Occupy Wall Street Global Movement News, Updates, and Your Thoughts

As we reported earlier, the city is coming in to clean Zuccotti Park tomorrow whether Occupy Wall Street likes it or not. (They don't). And now they're stepping up their response another notch: Ray Kelly told reporters that "People will have to remove all their belongings and leave the park." Not only that, they won't be allowed to bring back camping gear or even lie down, thus ending the sleeping part of the occupation. Things might get messy, since OWS shows no signs of giving in.

They've put out an "EMERGENCY CALL TO ACTION: Prevent the forcible closure of Occupy Wall Street!" and are urging people to go to Zuccotti at 6 a.m. tomorrow for "non-violent eviction defense."

Fourteen campers were cited and released and arrested one other at the empty lot that police say was raided after a complaint by the owner.

tristen303 wrote:Know I have seen them doing some of that, but they need to focus on that; the loss of homes caused by Wall Street and the long term UE. Those two issues would make them champions as opposed to making them fall into just another stereotypical protest group.

The above issues are American issues and just like the troops fighting in Afghan (nobody even pays attention to our losses now, its white noise) they risk in becoming the same (along with the 99ers).

Look the long term UE is much more of an issue then I think some even on this board understand. Our economy has shifted and an older segment of our population which paid taxes played by the rules and due to no fault of their own are now ass out; those jobs are not coming back. So what do we do retrain them at what 50?

This is a moral issue, not just for them but for the younger generation as well as for Wall Street.

If you get into a car accident and it’s your fault you pay for it, if you make milk and whether by your actions or no fault of your own it becomes contaminated and consumers get sick you do what? get sued and pay out. So if you create artificial wealth that transfers to one group and destroys an industry and its workers you do what? Nothing and let the government pay out?

Let my conservative roots come out because this isn’t a government problem this is a private industry problem and if everyone doesn’t hold them accountable (the global thing isn’t’ holding them accountable) then the future generations can just see what good things for them are sure to come.

This is a line in the sand and compensation needs to be provided from the private industries that contaminated the milk that the long term UE drank.

If you have any pull with the Occupy group I implore you to promote the above and have them dismiss the silly crap they are doing before it’s too late for everyone

Rumor number three took several minutes to confirm.

That’s because even though the Honorable Mr. Clinton didn’t know who I was, he would hold up a long line of well-wishers to address, with passion, his vision of America through the eyes of the public, which is the way he likes to see his country.

“I think what they’re doing is great,” he said. “Occupy Wall Street has done more in the short time they’ve been out there than I’ve been able to do in more than the last eleven years trying to draw attention to some of the same problems we have to address,” he said.

Without once looking around, but completely engaging me, the statesman continued. “There are a lot of young people out there, I see a lot of unemployed students and they are upset, he said. They don’t know where the jobs and opportunities are for them, and they are worried about how they’re going to pay off their student loans without going broke.”

But I learned instantly that Bill Clinton doesn’t just acknowledge problems he has solutions at the ready. He went on to say that student loan reforms were absolutely necessary and that limiting annual loan payments to small percentages of income made sense to not impoverish students as they struggle up the ladder in pursuit of the American Dream.

I asked if the Occupy Wall Street movement should have a platform. I was getting into another area he is passionate about, delivering messages on point. “Yes,” he said, “But it doesn’t have to be a platform; it doesn’t have to be twenty pages. They should start with three or four points to generate a political movement to get heard more clearly.”