Come one, Come all. If your a Union Member, contact your local. Get community Activist involved. I hope to be there on Wednesday to see history in the making.

I never dreamed this could happen... beautiful!

Just don't make war a big issue or you might have something like the Hard Hat Riots where the union workers started beating up the hipsters. That won't happen these days though. No one seems to care that innocent people are being killed by our government everyday. All they care about is their pay. Once they get it then they'll happily go back to their video games and lattes and forget about the real oppressed people that support their content apathetic middle class lifestyles.

In the sixties it was different. There was real change going on. People couldn't be so easily assimilated into the corrupt system. They were challenging and demanding much more from the establishment than today. That's why the union workers used to fight the protestors not join them.

"In fact the traditional class struggle stabilizes capitalist society by "correcting" its abuses (in wages, hours, inflation, employment, etc.). The unions in capitalist society are incorporated into the neomercantile statified economy as an estate."

from Listen, Marxist! by Murray Bookchin

As Bookchin wrote, the unions and protests over wages etc... just help the corrupt system correct itself and then the real exploitation, oppression of the poor, imperialism and rape of the planet will continue.

Anyway, I guess the protests are better than nothing. I wish peace was more important to these protestors though. I've been to the site and watched videos, read their updates and their schedule and I can't find any sign that anyone cares about it. I watched a video where people were asked what one word defined why they were there. I was hoping someone would say "peace." No a single person did. I don't hear much talk about the prison system and the War on Drugs either. Or the homeless. I don't know it seems like middle class college kids and middle class unions demanding a better middle class life. That's fine but I'd like to see them join with the real poor and the real oppressed. That starts with opposing imperialism. Without it, I think the protest seems a little fake and selfish.

max keiser and nomi prins, very clear:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtjbZl6ZwkQ&feature=player_embedded#!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxoC-7RfFcM&feature=player_embedded

it´s about people woke up and took to the streets! Keep up the fight and know that we here in Mexico support you!

Why isn't Fox news helping the working class and poor?

Even at 7% of the workforce, America still has enough union members (plus union supporters among their dependents) to apply some SERIOUS counterweight against the fascists now running the economic, political and mass media Roman Circus--at the State and Federal levels in much of the country.

The AFL-CIO alone has 11 million members. Throw in the UAW, AFSCME, the teachers unions, the nurse's unions, the skilled trades unions (electricians, plumbers, masons, etc.), the Hollywood unions, etc., plus their supporting dependents and you begin to see what could come together.

America's unions just need to realize and organize that power across multiple unions and throw off their fat, overpaid, corporately co-opted leadership where it exists. Only the unions working together with the rest of left-of-DLC America can put MILLIONS in the street in Washington D.C., NYC and around the corporatist, militarist mass media HQs--and keep the pressure up for as long as it takes. And that's EXACTLY what we need.

We need to be able to create the logistics (food, water, sanitation, critical protest shelter in sympathetic citizens' homes and elsewhere, medical care for protesters brutalized by rogue cops, bailout & legal defense funds for protesters, etc.) to put, in my opinion, close to two million protesters at every major event we focus upon and keep them there for months at a time if need be.

We need clear, short, easily understood lists of demands for each major event--three to five demands. We need to simultaneously develop and use, to the greatest extend possible as soon as possible, OUR OWN MASS MEDIA to get our messages out without having to go through corporatist, militarist, blindly pro-Wall Street mass media owner/editor filters and censors. Low power FM radio station licenses for non-profit organizations will be opened up by the FCC for the first time in 30 years next summer.

Lastly, the surveillance/Police State that treacherous Republicans and Democrats have assembled over the last 20 years in anticipation of rising civil suffering and civil unrest that their policies deliberately set in motion is designed to fully exploit Americans' over-dependence on electronic communications. Critical protest-related communications should be person-to-person between at least reasonably well-known (and preferably very well known) fellow activists and union members.

We need to get off our asses and start meeting each other face to face in small and large meetings like the old union organizers did in the days before telephones--you know, to actually get to know each other as intelligent, sensitive, flesh and blood human beings to raise our level of commitment. We need to publicly reassert the old but effective tactic of public speaking in public spaces with plenty of muscle to protect the speakers--especially outside areas were lots of non-unionized labor go to work. We need pamphleteers and folks to walk with and protect them, too.

One of the most wonderful aspects of the Occupy Wall Street micro-movement has been the EXCELLENT posters that have been created in support of it. I already have a collection of about 25 of them.

AMERICAN ARTISTS, MUSICIANS AND PLAYWRIGHTS AWAKE! NOW IS YOUR TIME TO FIGHT THE GOOD FIGHT USING ALL YOUR CREATIVITY WITH ALL YOUR MIGHT!

"Don't fear the media; BECOME the media!"
-- Jello Biafra

L'chaim!