Though their numbers had fallen from the 400 people organizers claimed at the height of Tuesday night’s activities, Occupy Seattle protesters filled Westlake Park overnight in spite of an announcement from City Hall that the tent encampment would be “asked” to move.
The protest is part of the Occupy Wall Street effort that began this summer to return “the US back into the hands of it’s individual citizens.”
With this going on at Sea-Tac, CHS figured it was the least we could do to venture across I-5 to visit the protest.
In a statement released by the Seattle mayor’s office, protesters were told they would face possible arrest for trespassing if they remained camped in the park past 10p Tuesday. There was no visible police presence near the park as of midnight. Meanwhile, some of the organizers of events and demonstrations scheduled for the park have said they “welcome the presence” of the Occupy Seattle protest.
This will accomplish nothing. Occupy wall street will accomplish nothing. There is no vessel for real progress because there is no real information.
What really made me angry is when the protesters on Wall street began… they had yet to decide a demand.
Why don’t they look at who funds Obama…
@whatever–if you bury your head in the sand deep enough, you can convince yourself of anything. The Occupy protests have very consise demands and reasons for doing what they’re doing. And, strangely enough, there’s cities all over the US and other countries standing up with them and holding to the same principles. Look somewhere other than CNN and the rest of the major media that’s only going to benefit by dismantling and downplaying the occupations.
Your cynicism is beyond passé. Try taking part in your community. The whole “it isn’t going to do anything anyway” is just an excuse for you, and everyone who uses it to be lazy while the “powers that be” take from you everything you won’t stand up and defend.
blah. blah. blah. blah. blah.
Hahahaha I bet you’re a barista huh? Or work at a vintage store, or maybe some high earning software person. Lack of demands doesn’t mean lack substance, just because you’re a coward and a defeatist doesn’t mean those with passion are. I highly doubt you’ve ever been truly angry in your life.
Shut up and keep your sad history to yourself.
It’s easiest to shoot the messenger when the messenger is right and you don’t want to admit it. This will do nothing.
http://occupywallst.org/forum/proposed-list-of-demands-for-o
My favorites:
Demand one: Raise the minimum wage to twenty dollars an hr.
Demand six: One trillion dollars in infrastructure spending now.
Demand seven: One trillion dollars in ecological restoration
Demand nine: Open borders migration. anyone can travel anywhere to work and live.
Demand eleven: Immediate across the board debt forgiveness for all.
Thanks for the coverage CHS! One thing you forgot to mention was that http://occupyseattle.org has the latest on what’s currently going on.
Messenger for whom? And you know, you’re probably right. Just don’t castigate those who actually try to make a difference. If you don’t try, well, you have no room to talk about potential impacts. I’m from a family of immigrants and I was taught to always try, sometimes nothing changes, and sometimes mountains are moved. People said the Civil Rights Movement wouldn’t do anything, same with Womens Suffrage, and also that the American Revolution was doomed to fail and alas here we are.I have immense respect for all Seattlites who try. The rest can go be pessimistic by themselves.
Great demands.
Abolish the Drug Enforcement Administration
End the Federal Reserve
Nationalize the Federal Reserve (?)
End the War on Drugs
If the U.S. government nationalized the ten largest corporations in America tomorrow their annual net revenue would be less than 6% of current U.S.G. tax revenue. The problem isn’t lack of wealth equality, the problem is lack of wealth. The problem is a model of consumer-industrial economics introduced in 1912 that doesn’t work.
These morons are protesting for an increased share of comforts and consumer goods that don’t exist. Their brain is filled with marketing spin about how they need vacations in Mazatlan and indoor plumbing and iPhones and they’re understandably mad they aren’t getting it. But they’re never going to get it. This is the sunset of consumer-industrial civilization. The ability of the economy to deliver a comfortable lifestyle is a fiction temporarily created to help the west win the Cold War. Human life is uncomfortable and miserable. For 100 years all the stops were pulled out so we could pretend it wasn’t. There are no more stops to pull. You’re Cinderella and it’s midnight. Time to go back to slopping the pigs.
I never said I wasn’t trying or what I was doing so don’t assume.
Let’s be clear though, camping in Westlake Park is not trying. You should make a difference, but find something that will.
By the way, any group that posts a picture of that CIA hack Gene Sharp on their homepage kinda betrays their colors. This is the bloodthirsty vampire – who has been painstakingly branded as a non-violent, hippy ideologue – responsible for the U.S.’ ongoing rape of the world. His bloody fingerprints are all over Serbia, Libya, Syria – anywhere a “spontaneous” revolution for “democracy” erupts by which U.S. and U.S. corporations stands to benefit, Gene Sharp is there. The #Occupy group are either hopelessly clueless if they’re lionizing him or schilling a dishonest agenda.
In the words of Lukashenko -
“These aren’t ‘color’ revolutions — they’re banditry under the guise of democracy … this banditry is imposed and paid for from outside, is carried out to benefit individuals who don’t care about their countries and peoples, and interests only those … trying to conquer new markets.”
worshiping at the altar of the state … demanding it impose violence on your behalf and for your comfort
the state itself is the problem – the corporations are subsidiaries of state power
this isn’t a far-reaching paradigm-shifting protest, these are minor platform positions advanced by a policy wonk … that’s why it hasn’t resonated with the public … why in a metro area of 3 million only 300 (on a good day) show up to this silly demonstration … it smells – nay, reeks – of stale institutionalism
the only solution is to abolish the state itself — until this Madison Avenue PR agency created mobile marketing campaign for SEIU adopts that position (I won’t hold my breath) this will continue to be the biggest mockery of grassroots activism in the last 50 years
Blam! Touche and well said.
LMAO! Even a stopped clock is right twice a day. A good end-cap from a (probably) right-wing writer about the major party drones stumbling around Westlake and a handful of other places …
“You can take some consolation from that next year when you sacrifice your principles, abandon the Global People’s Liberation Party (or whatever), and vote to re-elect President Obama.”
http://campaign2012.washingtonexaminer.com/article/letter-ne
I like how they didn’t even start off reasonable.
it is certainly commendable that these individuals r protesting wall street & corporate greed, however, do these same people have cell phones where they pay monthly fees that go to greedy ceos of cell phone companies. do these same people support corporate businesses rather than local neighborhood businesses. protesting is gr8, but if we dont live our lives daily by supporting small businesses in our neighborhoods then we can protest all we want but we, as consumers & citizens of the us of a r still lining the pockets of these greedy ceos. it is very difficult to not go in to a corporate run business, and i am just as guilty, but there are some choices we can make which requires not being lazy or looking for the cheapest deals possible. we are all suffering in these downtrodden economic times, but i still feel i can certainly make certain choices that do not line the pockets of greedy corporate ceos. i work in a small neighborhood business & our business has definitely declined because consumers would rather go where it is cheaper. i feel that is part of the problem. as a consumer, i am partly responsible for the corportatization of america. cheap & convenient is what corporate america sells & we buy into it.