...Representatives from no fewer than 15 of the country's largest labor unions will join the Occupy Wall Street protesters for a mass rally and march today in New York City.
The AFL-CIO, United Auto Workers, and Transit Workers' Union are among the groups expected to stand in solidarity with the hundreds of mostly young men and women who have spent the better part of three weeks sleeping, eating, and organizing from Zuccotti Square...
You can't make up this ship.
. Really? Explain this moron manifesto....It really sounds like you are though.
http://occupywallst.org/forum/propos...all-st-moveme/
Demand one: Restoration of the living wage. This demand can only be met by ending "Freetrade" by re-imposing trade tariffs on all imported goods entering the American market to level the playing field for domestic family farming and domestic manufacturing as most nations that are dumping cheap products onto the American market have radical wage and environmental regulation advantages. Another policy that must be instituted is raise the minimum wage to twenty dollars an hr.
Demand two: Institute a universal single payer healthcare system. To do this all private insurers must be banned from the healthcare market as their only effect on the health of patients is to take money away from doctors, nurses and hospitals preventing them from doing their jobs and hand that money to wall st. investors.
Demand three: Guaranteed living wage income regardless of employment.
Demand four: Free college education.
Demand five: Begin a fast track process to bring the fossil fuel economy to an end while at the same bringing the alternative energy economy up to energy demand.
Demand six: One trillion dollars in infrastructure (Water, Sewer, Rail, Roads and Bridges and Electrical Grid) spending now.
Demand seven: One trillion dollars in ecological restoration planting forests, reestablishing wetlands and the natural flow of river systems and decommissioning of all of America's nuclear power plants.
Demand eight: Racial and gender equal rights amendment.
Demand nine: Open borders migration. anyone can travel anywhere to work and live.
Demand ten: Bring American elections up to international standards of a paper ballot precinct counted and recounted in front of an independent and party observers system.
Demand eleven: Immediate across the board debt forgiveness for all. Debt forgiveness of sovereign debt, commercial loans, home mortgages, home equity loans, credit card debt, student loans and personal loans now! All debt must be stricken from the "Books." World Bank Loans to all Nations, Bank to Bank Debt and all Bonds and Margin Call Debt in the stock market including all Derivatives or Credit Default Swaps, all 65 trillion dollars of them must also be stricken from the "Books." And I don't mean debt that is in default, I mean all debt on the entire planet period.
Demand twelve: Outlaw all credit reporting agencies.
Demand thirteen: Allow all workers to sign a ballot at any time during a union organizing campaign or at any time that represents their yeah or nay to having a union represent them in collective bargaining or to form a union.
These demands will create so many jobs it will be completely impossible to fill them without an open borders policy.
:lamo Congratulations, guys. You could not have picked a more inchoate, idiot group of hippies to tie your public image too. Half these people want to destroy your jobs... but you can't help yourself, and rush to join in with anyone yelling about the rich.
alternate headline for this story: Unions Jump Shark.
may those who are anti-union live to see why we had them in the first place.
Not my point. Labor unions, long known to be bastions of unbridled corruption, calling wall street, or any other orginization, corrupt. Irony.It wasn't the labor unions who created the financial meltdown, it was Wall Street and the banks.
Not my point. Labor unions, long known to be bastions of unbridled corruption, calling wall street, or any other orginization, corrupt. Irony.
expressing anger for the purpose of expressing anger, is stupid.
this movement has no goals or agenda, and I hope my union stays out of it.
may those who are anti-union live to see why we had them in the first place.
Judging from this thread, Tea Party conservatives only like grassroots organizing and groups with similar ideas / goals joining together when it fits with their beliefs.
not at all. I love these guys - they are a huge boon to the right.
not at all. I love these guys - they are a huge boon to the right.
. Really? Explain this moron manifesto....
Double thanks for posting this. The unions especially like Item #13....but I thought they could do that already?
Before I read this, CG, I was all for these demonstrators. Here I thought they were demonstrating against derivative crapola and high CEO salaries. Now I see they're for illegal immigration (making it all legal), forgiveness of all indebtedness (what???), being unable to track someone's credit before loaning them money, banning private insurers and letting the government rape us instead...and a variety of other demands that all spell one word: Socialism.
. Really? Explain this moron manifesto....
Admin note: This is not an official list of demands. This is a forum post submitted by a single user and hyped by irresponsible news/commentary agencies like Fox News and Mises.org. This content was not published by the OccupyWallSt.org collective, nor was it ever proposed or agreed to on a consensus basis with the NYC General Assembly. There is NO official list of demands.
404, link not found, but it looks as already mentioned to just be some guy on a forum message board.
OK, got a working link: Proposed List Of Demands For Occupy Wall St Movement! | OccupyWallSt.org Forum
Surprise, it was the Gateway Pundit that pushed this. They have a long history of dishonest "reporting".
Let's look at the opening of the post, which was not surprisingly left out of your post:
Epic fail there guy.
Double thanks for posting this. The unions especially like Item #13....but I thought they could do that already?
Before I read this, CG, I was all for these demonstrators. Here I thought they were demonstrating against derivative crapola and high CEO salaries. Now I see they're for illegal immigration (making it all legal), forgiveness of all indebtedness (what???), being unable to track someone's credit before loaning them money, banning private insurers and letting the government rape us instead...and a variety of other demands that all spell one word: Socialism.
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