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In reply to the discussion: Please Kick and Rec if you support OWS [View all]sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)buy their own gas, and if they complain, are fired, as many of them were, by Goldman Sachs who reaps millions of dollars from their labor.
Maybe you didn't understand what this was all about, but the truckers and the Longshoremen have been battling for their livelihoods for more than six months as these Multi-National Corporations tried to smash their unions and hired cheap labor in their place, locking them out, while scabs crossed their picket lines, long before OWS existed.
Anyone who really cares about the workers would be cheering that finally they got some help. Because that is what OWS was doing. Trying to help American workers whose livelihoods were threatened by Multi National Mega Corporations, who, as soon as they got control of OUR docks, made lowering the wages of Americans who for generations made their living from those docks, their number one priority.
How many Americans even knew of their struggle to try to preserve their way of life, until Occupy Oakland shut down the bullies in early November and came to the aid of their fellow Americans?
Listen to the tearful and emotional 'thank you' from the ILWU leader to Occupy Oakland for laying their own freedom on the line to help them in their struggle.
The only people who oppose the assistance given to the long-struggling truckers and Longshoremen against Goldman Sachs and EGT, are supporters of the corrupt, unregulated Capitalist system that has collapsed the world's economy and destroyed the livelihoods of the middle class.
But no one in the real world could possibly say that shutting down operations that are pouring money into the coffers of the top 1% while taking it from ordinary workers, was anything BUT a good thing.
Now, let's see how arrogant they will be the next time workers demand what is rightfully theirs. Now they know they won't just be dealing with the workers, they will be dealing with the American people willing to come out and help their fellow citizens who are being victimized by these greedy Corporations.