Eau Claire WI, Leader Telegram - AP:
Nearly 1,500 gathered Saturday for a march past banks in downtown Orlando, Fla. In Mississippi, about 50 people ranging from college students to older people met in a park in downtown Jackson, carrying signs calling for “Health Care Not Warfare.”
In DC 53 people showed up according to Dana Milbank (not exactly a right winger) in the WaPo
Nearly 200 spent a cold night in tents in Grand Circus Park in Detroit, donning gloves, scarves and heavy coats to keep warm, said Helen Stockton, a 34-year-old certified midwife from Ypsilanti, Mich., and plan to remain there “as long as it takes to effect change.”
What does that mean, btw?
In Pittsburgh, marchers also included parents with children in strollers and even a doctor. The peaceful crowd of 1,500 to 2,000 stretched for two or three blocks.
“Banks got bailed out. We got sold out,” the crowd of as many as 1,000 in Manhattan chanted
Media reported that more than 150,000 people from across Italy took to the streets in Rome, encouraged by Spain’s Indignados movement of mostly young people, who began protesting in May over high unemployment and what they perceive as inequality in society.
But wait, aren’t euros the archetype of social democracies with a more equal outcome substituted for capitalist risk? Isn’t that precisely what the president wants us to become? MORE UNSTABLE? BIGGER CROWDS?
And in Denver, about 1,000 people came to a rally downtown in support of the movement.
In Berlin, more than 5,000 people marched on the office of Chancellor Angela Merkel, according to police estimates
In London, protesters - including WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange - took part in Occupy London Stock Exchange (LSX), a collective that had more than 15,000 fans on Facebook and some 5,000 confirmed attendees.
Around 100 people also took to the streets of Tokyo, according to Kyodo news agency, while the Japan Times online news portal reported that some 300 people demonstrated on a range of issues, including the handling of this year’s nuclear disaster.
Who is kidding who?
As one who was in and helped organized anti vietnam protests, this is total defeat in turnout. APATHY.
Today, in Ellsworth Maine I counted 16 people. Not bad for a city of 3-4000. At the Blue Hill WIne and Food Fair (a town of about 1000) we saw about 2000 people.
From that, in this state of well above average unemployment and, LOW WAGE positions, a decimated paper industry, and declining young populations, you can measure just how much the #occupy movement means, and judging by the numbers around the world it is a disaster for the organizing forces.
More, it reveals the desperate need of the left and the media to pretend to themselves and others things are other than they are.
This movement is not the answer to Jeffery Immelt’s amorality, and free trade’s carnage, or the unions’ now grown mortal parasitism.
And the 99% know it.
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Frankly, they bore me and the news about them bores me. The movement is a disaster for the organizers both in terms of public relations and attendance. The disappointing attendance is magnified by the fact that some of the "protesters" are getting paid to be there.
Wait until that first really good cold front blows through. Bye Bye, Flea Bag Party protesters.
The more that turn out, the more we get to take video and pictures of.
Wonder how many employers are out there watching for the ones that have called in sick?
Have to watch all the footage now to see which babysitters NOT to hire.
Thanks for the numbers.
That few?
Well, this is good news.
But what's bothering me is that the media are painting an entirely different picture. And Obama and the Dems may tap into that picture and persuade America of something else entirely.
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