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Thursday, October 6, 2011

Occupy Wall Street comes to Toledo

What do they want? We don't know!
When do they want it! NOW!
Oh, wait, we'll decide next week what we want.
From OccupyToledo:

Occupy Toledo is a nonviolent assembly of individuals from all walks of life who stand in solidarity with the occupation of Wall Street in New York City and with the overarching Occupy movement across our nation and the world. 
We stand with the 99%. Our demands will be decided as a group in daily meetings of the General Assembly. Be a part of the process. October 10th at 11am in Levis Square, Downtown Toledo.
The occupation does not conform to the expectations of a protest.
The traditional practice of protesting has failed the people.
A protest is at first antagonism. An occupation is at first COMMUNITY.

A protest is defined by opposition. An occupation is defined by PRESENCE.
A protest is singular. An occupation is MULTITUDE. 
 
Got that?More gobbledegook from the protesters, on this page, admits they are ANARCHISTS:
The General Assembly has become the de facto decision-making body for the occupation at Liberty Plaza, just a few blocks north of Wall Street. (That was Zuccotti Park’s name before 2006, when the space was rebuilt by Brookfield Properties and renamed after its chairman, John Zuccotti.) Get ready for jargon: the General Assembly is a horizontal, autonomous, leaderless, modified-consensus-based system with roots in anarchist thought, and it’s akin to the assemblies that have been driving recent social movements around the world, in places like Argentina, Egypt’s Tahrir Square, Madrid’s Puerta del Sol and so on. Working toward consensus is really hard, frustrating and slow. But the occupiers are taking their time. When they finally get to consensus on some issue, often after days and days of trying, the feeling is quite incredible. A mighty cheer fills the plaza. It’s hard to describe the experience of being among hundreds of passionate, rebellious, creative people who are all in agreement about something.
  Over at occupyseattle, they're trying to decide what they actually WANT, as some protesters became angry that idiots were making them all look stupid by posting things like demanding a $20 minimum wage and that the rich share their wealth and that paychecks be mandatory regardless of work effort.
  Some of the Seattle demands being voted on include "enact a system of law that is money proof," and "end corporate control of the Supreme Court" and "abolish the drug enforcement administration." Ha. Wonder why.
  All these protesters want is jobs. Right? Wrong. All they want is corporate accountability (the #1 demand on the Seattle webpage), which means WHAT exactly?
  Do they not understand that the retirement and savings accounts of millions of people AND unions are tied up in Wall Street? 

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