Thank you to the OM! In the 1960's, I marched in Chicago; marched and donated for Civil Rights, and then marched for the end of the Vieltnam War. I marched to stop the Iraq War -- I did only what I could --a white woman who worked with what was there for me to use. Now. I can only help the OM where it's possible -- thanks for trying and continuing -- at least, we know you're there, even though the media is owned by corporate America. Some of it gets through......really, it does.........

Without campaign reform there will be no jobs and no peace. The wealthy are using our police forces to control our grievances over their theft of our treasury. Privatization is the wealthy's guaranteed social security as they steal everyone else's. Wake up Amercia you are being robbed by your wealthy who pay off your politicians for favorable laws. Wake up and stand up. It is time for Gulliver to stand up and face the Lilliputians directly. Stand up Gulliver before all is lost. I am a recovering republican. Note the small "r".

What have we learned from the Occupy Movement? But, more importantly, what have our nation's police learned? In my new book I reveal what has worked in Madison and the high responsibility of the police to respond to public protest without violence and with plenty of dialogue. For insight and direction on this and other important police improvement issues, read “Arrested Development: A Veteran Police Chief Sounds Off About Protest, Racism, Corruption and the Seven Steps Necessary to Improve Our Nation’s Police” (Amazon.com in US and EU). And the blog at http://improvingpolice.wordpress.com/ where other current police improvement issues are discussed. Good luck and may we all experience not just good but great policing! Great policing is accomplished by police who are well-trained and led, restrained in their use of force, honest, and courteous to every person.

I have heard next to nothing about the OWS movement via the media . How can the movement be successful unless it is promoted but it is almost a deep dark secret . It should be promoted non stop over the internet on a daily basis telling the public when and where demonstrations will be held. I live in the Palm Beach , Florida area and would gladly join in if I knew when there would be demonstrations within a 1 hour distance from my home . Where is the leadership ? Obviously we can't depend on the mass media.

The Occupy Wall Street group got a lot of media attention late last year ,
but has got very little attention this year. It must be smaller & not as active.

I just wish the 98% and the Occupy persons would sign at http://signon.org/sign/take-money-out-of-politics so that we could maintain our Democracy and rid ourselves of the current Plutocracy (government by the wealthy).

OM, the nation needs you now more than ever. The propaganda: corporate taxes in the US are the highest in the industrial world. The Center for Tax Justice crunched the most recent data from the OECD (Organization or Economic Cooperation and Development) and the Office of Management and Budget and found that "the U.S. is already one of the least taxed countries for corporations in the developed world." Completely contradicts what Republicans tell us.
Other OECD countries might have lowered their corporate tax rates but they closed corporate tax loopholes while the U.S. expanded them so that the U.S. is actually a very low tax country for corporations. Yet Republicans want to reduce corporate tax rates and who can forget their recent refusal to end tax subsidies for Big Oil? The US has almost the lowest taxation in the world based on public revenue from taxes as a percentage of gross domestic product. Denmark's is the highest with 48.2 percent, Mexico's, lowest with 17.5, US, 24 percent.

The 99% movement, tea party movement, and every American who can see how broken the system is needs to boycottt BOTH duopoly parties and vote only for electoral reform in 2012!

Occupy the election, control the government! Vote against the two-party duopoly!

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The purpose of Occupy to mobilize citizens and create dialogue and awareness if fantastic. But where is it going politically, and where should it go?

With so many problems, it is important to focus on the root cause, where concentrated efforts can give rise to tangible, door-opening results. I contend that the first step for everyone, whether liberal, conservative, concerned about civil rights, war, abortion, immigration, gun control or any issue, lies in our electoral system.

I present the root cause, the inhibitor to advancement, the thumb under which the mighty oppress the many: our cherade of democratic elections using winner-take-all, solidifying the two party duopoly. Neither party has shown that they can be worthy of your trust, that they will stand for your basic rights, that they will stand against the thieves of wall street.

Use your vote this November to end the two-party duopoly!

Sorry kids, but Woodstock and Haight-Ashbury are gone forever. It's time for Democrats to purge the bug-eye zealots who have stolen control of The Party, and pursue policies that reflect the wishes of the average American.

The Occupy Movement is vital to the nation: United States is endowed with a lot of immensely rich congressmen who were elected to serve the people. Yet, many of them are all for servicing the rich 1% and corporations and shafting the 99%. We should be welcome at their homes this season to refresh their minds about who elected them. First, to find out where they live; then, to camp outside their homes trusting that, out of the goodness of their hearts, they shower us with food, donations and jobs. Corporations have been declared "people" by the Supreme Court. They need to be reminded too that earning a ten million dollars in one night manipulating stocks, not creating any jobs, and paying only 14% tax (like Romney does) is obscene, not free enterprise.

