PROGRESS ILLINOIS: Occupy Chicago takes it to Chicago Board of Trade

[guitarbeast777]

She sounds like a Black guy, jeez..

[TruthSeekingHuman221]

I love this movement! The women in the video was spot on! She is saying exactly how I have felt for so long in this country. I love that OWS is bringing back democracy (not the illusion of decocracy that we have had) and bringing back real power to the people on which this country was founded on.

[LT445sw]

If the pyramid was turned upside down where the people in the bottom 99% was in financial control and the top 1% were the regular every day citizens....would that now 99% be as ruthless and heartless as the 1% are right now?

[toemasie]

These people should be against Obama. Seriously, do some google searches.... Obama's not a Socialist. The guy's a puppet for for big business and corporations. He's a corporatist. The real heros are AGAINST government. Who think for themselves, don't listen to our biased media.

[joker2x]

"Waahhh i've never felt sooooo hopeless.." OF COURSE YOU CAN'T DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT YOU STUPID CUNT. YOU ARE A WEAK PERSON WITH A WEAK MIND, THIS IS WHY YOU CAN'T HOLD DOWN A JOB FOR MORE THAN A WEEK.

[MrDonneiDarko]

FUCK HOPE

[alwayssmile4u66]

What a bunch of losers! Get to work, Obama needs you to help support the millions he has put on welfare!

[MrDonneiDarko]

@alwayssmile4u66 so true

[bluemidnight8]

Nice to see the OWS in action. We have to spread the OWS to ALL cities in the US!! But always peaceful!!! Draw some nice banner or make music or so on.

[Irish8594]

@bluemidnight8 yea until cops attack but yea

[resonantdave]

This protest will do nothing. Naomi Wolf (just arrested at Wallstreet occupation) proved that you must be dressed professionally, and you must stop traffic. That is what has made every protest in history work.

[tsull12200]

she was staying up at night worried about the debt ceiling....now that's funny.

[UnionMadeMaid]

i just want to say that i am so happy this movement has started. lonnnnnnnnnnnng overdo.

keep fighting!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!

[lastchip]

That first woman, Yap,yap,yap,yap......so many word and nothing said. She needs some medication. She has the look and manner of someone in group therapy already but its not working

[Sammyjackson1488]

Apparently we learned nothing from the hippies of the 1960s.  This is embarrassing! I mean, how fucking stupid are we?

[MrRevko]

I love you for your right on convictions little sister. Keep on with this good fight. In peace and solidarity, you said it all.

[italoetkin]

i thought i was a liberal.. until i hear how stupid these people are... don't know anything about politics. the whole system is fucked, no use in picking a side...

[guaranaa]

END

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"occupy the Federal Reserve"

[FloydIV]

How long is Occupy Chicago gonna last? I want to show up next week and show my support!

[ReLOVEution2012]

YOu guys got support, OCCUPYWALLSTREET!!!!! END THE FED!!!

[dernspooge]

Is that the "I love cats" lady?

[stebecool]

Why protest the Chicago Board of Trade? Do you even know what the people in the building actually do? Please don't just respond with "trade". You're looking for the wrong people and don't even know it.

-A fellow "99%er"

[blackdog5703]

i will be throwing eggs at you stupid fucks tonight

[TheReaperMedic]

@blackdog5703 You're a coward. You're a moron. You make it very obvious that you have no idea what kind of world change has been brought about by these "idiotic socialist protests" throughout history. In all probability, you're probably benefitting from alot of that change right now in your parents basement while freely trolling the internet and "throwing eggs at stupid fucks". LOL

[blackdog5703]

You people have time to do this? No wonder you are poor if you choose not to attend work to support some idiotic socialist protest. Get off of your ass and work and make something of yourself imbeciles.

[BillionGODSun]

All Power 2 da People!!1

[1Guitarslayer]

OBAMA IS A CORPORATE WHORE

head south

OCCUPY THE WHITE HOUSE !!

