The 99%: Official list of Occupy Wall Street’s supporters, sponsors and sympathizers
The Occupy Wall Street movement has received so much media coverage in recent weeks that it’s nearly impossible to keep abreast of all the developments. So many endorsements and criticisms coming from all directions enter the news cycle in such rapid succession that even the most dedicated news junkies may have missed out on many of the pronouncements. Supporters and detractors of OWS both might find it useful to have a handy all-inclusive list of who has endorsed or embraced the protest.
To satisfy that demand, we hereby present a list of groups, organizations, individuals and entities that have expressed their support for, sponsorship of, or sympathy for the Occupy Wall Street movement.
Note: All entries on this list are real and verified. Below each entry you will find a series of source links documenting the support for OWS. We have striven in almost all cases to reference either first-hand statements by the groups or individuals themselves, hosted on their own Web sites; or videos of the people in question voicing their support for OWS at various Occupations; or news reports from reliable mainstream networks; or articles by publications or organizations sympathetic to the Occupy movement; or indisputable evidence, whatever the source. As a result, it cannot be claimed that these statements of support were made up or distorted by detractors of the Occupy movement.
As each new controversial endorsement has appeared over the last month, OWS supporters have dismissed them one by one as “isolated examples” that don’t reflect any overall trend toward extremism. But when viewed in aggregate like this, it becomes much more difficult to dismiss any individual endorsement as an aberration; instead, an undeniable pattern emerges.
This list is obviously incomplete; we hope to update it over the upcoming days and weeks.
If you think we’ve left out any well-known endorsers for which there is solid evidence, then please post suggestions and evidentiary links in the comments section; but please try to supply links that will stand up to any potential claims of misrepresentation.
If you disagree with the inclusion of any of the entries on this list, please post your reasoning and any contravening source links in the comments section, and we will take the evidence into account when updating the list.
Members of the media, bloggers, activists, OWS supporters and detractors as well are all free to repost this list, in whole or in part, without any restrictions. Do note, however, that it may be updated over time, so make sure to get the latest version.
And without further ado, here is…
The 99%: Official list of Occupy Wall Street’s supporters, sponsors and sympathizers
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Communist Party USA
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American Nazi Party |
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Ayatollah Khamenei, Supreme Leader of Iran
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Barack Obama
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The government of North Korea |
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Louis Farrakhan, Nation of Islam |
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Revolutionary Communist Party |
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David Duke
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Joe Biden
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Hugo Chavez
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Revolutionary Guards of Iran
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Black Panthers (original)
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Socialist Party USA
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US Border Guard |
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Industrial Workers of the World
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CAIR
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Nancy Pelosi |
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Communist Party of China |
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Hezbollah
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9/11Truth.org
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International Bolshevik Tendency
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Anonymous
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White Revolution
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International Socialist Organization |
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PressTV (Iranian government outlet) |
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Marxist Student Union |
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Freedom Road Socialist Organization
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ANSWER
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Party for Socialism and Liberation |
UPDATE: Thanks to the hundreds of readers who have made suggestions for additional entries on this list. I now have a large pile of potential new OWS supporters to investigate, and will work on updating this list over the upcoming weeks. When I’ve made it more thorough, I will re-launch an updated list that will be much more “official” in its comprehensiveness, sometime later this month. Keep an eye out for it!
You are forgetting the long list of American Unions that are supporting OWS.
I’m not forgetting them — I just didn’t have time to add them yet. Eventually, I will.
Please post here any suggested unions, along with source links proving their support either coming from the unions’ own Web sites, or MSM articles mentioning their support, or photos or videos of them at Occupations, etc.
Mark Ruffalo. Please don’t leave him alone. New Hulk Angry!
I would also be interested in retailers , reataurants and others who have donated goods, etc. Is that available somewhere?
It is up to you to MAKE it available! Develop a list of retailers, post it here.
Everyone laughs about the “twinkle fingers” and the repetition of speakers…
they are using brainwashing techniques… the repetition of speakers is to stop critical thinking of what is being said… the cadence of the speakers and the limit on words/for repetition not only allows for the speech to be long..but also to have certian word be retained.. they have facilitated meetings based on the “spoke” method…and there they use hand signals as well..
those who dissent can be expelled from the occupy movement…. they use consensus to formulate ideas that are then brought to the GA (general assembly)
read about them on their own site… read the connected sites… they are communist seeking global communism and they are setting up a country within our country… they ask members to talk to lawyers from the Lawyers Guild in cases of rape and theft… no talking to police… matters are handled by the leaders. read what they are up to….
There were some reports about REI, for sleeping bags and perhaps Cabela? Not sure of others…
I know Patagonia and REI are 2 that have provided items. I wrote to Patagonia, and they said that they support the peaceful protest of OWS. Their e-mail mentioned Ben and Jerry’s (which doesn’t surprise me).
REI is not supporting OWS.
https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=10150382965057722&id=552602721
I haven’t gotten this email myself, but I’ve sent a message to the guy who posted that asking him for a copy. If I don’t get it within a couple of days I’ll shoot an email to the REI board.
REI has not supported OWS. A story in the Washington Examiner (link: http://campaign2012.washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/dc-occupiers-convene-plot-stay-winter) posted erroneous information on Tuesday, October 25 that REI supported the Occupy protests. REI Public Affairs spoke several times with the reporter to indicate no REI store has supported the Occupy protests in Washington DC or other cities across the country. She posted a new and accurate story yesterday afternoon.
link: http://campaign2012.washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/patagonia-rei-deny-helping-occupiers
REI isn’t supporting OWS. I tried posting a link to a FB status earlier from a guy that got an email from REI, but somehow it got et up. I’ve asked him for a copy of the email, if I don’t get a response I’ll contact the REI board directly.
I saw the following Tweet from The Mark Levine Show:
marklevinshow Mens Wearhouse supports Occupy Wall Street. I won’t be shopping there anymore. fb.me/HR2ZfZW5
Men’s Wearhouse had a sign in their Oakland store window that states they support the 99%. Put them onthe list!
Damn, I am no longer a member of the IBEW (thank God!) but I’m sure their monthly newsletter would have voiced their support. Would internal newsletters like that count as good “proof” or would it have to be from a source accessible to those on the “outside” of the organization?
Yes, internal newsletters or statements by groups themselves on their own sites are excellent sources.
Well that was far easier than I thought it would be. Front page on their public sight is this article featuring a support for Occupy Boston.
http://www.ibew.org/articles/11daily/1110/111027_VerizonUpdate.htm
It inculdes in the article comments on how they publicly support the Occupy protests.
Yeah, they were a disaster when I joined them 10 years ago. Inept and good for nothing but taking dues. The CSEA did the same. Took dues for an entire year upfront and did nothing when the BS started flying.
Father in law’s a die-hard trucker. Shop steward, whole nine yeards. Always telling me stories of how they game it. But he came through the last year holding onto his job by the skin of his teeth. He got such a scare he actually gets where I’m coming from.
MIL lost hers twice. I lost mine 3-4 years ago and tried to warn them what was coming. They told me I was lazy/crazy/whatever. Maybe a little crazy – who the hell isn’t?
I will never be one of the 99%. What a load of BS. I get it; The debts are crushing and the cushy life you thought you deserved isn’t happening – but life ain’t fair. Never was. Never will be. Learn a thing or two from the Marine’s motto. Or past generations. Or watch some nature shows. It should be a very stark illustration of just how “fair” life is without human intervention.
IBEW was one of three unions my old man worked for in his lifetime (gone now). Growing up under that dark cloud, I found out enough about unions and their thuggery, that I left Pennsylvania never to return. While there always those outside 2sd (~5%)in any group, most are you described. AND I might add a major part of the reason for NAFTA and GATT with their continual push for more and moe for doing less ands less.
I don’t belong to SEIU (I resigned from their “union” years ago), but I still have to pay them over $50 per month extortion money to be able to work in the PRK (Peoples Republik of Kalifornia). The Purple Shirted Commies are sending members’ dues to support this Marxist cause.
God bless you, Gozer!! My son-in-law is a former IBEW member and damned glad to be gone as well. Me? Former UFCW member by force when I worked at a grocery store in college. Unions are a cancer on industry.
The Teamsters are all over Facebook in support of OWS. Visit their Facebook page.
Their own wesite states it as well: http://www.teamster.org/content/stopthewaronworkers
Just one more thing Teamsters is wasting my dues on. None of that money has put more in my pocket, and won’t for the next 2 years at least. Less hours, Less $$ per hour, but they can spend on this crap?
Pretty obviously skewed list of who’s contributing… It excludes some of the earliest and most vocal of supporters.
Michael Moore?
http://current.com/shows/countdown/videos/michael-moore-support-of-occupy-wall-street-decries-execution-of-troy-davis
Ron Paul?
http://www.examiner.com/conservative-in-spokane/ron-paul-offers-support-for-wall-street-protests
A slew of unions (USW, NY Transit, IWW).
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/americas/united-states/111013/al-gore-occupy-wall-street
http://www.businessinsider.com/a-massive-union-just-voted-to-side-with-the-wall-street-protesters-2011-9
http://www.iww.org/en/content/iww-endorses-occupy-wall-street
That was obviously purposeful.
And a few more….
http://global.christianpost.com/news/forgotten-gop-candidate-gary-johnson-expresses-support-for-occupy-wall-street-58711/
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/10/14/tea-party-co-founded-expresses-support-for-occupy-wall-street/
http://www.businessinsider.com/bernie-sanders-calls-for-boycott-of-big-banks-2011-10
http://www.benjerry.com/activism/occupy-movement/
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/americas/united-states/111013/al-gore-occupy-wall-street
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/10/nobel-prize-winning-economist-supports-protests.html
http://cpc.grijalva.house.gov/index.cfm?sectionid=61§iontree=5,61&itemid=429
People aren’t THAT dumb… Calling this “Official” is absurd, this is a conservative/libertarian fringe news blog, nothing in any way associated with OWS, and is actually quite opposed to it. So you are either joking, or just have that low of an opinion of your readers.
I will add all of the ones you suggest, in the fullness of time. The list will become more and more thorough as I update it.
This is just the starting point. Eventually, it will feel more “official”, but yes, everyone knows that the title is somewhat snarky — the is no official anything associated with OWS. Anytime anyone says something that reflects badly on the movement, others will say “That’s not our official position! Ignore that guy!” But when pressed on what is their “official” position, everything gets loosey-goosey.
So, taking advantage of that laxness, I proposed a snarky version of the “official” list, since no one else was doing it.
One point to make, Ron Paul wasn’t endorsing the OWS, he stated if they were peacefully protesting outside of the Fed (Federal Reserve) he was all for it, he did not say he supported their agenda or all their ideals by any means. He actually admitted he was not following the OWS movement closely and was not current with what was going on. The reporter asked his feelings about the police pepper spraying protesters and he responded. He did say he believed they have the right to peaceful assembly under the Constitution and that he was against militant police action against them. Which, as much as I don’t agree with the OWS, is accurate. They do have the right to peaceful assembly, and using tear gas and rubber bullets to suppress peaceful protests is not representative of the country we all believe in. I think it important if you are going to build a list aimed at putting the OWS movement and its supporters in the spot light that you take the time to understand the context in which comments are made.
I disagree that this is not “official.” A useful definition for the word “official” is authoritative. Because the source of information is included with each organization, this is extremely authoritative/official, and much more than most information a person gets on the ‘net.
True to post-modern/nihilist form, you cannot nail them down on anything. Engage them on an intellectual basis, and as soon as you turn the corner on an underlying assumption or presupposition of theirs that they need to further examine- they slip away with some kind of post-modern/nihilist slogan or emotive non-thinking dissonance.
With a shared sense of humor your critic could have understood your terming your list the “official” one was in no way serious. What is serious is the likelihood that so many of these subversives find common cause with the idea and the intent of the OWS.
Add CWA (Communications Workers Of America.
http://cwa-union.org/issues/entry/c/occupy
THE OWS people are fighting for YOUR rights, you idiot. Why aren’t you mentioning all the MILITARY VETS, TEACHERS, EDUCATORS that are marching along with them? Probably because those facts do not fit with your extreme right radical opinions.
They’re not marching for my rights, nor for yours.
Since they have not outlined a purpose, goal, program or solution, and insist that no one (including you) has the right to declare what the movement stands for, then one can’t say that they’re doing anything for anyone‘s rights.
The percentage of military vets in the OWS movement is microscopic, and they’re ALL members of anti-American anti-military groups like Veterans Against War. Teachers’ unions supporting a socialist movement guaranteeing them jobs for life with no performance reviews? Wow, what a surprise!
Anarchists + communists + unions + conspiracy theorists = a big mess of confusion, worthy only of our derision.
I hope and pray that the Occupy movement keeps going and that more mainstream Democratic politicians embrace it. The bigger they come, they harder they fall.
I read your list, but I am not sure Ron Paul supports OWS… the article said nothing about him directly supporting OWS. I believe the article was wrongly named. From what I can see he agrees with their right to protest… and dislikes the Federal Reserve… but not sure where you think he sympathizes with them.
Zombie is a neo-con. And so is most of PJM. That’s good enough explainin’ for ya.
heh… of the ones I recognize, almost all of those on this list would be considered “the other side” by conservatives. Adding them to the list just makes Zombie’s case stronger, IMHO. I hope he’s able to add them all soon!
The point being……..when so many of America’s enemies, past and present, support a “movement”, it’s “obvious” the movement is not good for the people of the US. Make no mistake. Any organization supporting communism or socialism is an enemy of the US, because they are striving to bring down our constitutional government. And when so many unions support OWS, it’s again “obvious” that the little guy will be the one that pays. Since when have unions actually cared for the little guy, the waitresses, mechanics, independent carpenters, painters, electricians, etc. The unions are all about themselves and their members, especially the public ones, feeding at the trough of the taxpayers, like the pigs they are.
Where did you get the notion that the leadership of unions actually cares about their members? All they care about is how much they can rake in in required dues from said members, and how many more they can force to pay tribute to them for the privilege of working; whether a member of the union or not! The amount of violence inflicted by union thugs on workers, whether union members or not, is beyond belief, and it’s PROTECTED by the government! To my way of thinking, that’s NOT “caring” for your membership….
I fear too many of you have been brainwashed by the corporations and the right wing media. Unions are supposed to give us a voice. Mine does!
Unions evolved from guilds and when they were strong they were a check against “slave owners”. People will screw up anything, but people can fix it too.
Marketing and the profit margin and $ in politics have been used for the past 30 – 50 years to get US in the mess were in. Marketing and “spin” are making you believe everything woud be fine if the free market capitalism could be unchecked… now people that are at the mercy of employers and especially corporations are feeling screwed by government workers who had less pay for their service for the “good times” were promised benefits that were not delivered so you say “take it back” Why not get involved and fight for your own benefits with the help of your fellow workers rather than think underpaid government workers… Police, First Responders, Teachers, etc. should forgive the promises they recieved for their service? DeRegulation and Bankruptcy has allowed corporations to bust the Unions that gave you a decent wage and benefits.
In the South too many don’t understand that a CBA helps everyone and you need not be a member of a Union to reap vast benefits from their involvvement.
The anecdotal evidence of Union Corruption pales in comparison to the history of corporate greed and misdeeds… check your prejudice and see the truth.
People can screw up anything, but they can also try to fix it.
Bob WIlson… Libertarian at heart… President of IATSE Local 60 Pensacola, Florida
Libertarianism is a philosophy based on the non-compulsion of others.
Unionism is a philosophy based on the compulsion of others.
How you can be both at the same time shows me you are not serious or cogent in one or the other of your tenets.
In response to “Bob Wilson:”
“Unions evolved from guilds and when they were strong they were a check against “slave owners”. People will screw up anything, but people can fix it too.”
Guilds are a feudal system, that was designed to form monopolies are now considered a form of thuggery, for good reason. Unions follow in their footsteps. Sure, people will, but some systems by their very nature are extortive…and by their very nature, both Guilds and Unions are extortive.
Let’s look at a Union from a business perspective. What is a Union? It is a monopoly on the working force—an industry that deals in a particular kind of worker. Of course, as a monopoly, what is the fault with it? There is no competition, so there is no means by which the industry can be held to a higher standard beyond its own whims—and like any industry, it exists to feed those who run it.
“Marketing and the profit margin and $ in politics have been used for the past 30 – 50 years to get US in the mess were in. Marketing and ‘spin’ are making you believe everything woud be fine if the free market capitalism could be unchecked…”
The alternative to a free market is a monopoly, also known as a Command Economy. A famous example is the Hydraulic Empire. A Hydraulic Empire is rule by control of water flow to a region where clean water is not readily accessible—if the people of a city dissent, cut off the water supply to them, and give it to another city. You are minus a brewing rebellion, and plus a city that absolutely adores you. Unions function in this manner, but by controlling the flow of workers. And, like a Hydraulic Empire, the only means to destroy their stranglehold is by an outside force. And we MUST destroy their stranglehold—today’s unions create organized crime syndicates, (complete with mysterious murders!,) raise the price of goods, and filter all the excess money not to their employees (the workers) pockets—but to their own, just like the robber baronies they were employed to prevent. But one man’s gain is another man’s destitution, in a world of debt and monopoly.
