Your thoughts on the Occupy Movement?

I'm sure you've seen the articles, the videos, and FB pages -

 MSNBC - Occupy Wall Street supporters demonstrate in cities from co...

Occupy Voting Booths 2012.

 

Click to here to join the Wall Street occupiers and demand real dem...

 

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-08-21/wall-street-aristocracy-go...

 

Occupy Toronto

 

 Occupy Philly protesters march to Liberty Bell | Deseret News

 

What do you think about it all?

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Permalink Reply by Balder on December 5, 2011 at 8:34am

You'd put money on it?  Wow.  I hope you're right. 

Permalink Reply by James Barrow on December 6, 2011 at 3:18pm

Thomas - thank you again so much for providing us with all this info - it's invaluable information.

Q re. "The banks really really were bailed out.  Really."

Just to clarify, is it being accepted that the banks have already paid back the total $7.7 trillion!? Cos that would be a pretty mean feat right?

Permalink Reply by Balder on December 6, 2011 at 6:11pm

An article on OWS by a colleague at JFKU.

Permalink Reply by Balder on December 9, 2011 at 11:15am

Do folks here use a credit union rather than a bank?  I've long been contemplating a switch (my mother was actually urging me to do this several years ago), and I am thinking the time is now well overdue.

Permalink Reply by Edward theurj Berge on December 9, 2011 at 11:41am

Yes, after the '08 crises I moved my $ into a local credit union. It's FDIC insured up to 100k per account like any bank, so it seems the money is protected. But then again, I don't understand what Tom is talking about so who knows? And I guess if the economy completely collapses then so much for any insurance.

Permalink Reply by Mary W. on December 9, 2011 at 3:24pm
Permalink Reply by Balder on December 9, 2011 at 3:39pm

This makes me very angry.

Permalink Reply by Edward theurj Berge on December 9, 2011 at 5:15pm
Permalink Reply by Mary W. on December 9, 2011 at 5:45pm

You can say that again. I don't know what country I'm living in any more.

Permalink Reply by Balder on December 11, 2011 at 6:16pm

I've been looking forward to getting this book.  I really liked his previous book, The Empathic Civilization.  We have a thread dedicated to Rifkin here, if you'd like to talk about the new book there.

Permalink Reply by Balder on December 12, 2011 at 11:07am

Looks like Otto Scharmer has a new book forthcoming which is relevant to some of the themes in this thread.

Permalink Reply by Balder on December 13, 2011 at 6:19pm

Cool piece of news on Germany's progressive energy initiatives.

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