[1Guitarslayer]

Flat Tax - abolish the IRS, AUDIT THE FEDERAL RESERVE, IMPEACH OBAMA

EVERYBODY WINS !!!

[larry5200]

Its none of anyones business how much the other guy makes.I was brought up being taught,you have to work to get what you want.These spoiled brats think they should be handed everything.Just a drain on our society.

[ObtainTheUnknown]

@larry5200 Fucking right! There's nothing wrong with taking the money that other people put in your bank and tell them we'll give you about .03% return every quarter while we are off using that as collateral for our own organizations investments, where we are making hundreds of Millions if not Billions of dollars in return so that we can buy out other banks to become a bigger bank and put more money in our own pockets, politicians pockets and whoever else will give us breaks when we need it...

[Schumacher702]

@larry5200

No, they're not. The basic necessitates of life are not a privilege! There's not one thing that says you can't work hard and be an active part of your society. Including helping those who need it. Stop being so self centered, you heartless, fool.

[PwnFaust]

Occupy Wall Street is so mis-informed. Obama is bought and paid for by walstreet. You need to end the Fed, this killing the middle class is so ignorant. The buffet tax will effect the middle class not the 1%. Corperate americia doesn't create jobs they ship them over seas and pay no taxes. Look at GE. These protesters want to lick Obama's boots, and kill the american working class.

[DQ2121]

@PwnFaust Occupy Chicago and, I believe, much of the Occupy Wall street population is anti-Obama.

[ObtainTheUnknown]

@dogstar7 f you want to continue to be a puppet; living in a police state and doing what you're told because they told you so, then, more power to you. But all you are really doing is saying that you are not a person and you have no choice in anything. You're choices are depending on guidelines that you are told, either you live by or you face consequences...So i ask you...if you (the whole) are not physically hurting another...why do they have a right to do so to you?

[larry5200]

At least theyre getting some fresh air.Rather than OCCUPYING their moms basements,lol.

[lemurianchick]

@larry5200 : Wow, Lare, do you work at the BOT? You must be a HARD WORKER. Tool.

[BlueSkies360]

CBOTers should get out of pits and educate these masses.

[larry5200]

MSNBC makes a couple hundred people look like 20 million,lol

[larry5200]

And the crime wave continues.Why were the Tea Party rallies viewed as negative but these rallies,which are more violent,viewed as good.

[dogstar7]

@larry5200 Who is violent? The NYPD? Well yeah, sure. But the protesters? Nah!

[larry5200]

@dogstar7 If you refuse to listen to the police,they have no choice but to remove you by force.Thats not violent.They also have a job to do.

[dogstar7]

@larry5200 You don't know the facts, do you? The ACLU has filed suit in federal district court in New York. The documents and affidavits that they have discovered and filed with the courts are on public view. The march on the Brooklyn Bridge was on the pedestrian walkway until the NYPD forced them onto the bridge deck. That much is confirmed in the news videos, so that' is not disputed.

Bottom line: You don't know what you're talking about.

[Schumacher702]

@larry5200

Fuck the Pigs. What the fuck do I care if they try and enforce Bourgeois "Law and Democracy". They're a pathetic joke. Workers fooled into suppressing other workers by force. Same with the military too. Workers killing Workers just to get a free education from Uncle Sam. Sad and pathetic.

[Schumacher702]

@larry5200

It's because the people understand that the Tea Party is just full of bigots and idiots blinded by religion. Violence is a good thing when it advances class interest and does damage to the Bourgeoisie system. The Capitalists need to be done away with. If they let the people take power peacefully, fine, but I can assure you they're going to fight back. And if they want to fight the Proletariat's rise to power then they'll shed their blood for their stupidity.

[larry5200]

@Schumacher702 If theyre bigots,why do so many of the support Cain????I dont think anyone afraid of pot smoking hippies.Im not.