You seem to have forgotten the structure of a Union: it is a hierarchy with administrators controlling the levers, who answer only to the government, who, due to the process of lobbying, answer to them.
“DeRegulation and Bankruptcy has allowed corporations to bust the Unions that gave you a decent wage and benefits.”
False: the New Deal allowed the cancerous growth of both corporations and Unions to a size that enabled them to feel no responsibility to their employees. (The New Deal rewarded corporations based on size—the line of reasoning being that a large corporation will hire more workers. Of course, the result is quite obvious.)
“In the South too many don’t understand that a CBA helps everyone and you need not be a member of a Union to reap vast benefits from their involvvement.”
Because it demands higher wages? It still taxes you the difference and more, regardless. Pay attention to the charges leveled against your “fearless leaders.” (And read “Animal Farm.” Good book.)
“The anecdotal evidence of Union Corruption pales in comparison to the history of corporate greed and misdeeds… check your prejudice and see the truth.”
Check yours. The anecdotal evidence of corporate greed pales in comparison to the history of the greed of the guilds.
“People can screw up anything, but they can also try to fix it.”
Do or do not. There is no try.
“Bob WIlson… Libertarian at heart… President of IATSE Local 60 Pensacola, Florida”
As another said, your ideals are at odds. This is New Deal philosophy you are spewing, and Libertarians hate New Deal philosophy more than anything.
You can’t stand the truth!! The info comes right from the horses mouth, and you still don’t believe it. I watched some of these people and organization speaking for myself. Who’s dumb???
Just a clarification – Ron Paul only supported the march against the fed which is a private corporation with government authority. I agree it needs audited especially when it constantly misplaces our money. Ron Paul is not in support of ending capitalism like most of the supporters are.
I am not against capitalism, but against global cabals of crony corporatism and evil practices, corruption in business and politics. I think most can say that it is not earning a living that disturbs the so called 99%, it is the corruption and control over the economy that is done for the unjust enrichment and greed of so few. I just finished working on a project for a multi-national retailer, and saw a lot of behind the scenes confidential legal contracts. The holding companies that are involved as credit partners, use tax havens, the off shore banks in Grand Cayman Islands for instance, and were using the usual Federal Reserve bank members, and they are picking the winners in the unfair competition against the local businesses all over the world, where they open up shop. Only Canada filed a suit on behalf of their own countrymen’s businesses against Chinese competitor illegally called it “dumping cheap” goods that unfairly compete to blow the Canadians out of business. They are centralizing wealth into a few hands. Only they will survive because they are dealing the cards. May God help the small businessman.
Funny that you would think endorsements from Michael Moore and the IWW would actually enhance #occupy’s credibility.
Baasil:
Your are the one that is twisting the truth!
Ron Paul didn’t say He is for them! What He said was “If they were demonstrating peacefully, and making a point, and arguing our case, and drawing attention to the Fed — I would say, good!” he told Reason magazine Friday after a town hall meeting in New Hampshire.
Now get your story straight!
“People aren’t THAT dumb… Calling this ‘Official’ is absurd, this is a conservative/libertarian fringe news blog, nothing in any way associated with OWS, and is actually quite opposed to it. So you are either joking, or just have that low of an opinion of your readers.”
Or you do not understand the jovial nature of your hosts here at PJMedia.
The term “official” is in part a joke, defining it the way you are. It is “official” in another sense, though, in the sense that it is authoritative, as another commenter noted.
Does an email from the American Federation of Musicians and Canadian Federation of Musicians sent to Members expressing support for the Occupiers count?
Post a link to it, and we’ll see!
Luanne,
Yes, AFM counts big time!! I was a member for 18 years. All they ever did was take my money and never try to get me a playing gig once in all that time. Hoever, they sure did spend my dues on a lot of coffee and donuts. I found out that the local I was in helped give a lot of money to Obama’s 2008 campaign after the election was done. I’ve never seen our dues money go to an election before. It always went to support the “1%” orchestra members and never the “99%” freelancers. I was so ticked off that I immediately canceled my membership and told them to take a hike. Out of music now anyway so I can save my money. Refuse to have my dues go to a left-wing election political action committee slush fund anymore. In the old days this was called money laundering.
Maybe you should write about the GOP in Loudon County,Va that made and posted a picture of Obama with a bullethole in his head, have no use for right wing extremeists, they are as bad if not worse than left wing..At least left wing believes and supports the 1st ammendment, obviously you do not!!
Beverly, half of the facts (which you provided) can be as bad as none of the facts. But it WAS a bad if not dumb idea. This was an email sent right before Halloween showing Obama and other top Dems made up to look like zombies (although I think Pelosi didn’t need much makeup). It pictured Pinocchiobama (my name for him) as a zombie “with part of his skull missing and a bullet wound in his head.” The email invites recipients to a Halloween parade where “we are going to vanquish the zombies with clear thinking conservative principles and a truckload of Republican candy.” The Republican Party of Virginia’s reaction was swift: “The disgusting image used today on a mass-email has no place in politics. Ever…The Republican Party of Virginia condemns the image and its use in the strongest possible terms.”
You are aware that this followed an already extant video game in which one could kill numerous prominent Republicans as zombies?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/republicans/8749212/Tea-Party-Zombies-Must-Die-video-game-riles-Republicans.html
if what you posted is true(and i would only believe it when i see it) then it would be almost as bad as making a movie about the assination of a SITTING PRESIDENT…wouldn’t you agree?
A photo with a bullet? That IS protected by 1st amendment, Einstein.
Putting a bullet in a person is not.
And a photo of a burning flag is not as bad as the actual burning. BOTH are protected….but since you are wrong, I don’t have to go much further.
NOW..WHEN THE OCCUPIERS STAND OUTSIDE OF A CASINO IN VEGAS, AND DISPARAGE THE WINNERS FOR DARING TO MAKE A BUNDLE ON HARD EARNED MONEY THEY RISKED….PLEASE TAKE A PHOTO, AND POST IT!
BUT THE MORONS BACKED BY MUSLIMS , TO TRY AND MAKE THE USA LOOK LIKE EGYPT, SYRIA, LIBYA….Doesn’t fool anyone.
but you, perhaps.
The riot should be outside the WHITEHOUSE….not the wall street gamblers that HIT IT BIG using HONEST EARNED MONEY, gambled the way they saw fit.
Typical strategy” HAVE THE HAVE NOTS riot against the HAVES.
OH YEAH…..and don’t forget to BLAME THE JEWS.
SHEESH! AT LEAST PLAY A NEW CARD…….
Where does the first amendment say you can block the street? Where does the first amendment say you can deny OTHER people their rights by blocking the entrance of a building where a convention of people with a different political viewpoint are meeting (AFP) so that a lady in a wheelchair cannot leave?
This is what fascism looks like.
AFL-CIO Dick Trumpka made a public announcement and promised support on the ground. News media carried it. I believe Obama was with him at the time. Also, I’ve been told that an “Occupy” website lists the AFL-CIO, Teamsters, and teachers unions as supporters. The teachers unions are by far the scariest of this. We send our kids to public schools who become a captive audience for self proclaimed socialists/communists masquerading as teachers.
If there are teachers unions supporting this you need to remember that the members of those unions dont have much control over what the union supports. It doesn’t make the teachers all secret socialists/commies who are out to brain wash your kids. The teachers union has absolutely no say on what goes on in the classroom.
Agreed. There’s a way to fix that situation. It’s called a Right to Work law. It doesn’t get rid of unions, but it does keep them honest, because it requires them to satisfy all their members.
The unions don’t have elections?
The CWA (Communications Workers of America) is supporting the OWS protest movement. They have literature all over our shop about it, and are planning a related march on DC this coming weekend.
Yep, CWA officially supports “Occupy” on their website: http://www.cwa-union.org/news/entry/communications_workers_of_america_endorses_occupy_wall_street_movement1#.TrBHW_Qg_m0
The AFT is a big supporter, as their own web site shows. What a shocker.
Dear Zombie; Great Job! I agree that in Nov 2012 will be an awakening. But Washington DC is not the total answer. Thats really how things started turning south. We the folks who love America and our way of life and GOD must stand together and keep OUR country intact. Where else in the world can people go to be free? It’s clear from your list and those “pending”, that communist, socialists, marxists, and radical Islams want to destroy Isreal and America. It has started, now it is time to prepare! Thank you for the clear lists of who’s who. Now let’s start with the prepare lists. If Iran and North Korean governments lauch their EMP bomb over America millions will die, those that live will need to be ready to live without electricity. And that is the truth.
Zombie
How bout taking a fire truck in and hose them off with a 6 inch round firehose
I have heard the SEIU, AFL-CIO are two unions that are supporting OWS
And you might add the liberal Democrats in our own Congress.
Really man! I don’t care for either side but this is complete crap….the Nazi Party…like the OWS are card carrying members and they can choose who support them. You are as brainwashed as they are. I am the 50% the middle who actually have common sense and don’t just regurgitate what fox and CNN teach me.
“Yellow journalism” or the yellow press is a type of journalism that presents little or no legitimate well-researched news and instead uses eye-catching headlines to sell more newspapers.[1] Techniques may include exaggerations of news events, scandal-mongering, or sensationalism.[1] By extension “Yellow journalism” is used today as a pejorative to decry any journalism that treats news in an unprofessional or unethical fashion.
And you’ve totally missed the point. These groups believe that the protests will take America in the direction that THEY want it to go. If a dumbass jerk thinks you’re doing the right thing, it’s time to re-evaluate. If all the nastiest bass-ackwards cornholios in the world say that what you’re doing is a good thing, it’s time to jump ship.
Scott,
At the New York “encampment” I heard members of the Nazi party (they had swastika arm bands)in favor of OWS discuss the Zionist bankers of the world who control the economy. It’s alkl about about kicking the Jews out of the country. They are very much in line with the OWS protestors.
Hey, whatever helps the cause.
weirdos, burn-outs, subversives, agitators, deadbeats, criminals, union thugs, Commies and Nazis. And those are the supporters from the White House! The rest are just a nice bunch of anti-Americans!
How about ACORN (and it’s spin offs) and without a doubt top of the list is Andy Stein and the SEIU
Interesting that you did not have time to list the positive support but had plenty of time to list the organizations that would most inflame the American public. Who is your support?
My support? I have no support, nor am I asking for support. I am me.
If you don’t like my list, don’t read my list. Those who like it will read it.
C’mon Cindy: If you are going to make that charge, then you should have listed who you think are the so-called “positive” supporters. I haven’t heard of any.
Let’s see..the Teamsters, the AFL-CIO, the SEIU, the NEA, the UAW…
I read somewhere, but don’t remember source, that Soros gave his support to the movement. How? I don’t know, but must be through one of his many private orgs.
Retailers:
In DC, Starbucks was providing free coffee to the OWS Protestors. Of course this was also during the AFP Summit who unfortunately did not receive the same courtesy.
Mens Warehouse is the other retailer that comes to mind.
Unions: SEIU advertising for protestors? http://t.co/XlyczIoI
Here are some links. I hope they help.
http://laborfightback.org/Maryland_Resolution_17.htm
Maryland State and District of Columbia AFL-CIO
28th Biennial Convention Resolutions Passed November 19, 2011:
Resolution 17: Support for the “Occupy Movement”
http://blog.aflcio.org/2011/10/31/unions-stand-with-occupy-movement-in-oakland-and-nationwide/
Unions Stand with Occupy Movement in Oakland and Nationwide, including The Alameda Labor Council and California Labor Federation
http://www.npr.org/2011/12/07/143258375/joining-forces-with-the-left-occupy-swarms-capitol
“The group behind it is the American Dream Movement, which partnered with progressive organizations such as MoveOn.org and Rebuild the Dream, and major labor groups such as the Service Employees International Union [SEIU] and AFL-CIO.”
http://www.nrtwc.org/seiu-joins-occupy-movement/
SEIU supports an Occupy protest in southern California.
http://www.ufw.org/_board.php?mode=view&b_code=org_pre&b_no=11556&page=1&field=&key=&n=74
President of UFW is proud that his son was arrested as an Occupy protestor.
http://www.teamster.org/content/hoffa-teamsters-stand-solidarity-occupy-wall-street-movement
Official Statement Of Teamsters General President James P. Hoffa: the Teamsters stand in solidarity with Occupy
http://www.liunabuildsamerica.org/news/story/750
Statement of Terry O’Sullivan, General President of LIUNA, On Occupy Wall Street: “LIUNA… stands with the Occupy Wall Street movement in New York City and across the United States.”
I’m sure that any labor union website picked at random will have an official statement supporting the Occupy movement.
Thank you very much for supplying this information. Maybe if more people knew who really supports OWS. Fewer people would want to be involved in it.
the Union officials are supporting them, but the actual numbers of union workers joining them is miniscule. Even in NYC, the number of protesters is in the low thousands for their largest protest. This is in a city of 10 million with a large union membership.
Sorry, I hate the corruption as much as the next guy, but the publicity and cheering on of this tiny group seems a bit out of proportion. And the group seems to be full of disgruntled college students from ivy league colleges and professional leftist types, neither of whom have much in common with the working man or woman.
The media is trying to link OWS to the tea party…I am here to state we deny ALL association with them!
My daughter marched in the protest to the Brooklyn bridge and she talked to many Tea Party people who were also marching and they had some of the same concerns she has-that we are a corporate state and there is too much money in politics. The protestors were very peaceful.
So greenivy why should be believe your daughter? Credentials please! I am a teaparty member on the westcoast and I would never march with the occupy scum. Your daughter must have missed that whoever she spoke to was probably an infiltrator. The occupy group loves nothing more than to claim that the teaparty is on their side.
Ya, and the Nazi and Communists were holding hands.
It’s not that you lie, everyone has read “Rules for Radicals” and understand the lack of honesty and morality you socialists have, no what REALLY pisses me off is that you think I’m so stupid as to believe anything you say!!!!!
Thank you for your contribution. It underlies some points about the difference between the Tea Party and the Occupy movement.
Despite there being unchecked radicalism and degeneracy at the Occupy movement, there are some of the Occupiers that hold some broad views that the Tea Party shares, notably that the crony relationship between the government and large corporations is too powerful.
However, they prescribe different solutions. The Tea Party seeks to decrease the influence the government can have on who wins and loses in the private market and give America a free market economy again. The Occupiers want to give the government more power over business, and then to support the industries and companies they like and punish the ones they don’t.
Thanks for that, I will second your statement.
Pam, what are your credentials that allow you to speak on behalf of the Tea Party? I assume you have some otherwise, please refrain from putting words in others mouths.
Tencentpistol… What are YOUR Credentials to DENY any other poster’s comments? You dont even have the integrety to use YOUR own name. The OWS group is 180 degrees opposed to the Tea Party movement so can it and stick to your own issues INFILTRATOR, or should I just say TRAITOR?
I am a member of MNA and I do NOT support OWS, nor do many of my colleagues. MNA forces their political opinions down the throats of their members.
Early on, most of the union members with OWS admitted they were there because they were PAID to be there, by their unions! That’s not the same thing as being part of the movement, because they believe, or want to be there. This was reported in the mainstream media, like NYT and others, as well as Conservative sites, and all over You Tube. They didn’t even know what it was about; just they were paid to be there. I don’t know if that’s still true, for certain, but I would imagine it is; they pay union members to picket at one site’s strike, often, so it makes sense, since the leaders are supporting this, they’d pay members to participate, regardless of what the members believe about it.
So your argument is that union members are not people with their own consciences or a will of their own? People who cannot stand up and say, “Sorry, bub, but count me out.”? People willing to do their masters’ bidding without question as long as they get paid?
Not a great endorsement or excuse.
SeanB, try telling that to all the people who thought Obama was telling the truth when they voted for him. Just because someone represents you, doesnt mean they do what they are supposed to do to truely “represent” you. Many People are union members because they work in a “union shop” or because the union is supposed to protect them from abusive employers, But they dont see the other side of the coin.
Might want to add ron paul and some of his supporters to the list. Sorry but paul is far from conservative even though he says that he is.
He is not a conservative, he is more liberatarian.
Get your facts straight. Ron Paul, doesn’t support the OWS movement. He only supports their right to assemble and peacefully protest.
He supports their right to block the street and premenently obstruct the sidewalk? If he doesn’t come out against them he is a fraud.
The Teamsters are not “officially” supporting the movement, yet we are indeed supporting it.
http://teamsternation.blogspot.com/2011/10/susan-sarandon-teamsters-ows.html
http://teamsternation.blogspot.com/2011/10/teamsters-get-their-occupation-on-in-fl.html
http://teamsternation.blogspot.com/2011/10/teamsters-occupy-st-louis-and-detroit.html
You forgot Ron Paul.
Can’t verify but I did hear from an occupier that CTA paid for the Porta-potties. My $900 per year union dues – WOW
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If I thought the OWS “movement” was really a bunch of malcontents before, this confirms it.
Well, this list doesn’t encompass all the individuals camping out in parks in various cities. It’s just a list of who has endorsed the movement. Perhaps many of the devotees are “malcontents,” but if they knew what kind of company they attracted, they might feel a little different about devoting themselves to the cause.
