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(26,624 posts)
Fri Sep 21, 2012, 12:49 AM Sep 2012

About 30 "Americans for Prosperity" showed up @ Occupy Anniversary to tell the 99 to shut up.....

The rally is part of an Americans for Prosperity "Obama's Failing Agenda" bus tour traveling across the US ahead of presidential elections on Nov. 6th.

Reportedly, roughly 30 people showed up to the 10 am rally in support of the group, which claims to be "more than two million activists strong" across the country.

Bill Dobbs, an Occupy Wall Street activist who attended the Occupy anniversary event on Monday, told the Guardian that the Americans for Prosperity rally was "an interesting development."

"But the rich want almost everything, they'd like to take just about everything in sight," he said. "The 1% must be getting desperate to put their supporters out on the street.

"http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/09/20-5





An activist group founded/funded by the Koch brothers is holding a demonstration in Manhattan on Thursday to protest President Barack Obama’s economic policies and to stand up to the “Occupy Wall Street mob,” says their press release.

The group made up of "activists" from Americans for Prosperity are standing outside near Rockefeller Center as part of group’s "Failing Agenda Bus Tour," (That's one bus, by the way.) which is devoted to urging President Barack Obama to shun policies that increase the nation’s debt. Despite the group’s billionaire backers, the AFP describes itself as a "grass roots" organization. It claims to have more than 2 million supporters nationwide.

Americans for Prosperity is also launching a $25 million ad campaign in support of Mitt Romney’s presidential candidacy next week, according to the Huffington Post. Americans for Prosperity has already spent $15 million on ads attacking President Obama.

A spokesman for the group’s New Jersey chapter said the protest of the thirty protesters in attendance would serve as an opportunity to disavow Occupy Wall Street.

http://crooksandliars.com/

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About 30 "Americans for Prosperity" showed up @ Occupy Anniversary to tell the 99 to shut up..... (Original Post) midnight Sep 2012 OP
another post here 2pooped2pop Sep 2012 #1
Thanks... midnight Sep 2012 #2
I'm sure they'll bring their signs mocking the hungry and the homeless. lonestarnot Sep 2012 #3
 

2pooped2pop

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1. another post here
Fri Sep 21, 2012, 07:14 AM
Sep 2012

says the occupiers infiltrated them. So much of the low turnout was occupiers pretending to be and having fun with the koch heads.

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