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Van Jones Praises Occupy Wall Street As The Onset Of An American Autumn
Van Jones lit up this week’s Real Time with Bill Maher as he told all Americans why they should be proud of, and supporting Occupy Wall Street.
Here is the video:
Jones said,
You know what is so impressive… you were talking about an Arab Spring. We could be on the verge of American Autumn. These young people are so impressive. They are out there. They are speaking for millions of people. These banksters are some of the worst people in the world. They’re horrible people, because they would be homeless if they were treated based on their performance. The American people stood up and bailed them out. We stood up. Taxpayers and homeowners gave them money to keep them in business.
They won’t even return the phone calls of American homeowners now trying to get their mortgages redone, students with student loans who need help. Give me a break, I can’t a job. I got a two year unpaid internship. They won’t even return their phone calls so these people have gone to the scene of the crime against our future, Wall Street. So now you’ve got this face off between some of the most selfish people in American politics and some of the most selfless, and I think we should stand with them. I’m so proud of them. I don’t know what to do with myself.
I am sure that some on the right who still believe Glenn Beck’s crap about Jones will use this as evidence that Occupy Wall Street is really nothing more than the march of the union thug socialists/Marxists, but they are wrong.
Occupy Wall Street isn’t left or right. Their message is not partisan, but when it comes to messaging the organizers of these protests have a dual problem. The conservative movement in this country has gone so far to the right that any movement that discusses the non-partisan issues of corruption and greed gets labeled as a leftist gathering. Secondly, the media covers these issues from through a narrow left/right prism. The media labels everything and tries to fit in a box labeled left or right.
The reason why the mainstream media can’t figure out the message of Occupy Wall Street is because it doesn’t fit into their frame. Liberals and Libertarians are involved in Occupying Wall Street. This isn’t a partisan protest. The message is bigger than partisan politics. Republicans will attack Occupy Wall Street and the corporatist Democrats that make up most of the congressional caucus will continue to ignore it.
Van Jones is correct. The thousands of protesters around the country who are joining the occupy movement deserve more than our praise. They deserve our support.
Republican, Democrat, or Independent, unless you are part of the 1%, you are the other 99%. It’s is time for everyone to put party labels aside and take back control of our nation from the moneyed interests.
It is time to Occupy America.
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Doris
Oct. 1st, 2011 at 4:28 pm
America,let’s rebuild the dream & come to the aid of our country because we,as a people cannot afford to lose anymore & trouble don’t last always. EVIL DOES NOT PREVAIL!
Shiva (Moderator)
Oct. 1st, 2011 at 5:01 pm
The tea thugs are hitting this pretty hard as being commie, socialists and whatever name they can find. Proving of course they know nothing of commies, socialists, how their banks are screwing them and how Wall Street has more influence around the world than their government does
They have to be against it for the looks. They will do anything to destroy themselves
There is only one hope. Majorities in both houses and fighting the money. Change the election laws to take money out to get the Koch out.
BFoley
Oct. 6th, 2011 at 7:35 am
Hi Shiva
You’d better hurry on over to one of the “occupy” protest locations and get a reality check. The common theme is “overthrough”; revolt; “radical change” through socialism. Then head on over to a Tea Party protest and re-evaluate your assessment of the “Thugs”. Tea party protesters are the most peaceful, and respectful protesters one could imagine. The facts bere the truth. You’re obvoiusly ill-informed. Seek out the truth. The truth will set you free.
Shiva (Moderator)
Oct. 6th, 2011 at 8:28 am
I guess you have not read anything on what these protests are about. It says nothing about socialism but I’m sure that’s a buzzword you enjoy using.
I guess if trying to put the country in the default is the most peaceful thing in the world than your facts are different than mine
boiler
Oct. 1st, 2011 at 5:04 pm
van jones is just the guy to help organize and lift up the youth who care but desperately need direction and focus…. plus van jones will drive the rightwing nutjobs into nuclear meltdown…. van jones is one of the smartest new faces on the scene…. and liz warren… makes the right’s eyes bleed, and i love to see that!!!
Anne
Oct. 1st, 2011 at 6:05 pm
Litte did the Party of No realize whst they did when they managed to get Van Jones out of the Obama administration. Now, he is in an excellent position where he is a force to be reckoned with. The short-sighted stupidity of the GOP has unintentionally served Jones and us well.
MoveOnMember
Oct. 1st, 2011 at 10:57 pm
Van Jones is an amazing organizer and has a gift for speaking the truth in a simple and inspiring way. We’re all in this together, and if we all stand up and demand change, nonviolently but bravely and forcefully, things can change. We just need transparency, political will, and a push to get money out of politics first! See www.rebuildthedream.com for a beautiful rainbow of existing groups that Jones has brought together under one banner, and the 10-point platform he helped their members agree on this past summer.