You’re right, I should have been more precise and upon reflection I would say that the OWS movement should be embarrassed about being endorsed or supported by many of the groups on this list. Who are, in fact, malcontents.
George Washington was a malcontent, Paul revere was also. All of the founding fathers really. Good luck with your propaganda redcoats!
Yes, but George Washington and Paul Revere were malcontents against tyrannical rule, these people are against capitalism and the American dream for Pete’s sake. Why on God’s green earth would you ever get the idea in your head that what one person worked hard for, should be yours? I was always under the understanding, that was stealing. I am so sick and tired of our government taking from the producers and giving to the non-producers. I believe that is why there is a T.E.A. Party. (Taxed Enough Already).
@cracker, yes fighting for a cause can be very noble…but the cause you are fighting for does matter….founding fathers were fighting for individual liberty…these guys are fighting for collective equality…doesn’t work
Actually neither George Washington nor Paul Revere qualify as malcontents. A malcontent is someone who is perpetually dissatisfied with everything, not someone who simply seeks a better way. So our founding fathers, while being dissatisfied with their arrangement with the British government, were hardly perpetually discordant. George Washington was the first President and didn’t campaign endlessly to amend or tear down the government either during or after his terms in office.
CPUSA however is perpetually dissatisfied with the system. They complain that Democrats aren’t catering enough to their ideals, or aren’t moving fast enough to “income equality” or whatever their euphamism of the year is, or that Republicans are reinforcing the system that keeps the people down.
I confess I’m not sure what the American Nazi Party actually believes would be a good system of government, beyond generic white supremacy (I assume anyway), but I can’t think they’re happy with anyone in power who isn’t, well, them.
The North Korean goverment makes trouble simply because it’s done so poorly in governing that counterfeiting currency, demanding tribute on the threat of distributing nuclear materials, and launching the occasional attempt at an ICBM is the only way to gain enough food to keep the people there from starving to death, and it’s not very good at that either.
I’ve just picked three of the organizations from the list, and I could go on and on (I probably have already) but I doubt that any of the organizations on the list with the exception of the US Border Guard, would appreciate being compared to George Washington or Paul Revere. I also suspect, based on the many signs I’ve seen in photos of the OWS protests and camps, that the OWS movement would identify more with the Bolshevik and Cuban revolutions than with the American one.
Hey, is that George Washington I see over there? Yeah, the dude with the dread locks slapping the bongos and smoking a blunt he picked up off the ground. It is him isn’t it, or maybe it’s Ben Franklin!
“….malcontents….”
So was Marx, Engels, Gadaffi before he took over Libya, Jesus Christ, Hitler, Alexander the Great, Genghis Khan, Mao, Che Guevera and thousands of others, including yourself and the posters on this blog. So what’s your point, genius?
Unfortunately Cracker, OWS isn’t demonstrating against a non-representative
government as Washingon and the other founding fathers. OWS is protesting businesses and want larger government which is 180 degrees opposed to our American Revolution. Don’t even try to compare the two in the same breath.
Are you the same ‘cracker’ who brownoses mohammedans at ‘onislam’ blog? You sound like it.
Readcoats? Really?
The voice of the OWS has spoken (sigh).
The pot calling the kettle black. There are probably many patriots involvolved with the protests just as there are many patriots who dissagree with it, the goal here is to help sort out misconceptions and better educate all. I prefer an informed opinion over a cause or movement that promotes an uninformed agenda.It seems to me the liust is verifiable but the subsequent opinions are not, I choose to search for facts rather than banter emotions back and forth. Keep posting factual information and some will eventually get it.
You are absolutely, positively 100% wrong. The Founders of this country were not malcontents. They were visionaries who believed in the rights of Englishmen and that the only way to secure those rights was independence from the Crown.
On the other hand, OWS is a mob with no clear agenda other than hatred for America as it is now constituted. They can’t even manage a society of a few hundred people in a park in a modern city with all kinds of outside help. How does that compare to drafting a Constitution that provides a social contract for many millions of people?
Read Ann Coulter’s book “Demonic” to understand the difference.
THAT YOU dAD ? BYE
THE CRACKER OR TOM? BYE
So were Stalin, Lenin, Mussolini, Castro, Mao…
Being a malcontent does not by definition make you “good.” Good and evil DO trade spots in the war within man’s consciousness. It is, in fact, historically rare for a revolution to be both successful in that they overthrow and successful in that they replace with something better. More often, a successful revolution fails in the latter aspect, and something that will most likely succeed in the latter aspect fails in the former.
Or will you deny the aftermath of the Soviet revolution? The French revolution? The Maoist revolution? The Fascist revolution?
Use distinction. Generalizations can sometimes be true, but by their nature, they are more often false.
There can be no good from being endorsed by groups like the ones on the list. They are not there for the betterment of all humans in the USA, but rather, they are using the protesters as nothing more than pawns to support their own specific group causes. Once this is done, they will conveniently dump of the protesters.
I suspect many of the protesters replicate the motives of the 1960s-70s-early 80s generations: it was cool, it was a pickup site, and the kids had no idea why they were there except that it was exciting.
Don’t count on it. Birds of a feather stick together.
You might also include the National Lawyers Guild which, on its home page http://www.nlg.org , offers legal support for Occupy protesters. The NLG is an infamous Far-Left so-called legal defense organization. In the old days (via HUAC) it was identified as a communist-front group.
Will do.
Wow, a veritable Who’s Who of anti-social miscreants, racists and malcontents. Veritable proof that evil walks among us.
Yea, that it is…this’ll come in handy next summer and fall, thanks for compiling it Zombie
Already tweeted and FB’d
…..and they procreate.Scarier yet!
And unlike the rest of us, they are wont to do their procreating in public.
…and sometimes against the procreatee’s will, according to multiple reports.
Working Families Party are not on the list and I imagine they would be. What about SEIU and AFL/CIO, and the Democrat Party as a whole?
Added to the “pending” list.
Zombie
The Democrat Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) launched a petition in support of Occupy Wall Street.
I covered it here: http://ironicsurrealism.com/2011/10/10/sleeping-with-dogs-the-democratic-congressional-campaign-committees-official-petition-in-support-of-occupywallstreet
It is still up. Here is the direct link: http://www.dccc.org/pages/occupy
And Rep. Steve Israel(D – NY)is the DCCC Committee Chair as I’m sure you know, sooo… he has officially endorsed OWS…(?)
Moveon.org
http://civic.moveon.org/defend_ows/
MoveOn Added to the “pending” list!
Please be patient — I won’t be able to add much if any to the list today, but perhaps later this evening I can get back to work.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0InbZy9p9QY&feature=player_embedded#!
Also
Working Families Party and ACORN
http://frontpagemag.com/2011/10/11/acorn-is-behind-occupy-wall-street/
Thanks. Added Working Families Party and ACORN to the pending list.
Though, just to be clear: I’m trying to only use source references that aren’t already “blacklisted” (however baselessly) by left-leaning sites. FrontPage Magazine may seem reliable to you and me, and may in fact be reliable, but if a leftie sees a link like that (or a link to ANY conservative site), they will dismiss the evidence as invalid, pre-emptively.
That’s why I’ve gone to great lengths to source the info in a such a way that they can’t deny it — links to Talking Point Memo, Mother Jones, MSM sites, pro-Occupy sites, etc.
Even so, it gets incredibly frustrating that we’ve basically tapped out to them and allowed the “If it’s not from Huffington, Mother Jones, or NPR, it’s a lie!” narrative to become fact.
Generally, I refuse to cave in to the narrative-bullying this way, but in this particular case I want to corner them so that there is no escape. Their main defense in this debate is to discredit the messenger — but when the messengers are they themselves, they’re trapped.
You might want to add the Los Angeles City Council to the list:
http://blogs.laweekly.com/informer/2011/10/city_council_passes_occupy_la_resolution_democrats_unions.php
Don’t forget that Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa reportedly handed out rain ponchos to the Occupy L.A. people.
http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2011/10/06/city-hall-ok-with-occupy-la-mayor-hands-out-rain-ponchos-to-protesters/
I think ACLU organisations in a number of states have provided legal services for both ‘Occupy’ organisations and for individual protesters.
For example:
http://acluva.org/7957/aclu-of-virginia-offers-assistance-to-%E2%80%9Coccupy-wall-street%E2%80%9D-demonstrators/
Yes… ACLU across several places.
http://www.aclu.org/blog/tag/OccupyWallSt
And the United Teachers of Los Angeles:
http://www.utla.net/actions/occupylausd
added
Bridges Academy of Melrose, an Oakland Elementary will be joining Occupy Oakland general strike:
http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2011/10/28/schools-to-take-part-in-occupy-oaklands-general-strike/
Angela Davis
http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2011/10/angela_davis_visits_owsp.php
Thank you Thank you Thank you!! I have just started a blog, http://www.occupyrealism.com, devoted to following the groups behind Occupy through the 2012 election cycle. I have a feeling the occupy movement is just a warmup for 2012, to see if they can get away with stealth socialism. I’ll be putting up a page just for tracking the groups soon.
Here is a list I gleaned from OUR-WA (ACORN) see logos at bottom of http://www.ourwashington.net/obtr/ and local news stories:
MoveOn.org
Washington Community Action Network
Move to Amend
occupytogether.org
From OUR-WA (ACORN) website http://www.ourwashington.net/obtr
NYC Communities for Change (NYCC) >> ACORN
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/10/26/exclusive-acorn-playing-behind-scenes-role-in-occupy-movement/
[NYCC] created in late 2009 when some ACORN offices disbanded and reorganized under new names after undercover video exposes prompted Congress to cut off federal funds.
ALIGN (Alliance for a Greater New York)
Venice for Change (venice4change.com)
Colorado Progressive Coalition
Blue America
Alliance for a Just Society
Adriel Nation (wiredtoshare.com)
Rebuild the Dream (Van Jones, Socialist: What Jones is offering instead, though his Rebuild the Dream hub (launched in partnership with MoveOn.org), is an open-source brand for the left, complete with a logo in the form of a red “A” (for “American Dream”) with a white star at its center, underlined by a blue stripe. It’s a graphic turn on the American flag, part of Jones’ call to the left to reclaim the mantle of patriotism. http://www.alternet.org/vision/152616/van_jones_on_america%27s_uprising%3A_it%27s_going_be_an_epic_battle/?page=entire
Rainforest Action Network
PLAN (Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada)
The Other 98%
Oregon Action
Jobs with Justice
USA Job Party WPA 21 Century
ICAN (Idaho Community Action Nettwork)
Down with Tyranny
CrooksandLiars.com
Citizen Action of New York
The Main Street Alliance
The New Bottom Line
OUR (Organization United for Reform) aka ACORN
Student Labor Action Project
Washington CAN
UnitedNY.org
ACCE (Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment)
Strong Economy for All
Vocal New York
Splendid!
When I get a spare day or so, I’ll look into your list and see how many I can add to my main list.
For now, they’ve all been pasted in the the “pending” file. Good work!
Interesting that you asked for sources from everyone informing you about support from groups that don’t fit in with you list of “scary” organisations/people that have negative connotations for the majority of people, and yet this of “scary” organisations isn’t questioned.
Not quite sure of the meaning of your comment — seems a little jumbled up.
I ask for sources from any and all readers documenting the support of any and all groups. Over the upcoming weeks, I will continuously update the list with as many as I can.
Though why anyone would want to be on the same list as many of these groups and people and governments is beyond me.
If I’m at all reading you correctly, what Zombie is saying is that he’ll look into these, and IF they check out (i.e. reliable sources), THEN he’ll add them to his list. For the moment they are “pending” — which means NOT on the list, but might be put on it later.
I particularly appreciate the fact that Zombie doesn’t use any sources that those on the left could consider “partisan”; for the most part it’s the websites of the “scary”** organizations themselves; and if not, it’s websites of news sources that are mainstream or left leaning.
** “scary”? Maybe. Most of these organizations aren’t scary as long as they’re a dozen or even a hundred people meeting out in the woods to rant their hatred, or in their basement creating a newsletter about how, like Pinky and the Brain, they’re Going To Take Over The World. But putting them all together, and putting in their hands the additional manpower of the OWS crowd, they could cause some genuine harm. I wouldn’t say I’m scared, though; just “vigilant”.
Didn’t Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) say she was the intellectual basis for OWS? I think she should get credit as one of its founders.
God help us, she’s not “D-MA” yet! She is running against Scott Brown for Senate, but holds no public office. She’s another Moonbat from Harvard, aka, “The Kremlin on the Charles” and does credit herself with initiating the intellectual birth of the OWS movement, or some other such drivel….
Is that like when Al Gore claimed to have invented the Internet, i.e. completely false?
Al Gore (former VP) belongs on the list.
http://blog.algore.com/2011/10/thoughts_on_occupy_wall_street.html
“For the past several weeks I have watched and read news about the Occupy Wall Street protests with both interest and admiration.”
First of all, Al Gore never claimed to have invented the internet. It is a widely known right-wing hoax to discredit him. Of course if you even bothered to research anything before spouting lies you wouldn’t have anything to say. I suggest a little-known site that could help you all. You may have never heard of it. It’s called Google.
Gore’s quote which you fools continue to misquote, was “During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet. I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country’s economic growth and environmental protection, improvements in our educational system.”
http://www.salon.com/2000/10/05/gore_internet/
http://www.snopes.com/quotes/internet.asp
Yet we all KNOW that Sarah Palin said, “I can see Russia from my house” when it was really Tina Fey on SNL who said that, right?
What’s good for the goose, missy…
Thanks. So we’ll be sure to quote Gore correctly. We can now say he “created” the internet rather than saying he invented it. It still sounds pompous to me.
Elizabeth Warren did, indeed, say she created the intellectual basis for OWS – she then walked it back a bit. She is running against Scott Walker and is the former head of Obama’s newly created Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
Folks…
Pass this list to everyone on your email list. America needs to fully understand whats going on here.
Humourously enough, the crackpots at Leading Light Communist Organization (formerly Maoist Internationalist[sic] Movement) do NOT support Occupy Wall Street.
http://llco.org/on-the-occupy-movements
Wow — that’s a change of pace. A list of communist organizations that DON’T support OWS would be quite short indeed. So far, we’ve got one. Just about every other communist group I’ve looked into so far supports OWS — or at worst has a Web site that hasn’t been updated since 2008, so we don’t know where they stand.
I was wondering where Socialist Action (one of the Trotskyist off-shoots) had gotten to?
Haha, you just can’t get any crazier than LLCO.
Interesting. Stormfront appears to be resisting the bait. But Duke’s right there with the crapping hippies.
Do personal appearances count?
Then I’d like to add Michael Moore, Susan Sarandon, Bill Ayers, and Van Jones.
It might be nice to create a list of glittering one-percenters as some sort of Sequin-Collar Crime Auxiliary.
But speaking of Van Jones, his Rebuild the Dream organization has endorsed OWS:
http://rebuildthedream.com/blog/2011/10/06/lets-make-history-solidarity-with-occupy-wall-street/?rc=rtd_feature
Don’t forget Russell Simmons and Tim Robbins.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/13/occupy-wall-street-cleanup-russell-simmons_n_1010213.html
Barney Frank
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1011/66412.html
Let’s not forget Cornell West.
Does he count as an individual — or a group, if we take into account his multiple pathologies?
Unfortunately I was drinking a coke and driving when my wife read me your reply; I guess that’s what dry cleaners are for.
Keep up the great work. I’ll see If I can help.
Greenpeace:
http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/en/news-and-blogs/campaign-blog/greenpeace-supports-occupy-wall-street-peacef/blog/37414/
Thanks for doing this Zombie.
Yes, I seconded that…
Here’s a link to the IBEW http://www.ibew.org/articles/11daily/1110/111027_VerizonUpdate.htm
The relevant paragraph is “IBEW and CWA members have recently showed their support for the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations, protesting the special financial interests that have crashed the economy. Both unions also participated in Boston and other cities as similar rallies spread to more than 400 localities across North America.”
Don’t forget Elizabeth Warren, Democrat candidate for the Us Senate in Massachusetts, who bragged she created OWS. http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/10/24/elizabeth-warren-i-created-occupy-wall-street.html I will link to this from my Old Jarhead blog.
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350.org co-founder Bill McKibben
http://thinkprogress.org/romm/2011/10/05/337255/climate-activism-occupy-wall-street-movement/
Then, don’t forget Rosanne and Little Jimmy Hoffa, Jr.
Let me just say this early on, so I don’t have to respond to each suggestion:
All comments here are being reviewed for interesting tips, and good ones will be added to the “Pending List” of potential candidates to be added when I get the time.
So even if I don’t get around to acknowledging each and every tip individually, just rest assured that your comment has been noted.
You left out the professional homeless and hobos, usually male adults prone to self medicating, admittedly not a recognized international organization, but they have been showing up at the protests–apparently they share some of the same space–robbing tents and raping women. It’s the homeless one percent by necessity plundering the rich one percent slumming in the park by choice. Some of those retro anarchists have actually been calling the police to arrest those full-time homeless miscreants for bad behavior over having to share scarce sleeping spots in the park with the rich tourists in their REI tents. Priceless.
