I’d like to, but I have to work that day.
No, May 1st.
It is good that you think so . . . Or, maybe it isn’t . . .
I personally found it ironic that by Occupying Zucotti Park, the one thing the OWS did for sure was oust a falafel seller and a farmer’s market. Stick it to the man guys! The farming, immigrant, street vending man!
(FYI, the falafel guy is back, but the farmstands seem to have moved permanently to Bowling Green)
Martin Luther King’s idea was that they should march on Washington.
What will this “general strike” affect? How will they manifest their strikedom? What exactly are they planning to stop doing? How do students go on strike? Does this mean immigrants will stop immigrating? Is it true that 99% of the US population lives in only 125 cities? If it’s a Day Without the 99%, where are they all going to go, and do I have to go with them? (Ah hell, I’m starting to write like SMDBKL.)
I don’t understand this newfangled form of protest.
No.
About 80.7% of the US lives in Urban Areas or “Urban Clusters”, and this number includes 486 Urban Areas.
If you restrict it only to Urban Areas, it’s 71% of the population.
http://www.census.gov/geo/www/ua/uafacts.html
You forgot the rest of the statement, let me add it for you.
::: kayaker points to their crotch:::
So the idea is that the 99% strike to show the 1% that they don’t need them, or to somehow punish them? The people with money will shrug and go about their business even if everybody participates, and the 99% will go without a day’s pay, and this will accomplish precisely what?
It’s like the so-called gas holidays. People will merely defer their purchases to the next day. The catch is that this time the suggestion will result in a real loss of income.
Great idea. I’m all in. Of course, I’m off Tuesday, but it’s the principle that matters, right?
The Anti-Atlas Shrugged.
Hey, at least you posted this topic in the correct forum!
And what about the people just going about their business? They have to deal with chaos at the short-staffed grocery store because a bunch of 99ers want to treat their jobs like a Facebook post meme?
[del]Kony 2012[/del] [del]Green With Lace[/del] Strike For the 99!
:rolleyes:
As much as I agree with OWS and sympathize with its objectives, I, like most of the 99%, don’t have the liberty of just going without a day’s pay.
So i’ll be at work.
You could wear a button!
**OWS plans “General Strike” for May Day **
Does this mean that the panhandlers will all take the day off?
They have a raised fist symbol on the front page of their website. :rolleyes:
OWS is out of touch. Where I work nobody will participate. I’m certain that will be true for a vast majority of every work place tomorrow. Does anyone care if students go on “strike”? What does it even mean for the unemployed to go on strike?
What a joke.
The web site is supposed to be in English, Spanish and French (what, no Russian?) but if you click the link for French, you just get the English version.
Why does OWS hate Canada? 
In honor of Occupy Wall Street, I’ll be occupying and demonstrating at a local federal building; occupying my usual desk and demonstrating my ability to ignore OWS’s BS.
And a few days ago they had a "Free Mumia"protest. :smack:
As an Obama-supporting, card-carrying liberal, I want to like the Occupiers. But they make it so damn hard.
Well, their only choices were that or “eating meat is murder”, so can you really blame them?
They have a lot of time on their hands. This whole thing about not having leaders is a big part of the problem. If you don’t have a leader, you’re going to get the crazies. In fact, even sometimes when you do have leaders, you get the crazies. But no leaders, and the press is going to latch onto the crazies.