*OCCUPY'S DAY OF ACTION
* ** *Richard Trumka, the head of the AFL-CIO, issued a statement calling for more protests today when some activists vow to shut Wall Street down. His statement seemed unusually militant <http://www.truth-out.org/after-zuccotti-park-raid/1321474605>: "They can take away the tarps and the tents. But they can't slow down the Occupy Wall Street movement. *The 99% is undaunted. Occupy Wall Street's message has already created a new day. *This movement has created a seismic shift in our national debate --- from austerity and cuts to jobs, inequality and our broken economic system." * */The Guardian/ has live coverage with continued updates here <http://www.guardiannews.com/world/blog/2011/nov/17/occupy-wall-street-day-of-action-live>, including, as we go to press, that protesters are preparing to march on Wall Street itself as "police are out in force in Lower Manhattan" already employing violence against protesters according to several news sources. * *Glenn Greenwald has a must read piece <http://www.salon.com/2011/11/17/ows_inspired_activism/singleton/> this morning including **"Just as American bombs ostensibly aimed at reducing Terrorism have the exact opposite effect --- by fueling the anti-American sentiments that cause Terrorism in the first place --- so, too, will excessive police force further fuel the Occupy movement." He provides an action for those who want to contribute. * *And finally, in Democracy Movement news, /Press TV/ has a wonderful video here <http://www.presstv.ir/detail/210208.html> to explain the phenomenon, a video readers may want to link to friends, family, work colleagues and internet groups to inform those who may not understand what it's about (because their views are controlled by the corporate-controlled mass media). * ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *A PEOPLE'S BUDGET IS HERE! * ** *Kevin Zeese sent us a People's Budget Proposal <http://october2011.org/blogs/kevin-zeese/99-s-deficit-proposal-how-create-jobs-reduce-wealth-divide-and-control-spending> in response to the Congressional Super Committee meeting to decide what our government should do to move toward balancing the federal budget. We would encourage you to read this proposal and send it to your Member of Congress. To those who say "but they would never do this," we would encourage "but will they ever even hear this message if you don't send it to them?" The plan shows step by step that causing massive suffering to the American people is not necessary to balance the budget. Revenues are available that would not hurt the transnational corporations or transnational investors who run the Empire at any cost to the public interest. This is a public interest budget that would move our government toward decency, justice and respect by The People. What the Super Committee is planning to do will be a horror in any of the versions we have heard. Kevin and others at the Freedom Plaza occupation deserve magnanimous acclaim for the work that went into this. Get this budget out to everyone you can reach to show them that corporate media are not considering the public interest in any of their coverage, only the desires of the ruling Forces of Greed <http://luvnews.info/FOG.htm>. * ** ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ** ** ** ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Glen Ford of /Black Agenda Report/ rakes Mayor Bloomberg over the coals in the following piece for his attack on Occupy Wall Street. The man really is a disgusting scumbag, but then, so are the others who run the Empire at any cost to the public interest --Jack ** *Bloomberg Personifies What the Occupation Opposes <http://www.blackagendareport.com/content/bloomberg-personifies-what-occupation-opposes> * * * *by Glen Ford </author/glen-ford>* *New York's mayor Michael Bloomberg justified clearing the tents and other materials of Occupation from Zuccotti Park, saying the protesters will now "have to occupy the space with the power of their arguments." This is a strange kind of logic from the 12^th richest man in America, who occupies City Hall for one reason only -- because he has bought the office three times since 2001. Mr. Bloomberg's $20 billion fortune maintains him in the Executive Mansion, not the power of his arguments.* *Bloomberg was a lifelong Democrat until he found it more convenient to run as a Republican, and then as an independent -- thus proving that money, not party, is what counts in New York, as in all American politics. Everything else is a diversion, and a lie. Bloomberg has used the mayor's office to make the city more hospitable to his fellow economic one-percenters from all around the planet.**But, in that sense, he is no different than the mayors of other American cities -- including most of the Black ones -- who collaborate in every rich man's scheme to expel the poor in favor of wealthier populations. They've all got a lot of Bloomberg in them; they are operatives for whoever has the money.* *When Bloomberg moved to end the 24-7 physical occupation of Zuccotti Park, it was not on the strength of his argument -- which was full of lies and wholly unconvincing -- but with the raw power of his police force and its monopoly on violence.* *So Mayor Bloomberg, like all the rich man's mayors in all the U.S. cities that are determined to end their local Occupations, pays his hypocritical respects to democracy and reason, when in fact his authority is nothing but an extension of the rule of capital.* *Bloomberg, the personification of Wall Street, made his vast fortune selling a machine called the Market Master. Having mastered the market, the logic of money was all that was required for Bloomberg to become master of politics in the nation's most important city. Bloomberg's career is the story of today's America, a place where people who market machines and schemes so that money can produce more money for themselves and their fellow Lords of Capital, can then purchase governments and write their own laws in order to maintain their power in perpetuity. * *If the Occupy Wall Street movement has been about anything, it is the absolute necessity to rid the nation -- and the world -- of the collective tyranny of the Bloombergs, the dictatorship of the moneyed classes. If there is to be any lesson in this two-month-long Occupation that is actually useful to people, it is that people's power cannot long coexist with the power of massed capital. Capital will ultimately shut the people down. 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