I laughed so hard upon reading this statement. Well said.
Yep…the lumpenproletariat is all too well represented, including the usual complement of hard-drug dealers and users, panhandlers, passed-out drunken bums, petty (and not-so-petty) thieves, molesters, flashers, public masturbators, outdoor fornicators, LGBT nudists, unhousebroken random poopers and pissers, you name it.
Some are along for the ride, for thrills, “street cred”, or whatever else, and some are being paid to be there.
“This sign for rent” …
Congressman John Lewis, (even though they didn’t let him speak)
http://www.salon.com/2011/10/09/john_lewis_i_support_ows_protesters/
Raul Grijalva, House of Representatives for Arizona: who ALSO called for a boycott of the very state he represents over SB1070, the anti-illegal immigration law.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDGWz93sMNo
Thank you Zombie and those Aware and Alert.
A general list of endorsers is fine and dandy, but never mind fellow travelers. It is essential to expose the movers and shakers who have driven those useful idiots in the agora.
How about Frances Fox Piven?
Video and transcript at: http://www.democracynow.org/blog/2011/10/4/frances_fox_piven_at_occupy_wall_street_we_desperately_need_a_popular_uprising_in_the_united_states
OK, I gotta log off for a while — but continue making suggestions in my absence! They will all be later noted.
What surprises me is the lack of support “Occupy Antarctica” is getting, even from socialists. According to the Daily Rash, a lone demonstrator in Antarctica braves -50 degree temperatures to protests Wall Street greed! Wow! http://www.thedailyrash.com/occupy-antarctica-protester-carries-on-despite-50-degree-temperatures
Debbie W-S:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439×2098335
Wikileaks
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/878699-julian-assange-rallies-protesters-at-occupy-london-stock-exchange-gathering
The ever lovable Working Families Partry.
http://www.workingfamiliesparty.org/2011/10/wfp-stands-with-occupy-wall-street/
and
http://www.workingfamiliesparty.org/2011/10/wfp-statement-on-bloomberg-announcement-re-zuccotti-park/
Google can provide you some good links about their money campaign and voting fraud activities.
Ben and Jerry’s icecream.
Barney Fwank is supporting OWS? He is one of the architects of the legislation that brought us this disaster. I tell you what disaster is: it is the lack of coverage by the MSM of the critical issues that lead to this financial disaster. It could be a big story like Watergate, but the MSM decided to carry water for all the vultures that are picking our nation’s carcass. No disrespect to real world vultures doing their scavenging.
SEIU – http://www.seiu.org/2011/10/seiu-supports-occupywallstreet.php
NY Transport Workers Union – http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/09/28/1021124/-Transport-Workers-Union-votes-to-support-OccupyWallstreet%21
National Nurses United and Laborers’ International Union of America – http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/10/01/1021769/-Nurses-and-Laborers-unions-support-Occupy-Wall-Street
AFL-CIO Trumka – http://www.thenation.com/blog/163737/afl-cios-trumka-hails-occupy-wall-street-protests
New York State United Teachers, Communication Workers union, etc –
UAW – http://www.uaw.org/page/uaw-endorses-occupy-wall-street
More AFL-CIO, SEIU, Teamsters, New York State United Teachers, Greater Boston Labor Council – http://motherjones.com/politics/2011/10/occupy-wall-street-labor-unions
John Boehner.
I just saw that. What a maroon! He zigged when everybody zagged. Going on the list. Anybody who ends up on it, deserves it.
And Eric Cantor, too. Which just shows you how hermetically sealed the beltway it. They actually are swallowing that MSM cum about the public supporting them.
Code Pink: http://www.codepinkalert.org/section.php?id=464
Did I miss it, or was Al Sharpton and the freaks at MSNBC left off this masterpiece?
Jesse Jackson, too.
I’m pretty sure I came across an endorsement by Algore.
Barack Obama’s “spiritual advisor” Reverend Jim Wallis definitely did.
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/leftist-christian-leader-jim-wallis-occupy-wall-street-protesters-stand-with-jesus/
Perhaps at a future date when this smelly mess hits the fan, you can do a similar list of the few, but brave conservatives who were among the very first to question it, like Herman Cain.
Modern adage: “You are who you roll with.”
99%ers roll with some total freaks. Therefore…
Back in my day, the saying went, “Lie down with dogs, get up with fleas.”
In Gainsville, FL, Harry’s Seafood, Bar & Grille has been donating water and ice. Big Lou’s is in charge of donating pizza. The Hare Krishnas have donated vegan meals. Ward’s Supermarket takes care of the organic produce and gave Occupy Gainesville a line of credit. http://www.alligator.org/news/local/article_c0c742be-f94a-11e0-874a-001cc4c002e0.html
Ben and Jerry’s http://eater.com/archives/2011/10/10/food-businesses-occupy-wall-street-with-pizza-ice-cream.php
What do they all have in common? They are all LEECHES, who survive by demanding either that people do something for less money than they normally do it, hand over more of the money they make doing it, or do it more without an increase in compensation, so others can benefit from what they do.
It’s like walking past a pretty pond and having all the leeches leap out of the water simultaneously and TAKE YOU DOWN. eesh, I need a shower.
You forgot ron paul!
Ron Paul himself — or Ron Paul supporters?
If he himself has embraced OWS, please provide links!
Tim Robbins, Yoko Ono, Deepak Chopra, Russel Simmons (Unirush Financial, music business), Kayne West and Lupe Fiasco(rappers), Alec Baldwin, Mark Ruffalo, Pete Seeger, James O’Keefe, Tavis Smiley are listed as supporters of OWS.
All added to the pending list.
James O’Keefe?…I don’t think so.
Something to help things along.
Top ten unlikely OWS supporters:
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/johncassidy/2011/10/top-ten-unlikely-occupy-wall-street-supporters.html
Celebrity support for OWS
http://www.observer.com/2011/09/celebrity-support-for-occupy-wall-street/
Excellent. Both links added to research pile. Thanks.
and Noam Chomsky
Young Communist League
http://www.yclusa.org/
Peoples World, affiliated with CPUSA as their online magazine, but still a separate entity.
http://www.peoplesworld.org/
Workers World
http://www.workers.org/occupy_wall_street/
Just the ones I had bookmarked that you don’t have listed. Probably more out there. My favorite is the Revolutionary Communist Party, they’re just giddy over the OWS.
Keep ‘em coming!
Just so I am clear (and send along the right stuff!) – this list is for the worldwide Occupy movement, not just the “occupiers” in the US, but in Europe, Israel, etc… yes?
Gotta log off again for several hours. Not to worry – all comments will be later digested!
May have missed them, don’t recall seeing: Ayers, Dohrn and Pivens..
Peter Joseph, founder of the “Zeitgeist movement”.
http://occupywallst.org/forum/peter-joseph-message-to-occupy-wall-street-the-wor/
You can add me to the list.
Umm, B.O. M.O. Jeremiah has to be in there somewhere..
Bloomberg
Don’t forget Brookfield Office Properties, the owner of Zuccotti Park, who allowed the occubaggers to congregate there in the first place.
If anybody like the Occubaggers were to trespass on MY property, they’d get a lesson regarding the Second Amendment. Just sayin’.
A pox on all their houses.
Might as well put me on the list, too – I don’t know what the hell I want either.
Haha! Put my cat on the list, too.
VIDEO of DNC Chairwoman Debbie “Positive Wasserman Test” Schultz from The Hill.
http://thehill.com/video/house/186717-dnc-chairwoman-says-occupy-wall-street-symbolic-of-middle-class-frustrations-
Here on the FLorida West coast we call her Debbie Wasserman Grayson…..BTW, I think Grayson endorsed them too
https://twitter.com/#!/WeOccupyAmerica
Add me to the list of supporters! It is my dearest hope that they keep right on doing what they’re doing well into November 2012!
The Black Panthers and White Revolution, in the same room supporting the same cause… I think that just broke my brain. A marriage made… somewhere… I’m not sure where, and I’m not really sure I want to know.
There’s a zebra joke in there somewhere.
Why would this surprise you? Back in the mid-Sixties, the racist, black-separatist Nation of Islam opposed the Civil Rights Movement and was vocally anti-integration; instead, it wanted the US government to cede several states to the NOI and permit creation of an all-black Bantustan so that blacks would not have to live with or be oppressed by whites.
This initiative of the NOI’s was enthusiastically supported by the American Nazi Party and its ideological brethern, for they too wanted black Americans off somewhere far away from white people.
And, of course, both were united in something else in addition to their desire for separatism and opposition to race-mixing: both groups were—are—virulently antisemitic.
I’m shocked that the angry anti anti-antiperspirant people for the freedom to stink aren’t on the list!
[I keed. I keed.]
Surely the ‘two girls one menstrual cup group’ placed and what about the ‘Going Commando’ and “Sh*tting and pissing on everything in sight” people?
All kidding aside, great sleuthing as always, Zombie!
http://www.iupat.org/politicalnews/read/95
From the International Painters and Allied Trades Website
http://www.americanindependent.com/199630/occupy-miami-picks-up-union-support
This is a great resource you are trying to put together, thank you!
ZOM
OUTSTANDING, THANK YOU SO MUCH.
You all are nuts and must be walking dead with no brains. Who in the hell made up this list I did some searching myself and the only list I can find is the zombie list get real people your not going to scare us baby boomers you have a brain and know that we can’t let Wall Street and the banks take over, much less let the GOP are Tea party take away our Social Security and Medicare we are 50 million strong so zombies be scared.
Mary…you are sadly mistaken thinking that your Social Security and Medicare won’t be touched by the Democrats/Left/Progressives. It is already running empty. To think that Obama actually used no SS checks going out to get the debt ceiling raised shows proof righ there. Was he saying that he will pull the strings of the elderly, which is just unkind or was he saying that unless te debt ceiling was raised there wouldn’t be enough money to send checks out. If the latter is the case then SS and Medicare are screwed and very soon because clearly they are misappropriating funds. Wake up and open your eyes. Your government is lying to you every day.
You apparently went to public schools because you don’t know how to punctuate a sentence. That was very hard to read and, unfortunately, it wasn’t worth the effort I went through to figure it out. Why don’t you move to Cuba if you don’t like it here.
Yeah, that should be in the dictionary under “run-on sentence”.
Your so right Mary……better to let the Nazis, Communist and all other malcontents “take over”. Oh and maybe you shouldn’t be looking for list but verifying the websites listed where they say it for themselves. We do have a brain and are using it.
Mary,
You are the one without brains. Take away Social Security?
The Left Wing opposed our controlling our own Social Security retirement fund investments.
That Big Bad Wall Street that these cretins are protesting against would have made EVERY Social Security recipient millionaires AND rebuilt American industry in the process.
FACT: If I would have been allowed to invest my SS withholding for retirement benefits only, not survivor’s insurance and Disability insurance payments and I was allowed to invest those funds in Blue Chip Stocks right now I would be retiring with over $9 MILLION in stock AND be receiving over $25,000 per MONTH in dividends.
In my example I chose only one stock, Coca Cola, which is not the highest paying nor the lowest paying as far as dividends.
If I had been allowed to do this obviously my wife and I would be able to live the rest of our lives just on the dividends alone and our Children And Grandchildren would inherit at least $9 million and more likely between $15-20 million since the stock is most likely to continue growing until we die.
Not only that but while I was still working, if I chose not to reinvest dividends paid through my working life I would have received about another $350,000.
Instead, when I die SS will pay my wife $250 which is not even enough to cremate my body.
I will receive about $23,000 per year until I die assuming SS doesn’t go broke first. That is equal to 15 years worth of the dividends paid WHILE I WAS STILL WORKING, not the dividends I would be receiving after retirement had my SS retirement funds been invested in Coke stock. The after retirement dividends for 15 years on the Coke stock I could have bought would have instead paid me $4.5 million.
So tell me again how the GOP is trying to deprive me of my retirement benefits.
To add insult to injury, I have been totally disabled for 19 years. Had I worked all the way until retirement I would be getting TWICE as much as that – $500,000 in before retirement dividends, $18 million in stock and $9 million in dividends in the next 15 years, which is $50,000 PER MONTH.
As I mentioned, SS could have continued receiving the disability insurance premiums so the benefits I have been receiving would still have been paid just as private disability insurance companies pay their insured workers their claims. That isn’t welfare, it is insurance claim payments paid for by premiums I paid though my working years.
Where is all of this money I should be receiving? It was spent by Congress when they stole EVERYONE’s retirement funds over the last 47 years.
The protestors of OWS are in the very best of hands. Let’s take up a collection so we can send them to Iran, North Korea, Venezuela or the country of their choice. I’ll spring for 1st Class tickets to get them out of here. They have no positive, productive ideas. They just want to take, take, take from hard working citizens. We are sick of their whining. Legal or not, they are damn annoying and hurt all the small businesses near Zucotti Park in New York. No one wants to eat or shop anywhere near them. It’s pathetic that Mayor Bloomberg won’t send them to Central Park where they won’t harm businesses. Oops. I forgot. Bloomberg already has his billions. No one else need try to achieve anything productive.
Actually, would that huge influx of people help the restaurants in the area? And yes Bloomberg has his money. That is their point.
I wonder what percentage of the 99% have a venereal disease? Maybe they are referring to the percentage of them that have some form of Herpes.
Thanks for the list of the world’s greatest morons.
Little Green Footballs:
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/39352_Poll-_43_Agree_with_Occupy_Wall_Street
I love it when a blog cites a poll, then you look at the breakdown of respondents and find out it’s 25% R, 35% D, and 40% I. Nothing like stacking the deck to get the result you want. Incidentally, the poll stated 43% agree with the views of OWS. When you look at the % that agree with the movement and not the ideas, the number drops to 25%. But Charles would never point that out. He’s too busy smearing the Tea Party with accusations about actions the OWS protesters are actually doing. Then he has the nerve to accuse the right of smearing OWS. Huh?! They’re doing a good job of smearing themselves. They don’t need any help.
You are missing the Workers World Party, the (Trotskyist) Socialist Workers Party and its organ, The Militant, the Progressive Labor Party (yes, it still exists!), and Democratic Socialists of America. All have websites with lots of OWS stuff.
http://www.americanindependent.com/199630/occupy-miami-picks-up-union-support
South Florida Jobs for Justice, claims painters union behind ows
Seattle Central Community College! Courtesy of its Teachers Union.
http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2011/10/31/seattle-community-college-brings-occupy-to-the-classroom-with-teachers-union-support/
Please don’t forget Manhattan Community Board #1, whose ultra P.C. super progressives passed a resolution accommodating OWS with an unenforceable “Good Neighbor Policy” while throwing besieged community residents, businesses, and workers under the bus.
Did you mention GEORGE SOROS!
All I have to say is to quote Obi-Wan Kenobi: “You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy”
They even have Jabba the Moore.
You just insulted Hutts everywhere.
I thought this interesting enough to link on Reddit. One response in particular I thought valuable and repost here for your review.
“Pretty obviously skewed list of who’s contributing… It excludes some of the earliest and most vocal of supporters. Michael Moore? Ron Paul? A slew of unions (USW, NY Transit, IWW).
And a few more….
http://global.christianpost.com/news/forgotten-gop-candidate-gary-johnson-expresses-support-for-occupy-wall-street-58711/
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/10/14/tea-party-co-founded-expresses-support-for-occupy-wall-street/
http://www.businessinsider.com/bernie-sanders-calls-for-boycott-of-big-banks-2011-10
http://www.benjerry.com/activism/occupy-movement/
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/americas/united-states/111013/al-gore-occupy-wall-street
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/10/nobel-prize-winning-economist-supports-protests.html
http://cpc.grijalva.house.gov/index.cfm?sectionid=61§iontree=5,61&itemid=429“
Ah, sorry, forgot link to Reddit thread:
http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/lvrv7/the_99_official_list_of_occupy_wall_streets/
http://district1.cwa-union.org/news/entry/cwa_district_one_statement_in_support_of_occupy_wall_street_demonstrations/
CWA IN SUPPORT OF OWS, but not shocking.
And don;t forget the population of the American people prefer the OWS over Tea Party 2:1…. NBC/Wall Street Journal poll!
OWS rocks might as well come over before you’re to late!
Let’s see in the voting booth in 2012 how that plays out. I have a feeling you might be confused come one November morn.
Go occupy the sun.
Here’s another site with a LONG list of “supporters”
http://october2011.org/organizations
This IS SICKENING! I gave up 4 years of my Life, to Serve under president Reagan, and so many of my bretheren gave up their lives fighting Communism, for this crap to EXSIST? What the Hell!
Thank you for your service, from the non-idiotic, real 99% of America.
Thanks for doing this Zombie , this really is important work , all of us need to be aware of what, and who we are up against .