[Schumacher702]

@larry5200

Not all of bigots, but a significant portion are. Even so that doesn't make them anymore right. They're just non racist idiots. Pot smoking hippies? Oh please. That's so inaccurate and downright laughable. Smoking pots fine, but we're far from spineless hippies who couldn't change the world if they tried. Ever tried Pot? Or, do you abstain because big brother tells you to? Your a fucking sheep. A lemming. Doomed to go over the cliff with the rest of Capitalist society after the Rev.

[TheStrazy]

@Schumacher702 Well said comrade you are a useful idiot!! Thanks for your support !!

[pipesniperk49]

WTF!? Every time I watch this video the number of views stay at 301. Youtube is censoring the videos. Again.

[tzimtzum1618]

@pipesniperk49 That is a common youtube bug it will update but it may take a while..

[jabberwolf]

LMAO 98% percent of us dont care what a whinny bitching 1% say expecially when its retarded.

Thats a very small crowd - WOW.

[rdavian]

about time !!! whooo chicago!!!!!

[McGriff99]

The link between social marginalization and crime is well known. Its no wonder that the U.S. has the highest (documented) prison population in the developed world. When people get poorer, they resort to crime to survive. This is highly destabilizing for society as a whole. If you're the beneficiaries of a system thats highly fractured like the U.S., its in your best interest to build more prisons to handle higher crime rates (to protect yourself). And the tax payers will foot the bill.

[McGriff99]

The US's income inequality (as given by the GINI coefficient, independently measured and published by both the CIA and UN) ranks far higher than all the other G20 countries and, in global terms, is situated next to China and African countries.

The EFFECTIVE corporate tax rate (i.e. tax revenue the government actually collects NOT, I repeat, NOT nominal tax rates-please do NOT respond with comments about NOMINAL tax rates) is the lowest of the OECD nations

These are facts no one can hide from.

[McGriff99]

@McGriff99

Clarification: Sorry US's income inequality is highest of all the G8; I wrote G20 but meant G8. My bad.

[1Guitarslayer]

TO ALL PROTESTORS: Move your people to the front lawn of the FEDERAL RESERVE & White House

[rdrakken]

@1Guitarslayer Why would they move to the white house? This protest is mostly against the Republicans only fighting for the wealthy and against Corporate Imperialism. WE THE PEOPLE will not allow you Conservative whores to take over this movement like you did the Tea Party.

[1Guitarslayer]

@rdrakken actually the protestors don't know why they are there, when asked they speak around communism. I'm helping them out by pointing them in the right direction.

AUDIT THE FED!!!

[dan91709]

@1Guitarslayer troll

[jabberwolf]

@rdrakken

Becuse the TARP were actually LOANS - but th WHITE HOUSE APPROVED spending ( grants and programs) that are causing debt. Also they are pushing jobs away and over seas by catering to the unions and telling the rest of America to fuck off.

We should be at the white house telling Obama to FUCK OFF!

[rdrakken]

@jabberwolf You would be correct if TARP wasnt created by BUSH you fucking moron...it was created with a "Dont ask what we do with the money" request WHICH OBAMA CHANGED when he got into office, they tracked who the money went to so those people would PAY IT BACK like a LOAN should be.

The total cost of TARP thanks to Obama, today stands at 25 billion. YEAH ***25*** billion.

Educate yourself you prick, you are part of the cause of the nations problems.

[jabberwolf]

@rdrakken

Take over - you mean like - VOTING?

Oh heaven forbid that democratic process occurs.

(retarded liberals!)

[hoosierhiver]

Keep it up Chicago!

[Sixdouble5321]

Think about this.

What is it that these people do NOT have?

They have, food, clothing, homes, LCD TV, cell phones etc. Why are they demanding more when they have everything they need?

When I was young I had much less than the poorest of Americans and I was very happy.

[rdrakken]

@Sixdouble5321 you are a fool. there is a war going on, a war to kill off the middle class...it has been going on for 40 YEARS now.

