Forum Post: We need to boycott Thanksgiving.
Posted 13 years ago on Nov. 18, 2011, 7:33 p.m. EST by steven2002
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We need to show up in the park at 12 noon, hold discussions on how the 1% are controlling us. We need to have a candle light vigil, showing our solidarity with the 99%. Thanksgiving is a 1% holiday, let's not be seduced into celebrating it by our family's .
Is there anything American that you guys aren't against?
That exact same thought also entered my mind when I read this thread posting.
Yes! http://www.occupywallst.org/forum/toshiba-is-raping-the-poor/
boycott Toshiba, Celebrate thanksgiving. :)
They are not against reefer madness.
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This is obviously a troll post looking for attention.
I feel for you people, this thanksgiving I will thank God for his many blessings, they don't alway come form of cash. I'm not of the 1%. Those supporting you are of the 1%, the 58% are never impressed with hypocrites. It pains me to see you being used, your supporters will be enjoying Thanksgiving Dinner while you are cold and wet.
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The troll is trolling the trolls! trolololol
Happy Thanksgiving, turkey!
Here in Britain we boycott Thanksgiving every year and its no big deal.
thanksgiving is a national day of mourning for thoisands of native americanz.. the 1 % have indoctrinated us into celebrating a day which was initially a cslebration of the massacre of 700 indiAnz , mostly womwn n children.. my bad 4 typos; smartphone. 30 Million nativez died so we could live as slaves in da land of tha free
The slaves lost. We are the only country that will kick someone's ass and then give them land and money for kicking their ass. Seems less rational to me.
No turkey? No pie? I think not...
thanksgiving is a pagan aberration. ostentatious, excessive, vulgar, and completely antichristian
But so yummy! Turkey with homemade dressing, mashed taters with hot gravy. All the fixens! Beer, wine. Pumpkin pie! OK, it's time to have a joke to help lighten all this up a bit...What do Hillbillies do on Thanksgiving......PUMPKIN!!!!!!!
Thanksgiving in North America had originated from a mix of European and Native traditions. Typically in Europe, festivals were held before and after the harvest cycles to give thanks for a good harvest, and to rejoice together after much hard work with the rest of the community. At the time, Native Americans had also celebrated the end of a harvest season. When Europeans first arrived to the Americas, they brought with them their own harvest festival traditions from Europe, celebrating their safe voyage, peace and good harvest. Though the origins of the holiday in both Canada and the United States are similar, Americans do not typically celebrate the contributions made in Newfoundland, while Canadians do not celebrate the contributions made in Plymouth, Massachusetts.
In the United States, the modern Thanksgiving holiday tradition traces its origins to a 1621 celebration at Plymouth in present-day Massachusetts. There is also evidence for an earlier harvest celebration on the continent by Spanish explorers in Florida during 1565, as well as thanksgiving feasts in the Virginia Colony. The initial thanksgiving observance at Virginia in 1619 was prompted by the colonists' leaders on the anniversary of the settlement. The 1621 Plymouth feast and thanksgiving was prompted by a good harvest. In later years, the tradition was continued by civil leaders such as Governor Bradford who planned a thanksgiving celebration and fast in 1623. While initially, the Plymouth colony did not have enough food to feed half of the 102 colonists, the Wampanoag Native Americans helped the Pilgrims by providing seeds and teaching them to fish. The practice of holding an annual harvest festival like this did not become a regular affair in New England until the late 1660s.
According to historian Jeremy Bangs, director of the Leiden American Pilgrim Museum, the Pilgrims may have been influenced by watching the annual services of Thanksgiving for the relief of the siege of Leiden in 1574, while they were staying in Leiden.
The Siege of Leiden occurred during the Eighty Years' War in 1573 and 1574, when the Spanish attempted to capture the rebellious city of Leiden, South Holland, Netherlands, and ultimately failed.
