Baltimore Protest Calls For Economic Justice

[timothyfaddenanthro]

#occupyBaltimore Oct 8, 2011. Let's occupy the 'oh so loved' inner harbor. Let's get the real 99% out there, this is no longer a revolution on Wall St and DC this is in our own financial districts, our own backyards, our own hearts and minds. This is a call for a conscious revolution!

[ishtarmuz1]

Where is #occupyBaltimore in support of #occupywallstreet and #marchonwashington?

[AwakeningThePeople]

These people want to make a change but all in vain, the government is not working for the people, they are working for the elite and the military industrial complex.

They're gonna take us to war

[MzBUZZKILINGTON]

I used to work for ACS a large subsidiary of Xerox that did contract work consisting of automatic traffic enforcement and I can ensure you all that Maryland doesn't care about these people, only their money. I sat in a jeep for training purposes and at $40 a ticket and ~ 650 violations, and I can tell you all that they are robbing the people of Baltimore.

[superphi]

Demanding jobs is all fine and dandy but u have to understand in a globalized econmy if u think u can get a descent paying manufacturing labour job. Well u better think of something else because that ain't happening, those jobs will never come back.

[Reqrezentin]

Lieutenant Daniels would have fixed the city..

[ttgator2003]

Keep on Keepin on and NEVER give up!

[egolayer13]

Hasta la victoria, Baltimore. ¡Siempre!

[burnindownthehouse]

The demands of these people are more than reasonable. The people just want to work and they want a fair shake. But the corporatists in power now will never share their piece of the pie. The corporatist bankers want the whole pie. It's a war between the rich and the poor. It's a very real war. The corporatists are saying there's a budget crisis and they're forcing the poor to pay for it. The corporatists should pay for it! They created the crisis! They need to pay their damn corporate taxes!

[niriop]

The People: "We need economic justice!"

Democratic socialism: "Somebody call?"

[Pomeray8]

The answers will not come from the reactionary right, nor the dead left. They will not come from the state, nor the corporation.

[rctube1958]

More individual freedom. More social freedom. Less government. Less government. Less government.

[ourpangea]

baltimore has got a big gettho yet this is all the "protesters" they cld get? all it was orderly speeches and signs(lookd kinda like people outside goodmorning america,except there less people). tunisians must laugh at US. these folks aint demanding shit with that "protest". how bad does it have to get before people participate.......

[Beagle1AD]

The guy that was a former drug dealer even with a 4 yr degree isn't going to get a job with his criminal record if he has one.

[Paul37062]

whining BS. I made it through Baltimore city public schools just fine. get a job, work two or three if you have too. that's the way it's done. my mom and dad did it now i do it. teach these kids a WORK ETHIC not a "hand out ethic" Get it Straight. It is not the responsibility of govt to educate your offspring!!! That falls on you as a parent.

[neisy2362]

@Paul37062 Excuse me, Paul, but you seem a bit overly fond of your servitude.And although the education of a child is a parent's responsibility, the gov't sure makes it their business to enforce (usurp) that responsibility. So when do you have time to educate your children while working your 3 and 4 jobs?

[zoticus1]

@Paul37062

It is the governments place to provide as "level" a playing field as possible though.

This is which they have completely failed to do,what we see today is a consolidation of wealth to the top 1 % of the country.

And I can tell you this, you are not going to compete against them on campaign donations.

I totally agree with the work ethic, but have you taken into consideration that there is just flat out not enough jobs for people?

Well a living wage at least.

[SandCmpbll]

@Paul37062 You have no idea what they are talking about do you? No one in that video said anything about goverment doing ANYTHING except what the people demand. They don't want more money spent on law enforcement, they want to redirect money into people. This includes after-school programs, job training, fair tax laws. Don't you people understand anything about goverment. It's a person's civic right to demand that government respond to the needs of the people, not just corporations.

[jp70117]

@Paul37062 Your parents/your WORK ETHIC equates to nothing more than expendable,unskilled worker bees. Certainly you 'MUST' work 2-3 jobs because ONE job on it's own fails to produce a livable wage. Your "hand-out ethic" is all that remains: it's called corporate welfare via subsidies & tax breaks. Big banks/corps. ctrl the gov't, exporting the good jobs, reducing the country to a service sector economy. The public Edu. system is rigged like all the others. "That's the way it's done!"

[Darkhorse21x]

@Paul37062

Well said wage slave, you were born to work at as many low paying jobs as possible just so you can feed, clothe, and house yourself because your slave owners are tire of having to feed, cloth and house your sorry @zz.

Yo mama did it and yo daddy did it, so you have no choice. Keep working like a slave so that on your death bed, with your last dying breath you can say, WTF was I thinking!

[helios5868]

Baltimore's woes sound disturbingly like my city, Rochester's woes.

[Emil246]

I think it would be better if people could choose what to pay for rather than paying for prisons to house drug users.

