Forum Post: New Yorkers, if you really want to get in the 1%'s hair...
Posted 12 years ago on Nov. 12, 2011, 4:27 p.m. EST by rbe
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Study this website good. Especially the calendar.
Instead of beating drums downtown, beat them outside of events frequented by the 1%.
If you really want to get in the 1%'s hair, hit them where it hurts: their pocketbooks. Boycott the corporations they own & shop with cooperatives instead. They're owned by the 99%. Become a member of one today and fine out what a difference it makes using a company that you own, that you control, and that pays you when it is successful. usa2012.coop www.ncba.coop
Governments—state and federal—could bypass the interest tab by setting up their own publicly-owned banks. Banking would become a public utility, a tool for promoting productivity and trade rather than for extracting wealth from the debtor class.
Congress could go further: it could reclaim the power to issue money from the banks and fund its budget directly. It could do this, in fact, without changing any laws. Congress is empowered to “coin money,” and the Constitution sets no limit on the face amount of the coins. Congress could issue a few one-trillion dollar coins, deposit them in an account, and start writing checks.
The Fed’s own figures show that the money supply has shrunk by $3 trillion since 2008. That sum could be spent into the economy without inflating prices. Three trillion dollars could go a long way toward providing the jobs and social services necessary to fulfill an Economic Bill of Rights. Guaranteeing employment to anyone willing and able to work would increase GDP, allowing the money supply to expand even further without inflating prices, since supply and demand would increase together.
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Since when is this movement about telling people where or how to spend thier money? Are you really that delusional to think these events are only attended by the 1%? Do you really think everyone who donates to a cause is evil?
Many people who attend these functions are very wealthy..some not so much, but that hardly makes them evil or corrupt.
Before you go jumping in front of the evil charity train, maybe you should investigate how much money is actually spent on the cause .Then find out if there will be children and patients in attendance as there often is, in the case of the health and children's related functions. How will you explain to them that they are not " worthy of the proceeds from this charity"?
Hey. Don't believe the 1% propaganda. Charity is their way of hiding their "war against the 99%" meetings. Have you looved at what those ass holes are "donating" to?
UNICEF, the TEAK Fellowship, the Breast Cancer Research Foundadtion. AHH I cant look at any more! Those horrible people
You really are ill informed. Have you ever donated to a cause? Or volunteered at a shelter or read a book to kids in a cancer ward? Have you ever stood on your feet for 8 hrs and helped serve hungry Americans a Thanksgiving meal at a soup kitchen? Where do you think the funding comes from? Falls from the sky? It sure as heck doesnt come from the Gov't. Go tell that kid who just recieved a chemo treatment at St Judes Hospital which was funded by one of these evil 1% charity events, that he isn't worthy of it. This movement has lost all focus. It is becoming one based on jealousy and misinformation. Get back to the basics and start working on what is really screwed up in this country.
Lol. Wow man. Scarcastic. I know the importance. I raise money ever year for testiculat and prostace cancer and collect canned food for my chirch. I know about charity
Let's go and completely disrupt the event. We can storm the event chant and drum. If the cops come we will fight them too. Everybody needs to help, we need to be heard. Show the 1% what we are made of.
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Lets show those ass hole a cause worth gathering for!
Thanks for posting one event from a calendar with lots of events! :)
An Evening of Art and Cocktails to Benefit Breast Cancer Research Foundation.
The TEAK Fellowship's Lucky Strike Bowling Bash.
Albert Einstein College of Medicine's National Women's and Men's Divisions "Celebrate Einstein" Dinner.
SWAROVSKI TO HOST ONLINE CHARITY ART AUCTION TO BENEFIT THE ART OF ELYSIUM THIS HOLIDAY SEASON
Canine Companions For Independence Hearts & Heroes 10th Annual Gala.
Hearts & Heroes
Gilda's Club New York City 16th Anniversary Benefit Gala "Celebrating Our Family - 16 Years of Cancer Support."
Autumn Celebration, A Benefit for Boys Town Passages Academy.
A few more of those 1% ass hole "lets screw the 99%" meetings
haha sorry. Let me try a few more
AID FOR AIDS International 2011 My Hero Gala.
The Ovarian Cancer National Alliance (OCNA) Fall Gala.
Orthopaedic Foundation for Active Lifestyles 7th Anniversary Gala Fundraiser.
International Rescue Committee - Freedom Award Dinner.
DIGNITY NYC Photo Auction + Exhibit, benefiting Acumen Fund.
Stand Up For Heroes.
Visiting Nurse Service of New York 2011 Benefit Dinner.
American Museum of Natural History's Museum Gala.
The New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children's Protecting Kids First! Gala.
March of Dimes 2011 Real Estate Award Breakfast.
Hospital for Special Surgery Autumn Benefit to Support Medical Education.
American-Italian Cancer Foundation: 2011 Benefit Dinner & Auctions.
UNICEF SNOWFLAKE LIGHTING.
The Society of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center's Associates Committee Fall Party.
What ass hole
No! You're cherry picking.
