American electoral process. Elections will be swayed by interests opposed to those of the United States. Corporations, even those owned by foreign shareholders, will and do use money to act as the voices of millions, while individual citizens, the legitimate voters, are silenced and demoralized by the farce of American Democracy.”
Occupy DC!!! But how do you feel about regulation? I feel that the banks were able to run amok because of lax oversight, and primarily from the repeal of the glass-steagall act.
This is natural with an big basically unorganized movement, some people are going to take shortcuts.
