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Title: Wall Street protest spreading to Canada
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Published: Oct 3, 2011
Author: Michael Woods
Post Date: 2011-10-03 07:22:35 by Tatarewicz
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Views: 1034
Comments: 13

As police clamped down on anti-Wall Street protesters over the weekend, Toronto activists said they are planning similar demonstrations against corporate greed later this month.

Organizers from a group called Occupy Toronto plan to descend on the city’s financial district on Oct. 15 at 10 a.m. The event is inspired by Occupy Wall Street, a group of demonstrators which has camped out near New York’s Financial District for two weeks.

Similar protests are being planned that day for Calgary, Montreal, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, Ottawa, Vancouver and Victoria, according to the website Occupy Together, which bills itself as an unofficial hub for similar demonstrations worldwide.

Occupy Toronto had its first meeting on Sept. 29, according to its website. As of Sunday afternoon, more than 3,000 people had “liked” their Facebook group and more than 800 people had confirmed attendance at the Oct. 15 occupation.

Like Occupy Wall Street, the group has yet to spell out a clear objective. Protesters in New York have spoken out against corporate greed, social inequality, global climate change and other concerns.

“We have a lot of critics and skeptics about the fact that currently, there are no goals,” spokesperson Bryan Batty said. “But it comes down to corporate greed. That’s the one thing that everyone is unified on right now,” he said, adding that the group’s democratic process will elicit more specific goals.

Anti-Wall Street protesters have spent most of their time in Zuccotti Park, a private plaza off Broadway. On the past two Saturdays, though, they marched to other parts of the city, which led to tense standoffs with police. On Sept. 24, about 100 people were arrested and the group put out video which showed some women being hit with pepper spray by a police official. On Oct. 1, more than 700 people were arrested as the group attempted to cross the Brooklyn Bridge.

Some of the protesters said they were lured onto the roadway by police, or they didn’t hear the calls from authorities to head to the pedestrian walkway. Police said no one was tricked into being arrested, and that those in the back of the group who couldn’t hear were allowed to leave.

The arrests appeared to do little to dampen enthusiasm Sunday. The group is growing in numbers, getting more organized and shows no sign of quitting.

City officials “thought we were going to leave and we haven’t left,” 19-year-old protester Kira Moyer-Sims said. “We’re going to stay as long as we can.”

Hundreds of demonstrators in Boston and Los Angeles launched similar protests in support over the weekend.

Occupy Toronto has yet to determine where it will set up its home base — it is looking for a place similar to Zuccotti Park near Toronto’s financial district where protesters can lawfully gather. But it plans to conduct marches through the financial district and beyond, inspired by Occupy Wall Street demonstrators, Batty said.

“We also have focus on the Canadian issues,” he said. “Our banks didn’t get bailed out, but there are a lot of things that our banks do that harm the environment, culture and society of the Canadian people.”

Protesters in Victoria plan to gather in Centennial Square at noon local time, according to a Facebook event. In Vancouver, organizers say they plan to group outside the Vancouver Art Gallery.

Protests are also planned for Tokyo, five Australian cities, about 10 European countries and most U.S. states, according to Occupy Together.

It’s unclear how long the protests could last — Occupy Toronto’s Facebook event lists an end date of Dec. 31.

“The point of this is to never stop, to never let up the pressure,” Batty said. “So in an ideal sense, we will go until our demands are met.”

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#1. To: Tatarewicz (#0)

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The relationship between morality and liberty is a directly proportional one.

Eric Stratton  posted on  2011-10-03   8:21:34 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: Tatarewicz (#0)

When I consider the simplicity and logic that would have had the government support the homeowners with subvention assistance that wouldn't have reached 2 Trillion Dollars and would have RESOLVED the problem allowing those that invested in good faith to collect their earnings, rather than conspiring with Wall Street and International Financial Institutions to the tune of who knows how many TRILLIONS, which permitted the fraudsters to profit for acting in bad faith -

it's difficult to believe that those people in government with the ability to do the right thing weren't heavily invested in doing the wrong thing themselves.

The people of America should form a large organization to accomplish a stop of all foreclosures or burn them all to the ground. The Banks NEVER HAD ANY REAL INVESTMENT.