I was so surprised to see this and is stated accurately. I grew up in Athens, TN and had old newspapers and knew many of the folks that were involved in that situation. I guess there was a small movie about it but don't know if it ever aired.. I also agree it's a good example of what can happen in short order when the people decide to change it. Didn't know Wikipedia censored, that's unfortunate.

Keep it on Occupy Movement! The nation needs you more than ever. If the Righties win the WH, they'll throw us the 99% under the bus.

While everyone seems to be focused on the national/international levels, local governments everywhere are corrupting politics, as each partisan group has its own ideas about how to repair their communities. Especially difficult is the fact that many local communities are built on histories of housing, education, even employment and health discrimination. Then they seek to start as if everyone is at the same place on the starting line.

As the Nov elections approach the Occupy Movement becomes more necessary. If the Righties take the WH, they'll throw the 99% under the bus.

Too many OWS nut jobs thing they can make a dent into changing our government. I don't think so.
too many of us like our jobs, homes cars and pensions to side with these folks who think they deserve my money for doing nothing. I don't think they make sense. Wall street is not the problem, Lazy people are the problem on the dole.

TROLL ALERT. "Cibercore cyber..." is a spammer who needs a swift kick out the door. Go post on your Newt Gingrich fan club page, you have no friends here.

ON government hand outs... there are ways to prevent individual fraud involved and make it a more efficient system WHILE making sure we cover all those who are indeed in need. There is no cut and dry solution, but an absolution of the programs all together (as the top income earners want) is downright idiotic for the country as a whole. You don't really understand how these people think of the rest of the world. We are all worthless to them. Our slow economy cars get in the way of their Maseratis on the road, we ask for "handouts" like f*cking peasants and THEY don't think we "deserve" them... OR education, OR healthcare, OR anything... ANYTHING. They would rather us just go away so they can have more of this world to themselves. Sure, there's an overpopulation problem in the world. And yes, some folks need to tone it down on your baby-making (not kidding here, it's outrageous, because most of the time you can't even afford those kids). And yes, a lot of folks need to shape up and lose that heart-attack fat body. And yes, a lot of folks need to focus more on what's important and valuable in their lives, rather than on big screen tvs and idolizing what they watch on it. BUT - you know what is proven to help all those? Proper EDUCATION, HEALTHCARE, and GOOD PAYING JOBS. So my conclusion? Nearly everyone is to blame for what is going on in this world, but some have sooo much more power than others, and do nothing but exacerbate the problem. We are going in reverse, if you haven't noticed. Are you going to just stand there and let it all disintigrate? Are you going to go a step further and speak out for those who could care less about you? All of you who make a normal living but choose to believe the billionaire-fueled rhetoric about how rich people (notice, they never talk about YOU) need more tax breaks? You denounce 'big government' but you believe it should have powers to govern our sex lives? May I ask, WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU?? We want to SOLVE problems, and you just want to help the richest and most powerful regress us to FEUDALISM. By the way, this is all ME, I didn't go to some video to get this information. This is me, and a lifetime of observation and research. I don't watch main-stream news. I don't vote democrat or republican. Infact, I am pretty much apathetic because politicians on the whole do not solve a single thing. But I swear I am voting for Obama this year because I cannot stand the likes of YOU, cibercore troll, and the threat you pose to this nation. You proved that threat over more than a decade of republican control. In that time, yall f*cked up big time. You did...BIG time. So give the other side a chance, and think for yourselves. Check this out: Bush+Cheney's response to the antiwar movement was "they are a small, fringe radical group" -- in other words, peace was rejected as a radical idea. Obama's response to the occupy movement? Well, besides actually addressing it (which bush would not have, except with the national guard), he reasoned with some of the issues while defending himself (as any politician will do, but he did it in a mature way). Finally, a president who has a brain and can address multiple issues. The republicans have their way ALL the time - they are pushy, arrogant, and the TRUE elitists here in America. They spin the elitist rhetoric and therefore partially avoid it.. But that time is over. Go suck it, cibercore troll. WE WILL WIN.

ALL DAY ALL WEEK OCCUPY WALL STREET.

When are Occupiers going to realize that the real enemy is in Washington DC?

What planet are you on?