Occupy Wall Street SHOULD Be International and Hyperlocal
Rene Abad
fyi
arab spring coming home to roost
but the major media companies not minding it
signs of times - the rich and powerful use quad media to protect and
promote their interests
regards
rene
Occupy Wall Street SHOULD Be International and Hyperlocal
By Rob Kall
The banksters on Wall Street, The Heads of Lehman Brothers, BofA,
Morgan Stanley, etc.,-- they're all just single heads of the hydra
that is multinational globalization.
The same people and entities that have corrupted the three branches of
US government so they are no longer accountable to the people are also
waging class war on Europe and the rest of the world.
The Occupy Wall Street movement IS going international and well it
should. The conversation is about opposing corporate personhood, as it
should but it should also be about opposing globalization and
international trade deals.
Meetup's OccupyTogether page shows occupy actions taking place in
London, Aukland, Bucharest, to name a few of the international
actions.
There is no such thing as a major national corporation that is just a
US entity. Pretty much every big corporation has connections,
branches, major operations, managment, owners, franchises,
subsidiaries and the like in other nations. Many do more business in
other nations.
With crabgrass, the weed spreads by roots, by runners, so, if you pull
out one, it does nothing for the big picture. You have to get at the
whole system-- roots, runners, the works. The same is true when it
comes to dealing with corporations and their effects on the US and the
world.
Consider Citizens United-- perhaps the worst case of treason ever
perpetrated upon America. This opened the sluicegates for
international money to pour into American politics through the US
branches of multinational corporations. We know that they shift
profits to avoid taxes. The same money shifting that is involved in
the Tax amnesty programs corporatist congressional shills push for is
almost certainly being used to provide hundreds of millions for
lobbyists and to buy TV ads for corporate teat-sucking members of
congress-- ie., most of them. This treason, by the five Supreme Court
Justice traitors has been countenanced by the Obama White House and
it's neutered Department of Justice, led by impotent, sold out
Attorney General Eric Holder.
The assault on the middle class is an international conflict. As the
conversation at the Occupy Together locations develops, the role of
multinational corporations-- and Presidents's and congress's collusion
through passing trade agreements-- must be included. We must know,
name and target our enemies if we're to have any hope of progress.
Wherever you live, in NYC, Washington DC, Seoul, Tokyo, London,
Nigeria, Tibet, Venezuela-- the forces of multinationals and their
weapons of globalization are working against you. It is time for a
world uprising, a world-wide Occupation that targets the multinational
corporations, the lobbyists, the banksters, the trade organizations--
WTO, World Bank, CAFTA, NAFTA, the new ones congressional sellouts are
about to vote on.
Watch the votes in the coming weeks on the new trade deals for Korea
and Columbia. Whichever members of congress vote for them, including
members of the progressive caucus, will be selling out the middle
class.
To learn more about how globalization destroys small third world
nations as well as the jobs in the US, you must see
http://www.theeconomicsofhappiness.org.
Tomorrow, October 6th, will see thousands in Washington D.C.. It was
planned as a beginning. The courageous protesters in NYC didn't wait
and started occupying Wall Street weeks before. Make tomorrow a day
where you show up... somewhere, anywhere. Show your solidarity on a
street corner in your town. Make a cardboard sign.
Talk to your friends, your family, your neighbors. Tell them about
what's going on. Don't assume they know about it or, if they've heard
about the arrests, say on the Brooklyn Bridge, that they know why the
occupations are happening. Drum up conversations. Assume that the
mainstream media have either failed to report at all or have
marginalized and mocked the protests as the NY Times and Fox News have
done.
Stand on a local street corner, or go to a branch of BofA or Goldman
Sachs or, well pick one of hundreds of corporations that have declared
war on the middle class through their lobbyists. Find two or three or
ten friends and start something. Bring your children so they can brag
they were part of something that shook the world. We are going to do
this. The question is, will you be part of our we? To answer yes you
have to wear out some shoe leather, or, more likely, Chinese sneaker
rubber.
Do it for our future.
Author's Bio:
Rob Kall is executive editor, publisher and site architect of
OpEdNews.com, Host of the Rob Kall Bottom Up Radio Show (WNJC 1360
AM), President of Futurehealth, Inc, inventor . He is also published
regularly on the Huffingtonpost.com
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