The Occupy Movement is Mutating

Ben Manski, Democracy Advocate & Ben Zucker, participant-Occupy DC tenter join Thom Hartmann. The "Occupy" movement is mutating - it's no longer just parks and tents. The Occupy Wall Street movement - the granddaddy of them all - turned 4-months old Tuesday - and celebrated by occupying Congress. Over a thousand people swarmed Capitol Hill yesterday as part of a "day of action against a corrupt political institution" Peaceful patriots swung by the offices of Members of Congress - and demonstrated outside on the Capitol grounds. Later in the evening - roughly 1,500 patriots marched to the Supreme Court building to demonstrate against corporate personhood and the Citizens United ruling. And then the crowd marched to the White House to protest the new indefinite detention law the President signed

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• SOPA
• Wisconsin Recall
• Michigan
• Rick Snyder
• SuperPac
• Occupy the Courts
• Big Picture
• Thom Hartmann

[trivas7]

The day the police stand down to the people is coming.

[PitBullsBiteHard]

@TheEnneagram i'm willing to bet the cops we want on our side, don't need recruiting. but i agree. we should find a way to make them see past their wallets.

[TheEnneagram]

@thealienelite He does make one interesting remark, which I will paraphrase:

"My grandfather flew bomber missions over Europe during the war and he told me something I'll never forget. When you're being hammered with flak, it's because you're right above the target."

To which I would add: "Give 'em hell." Cheers.

[thealienelite]

@TheEnneagram You should refrain from "throwing out the baby with the bathwater". Yes, Jesse and Alex have their flaws, but a lot of what they say is accurate and makes sense when thought about critically.

[TheEnneagram]

@SaveTheWheat He is a PERFECT representative, for exactly those reasons. Nothing about OWS is specific or substantive. Victory is not their plan.

[TheEnneagram]

@bamboo4tameshigiri You wont find me in the street, where losers and collateral damage go to die. The war will be fought over martinis in a drawing room, not molotov cocktails on Wilshire & Westwood blvds.

My fight is with oligarchs and plutocrats -- you can keep your police skirmishes for yourself. That said, the night the fit hit the shan in Oakland was among my favorite ever. Most instructive, too.

You people have no chance in the streets w/o the PD on your side. Recruit them.

[TheEnneagram]

@thealienelite It appears that you watch Alex Jones more than I. Not that I would beleive what (or anyone) says, but I do sometimes wonder why he appears on RT News, as he did yesterday. He belongs in the same box with Alyona Minkovsky -- pure infotainment without the fatty indigestible substance. If you like outrage in a journalist, they're for you.

If you're still not sated, try Jesse Ventura.

[TheEnneagram]

@SaveTheWheat Coming from you, Jessica, that hurts. You have the whitest teeth I have ever come cross. I was really hoping you would like me.

N O T

[bamboo4tameshigiri]

@SaveTheWheat Not enough.

[SaveTheWheat]

I don't think you guys picked the best person to interview. He's nice and everything, but he didn't have any specific comment on corporate personhood. And his use of language is sort of vague and cliche.