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Converting to a Communist country, now more popular than our current Congress. Amazing. 

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84-year-old Occupy Seattle participant Dorli Rainey, pictured above after being pepper sprayed by Seattle Police on November 15th.

She later wrote about the incident:

“Something funny happened on my way to a transportation meeting in Northgate. As I got off the bus at 3rd and Pine I heard helicopters above. Knowing that the problems of New York would certainly precipitate action by Occupy Seattle, I thought I better check it out. Especially since only yesterday the City Government made a grandiose gesture to protect free speech. Well free speech does have its limits as I found out as the cops shoved their bicycles into the crowd and simultaneously pepper sprayed the so captured protesters. If it had not been for my Hero (Iraq Vet Caleb) I would have been down on the ground and trampled. This is what democracy looks like. It certainly left an impression on the people who rode the No. 1 bus home with me. In the women’s movement there were signs which said: “Screw us and we multiply.’”

What a heroic woman, and a severely disappointing action by the Seattle Police. 

Really clever metaphor for the Occupy movement. 

15 infuriating minutes. 60 Minutes reports on how members of Congress can trade stock based on non public information AKA, insider trading. You know, the thing anyone else gets years of prison for. 

This will infuriate Republicans, Democrats and anyone who gives half a shit about the current state of our country.

Yet we continue to mock the only people who will stand up to this, write them off as “hippie scum” looking for a handout. Maybe they should just become Congressmen, seems they get quite a few.

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This guy nailed it.

I could write a novel on how frustrated I am with people who reduce OWS to nothing but a hippie rally for handouts. We all want the same thing, if we could only act like grown ups and think for ourselves, we might actually achieve it. 

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So the occupy protest in Oakland seemed to be a mild success…..

WOAH.

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Quit asking for handouts you lazy hippie scum! Get a job! 

oh….right…

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This is a pretty good example of the dangers of wealth inequality, and why people are protesting Wall St and not DC. 

(Source: reddit.com)

We are the 1%

Fox News is now saying ACORN is behind Occupy Wall Street…

It makes me upset that this is where we are as a country. Fox News is an evil propaganda machine, sure. But it would not exist without it’s legion of viewers who will buy into their bullshit and have no real concept of what is important in life. If we all could just take a step out of our political comfort zone for a bit we’d notice that OWS is slowly but surely showing the real country we live in. It is not free, it is not democratic, we are not all equal. There are people who realize this and have been sleeping on the god damn sidewalk for over a month now to try and stand up for your rights as an American and a human being. It is patriotism defined.

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My brother is a bit of a hippie and he is one of the coolest, most insightful, and fun people I know. Hippies got a bad rap bros. 

(Source: mattbors.com)

This is not ok. 

The man laying on the ground is Iraq War veteran Scot Olsen, who was shot in the head by a tear gas canister which fractured his skull and left him in critical condition.

If you want to keep up with Occupy news, I would highly recommend subscribing to the Occupy subreddit.

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