AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka Visits #OWS and Condemns Harsh Measures Used Against Protesters
Labor support for Occupy Wall Street protesters continues to grow as AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka visited Zucotti Park this week, releasing a video of his visit. Trumka also responded to the use of tear gas against protesters in Oakland and the arrests of peaceful protesters in Chicago, Atlanta and elsewhere:
It is a tremendous dishonor to America when the voices for the powerless are suppressed by the powerful – the top 1 percent. We are extremely alarmed by the increasing number of arrests of peaceful protestors across the country and call on elected leaders to stop ordering the police to make these arrests. The Occupy Wall Street movement has elevated the national conversation by shining overdue attention on the struggles of the 99 percent for whom the economy is broken. When people can't raise their voices around pervasive inequality, there is a fundamental problem with how we're functioning as a nation.
Mayor Bloomberg of New York City listened to reason from the community and did not forcibly disband the original Wall Street protestors at Zuccotti Park. We urge all elected leaders across the country to enable peaceful protestors to continue to exercise their most American of rights.
Trumka and the AFL-CIO, as well as many other labor organizations, have showed strong support for the Occupy movement almost from the very beginning.
It would sure be nice to get Trumka on the bobblehead shows as the token voice of the people, instead of the usual DLC piece of soggy toast we're treated to.
People have the Rights to Assemble and Speech guaranteed by the Constitution.
I SEE NO provision in law that places a TIME limit on any such Constitutional Action by the people!
Why Then are Cities and their Police Forces VIOLATING the CONSTITUTION by trying to Enforce Unlawful LIMITS on the peoples Rights?
Donaldd
Curfews on public areas were instituted in order to control peaceful protest. The excuse given to the courts to skirt the Constitution and also win public favor with morons was "public safety".
"Ironic, isn't it Smithers? This anonymous clan of slack-jawed troglodytes has cost me the election, and yet if I were to have them killed, I would be the one to go to jail. That's democracy for you." --Mr. Burns
restrict my right to attend a divorce court proceeding carrying the loaded .38 revolver I liked to wear to all my college classes.
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
there are no time limits. But there are a shitload on where. Feel free to take the OWS protests inside the White House or into the Pentagon if you think otherwise. You can try anyway.
Hasa Diga Eebowai
The Washington Post covered the story in it's print edition with a picture of a cop petting a kitten and the headline: "Protesters Wearing Out Their Welcome Nationwide"
Corruption favors the wealthy.
like those to which we have been treated here.
Say, are they avoiding covering the General Assembly meetings too?
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
there are live feeds for many of the sites. Apparently you prefer to just sit on the sidelines and exercise your right to be an asshole. All that you accomplish is to top the list of persons on "ignore".
"Someday somebody related to some of these sufferers, these victims, these collaterally damaged souls, may try to kill you. And I have to tell you, I think you’ll have it coming." - Christopher Cooper
There has been a rise in more sophisticated trolls on here and FDL in the last few weeks.
They are articulate and unwavering from arguing against the post and any positive feedback.
Interestingly they are always here reading everything and agreeing with nothing that is said.
That means either they are exceptional human beings that read more opposing opinions than supporting positions trying to test their own beliefs, or they're trolls.
Kind'a doubt the former.
for a champion of accuracy in reporting as yourself.
CTHULHU 2012 "Why vote for a lesser evil?"
is a sham. It simply allows the fake Democrats and Republicans to pretend their hands are tied and tell us they have no option but to allow the destruction of Social Security and Medicare because they simply couldn't come to agreement, and, well, they put that restriction on themselves.
Think about it. Publicly the fake Dems and Republicans take their scripted sides and pretend they hate each other and cannot agree on anything other than "free trade" agreements. Who actually thinks there is any attempt to agree on and pass anything out of this committee of 12, since both wings of the corporate party will tell us they could not stop the cuts to your grandfather's Social Security retirement income and retirement healthcare he paid for for decades?
This is a rigged scheme for the usual corporatist politicians to pretend they tried so hard for 99% of us, but their hands were simply tied, because they could not come to an agreement on active cuts to the elderly, so they want us to thinks it happened passively because of gridlock.
The reality is that the cuts that will occur automatically are a bipartisan, corporatist and very active.
"We lose ourselves when we compromise the very ideals that we fight to defend. And we honor those ideals by upholding them not when it's easy, but when it is hard."
BARACK OBAMA, Nobel Lecture, Dec. 10, 2009
That's because "...you don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows."
I look out the window - what do I see
I see a golden calf pointing - back at me ~J.R. Robertson
party does.
democratically elected official who supports OWS.
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