An App We All Need
I honestly don’t know how feasible this is, but it’s an app I know I need. And all the folks who quietly support the Occupy movement need.
I’m tentatively calling it “How Evil Is That?”.
It’s a smart app, able to recognise products and logos from a photograph or an image it takes, much like a code-square scanner. Once it recognises the product [or logo] it searches a database or databases of crowd-sourced information on the following: What company actually owns the company that made it, How much evil has it done in the last 6 months(carbon footprint, acres polluted, thousands laid off, sweatshops built, senators paid off, etc.), Has it done anything to ameliorate that in the same time, How much % pay raise did the corporate execs get in the same time, and How much actual tax have they paid ($taxed minus $refunds).
The resultant figures come back in an easy-to-read graphic so the consumer can choose how much corporate evil they’re willing to pay for.
Would be interesting to make it, if only to see how fast that sucker gets banned :)
A Bit More on Gridle$$
The real point of Gridle$$ as a means of protest is this:
We are not giving money to any corporation.
We are no longer buying their bullshit. In any form.
If we’re paid, we’re keeping our pay. We’re giving it to actual people who worked to produce the things we need.
We are not buying petrol/gasoline to run our cars because we have bikes. That we repair ourselves.
We are not buying fashionable brand clothing because we are making it ourselves. We will grow it ourselves, if necessary. Assuming it takes that long.
We are not buying over-processed foods because we’re growing our own.
We are most definitely not watching TV, because we’re busy making our own stuff.
Kill the corporations by removing your need of them.
End the corporations, and you end their influence in politics.
Sure, it’ll take some significant time, but maybe by the third or fourth year of a significant lack of sales, they might just get the hint.
It could plausibly be just as effective as sitting in a park and banging on a drum or holding up a sign.
After all, you can’t say ‘activism’ without saying 'active’.
We can sit and blame and demand, or we can do.
People made the system that is currently breaking down. People can make a new system that lasts.
If Corporations Are People, Why Don’t They Pay Tax?
Or get stood on when they disregard the law?
Just a thought.
Dear 53%
I understand your right to stand up for what you believe in. I’m all for it.
However, I believe you are labouring under some false ideas masquerading as good intentions.
If you believe that an individual has the right to freedom of speech…
If you believe that an individual has the right to peacefully assemble when they believe things are going wrong…
If you believe that an individual has the right to find work where they want to work…
If you don’t want your hard-earned employment/money/hope to be shipped overseas to the lowest bidder…
If you want the education for your children to mean something and be worth something in the future…
If you want your savings to support you in your old age…
If you think the police should not open fire or gas unarmed civilians…
If even one of the above statements is true…
Then you are part of the 99%
Your taxes are currently funding corporate fat cats so they can bribe congressmen to enact laws that steal your property, that encourage your employer to put your job overseas, that rob you of your investments, that cancel your plans or dreams for a better tomorrow.
Stop objecting to the Occupy movement and realise that we are also fighting for you.
Join us, and otherwise commingle.
Stay Peaceful, OWS
Honestly, it is in your best interests. I’ve read people saying that it’s time to take up arms like the Tea Party, etc.
No.
Just plain no.
The best way to outline the violence is to remain peaceful. Carry nothing more harmful than a placard. Beat nothing but drums or your own chest. Throw nothing but invective.
Let the people see that you are unarmed. That you are not harming anyone.
Be prepared for the idea that yes, this is going to hurt. Yes, they will hit you. Yes, they will strike you down.
The point is that yes, you can stand up again.
And again. And again.
And if you can’t stand up, like that poor soul who was illegally shot in the head with a “less than lethal” round (One inch in the wrong direction and he would be a fatality), then more people will stand up for you.
Do not, I beg you, get violent.
Violence only justifies the actions of fascists.
Stand when they attempt to put you down. Speak when they attempt to silence you. Take the money they crave and put it into things that will support you and not the corporate hegemony. This is how to hurt them.
