Declaration of Occupy Wall Street

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:lol: It's like the 1966 Batman Movie where the Joker, Riddler,Catwoman, and Penguin all came together to take over the world. Wonder if OWS will turn the Bankers into dust with a superdehydrator

(on a side note Lee Meriwether IS the hottest Catwoman)
 
DOWNTOWN: Who is the leader of Occupy Atlanta?


ATLANTA -- Wearing his trademark red knit cap, Tim Franzen is very concerned when I meet him at Woodruff Park. He points to a man standing just three feet from former Mayor and Ambassador Andrew Young.

The man has an AK-47 slung around his back. The man goes by the name of 'Porch.' Porch later tells me he is at the park to support the occupiers and the gun is part of that support.

Franzen has become the unofficial leader of Occupy Atlanta. Video of Franzen was shown at the Mayor's press conference monday, and Franzen was there as well, challenging the Mayor while he was speaking, almost getting himself thrown out.

The 34-year-old says he has a job with the American Friends Service Committee, a Quaker founded social justice organization.

"I run a curriculum called 'Be the Change Curriculum.' We also have a youth group called Be the Change. It's basically young people learning how to identify root causes of problems in their communities and grasp the community organizing tools to create the change," Franzen said.

Franzen says he no longer lives in his Reynoldstown house, that the park is his home now.

"This opportunity is so important that I'm willing to do my day job, then pour every hour into this, that's what everyone in the park is doing," he said.

Franzen calls himself a community organizer but he also says, "I'm not the guy that's out every week with a a sign in his hand."

Tim Franzen is no stranger to being in front of the camera. He appears to be the star of something called the International Leisure club.

In a series of YouTube videos between 2006 and early this year, Franzen is on camera enjoys cigars in Miami, talking about the pillars of leisure which include dancing and conversation, and warning about managing money, that people shouldn't spend so much money that their 'handcuffed' to their jobs. Franzen is clearly the on camera star of the International Leisure Club which also has a Facebook page.

"Here it is right here, see?"

I nod yes, looking up at the building. I am asking Franzen about his latest proclamation, that he and the group intend to levitate the Georgia Pacific Building if the Koch brothers in New York do not withdraw their political money from Georgia Politics.

"We've been having a team of alchemists and faith healers and doctors of physics working together to develop a mathematical formula to levitate the building," Franzen said.
It's a bizarre claim from an unorthodox leader who has no intention of not occupying Atlanta.
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DOWNTOWN: Who is the leader of Occupy Atlanta? | 11alive.com
 
Albany law enforcement refused to remove those protestors. You win some and you lose some. There was some talk of bringing in homeland security because TPTB are afraid that local law enforcement won't remove the protestors. Not everyone will follow orders when those orders are wrong.
 
sallylou said:
Albany law enforcement refused to remove those protestors. You win some and you lose some. There was some talk of bringing in homeland security because TPTB are afraid that local law enforcement won't remove the protestors. Not everyone will follow orders when those orders are wrong.
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I was very surprised when I heard and heartened by that one. I believe the police in Albany refused because the protesters weren't breaking any laws.

I have been hearing reports of NYPD trying to provoke protesters in NYC into starting riots or egging them in order to provoke violence and discredit the protesters.
 
deafskeptic said:
I was very surprised when I heard and heartened by that one. I believe the police in Albany refused because the protesters weren't breaking any laws.
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not gonna happen. I believe that's illegal and they have no legal justification to involve Homeland Security personnel in this matter.

deafskeptic said:
I have been hearing reports of NYPD trying to provoke protesters in NYC into starting riots or egging them in order to provoke violence and discredit the protesters.
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yea not surprising. old news. old tactics. very common in G4-WTO protests too. I lol'ed when protestors found the undercover and shamed him because he was the only one in the group causing violence.
 
Back in 1983, approximately 50 corporations controlled the vast majority of all news media in the United States. Today, ownership of the news media has been concentrated in the hands of just six incredibly powerful media corporations.
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Who Owns The Media? The 6 Monolithic Corporations That Control Almost Everything We Watch, Hear And Read

I can kind of believe this since I've worked in the industry for years. When I was a child, nearly all of the newspapers here were independently owned and operated by local owners. Now, there aren't much left. Maybe none at all. They were all snatched up by big corporations and now they're being slashed to death.
 
DeafCaroline said:
Banks are paying for their mistakes but not at personal cost and they still managed to give themselves million dollar bonuses with taxpayers' money, people are paying even more and at a far more personal cost. You might as well tell people to study banking, economics and finance before applying for a loan. people are naive and banks took advantage of this.

In Canada, we have laws to protect against such exploitation. We know that people don't know as much about medicine as doctors do. We know that people don't know as much about finance as banks do, we know that the average guy next door doesn't know as much about math as einstein or that I don't know as much about law as the lawyer who handled my divorce case. There's a reason we trust professionals. And there's a reason laws are put in place to protect the people against professionals who are not behaving professionally or ethically.

But hey, if you're fine with how things are in the US, and think it's all the people's fault for not being as knowledgeable as bankers, then whatever makes you happy.
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No accountability.
 
dogmom said:
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Interesting. There definitely need to be a reform. This is basically a deja vu scenario of the AT&T monopoly that was out of control back in the 80s. They forced AT&T to break up into several pieces and as a result, people were able to do much, much more. Although I don't like that AT&T and the others are getting bigger again.

This is the result of the all the regulations they have gotten rid of over the last couple decades. Corporations are way, way bigger than they used to be back in the 70s and 80s. Even the 90s.
 
Banjo said:
Interesting. There definitely need to be a reform. This is basically a deja vu scenario of the AT&T monopoly that was out of control back in the 80s. They forced AT&T to break up into several pieces and as a result, people were able to do much, much more. Although I don't like that AT&T and the others are getting bigger again.

This is the result of the all the regulations they have gotten rid of over the last couple decades. Corporations are way, way bigger than they used to be back in the 70s and 80s. Even the 90s.
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Certain aspects of banking were never regulated either. The shadow banking system (think Lehmans Brothers) is one just example. The resulting fiascos are enough to convince me that regulations and reform will be needed to protect people from predatory practices.


BTW, people all over the world are very skeptical of American institutions and according to this site. I am referring to the 2011 Edelman trust barometer.

America is the only country where trust in all of its institutions declined. This is despite a trend toward increased trust in institutions in other countries. This will have grave consequences for our institutions in the future because this site has previous graphs graphing the decline of global trust in American institutions. We are near the bottom trust wise.
 
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Reba said:
Occupy Charleston was downright :zzz:
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Were you hoping for some good ol' violence and rioting? Me too! :lol:

The DC protest has also been very laid back. I rode my bike past MacPhearson Sq. yesterday where the protest is. It's clean, people are hanging out, and it seems like a generally nice atmosphere. Much better than when it was full of druggies and bums.
 
TXgolfer said:
Haftin' To Be Uproared - Occupy Atlanta - YouTube
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You must get madder and madder as you make these discoveries, these pearls of Liberalism, these cancerous "sit"izens that are only in this for the free money.

Love the related videos offered at the YouTube channel where this video was posted! Such unbiased stuff; from the Obama-looks-like-he-is-stoned picture, to the "Intimidate the media" clip, to Ron Paul weighing in, you got a whole bunch of your favorite bastions of Conservatism in one neat location. Good find. :wave:
 
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