CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- On Sunday afternoon, the Coalition to March on Wall Street South demonstrated amid Charlotte's mega-banks, chants bouncing off the towering steel and glass. The coalition's messages of income inequality, big-bank ruthlessness and money ruling politics may have been old, but for the city, the raucous sight was not.The moment is a rather new one for Charlotte, which is not known for a deep activist culture. But the Great Recession has helped foster the protesting spirit. Bank of America is headquartered here, as is a big Wells Fargo branch -- both members of the recession's axis of financial evil. Now, this week's Democratic National Convention has made Charlotte a destination.By early Saturday morning, Occupy Wall Street activists had set up camp in the city's Marshall Park. Within 12 hours, the encampment sprawled with 20 tents, portable toilets and even a pizza delivery. "This is awesome," said Ashley Dittrich, 18, looking on from the other side of the street. She had a big smile on her face and a phone in her hand to record it all. "It's amazing to see so many against the banks."They came in wheelchairs, carpools and bus caravans. They supported ex-convicts trying to find work in Mississippi and immigrants trying to keep work in Georgia. "Mic checks!" started up while others in the crowd danced to funky cumbias. A man in a wheelchair screamed, "Illuminati, sick of you!" tl;drOWS is alive and well in Charlotte, NC, headquarters of Bank of America, Wells Fargo and location of the Democratic National Convention What are you waiting for, go protest, unless your afraid of the police!
OWS is a bunch of spoiled marxist class envy fucksno one takes them seriously take this shit back to whyweprotest and reddit
>>5245921Shove nigger cocks up your sloppy bank whore ass faggot.
Because my local Occupy sucks dick
>>5245921Keep telling yourself that. Maybe it will become true in your mind.
notice the OWS faggots don't try this shit on /b/ anymore?that was delicious when a bunch of them got doxed and fucked with
>Obama>shows balls against Israel>Wall Street nextMaybe we still can hope.
>>5245995Help them stop sucking dicks.Or are you an impotent beta coward?
>>5245887>Within 12 hours, the encampment sprawled with 20 tents>20 tents
>and even a pizza delivery>"So good to see so many people against banks!"dubs thread?
>>5246065>implying you had any hand in that
>are you an impotent beta coward?Yes. ROMNEY FOR AMERICA!
>>5246091no where is that implied faggot
>>5246036Keep telling yourself OWS is anything except a recent push for socialism/completely state run society.>mfw people trade their rights for what they think is safetyhttp://pjmedia.com/zombie/2011/10/31/the-99-official-list-of-ows/
>>5246091say that to my face fucker not online
>>5246067My local Occupy is mostly weird homeless people. Not big suprise that it's in San Francisco, also probably the most liberal Occupy gathering (If I went there again they'd probably just call me a wing nut)
>face down riot police>get violently assaulted by them standing up for America>get called spoiled on 4chan
>>5246141Help out Oakland, they're not afraid of anyone
>>5246158SO I TOLD THAT TEACHER LADY "THE ONLY 3 WORDS I NEED TO KNOW IS U S AND A"
>>5246120enjoy your fascist state patriot act
>bus in activists>call it unprecedentedlol oh libs
>>5246158>forget riot police are there because I'm part of a riot>lots of property damage>lol so what, amirite?>think I'm standing up for America by advocating socialism>posted from my iphone
>What are you waiting forMore British ructions, mainly. It's not over yet and the filth don't have at their disposal any gas that begins to be a match for Bundeswehr aspirator design.
>>5246205I would like to hear about the immense freedoms people have enjoyed in socialist societies.I'll wait.
Occupy is just another masonic order out of chaos type thing. From what I've heard and seen they support the Venus Project which is just another plan by the super elite.
>>5246219>empty life, wage slave, >sucking corporate cock for minimum wage>must attack those with a purpose who propose change and promote a humane society
>>5246120Keep telling yourself that you know anything about Socialism or reality, for that matter.
fucking hell occutards AGAIN, really?
