Lobbying firm's memo spells out plan to undermine 'Occupy Wall Street'
More on Police Departments' Collusion in Defense of 1%: Who's the Organization Coordinating Those Crackdown Calls? Interesting report this evening in the San Francisco Bay Guardian suggesting that big city mayors have not been the only ones making conference calls in an effort to coordinate crackdowns on Occupy Movement encampments: …a little-known but influential private membership based organization has placed itself at the center of advising and coordinating the crackdown on the encampments. The Police Executive Research Forum, an international non-governmental organization with ties to law enforcement and the US Department of Homeland Security, has been coordinating conference calls with major metropolitan mayors and police chiefs to advise them on policing matters and discuss response to the Occupy movement. The group has distributed a recently published guide on policing political events…. www.alternet.org ……………………………………………… Motorola sponsors group responsible for coordinating attacks on Occupy Wall Street November 20, 2011 tags: #ACW, #AnonCorpWatch, #Motorola, #PERF, OWS Motorola sponsors group responsible for coordinating attacks on Occupy Wall Street It has come to our attention that the corporation, Motorola, has close ties to a police organization that is responsible for coordinating the recent crackdown on the Occupy Wall Street protests in various cities. The organization that is responsible for coordinating these …
@leftovers0 right? people dont even seem to care. half the country doesnt realize how bad it is to have businesses own your politics. it doesnt take a genius to realize that you dont want the people whos #1 priority is to make money off the citizens in charge of the country. why do people approve of this?
This is terrifying. How is this considered the norm?!
I love it., democrats trying to hard to portrait themselves as the enemy of the bankers!!! As if electing more democrats would help end the political corruption in DC!
Damn America you scary.
"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win." -Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
We are making them scared! Keep fighting!
@herpderpmonkey The camps act as a focal point, somewhere people can go when they get sick of how the world is and finally get off their ideologically lazy arses and go to the only place they know to head to. Once at these camps they get exposed to ideas from all angles and bit by bit people are forming a consensus.
Of course things won't be methodical and uber efficient, I suspect the majority of people in this crowd-sourced revolution have never done anything of the sort in their lives.
2 people who watched this are not in touch with reality
^but the management is ENTIRELY conservative and corporate in nature. Like, think "CNBC". They *are* owned by *GE and Comcast*, after all…
@grisevg
Hence their *firing* of Cenk and subsequent replacement w/Al fucking Sharpton of all people. See what I mean?
@grisevg
They are…to a point. You see, the company many hire and put on the air actual honest people and act honestly, but the copirate management is ENTIRELY conservative and corporate…to *THEM*, at least, they *are* a competitor of Fox, only in the other direction. They put on honest people that they THINK will appeal to "liberals," but since they themselves are actually conservatives (think like the charlatans on CNBC), they do this with an "outsider's perspective."
Hence their *firing
I just start respecting msnbc a bit… i thought they are as corrupt as fox news…
@FoxKnightJ07 I like how you think sociopath is a compound word and use terrible grammar/syntax while trying so hard to sound intelligent.
No offense, but I can't take the movement seriously if proponent sounds like Tea Partiers in that it's more angry ranting rather than a solution-focused, methodical and strategic approach.
@herpderpmonkey A disproportionate number of people who could have changed the world for the better allegedly manage to die in plane crashes or get shot by socio-paths.
People in general want to live in an advanced and prosperous societies, that actually head towards a brighter future, they don't want their lives to be at the expense of others and the powers that be have failed to deliver for a very long time.
The only way we'll achieve anything of note is if we do it ourselves.
I am not surprise by this, its their nature. That's is why they must be destroy.
@herpderpmonkey I'm saying that there are always different ways to solve problems. There is no set guidelines to protesting, hon. Ghandi used hunger strikes, MLK used empowered leadership and (recently) the Egyptian Revolution used leaderless, direct-democrasy (just as the Occupy movement is).
If you've only my age (I'm 24, by the way) & the fact that I enjoy a harmless plant as an argument against my points, then you're grasping at straws, sweetie.
@GrowTheTruth You're a fucking dumbass to not draw any parallels in the methodologies of protesting. "Different times require different tactics"? Give me an explicit example of that. Oh wait, but I forgot…
"Oh, yeah…and I'm a seriously epic stoner!" 23 yo? Grow the fuck up. (srsly, someone dumb enough to post something like that surely wiki'd MLK lawlz. Have fun for a futile campaign. A leader would just be "assassinated, corrupted & defeated" LOL (this is as bad as the tea party)
companies should not political strength the way they do.
@herpderpmonkey If you've an issue with how the Occupy Movement is done, then that's your perogative.
I know all about MLK. It may or may not surprise you to know that the Canadian education system covers Canadian, American and British history extensively.
What worked in the past does not always work today. As said before, individuals are corruptable and destroyable. This movement does not need a leader to succeed. Different times require different tactics, sweetie. Keep up, please.
@herpderpmonkey If you've an issue with how the Occupy Movement is done, then that's your perogative.
I know all about MLK. It may or may not surprise you to know that the Canadian education system covers Canadian, American and British history extensively.
What worked in the past does not always work today. As said before, individuals are corruptable and destroyable. This movement does not need a leader to succees. Different times require different tactics, sweetie. Keep up, please.
@GrowTheTruth LOL feel pity moar plz while I find OWS videos of people only bitching about their property.
I wish you'd be intelligent to understand why I mentioned MLK and why the Civil Rights movement was a success. You SERIOUSLY are the clueless one if you think referring to civil rights campaign (and other movements) is irrelevant to your trivial joke of a protest. (I'll bet money you know jack shit about MLK and had to google it, else you'd actually have a fuckin idea of a true movement)
@herpderpmonkey LOL! You tell me that I've lost perspective on the reality of the movement…yet, you seem to think they're fighting for tents and personal property? I doubt you could even fathom just how much pity I feel for you.
Yes, I am aware of the letter that MLK sent from Birmingham jail and the Montgomery bus boycott. What is your point? This is not the 1960's, sweetie. This is 2011 & this is not MLK's movement. Trying to compare the two shows me just how clueless you are on the matter.
@GrowTheTruth oh fuckin hell, you're so wrapped up in OWS that you lost perspective of the reality of the movement. When MLK led people into protest, he told them to be ready to be beaten and unjustly treated. He told them to keep focus. They fought for civil rights, not tents and personal property damage.
Clearly you have no idea and no care about how to protest effectively. If I asked you about the letter from Birmingham jail and boycotts, you would have no clue. This movement is aimless.
@exmo74 obviously you haven't realized that people will tend to watch videos which abides with their beliefs….
@TheVoiceOfReason93 Every time someone tells you something is "fact", my dear, you should be doing at least 1 hour of research into it before coming to a conclusion for yourself.