Hooray, tomorrow is Kleptocracy Sucks Day!

[JackLuis]

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This, of course, is every day, but tomorrow Occupy Wall Street and labor unions are organizing actions all across the country for May Day to call attention to the crushing economic injustice forcing millions of unemployed, underemployed or over-employed “part-time” workers with multiple underpaid jobs to turn on their teevees and their YouTubes at night and get a lecture from Mitt Romney on how much their jealousy of his wealth offends him while President Hope runs off to drone bomb another crowd of women and children attending a funeral in Pakistan, for freedom.

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While American corporate media has focused on yet another stale election between Wall Street-financed candidates, Occupy has been organizing something extraordinary: the first truly nationwide General Strike in U.S. history. Building on the international celebration of May Day, past General Strikes in U.S. cities like Seattle and Oakland, the recent May 1st Day Without An Immigrant demonstrations, the national general strikes in Spain this year, and the on-going student strike in Quebec, the Occupy Movement has called for A Day Without the 99% on May 1st, 2012.

Happy May Day!​

 

[JackLuis]

AP PHOTOS: May Day protests around the world

Protesters hit streets for May Day rallies; violence flares in Oakland, Seattle

Protesters across the world hit the streets Tuesday on May Day to rally against austerity measures and call for higher wages and more jobs.

Marches turned violent in Oakland, where protesters pounded on bank windows and went face-to-face with a police line, and in Seattle, where protesters dressed in black smashed windows and police pepper-sprayed some in the crowds.

In the United States, the protests are seen as the biggest test for the Occupy movement since many of its camps were shuttered late last year. Occupiers in more than 100 cities across the country were expected to protest on the day that traditionally celebrates workers’ rights.

May Day protests hit the US from coast to coast

This is a May Day America hasn't seen in years. Even though this holiday originated in the US only to become popular worldwide, it hadn't been massively celebrated in its home country.

Something changed this year, however, after thousands of demonstrators took to the streets of American cities from coast to coast.

The spirit of the Occupy Wall Street movement was alive and well once again in New York City on May 1. After months of relative slacking, thousands of activists were back to the streets of the Big Apple and with them came droves of new protesters demanding a change.

Looks like the Lame Stream Media did cover the Protest.

 

[renard_ruse]

Must be sad for the Commie wannabes to realize that free markets will NEVER be replaced by a state owned planned economy. The great Soviet experiment will never be replicated again, so you folks are wasting your time with all this stuff. You're just bitching for the sake of bitching and will never achive the "ultimate goal" so you make up silly irrelevant pseudo goals like "tax the rich" or whatever.

Personally, I don't have strong views on capitalism vs. Communism/socialism myself, though I tend to believe markets in general are the best way to go for practical reasons. So as a rather impassionate observer, let me say you folks look silly and quite 20th (or even 19th) century with this stuff.

 

[JackLuis]

Must be sad for the Commie wannabes to realize that free markets will NEVER be replaced by a state owned planned economy. The great Soviet experiment will never be replicated again, so you folks are wasting your time with all this stuff. You're just bitching for the sake of bitching and will never achive the "ultimate goal" so you make up silly irrelevant pseudo goals like "tax the rich" or whatever.

Personally, I don't have strong views on capitalism vs. Communism/socialism myself, though I tend to believe markets in general are the best way to go for practical reasons. So as a rather impassionate observer, let me say you folks look silly and quite 20th (or even 19th) century with this stuff.

Welcome to the 21st Century, and you will have to admit even Holidays evolve. The Spanish and the other protesters are very likely apolitical and responding to the stress of their environment. Spain had 25% unemployment, so there are a lot of idle workers to denounce the "Austerity" programs of the international bankers union that was forced on Spain and Greece.

I don't see this in the "Cold War" polarity but in the continuing struggle of the individual to reach his highest capabilities for constructive community building.

I do wonder if the Black Hood's might be agent provocateurs?

 

[yevkassem72]

How do you know that your government is a kleptocracy? It governs.