Occupy Portland News - SEIU's attempts to co-opt Occupy at a "National GA"

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[antidoteco]

Sam Gibson plays the skin flute !

[IamForever42]

These occupations aren't shit untill all the people that make these occupations up come together and see the war on drugs, not drug users, as a threat to their security. Again, Wake the Fuck Up. That is all I have to say about this.

[IamForever42]

Dont just fight for small time change. Real change is needed. So end the War on Drugs, as well as bring an end to the War on Terror. Both these wars aren't even wars, they are fronts for obtaining greater power in the world, implementing fascism here at home, and making certain industries, like the Weapons Industry, The private prison industry, Big Pharma, and fossil fuel companies, etc, massive profit. Wake Up damnit!

[IamForever42]

End the war on drugs. The first real symptom of fascism occured with Nixon declaring a war on drugs back in the early 1970's. Wake Up. Nothing meaningful changes untill people are no longer a victim of the criminal justice system for low level drug dealing and possession of any type of drug. Most of these people aren't even violent. More violence occurs with people drinking alcohol then the use of all illegal drugs combined. What the fuck R U afraid of people. Wake up. Please, fight for liberty.

[IamForever42]

So I am 4 this movement. But, if people aren't united in ending the war on drugs, willing 2 bring an end 2 the imprisonment of people possessing, using, dealing, and making drugs, then no 1 is going 2 end corprate rule, and peoples civil liberties will still be violated. As long as there R people so afraid of drugs that they R willing 2 let the government violate their civil liberties, just 4 putting something in their body, the enslavement will not end, and no meaningful change will occure.

[ericflu1]

Occupy to be co-opted by a huge union organization? You don't say. Sounds like birds of a feather.... bunch of occutard idiots.

[antidoteco]

True Occu-Turded piece of crap ^^^^^^ The only question I have for this fag is when is the sex change?

[antidoteco]

The word around the camp fire is that Sam Gibson plays a mean Skin Flute !

[pdxktv]

@beefriendly Is it any surprise that a labor union would want the energy and organizing of occupy? Anyway, it appears the occupiers were going to have none of it. I think the more likely scenario is that the labor unions will be co-opted by occupy.

[beefriendly]

3:30 -- "SEIU and these organizers in particular were knowingly and unknowingly utilizing occupy.... energy and so forth illegitimately, wrongly...And that by definition, as many people were saying, is co-optation."