To all the so-called 'journalists' framing OWS as a joke:

[Avalux]

In two weeks, the movement has spread to hundreds of cities.

Contrary to what is getting reported, the protesters are diverse, not just kids smoking pot and aging hippies.

I see the faces of working-class union-type folk; teachers, nurses, laborers.

I see the unemployed; those who have had their homes taken away, those who will never be able to retire.

I see the elderly, I see the middle-aged, I see the young.

I see you, I see me.



The 'journalists' can try to frame the movement as they wish; after all, they have the freedom to do so.

However, the protesters in Liberty Plazas all over this country and world have a message for them:

We are the 99% and we will not be silenced.

[gateley]

1. Obama was asked about it at his presser, and he didn't discount

it/them at all. He understands it's an indication of how we're fed up with the people who got us into this mess continuing to do the same thing.

[Avalux]

2. He also understands he'll eventually need to pick a side......

"Yes We Can" after all.

[HughBeaumont]

3. Their giant paychecks depend on us being fearful and subservient to corporations.

And when we're not, it's time to MARGINALIZE until the Cops of the 1% come and take care of this rabble over their right to peacefully assemble.

[Avalux]

4. Marginalization won't work.

The cops....I wonder how they can sleep at night, since they're part of the 99% as well.

[HughBeaumont]

5. The ones who aren't thuggish will go "I was just following orders".

Time to find out where the orders are coming from.

[Matariki]

7. Someone wrote that they saw some cops crying last night in SF

[PETRUS]

6. Oh, they're "just following orders." K&R

[alcibiades_mystery]

8. "First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you..."

"Then they attack you.



Then you win."