Occupy Wall Street

OWS Wants to Improve the Economy-But Got 21 People Fired! (Plus Drawing Swastikas On MLK)

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The Occupy Wall Street movement, which says its goals include improving the economic lot for 99 percent of Americans, may have some explaining to do to some cafe workers now out of a job.

Mark Epstein, owner of the Milk Street Cafe at 40 Wall Street, just let 21 employees go.

The reason? The barricades police have set up throughout Wall Street as a consequence of the ongoing demonstration.

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A List of Those That Support The Occupy Movements

Published by Papa Giorgio

Via The Blaze:

This morning we ask you to consider the recently posted Official list of Occupy Wall Street’s supporters, sponsors, and sympathizers put together by intrepid blogger Zombie.

The 99%: Official list of Occupy Wall Street’s supporters, sponsors and sympathizers


Communist Party USA

    Sources:

Communist Party USA, OWS speech, The Daily Caller

American Nazi Party

    Sources:

Media Matters, American Nazi Party, White Honor, Sunshine State News

Ayatollah Khamenei, Supreme Leader of Iran

    Sources:

The Guardian, Tehran Times, CBS News

Barack Obama

    Sources:

ABC News, CBS News, ForexTV, NBC New York

The government of North Korea

    Sources:

Korean Central News Agency (North Korean state-controlled news outlet), The Marxist-Leninist, Wall Street Journal, Times of India

Louis Farrakhan, Nation of Islam

    Sources:

video statement (starting at 8:28), Black in America, Weasel Zippers, Philadelphia Weekly

Revolutionary Communist Party

    Sources:

Revolutionary Communist Party, Revolution newspaper, in-person appearance

David Duke

    Sources:

Talking Points Memo, video statement, davidduke.com

Joe Biden

    Sources:

Talking Points Memo, video statement, Mother Jones

Hugo Chavez

    Sources:

Mother Jones, Reuters, Examiner.com

Revolutionary Guards of Iran

    Sources:

Associated Press, FARS News Agency, UPI

Black Panthers (original)

    Sources:

in-person appearance, Occupy Oakland, Oakland Tribune

Socialist Party USA

    Sources:

Socialist Party USA, IndyMedia, The Daily Caller

US Border Guard

    Sources:

White Reference, www.usborderguard.com, Gateway Pundit, Just Another Day blog

Industrial Workers of the World

    Sources:

IWW web site, iww.org, in-person appearances

CAIR

    Sources:

in-person appearance, Washington Post, CAIR, CAIR New York

Nancy Pelosi

    Sources:

Talking Points Memo, video statement, ABC News, The Weekly Standard

Communist Party of China

    Sources:

People’s Daily (Communist Party organ), Reuters, chinataiwan.org, The Telegraph

Hezbollah

    Sources:

almoqawama.org, almoqawama.org (2), almoqawama.org (3), wikipedia

9/11Truth.org

    Sources:

911truth.org (1), 911truth.org (2), 911truth.org (3)

International Bolshevik Tendency

    Sources:

bolshevik.org, Wire Magazine

Anonymous

    Sources:

Adbusters, The Guardian, video statement

White Revolution

    Source:

whiterevolution.com

International Socialist Organization

    Sources:

Socialist Worker, socialistworker.org, in-person appearance

PressTV (Iranian government outlet)

    Sources:

PressTV, wikipedia

Marxist Student Union

    Sources:

Marxist Student Union, Big Government, marxiststudentunion.blogspot.com

Freedom Road Socialist Organization

    Sources:

FightBack News, fightbacknews.org

ANSWER

    Sources:

ANSWER press release, ANSWER web site, Xinhua

Party for Socialism and Liberation

    Sources:

Liberation News (1), pslweb.org, The Daily Free Press, Liberation News (2)

 

Some Occupy History — Via Chuck Goudie of local ABC affiliate WLS-TV (channel 7)

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From Big Journalism:

The Chicago media–much like the mainstream media in the rest of the country–has largely ignored the true origins of the Occupy demonstrations, and has failed to hold organizers accountable for the violence and bigotry of some of their members.

It ought to be newsworthy, for example, when individuals under investigation by the FBI for terrorism lead a sit-in outside the mayor’s office. But that fact was ignored by media reports in Chicago and elsewhere.

One of the notable exceptions to the pattern of willful blindness about Occupy in the mainstream media is investigative reporter Chuck Goudie of local ABC affiliate WLS-TV (channel 7). In a report filed on October 19, Goudie described the origins of the Occupy movement–from Adbusters in Canada, to anarchist Lisa Fithian in Texas, to the numerous hard-core radicals who have flocked to demonstrations and courted arrest.

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