They can only try to arrest all of you.
That can only mean that more will come to stand with others who feel the same way.
OccupyNashville has been given 24hrs to disband or be evicted by the Police. Let the following people know that you support the occupation. We are the 99%!
Mayor of Nashville (Karl Dean) (615) 862-6000 mayor@nashville.gov
TN Govenor (Bill Haslam) 615-741-2001 bill.haslam@tn.gov
Chief of Police (Steve Anderson) 615-862-7301 chief@police.nashville.org
Director of Metro Council (John Cooper) 615-862-6780
Reblog to help out these guys. Awareness is needed.
(Source: yallhio)
“Oakland Policeman Throws Flash Grenade Into Crowd Trying To Help Injured Protester”
They can deny all they want, but this footage is EVERYWHERE.
Spread the truth. Reblog and retweet this.
(Source: weneedthetruth-blog)
On Oakland
So, last night I found out fascism was alive and well and living in the Oakland PD.
As a concerned cogniscent being, I went searching for news. Livestreams, anything that was happening that wasn’t being blocked, DOS'ed, or removed.
My 10YO son came shoulder-surfing and asked what was going on.
I had to explain what was happening in America right that moment. I showed him swarms of police decked out in riot gear for a couple of guys singing and playing guitar and a bunch of unarmed folks standing around with signs. It was the only live footage I could find (it was of OccupySF) at the time.
I showed him the injuries of people who had been shot by rubber bullets.
I showed him the recorded footage of the flashbangs going off in the clouds of teargas in Oakland.
I showed him the proof that the Oakland PD had also been firing beanbag rounds. Those suckers are not as harmless as the word “beanbag” would lead you to believe.
Until that night, America had been a fantastic place for him. A place that had all the cool toys and all the advantages. He dreamed of being able to go there one day.
So thanks a bunch, Oakland PD. You’ve shattered the hopes and dreams of a little boy, while at the same time treading on the face of liberty and justice for all.
I also explained that there were good cops - obviously not in Oakland - who heard the criminal orders to open fire on unarmed, peaceful civilians exercising their rights to freedom of speech and public assembly… and told those giving the orders to screw off. In no uncertain terms.
He was stunned that a land allegedly based on freedom could do this to its people.
And he’s probably going to tell his friends and teachers about this.
Nobody can silence the Occupy movement. Nobody can pretend it isn’t happening the way it is happening.
Anyone who attempts to mock it is only mocking themselves.
Occupy is everywhere. It has gone viral.
The revolution has not been televised. It has been blogged and reblogged, tweeted and retweeted. It is passed from hand to hand and mouth to mouth and it is resuscitating the spirit of social justice in us all.
It is too late to stop it.
Something must break. The broken system must change.
Wake up and join us.
Everybody Needs to Read One Book
And it ain’t the Bible.
Yeah, I’m probably going to get pwn’d for saying that, but in these days, in this situation, and with the Occupy movement going everywhere like ice cream on a toddler, this book is essential.
The book is called How an Economy Grows and Why it Crashes by Peter D. Schiff
It explains the economy problems currently causing people to be out on the streets banging on drums and shouting at the corporate fat cats, etc.
It tells us exactly why our money is a complete fiction and how making more of it is only going to dig us deeper. Sure, it blames the governments a little too much, and doesn’t look too hard at the really big lie - i.e. corporations are legally people - but it does explain economics in terms even an idiot like me can understand.
Everyone should have a copy. Read it in the streets to anyone who’s interested. Give a copy to a friend.
Hell, send a copy to the White House.
I won’t advise thwacking an ignorant corporate executive with it, ‘cause those guys won’t take a clue until the Revolution comes ;)
Especially make anyone who’s hardcore Government Deregulation Now read the damn thing and understand how deregulating corporations put us all in the shithole in the first place.
Understanding the problem is halfway towards creating a solution.