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Occupy Wallstreet
Forget wallstreet, we have the occupy La D?fense crowd in Paris! Anticapitalist protestors camped out at the Paris business district. Any protesters 'occupying' your local areas? Are you sympathetic to their protests? Let's discuss the recent occupations 
Re: Occupy Wallstreet
No occupations in bella Napoli (go figure). Rome's, of course, had some protests, but I haven't been up since.
I've been through demonstration "camps" in Madrid and Dublin. Both were ok, but, IMO, not particularly compelling. The message wasn't particularly clear/obvious. Basically, just looked like a bunch of counter-culture "kids"/young adults camped out. Neither of the two camps had signage or literature, so you were just left to kind of figure it out.
While I absolutely agree the global economy is in a horrible place and people need to start taking responsibility both individually and as large social groups (countries, trade blocs, etc), I'm not sure braiding your hair and karaoke-ing (Dublin) is really going to bring about much substantive discussion.
There is an Occupy London at St. Pauls. It's a mess. There is no clear reason what the are protesting. When the media goes around asking people they all have different reasons everything from school fees, to the bus should be free, to capitalism is bad. They say this next to the guy selling tents while checking their email on an iphone. Umm ok.
I have been down there and I don't really get it tbh. They are causing St. Paul's to lose money which is a shame as it's a great historical building.
I don't really follow how being there is helping either.
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They're definitely camped out in Boston! DH has to walk by them every day, they're basically right outside his office.
I am of two minds - they have a constitutional right to protest whether anyone agrees with it or not. I do think, given how LONG they've been occupying a public space that they need to get permits and pay the fees despite the fact that Boston keeps ruling that they don't need to. It's ridiculous, anyone else doing this would be required to. Why aren't they??
That said, they're annoying the crap out of me. They are making it harder for your average worker to get to work, do their job and get home. They're alienating the very people they say they represent. Yesterday, with the blocking bridges in and out of cities as a salute to the labor movement it went beyond annoying to downright stupid. I don't know who came up with that idea but it was a bad one. I mean, honestly, is no one in charge at all? They seem to have no unified message or voice and its a BIG problem.
For Chicago I know that something was going on at the beginning but I don't know what's going on now. We don't live in the Loop so I don't know what's going on down there much at the moment. Plus we will just get the internet switched on tonight.
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We don't have an Occupy movement here (that I know of). Just more demonstrations from what made the headlines earlier this year.
I am not on the side of the Occupiers. No clearly defined goal, causing damage wherever they occupy, and purposefully causing economic damage to businesses, cities, and individuals. They may not be using guns but I do not view them as peaceful.
I'm really annoyed by the Occupy Amsterdam group. The ones in the US I have less of a problem with (their goals are much much much more defined and seem somewhat reasonable. The ones in Amsterdam are just stupid:
Journalist: So why are you protesting?
Occupy-er: I'm against capitalism.
J: Ah, okay, so what do you do for a living?
O: I squat
J: but how do you make your money
O: Through welfare, I told you man, I'm against capitalism, so I don't work. No-one should be forced to work if he doesn't want to, that why we need to protest so welfare goes up, so we have more money.
(And the very nicest thing was that he was standing next to a table with cans of coke, red bull, all kind of brand name cookies and such, score 1 for the anti-capitalist for sure!)
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