Celebrate Thanksgiving with your family. Do your shopping at small businesses on Black Friday. Don't give your money to heartless corporations like Target that are forcing their employees to come into work (rather than spend time with their families). If you are interested in signing a petition to help Target employees, look on change.org's site.
Celebrate with my family? what about the people who are poor and indigent. What about them. Should not the state take care of them, should not they be able to celebrate also? We need to come to the park and talk about how the 1% are screwing us. We need to solidify our support for the 99%.
I'm sorry if your area doesn't have the volunteer network that my area does. We have excellent programs to make sure that everyone can get a hot meal and some company during the holiday. There may not be enough resources at the park to do that for all the homeless and poor in the area, just do what you can.
Wow, look at how ingrained the deep programming is, and how sentimentally committed parents are to pass it on to their children. Pity.
These cultural obsessions are the grand bricks in the wall people ! Breaking them is not hate or party spoiling, it is the necessary medicine to get free of the disease. Your celebrations, your spending, your habits, this is the illness that will be looked upon in history as the hypnotic trance of the Piscean Age. OWS is pure courage, pure insight to a communal and peaceful future.
The Turkey is the 1% lets kill them and eat them
"A 1% holiday"????? In a world that has families with members spread across the country, two working parents and very little time, for many Thanksgiving is the one holiday that they all can be together at one time.
Are you really that hard line or is it that you don't have a family that enjoys the pleasure of each other's company?
If company's paid fair wages family's would not be spread across the country. What about the poor and indigent, who are they going to celebrate with? It's time the state made the 1% pay so they can take care of the 99%.
The 1% percent do not care about them. they will give a little money off the top and claim it on their taxes, taking more away from this country. Jesus, who is the one along with his father God, is what Thanksgiving is all about. Being thankful to God for his blessings. Like it or not, that's why the holiday was created. Jesus said, "When you give, do not let one hand know what the other hand is doing.? Meaning give and forget it, not try to get some of it back.
Well, you could do like we do and adopt a family that hasn't the means to provide a traditional Thanksgiving dinner. We do each year, and bring all the fixings for them to prepare a meal for their family. We also volunteer at the local mission in our city.....
Why wait for someone else to do something when you can start doing something yourself.
I'd say celebrate Thanksgiving in a creative, meaningful way:
http://incogman.net/11/2011/happy-thanksgiving-from-the-incog-man/
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lol... I have to disagree. We need to show them how to be thankful without all the trimmings and that the people in your life, the day to day miracles and wonders are what we are thankful for not an empty billion dollar scraper being used as a tax deduction that could be refurbished and used as a shelter or the like. I don’t want to be too harsh I am sure that the 1% are grateful for the ones they love, we hope.
steven2002 does not represent us.
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Don't mess with Thanksgiving. It is the best holiday of the year. It is the most humble of holidays and the least exploited. Leave it alone.
are you serious? the least exploited? it's a holiday that marks the beginning of the consumer spending season, which is based on the exploitation of american indians. best holiday of the year?
That's not what it is for me. That's sad.
Thanksgiving was created to thank God for his blessings. I doubt many people still celebrate it that way.
Thanksgiving was created to celebrate the 1% ripping off the native Americans.
I never thought of it that way. That's very much correct, isn't it.
Yes, that is why we need to occupy the Thanksgiving Day Parade. WE need to be heard by any means.
Excellent idea!
Great, then we should all gather right where NBC has it's cameras. If the cops try to stop us fight back. WE WILL BE HEARD.
Yeah, seems like NBC is the only major news media on our side.
In the United States Thanksgiving (United States)
The First Thanksgiving at Plymouth By Jennie A. Brownscombe (1914) In the United States, the modern Thanksgiving holiday tradition traces its origins to a 1621 celebration at Plymouth in present-day Massachusetts. There is also evidence for an earlier harvest celebration on the continent by Spanish explorers in Florida during 1565, as well as thanksgiving feasts in the Virginia Colony. The initial thanksgiving observance at Virginia in 1619 was prompted by the colonists' leaders on the anniversary of the settlement. The 1621 Plymouth feast and thanksgiving was prompted by a good harvest. In later years, the tradition was continued by civil leaders such as Governor Bradford who planned a thanksgiving celebration and fast in 1623. While initially, the Plymouth colony did not have enough food to feed half of the 102 colonists, the Wampanoag Native Americans helped the Pilgrims by providing seeds and teaching them to fish. The practice of holding an annual harvest festival like this did not become a regular affair in New England until the late 1660s.
