The Moneybag Party!

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Just like trying to paint the entire Tea party as racist for what a few of their members have said, trying to label this movement as socialist is another broad-brush generalization. There's a lot more going on here - check out the blogs, Twitter, Tumblr (see here for a list of sources) and get the info direct, not filtered through the MSM.

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Something Big Is Happening: Occupy Together
Wednesday 5 October 2011
by: Jim Hightower

It's silly to say that the protestors' purpose is indecipherable. Hello -- they're encamped next door to Wall Street. Isn't that a clue? Their cause is the same as the one boiling in the guts of America's workaday majority: Stop the gross greed of financial and corporate elites, and expel a political class that's so corrupted by the money of those wealthy elites that it has turned its back on the middle class and the poor.

Such movements don't begin with a neat set of solutions pre-packaged for The New York Times, but with roiling outrage focused directly on the plutocratic perpetrators of an unjust economy and an unresponsive politics. The movement will find agreement in due time on specific ideas for stopping the injustice, but now is the time for the passion and creative, nonviolent confrontation that will energize others to stop moaning and join the rebellion.

This is not your grandfather's tightly organized protest. In fact, it's intentionally loose -- there is no "leader" or leadership council. Instead, group decisions are reached through a consensus-based democratic process. With no faith in traditional politics or conventional media, the mostly young protestors have taken to the streets to make their points, using their well-honed "culture of the web" to organize, strategize, harmonize and mobilize.

Their Liberty Square encampment might look chaotic at first, but look again. It includes a medical clinic, media center, cafeteria and library. Food? Their widely viewed website lets anyone in the world go online and have pizzas delivered to them from a local shop. They even produce their own newspaper, appropriately named the Occupied Wall Street Journal.

Far from "dwindling" in numbers, the New York protest continues to grow. Moreover, the movement has now spread to more than 50 cities, from major hubs like Chicago to such smaller places as McAllen, Texas. All across the U.S.A., "something is happening here" -- something that might be big. Link into it at [url=http://www.OccupyTogether.com" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;]http://www.OccupyTogether.com[/url].

http://www.occupytogether.com/
http://www.occupytogether.org/faq/

http://blog.mattlanger.com/post/10900817922
What Occupy Wall Street and the tea party have in common.
A Proposed Demand
October 1st, 2011

So a thing that bothers me very, very much in politics right now is how we find ourselves with these two opposing groups who share very similar desires and grievances but who utterly fail to see their kinship because of the presumption that partisan opposition excludes any possibility of such kinship. By which I mean: I’m a raging lefty, and I’m supposed to hate the Tea Party simply because… I’m supposed to hate the Tea Party! And yet I actually have a lot in common with them? To wit: we agree the government is f***ed up; we share the same anxiety about the economy; we’re both pissed at Wall St. and pissed at “politics as usual” and pissed at “the way Washington works” and pissed at the small group of people who can game the system at the expense of the vast majority of those of us who lack such access. And ultimately we’re in complete agreement that money is a corrupting influence in our government. This is a lot to have in common with people I’m supposed to hate!

In short: me and the Tea Party can agree that government is f***ed, but me and the Tea Party disagree very much on what government is supposed to mean. So why not take a little time to focus on what we can agree on?

...the thing I want to see more than anything else right now is a movement that has nothing to do with politics and everything to do with process. So let’s for once just agree to agree, because right now 99% of us can agree that government is broken, and that the reason government is broken has a whole lot to do with money.

So how do we fix it? Well, how about this: a completely non-partisan grassroots movement. And by non-partisan I don’t mean one of these feel-good third-party “centrist” groups that pop up and fizzle out again every few years, but a legitimately non-partisan movement: a movement that has nothing at all to do with party and everything to do with the the pre-partisan process of government itself.

But what I do know is that it would mean setting all the childish bullsh*t aside. It would mean being grown-up enough to sit down and talk to people we’re not necessarily comfortable having as much in common with as we do. It would mean dropping the name-calling...It would mean not wasting our time reblogging wearethe99percent and arguing about whose anxieties or debts or financial conditions are somehow more or less legitimate than our own and agreeing instead that right now all of us are pretty well f***ed, and that the only way out is to remember that we’re all f***ed equally, and together.

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Top Five Reasons Why the Occupy Wall Street Protests Embody Values of the Real Boston Tea Party
Tuesday 4 October 2011
by: Lee Fang

In the late 18th century, the British government became deeply entwined with the interests of the East India Trading Company, a massive conglomerate that counted British aristocracy as shareholders. Americans, upset with a government that used the colonies to enrich the East India Trading Company, donned Native American costumes and boarded the ships belonging to the company and destroyed the company’s tea. In the last two weeks, as protesters have gathered from New York to Los Angeles to protest corporate domination over American politics, a true Tea Party movement may be brewing:

1.) The Original Boston Tea Party Was A Civil Disobedience Action Against A Private Corporation.
2.) The Original Boston Tea Party Feared That Corporate Greed Would Destroy America.
3.) The Original Boston Tea Party Believed Government Necessary To Protect Against Corporate Excess.
4.) The Original Boston Tea Party Was Sparked By A Corporate Tax Cut For A British Corporation.
5.) The Original Boston Tea Party Wanted A Stronger Democracy.

Indeed, the very first Boston Tea Party was truly radical and faced scorn from elites and conservatives of the era.

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-o ... onstration - VIDEO
"There was a march on Wall St today...has basically been a 4 week downtown Manhattan live-in which has spread to cities all around the country causing the media to move its coverage dial from "blackout" to "circus". It's too bad...those are the only two settings it has."

"But these protestors, how are they not like the Tea Party?" - see what's said to describe that at the 5:00 mark. The soundbites are hilariously ridiculous.

Jon: "Why are the Occupy Wall Street folks unworthy of Tea Party respect and ideals?"

They're not law-abiding citizens, where camping isn't allowed, they're breaking the laws on the Brooklyn Bridge...

Jon: "Everything you described there was a misdemeanor. The actual tea party was a f***ing felony. Do you know how much trouble, do you know what the tea party actually was? Do you know how much trouble you'd get in if you broke into a ship, stole the cargo from the ships owners and just threw it overboard? The tea party namesake: you're named after the most celebrated act of theft and vandalism and of private property in our nation's history and you can't stomach a little park camping?"


I find it sad that there can't be common ground found, that people have to automatically take sides against what these protestors are trying to do, and swallow the MSM biased influence, instead of realizing that there are many shared goals - ending the corruption in government and wasteful spending of money to banks who's ethically and morally questionable practices put our economy in the state that it's in today.

If you'd watched the video, you'd know that Stewart meant the respect afforded the Tea Party by the right-wing pundits, not by the liberal bloggers and biased MSM, of whom you quoted above.