When YOU were young...WHEN were you young? in 1980 the middle class had over 40% MORE wealth...so what the fuck are you saying other than you are wearing rose colored glasses.

[Sixdouble5321]

@rdrakken....I'm saying these people want the rich to give them everything but they need nothing. It is all about greed. They want more from those that have more because they think it will make their life better.

When we stop Obama we stop the war on middle class. Vote T-Party if you want that to happen.

BTW, when I was getting my drivers license you were still in diapers.

[rdrakken]

@Sixdouble5321 ..what you are saying is that just because the wealthy took over 40% of the wealthy from everyone people need to just shut up and keep taking it up the ass and not do anything about it, just let the government only represent the wealthy and have no voice like the good like slave you are.

yes, I am talking about YOU, the rest of us will demand America be for 310 million Americans and not just the wealthy and their whores <---you.

[Sixdouble5321]

@rdrakken...there are a lot of people in America that are not wealthy and they have great lives. America has always had wealthy and should always.

Over 7 million illegals have jobs in America so if you want a job ask your messiah Obama why illegals are working while 15 million Americans are not.

Do you know of a country were there are no wealthy people? Even socialist countries have them. The 6 richest politicians are Democrats BTW, maybe you should mention them too.

[rdrakken]

@Sixdouble5321 This isnt about our always having wealthy or wanting to get RID of those we have god damnit. This is about the government only representing THEM. Giving THEM special tax breaks. Giving THEM loopholes. Giving THEM the ability to have tax havens. Giving THEM the ability to pour unlimited amounts of money into elections.

The fact you tried to make it sound like this is about getting rid of the wealthy proves you are a party whore.

[1Guitarslayer]

@dlucas90 well said Lucas, I would add the monopolies then pass any tax increase on to the people though price increases. More tax on the oil company, hey no problem... we'll just charge more per gallon!

How many times do they tax the same dollar. What happened to double taxation without representation?!!

[dlucas90]

@1Guitarslayer Exactly, the monopolies are the only ones that can afford to pay taxes because they are the ones who get the jucy govt contracts. In contrast, the monopolies competition, small business owners, get crushed by the added taxes.

[1Guitarslayer]

Americans seek the truth and take action for it will keep us FREE. Our biggest enemy is not China , Russia , North Korea or Iran, our biggest enemy is a contingent of politicians in Washington DC . The government will not help, so we need to do it ourselves.

[dan91709]

Right wing lunatics, racists, homophobes and bat crap crazy tea bagging religious morons mustered by billionaires to distort political dialog while advocating unregulated corporate looting of the economy by greedy anti-social anti-American fascists have had their 15 minutes of fame.

The voice of the people will now be heard.

[okefixico]

Commie homos will be commie homos.

[rlphmoran]

@okefixico shut up

[dan91709]

@okefixico Thank you for proving that your mindless hate holds nothing of value to anyone.

[dogstar7]

@okefixico Interesting that's what you react to.

[TheYoungTurdz]

Morons. Instead of protesting the politicians who regulate and write the rules allowing what is best for their pockets, people protest the people.

Idiots. This is a direct result of our education system. Another example of an unholy union of our politicians "negotiating" with our tax dollars with a union thug.

Sigh.............

[dan91709]

@TheYoungTurdz Let me guess: You prefer to wear a beanie with Lipton bags dangling by strings and being ushered into corporate sponsored cattle buses to protest laws to restrict greedy businesses from sucking the blood of everyday Americans. You probably think Obama is a Muslim terrorist Nazi communist sympathizer from Kenya. :-/

Get a life.

[1Guitarslayer]

@dan91709 If you are an Obama Supporter don't be angry because citizens think Barrack Hussein Obama is a socialist/marxist. Far too many facts support he is indeed a Socialist/Marxist.

