It's time for unions to shut the City of Boston down.

[TygrBright]

The Mayor and the Governor colluded to mobilize City police, sanitation workers, EMTs, and State Police to break up an OWS protest site with Veterans for Peace.

Reports include:

Veterans beaten.

Camp broken up, signs, tents, protesters property dumped in garbage trucks.

Media told to leave, EMTs setting up tents for casualties.

This is not good.

Boston Unions, where are you?

Mobilize SOUTHIE!

angrily,
Bright

[Fire Walk With Me]

1. Fucking right on. K&R!

[Lucinda]

2. So truly awful

kicking for you

[Supply Side Jesus]

3. good idea

shut that shit down

[Marrah_G]

4. Where the fuck were our supportive Democratic Politicians tonight?

Oh YES they were the ones who sent in the cops to beat our Veterans.

[Desertrose]

7. How many Dems will suport OWS tomorrow I wonder.

Bastards...all of them.

[leftstreet]

14. Good question

Yes, how many?

They were all starting to drift towards the OWS movement like it was a campaign platform

[JCMach1]

8. State Police would require Deval Patrick to sign-off...

So tell me which side they are on?

[Marrah_G]

16. They just clearly showed that they are not on our side.

[Lizzie Poppet]

25. Drinking champagne with the rest of the 1%'ers.

If this ends in bloodshed (as I hope with all my heart it doesn't), let there be no question of who started it.

[Hugabear]

5. Fuckin' A

Shut the whole damned thing down.

[me b zola]

6. K&R

[LooseWilly]

9. I guess this is it...

time to see if the OWS folks have some popular support or not. Time to see if the public has the cajones to show some solidarity.

Hope 2.0 ... (it pretty well failed the first time around)

[coalition_unwilling]

19. This is indeed it. Time to put our bodies on the line. I'll be heading

down to Occupy LA downtown tomorrow. To quote the late, great Mario Savio:

"There's a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious—makes you so sick at heart—that you can't take part. You can't even passively take part. And you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop. And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that unless you're free, the machine will be prevented from working at all." UC-Berkeley, 1964

[LooseWilly]

22. Yeah, I guess I'll be joining in SF Wednesday...

Tomorrow is crappy part-time job to help defray the cost of rent day... and hope that the day's news isn't too demoralizing.

Wednesday, near as I can tell, is when the numbers show...

[TygrBright]

10. Someone needs to hang ONE lantern in the tower of Old North Church.

They came by land.

sadly,
Bright

[tavalon]

46. These fine people throughout the nation are our lantern

Paul Revere would be proud.

[CoffeeCat]

11. I think these protests are just the first layer...

...of America rising up.

There are a whole lot of people--like me--who are not out in these protests. However, we are totally
supportive and not in the dark about the corporate corruption of our democracy. We are disgusted
by the banks and how they escaped accountability and we're DONE with the corporations buying
legislation from our corrupt, broken politicians!!

I am participating in the bank opt-out day. I am moving my money to a credit union.

If this movement gives people like me, things to do--we will do them.

I think this is the direction that we need to take. Give specific directions about which
companies we need to stop purchasing from and supporting.

I don't rule out joining a protest, but it is a daunting proposition for some. However, people
like me will do other things---things that could really take down these banks and corporations
that have totally perverted our democracy with their dirty money and corruption.

Just my 2 cents.

[JDPriestly]

18. Yes. My bones probably wouldn't get up very easily if I spent a night

in a sleeping bag on the ground.

[OneGrassRoot]

23. Unlike the Tea Party, OWS has youth on its side....

which is a beautiful thing.

I agree about the multiple layers.

:)

[trueblue2007]

12. sue the crap out of boston. police brutality .... excessive violence

[coalition_unwilling]

13. Thanks a lot, Boston PD, for firing the first shots in the 3rd

American Revolution. Let it begin now. Time for the cops (PIGS?) to decide whose side they're on: the 99% (working class) or the 1% (the ruling class).

GENERAL STRIKE NOW! NO BUSINESS AS USUAL!

[Dawson Leery]

15. When the Boston PD get's the Koch treatment, they can stand alone

and eat s**t out of Chuck Koch's toilet!

:mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:

[KamaAina]

29. Who will be the new Crispus Attucks?

:scared:

[Divine Discontent]

17. great idea! I wish they would

http://www.zazzle.com/republicans_2012_keeping_millions_out_of_work_bumper_sticker-128659602907896843?rf=238107662556833486

[Fire Walk With Me]

20. Short video of the first Boston arrests:

http://www.twitvid.com/J8KFK

[workinclasszero]

31. Oh God..

Vets yelling "we are veterans of the United States of America!, we are veterans of the United States of America!" as the cops slam them down and trample their flags!

[Contrary1]

21. What does BOS stand for?

I saw that BOS leaders were calling for a general strike on a chat board. Don't know if it's true or not.

[DRoseDARs]

24. *Bump* for the morning shift. n/t

[Bobbie Jo]

26. K&R

:kick:

Absofuckinglutely!

[TygrBright]

27. Boston played a crucial role in the first revolution. What will it do today? n/t

[Marrah_G]

28. I think you will find the numbers grow after this.

[Bake]

30. Shut. It. Down. Are the Boston PD unionized?

If so, what's up with them????

Bake

[julian09]

39. They Love the overtime pay

almost as good as stealing drugs from druggies.

[valerief]

self-dele, dupe

[valerief]

43. They stole meds from the occupiers too!

[workinclasszero]

32. Where are the politicians that claim they are on the side of occupy??

Strangely silent eh? Not a peep out of them.

I'm sooo fucking surprised!:sarcasm:

[lunatica]

38. Nancy Pelosi has been speaking and she's slammed Cantor for the 'mob' reference

A future politician, Alan Grayson brought Bill Maher's audience to a standing ovation for his defense of the OWS. And Bernie Sanders is promoting the OWS as hard as he can.

[crazyjoe]

33. Deval and the rest of the Dems want you to shut up and go home!!

[fascisthunter]

34. Fuck both Menino and Deval

you fucked up big time!

[valerief]

35. Looks like the fuckin Redcoats are winning. nt

[tavalon]

47. The battle, perhaps

The war? We shall see.

[Dutchmaster]

36. Boston PTB need to pay for this somehow someway. This is inexcusable.

[nichomachus]

37. We can shut the city down

from the privacy of our own home.

Exercise your constitutional rights to make your voice heard. Call the mayor, the president of the city council, and each and every city council member to complain. If a couple of hundred thousand people do that on the same day, the city hall is effectively shut down.

[mother earth]

40. Yeah, the Boston police are union people, no? Talk about

biting the hand.

[valerief]

45. I think they're half Blackwater. nt

[rugger1869]

41. K&R

nm

[McCamy Taylor]

42. Is mass transit unionized? A strike would have a real impact.

[valerief]

44. +1000

[unionworks]

48. hang together unions

Or you will surely hang seperately

[unionworks]

49. Boston Hibernians

STRIKE!

[midnight]

50. What a bright idea....

[MrMickeysMom]

51. Shut it...

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