The General Strike in Oakland

Check out Rachel Maddow's live report on yesterday's general strike in Oakland! Also covered in this report is another major occupation event coming up on Saturday called Bank Transfer Day, when tens if not hundreds of thousands of people will simultaneously withdraw their money from major banks.

Things like this don't happen in this country. Never have I seen such a positive wave of developments taking place in this country as I'm seeing right now. The possibilities are endless. This is the time to reach for the stars! We can win this! Just wanted to share it and share my excitement.

 

Win what exactly?

Don't get me wrong, I'm all for dumping the big banks, although this lickspittle administration will probably bail them out again, but of all of the "Occupys" Oakland probably is the most violent and poorest example of the movement. I wouldn't hold Oakland up as an example to be emulated unless you really don't want the support of the middle class.

 

That's what they're there for. WE CAN DO IT !

 

A better country?

 

It's great to see a movement based on intersectionality working out so well. More working class people should join in. I use a local credit union though, hope more people move to them. Good for the people of Oakland hope this movement leads to massive changes in America.

 

Gotta love that gal.

 

She's an idiot alright.

 

Not such an idiot as to recognise that the US displays many features characteristic of a fascist state:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2007/apr/24/usa.comment

 

That looks "positive".

 

That's so vague you must be an occupier.

 

OWS is only a matter of weeks old and is the fastest-growing movement I've ever seen. It's pretty premature to be moving to centralize everything IMO, if we even want to at all. Right now the main thing remains movement-building. To do that really effectively, we need to keep things fairly open-ended. The decentralized nature of OWS -- the fact that not everyone has to agree with some central set of demands -- is what's holding it together at present. We all bring our own perspectives to this problem that is the domination of the financial aristocracy, we discuss them, and we vote on actions and yes demands, but in a decentralized and directly democratic way. Just saying.

And of course I'm not endorsing rioting or anything, just as none of my opponents here should be endorsing police riots against us. Movements as large as the occupy movement are difficult to keep consistently peaceful, especially where direct and violent provocations of us persist (yes I refer to police provocations) and in locations where poverty is particularly acute (such as Oakland). We are doing our best. The overwhelming thrust of the occupy movement has been and remains peaceful, and peaceful means are our policy. That you cannot dispute. Of course some opportunists get in here from time to time who aim to stir up violence anyway, but we distance ourselves from those people.

 

The movement is already dying out.

People are getting fed up with a bunch of drunk and junkies occupying, or more precisely, destroying, public space and making (*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*) of themselves.

Go back home, take a long shower (you really need it) and move on like the previous generation of beatnick did, you know those babyboomer that wanted to change the world in the 60's and 70's... well they did... You are living in it right now.

 

OWS has been far more violent than the Tea Parties and the Jon Stewart rally; which managed to have large numbers and keep things peaceful. What's the problem with your group?

 

It's always vague. It is leftist. The formula is exactly the same. Bring destruction to something. Ruin it. Crash it. Destroy it.

Sometimes they use the minorities they keep on a plantation like poltical leash, sometimes the poor, working poor and middle class. The unions of course are their experienced thugs regarding this.

With the OWS attack it is the same. Bring a bank crisis, and another housing bubble crisis and top it off with a tuition crisis.

Ruin America....the brilliant plan of the left. At least they are open about it now. It has been their subtle objective for longer than I can remember.

 

Affirmative....Solidarity to the folks of Oakland in their attempts to ruin, crash and destroy capitalism.

 

Oh yes because the alternative to capitalism have such a good track record...

 

Hope you people are ready to die first, because there are many millions of us willing to in order to prevent that from happening.

(*)(*)(*)(*) you and your OWS movement.

 

Tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of people withdrawing funds from banks at once is called a "bank run" and leads to a disaster, do investigate.

Of course, I'm sure Obama and his boy Bernanke will be willing to print off the money that is needed to avoid this catastrophe, this is called inflation.

Now that you know, stop being an idiot.

 

Radical alternatives have never been allowed to work. And of course, capitalism is doing just fine.

 

There are system now in place to prevent that, just like there are system now in every stock exchange to prevent massive sell off of stock.

And beside, I don't know where you got the notion that those OWS dumb (*)(*)(*)(*) have any money in bank. Most by now are just junkies and homeless squatting the camp and eating free food.

Those who matters and work for a living don't give a crap about the OWS. We are the real 99%.

 

Radical alternatives have never "been allowed to work" because the bankers and their partners take over the centralized power and screw the people, which is exactly what has happened in America's CENTRALLY PLANNED ECONOMY.

 

I think we are missing something of very importance, is thousands of people that have no job or min wage job really going to hurt any system when they take out Thier min account balance funds? Is anyone expecting these people to have more than $50 bucks in their account.

 

Didn't they already have their little bank run?

 

Do you believe in magic in a young girl's heart?

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...I believe this statement aptly captures the elitist attitude of many of our opponents. You are reduced to demeaning people for being poor in the midst of of a yes ongoing economic crisis. You go as far as to claim that homeless people don't matter in the midst of a foreclosure crisis. (And frankly, your assertion that employed workers are unrepresented here is just completely wrong and you know it. Otherwise the AFL-CIO would not support us. I am an employed worker.) I don't think I need to comment further. Your attitude speaks for itself.