Some admittedly bad pics from OccupyBoston yesterday

[valerief]

https://picasaweb.google.com/115741157217293790144/OccBos?authkey=Gv1sRgCJHyopX70q7qswE

[Fire Walk With Me]

1. Not bad at all, and the spirit of the thing comes through. Thanks! K&R!

:hi:

[Turn CO Blue]

2. This.

https://picasaweb.google.com/115741157217293790144/OccBos?authkey=Gv1sRgCJHyopX70q7qswE#5661557639310976402

"I can't afford my own Senator so I made this stupid sign"

Exactly!

IN THIS the government of, by, and for the PEOPLE yet we find none of the 99% can get a nod, much less an audience with a Senator - their calendars are filled with meetings with lobbyists and giant corporate advocates at fundraisers.

The CONGRESS - bought and paid for. And 5 of the Supreme Court too. And while I don't fully agree, at least a large percentage(IMHO) think or feel the Executive Branch (regardless of occupant) sold out or is too weak to realize that they cater to the corporations, banks, oil & gas industries and insurance industries too.

Just look at some of the political cartoons from 100-120 years ago. We played this out with the robber barons over 100 years ago, and we are back in the exact same place.

And so instead of the Astors, Morgans, Vanderbilts, Carnegies, Rockefellers - the beasts reincarnated into Fortune 500 corporations and International banks -- and they now do it on a global level - but it is still the same old sh!t all over again!


List of businessmen who were called robber barons

John Jacob Astor (real estate, fur)—New York City
Andrew Carnegie (steel)—Pittsburgh and New York
Jay Cooke (finance)—Philadelphia
Charles Crocker (railroads)—California
Daniel Drew (finance)—New York
James Buchanan Duke (tobacco)— Durham, North Carolina
James Fisk (finance)—New York
Henry Morrison Flagler (railroads, oil, the Standard Oil company)—New York and Florida<5>
Henry Clay Frick (steel)—Pittsburgh and New York City
John Warne Gates (barbed wire)
Jay Gould (railroads)--New York<6>
Edward Henry Harriman (railroads)—New York<7>
Mark Hopkins (railroads)—California
Andrew W. Mellon (finance, oil)—Pittsburgh
J. P. Morgan (finance, industrial consolidation)—New York City
Henry B. Plant (railroads)—Florida
John D. Rockefeller (oil), Cleveland, New York
Charles M. Schwab (steel) Pittsburgh and New York
John D. Spreckels (sugar)— California
Leland Stanford (railroads)—California
Joseph Seligman (banking)
Cornelius Vanderbilt (water transport, railroads)--New York<8>
Charles Tyson Yerkes (street railroads)--Chicago.<9>

[renate]

3. what are you talking about? Those are great!

:thumbsup:

Looks like you had beautiful weather and were with a great bunch of people!

[onestepforward]

4. Love your pictures!

Thank you!

[dana_b]

5. "I can't afford my own senator so I made this stupid sign"

love it. And your pictures are not bad!

[Whisp]

8. that's a great sign. nt

[walerosco]

6. OK pics if you asked me

K & R

[Gin]

7. good pics....cant offord my own senator is soooo true

made me start thinking....maybe we should ask the congress how much would it take to vote our way and have a telethon to raise money...

shame their asses if nothing else.

[Dystopian]

9. KandR

Great pictures.
Give yourself credit ...

Alas ...there is no cash.

Thank you for sharing ...


peace~

[Blue_In_AK]

10. Nice!

It looks like a good turnout. :)

[valerief]

11. It was GORGEOUS weather and a GREAT turnout. As I understand it,

the mayor is providing free electricity to the occupiers, too.