If you enjoy the content at iBankCoin, please follow us on TwitterAs the Occupy Wall Street movement continues to evolve, protestors have employed a myriad of ways to get their populist message across. There were the various occupations of public spaces, starting with Zuccotti Park; there was also Occupy Friday, a boycott of big retailers like Target (TGT), Sears (SHLD) and Macy’s (M) on Black Friday and a similar Occupy Christmas planned for later this month.
The latest method of protest that Occupy Wall Street activists have come up with is a plan West Coast port blockade. On Monday, protestors on the West Coast are planning to shut down all ports along the West Coast in an effort to disrupt the businesses of the big companies like EGT (of which Bunge Ltd (BG) is the largest partner), Goldman Sachs (GS), Walmart (WMT) and Maersk that do business at the ports. Blockades are planned in cities like San Francisco, Los Angeles, Portland and Anchorage, among others.
According to the movement’s website, one key reason, besides the movement’s central message of fighting corporate power, behind this planned blockage, was to demonstrate solidarity with the workers at the port.
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This is retarded. Protest and free speech are OK but this doesn’t help anyone and just makes the people involved look retarded (perhaps I should say more retarded).
I bet the “workers at the port” really want their shit interrupted by a bunch of stoned hippies, one month away from their last shower.
Oh joy.
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Exactly. And the only thing they are doing is increasing costs for people who have nothing to do with the current problems. Hopefully no one gets run over by heavy machinery. Lack of coordination doesn’t mix well around that kind of stuff.
economic justice appears when all income is equalized.
only a broken system resorts to redistributing wealth.
a system needs to be damaged in order to be broken.
an economy based system needs to be damaged in such a way that business suffers.
OWS is using blockades to damage business
happy end
that goes to all those who think it is counter intuitive for OWS to fuck with businesses
Yesman, there is absolutely no such thing as “economic justice.”
In fact, I think it would be instructive if you would explain exactly what you mean by “economic justice.”
of course it doesn’t exist.
but that didn’t stop Mao, Stalin and all the other leftist mass murderers to campaign and strive for it.
economic justice is the getting rid of income inequality among other things.
Obama uses the word “fairness” to describe economic justice.
the most well known phrase to describe it would be:
“From each according to his ability, to each according to his need”
Karl Marx in 1875
“pay your fair share” is another way of saying it.
take from those who excel at something (which proves they don’t have need) and give it to those who suck at everything (those with the least ability and the most need)
“tax the rich” with rich meaning everyone who has more than “me”.
it is greed wrapped up in a cozy cloth of fairness and equality
Okay, so you were being sarcastic? I’m confused as to whether you were serious or not with your original comment about economic justice. It doesn’t appear you were serious.
unless I’ve suddenly turned into a socialist, I do not believe in economic justice.
I was however not being sarcastic.
I was simply explaining their logic.
it’s a simple fact that the left believes in economic justice, just like Buddhists believe in reincarnation or Muslim suicide bombers believe in virgins in heaven.
it’s ludicrous, but they believe in it with seriousness.
Bin Laden may have been killed, but now he has American hippie losers to do his work for him, free of charge to his organization, which can devote its manpower toward other ends while anarchist American citizens attack the US economy.