Supposedly the entire city council of Portland, OR….until the occupiers got uppity and wanted to bang their bongos in the Pearl.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/occupy-protesters-arrested-in-texas-oregon-in-many-cities-its-the-cold-theyre-fighting/2011/10/30/gIQASSS4WM_story.html?hpid=z3
Katy Perry’s scuzzy squeeze, Russell Brand, is there too. Fits right in with the grungy sods, doesn’t he?
http://www.radaronline.com/photos/image/150410/2011/10/celebs-who-occupy-wall-street
Don’t forget Deepak Chopra, Alec Baldwin, Henry Blodget and Suze Orman. Not too surprising, is it.
http://www.celebritynetworth.com/articles/entertainment-articles/10-richest-celebrities-supporting-occupy-wall-street/
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/johncassidy/2011/10/top-ten-unlikely-occupy-wall-street-supporters.html
And finally…..Veterans for Peace “fully supports”
Add to the list the Democratic party,Democratic senators and congressmen,Obama’s cabinet,unions,M.S.N.B.C.Congressional black caucus,etc.
Now aren’t these people going to be surprised when Mommy’s frig is empty, and
so are the store shelves. And this insult after having to walk five mules because there is no gas. Oh and forget about that dream honeymoon in Europe that dad paid for, there is no way to get there. The schools where you pick up all your “worldly” ideas will be freezing this winter, also no toilets or sinks since the pipes have frozen. Hope you have lots of candles, because the lights are going out, and so is your heat at home. Forget about cooking indoors because there won’t be any gas or electricity. But you got rid of those BAD CORPORATIONS!!!!!
Sounds like a good deal to me!
Cracker; I’m so amazed at your one sentence comments could you please explain why you feel so close to the “OWS”? I’m really interested, I’d like to understand.
came across this site, apparently the basij’s are supporting them to further illustrate Iran’s attempt to win attention from occupy protesters. it’s a fancy site, and lots of content. obviously state backed.
http://www.wsfall.com/
Wow, my list of pending new entrants to research and add is now hundreds of names long. Thanks everyone!
I’m back now, surveying all comments, and adding them to my pile.
As I suspected, this list as it currently stands is just the beginning — it will take me many many days and even weeks to keep adding to it and making it more comprehensive.
But I will try my darnedest to keep updating it. Maybe I’ll “relaunch” the comprehensive version later this month!
Great list – great job as usual, Zombie.
Might want to check the Facebook connection – I’ve clicked on “recommend” several times, but when I try to post it to Facebook it disappears (and doesn’t show up on my Facebook page). Would love to share this with my friends.
I have no idea how those Facebook things work. Maybe send an email to the PJM webmaster?
I just copied the link in the URL and sent link in a email to my trusted friends.
Aaaah the sweet sweet stench of desperation.
Nah…that’s probably just your pits. Might want to quit hanging with the hippies and criminals at the Occupy rallies.
Oh, this has made me so sad. You folks are very afraid, aren’t you? How much fear do you have in your heads that makes you like this? Some of those on your list have also “supported” the Tea Party, I hope you know, like the American Nazi Party. And David Duke? Gosh, to rebuke Duke. What has the Right come to.
You guys take care and take some aspirin. Your pointy little heads must hurt an awful lot these days.
And seek help. There are qualified doctors out there that can help you. But you have to ask for it first.
Bless you all!
The main thing I’m afraid of is that OWS will fade away before it completes its mission of destroying the left.
This comment makes this site garbage imo.
Independent media ftw.
“Gosh, to rebuke Duke. What has the Right come to.”
Correct me if I’m wrong…and I don’t think that I am, but: wasn’t Duke KICKED OUT of the GOP?
Why yes, I believe he was.
Dumbass.
My advice for you Occweenies is to just keep on doing what you’re doing. Let America see you all for what you really are.
Oh, and if you get a chance, when you come up with a list of what you guys stand for, and what you believe in–let us know. M’kay?
Laughingmonkey demonstrates the willingness of the left to swallow whatever swill their mindmasters give them. The American Nazi Party never supported the Tea Party.
http://www.americannaziparty.com/news/archives.php?report_date=2011-03-05
They very much dislike the Tea Party and with good reason.
Again, Ron Paul is NOT a supporter; kindly correct the error.
@ Air Force Vet, you gave four years of your life so idiots (like many of those listed) could protest greed; likewise, your sacrifice ensures that many knee-jerking narrow-minded right-wing sociopaths (including many of whom lauded the list), could also exercise their right to bash morons.
Neither side is satisfied until blood is finally spilled. Pitiful.
Thank you for your service, Air Force Vet.
Eat dookie, Zombie.
Wha….?
Ron Paul is not on the list. So, there is no error.
A Paulbot calling OTHERS fanatics? Pot, meet kettle.
Official Occupy list CREATED by the Tea Party…hmmm. Doens’t sound TOO fishy! Don’t forget to list the veteran organizations and all the branches of the military that are supporting OUR MOVEMENT too. I guess they are all bad, evil groups as well. Who are the Republicans, Democrats you Tea Partiers supported by? Your Tea Party gets SOME positive press, where is the Occupy’s positive press?
Dear Jeanne:
Don’t be afraid to add groups for which you can provide corroborating evidence. You might take a look at post 39 for example, where these nasty right-wing capitalists listed John Boehner and Eric Cantor. Does that mean anything to you? If you have no idea who they are — which seems likely from what I’ve seen of the gatherings — take your corporate I-Pad over to corporate Starbucks and corporate Google them. Then come tell me about bias again.
And I trust you do recognize that the groups on the list are there by there own words. Be as proud as the Nazis are; don’t lash out at those giving them free publicity. Isn’t that the main purpose of the movement, to raise awareness? Help the Zombie out. Where else are you going to get this much run for nothing?
“Useful Idiocy” is a choice.
Opinion page at Aljazeera all in! No official endorsement but not doesn’t take much reading to confirm they fully support the movement.
http://aljazeera.com/Services/Search/?q=occupy%20wall%20street
Nazis, commies and islamofascists… everyone who’s hated us for the past century, could that be a clue?
Splinter group formed in 2006 from Students for a Democrat Society (SDS)
Movement for a Democratic Society (socialist-marxist)
http://movementforademocraticsociety.org/
Great idea and great post, BUT: not to be a nit picker, however an organization that offers its professional services to OWS doesn’t necessarily mean that they support OWS. For example, if a hospital says they will treat anyone from OWS who has medical needs, does that constitute “support” for OWS? Not necessarily.
Likewise, if an individual says, “Well, OWS has a right to assemble,” are they to be counted as supporters or advocates of OWS aims? Not necessarily.
The list is great, but I would hate to see it fail to distinguish those who ardently support the aims of OWS — SEIU, Pelosi, Biden, Obama would qualify — and someone who merely spoke in favor of their right to assemble. The list gains more credibility and power if it is not cluttered with those holding a more ambiguous position.
Thanks! This is the best laugh I’ve had all day!
WHAT, WAIT HOLD ON. CUT THAT ZOMBIE DUDE SOME SLACK-ITS A ONE MAN SHOW-
AAH MR. ZOMBIE WHEN YOU HAVE TIME WILL YOU CONSIDER PUTTING JOY BEHAR ON THE LIST? ALONG WITH JANE FONDA AND ROSIE O’DONNEL AND POSSIBLY JESSICA RABBIT (ALTHOUGH THE JURY IS STILL OUT ON JESSICA!)
THANKS, OLD “6″ GUY
Soros
ACLU of Ohio
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=282954938392102
If you go their FB main page You can see the support there.
this is “official” ?
Well, since OWS attempts to avoid all criticism by insisting that they haven’t yet come up with anything “official” yet, I decided to step up where they have abdicated responsibility.
Do you really think it’s not obvious how you decided who to include in this list???
Do you really think it’s not obvious how OWS decides to NOT MENTION certain endorsements on their lists?
I think this list was made to make the occupation look bad. That is why so much information was “left out”. I have seen this 4 other times, so I doubt it is original. Some people love to plagiarize the internetz. Sorry if it was just them plagiarizing you. Oh, well. Here it goes:
If you base your beliefs on who shares them with you, and what else they believe, you should learn how to think for yourself.
As the old Chinese or Arabic proverb goes, “The enemy of the enemy is my friend.”
I also liked how Malcolm X said, ” And in my opinion, the young generation of whites, blacks, browns, whatever else there is, you’re living at a time of extremism, a time of revolution, a time when there’s got to be a change. People in power have misused it, and now there has to be a change and a better world has to be built, and the only way it’s going to be built—is with extreme methods. And I, for one, will join in with anyone—I don’t care what color you are—as long as you want to change this miserable condition that exists on this earth.”
Remember, we are also endorsed by the founding fathers, Ghandi, MLK, Fred Shuttlesworth, Rosa Parks, Harriet Tubman, and many, many more.
The truth is that the tea party should endorse occupy wallstreet instead of ridiculing them. They could teach them a few things about property rights and subjective value instead of oozing all over the fox news smear campaign.
Yes, I heard you were also endorsed by Galileo, Michelangelo, Jesus, Einstein, The Bobsy Twins, Moses, Mister Magoo, Charlemagne, The Wright Brothers, Crispus Attucks, Alan Turing, Erasmus Darwin, Quetzalcoatl, The King of Siam and Bozo the Clown.
Hey, they claim the votes of the dead. Well, they *are* leftists, and they do have a Chicago pol in the White House…
You missed Mohammmad. And Mozart. Oh, and Jack the Ripper.
The occupiers make themselves look bad and the truth makes them look bad. This list is linked and you can follow up for yourself.
Look at the source material given by Zombie, those links he gave aren’t the only one’s backing up the support of those groups, but are one of a few. So, why discount the support this group is getting when facts back it up?
So.. um.. “The enemy of the enemy is my friend”, right?
Just to point out the painfully obvious flaw in that statement: That makes you friends with Nazis, communists, and racists.
Doesn’t it get to you, that by the time you’ve compiled a complete list it will actually BE alist of 99% of the American (and the WORLD) population? Maybe you should move to MARS!
Doesn’t it get to you that you have to lay down with communists, anarchists, street bums, madmen, corrupt unions and ignorant indoctrinated college kids to endorse a buffoonish protest that has no goals and no viable (or even stated) solutions, just so you can maintain your precious status as being in opposition to the Tea Party and its values? Maybe you should move back in with us in REALITY.
My question to those types, Zombie, is this : They feel guilty about living in the US, they feel guilty about being white, they want to tear down the nation and make everybody live in squalor in order to “make it up to the rest of the world”, but who do they think is going to take THEM in once they’ve torn the US apart? They seem to think the rest of the world will somehow love them and take them in anywhere they want to go as part of a new “borderless open society”. That they’ll all be free to hop off to The Benelux, Japan, Canada, or Sweden.
They don’t seem to realize that none of those entities are going to let them in.
Succinct and well put!
Really? How many of us do you think are wealthy? I make median American family income. And I bet a lot of these supporters will turns out to be quite wealthy.
Rapper Boots Riley of “The Coup” is quoted as an organizer of Occupy Oakland. Here you can see him perform ’5 Million Ways to Kill a CEO’ at Occupy Oakland protest.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AR2AjuEznko&feature=youtube_gdata_player
And here, ABC News quotes him-
http://abcnews.go.com/US/t/story/occupy-oakland-city-prepping-general-strike-14854851
He’s a genius….
Justin Timberlake and Olivia Wilde were gushing about the occupiers the other day. They tried to tie it together with a movie they just did.
“Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.”
“Politics makes strange bedfellows” – Charles Dudley Warner
As for misery- only the spoiled and inexperienced, those who have never had to face a challenge in their life would call our current situation “misery”.
Pete Blome, Chair, Libertarian Party of Okaloosa County
Maybe he’s changed his tune in the last few weeks, but here are a couple of excerpts from a letter to the editor in the Northwest Florida Daily News, 11 Oct (http://www.nwfdailynews.com/opinion/know-44348-letter-movement.html):
“There are a few nuts in the OWS crowd, but from what I hear, “Occupy Wall Street” is about bringing the fraudsters to justice.”
“It’s about the rule of law. It’s about the libertarian soul of America.”
In evangelical Christianity, this list and what one sees on TV – the mindlessness, the hatred, the zombielike groupthink drones (no offense Zombie)and how this all is really backed and supported by the ruling class – we have a name for it – the Anti-Christ system.
Bravo, Zombie! You brought perspective to this mess. Ditto to all the comment writers who also contributed. THIS IS A KEEPER. I find it depressing, of course, that so many fellow travelers exist. What, in your opinion, do they amount to in a percentage of the vote in 2012?
Someone (me, you?) should make a Wikipedia-page on this; “Supporters of OWS”. Also: this again shows how the so called “right-wing” as the MSM love to call Nazis and similar, really are nothing but LEFT-WINGERS! This should of course be obvious with a name like National-SOCIALISM, with it’s collectivist and anti-capitalist ideology but since we have let the Left dictate the media too long, this is not the case. So let’s make a Wikipedia-page on “Supporters of OWS” and we have like “exhibit nr 9415″ that Nazism is a leftist ideology.
nicedeb has has quite a few links which might interest you with this post Adbusters, Soros $$$ and The Confused Kids of #OWS
I see from one of the links that Bill Clinton thinks that “They’re creating a “Good Positive Debate”.
Are any of these supporters paying the city of New York the millions of dollars this protest has cost the city of New York in damages and police overtime? I have heard that figure has exceeded 5 million dollars? Just sayin…
liberalism = criminalism
liberalism poses a clear and present danger to the security of the United States of America.
The unions are saturated with Communists and they have one objective and that is to bring this country to it`s knees. These dumb people are being USED and maybe some know this, maybe some do not.
WHAT HAPPEN TO “HONEST GOVERNMENT……………FOR THE PEOPLE?” WORKING TOGETHER/BUT NOT PAYING ALL ILLEGALS BILLS????????????? WHERE IS GOOD OLD COMMON SENSE?????
You’re also leaving out Lech Walesa. Try telling him he is a commie stooge. Or the Vatican for that matter.
Wrong! Lech Walesa found out about the leftist underpinnings of the OWS movement and decided not to go. Does the “Occupy” Movement Speak for You?
Don’t think I’ve seen this one: Brookfield Office Properties, the owners of Zuccotti Park in Manhattan where the OWS protesters are camping out.Mayor Bloomberg can’t kick them out until he receives a complaint from the owners.
http://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/2011/10/28/ny-seizes-generators-from-occupy-wall-street/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+foxbusiness%2Fmarkets+%28Internal+-+Markets+-+Text%29
Brookfield Office Properties’ website: http://brookfieldofficeproperties.com/
(a couple of interesting board members)
The “usual suspects” are good to know but I would be more interested in legitimate, profit-making corporations. They’re the ones w/the behind-the-scenes clout. As part of the investor class(anyone w/a 401k, a pension plan, &/or direct stockholder) I would like to know how these corporations are investing w/my money.
I believe I named 1 in a prior posting: Brookfield Office Properties.
There is a website (occupybanner.wordpress.com) that allows you to put a banner on your site that states “I support the OCCUPY MOVEMENT”. The site states:
“What is the Occupy Everywhere movement? Occupy Wall Street/Occupy Everywhere is an ongoing series of demonstrations that began in New York City and have spread to major cities across the United States. These are peaceful protests against social and economic inequality, corporate greed, and the influence of corporate money and lobbyists on government.”
Along with instructions on how to integrate the banner onto your website.
So, if you integrate the banner on your site, the banner will automatically ‘link back’ to the website ‘occupybanner.wordpress.com’.
Yahoo allows you to pull a list of ALL the sites that link back to the Occupybanner website. Here it is:
http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/search;_ylt=A0oG7zRBA7BOesYA9Rval8kF?p=occupybanner.wordpress.com%2F&fr=sfp&bwm=i
This list is not exhaustive, as some sites may link/reference the occupybanner website merely to share the news (not directly placing a banner on their website, but sharing it with their readership).
But to validate, all you have to do is click the link to visit the site, and if the banner is visible, the reference to support OWS is complete.
Thought I would share.
Why do you put communists, Nazis, Kamenei, Obama and North Korea at the top of the list?
I my Eyes it is quite obvious, that your aim is to discredit the claims of the Occupy movement.
NOT to provide people with serious information.
The Money system, as we know it to to day, is creating War, poverty and pollution.
You dont have to be a Nazi, communist or Ilamist to realize that.
Please ad me to the list! I am a part of the 99%!
.. Your list is a piece of Crap made by a Zombie (?) in order to manipulate puplic opinion.
Jakob Engelstoft Sweden.
That was quite obvious from the start!
Nowhere in the list do I see the U.S. Military and the police:
https://www.google.com/#hl=en&sugexp=kjrmc&cp=8&gs_id=v&xhr=t&q=Occupy+Army,+Marines,+Air+Force,+Navy,+Police,+provide+OWS+Escort&tok=TZm_v5rp5Qpx1vrz985nog&pf=p&sclient=psy-ab&source=hp&pbx=1&oq=occupy+a&aq=0p&aqi=p-p2g2&aql=f&gs_sm=&gs_upl=&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.,cf.osb&fp=81daeae0cefe2a66&biw=1366&bih=646
http://www.occupypolice.org/
Why shouldn’t Zombie put them at the top?
Are you ashamed?
You should be.
Duh. This is a largely conservative website, nitwit.
NO ACORN?
