Forum Post: Lamestream media desperate to define and label OccupyWallStreet
Posted 13 years ago on Oct. 6, 2011, 8:15 p.m. EST by blueridgewoman
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Lamestream media is desperate to define and label OccupyWallStreet. Within the hour, The Huffington Post published an article which accuses the movement of being "overwhelmingly white."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/06/occupy-wall-street-black-population_n_998722.html
Other terms include the following:
anti-government anti-wall street anti-politician anti-capitalism liberal liberal tea party mad at the world socialists anarchists
We need to address this issue in a WELL PUBLICIZED announcement. Define and label are attempts to divide and rule, divide and conquer!!!
You may have already seen the article "warning from a former tea-partier". He describes this phenomenon perfectly.
http://s11.zetaboards.com/occupytogether/topic/7447083/1/ Someone else was kind enough to post this to my thread.
http://www.cnn.com/2011/POLITICS/10/06/tea.party.left/index.html "Tea party of the left"
This race card could backfire on the media. There is plenty of diversity in OWs
"Experts say" Very nice. Which experts? There's an #occupythehood contingent, they've been there numerous times they were out there visibly on Saturday. Lupe Fiasco was in from the beginning. Immortal Technique. Russell Simmons. Those are only the big names. And the unions who marched? The NY City Transit Workers, the Nurses Union etc etc all very representative of NY's population.
We should go post comments on that article directly.
yep.
http://getsatisfaction.com/occupy
^a tool to help the movement find a message.