The Koch brothers take care of their own...protesters.

[pacalo]

Madison, Wisconsin, April 2011, Teabaggers' counterprotest: Notice the microphone at the dais & the large screen provided for those not close enough to hear or see:



Fast forward to the Occupy Wall Street:

Ketchup, a petite 22-year-old from Chicago with wavy red hair and glasses with bright red frames, arrived in Zuccotti Park in New York on Sept. 17.

(...)

“It’s funny that the cops won’t let us use megaphones, because it’s to make our lives harder, but we actually end up making a much louder sound (with the “people’s mic”) and I imagine it’s much more annoying to the people around us,” she said. “I had been in the back, unable to hear. I walked to different parts of the circle. I saw this man talking in short phrases and people were repeating them. I don’t know whose idea it was, but that started on the first night. The first general assembly was a little chaotic because people had no idea … a general assembly, what is this for? At first it was kind of grandstanding about what were our demands. Ending corporate personhood is one that has come up again and again as a favorite and. … What ended up happening was, they said, OK, we’re going to break into work groups.

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/why_the_elites_are_in_trouble_20111009

We are not equal under the law with billionaires & corporations running the country. They've made that blatantly, in-your-face clear.

[flobee1]

1. This is why we will be victorious!

even tho they have all the money, we have all the imagination!


I saw the peoples mic in action at my local occupy on saturday-really cool!

[pacalo]

2. We also have a lot of YOUNG people -- corporate advertising's dream targets.

[Mac1949]

3. And we don't threaten violence to achieve our goals.