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The Occupy Portland Media Coalition has released a new video:
Occupy Portland – Day 1: Evolution of Democracy.
This is not an official statement by the General Assembly of Occupy Portland.
In helping the homeless the Occupiers are doing the Lord’s work. Matthew 25:45 ‘. . .Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.’
Is it possible to help out with the website? I would like updates far more frequently than you guys are updating them. Perhaps someone can be in charge of getting in touch with all of the committees on the ground on a daily basis and publishing a daily report. I would happily undertake this effort. 16 years working on interactive, CMS websites. Resume on request.
George Carlin-American Dream
There’s a reason that education sucks, and it’s the same reason it will never ever ever be fixed. It’s never going to get any better, don’t look for it. Be happy with what you’ve got. Because the owners of this country don’t want that. I’m talking about the real owners now, the big, wealthy, business interests that control all things and make the big decisions.
Forget the politicians, they’re irrelevant.
Politicians are put there to give you that idea that you have freedom of choice. You don’t. You have no choice. You have owners. They own you. They own everything. They own all the important land, they own and control the corporations, and they’ve long since bought and paid for the Senate, the Congress, the State Houses, and the City Halls. They’ve got the judges in their back pockets. And they own all the big media companies so they control just about all the news and information you get to hear.
They’ve got you by the balls.
They spend billions of dollars every year lobbying to get what they want. Well, we know what they want; they want more for themselves and less for everybody else. But I’ll tell you what they don’t want—they don’t want a population of citizens capable of critical thinking.
They don’t want well informed, well educated people capable of critical thinking. They’re not interested in that. That doesn’t help them. That’s against their interest. You know something, they don’t want people that are smart enough to sit around their kitchen table and figure out how badly they’re getting fucked by a system that threw them overboard 30 fucking years ago.
They don’t want that, you know what they want?
They want obedient workers, obedient workers. People who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork and just dumb enough to passively accept all these increasingly shittier jobs with the lower pay, the longer hours, the reduced benefits, the end of overtime and the vanishing pension that disappears the minute you go to collect it.
And now they’re coming for your social security money.
They want your fucking retirement money; they want it back so they can give it to their criminal friends on Wall Street.
And you know something? They’ll get it. They’ll get it all from you sooner or later because they own this fucking place.
It’s a big club and you ain’t in it! You and I are not in the Big Club. By the way, it’s the same big club they use to beat you in the head with all day long when they tell you what to believe. All day long beating you over the head with their media telling you what to believe, what to believe, what to think and what to buy.
The table is tilted folks, the game is rigged.
Nobody seems to notice, nobody seems to care. Good honest hard working people, white collar, blue collar, it doesn’t matter what color shirt you have on. Good honest hard working people continue, these are people of modest means, continue to elect these rich cocksuckers who don’t give a fuck about them. They don’t give a fuck about you. They don’t give a fuck about…give a fuck about you! They don’t care about you at all, at all, at all.
And nobody seems to notice, nobody seems to care.
That’s what the owners count on, the fact that Americans are and will probably remain willfully ignorant of the big red, white, and blue dick that’s being jammed up their assholes everyday.
Because the owners of this country know the truth, it’s called the American Dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it.
I stand with you in spirit!
This video was so moving I was crying at my desk, at work. Unfortunately, do to the demands of my job, I cannot join you in person, but my heart is with you. Keep doing what you’re doing; there are many of us to believe, but cannot represent. You are representing many more people than you know.
We all stand with you in spirit!
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I wish you had t-shirts available on this site saying “We are the 99%” that people could buy and wear in support of the protests, with profits going to OWS PDX. I cannot attend the protests, but want the world to know how proud I am of all of you, that I stand with you in any way I can. I will be donating soon, but wearing a shirt would be awesome, if I knew the profits where going to the protests.
Love you all!
Julie
Why is the news only showing the radical Occupy protestors instead of the “every day” people (the REAL 99%) that want the rich to pay the same % tax as the middle class? The radicals are giving the Occupy protests a bad name and are a few bad apples ruining an otherwise VERY important cause!