Tina
Oct. 2nd, 2011 at 7:26 am
I am 100% behind Occupy Wall Street.These folks need to see what they have done to this country.
Next,I think we need to Occupy The Media,who have enabled these wall streeters to screw us royally.That is why you don’t see these protests broadcast,except when there is trouble.Trying to make the good folks look bad.The media needs to bring back REAL NEWS and call these lying liars out instead of letting them sling their bull with no follow up or truths.
Tina
Oct. 2nd, 2011 at 7:27 am
Forgot to say how much I love Van Jones.
Bruce2233
Oct. 2nd, 2011 at 2:15 pm
The oddest thing about Occupy Wall Street is that the police, who handle the protesters roughly at times, would be leading the protests if they sat down and really thought hard about who is responsible for police pension funds being bled out, state and local cutbacks of police hires and the overall assault on the middle class, who the vast majority of police are trying to remain a part of.
Wall Street crashed the economy, aided by politicians, mainly republican who have only the vested interests of Wall Street types in mind and we all pay for it, including police forces across the country. Seriously, the police would be at the head of the protest with bullhorns, screaming up at the ones who have hurt them the most economically, the ones looking down from their 50 story suites as the police do their sucker work for them and laugh at easy it all was as they book their teeoff times.
Ken
Oct. 3rd, 2011 at 6:17 am
for all of you who think Van Jones is the answer I feel sorry for you. First off lets think about thism the people who are sitting on wall street trying to bother TAX PAYERS on their way to and from their jobs are selfless? they have no jobs and are living off the generousity of others. where as those same people they are “protesting” are working in a bad economy trying to find some way to fix it. I hate to break it to you all, but the American Autumn you would love so much would be the fall of western civilizationm not just America. WE fall and the world comes with us EVEN the great socialist nations that you so proudly cling to. I have lived within communism and socialism and I have seen the power of the FIRST election by the people. Do not follow blindly ask yourself, why is there still 9% unemployment and a stagnant economy through all these bailouts? because bailouts and government intervention is the death of modern economy, demand begets supply, and thus builds industry. If you don’t believe read anything on macro economics, Marx will hate you for it but your fellow American will love you for it
Shiva (Moderator)
Oct. 3rd, 2011 at 8:10 am
First of all, you know absolutely nothing about any of the people who are protesting a Wall Street. You are sucking up to a talking points that Are meaningless. You have no idea they are living off the generosity of others or whether or not they are passed the ability to live off anything. And while you say they have no jobs that should be the big problem that you address.
There is only one real socialist nation and this world and that is Venezuela. the bailouts did not cause the unemployment and to use your own silliness, if you believe that that I feel sorry for you. Stop and ask yourself where we would be without the bailouts. In far worse shape. the unemployment problem came well before the bailouts came.
But even deeper I will sign you up to the fact that you love paying too much for gasoline, you enjoy being ripped off on your credit cards, you like the fact that millions of people lost a lot of their retirement due to Wall Street speculation and fluctuation, you enjoy the fact that banks rip you off on your fees on your accounts and use your money overseas when they should be using it here.
Further extrapolation of your silliness also indicates that you love the fact that you can have the right to move into a home with no safety codes( government intervention), drive a car were there are no safety standards at all( government intervention) drive on roads that do not have to be safely put down and built with proper compounds to keep you safe( government intervention). I can assume that you also don’t mind living next to a coal-fired plant that pours out a tremendous amount of smoke out so that your children can be very sick. you then go on to cry about demand begets supply, but when the people who create the demand cannot afford to create a supply because they are not working you find yourself in a circle. The businesses that you support so heavily are setting on trillions of dollars. American wages have been stagnant for the last 30 years which indicates that industry does not want to pay the people who pay for their services.
now grow up and stop listening to Right wing nut jobs
Mandy
Oct. 3rd, 2011 at 6:42 pm
At one point in American history…
The bulk of the working class population felt that they worked in unsafe conditions, while, all the while, being underpaid and underappreciated.
Meanwhile…
A small few profited substantially from an initial investment of their own and the long going efforts of that same working class population.
Those few proclaimed that because it was their initial investments and innovations that made any profit possible, that they certainly deserved all the rewards that they had wept. For, it was they who had made the American dream possible, by creating jobs in the first place.
After the Great Depression…
Laws were created to protect the working class population from unsafe conditions in the work place and minimum wage was established to ensure fair exchange for labor.
However,
The gap of profit between the bulk working class population and the few wealthy investors decreased only a smidge comparably, if at all.
So, to further assist the still disgruntled bulk working class, the wealthy investors, as innovative as they are, extended CREDIT lines as a show of good faith to the American working class. CREDIT lines enabled the working class to relish in some of the rewards that before had been unattainable. Rewards like a home, and the pride that accompanies occupying a decent place to live, for example.
