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Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR) debunks and fact-checks CNN on Occupy Wall Street.
Up until this announcement, the Occupy Wall Street movement has been unwieldy and somewhat lacking in a coherent voice, but that’s all about the change. New York City labor unions have decided to descend upon the streets of Lower Manhattan on Friday.
The leadership of the Transit Workers Union Local 100—comprised of subway and bus workers—voted unanimously to support the protestors. With a membership of 38,000, 5 Oct. will easily be the largest day yet in the protest. On 12 Oct., SEIU 32BJ, representing doormen, security guards, and maintenance workers around the city, is also staging a rally in support of the cause.
It’s unclear for now whether the transit system will be completely shut down while the 38,000 workers are participating in the protest. If it is, the Occupy Wall Street movement will definitely make its mark in history. And either way, it now has a substantial footing to make a real statement about American economy policy.
Jackie DiSalvo, an #OccupyWallStreet organizer, summarized the movement’s policy as such: “Occupy Wall Street will not negotiate watering down its own message.”
You have no idea how excited I am to see this.
The other day, white people in NYC experienced a taste of the NYPD brutality people of color live with every second, every minute, every hour
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Son of Baldwin
yeah, pretty much. (via tinyfist)
kinda sums up some of my concerns about Occupy Wall Street. I hope white folks realize the privilege we have in calling this a revolution and not being mislabeled due to skin color, not being questioned as much as to if this is in fact a worthy and noble cause. I see a certain amount of white privilege in confronting cops. Though they do in fact oppress all of us, the more direct violence and negative consequnces hits lower class and person’s of color far harder.
(via sexxxisbeautiful)
Oh good, so I’m not the only one who isn’t shocked that the police used pepper spray on someone. Cause I don’t know about NYC, but the cops in the places I’ve lived have used it just as easily and often as they use words. And then tell us we’re lucky it wasn’t a gun.
(via readnfight)