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Police arrest four at Occupy KC event
UPDATED AND EXCLUSIVE!!! CHECK OUT A PHOTO OF THE ARRESTS TODAY . . .
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The presser that follows contains a bit of insight into the protest gone wrong today . . . Occupy KC promised a bit of civil disobedience at this EXTREMELY SMALL rally:
Occupy Kansas City in solidarity with Occupy Portland and 70 Cities Nationwide Stand up to Corporate Greed and ALEC National Day of Action to Resist the Selling Out of the 99%
On February 29th, Occupy Kansas City along with thousands of other concerned citizens, students, and occupiers in over seventy cities across the nation, including Occupy Wall Street (NYC), are standing up to the corporations and legislators involved in American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). The biggest corporations in America, including ExxonMobil, Bank of America, BP, Monsanto, Pfizer, and Wal-Mart use ALEC to buy off legislators and craft legislation that puts corporate profit over the well-being of ordinary people. Responding to a national call from Occupy Portland, this will be the Occupy Movement’s largest coordinated action this year and will confront ALEC corporations in the cities in which they do business throughout the nation.
ALEC is an exclusive membership organization of global corporations and local legislators that meet privately to draft "model bills" intended to HIJACK OUR LAWS and INCREASE THEIR REVENUE. ALEC-Approved "model bills" are passed along to cooperative politicians eager to push the corporate agenda of the 1%. ALEC boasts that it has over 1,000 of these bills introduced by legislative members every year, with one in every five of them enacted into law. Once legislators return to their state with corporate-sponsored ALEC legislation in hand, the legislators themselves become “super-lobbyists” for ALEC’s corporate agenda, cutting out the middleman. Yet ALEC enjoys a 501(c)(3) classification, which allows it to keep its tax-exempt status while accepting grants from foundations, corporations, and other donors.
The Missouri State Legislature currently has three of ALEC's "model bills" on the agenda with even more being drafted. These bills and many others are direct attacks on the 99%, written and sponsored by AT&T and other global corporations, promoted by corrupt legislators to suppress our rights and increase their revenues.
AT&T is one of ALEC's Private Enterprise Board members and a proud "Chairman" level sponsor of ALEC's 38th Annual Conference in 2011, paying in excess of $50,000 to support the conference. As an active member and financial supporter of ALEC, AT&T has continually promoted corporate oppression of its workers and the 99%. AT&T and ALEC are responsible for crafting legislation for the 1% that is anti-democracy, anti-immigrant, and anti-worker.
By financially supporting ALEC's oppressive legislation, AT&T is directly oppressing the workers of Missouri with uncivil acts of aggression. Today on February 29, Occupy Kansas City will be engaging in acts of Civil Disobedience to make AT&T and all ALEC corporations fully aware, THE PEOPLE ARE HERE TO TAKE OUR POWER BACK!
Occupy Kansas City is in solidarity with Occupy Wall Street and part of an international people powered movement fighting for economic justice in the face of oppressive economic practices, the crimes of Wall Street, and a government controlled by corporate interests. #OWS is the 99% organizing to end the tyranny of the 1%.
For more info www.OccupyKC.net, www.occupywallst.org and www.ShutDownTheCorporations.org
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Time to clean out the camp.
ReplyDeleteAnd this just in: Two people jaywalked today at 12th and Oak!
ReplyDeleteHasn't this Occupy local farce gone on long enough?
Occupy Wall Street is a joke. Get a job!
ReplyDeleteThere's actually talk about disbanding the camp because few people are camping, few people are going to meetings. Moreover, the thrill is gone.
ReplyDeleteWas one of the losers arrested Tracy Ward? She is usually protesting meaningless issues.
ReplyDeletethe protest is over. Cable news gave up on this long ago.
ReplyDeleteToo bad they didn't take all the bankers who engineered the housing crisis to jail. That would have been a good start.
ReplyDeleteThere will always be haters. The haters never seem to be adequately informed though. FYI - The four people arrested today - a 51yo woman with a good job and grown son, a 40-something father also with a good job, a 20 something young man who is in school and has a job, a twenty something young woman who is in school and has a job. All of them happen to be white fighting against corporations making laws that amount to voter suppression of poor people (often people of color), the elderly and disabled people and laws that would discriminate against children potentially keeping them from school and laws wiping out discrimination case law. I suggest that the haters will never know what it is like to feel so strongly about a cause or Movement - such as Occupy - that they would be willing to get arrested to help the cause.
ReplyDeleteExactly how does getting arrested help the cause???? Take a shower shave ur pits put on clean clothes and go to work you stupid hippy. Nobody cares about your occupy camp. Only way anyone sees anything about you is if you break the law. What a great way to get a point acrross . Become a criminal . That's true ignorance
DeleteThis loser still has a blog?
ReplyDeleteI was thinking that this place needs more tits.
ReplyDelete40 and 50 somethings with good jobs and children. Ha I'm sure the bosses at their "good jobs" will be thrilled to know they were arrested while skipping work for a radical cause.
ReplyDeleteI am entirely supportive of the effort to reduce the structural political/tax advantages that the 1% enjoy.
ReplyDeleteAnd I am all for people becoming very actively engaged on this ... protesting, etc.
BUT ... these DOLTS with the STUPID MASKS consistently do the 1%'s bidding by making the real issue seem like a lame-ass cause. If you have an issue that's serious enough to you to go out and demonstrate, the don't hide you face like a Halloween child.
"The whole world is watching! The whole world is watching!" Well...maybe not the whole world. OK, so no one gives a shit or is watching! OK, satisfied?
ReplyDeleteAt least they'll now be out of the weather, with three hots and a cot. And hopefully a shower. If I were stupid enough to be in this incredibly dumb Occupy Movement, I'd volunteer to get arrested, just to get out of that nasty camp.
ReplyDeletemidtown mom;you said it girl!!
ReplyDeleteFor god's sake, stop blaming the bankers. Blame the group who deserves...Congress.
ReplyDeleteOccupy movement is meaningless.