Please don’t forget to include Frances Piven, Stephen Lerner, Richard Trumka, Van Jones, Medea Benjamin (Code Pink), al-Sharp Ton and many Wall Street financiers.
Please add the AFGE to the list…. The American Federation of Government Employees to the list.. Their support is on their websight by their president JOHN Cage in a letter to the members dated 7 Oct 2011… Contact Tim Kauffman
202-639-6405/202-374-6491
kaufft@afge.org
ADD ME TO THE LIST!!! I’ve been RAPED by the companies that I’ve worked for for decades- worked HARD for for an average of 10 hour days and often 12-14 hours, once even 26 hours (at Lucent Technologies). I manage IT departments and have saved companies enourmous amounts of $ and fought hard to implement technologies that those compaies now love and are essential to their competative edge. Yes, I’ve been 6 figures for years now, but I also see how things are at the top- I’ve worked directly for (with) the C-Suite in four companies that have gone BIG, and it’s SICK at the top. These people are criminal in the way they skim off the workers back and take credit and money for the workers who bear the brunt of the weight of the companies. It’s sick, an it’s getting worse. It’s pure greed and selfishness, and it is destroying this nation- curruption run rampant. THAT- is what OWS is trying to stop. Keep being a Zombie or keep trying to keep OWS from keeping your reed in check if you are one of those greedies. And keep this list going, it’s no surprise to me that there is such a diverse crowd of groups involved and it’s growing, so many people have been and are being screwed. All those reading this who have seen this sick curruption and/or have been affected by it, SIGN UP TO OWS HERE- say that you agree with me. In the end, Zombie may have to buy new servers to keep up with the size of this list. Pass it on! Hopefully, Zombie, you’ll see the light too. Hopefully, you won’t delete this post.
So Joel,, are you part of the 1%,, 99% or when you figure out how you really have the American Dream and you are the 53%.. Then give it to OWS…Go out there an tell them how pitiful you have had it making 6 figures for years… You sound like michael moore saying he is not in the 1%… he says he is in the 99%.. It sounds like you have worked as hard as I have and I never made it into the 6 figures a year!! I did end up in the 53% and proud of it!!!
I’m at $112/yr and have been at the very start of three companies who have gone big- The system in these companies is temporarily hire staff to build “their” money making machines and then downsize continously so that none of the those “workers” building the machine can reap the full rewards of the machine. They slash them. And if you want to have a peice of the rewards, you can ask them, but they might put you on their list of layoffs (get rid of those who want what they help to build). Or if you are lucky enough to have huge sums of $ to buy into the company, you might have a chance- but how do you get large sums of $ when you have a family and house to support, you slave your life away. If you ask to be compensated for the sale of the company that you helped build- you are marginalized, or lied to. I’ve seen it, over and over and over- THE GAME IS RIGGED, you’re either playing it or being played. Can you honestly tell me that those at the top are giving fairly to the workers of the company? HELL NO YOU CANT- Why would they? They are going to take everything they can get from you, and if they can’t get it off your back, they’ll find a Zombie robot who’ll foolishly slave for them. It’s going to get worse, and the cause is not the people at OWS, it’s the people at the top, and it’s the politicians in bed with them.
Joel – Since you have a great deal of capital, you can start your own business. As it is your own business, you will have every opportunity to pay your employees whatever you like, so as to prevent you taking advantage of them.
Best of luck in your new endeavour.
Thank you Josh. The problems, I don’t have a great deal of capital, it was mostly all lost in the market crash, which was largely due to lobbyists in bed with DC. And that is a major part of what OWS is about.
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Occupy-K-Street-Lobbyists/230303940367925?sk=info
I may own my own business some day, and I may use a model of a democratic company. I’ve seen a very successful company that did this in the move “Capitalism: A Love Story”. An eye opener movie.
Two wrongs don’t make a right.
Six figure salary per year – in IT from your comments – and your keyboarding and spelling skills are no better than your post demonstrates? And you saved “enormous amounts of $”? Hmmm… Maybe you should stick with the OWS crowd. I can assure you that if your professional skills are no better than you’ve proven with your post then you’d soon be unemployed by the company I work for.
NuknFuts,
That’s correct, I’ve worked on computers the majority of my life and rely on spell check. Was there a word you couldn’t understand because my spelling was that bad? I’m typing fast and not going for perfection here on this blog. I don’t believe that I saif I saved enourmous amounts of $, maybe reread what I did say. And actually, I lost enourmous amounts of $ in the stock market crash that happened due to the greed and curroption that I’m standing up to along with OWS. I’m not sure why you’re not standing up too for a more just system. You should be, give it some thought.
You seem to love generalizing, Joel.
“These people are criminal” – who “these” particularly?
You know names? One? Ten? Hundred? All?
Do you have a proof of some criminal activity?
Have you ever heard about “presumption of innocence”?
And if you do have such a proof, why didn’t you present it to authorities to stop a crime?
It seems that you preferred to keep collecting your 6-figure wages instead. Don’t you think it’s hypocritical?
“THAT- is what OWS is trying to stop,” you have pathetically exclaimed.
Are you sure? Is this that “THAT” that Frances Piven, Van Jones, Stephen Lerner, Richard Trumka, susan sarandon, michael moore, barrack obama were denoting and indicating when they spoke barracking the OWS movement?
I’ve got a completely different impression about what the OWS wants.
Their signs, slogans, mumbling and blabbering indicate that they either have no clue what they want or they want a revolution.
A revolution against what? A revolution for establishing what?
All this crap vividly reminds me how my own country was destroyed in 1917 by illiterate hordes led by a handful of International Socialist bastards.
The same happened in 1933 in Germany where hordes of illiterate and hopeless crowds led by National Socialist bastards have destroyed their country.
To me who lived under Commies 50 years, it’s such a pity to see how Americans want to destroy the once great country.
In a worst nightmare couldn’t I foresee that I escaped from one Commie country only to find myself in another one.
http://www.examiner.com/liberal-in-orlando/rich-tax-cuts-capital-gains-ronald-reagan-and-the-destruction-of-america
You are brainwashed.
Raymond,
Robert Sobel whom you’re referring to (Raymond
http://www.examiner.com/liberal-in-orlando/rich-tax-cuts-capital-gains-ronald-reagan-and-the-destruction-of-america), seems to have had F- in math in his school.
Hopefully, you have a chance to prove you’re better in math: try to calculate how big will the revenue be if you completely rip off the top 1%.
If after such a brain extorting exercise you’ll repeat the same mantra “By increasing the tax rates on the highest earners, including the capital gains rate, the United States will have the revenue to truly get back on track,” I’ll give up and suggest you to go to, say, Zimbabwe for elementary study: who knows, may be they have a better education over there…
Speak out! Tell your story. Tell the people what it is REALLY like living under communism. We need your voice.
Stolichnaya (funny nickname, btw.; why not in Russian?),
my story requires a lot of dedicated space and an appropriate time.
And my experience says that American interest lasts no longer than 2-3 posts: Americans don’t like when somebody points out their own weaknesses.
I have actually been reading for almost an hour, every post that has something to say. And I agree, your story will be well worth the space. I will read every word.
“Criminal” as it’s defined by law doesn’t apply to those at the top of companies who skim off the backs of the workers- That is the problem. Yes, I do have names, several of them in the companies I’ve worked for. The problem is, that if I give their names out they pull their recommendations for me. “These people”, at the top of the 4 big companies I’ve worked for, sold the companies and they took the $ and ran- and that is the game. You start out as empoyee # 20, the company grows to 2,000, and in the end the “Owners” (They own the workers) run off with the money that the workers slaved for. The workers are then eiher laid off by the new owners or they stay on- left with no steak in the co. because who are they supposed to reap the benifits from now- the previous owners have ran off with $ that the worker should have had a part of. That is the game- it’s a band of theives at the top, buying up and spitting out companies (people), sucking up the benifits of the workers and getting off scott free. I was #20 in a company that grew to 2,000 in 6 years, I was given bullshit carrot stick stock options and in the end the company was sold for 786 million dollars. How much was my stock really worth by then? $800. They had dilluted it. This is how the vast majority of companies work, and it fucking sick, and the companies are just the tip of the ice berg- look at the God Damned banks!! That’s a whole other rant. And people like you can so easily just say- Ohhh, it’s just a group of lazy hippy commy ignorant slop. Is that what I spent $150K on college to come out and hear after working my ass off for decades on top of that only to have the fruits of my labor go to to some theif at every compnay I’ve worked for? Who the fuck do you think you are? And you say that I am generalizing? LOOK AT ME YOU MOTHER FUCKER – I AM PISSED AS HELL AND FOR GOOD GOD DAMN REASON – I’VE WORKED HARD MY WHOLE LIFE AND HAVE BEEN FUCKED OVER TIME AND TIME AGAIN AND YOU HAVE THE IGNORANT GALL TO DENOUCE MY PROTEST?!? WHO THE FUCK DO YOU THINK YOU ARE?!?!?! BACK OFF THIS PROTEST AND THIS OWS MOVEMENT AND LET IT BE WHAT IT IS!!! It’s message will become clearer and it is for the good of at least 90%, if not 99%, because it will scare back the very people who helped crashed the economy and who rape the workers. The C-Suite needs to stop stealing the sweat of people- That is my part of the OWA message, and come hell or high water, I will get it across, no matter how much you aim to smear me. What you really don’t get is that unless you plan to unfairly compensate your staff (if you have one), then you are shooting yourself in the foot by trying to smear those who are standing up for your rights- whether they are “lazy” hippies, commies, white panthers, black panthers, or some guy named Joel Codey.
Joel,
let me break my answer in separate sections.
Section 1. It’s impossible not to admire how skilfully you reveal your college education by using stinky ribaldry.
Section 2. It’s very hard not to admire your ability to ask a question and immediately give an answer to yourself. For instance:
“Who the fuck do you think you are?,” you asked.
And immediately answered to yourself: “look at me YOU MOTHER FUCKER.”
I assume that you had A+ in logic in your college classes.
Section 3, with reference to everything else you wrote:
Your outrage with regard to some greedy CEOs may be very well grounded.
But your attitude towards the ways and goals of solving our real problems reveals your very much stinky Bolshevik inclination, which, to me, disqualifies you as a problem solver.
P.S. In my former country, individuals who insulted little known interlocutors with such dirty words, put themselves in a great danger of being beaten in their muzzle by those whom they insulted. But in the perverted American society, the insulted person may be penalized for his normal masculine response. I assume that you would call police…
Constantine,
It’s very easy and common to quickly dismiss someone who uses foul language when expressing their deep dissatisfaction, I was quite aware of this when I wrote it and I expected your response. My apologies for any offense taken. However, to not acknowlodge someones greivences and deep frustrations because of their language is to miss the level of emotion and expression itself. Emotion is valid, and should not always be repressed. Without it a key element of the human condition, and my condition, is lost. World you curse if you lost $100K of hard earned $ in the stock market that you worked years for, especially if it happened due to extreme greed and curroption? This is why I stand tall with OWS, as should you, their goal especailly if not distintly include ending that greed and curroption. What do you think, take a shot at the heart of it – dare to stand up for ending lobbying via monetary contributions?… https://www.facebook.com/pages/Occupy-K-Street-Lobbyists/230303940367925?sk=info
I was #20 in a company that grew to 2,000 in 6 years, I was given bullshit carrot stick stock options and in the end the company was sold for 786 million dollars. How much was my stock really worth by then? $800. They had dilluted it.
Those numbers suggest that you never bothered to exercise your options until the company sold. The normal process by which stocks are diluted is through stock splits, but if you don’t exercise the options you miss the almost exponential growth those splits can provide. I’ve never worked in your industry, but my stepson has for almost a quarter century and my conversations with him suggest that stock purchase programs, which when done in the format of a 401K usually include substantial corporate matching funds, are nearly ubiquitous. This suggests to me that you either chose the few enterprises that don’t offer these perks or deliberately chose not get on your corporation’s bandwagon. Moreover, having been stung once you seem to have chosen to repeat the same pattern over again, twice. Maybe your employers were taking advantage of you, but from what you’ve offered so far, it seems you were probably repeatedly failing to take advantage of your opportunities.
djaces,
My stock options never got above $2,000 and the dillution happened before I had a chance to sell sooner. We were outright cheated. I can only say trust me on this.
I still don’t understand why people on this blog here don’t see the greed and curroption and how OWS is the closest thing we’ve seen yet to ending it. I don’t see another movement coming along and seizing the moment like this one. This is it. With the good, the bad, and the ugly, but this is it. It may not be pretty now, but do expect beautiful people with flowers in their hair to show up and be the face of it? People are angry, this is what you get, and so far there hasn’t violence to rival the kinds of things we’ve seen at say, the end of superbowl series. This is it, and unless you are a millionaire you should stand with them to help curb the greed. Already it’s working with Bank of America making concesions. This is it bro, help it out, see the curroption, and stand up to it.
Um, let’s see “F**cked over time and again” but making 6 figures? So I guess what you are saying is you are pissed because you are NOT in the 1%? So you have to punish those that built the companies that you made 6 figures working for? You know there are lots of opportunities in the food service industry where you won’t have to work for those slimy people….
Joel,
I agree with you & I know plenty of people in your situation like my husband. Anarchy, which the OWS protesters want ultimately, will not solve the problem. It’s a problem that permeates throughout society. It’s about me & what I can get out of it. It has nothing to do w/the common good & everything to do w/power.
What might help a little is to prosecute &B jail obvious law-breaking persons like those residing in many corporate rooms & government offices. Show the people that everyone is responsible for their own actions & must pay the price if it’s illegal.
Jeannie,
Anarchy is no govenrment, and the right is closer to wanting that than the left is. Anarchy is not what OWS wants, it’s wants exactly whay you are advocating- justice. Who doesn’t want justice to happen? Criminals. Who are the criminals? They know who they are, and they have the money to show for it, LOTS of it, billions if not trillions, are planting people and picking out isolated events at the protests so that they can quickly deamonize it so that they won’t have to be held accountable. The message of OWS- if it’s allowed to crystalize before being ruined by thoughtless sites like this, is your message, it’s a message that we want fairness and justice. I’m on the verge of burning out yet again from working too hard, and now from seeing another merger about to happen at my current company… I can’t take this much longer, I am a knowledagble skillfull and really (toot toot) a wonderful man, but i have my limits, and if I have to see much more of this injustice and be lied to and cheated by the company “owners” I will no longer be the man who I’ve strived to be. OWS is already having an affect on Bank of America, see the news today. There is more to come. Please realize that this movement is on your side, and your husband’s side. That is, unless it’s allowed to be deamonized. See the good in it, be the good in it, and it will be what you want it to be. There is movement, REAL CHANGE (not the bama fake change), but real change by the people FOR the people is starting to happen, and it’s happening with the good, the bad, and the ugly (hippies
), but it is happening and it is starting and this is the train- no matter how it’s starting out… this is it. Help to steer my dear.
@Jeaninne- This is your second call for more accountability and transparency. I think you may be one of the 99% supporters but not the ones selectively placed on this list. many commentors have even noted that they are “the usual suspects”. This list is Reductio ad Hitlerum. It is classic wedge politics, designed to create camps of “us” and “them”, to play off those who have done or are doing well by the system against those protesters who are said not to be. But this tactic fails in the face of a movement that defies facile categorisation.
jc, you speak for me and for millions of other STEM workers, but I don’t really think the OWS guys speak for us. maybe they speak, in part, for those even worse off than us, can’t even get into the field, even with bachelors and advanced degrees. but mostly they are too goofy to represent any ideas at all.
where I do identify with the OWS crowd is when they villify wall street, which is where they do agree with the tea party – but while both sides agree on the problem, there is no agreement on the solution.
be careful whose bandwagon you jump on, they’re not all headed in the same direction.
I have over 30 years’ experience in IT, and have recently updated my skills. However, there are no jobs for older Americans in much of anything, least of all in IT. That’s why I’m working in retail. Yes, I’m a good retail salesperson, just as I was a good IT worker, even though it doesn’t pay enough to live on at the moment.
Forgiveness is just fine in our personal lives, but it does not apply in the voting booth. No politician (and that would include both Obama and Romney) who helped to outsource US jobs will ever get my vote, and that’s that. If it comes down to a choice between those two, we will emigrate.
Do the Occubaggers represent us? Not just no, but HELL NO!
Does this not represent your views… What do you think, take a shot at the heart of it – dare to stand up for ending lobbying via monetary contributions?… https://www.facebook.com/pages/Occupy-K-Street-Lobbyists/230303940367925?sk=info
You don’t believe in free speech. Anyone or any company, which is just a collection of individuals, has a right to petition the government or to speak out on matters that affect them.
If you want to end the cozy relationship that some companies have with government the surest way to do that is to cut government power by 80 or 90%. But how would banning lobbying have made a difference in your retirement savings? You seem very confused.
Joel,
I practically know you. So you worked for for decades for the likes of Lucent. Were you with AT&T before divestiture? I joined after that and saw a lot of self-important people, such as you, who, although making salaries that would be the envy of anyone else in America had an obnoxious sense of entitlement.
