Oct 06 2011
Occupy Wall Street Protests Sweep the Nation!
Senate Democrats have just announced a plan to add a 5% surtax on American millionaires to fund President Obama’s American Jobs Act. A surtax is an additional tax upon existing taxes. Obama’s proposal involved taxing those making $250,000 or more but Democratic Senators, saying there is less Congressional party support for it, are aiming at higher incomes. According to the LA Times, “[t]he surtax would hit all forms of income, including capital gains.” Senator Majority leader Harry Reid says it could be voted on in the next few days. The proposal comes at a time when the so-called Occupy Wall Street movement calling for economic justice and decrying corporate greed, is spreading like wildfire across the country including here in Southern California: Los Angeles, Orange County, and Santa Barbara, where 8 protesters were apparently arrested yesterday. Groups are taking up the “Occupy” banner every day, applying it to their existing economic justice work, or starting new sit-ins in cities like Boston, Maine, Austin, New Orleans, New Jersey, and San Francisco, and leading media outlets to label it the “Tea Party of the Left.” In New York, the birthplace of the movement, the occupation continues in its third week. Over the past two weekends activists have been subjected to brutal and mass arrests by the NYPD. But, infused by the recent involvement of unions, the ranks of the occupation have swelled. There was a major demonstration yesterday, the largest yet of the three -week long occupation.
GUEST: Karen Higgins, Boston based RN, one of three co-presidents of National Nurses United, the largest union and professional association of nurses in the US
Find out more at www.nationalnursesunited.org.
The Occupy LA events continue outside City Hall in downtown LA. Today (Thursday 10/6) they will join the Refund California action called Make Banks Pay at 11:30 am at 350 S. Grand, at the California Plaza.
3 Responses to “Occupy Wall Street Protests Sweep the Nation!”
The only way to stop them is to show -the new president hope-fuls we will not vote until these 5-items are amended from the law-
http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/the-money-masters/
in this film is the answer for or debt and how to get out of it–
as many past presidents wanted to do—but its going to take the 99% of people to push this through–so send it out to all you know–time is most likely to short–but it needs to go to each debate we find them talking about are debt issues—
Keep reporting the locations. Is there a contact for Oakland CA.? It is a 3 hour drive from my home and I want to be sure the occupation is continuing. Please reply.
Thank you
#mike macon, Bay-area based reporter David Bacon is reporting: “Hundreds of people meet in Frank Ogawa Plaza in front of Oakland City Hall to join the nationwide protests started in New York CIty with Occupy Wall Street.”