Unfortunately…
For some…
Those credit lines created an even larger financial gap between the bulk working class and the few wealthy innovative investors.
Now…
This seemed to appease the majority for quiet some time until the greed of those few investors grew so large that they found themselves in a great fix and were forced to ask for hand outs from the tax payers, whom they call free loading hippies.
But do they think it fair to be eternally in debt to us 99% because we enabled them to make a profit? They do not. In fact, they have no plan to pay us back for anything, only keep taking and taking, until they have sucked us dry.
Edward G
Oct. 4th, 2011 at 12:10 pm
The enemy within is more dangerous than the one at the gate!
Following the lead of Saul Alinsky.
1. Destroy the economy – check
2. Blame America – check
3. Damn the achievers – reward the lazy – check
4. Try and destroy America from within – check
5. Class warfare – check
6. Make things so bad – that he can make America communist – check
He’ll lose – thanks to the Tea party Patriots!
Shiva (Moderator)
Oct. 4th, 2011 at 12:45 pm
Let’s say now, not sure who’s trying to make America communist but that is a right wing mantra that is as always meaningless.
General George W. Bush is the one who ruined the economy, this was started by Ronald “runaway” Reagan.
Not sure who is blaming America, but I do though but that is another right wing mantra that is meaningless. The right wing cannot accept any blame for anything.
Class war is being actively pursued by the GOP House and by the GOP members of the Senate. Repeatedly passing laws that will drain the middle class and the poor while giving tax breaks and money to the rich.
Destroying America from within? Read the sentence above.
Tea party? Read the polls lately? It’s just as meaningless as everything that you said above
Edward G
Oct. 4th, 2011 at 2:00 pm
Nice try.
Windy
Oct. 4th, 2011 at 2:49 pm
As you can see from the linked graphic Wall Street provided huge sums of money to Obama and the Dems prior to 2010. While Obama and the Dems were the beneficiaries of Wall Street money none of these protesters were heard from. As you can also see once Obama became president, the Dems controlled both houses and the economy went South (FACT: look it up the Bush recession ended in June 2009), Wall Street shifted to help Republicans in mid-term elections. This makes me think that what is happening on Wall Street with these protesters is nothing more than orchestrated kabuki theater meant to motivate the left and support Obama’s blame Bush and the rich campaign because he can’t run in 2012 on his record and he has nothing else to run on. I voted for Kerry in 2004 but not for either Democrat Obama or Republican McCaine in 2008. I would have voted for Hillary in 2008 had she won the Dem nomination but I already had Obama as my political representative in Illinois for years and knew he had no leadership skills or real world experience and I could not vote for him.
As far as Van Jones who cares about Van Jones other than those who pine for EU style socialism?
www.opensecrets.org/news/...
Sarah Jones
Oct. 4th, 2011 at 3:41 pm
Your analysis of those donations is suffering from perspective. You didn’t compare it to what they gave to Republicans in the same year and your explanation for why they donate is inaccurate. Interested industries donate to the party most likely to get into power for obvious reasons of hopeful influence.
You need to show how Obama and the Dems did not try to regulate Wall Street in order to make your point; but of course, they did pass Wall street reform, as watered down as it was due to Republican influence. Show us the examples of Republicans trying to regulate Wall Street to some degree in order to avoid too big to fail and bail outs.
Edward G
Oct. 4th, 2011 at 4:16 pm
Obama GAVE his Wall Street buddies BILLIONS of dollars….so they could funnel a lot of it back to him! Obama and Wall Street have been in bed with each other too long!
Obama’s Jobs Tax Increase Bill?
Despite early and regular pleas from the White House, Senate Democrats say they will not move immediately to take up President Obama’s jobs bill. Senate Democrats won’t take up bill immediately, Harry Reid says.
Windy
Oct. 4th, 2011 at 9:01 pm
It was a simple observation that when Dems were raking in Wall Street money we didn’t have Van Jones and Obama urging children who have no jobs, no responsibility and nowhere else to be, to camp out on Wall Street. It isn’t meaningful it isn’t real. It’s kabuki not worth the attention or thought.
Sarah Jones
Oct. 4th, 2011 at 9:46 pm
Oh, so Obama is urging them to do this? Give me a link please.
Also, it is campaign season so that observation is off base. Everyone wants their money right now.
Makram Chams
Oct. 4th, 2011 at 8:47 pm
War is a STATE Socialist racket.
War is a STATE Capitalist racket.
(I’m a free market socialist AND a free market capitalist, by the way)
Shiva (Moderator)
Oct. 4th, 2011 at 8:50 pm
Of course