[NowRenaissanceGroup]

Employment is not the answer, empowerment is. People need to get away from this concept that big business needs to provide them with opportunities. We need to start creating our own opportunities.

[vejaji2]

@NowRenaissanceGroup If they had better education I'm sure they could.

[cpgone]

Fiat money, Military Industrial complex, banksters,corporate welfare,start there.

You like all that cheap crap at Walmart , dont you?Never crosses your mind

about the corporate welfare/tax laws sending those jobs to Chindia.

The elites are going to ride it all into the ground. Get ready for the re-boot.

[1x93cm]

Baltimore is like Detroit-

it should be nuked from orbit

[boumar19721972]

/watch?v=4Z9WVZddH9w

[june201955]

It's very hard to change what todays gov't is doing. Any sane person would see the writing on the wall on what's happening and what's about to come. No way would I be living in a big city these days....

[minakelada]

hmm... wheres the tear gas grenades and live bullets?

[1x93cm]

@minakelada thats only for people complaining about their rights being taken away

[colourmegone]

Welcome back to the 1930s.

[catgumart]

I question if there is even a need for all people to be "employed" all the time - yes there is always work that needs doing, but I don't think a person needs to be "employed" to be a healthy & positive entity in society- there are aspects of life external to employment that are important. I think it is better for a person & society for people to be spending time with a healthy domestic life rather than slaving hours away at a McJob putting more money into the corporations pocket.

[phillipgaley]

@catgumart There is a simple reason why people will quarrel for overtime, . . . they want the money—no corporate guard has to stick a gun in their back, . . .

[lordblazer]

but but conservatives tell me that spending money to save money is bad, and spending money to have deficits is good so we can bitch about deficit reduction all day long.

[phillipgaley]

@lordblazer If we could git shed a the min wage, everybody could go to work, and the economy would respond +.

He doesn't want prisons built—I wonder where he might propose to warehouse the criminals, . . .

[1x93cm]

@phillipgaley communists...never think that far ahead

[jp70117]

@phillipgaley '...warehouse the criminals' These "criminals" you speak of are people. Someone smarter than you systematically designed the system to ensure these 'criminals' are in prison. Did you know the vast majority of these 'criminals' are not uncivilized savages? They have been charged with nonviolent, victim-less crimes created by the real 'criminals' to oppress people with limited options. Person making 125k/yr won't break the law out of necessity. An unemployed guy w/ kids will. Wake up

[phillipgaley]

@jp70117 Okay, but, I don't know how, "warehouse criminal people" might have changed anything. While various figures, the world round, have made remark upon our growing criminal pop., and I would not myself, subscribe the view of things which denies personal responsibility for an individual's actions—as though "De debil made me do it."—to your side, gov. studies do say that, at the least, 20% are innocently in prison, and, legalization might well lower the numbers.

Beyond this, not living by

[phillipgaley]

. . . . not living by rule of law, denotes one in the uncivilized condition, and crimes done savagely or viciously, leave the perp becoming of the epithet of "uncivilized savage", and no doubt, there are enough of those.

Your quick leap to "someone smarter to have systematically designed the system to ensure criminals", you're probably a left-winger in the stereotypical form.

I've been unemployed with 8 children, but howsoever that might have been, I don't believe that, crime will be of assist

[bonnevie9]

@phillipgaley wow another 8 dummy people growing up in this shithead society . I guess your a typical conservative bringing up 8 stupid kids .

[phillipgaley]

@bonnevie9 I kind of knew, when you jumped on keeping criminals off the streets—with no mention of sex crimes, and which can in no wise be attributed to intent to alleviate the pinch of physical deprivation of necessities which serve to sustain existence that, some how or other, I had attracted another G0D amnd left-winger.

But no, seriously Sister, I actually was trolling—I knew, on this topic, a G0D damne left-winger bottom sucker'd bite on the "warehouse criminals"; sorry—harmless fun, . . .

[phillipgaley]

@bonnevie9 ur predictability, I say harmless fun; though seeing that, you've memorized all the lyrics to "Coddle the Criminals" I'm fairly sure that, you've never been gang raped, or shot during a robbery.

"8 dummy people growing up", "this shithead society", "8 stupid kids"—why curse those who would help you? Why not give yourself a chance? Than to curse a self-inflicted darkness, would you not better, lighting even a small candle?

And the personality which you manifest—ghastly, horrid, . . .

[phillipgaley]

@jp70117 Anyway, I made it this far without a criminal record—how 'bout you, are you just trying to defend a criminal record?

[yuri35435]

Poor people are not allowed on the lifeboats of the titanic.

[MTVVH1sucks]

@yuri35435 you said it.

[phillipgaley]

@yuri35435 While metaphor is okay, you have to tie it in with reason and example—you don't want to appear as a peace-nik left-winger, do you?

[Xenthoid]

@yuri35435 best quote i read in a while.

[Arkinight]

@yuri35435 These days it's rafts: youtube.com/watch?v=w8G-19HMwM­s