Occupy Wall Street Just Got Occupied Labor Unions

[Working Poor]

so I have lost all interest in them now.


According to Daily Kos, The New York Transit Workers Union (TWU) voted to support the Wall Street Protestors at their meeting last night.

A member of TWU Local 100 told a reporter that they would join the protest Friday at 4PM.

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/a-massive-union-just-voted-to-side-with-the-wall-street-protesters-2011-9?utm_source=twbutton&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=clusterstock#ixzz1ZNjeeuWz



http://www.businessinsider.com/a-massive-union-just-voted-to-side-with-the-wall-street-protesters-2011-9?utm_source=twbutton&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=clusterstock#ixzz1ZN1imxE1

[dannno]

so I have lost all interest in them now.


Although my interest level went down, I still think it's an important opportunity to find like minded people and share anti-corporatism free market principles.

We should be leading the charge at these things. There was a video posted earlier with Michael Moore being interviewed and instead of saying that the goal of the movement was socialism, he said there are a lot of diverse views and people who aren't happy with the monetary establishment and specifically mentioned Ron Paul supporters. Had they not been there, it would have been an opportunity for him to say that everybody there wants some incarnation of socialism or another.

[Dr.3D]

I'm glad Ron Paul can't be associated with that group.

Edit:
Oops, spoke too soon.

[Working Poor]

The libs are going bonkers over the unions getting involved now they can see their purpose they are going to boycott Koch Brothers :)

[vita3]

"Although my interest level went down, I still think it's an important opportunity to find like minded people and share anti-corporatism free market principles.

We should be leading the charge at these things"

Exactly. This is the Ron Paul movements low-point for not getting involved.

[Cowlesy]

LOL transit unions. I was just reading a story about how how one garbage truck driver was paid about $700k last year because of some hilarious labor dispute he had.

[pcosmar]

I was curious what direction it would take. I was skeptical of the purpose from the start.
I had hoped that enough Liberty minded folk would take the lead. That didn't happen.

With Union involvement, expect the violence level to increase.
Perhaps that was "the plan" all along.

[Pizzo]

I was curious what direction it would take. I was skeptical of the purpose from the start.
I had hoped that enough Liberty minded folk would take the lead. That didn't happen.

With Union involvement, expect the violence level to increase.
Perhaps that was "the plan" all along.

That was my first thought as well. I used to live in NYC and have seen many union protests and most were not pretty. In an already volatile situation, this could get ugly.

[ZanZibar]

Ron Paul on the Occupy Wall Street protest - a blog by Doug Wead, Sr Adviser to the Ron Paul 2012 Campaign:
http://dougwead.wordpress.com/2011/10/03/ron-paul-and-the-occupy-wall-street-protest/




Ron Paul discusses it with Reason Magazine:
http://reason.com/blog/2011/10/01/ron-paul-talks-about-the-occup



And Jack Hunter discusses it on Freedom Watch with Judge Napolitano last night:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=3kcxARJ1YzQ

[FrankRep]

so I have lost all interest in them now.

http://www.businessinsider.com/a-massive-union-just-voted-to-side-with-the-wall-street-protesters-2011-9?utm_source=twbutton&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=clusterstock#ixzz1ZN1imxE1

Yep.


http://thenewamerican.com/images/stories2011/04aSeptember/wallstreetprotst-t-ap.001.jpg



A growing number of unions and socialist groups are joining “Occupy Wall Street” demonstrations in New York and “solidarity” protests nationwide.


Unions, Socialists Join Forces to "Occupy Wall Street" (http://thenewamerican.com/usnews/politics/9214-unions-socialists-join-forces-to-occupy-wall-street)


Alex Newman | The New American (http://thenewamerican.com/)
30 September 2011

[AuH20]

Possibly the most compelling comment I've read about this Occupy Wall Street charade:


If the protesters were serious, they would be storming the Harold Pratt House, 58 E. 68th St. at Park Avenue, New York, NY (Headquarters of the Council on Foreign Relations) and the New York Fed,33 Liberty Street New York, NY.

But they won't be led to confront the gods on Mount Olympus by their Judas goats and shills. David Rockefeller and Henry Kissinger might be held up from lunch at 21.

For both supporters and opponents of the Occupy Wall Street protests who seek more incisive background in understanding what has been really going on behind-the-scenes with the Wall Street corporate and financial elites, check out the two items below:

http://www.lewrockwell.com/gregory/gregory216.html
"In a Relationship, and It's Complicated," by Anthony Gregory

http://www.lewrockwell.com/rothbard/rothbard66.html
"Wall Street, Banks, and American Foreign Policy," by Murray N. Rothbard