For the first time since the inception of the Occupy Wall Street, a counter-movement is appearing. Their message: stop whining. Stop being negative and tearing down America. Be positive and be in favor of positive change. Work to improve yourself and work harder to get a job.
They are calling themselves “Employ the 99%.”
“Don’t have a negative attitude. You don’t try to force other people to blame other your mistakes,” says Aaron Buchhop one of the organizers who works at a non-profit.
OWS protesters have captured the limelight with their complaints but so far have failed to come up with any positive agenda.
Tomorrow grassroots activists say students and young professionals plan to converge on the Occupy DC site in downtown Washington armed with job applications, college enrollment forms and military recruitment brochures. They also will hold a a resume workshop and job search advice.
The group say they they represent the sentiment of students and young professionals in the Washington, D.C. area. Many of them share the same frustration as the protesters but don’t like the negative OWS message. Many of the Employ the 99% attended the Occupy DC site and the October 2011 rally.
Cameron Halket, a protester who attended both events said he attended because he felt marginalized by society, out of work since 2009.
“I’ve always felt helpless to do anything and when I found this movement I realized that we can affect change,” he told Christian Post. “Doing nothing was no longer an option.
“People who want to better their situation can and will, Buchop says. “It’s amazing what some positive thinking and willpower can accomplish.
“There are a lot of people there who not part of the fringe Left,” he told PJ. ” They are largely people who are disillusioned and we’d like to help foster a more positive message.”
Buchhop says the message is not to continue to sit in tents and hold negative rallies. Instead they can empower themselves to do positive things for themselves and their community.
Buchop calls his message the Steve Jobs message: anyone can do anything if they are inspired and work hard at it
The group has a Facebook site, Employ the 99%. They plan to appear at McPherson Square in downtown Washington at 12 Noon on Thursday, October 20 and remain there until 3 pm.
Robert Heinlein – “I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.”
Ernest Hemingway – “You make your own luck.”
I doubt many of the self-styled “99%” rabble are interested in becoming employed.
Case study A: “My father has a PhD but lives in his car, so he can do what he loves rather than be a slave to the system.”
Case study B: “It sucks that people have to slave just to make a living. That’s not right.”
Case Study C: “Abolish money.”
Holy crap! Some activists who are actually…you know…active! I hope their message drowns out the whining from OWS.
One can’t blame other people for one’s own mistakes? Of course not, that’s the job of a politician.
Wow! This is going to show up those OWS complainers….They are disgusting..I hope these counter protests turn up all over the country…this is what America is all about but you will see the MSM totally ignore them…Let us see how many job applications they fill out OWS is a planned protest by left leaning socialists and unions who are determined to undermine our elections, our economy and try to get Obama elected through turmoil and anarchy…class envy will in the end turn on the people who espouse it…Communism/Socialism has never worked in any country… Individualism and Freedom is inbred in the human spirit…and anarchy only brings destruction to the rule of law which these thugs are trying to start.
The funny thing is that Washington D.C. and the surrounding counties in Virginia and Maryland never suffer recessions. A recession in the rest of the country actually leads to more hiring in D.C. I think.
Yes, living in the DC area we aren’t hit as hard as other areas of the country but don’t think it doesn’t hit us at all. We have plenty of housing in foreclosure, people out of work and people struggling too.
So you guys know this is being headed by some Georgetown student, Peter Nesbitt, and a true-to-life DC lobbyist (who deleted his LinkedIn profile; google still has his job title though (http://www.google.com/search?aq=f&gcx=c&ix=c1&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=Aaron+Buchhop) which happens to be ‘Donor Relations Professional.’ WHo would have guessed, a kid in college and someone who idealogically has reasons for the status quo to stay how it is are trying to run a ‘counter-protest,’ while simultaneously talking out the side of their mouth about how ‘no, we’re on THEIR side! We’re just sick of the NEGATIVITY!’ Sickening.
The only way this movement is going to get any publicity is if a fight breaks out between them and the OWS crowd. Of course it will be all the fault of the new movement antagonizing the OWS group. I mean how dare they suggest the OWSers get a job!