>>5246290You'll also tell yourself you're obliged to wait "cause them libruls didnt have a argement" and not because you're an irrelevant sideshow. Don't forget that part.
How's the drumming and made-up handsigns?
>>5246290Yeah, I am against Bain Capital practices, too.
>>5246313>thinking you would have anything except poverty in a socialist nationI take that back, if you were an high ranking political official, you would be living well off of the money you had taken from your people at gunpoint.
>>5246219this
It's been done.Nothing came out of it.
>>5246313The reason your life is empty isn't because of some rich dude.It's because you have no values. The only time you are happy is when you are doing drugs. You are completely convinced that having kids is a curse. And then you turn around and wonder why you think about killing yourself.
>>5246290Socialism creates community values. Socialism reinforces the idea that "we are all in this together" instead of each man fending for himself at any cost. This tends to have positive social benefits while equally distributing the work load.Socialism creates an egalitarian society.Socialism allows workers to reap the full benefits of their own efforts and ends the institutionalized robbery of the very workers who are producing the wealth in the first place.Socialism, when done right, raises the standard of living for the entire nation as a whole.Socialism frees workers from wage slavery.Socialism raises the level of education and health services and make them available for all citizens thereby raising the over all quality of life for the entire nation.Under socialism need would drive production not profit which means those services and goods which were most needed but which yield little profit in the past would now be available including life saving medicines, new technologies, and better food sources.Socialism ends the monopolies and tyrannies of mega-corporations.Socialism ends poverty.Socialism results in healthier citizens by increasing the access to healthy food, better nutrition, and healthy lifestyle not available or encouraged under a capitalist regime.Socialism creates a sustainable society that can build and flourish both for the current generation as well as those to come, unlike capitalism which is designed to punish most citizens and reward the corrupt ruling class.
>>5246459Most of it is actually done by the Church, free trade, and technological advancement.
>>5246384Let's find out from that fat drug-addled fuckt...I mean "conservative warrior" Andrew Breitbart. He's enough of a dipshit for you, right?www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4od4QQVK1o(It's funny because he's dead.)
> North Carolina> good
>>5246459I would like some sort of example where this shit has worked, because if you actually read about truly socialist nations that have existed in the past you will see that basically the opposite of almost everything you have said is true.In socialist nations, the only people that are living well are politicians. If for some reason you have different views from the party you are completely cast out.
>>5246459i dont understand why people dont think that workers are paid a "fair wage." do you not realize that taking a job is a voluntary exchange so whatever pay you accept is the only fair one?
>>5246459>socialism ends poverty>GIVE ME ALL THE MONEY YOU MAKE SO YOU WON'T BE POOR ANYMORE>you
>>5246500>lieberal "compassion"There's a reason why the general public is willing to dismiss people like you without too much consideration, and it's not a conspiracy.
>>5246511Fuck you.
What specific goals do they want to accomplish, and what means do they want to achieve it though?You hear weasel words like fairness, awareness, justice, and all that. They're nice words, but really, they have very little substance in them, if any.
>>5246585They want to steal money from rich people.I can't stand it, they sit there and they say that rich people are these inherently evil assholes.Guess what?They are just as big of assholes, if not even bigger. They just have less money. Fuck them.
>>5246509ohai!Please excuse us as we crush your economy while giving the most benefit to the most people.
>>5246509Perhaps you just can't read. You're not *worth* convincing, guy. For fuck's sake stay with the other side.
>>5246548Go ahead, do something about it, I dare you.
class envy faggot marxists
>>5246608Eat shit greedy faggot.
>>5246623Oh so you're trolling.I would like you to do me a favor and look at a google earth picture of north korea at night.Also watch the vice guide to north korea.
>I can't stand it, they sit there and they say that rich people are these inherently evil assholes.If it's any consolation sycophants and lickspittles like you are (slightly) more contemptible than evil rich assholes.
>>5246548excellent rebuttal, my dear sir. you have changed my mind well, old chap
>>5246623> mao > socialism> success/pol/ keeps saying that these protesters are just college kids with worthless art and history degrees, I think /pol/ is wrong, because it's clear that these sign waving morons have never picked up a history book.