[dan91709]

@1Guitarslayer (Yawn) Another nutjob stalker troll on patrol with no control... I suppose you think the "Occupy" movement is a homosexual sponsored "Barrack Hussein Obama" plot with its roots in African Nazi-communo-fascism? HAHAHA. I'm surprised you haven't figured out a way to blame 911 on Obama. Think hard. Maybe you'll hallucinate your leader whispering conspiracy "facts" in your ear. (grimace)

You're a soft-headed sterile wingless female Formicidae-type political arthropod.

Look it up.

[1Guitarslayer]

@dan91709 <--- 2011 FELCHING CHAMPION

[Schumacher702]

@1Guitarslayer

Oh you effing idiot! If you think a right of center CAPITALIST president is a Marxist, I'd be surprised if your IQ was above 75. It just shows that you know absolutely nothing about Marxism and only perpetuate the same worn out lies and misconceptions. Stop drinking the kool-aid you capitalist tool.

[1Guitarslayer]

@Schumacher702 I'm proud to be a capitalist tool.

Are you proud to be an unemployed communist jackoff?

[Schumacher702]

@1Guitarslayer

Unemployed? Ha. I'm paying my own way through college and my own laptop, plus gas for my car. If I had the fucking money to spare I'd pay for more of my bills, but 8.25 an hour doesn't cover jack shit. Thanks to Capitalism, I preform a shitty job, for $82 a shift, while reaping in $1,500-3,500 in sales for the company CEO's. Do you think they're working hard? I don't fucking think so. They pay me $82 and get 18.2-42.6 times that in profit. That's fucking extortion.

[1Guitarslayer]

@Schumacher702 why don't you quit then you whiney ass little bitch. All those CEO's who gave you a job were where you are at one time in there lives. Earn your way pussy just like they did.

[Schumacher702]

@1Guitarslayer

Why the fuck should I have to graciously accept a job from the rich people? Oh the poor little begger isn't happy with the little pittance we give him? He can just starve to death then, if he doesn't want to accept our gracious gift. And I AM 'earning' my way you jackass. Why the fuck would I work 10pm-6am each weekend? For fun? Fuck, no. I've got tuition to pay because those bourgeois asshats charge me for it. Something that should be free for EVERYONE WORLD WIDE.

[laurasIs2c]

@1Guitarslayer Wrong those CEO's may have been in a similar position at one time but they are not necessarily more deserving of participation in our democracy....The Corporate personhood has given CEO's who lie and cook the books the ability to buy their way out of accountability and force their personal preferences on our nation choking out the rights of the majority of citizens. No one in our democracy has the right to take obstruct others from access to resources through the profit machines

[TheYoungTurdz]

@dan91709 Let me try and translate: I would rather have lower taxes for all. I would rather have a flat tax. I would rather that all Americans had skin in the game. I would rather that people didn't stand around and whine, rahter create, invent, produce, etc. Obama was a member of Rev. Wrights congregation for over 20 years. He is not Muslim, it is called BLACK LIBERATION THEOLOGY!! Get it straight. There is a huge difference.

Read!!!

[dan91709]

@TheYoungTurdz So, you say that you would have a bus driver pay the same taxes as a billionaire. Smart. Very smart.

What a fool.

[TheYoungTurdz]

@dan91709 If the Bus Driver (union) and the Billionaire (self made) are both Americans, then they should both pay the same taxes to live in the same country.

You make it sound as if a being a Bus Driver is a disgraceful, unworthy job! It pays well and is a good job, especially if you are not intelligent enough to create your own job.

Very accurate and realistic.

[dan91709]

@TheYoungTurdz I guess you don't know the first thing about fairness or equality, or even mathematics. Fortunately, you're outnumbered 99 to 1. You're going to need all the luck you can get - because the facts, logic, reason, morality, and just plain common sense are on our side. :-)

[dan91709]

@TheYoungTurdz The top 1% of the population own 40% of the property in the US. Should they not pay 40% of the cost of protecting that property? Should they not pay 40% of the cost of defending it from enemies of the people foreign and domestic? Should they not pay 40% of the cost of roads and bridges they use to shuttle their property around?

