On May 19th Occupiers From Chicago to Frankfurt Protest in Huge Numbers

A bleeding anti-NATO protestor is comforted after a scuffle with police during a march, Saturday, May 19, 2012, in Chicago. On Sunday, the start of the two-day NATO summit, thousands of protesters are expected to march to the McCormick Place convention center, where NATO delegates will be meeting. Photo: John Minchillo / AP

Especially for us who are unable to do so today.

I love that picture with the crowd reflecting in Tom's glasses!

on behalf of the people. I was not really familiar with him until the Occupy Movement started. He could easily just enjoy his money, but has been a consistent presence at protests, fighting for the people.

I wish he would run for office. We need more people like him in power.

http://billmoyers.com/episode/full-show-tom-morello-troubadour-for-justice/

Video and full transcript at the link

It explains his passion for this movement. First time I've seen him talk about himself. I actually knew nothing about him other than his music. It's wonderful to see Bill Moyers interview him. Thank you so much for posting this, it is well worth watching, suffragette.

Power to the people!

I have read today that the new French President along with President Obama are urging Merkel eg, to start pushing less 'Austerity' and more 'Growth'. That is a beginning, and most likely in response to the people who have had enough of those draconian policies.

These are the kind of numbers we saw in the past. The streets overflowing with an energy and peaceful intent. An example to those vultures who feed off the carrion of the war against life both here and abroad.

Rise like Lions after slumber
In unvanquishable number,
Shake your chains to earth like dew
Which in sleep had fallen on you-
Ye are many — they are few.

~Percy Bysshe Shelley

'Ye are many ~ they are few'!

I think they know that and so long as we remained asleep, they were not threatened. That is why they are reacting so brutally now, they know we are waking up.

The Only True God: Wealth and Power.

Anyone who speaks against it, or questions it, is a heretic, perhaps of the commie or socialist religion and must be eliminated!

Another religion that claims freedom and love of life but is known by its bad fruits, slaughtering and making the entire world impoverished in ways they refuse to even look at.

The saddest thing to me are the soldiers who went to war thinking it was for a noble cause, but who now have awakened to the realization that they were, as Smedley Butler realized, merely being used to further the interests of Corporations.

Today in Chicago, Iraq and Afghanistan War Veterans chose to turn in their medals. They believe the wars they fought in were based on lies. For them I feel so sad. Maybe it is better to continue to believe once you have made such a sacrifice, I don't know.

Clothes' moment and it is dangerous to do.

So many have staked a lot of their life beliefs in the military. I know entire families who for generations have been supported by it. Either through payments for education for themselves and their families, careers in military contractors after they've finished active duty, government jobs, doing their shopping at post exchanges, home loan guarantees, medical care for themselves and their spouses and other things.

IOW, it is a large part of their family tradition and support system. They count on it even if they did not serve in times of war. It's been their link to the world, seeing and gaining connections they otherwise would not have had. That's not to mention the people that work to supply the military, who must tell themselves that it is a good thing.

I don't believe the military has done anything for 'world peace' under a 'Pax Americana,' since WW2. And that's not been good for a lot of the world. Yet the MIC found reasons to keep on going. As usual, populations went along with it.

Some kids have been asking me about WW2, Hitler and all of that. Their only references are movies. They don't understand why this happened. Having been born not long after it ended, I am far closer to that era than they are.

Vietnam, is much much closer for me. When I am asked questions and try to detail some of those events, I can't help but cry as the younger ones who watched 911 cry. Older people I know alive during the attack at Pearl Harbor and D-Day have a strong emotional response as well, more than mine. I don't cry about that stuff, it's like a movie to me. Not quite real.

Whatever war we live through, changes us. We can't help as it's part of being a feeling human being. Wars are said to be for the purpose of change to society and the world, not necessarily the reasons we're given. It's the terrible experiences of soldiers that drive them to do many things, both good and bad in and out of the service. There really is no way to know what those veterans saw, but we have their testimony as we did in previous wars.

How heartbreaking for those who have surrendered their bodies and their possible futures, to have all of that taken away. That includes their families, if they do not come home, or come home wounded in some way that the entire family must deal with. The human mind seeks for a reason, and we given many of them to keep us calmed down. To tell people that they have been led by psychopaths that mean them no good is the kind of thing that shatters one's world. It is deeply painful and one feels lost for a while until one makes their reality anew.

We are all regimented from an early age to react as trained dogs, with cues and whistles, rewards and punishments. Those men in tossing their medals said they were not going to follow that any longer, that they, not the ones who profited, would be making the choices in their lives from now on.

When armies come home, nations are changed. Some of those who came back are not going to go a positive path as these men did there. I still credit Obama with bringing most of them home and hope the world will learn from what is being done now. When we rise for the good of all, it literally changes the world on a level that most of us do not understand, but some do. I like reading and listening to such people.

This is another of my favorite quotes:

Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.

~Robert F. Kennedy, Capetown, June 6th 1966

That is what I believe is happening now and we are blessed to see this in our lives.

And I love that quote. It is something we do need to be reminded of, as sometimes you just feel that you are so powerless.



Yes, it takes a different kind of courage to do what they did. Moral courage because we know they will be vilified by some. Below is a report on the protest. What is really sad is to read the comments. So ignorant, and so obviously the result of years of Fox 'News' propaganda. I wonder how long it will take to eliminate those lies, repeated by so many of those commenters, from this culture.