>>5246631Where exactly do you derive your rights to free medical care and a safety net for bankrupting your business due to bad mistakes.Ever so curious.
>>5246632I'm on the streets ensuring my elected officials hear our voice; what are you doing? Masturbating with crisco in your mom's underwear to pictures of your waifu?
>>5246631They only time someone can take your money is with the law/government. Your solution is to triple the size of the government.You are slow.
>>5246697The Constutution:We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, PROMOTE THE GENERAL WELFARE, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.Seriously, shit up faggot.
>>5246747Dear diary, Today some entitled asshole thought promote and finance meant the same thing.
fukcen comniss
>>5246679Mao was a great man, father of his nation, on par with George Washington: you, however, are nothing but an ignorant faggot, mindlessly parroting cold war propaganda.
>>5246631> fight the system> propose one that is even worseLOL, no.
>>5246807>Mao was a great manhttp://necrometrics.com/20c5m.htm#Mao
>>5246773It's up to the legislature to decide what promote means. If they think it means Obamacare, then it does.Stop being a crybaby loser, go home and put on a dress, faggot.
>>5246747The constitution does not give you rights. The constitution is a framework for specific roles of government, all else respectfully to the people and the states.You also fail in understanding what promoting the general welfare means. As numerous founding fathers, and those who came after ( and judges ) will tell you, it was never and will never be, for the purpose of being an open ended term. If that was so, it defeats the purpose of the Constitution, you ignorant fucking hippy.“When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.”-Benjamin Franklin“Congress has not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, but only those specifically enumerated.”-Thomas JeffersonJames Madison, the Father of the Constitution, elaborated upon this limitation in a letter to James Robertson:“With respect to the two words ‘general welfare,’ I have always regarded them as qualified by the detail of powers connected with them. To take them in a literal and unlimited sense would be a metamorphosis of the Constitution into a character which there is a host of proofs was not contemplated by its creators.”> Enjoy being a dumb ass
>>5246807> Mao was a great man, father of his nation, on par with George WashingtonHAHAHAHAHAMuch like Mulgabe, amirite? Protip: most economic growth in China happened after his death, when economic reforms were passed. Mao's legacy were famines, purges, and the cultural revolution.I think it's fairly clear that you are fighting for the wrong side of history. Grow up and give up.
>>5246511>voluntary>you either barely live off welfare and get called a lazy bum, or starve and die if you don't accept itI'm sorry, but it sounds like coercion.
>>5246840>still thinking morals are objective
>>5246852>it's up to a bunch of overpaid corrupt dooshfucks to decide what right and wrong isthis is what libtards actually believe.
>>5246852refer to>>5246856> Up to the legislature LOLOLOLOLOLLOL
>>5246701> I'm on the streets ensuring my elected officials hear our voiceBy protesting the banks, amirite?What a dumb faggot!
>>5246869>he killed millions>like, bro, I mean, what is right and wrong anyways really?Put down the pipe, and please, for fucks sake, realize that right and wrong isn't some system you get to make up as you go.Your system currently is that if it benefits you, it's right. If it doesn't, it's wrong. And then you turn around and slam Ayn Rand.
>>5246858Mao dragged a nation of slaves into the 20th century.Mao will be remembered as a great leader (he was our ally in WWII), you corporate stooges, on the other hand, will be in the same chapter as Mussolini and Hitler.History will decapitate you and shit down your corrupt necks.
What happened? Got too beat up in this thread >>5244753 so you had to start a new one?
>>5246909Mao did not kill millions, that is a lie.
>>5246874It's funny because of how quickly a creature like you would lick it up from a banker.
>>5246932it's official guys.Anon confirmed it without a source on 4chan. I dunno how much more legit it can get.
>>5246869Then why are you protesting the "evil" banks?
>>5246940It's funny how someone as stupid and young as you thinks that political self interest is somehow more noble than economic self interest, and that political officers are angels and not just normal people.