Tell me, were you paid for your work? If it was so bad for “decades” why didn’t you just quit? Since you are obviously smarter than any one your worked for it should have been easy for you to start your own company, perhaps a cell phone provider or undersea cable business or IT sub-contractor and clean up. But you did not do that.
Mow you expect us to empathize with your anger at being privileged all those years?
I too swam with those same fishes in corporate America and saw disappointing management practices and some stupidity resulting in AT&T and Lucent stock plummeting. But, unlike you, I take responsibility for my own outcome.
Joel, You made 6 figures and complaining about it. You’ve got a lot of nerve, seems to me you got paid for what you were doing. It is called free enterprise and that my friend is what the now goverment is trying to kill with all the regulation going on. I raised 3 kids on $80. a week and lived good, today that won’t even buy groceries, let alone rent and utilities. The Unions are killing us, they protect the deadbeats that want to get paid but not work and the ones that do work have to support them. Never would I pay someone in order to have a job. They are the reason we no longer have the steel mills here in the USA and have to put up with the crap steel from china or japan. Yes I left them without a capital on purpose. Most of those people in the occupy movements are just there like the hippies in the 60′s not even knowing why just there. You need to stop blaming corporate for your malcontent in life and get one.
Excellent work, Zombie!!!
Thanks to The Blaze for linking to you.
I’m very disappointed to see the substantially different classifications of “Supporters, Sponsors, Sympathizers” all lumped into a single listing. A sponsor is something, at least in my vernacular, completely different and a whole “other” level of commitment than a “Supporter” or “Sympathizer”. While to support or sympathize can be the “in” thing to do, it’s a completely different level when $$ are provided via a true sponsorship. I would be VERY interested in a “reveal” of who is financially backing and providing a professional level of organizing, thus paying someone on behalf/for the benefit of, the OWS movement and I think the public deserves to know this as well! The claims of “grassroots” and contrasts (often derogatory) regarding the Tea Party’s protests cannot be believed without proof.
So what many of you are saying is that you want corporations to bribe our ELECTED officials to do whatever the corporations want them to do, whether it be to allow them to get away with spilling toxins in our rivers, lakes and air or to cut taxes for millonairs and raise them on the workers? Or to allow toxic mortages, or even to add cancer causing poison to our food?
The ability for corporations to buy candidates and then make them do their bidding- NOT THE PEOPLE’S BIDDING, must end if we are to have a healthy nation for all.
You seem to have forgotten a few people:
The Decepticons
Skeletor
Sauron
The Cenobites
Cobra Command
Satan
C’thulu
But I’m sure you’ll eventually add those around the same time you’ll eventually add all of the organizations that don’t cast the protest in a poor light right?
Can you list the radio and or TV stations that are supporting OWL?
Bill Ayers & Bernardine Dohrn [Weather Underground] Releases “Official, Collective Statement Of” Occupy Wall St. Protesters. http://storyballoon.org/blog/2011/10/06/bill-ayers-collective-statement-zuccotti-park-occupy-wall-street/
Looking forward to updated list/s! You have your work cut out for you and I appreciate what you are doing. Thank you!
List 1%’ers who support ‘em. Celebrities, athletes, professionals and CEO’s. How about the Wall St firms and vendors that are supplying them with food etc? Check their 501c3 for names of contributors. List every politician as well. We need to preserve the entire list for posterity.
You make a deal with the devil and i wont be a deal for you.
After reviewing the list of supporters, The only pattern I see is diversity.
also planning for Rose Bowel Parade;
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/41865
Nicely done. Let me state an obvious here. The Occupy movement is NOT about division. It is about the people. Not right wing or left,liberal or conservative. Those who support the movement do so on their own accord for their own personal reasons and objectives and are part of the people as a whole without discrimination or judgement. We do not all carry the exact same beliefs and not in complete agreement on every level. We come from different walks of life each of us. But we do come together as one in this movement.Your attempt is to cause division, to categorize and attempt to dismember. That is NOT what we are about. You are correct.
There was a saying attributed to a former White House staffer that went liek this, “Never let a good crisis go to waste.” I suspect it was a take off from the Communist rule, “Never let a good protest go to waste.”
And, it looks like that is the case here. These were going to be protests that would get a lot of media, so they showed up to be seen and get their message across.
From what I saw, the presence of thse organized groups appeared as the movement was well into operation. Even if they were there on the first day, most of were not amoung the first rally attendees.
So I suspect they realized the opportunity for exposure and grabbed it. Kinda like the guy that is always in every photo taken at the company picnic.
From interviews of participants it looked more like a cross section of left, midddle and right; each with a view of their own.
Like all socialist organizatrions they will infiltrate or even crash the scene so they get their face in the photo.
They may claim to have been a sponsor, but was there any money involved? Just what was their support, above saying they support the rally’s intent? The support message of Ron Paul was mistaken, so howmany of the others were as well?
I personally think the rallies were not the filthy rich or the politicians who makeup the 1%. They were the fed up Americans who no longer want to be lied to, overregulated, suffering from runaway inflation, told what they must buy, and have the government in their pocket. Their protests are about the very same things as the street protests of 1775 against the English.
The leftists just tried to pirate it into being something they put on. Fertilizer. They didn’t orgamize anything. This began over twi years ago with protests on April 15 wben people said we have beeb Taxed Enough Already and they had a parties in parks all over the nation. Yep, they had TEA parties.
What a choice list of fine upstanding radical, hate groups who preach the overthrow of the USA. And people wonder why we’re going to hell in a handbasket???? REALLY?
Ah, yes, the list of endorsements. To say that this is a biased list, would be stating the obvious. To say it is VERY incomplete, is also obvious. Please let me know when you’ve cataloged a list that includes EVERYONE that supports OWS. – oh, wait, you’d have to list the entire 99% – stop wasting your time.
Ah yes, because everyone knows that if you claim to represent 99% of the people, then you actually do. Just say it, and it becomes true! Simple as that!
Found this on Riddit last night…
During the time of the Middle East revolutions, the citizens and protesters called for help from the US, and we did, along with NATO. These people were in distress and being hurt and policed outside the law.
It has come to my attention that our US citizens are being detained, beaten, shot at, hospitalized, women being thrown to the ground. Peaceful protesters walking on the sidewalk being tear-gassed and pepper sprayed.
It is time for us to call for help, we must ask another nation or ally to stand in solidarity with us. An outside group must save us from our tyrannical authoritarian government, we have the Constitutional law to stand up against our government, to protest our rights, to free speech. Yet, we are not allowed this for some reason?
Europe, or someone, please save us. We are being walked over and our leaders are not leading us the way they should. Clearly we want change, we want different leaders.
The Egyptian people wanted it, and got it. We helped. Now, someone must help us.
~They really are idiots!~ They are slowly starting to try and justify their need for violence.
Tides Foundation (funded by Soros)
http://blog.tides.org/2011/10/12/why-we-support-the-occupywallstreet-movement/
Tides Foundation funds OWS Journal
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZT_IPn2QIlM
Id Strongly suggest you link to original source, and ALSO arcive it locally , as “sensitive” links will get scrubbed…
No black helos here, just the facts!
Joel,
You sound like a pretty sharp guy. If you work so hard and are so talented, start your own company and give your salary away to your employees. Everyone talks about being screwed, your only screwed if you’re a victim at heart. You’re value is proven by what you do with what you are given. I wish I had time to protest this nanny state we call a government, but I have to g back to work so all these good people can still receive their entitlement checks. I have to go back to work now to do my part.
Peace.
Occupy Wall St. And Allies Rally & March United for Civil Rights
Posted Oct. 27, 2011, 8:46 p.m. EST by OccupyWallSt
( http://occupywallst.org/article/occupy-wall-st-and-allies-rally-march-united-civil/)
In a demonstration of the *broadening base* of the Occupy Wall Street / 99% movement, a rally will be held this coming Saturday, October 29 at City Hall Park in New York City, **co-sponsored** by:
Coalition Black Trade Unionists (CBTU)
A. Philip Randolph Institute (APRI)
Labor Council for Latin American Advancement (LCLAA)
Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance (APALA
National Action Network (NAN)
NY State and NYC City Chapters of the NAACP
Speakers at the Rally already include:
Terrence Melvin of Coalition of Black Trade Unionists(CBTU)
Sonia Ivany of Labor Council for Latin American Advancement (LCLAA)
Pres. Sid Ryan of Ontario Federation of Labor
Anthony Harmon of A. Philip Randolph Institute(APRI)
Chris Provost [I believe they mean --Cory Provost --VH]- Chair of Univ Student Senate, City University of New York (CUNY)
Members of Transit Workers Union Local 100
SEIU Local 1199
I saw a item on alternet.com appealing to people to make donations to support the OWS people, providing food, other necessities. I was under the impression that the alternet people were the prime supporters of OWS.
Sean Penn – who would have guessed?
http://www.thedailybeast.com/videos/2011/10/15/sean-penn-i-applaud-occupy-wall-street.html
Please do not forget Francis Fox Piven, Bill Ayres, Van Jones, Steven Lerner,Seiu, Working Families Party, AFL Trumska, Andy Stern, Adbusters, Soros, Tides, Moveon Org., Center for American Progress, United Federation of Teachers, Code Pink, Hezbollah,… http://www.theblaze.com/stories/video-exposing-occupy-wall-street-was-organized-from-day-one-by-seiu-acorn-front-the-working-family-party-and-how-they-all-tie-to-the-obama-administration-dnc-democratic-socialists-of-america/
Do not forget the Patchouli Manufacturers. All those international corporations. – - http://www.alibaba.com/manufacturers/patchouli-perfume-manufacturer.html
They make millions by making the fragrance, so you know that sales have to be way up, as Patchouli is the bathing product used by the camping hippie,
BTW – It was comical to see the adoration Michael Moore recieved when, in Portland on his self proclaimed ‘Book Tour’ – I saw him speak, lauding the size, scope and passion of the anti-corporate group, he said was the largest in America, then to immeditely sign the books he sold there.
(If he makes any profits from the sales of his books or movies, doesn’t that make him, what is it called, a capitalist?)
note to Zombie, and everyone else. As you find these live links, by all means send them in here for evaluation. But first IMMEDIATELY PRINT to file and save A FULL PDF COPY of the entire webpage. So many of these links and pages that are considered “incriminating” by these organizations are being suddenly and completely scrubbed from their sites, as they are “outed” to the rest of the world. Then when necessary, Zombie may need to set up a source page where these scrubbed links can be seen in their PDF versions. Just a thought.
The nerve of these organizations, and the nerve of any poster who is garnering support for “Occupy”. What I am seeing is the usual tactic of the left to LIE and DECEIVE people into joining their perverse motley group.
Peaceful? Isn’t it obvious that the OWS is anything but peaceful? Their goal is to overthrow Capitalism, and they will do so if they have to LIE through their teeth, if they have to DECEIVE anyone into the false belief of their ideologies.
The fact that the Liberal Left resorts to LYING, DECEIVING, and SLANDERING as part of their “business-as-usual” techniques, I will never side with such an evil group.
And of course, I forgot Elizabeth Warren…!
I can’t wait until it snows really deep. Freeeze em.
The planned goes well start something big over here and no ones watches what we are doing over there. This is our Goverment at its best can’t balance a budget can’t discuss business to correct the problems we have. Do you know how many excutive orders have been signed since this occupation started. (Behind closed doors of coarse) Do you care?
History 101. Put 50% of the people aganist the other 50% and you have division. Be it class or wealth. Divided We Fall and they gain the power over us. (History old school) nothing new look it up. It happened before in Germany. And that went well. Right.
Both sides have opinions some good some not so good, but we all need to put it aside and focus on the real problems. We need to focus on the gutless polititions and Whitehouse Admins. who put us here. (Republicains and Democrates alike Along with the big businesses/Unions.
Keep your eyes on those who profit the most from using you.
Keep the peace and we might have a chance, don’t and you will see what real Marshall Law looks like. (Part of the transparent Plan of Change.) Note: Read Obama’s own words in his books. Then look though your own eyes and see what we all should be protesting against as one united group. Remember No Elections, No Rights. Socialism. Do your homework find one country this works. Good Luck.. Find your purpose use your thoughts not theres read between the lines. I think you will find we all want some of the same things. I wish you all luck and PRAY daily.
God Bless the USA…….
WOT? No mention of George Soros? Does that mean he has washed his soft, well-manicured but neverthless dirty hands of all this anti-rich-people business? Or is he hiding behind some organization so as not to be exposed as being behind this group of racist Weirdos? I know for a fact that he was behind the infamous pro-palestinian/anti-Israel New Israel Fund whose aim is to topple Netanyahu and his ‘rightwing’ party and replace it with its radical Leftwing stooges. Someone paid for the many hundreds of new, posh, colorful tents, 90% of which remained unoccupied throughout the rebellion period in Tel Aviv and elsewhere. The organizers are a band of spoilt-brat kids of rich Leftwing elitist families. their slogan is the well-worn one calling for ‘social justice’ which really means setting up a communist-type government. At least, so far, there has been no violence during several large demonstration, apart from vicious verbal attacks on PM Netanyahu and his government.
A list of the all to familiar chaos causers who want to destroy our country.
Good job with this list. Recently I have been reading of the small businesses adversely affected by the various OWS groups. Just saw where one at the OWS site laid off 25 people. Additionally, there are costs to cities aka non occupying taxpayers. Is there a list or compilation anywhere of the personal and public economic damage these irresponsible, self indulgent people are causing?
Obama, Biden and Pelosi must be thrilled to be in such company. Isn’t it funny how all the “bad people” manage to find each other?
What does “awaiting moderation” mean?
It means I’ve been busy with non-blog work issues for the last 18 hours and haven’t had time to “approve” any of the 300+ comments that came in unexpectedly in the interim. I only have very limited time for blogging, and often the aftermath of making a quickie post like this can take days of effort. I’m doing my best to catch up at the moment during a spare half hour. Once I “approve” each comment, they finally appear on the thread. Comments on the Tatler are generally auto-approved; comments on the rest of PJM usually require moderation. The editors sometimes do it, but sometimes they are busy as well, and it is up to the individual authors.
I’ve read several articles connecting Soros and his money to OWS. Just including one link. http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=47009
The writer of that article probably is factually correct on George Soros, tho he seems to have a biased concern with ‘antisemitism’, which in the end I believe is a ‘false-flag sheild’. George Soros also contributes to that landromat for other Foundations already mentioned here the TIDES Foundation (and not to forget the TIDES Center). Just looking over the board members, one of the first names that stuck out at me was Joanie Bronfman (yes, of THAT wealthy Bronfman family who have been supporters and members of the Zionist Org). Soros is just one of the ‘left’ pinch hitters, as are other very wealthy members of the same cabal for the ‘right’. Here is the link to TIDES grantees with Adbuster on the list (I didn’t peruse any of the others): http://www.tides.org/utility/search/?cx=003949354664956518032%3A9pat6u0jfgw&cof=FORID%3A11&ie=UTF-8&q=Adbusters&sa=Search#1088
TIDES has contributed to ADBUSTER which is given the claim for calling out for the Days of Rage leading to a movement of people under the Occupy name. Kalle Lasn, the main guy for Adbusters as already mentioned is openly ‘antisemtic’ according to the usual accusation when the J-word is mentioned. How odd he should be funded by TIDES with Jewish sponsorship monies. He is clearly Anarcho-leftist and is affiliated with a similar character having prepared the ground for the Occupy Wall St. Movement a week to two week before if officially began: David Graeber (also Jewish btw) http://chronicle.com/article/Intellectual-Roots-of-Wall/129428
This reply isn’t all meant for you Loral. Just presented the opportunity to provide more info. I’ve been following OccupyLA and indeed the usual anarcho-leftists, Marxist/Communists, Unionists and lukewarm socialists are floating about. A Jim Rafferty from the National Lawyers Guild (which has rightly been identified as a Communsit front) was offering legal advice. I checked out some of his law partners and they are all socialists–one having ran as a Communist in an election–another an Arab mixing Socialism with Muslim/Palestinian causes (having had some legal conflict as well). One Union member (Mario Brito) offering his services and representing himself to the media as a spokesman (against the wishes of the participating members of the movement) is a Communist.
Many members of the Occupy movement members want to be inclusive, so that any of these ideologues and special-interest groups as individual can participate as individuals in their ‘leaderless’ stance. Some of these ad hoc participants have mostly middle to slightly leftist leanings, with some others being sensitive to ‘race’ and any notions of ‘antisemtism’, which one by mistake posted a blog claiming to expose infiltrators revealed ‘Antifa’ involvement as self-appointed guardians of the Occupy movement. Antifa are of course anarchist Trotskyites who proclaim to fight Fascims (and racism), but aren’t attacking REAL Fascists, just anyone who doesn’t share their views and are known to be violence prone, as well as ‘anonymous’.
Here is the blogsite one of the OccupyLA web-contributors posted to (claiming not to know who Antifa were): http://ladylibertyslamp.wordpress.com/2011/10/28/infiltrators-of-the-occupy-movement/ You will note the blog admin. ‘Thelibertylamp’ identifies himself as ‘Antifa’ in the comments section and the blogroll confirms the character of this blogster even more. Antifa is international in scope, composed of many umbrella groups and all work in anonymity online, as well when carrying out violent destructive acts…so I am left suspicious about the ‘We are ANONYMOUS’ meme playing a role behind the Occupy movment.
