Forum Post: Latest Gallup Poll "Americans Uncertain about OWS Goals"
Posted 13 years ago on Oct. 22, 2011, 8:38 p.m. EST by Denali
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Here's the lasted Gallup Poll about American's attitudes about OWS: http://www.gallup.com/poll/150164/americans-uncertain-occupy-wall-street-goals.aspx
More Gallups:
Majority still wants less corporate influence http://www.gallup.com/poll/145871/Majority-Wants-Less-Corporate-Influence.aspx
Americans decry power of lobbyists, banks, et al in politics: http://www.gallup.com/poll/147026/Americans-Decry-Power-Lobbyists-Corporations-Banks-Feds.aspx
Americans express historic disapproval of government: http://www.gallup.com/poll/149678/Americans-Express-Historic-Negativity-Toward-Government.aspx
If Occupy Wall Street wants to get them where they will feel the pain start doing things that will get them where it matters.
Have all Occupy Wall Street people file for unemployment...If unemployment shows a true number. They don't want to see those numbers go up, because their profits go down. Major increase in unemployment is bad for Wall Street and government. Wall Street will see their profits fall and know America is worse off than they make it out to be.
Stop spending money on big names products and big name stores. Buy off brands and from small mom and pop shops. Wall Street lives off the big names Wal-Mart, Pepsi, Coco Cola, INTEL, AT&T, Ford, etc...
Have large numbers of Occupy Wall Street walk into big name banks that received bail outs and take up their time by setting up savings accounts and then closing them days later...this will cost them money and they will feel the pain.
Spend time planning on direct attacks on Wall Street that are all legal and will allow you to get the point across right where Wall Street does not want it. Think of tactical measures to beat them at their own game.
Right now Occupy Wall Street is looked at as a bunch of people who don't have a job and don't care anymore. Show them all you do have a reason and you can prove your point playing the same game they do.
"Majority still wants less corporate influence" - America could get rid of this parasitic influence by getting rid of the corporate bribes ("campaign donations") that are currently legal. OWS needs to make CAMPAIGN FINANCE REFORM the #1 goal of these protests!!!!!! Tell everyone you talk to that we need to make this the main thrust because if we don't choke off the bribes and stem the flow of money there will never be any real reforms. I don't understand why this has not become the rallying cry - I hear so many people complaining about the symptoms (unemployment, school debt, rotten healthcare, etc.) but they don't seem to be connecting the dots. We need a system the reestablishes the importance of the individual vote of flesh and blood U.S. citizens. Right now the multinational corporations (with lot of foreigners on their boards) have our "representatives" in the congress and senate bought and paid for! Please shout it out loud to everyone you come into contact with - WE WANT OUR DEMOCRACY BACK!!! WE WANT CAMPAIGN FINANCE REFORM!!!!
Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s (Tea party republican favorite) top secretary urged Albany Mayor Jerry Jennings on Friday to instruct city police to remove Occupy Albany protesters from a downtown park near the state Capitol if they tried to remain there after an 11 p.m curfew.
A person familiar with the matter said Cuomo’s secretary, Larry Schwartz, called Jennings late Friday morning and said that State Police, who control half of the park that is partly owned by the state of New York and city of Albany, would remove any protesters who did not comply with a curfew. The position of the governor’s office was in contrast to an earlier plan by Albany police to leave the protesters alone if they were peaceful, even if they stayed overnight.
Occupy Albany demonstrators began arriving at Lafayette/Academy park around noon. Half of the space is state land, the rest city property.
Read Brendan Lyons’ full story here