No. You would have them ride on the backs of those that work for a living.

Shame on you.

[dan91709]

@TheYoungTurdz By the way, by that simple formula, the rich should pay 40 times that of the average worker. (duh) Very obviously, schools need to be a priority. We can't have people (like you) unable to see such simple relationships. Run along now. See if you can't find more people (as stupid as you) to try to refute such simple truths.

[dan91709]

@TheYoungTurdz As a final note, (using Warren Buffet - a self-made billionaire - as an example) billionaires pay less taxes than their housekeepers. Very obviously, that's not right.

[TheYoungTurdz]

@dan91709 apples and oranges. The income that Warren is talking about is investment income, not salary income. It has already been taxed. The housekeeper you refer to is entitled to the same system. She can invest and if she holds more than a year, pay the same tax rate.

Apples and Oranges kiddo.

Even Buffet admitted that 200K is not the "rich" that should be taxed now, as that would hurt the economy. Obama and Buffet are using each other. 

[dan91709]

@TheYoungTurdz As they say, you can lead an ass to water...

With regard to a housekeeper paying the same tax rate as Warren Buffet, it's pretty clear you have no idea what you're talking about.

FYI - No one is suggesting raising taxes on people making $200k. I think you've drunk some rather nasty cool aid.

[TheYoungTurdz]

@dan91709 Excactly and Obama has lead you right to the water, and he added Koolaid. Dont drink it.

Your statement shows you have no idea of what is going on, and are easily led and misled.

[dan91709]

@TheYoungTurdz Your screen name is perfect.

[TheYoungTurdz]

@dan91709 I see you don't know what sarcasam is, and now have nothing of value to contribute.

[dan91709]

@TheYoungTurdz (yawn) You may have intended it to be sarcastic, but given how warped your reality is, I'm not at all surprised that it's the most accurate thing you've written. :-)

[TheYoungTurdz]

@dan91709 Actually, my reality is far from warped. I know who I am and I don't need the government or an employer to get by in life. Can you say the same? I don't think so. : )

[dan91709]

@TheYoungTurdz Unemployed right wing tea bagging ignorance on the hoof with sh*t for brains... and a world view warped by dreams of being a billionaire someday - so of course you want to unfairly tax the poor...

Yep. Your name says it all. :-)

[TheYoungTurdz]

@dan91709 Face the facts. You were sold a bill of goods from the Obama admin and they lied to you, while you fail. No need to be a billionaire. I've 1.5 mil and have made it on my own. If I lost it tommorow, I could do it again with nothing. I know that you can't. You need to depend on government hand outs, but those days are coming to an end. Get ready to sweep the floors, if you are lucky.

[dan91709]

@TheYoungTurdz Gee... you must be really smart and powerful. I'm so impressed that you said you're a millionaire and that you think Obama is lying. Bankers and nice billionaires are such good people. They must be genetically superior to the "lower orders." It's really too bad that we can't own slaves anymore; but at least delusional wingnuts like you know how to suck Massa's toes!

Give it time, Turdboy. You'll fit your chin past your anus one day - if you wish hard and long enough! LOL! Loser.

[TheYoungTurdz]

@dan91709 That is where you are wrong, and why you have failed so far. You don't need to be smart and powerful. You just need to be willing to follow through on ideas and never quit. 1.5 mil, not milliionair. Get it right. Actually, you don't know any billionaires, so you don't know how nice they are. Perhaps you think Steve Jobs was an asshole too.

You're still pathetic, and until you learn to change your attitude and not be petty, you will never succeed.

I hope you feel better now.

[RecklessTruth]

you people are dumb as shit!You need to call Obama he is the one that is fucking us all!Why are their no black people out their?I know why they are to smart!!!!