>>5246942> brings up common historical knowledge> HURR DURR I NEED SOURCEWhere's your irrefutable proof that banks did anything wrong?
>have to be bussed in from everywhere >no one knows where they get all the money for all the chartered buses and supplies Grassroots my ass
>>5246962Wait, are we talking about the banks or your bogus claim?We'll wait for that source.
>>5246928Yeah, "beat up". On the internet. You're a stupid piece of shit.
http://occupyclt.net/
>>5246915> Mao dragged a nation of slaves into the 20th century.Still as slaves.Deng and his reform partially released them from economic stagnation. Mao turned into a tyrant after WWII.
>>5246998>posted from my ipad>shared on twitter and facebook (and now 4chan)>fuck corporations
>>5246975I think they get it from Russia, where Putin plans to start a program of re-Communization.
>>5246889>moron does not know where the DNC convention is
>A man in a wheelchair screamed, "Illuminati, sick of you!"
>>5245921You realize Goldmen, JP Morg, and the rest of those jews committed the largest theft in the history of the world right? They stole TRILLIONS of dollars from people like you.
>>5247037How was that made possible without recourse?Ah yes. The law. Which comes from the government.
>>5247035Surprisingly it wasn't that other big government anal whore Reagan.
>>5247029> Coalition to March on Wall Street South demonstrated amid Charlotte's mega-banksHURRRRRR
The last time this happened, it fractured the democratic party and allowed Nixon to be elected.OCCUPIERS 4 MITT!
>>5247018I agree they should have sought your permission before using those devices.
>Ask a guy who was in Oakland during the riots anything>Saw some shit, man
>>5247035
>>5247037And what exactly has camping out in public and chanting catchy slogans done to stop them?
>People say a riot's about to happen>Look out windowNope.
http://occupythednc.us/
>>5247084No, they should have realized that per their philosophy they shouldn't be taking advantage of them, you faggot.
>>5247035>>5247089http://www.forbes.com/sites/peterferrara/2011/05/05/reaganomics-vs-obamanomics-facts-and-figures/
>>5247078OH SHI-IT'S HAPPENING
>>5246141Go across the bridge to Oakland and help them out. Occupy Oakland is keeping it real while the other Occupy encampments still haven't figured out that waving signs, shouting slogans, and marching around with banners have long since become a predictable part of the status quo.The Anarchist population of OO is far larger than those of any other Occupy, which should give you a hint.
>>5247078This is how I feel. Yeah, they are full retard, but it's kind of like the pride parades. If they would spend less time showing off how fucked in the head they are they would have more success in office. I hope they take it to the house.
>>5247109I agree they should have consulted you on those subjects before using the devices. Imagine not giving a shit about some shrill manlet on /pol/!
This will happen, be ignored by the media and that will be the end of it. Yawn. Non-violence is a joke. It works 1% of the time. It won't work this time. Just wait and see.
http://www.occupy.com/
>>5247169They are receiving criticism for their hypocrisy all across the nation.
>>5247196From corporate cock suckers just like you?Who the fuck cares?
>>5247050Yeah. And if you think either OWS or Teaparty protesters are happy with government right now, you've fallen for the MSM trap. Those people out there are not Obama supporters, they were not fans of GWB.
>>5247169It shows a general inconsistency in their ideology.Plenty of pundits will jump on them and label them as spoiled consumers, not just /pol/
>>5247215The media, politicians, people who watch the news, voters...
>>5247215Like I said earlier, keep it up. The public opinion will matter.
>>5247217The OWS solution to the problem is more government less private property.
>criticism for their hypocrisy ALL ACROSS THE NATION!>Plenty of pundits"Some argue..."
>>5247253>not capable of comprehending OWS is an expression of public opinion.
>>5247269nigger, please
No live feeds up yet but here are the links:http://www.livestream.com/globalrevolutionhttp://www.livestream.com/occupycvillehttp://www.livestream.com/occupyclt
>>5247571Charlottesville =/= Charlotte you pleb
