I just favorited this from @OccupyWallStNYC... (UPDATED)

"#TwitterBlackout. #J28"
January 27, 2012 at 09:37PM
from: @ OccupyWallStNYC's original tweet.

UPDATE: Well, that was a bust. I saw @OccupyWallStNYC tweeting on the 28th. Really useless.  Wondering just how purposeful this whole #Occupy movement will be in the end.  My guess is that it'll just draw attention to how little the powers-that-be like real dissent.  Too bad the USG can't just bribe them all to go home.  That would make things a lot more simple, cheaper and better for PR.

tanya77:

shortformblog:

Some might see a crass corporate attempt to latch onto a movement that fits well with the company’s branding. We see a progressive company showing its pre-corporate roots. (via Percolate)

Why don’t these companies set up a job fair at each one of the Occupy sites?

Why don’t these companies set up a job fair? Possibly because it won’t be enough. If you take a hard look at the facts, government and the major corporations/banks are only making things worse. A B&J job fair won’t turn things around.  We need major change.  That’s just my ¥2, of course.  I’m no economist.  I’ve just been following this stuff closely for years.  It doesn’t take a brain surgeon to know that if you keep doing the same thing over and over and it does no good, you should probably stop doing that same thing.  The USG, corps and banks aren’t stopping.  Even if jobs are created, the lax regulations, the tax havens and the outsourcing will still screw the American worker, and likely the American economy, in the end.  

leftish:

The Revolution will not be Televised.

JOIN OCCUPYTOGETHER.ORG

Yeah, this is a pretty sad state, where it takes hours for the MSM to catch up to events that were being reported on by Twitter as they happened.  There’s no excuse for this, but there is an explanation—that all of our concerns, that the government is only out to protect and serve the rich and the corporations and that our rights as citizens trying to voice our own opinions, are true.

They arrested 700 people. 700!  That’s just here in NYC—yesterday on the Brooklyn Bridge.  I have no idea what’s happening in other cities that are doing “Occupy” style protests.  If that’s not enough, the rumor as of last night was that the cops ushered protesters onto the bridge so that they could arrest them.  Essentially, they were entrapped.  That’s illegal.  But these days, it’s no surprise when cops can get away with things that are illegal.

This is why I won’t join them.  I’m simply not brave enough to risk an arrest record or the chance I might get pepper sprayed or beaten up.  I don’t have health insurance, thanks to our lovely every-man-for-himself system we have.  However, I’ll do whatever I can to get their word out.  I hope you will too.