Let me pick one day then November 17
Canine Companions For Independence Hearts & Heroes 10th Annual Gala.
Hearts & Heroes
Sahasra Deepika 2nd Annual Gala.
Gilda's Club New York City 16th Anniversary Benefit Gala "Celebrating Our Family - 16 Years of Cancer Support."
Autumn Celebration, A Benefit for Boys Town Passages Academy.
Sing for Hope's 2011 Gala.
The Carnegie Hall Notables Program Presents Love Letters With Renee Fleming and Alec Baldwin.
Housing Works Fashion for Action: Free Public Designer Sale.
Fashion Forward presented by Bank of America.
Join us for the premiere screening of ARCHITECT: November 17, 2011.
The 14th annual Collaborating For a Cure Dinner & Auction to Benefit the Samuel Waxman Cancer Research.
1st Annual North American CMO Conference at the MoMA.
An Evening of Art and Cocktails to Benefit Breast Cancer Research Foundation.Please join us on Wednesday, November 16th for an Evening of Art and Cocktails at the Art Gallery.
Right, let's all go and disrupt this blatant display of wealth and greed for such a worthless cause.
That's just 1 event out of how many?
you obviously did not look at the link. All of the events on the social calendar are fundraisers for various educational and medical societies.
So go and protest and explain why you don't want cancer research funded.
Jesus H Christ!! Do I have to post individual events now?? A lot of the events are held to be charity events, but those events are where a lot of deals are made, etc.
ASF Wallace Award Gala Dinner & 55th Anniversary Celebration.
New York City Opera 2011 Fall Gala.
The James Beard Foundation Features Beard On Wine: The Belinda Chang Sessions.
Ballet NY
Fashion Forward presented by Bank of America.
The Fusion of Fine Art and Fashion
The (s)low down Gala and Experience Auction.
FRENCH HERITAGE SOCIETY's 4TH GALA DINNER DANCE CELEBRATES THE KINGS AND QUEENS OF FRANCE AND THE LEGENDARY CH?TEAU DE FONTAINE
The Preppy American Birthday Brunch for Lilly Pulitzer Rousseau's 80th Birthday.
New England Society Annual Dinner Dance.
2011 Guggenheim International Gala.
New-York Historical Society's 2011 History Makers Ball.
Tie the Knot Bazaar.
Sorry, let me double check
The New York City Opera, the Ballet, the Gugenhiem, the historical society, and the fine arts meuseum are anti 99%? You know what those things are right?
So? Those events attract the wealthiest people in the city who come there primarily for networking purposes and to help their image.
Or they like fine art!
I'm in college yet I have season tickets to my cities opera and symphony orchestra. Does that make me a 1%er?
Where do you live?? Time to protest at your house to disrupt the networking you are conducting with Donald Trump.
Haha. :)
If you want to find me, check the 1%er clubhouse you all call the "Canine Companions For Independence Hearts & Heroes 10th Annual Gala. "
Just a front for the "1% Networking Society". You can't fool me. BWAHAHAHAHA! I'll be the guy with the sign "No dogs for the 1%"
Shh... How do you know abut 1% Club? God dam it. Now we'll have to scrap everything. I was really looking forward to meeting my good friends, the Gates, at the "The New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children's Protecting Kids First! Gala." Now we'll have to change everything around. Thanks for blowing out cover
Success!!!
so you posted the headlines. Did you actually post the event to see why it was being held? Try it, you might learn something.
Yes, I didn't learn anything. Most of those events are more about rubbing shoulders amongst the 1% than they are about the actually charity event.
Completely false. These "1%ers " and others, are donating a LOT of their personal money ( for the husbands it is hard- earned and well-earned) to these charities. They need people like this to have charities function! I have gone to more of these events because i WORK at them, these people are giving and changing the world... while you are selfishly bashing them for having the money to do so? What are YOU doing to change the world? Oh yeah.. you're pissing in the streets of New York protesting for your own PERSONAL gain... Get a job and don't bash those who are smart enough to make something of themselves and give back .
And you know that how????
Because I've been to those types of events.
Wow, you have uncovered the horrible secret of charity events. People go and do deals in addition to paying money to eat and also contribute money for the event's beneficiaries.
So which event do you want to disrupt first?
Honestly, me personally? I'd like to see all of them disrupted regardless of "cause"
And that's the problem with many OWS protestors. They're just plain uninformed. Please go protest outside of the breast cancer fund raiser. That'll be great press.
That's what I thought. Too bad, I was hoping I was wrong about you.
So what if deals are being made? Disrupting a benefit for a charity that helps disadvantaged kids helps OWS in what way?
Not all of the events on the list are about helping medical and poverty focused charities.
The 1% has trillion$ to donate to cancer research. We can see how well they've done (NOT). These are cardboard charities designed to relieve the guilt of being filthy rich. If the 1% wants to cure cancer, they'd of done it decades ago.
Riiiiight....
Too bad Steve Jobs didn't follow your advice.
Steve Jobs was the least charitable billionaire out there.. unreal isnt it?
Seriously. The guy could've helped cure cancer but instead invented the world's fanciest phone.