No mention of God.
I don't know how people are still defending the holiday, they must not know it's true derivation
Thanksgiving is not promoted for commercialization and I defend having dinner with friends and family. That is what I am fighting for; for Citizens to be able to have a good life and having dinner with friends and family.
Christmas, that is a bit different. I won't be purchasing gifts to give to others. I will be making preserves, jams and jellies, making wooden gifts and so on.
Boycott Christmas staring now.
Thanksgiving may or may not have been created to thank God for his blessings.
So ruin it for those who still do. Got it.
disagree! Some may need to boycott celebration, but I don't think that thanksgiving is just a corporate Macy's Parade... I want more light than candle light... would rather offer alternative extravaganzas that politically educate and motivate while engaging passersby... on Black Friday occupy spaces for alternative free 'consumption.' Bread and Puppet theateresque parades to entertain and draw visiting tourists to our message.
You are living in the wealthiest country in history with three meals a day and a roof over your head, unlike much of the world's population and much of humanity throughout history. If you don't give thanks every day you are a complete twat.
You are seriously saying there is not homeless through no fault of their own, critically ill children who cannot get help because there is not enough money in this wealthy society to help them in this country? Go to a food bank this Thanksgiving and help feed the poor. That's what America should be about.
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If this is such a wealthy nation, why is the state not providing Thanksgivig dinner for the less fortunate. It is because the 1% controls the government. They do not care.
Most private citizens in the one percent donate generously to the kind of organizations that provide Thanksgiving dinner for the less fortunate. Far more than you ever will.
Yeah, while they gouge people for their services and products the rest of the year. They even give and then try to get some of it back through tax write offs. Some nice people you got there.
That is just not true. Do the 1% invite the homeless in to their homes and feed them? Does the 1% share their wealth? No, of course not, all they ever do is make more and more money off the backs of the poor and indigent.
I wish you would stop sharing your wealth of ignorance...
It's a time honored fact that Conservatives give more of their own money to private charity. Liberals in general want the state to give more of someone else's money, never their own.
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Why are the highways and roadways packed if only 1% of the population celebrated Thanksgiving?
Oh common, not thanksgiving :(
Translation: "Hey guys, what's the biggest thing we can do to piss off the vast majority and marginalize ourselves even more?"
Pure genius.
Good idea, I'll meet you there. If I'm not on time, start without me, dope.
yay, ruin a family holiday for people, you guys are getting dumber by the hour
then do not support us, we do not need you. When the revolution happens you will be sorry.
actually I won't, I'll be watching from the side as your country crashes
You have only now come to the conclision that ows is anti American?
I'm not in the 1% and I celebrate Thanksgiving. So much for your post.
Please sit in the park in your misery. See where that gets you.
The thing is many people will be sitting in many parks because they have no homes. The 1% gouge them on everything and then make fun of them. You know, not everybody wants to cheat, steal, and lie their way to the top. those who don't wish to live that way have to take life as it comes and deal as best they can. Sometimes things like illnesses and death can put people on the street because of high costs and a lost income. grow a heart and then maybe you will grow up.
You are right. The federal government should make sure that all family's are taken care of this holiday. Since Obama is a product of the 1%, he will be enjoying dinner while citizens languish in poverty in this country. It is time the 99% stood up and be heard. It is time the 1% paid their fair share.
And you are right about boycotting Thanksgiving, I am not thankful for this country anymore. Boycotting Black Friday would be an excellent move for OWS as well.
Kill yourself now.