The Group Who Fought Back!!

 

So apparently teens and people or all ages are beginning to organize and protest financial machinations that is affecting and have affected there lives. There protesting these changes by "sitting in" finacial institutions in Cities around the U.S.

So far in the area of the U.S, I live in, there are two major sit-ins going on presently, One in Oakland, California, called" Occupy; Oakland", the Other in San Francisco, California, called Occupy; San Francisco. I have been to these protests, here are some of the the photos of what I call, The people who fought back!

OCCUPY:OAKLAND

 

The Oakland group is alittle more orderly.... A group of Educators and teachers.

 

Like in My Previous post, I have complaints about this movement, though it is early in development. These guys in Oakland get points for being a bit more orderly than the San Francisco bunch, and points for being neat. But deduct points for lobbying outside Oakland City Hall! What does Oakland City hall have to do with Economic policy for the U.S? Though that park is be a great place to camp. The main thing they seemed to have accomphished there was the resignation of the "Chief of Police" Mr. Anthony Batts.

The good thing about Oakland is that Federal Offices and State offices are only a block a way from City Hall. A bad thing is that both of the Representatives here have decent records in regards to votes affecting our general popular econmics.



Barbara Lee is a decent legislator in the House of Representatives. Barabra Boxer is a decent Senator ,who actually voted against the repeal of "Glass-Stegall". So there aren't any good places to protest in Oakland. But again they could still be protesting outside the Federal/State Buildings instead of City Hall, For instance California Govenor Jerry Brown ,a nice guy,( former mayor of Oakland) signed a part of the "Dream act" into legislation, a "Act" that would help the children of illegal immigrants get into college. This is a time when ordinary citizens need to and/or can't get into college. This is also a time of Budget cuts.Wehave an illegalimmigration probelm in this country, Jerry Brown wants to give them a free education.



Also the movement in Oakland, has some of the same probelms as in S.F, some of the protesters don't know of the Glass-Stegall act for example, they are part of the disaffected; lost homes,lost jobs, cant get a job, can't afford to go to school, can't afford to teach, some feel powerless,depressed and for them the solution seems to have to do with Anarchy.

The movement in Oakland Is a grassroots movement. I stood in and listened to some guys have a Pow-wow about the movement..its was painful listening to has some rational white guys try to reason with a bum, who was rough in speech and insulted people. Another guy was run off, we wereall exhorted to "Get on the Bus"..... Yeah lets do that.