"ALL" legal fictions without exception are FRAUD. This FRAUD creates an illusion that is destroying America. Please, quit helping the enemy any way you can. Resistance is victory.

noone222  posted on  2011-10-03   8:40:47 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: noone222 (#2) (Edited)

...subvention assistance that wouldn't have reached 2 Trillion Dollars...

Can you explain what that means?

...to the tune of who knows how many TRILLIONS...

$47 trillion so far (~$200,000 per US citizen).

Godfrey Smith: Mike, I wouldn't worry. Prosperity is just around the corner.
Mike Flaherty: Yeah, it's been there a long time. I wish I knew which corner.
My Man Godfrey (1936 2011)

Esso  posted on  2011-10-03   8:54:48 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: Esso, noone222, 4 (#3)

Yes, with the money gifted to Wall Street, every outstanding home mortgage could have been paid.

Homeowners would have their homes and the bankers would still have received their money.

How simple would that have been?

Break the Conventions - Keep the Commandments - G.K.Chesterson

Lod  posted on  2011-10-03   9:39:24 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#5. To: Tatarewicz (#0)

Wall Street protests spreading to Toronto, Calgary, Montreal

TwentyTwelve  posted on  2011-10-03   10:25:46 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#6. To: Eric Stratton (#1)

The Toronto organizers are using the same rallying cry as those in New York, saying they are part of 99 per cent of people who are struggling while the wealthiest 1 per cent of the world’s population prospers.

TwentyTwelve  posted on  2011-10-03   10:30:00 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#7. To: Lod (#4)

Homeowners would have their homes and the bankers would still have received their money.

How simple would that have been?

The complication was with the "short sellers" like Goldman.

"ALL" legal fictions without exception are FRAUD. This FRAUD creates an illusion that is destroying America. Please, quit helping the enemy any way you can. Resistance is victory.

noone222  posted on  2011-10-03   14:11:58 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#8. To: Esso (#3)

...subvention assistance that wouldn't have reached 2 Trillion Dollars...

Can you explain what that means?

The government paying down the mortgage deficiencies.

"ALL" legal fictions without exception are FRAUD. This FRAUD creates an illusion that is destroying America. Please, quit helping the enemy any way you can. Resistance is victory.

noone222  posted on  2011-10-03   14:13:21 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#9. To: TwentyTwelve (#6)

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The relationship between morality and liberty is a directly proportional one.

Eric Stratton  posted on  2011-10-03   14:23:12 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#10. To: Tatarewicz (#0)

“We also have focus on the Canadian issues,” he said. “Our banks didn’t get bailed out, but there are a lot of things that our banks do that harm the environment, culture and society of the Canadian people.”

Obviously, the understatement of the year! See the Crime of The Canadian Banking System and the reference to the Great Canadian Experiment. We're just as fucked as America is.

It is vital to understand that there is no truth without discernment and no wisdom without the truth. What then is “faith” but an effort to confound truth and wisdom?

angK  posted on  2011-10-03   22:28:03 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#11. To: Eric Stratton (#9)

can we smell a rat here?

If the protesters are genuine and not a controlled opposition front of Organized Jewry then they're barking up the wrong tree. The wealth concentrated in the one percent or whatever of the population still is in the form of capital in office buildings, warehouses, factories and so on and the wealth is as well or better managed as it would be in a socialist state.

All these demonstrations are doing is taking the spotlight off the settlement of the Palestinian land dispute with Israel and allowing that illegal state to continue sicking the West onto its enemies in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya. The preoccupation of the West with Israel's wars is not only costly but precludes planning and development of domestic programs which would create wealth and employment or alternative ways of getting adequate incomes into hands of consumers.

Tatarewicz  posted on  2011-10-04   2:35:33 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#12. To: Tatarewicz (#11) (Edited)

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The relationship between morality and liberty is a directly proportional one.

Eric Stratton  posted on  2011-10-04   6:44:17 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#13. To: Tatarewicz (#11)

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The relationship between morality and liberty is a directly proportional one.

Eric Stratton  posted on  2011-10-04   6:46:30 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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