I am not going to knock down everyone in the movement, because most of them are probably activist idealists who want to do something about the corruption, the corporatism and many even understand overall the Bankster racket (The Fed. Reserve) is above it all. My concern is that too many of them are naive, in spite of their righteous complaints in whom, exactly how and what they can do about it, other than just chipping here and there at the structure. They are aware of infiltration by diehard ideologues and special interest groups, as well as possible ‘provocateurs’ from authorities representing the establishment they have set themselves to ‘Occupy’. They seem to be trying hard to remain individualist and ‘leaderless’ in spite of differences that can be found in any gathering of people. My fear is they will get used in some way that could be harmful not only to them, but to society at-large (the rest of the 99% as the have it). It’s bizzarre really that they should have somehow arrived at this tactic of forming and expressing themselves. It’s not going to work (I can’t imagine how), except in a direction the naive among them wouldn’t want.
In my view, this is the 1% brewing things up as a cover to lead their own opposition using mostly naive well-meaning concerned and righteously upset people fed up with the clearly failing system of political, financial and economic structure as it has become. I’m pissed too and I know where the linch-pin of the racket, the rigged system lay (and LIES!).
For decades we have allowed our govt to change education full of left wing multicultural, socialist, & class-war propaganda creating a huge demographic of indoctrinated citizens that believe capitalism is evil. Until culture & morality are no longer controlled through debt by a controlling elite we cant stop history from repeating itself. Capitalism has been undermined since the creation of the Federal Reserve so it has not shielded us from this control through debt. To help save America, instead of assisting in her demise this huge demographic needs a quick & easy way to understand including a historical perspective of what is actually happening. In this link is what I think every OWS protester & American with their head buried in the sand needs to understand to begin to wake themselves up, you agree? https://www.facebook.com/topic.php?uid=294421993905616&topic=669
I got where you are coming from Jeff. I overwhelming agree!
SEIU is in.
http://campaigns.dailykos.com/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=46
“This business will get out of control. It will get out of control and we’ll be lucky to live through it.”
Van Jones.. “Take Back the American Dream Movement”. See tape of October conference. Jones states his support of OCWS. He suggests progressive, liberals use the Party model to come together under the principle of rebuilding the “American Dream”, as he defines it. Near the end of the tape about 30 progressive group/organization leaders declare their memberships (some in the millions) support for “Rebuild the Dream”. AFLCIO, AFGE, SEIU, Moveon.org, NGL Task Force, People for the American Way, Sierra Club, Energy Action Corp,League of Young Voters, Democracy for America, Opportunity Agenda, Jobs for Justice, Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, Hip-Hop Caucus, etc. etc. Watch the tape.
http://www.theblaze.com/blog/2011/10/03/watch-live-van-jones-american-dream-conference-in-washington-d-c/
Blockbusters is one the bottom banner on Occupy stream
Clinique and Papa Johns has ads on it.
It’s past Halloween, you can take off that ridiculous tin-foil hat anytime now.
You left out some high profile OWS supporters on your list…Count Dracula, Vlad the Impaler, Adolf Hitler, Benedict Arnold, Pontius Pilate and Emperor Nero were left out, how come?
In case you missed it, there is no need to invent losers that support OWS. Plenty of real ones have already presented themselves as evidenced by this growing list.
Have a nice day.
Nowhere in the list do I see the U.S. Military and the police:
https://www.google.com/#hl=en&sugexp=kjrmc&cp=8&gs_id=v&xhr=t&q=Occupy+Army,+Marines,+Air+Force,+Navy,+Police,+provide+OWS+Escort&tok=TZm_v5rp5Qpx1vrz985nog&pf=p&sclient=psy-ab&source=hp&pbx=1&oq=occupy+a&aq=0p&aqi=p-p2g2&aql=f&gs_sm=&gs_upl=&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.,cf.osb&fp=81daeae0cefe2a66&biw=1366&bih=646
http://www.occupypolice.org/
I suggest a reading of the CPUSA’s new constitution as it appeared in the Center Magazine, September-October, 1970, “Constitution for a United Republics of America: A model for discussion, Version xxxvii” (1970)(updated in 2010) and a comparison of the Communist Manifesto, the Humanist Manifesto, and our current environment. In 2008, the CPUSA opened a new national office in Manhattan, NY. One of the comments made during the accolades of praise regarding the growth of the Party and their youth movement was: “The Party should be optimistic because we now have a Marxist headed for the White House.”
A side note: The CPUSA and the CPGB have been working together for about 10 years (or more) to bring about the downfall of both continents.
A GUARANTEE: We are on the down slope of a 20 year economic cycle. The people who PUT Obama in office are doing their best to take advantage of this cycle. Therefore, THEY WILL NOT STAND IDLY BY AND WATCH THEIR AGENDA BE VOTED OUT OF OFFICE. Although I have no concrete proof, my research indicates a very strong possibility that a SHADOW GOVERNMENT exists in Chicago, IL.
I would like to know where the $500,000 in donations came from and who took tax deductions for them, as I understand the IRS ruled that they are deductible. I was falsely accused by the same IRS of tax fraud on totally bogus charges that I lied about charitable contributions and 529 savings which I used for grandchild’s college tuition.
I’m pretty certain Fidel Castro has voiced his support….I would also be interested in the % of OWS protestors who actually have full time jobs.
Harry Reid
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/01/harry-reid-occupy-wall-street-the-1-percent_n_1069452.html
http://ufcwblog.blogspot.com/2011/10/ufcw-international-stands-with-occupy.html
http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread769776/pg1 (video, longshoremen)
http://www.ilaunion.org/news_occupy_wall_street.html (longshoremen union statement)
I tried six times to cut and paste this article and send it to family and friends and it would not do so. When I cut out the body of the message and tried again, it would send. When I tried with another article, same size, it would send. Each of the six times I tried to send this article, I could not do so.
Just wondering!
Home addresses please. So we know where to go when the street fighting breaks out.
Al Gore belongs on the list.
http://blog.algore.com/2011/10/thoughts_on_occupy_wall_street.html
“For the past several weeks I have watched and read news about the Occupy Wall Street protests with both interest and admiration.”
I’m shocked Francis Fox Piven is not on top of this List. She made a speech at one event in New York but she should be included since this movement is based on her life’s work as Revolutionary. TheBlaze.com had a video of it if hasn’t been scrub from the internet. Open Society gives money to so many left-wing organizations it would hard to find which ones or even if Open Society would give funds to a 3rd party that would dirct funds in support OWS. Soros would have the money to support the printing of the Occupy Wall Street Journal newspaper that’s a huge expense by someone & Open Socity would pay that cost if Soros ordered it to.
She’ll be added when I get some time to update the list.
I plan to relaunch this list in a couple weeks, vastly improved, incorporating as many suggestions as possible from both sides of the aisle.
You people are misguided, the list above that Mr. Zombie provided is
1.) Filled with lies(some are not actually supporters of the movement)
2.) Why the heck would White supremacists support OWS, White racists and supremacists are overwhelmingly republican, Mr. Zombie is probably confusing OWS with the Tea “Racist” Party.
3.) Many of the guys on the list are FRINGE elements of the left and their beliefs are actually opposed to what the 99% are trying to achieve.
4.) First of all why is such a hot chick like Alexis Garcia with a conservative website like this? she is hispanic and we all know that the Republicans hate the Latino folks.
Also, she is real hot and Conservative women are usually, I mean ALWAYS ugly.
Alexis please stop being a republican, a hot chick like you should be a democrat, do you have a boyfriend?
Was there honestly any point to your post? It is easy to say some one lied…try proving it.
“the list above that Mr. Zombie provided is”
1.) Every item in the list has a source link, apparently in your haste and deluded denial you missed that.
2.) Provide one documented act of racism by real tea party activists. Take your time. Meanwhile feel free check out this blog and Kevin Jackson who still has not found a racist at a tea party since he started looking.
http://theblacksphere.net/dont-treat-boyeeee/
Then please check out Herman Cain, Rep. Allan West and Allan Keyes. Think for yourself for a change.
3.) You meant the 0.99% right? I have yet to see a real live OWS person. So far the only ones I have seen been in pictures and on Camera. Zero seem to be around in my day to day activities. If they were the 99% then I would have been running into them every day multiple times a day. Of course this is not happening… So much for the 99%.
4.) I know some Hispanic republicans that would beg to differ with your baseless accusation here. Best you keep that bit to yourself when you run into them next…
So, let me get this straight… the black panthers, various white power groups, socialists, communists, nazis, david duke, north korea, and Iranian theocrats ALL support OWS? Funny… that would be about the only thing all those groups would be agreeing on. In fact its such a scattershot list that it defies credulity.
Here is the International Longshore and Warehouse Union or ILWU. There local 21 has been violently protesting the hiring of another union in Longview WA. Their national president Robert McEllrath was arrested for trespassing and blocking a train.
http://www.ilwu.org/?p=3140
Articles about the situation:
http://tdn.com/special-section/grain_terminal/?oCampaign=hottopics
Ineptocracy (in-ep-toc-ra-cy) – a system of government where the least capable of leading are elected by the least capable of producing, and where the members of society least likely to sustain themselves or to succeed are rewarded with goods and services paid for by the confiscated wealth of a diminishing number of producers.
Finally, a way to describe Obama and his voters
Ineptocracy – a new word and its definition describing what has happened in the US !
Great find.
Are there no conservatives or independents that acknowledge the
#OWS folks might have real (but unarticulated) issues?
Everybody has real but unarticulated issues. The key is the articulation.
I could stand on a street corner with a sign that says “No on Yes,” and you could legitimately say that I have “real but unarticulated issues.”
Until they’re articulated, the OWS positions are beyond criticism — and that’s the whole point. I don’t play that game. I know full well that the absence of articulation is conscious, so as to dodge any analysis.
George Soros should round out the remaining 1%… and that is everybody… right?
Francis Fox Piven is a huge supporter, she even spoke at one of the rallies.
Might be better to make a list that contains people not in support of the 99%, that is what 99% means right, almost everyone?
Post owned. Close thread.
Just because a smattering of useful idiots CLAIM to represent 99% of humanity doesn’t mean they DO represent 99% of humanity. Since the number of protesters in fact equals about .01% of the population, and the MSM polls showing 30%+ positive responses are incredibly flawed and designed to skew that way, it’s much more likely that the percentage of support is far, far, far below 99% or even 9.9%. And most of those 9.9% are, as others have noted, “the usual suspects.”
Comment owned, thread continues.
More like closer to 0.99% imop.
Simply put,just because you say 99%, does not mean 100% of the 99% approve of the representation. So please do not claim to represent people who would rather not be represented by you.
IBEW Local 199
http://www.ibew199.org/
I believe this guy is a big supporter, too.
http://themorningspew.com/2011/11/01/occupy-breaking-bad/
I don’t understand the border guard support , all the others however are supporters I would expect to see on any list of those wanting to destroy the United States of America . Anyone truthfully educated about America and her history versus the history of marxists , communists , nazi , socialists , and the other failed societal experiments would understand that there has never been anything better than we have here , capitalism and all . Let me take this opportunity to thank every failed educator, ( That is Apparently all of them in the country ), for our incredibly ignorant youth .
Great article. Thanks. Suggest you spell out full name for CAIR.
did I miss George Soros?
Hey all you brain dead Zombies: wouldn’t it be easier to just prepare the, “short list,” of those few remaining organizations that don’t support the Occupiers – - you know, the remaining 1%?
Love this site; it provides an emotional outlet for Fire Wire’s Zombies when they run out; or, forget to take their Meds.
Again, as i said before. Just because you squawk 99% like all the other parrots, does not mean that 99% are part of, or support, OWS. Please do not claim to represent people who do not want you to represent them. Of this “99%” you claim to represent, I’m sure a majority of them would think you are an idiot.
http://progressivetoo.com/2011/10/09/seiu-pledges-support-for-occupy-wichita/
…And Ron Paul.
And your source link says it all…
Washington Education Association – http://www.washingtonea.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3011:supporting-the-99-percent-&catid=180
I copied this from the US Border Guards website: “Occupy Phoenix”
On October 15th, 2011, the U.S. Border Guard deployed an urban combat trained security squad to the Occupy Phoenix rally today as armed peace keepers and legal observers. Border Rangers who patrol the border took a non-political stance to defend peaceful assembly and free speech of all citizens by exercising our right to keep and bear arms. Phoenix Police units were on scene also keeping the peace. Our founding fathers and founding mothers knew full well that the 2nd Amendment is what protects all our other amendments from tyranny. The U.S.B.G. protected the rights of all parties involved.
Is it fair to call them supporters?
Not in my opinion. It would be fair to say they were supporting their 1st amendment rights though. Your text said it clearly “a non-political stance to defend peaceful assembly and free speech of all citizens”.
The Tea Party is also tainted with blood money from the Kochs. Does that mean all of its proposals are invalid?
The Tea Party makes no effort to hide its goals, ask anyone of them and you will get one or more of the following:
Taxed Enough Already
Less Spending
Balance the Budget
Smaller Government
Adherence to the Constitution
So if the Koch Brothers want to spend their money on those issues I fail to see the problem?
I am a little disappointed with this blog. I see no list of detractors of the movement. And many of these “endorsements” seem at least to me people and organizations that are overall simply against America in some way, shape, or form and are using these demonstrations as a way to point and laugh at us. These “endorsements” do not seem to reflect the idea that these organizations are behind the demonstrations. It is similar to a “the enemy of my enemy is my friend” type of approach. These organizations are simply piggy backing off of a legitimate movement, and this blog is giving them more legitimacy than they deserve.
Knowing who support the 99% is less important than…
Knowing who the 99% supports…
Just because a group supports them doesn’t mean they support that group.
It is a literal and logical fallacy to assume otherwise.
The Border Patrol should be left out. They are there the same as the police. Because they support the right to protest does not mean that they agree with the protestors.
Police forces of any type may be ordered to do crowd control, no matter whether or not they sympathize with the crowd, whenever there is a crowd assembling for any reason within their bailiwick.
Police show up at Tea Party events too. They know by now that we aren’t going to attack the police or anybody else, but outsiders could appear on the scene and cause trouble or commit various crimes. I expect that some of the police sympathize with us and others don’t. It isn’t my business to ask them while they’re in uniform, nor is it their business to tell me.
They’re not Customs and Border Protection, the government agency. They’re a neo-nazi group. It’s true that they do talk about taking a non-political position there, but if you listen to what they say, and read what they write, it’s clear that they’re supporters (eg. they want their 2nd amendment to add teeth to OWS’s 1st Amendment because OWS protect against tyranny). If they’d been at a Tea Party, they’d be MSNBC’s constant face of the movement.
Thanks for pointing all that out. Sheesh, I thought it was obvious.
This is the first I hear of this so I for one appreciated the explanation.
Did any of these groups support the Tea Party? Surely there was some unwelcome support, but I’d be curious to know if it could match the level of “isolated examples.”
Reductio ad Hitlerum
“This technique is used to persuade a target audience to disapprove of an action or idea by suggesting that the idea is popular with groups hated, feared, or held in contempt by the target audience. Thus if a group that supports a certain policy is led to believe that undesirable, subversive, or contemptible people support the same policy, then the members of the group may decide to change their original position. This is a form of bad logic, where a is said to include X, and b is said to include X, therefore, a = b.”
Ross, Sheryl Tuttle (Spring 2002). “Understanding Propaganda: The Epistemic Merit Model and Its Application to Art”. Journal of Aesthetic Education 36 (1). http://www.jstor.org/stable/3333623. Retrieved 15 May 2011.
I just copied and pasted this from the US Border Guard’s website: “OCCUPY WALL STREET”PROTESTS
“Occupy Phoenix”
On October 15th, 2011, the U.S. Border Guard deployed an urban combat trained security squad to the Occupy Phoenix rally today as armed peace keepers and legal observers. Border Rangers who patrol the border took a non-political stance to defend peaceful assembly and free speech of all citizens by exercising our right to keep and bear arms. Phoenix Police units were on scene also keeping the peace. Our founding fathers and founding mothers knew full well that the 2nd Amendment is what protects all our other amendments from tyranny. The U.S.B.G. protected the rights of all parties involved.
Is it really fair to list them as supporters?
Folks, just face it J. McCarthy had it right! Too bad America didn’t have the stomach for “it”! This goes to show you that when given an inch a mile is taken! OWS is communism on display pure and simple! Commie’s save your breath, I’ll not be back here!
That’s nice. Apparently I can only post things if it supports the views of this site.
With a slogan like: “Voices from a free America”, who would have thought there would be heavy moderation against dissenting viewpoints?
Keep up the good work. Seems like there’s some similarities between here and some of the people and groups on the list as well.
Sorry, your comment along with 300 others had to wait in a Loooonggggg moderate queue today while I was at work. I’m approving them all now, including yours. Sorry for the wait.
There is no policy against dissenting opinions, as you can clearly see from this thread. Just a blogger too busy to moderation frequently.