Protesters took to Zeidler Park Saturday as the Occupy Wall Street movement spread to downtown Milwaukee.
"The top one percent has been taking all the wealth and not just exploiting the population but the earth itself," said Andy Andre, 61, an unemployed mechanical designer.
Protesters descended on the park carrying homemade signs reading "Tax the war profiteers" and "Jobs not War" and chanting "Occupy Milwaukee, not Iraq."
Saturday's protest was the first action in Milwaukee by the Occupy Wall Street movement.
Over the past month, the protest against economic inequality has spread from New York City to cities elsewhere across the United States and around the world. Several demonstrations were planned this weekend in the U.S., Canada and Europe, as well as in Asia and Africa.
In Milwaukee, shortly after noon, a crowd representing a variety of causes - from anti-war to anti-Gov. Walker - began to march from Zeidler Park to Chase Bank downtown.
"Bail out the people, not the banks," they chanted as they marched.
Jessica Larson, a 37-year-old bartender from Racine, carried a sign that said, "Where are my lobbyists? Single working mothers."
"I'm tired of corporations owning our governments through lobbyists," she said.
After a short rally outside the Chase Bank, the crowd headed north on Water Street toward the M&I bank building.
So. Were there 2 protesters? 5? 50 (like in Green Bay?) 125? 575,667?
Paragraph 2, sentence 1, word 1: Hundreds.
ReplyDeleteJimbo, I copied the original article in the post.
ReplyDeleteEvidently the JS relies on blogger-editors and found "hundreds" were there after my post.
Bye.
Yes, "hundreds" as vague as they can make it while still sounding journalistically feasible. Up next: Tightly cropped photos of the "large" crowd.
ReplyDeleteFunny, the article you link to bears little if any resemblance to the "cut and pasted" text on your page.
ReplyDeleteAmy, hundreds is more that dozens or scores and less than thousands. Without an official police count, I think hundreds is quite descriptive.
Are you claiming that JS Online is biased by not reporting an official attendance figure?
I don't do screencaps. The article you see NOW has two authors--the original had one.
ReplyDeleteBut you can "think" whatever you want.
Come now, Jim. Dad29 always carefully checks his sources before he posts to make sure his rants , I mean reports, "journalistically feasible"!
ReplyDeleteZorro
"I'm tired of corporations owning our governments through lobbyists,"
ReplyDelete"The top one percent has been taking all the wealth and not just exploiting the population but the earth itself,"
There's nothing false about these statements and they should resonate on both sides of the aisle. Why do we care about numbers? Good for them whether there are dozens or hundreds of people attending these rallys.
Good for them. Why can't we drop all this bullshit for just once?
Are you claiming that JS Online is biased by not reporting an official attendance figure?
ReplyDeleteYes, I am. It's not really that hard to spot their bias.
There's nothing false about these statements and they should resonate on both sides of the aisle.
Except the solutions proffered by them do not resonate. Bigger government, outrageous taxation, stealing money from the "wealthy" to give it -- without incentive -- to their collective pet groups and causes. They don't really seem all that bothered by the millions made by actors, writers, producers, etc. in Hollywood, but they'll go after corporations who employ way more people than Michael Moore ever does. Who cares if the office assistants at X Corporation lose their jobs because we regulated and robbed the company's profits out of existence? Just so long as the Occupy Wall Street crowd *feels good* about itself, the reality of their ideas (that they have been tried and fail) doesn't matter.
Also, when people who supposedly care about the environment and humanity trash a park for weeks on end, defecate on cop cars and American flags, and threaten violence, they are deserving not of attention or reward, but of ridicule. And quite possibly time in the slammer.
A hundred Tea Party members show up somewhere, and every last one of you brushes it off as nothing, just as the Journal Sentinel would do. A Tea Party member dumps on a cop car, and you'd be all over it.
So stop pretending this is some moral crusade against the greedy rich and call it what it really is: an attempt to make even more problems by expanding the government and taking from those who earn to give to those who do not.
These are all talking points Amy. There's nothing here that I can't hear in the afternoon on AM1130. Push the hypocricy button. Pull the biased MSM lever. Shout big government. Scream Hollywood.
ReplyDeleteIt's tired Amy. And it brings nothing new to the table.
I'm not on Team Liberal so this kind of material really doesn't interest me.
I'm not on Team Liberal so this kind of material really doesn't interest me.
ReplyDeleteSadly not surprised. Too much to ask that anyone looks at the aims of OWS, historically speaking, and see they don't work, apparently. They are bringing nothing new to the table. They are bring the same old tired answer (socialism/communism/big government) that has impoverished nations and is about to collapse significant portions of the European economy (see: Greece). But I bring "nothing new" to the table by pointing this out.
By the way, unlike the protestors, I have a job and can't listen to 1130. Not talking points, just common sense.
Class warfare is endless. Today it's bankers/Wall Street/CEOs tomorrow it's that guy down the street with the 4-bedroom house and two cars...just not fair he has a bigger home and more vehicles than his neighbor, so we must legislate a way to confiscate his property and give it to someone else.
Amy, there are thousands of people all over this country and all over the world who are participating in OWS gatherings. Do think that everyone of them is defecating on a cop car? This IS a talking point because it's being passed around the right-wingosphere like a virus. Don't tell me you got that talking point from "common sense."
ReplyDelete"outrageous taxation"
What outrageous taxation?
"Stealing money from the "wealthy"
to give it -- without incentive ..."
Here's a little allegory for our times: A muti-millionaire, Amy, and a poor person go into a bar and sit at a table. On the table are a dozen apples. The millionaire takes 11 apples and then looks at Amy and says, "That leech is trying to take your apple."
"They don't really seem all that bothered by the millions made by actors, writers, producers, etc. in Hollywood, but they'll go after corporations "
You miss the point, Amy. It's not the wealthy. You spout the common lie that says liberals want everyone to be equally wealthy. And it IS a lie.
Hollywood millionaires don't control the markets. They don't make the rules that allow the corporations to screw people and then get the people to pay for it.
"They are bring the same old tired answer (socialism/communism/big government)"
Continuing to lie, Amy. This is not the answer that people are looking for.
Like baseball, markets must be based on rules. You can't have a ballgame and let one side bat for as many outs as they want or pitchers to throw at opposing batters without consequence. Without rules, their is no baseball and there is no game for the benefit of the fans.
Markets need rules. Without rules, markets serve the markets, not society. I believe that markets are made to serve society, not the other way around. And that requires rules. We saw in 2008 what happens when there are no rules and no umpires.
"tomorrow it's that guy down the street with the 4-bedroom house and two cars"
You're wrong again, Amy. That person in the 4-bedroom house and two cars is hurting just as bad as anyone else. A large portion of the people gathering for OWS own (owe) the 4-bedroom house and the two cars.