Fortunately, it’s just in the “throw it against the wall and see if it stick” phase
(Pasadena Sun) An activist who helped expand the Occupy Wall Street movement to Los Angeles is setting his sights on new territory: Pasadena’s iconic Rose Parade.
“Everything is not coming up roses,†said Peter Thottam, an Occupy L.A. organizer who has launched OccupytheRoseParade.org to call for an economic justice rally at the Jan. 2, 2012, celebration. The Rose Parade is expected to draw nearly a million spectators to Pasadena streets as well as tens of millions of TV viewers around the world.
“The America that’s existed during the bulk of Rose Parades has really been torn apart over the last three years by the unemployment problem, wealth polarization and the middle class shrinking,†Thottam said.
And, exactly what would this accomplish, Pete? You obviously have a serious problem with the policies of the people who have been in charge of the White House and Senate over the last 3 years, and the people who held the House from 2009 till the end of 2010. Why ruin the parade for everyone else? Oh, because some Big Companies, including banks and financial institutions, sponsor floats? Places that employ lots of people and help make people money. Perhaps Pete could explain more
Why the Rose Parade? Simple. The Rose Parade has become far too militarized (see, for example, this coming year’s Jan 2012 Grand Marshall, J.R. Martinez– an Iraq war soldier) and far too corporatized with major banks & financial institutions increasingly undwriting many of the floats. Tens of thousands will converge to protest the complete breakdown of U.S. Justice & Wall Street’s revolving door and the takeover of America’s political & economic systems. I.e., the takeover of public spaces & events throughout the country such as the Pasadena Rose Parade.
Funny, I remember some Lefties proclaiming this is a movement which encompasses left, right, and center. Yet, everything is a typical left wing talking point. Pete has a whopper of a problem with an Iraq war veteran who was wounded while serving his country. A man who should be an inspiration for his life story and his unwillingness to quit.
The system simply does not work and is illusory. Americans are distracted and lied to, daily. The pyramid-top U.S. Congress is entirely brought & paid for. Enough. No more. We ask that people, governments, & businesses everywhere BOYCOTT :
(1) Bank of America; (2) Citibank; (3) Goldman Sachs; & (4) Chase.
This is why these people are complete morons: Pete writes about the “pyramid-top U.S. Congress”, but says to go after four financial institutions, not Congress. And he doesn’t even mention how much money Obama has taken from “Wall Street.” I’d bet Pete will vote for Obama in 2012.
Fortunately, few of his comrades aren’t buying into this absurd plan. Yet.
