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Occupy Fredonia: a political briefing

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WE ARE THE 99 PERCENT
Occupy Fredonia rally, Nov. 12, 2011. SUNY students petitioned the university town to 'occupy' Fredonia's public square, Barker Commons, for two weeks (Nov.5-20, 2011). Permission was granted. The students, and others, stuck it out, organizing teach-ins, live streaming video, music and marches. On Nov. 12 the students et al. held a rally. Speakers included local union leaders, SUNY professors, students, anti-war activists, veterans ("we fight and we die and are maimed; they can spend money to bomb other countries to oblivion - and they can't take care of the veterans"). The rally was a public briefing, a town hall meeting: a professor alerts her audience to the on-going rapacious privatization of education; a young union man gives a forceful analysis of the fraud of 'fractional reserve lending'; another young professor illustrates corporate indifference to anything but profit in an update on the Tonawanda Coke benzine crimes ("...91 tons of benzine released in 2010"). Several speakers tell of the wholesale corporate control of the election process (Citizens United v. FCC, 2010) whereby corporate entities now have no restrictions on contributions to political candidates. Speakers also alert the assembled citizens of the probable fact that NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo will lift the 'millionaire tax' on his fellow millionaires, losing a billion a year, money which will be made up by cutting services, wages, firing public employees. Exemplifying the privatization thrust, speakers call attention to the effort to sell off the highly regarded Chautauqua County Nursing Home based in Dunkirk.
Further illustrating the privatization agenda, speaker Rose Conti (CSEA) said, "We used to be called public employees; before that, we were public servants; now we're called Public Enemy No. 1." snowshoefilms nerak yoryevrah

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