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Wall Street protests coming to Bay Street
Following in the footsteps of what has been happening on Wall Street and other cities south of the border, Occupy Toronto will descend on the Financial District on Saturday, October 15th.
The plan as it currently stands is to set up a base of protesters in a location close to King and Bay Street on the Saturday and spend the weekend planning and gathering supporters for a large march on Monday. Past these first three days, not much has been decided, although the expectation is that the occupation will last at least further into the week.
It may come as no surprise that a number of the organizers of Occupy Toronto are veterans of the G20. While there are no definitive plans as of this writing, if the protests happening elsewhere can be used as an example, expect a tent city that serves as a base of organizing, with workshops, communal resources, and a media centre. A number of speeches or marches may be planned as the week progresses but hopefully everything will remain non-violent and our local men in blue can avoid any scenes reminiscent of two summers ago.
More info on Occupy Toronto via Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr.
Writing by Peter MacDonald. Photo by David Shankbone on Flickr
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the bay st types will get to laugh and grin and make fun of the protestors for "not having real jobs", while the protestors will get to laugh and grin and make fun of "the suits who are ruining the world". the protestors will have a series of rhyming chants which reveal their intellectual bankruptcy. the bay streeters will be quoted saying something inappropriate that reveals their moral bankruptcy.
the protestors will be outraged by their lack of MSM coverage, claiming it reveals the bias inherent to the system. the bankers and lawyers will be outraged by the failure of the police to stop the demonstrators from being a noisy annoyance as they walk to work in the morning.
precisely nothing will be accomplished other than some amusing tweets.
Word to the wise: Before you get on your soapbox and spout off, at least make sure you spell protester correctly. Makes you look like an intellectually bankrupt individual.
Good on these protesters. They're doing something, which is more than I can say for the biggest corporation in this country...
If you want true social justice, it needs to be better organized and preferably, not organized by a group of notorious shitdisturbers. You need ONE clear message, which is why G20 protests were a total failure.
what the hell are you talking about, you socialist fool? if you are poor, it is likely because you are stupid and ignorant. please starve to death so i don't have to pay taxes to support parasites like you.
http://change-gov.com/money-power-greed-banks/
that fucker joseph cassano should be hung by his balls and force-fed one dollar bills (american of course) til he stops breathing, just like the economy has done.
http://wearethe99percent.tumblr.com
So we're gonna have a protest largely inspired by political decisions taken by our neighbours to the south? Decisions they in response to their own shortsightedness in regulating banks? A shortsightedness that we didn't suffer from? No bail-outs of Canadian banks. No massive mortgage crisis. No skyrocketing unemployment rate.
"Occupy Bay Street" : "Occupy Wall Street" = "Canadian Idol" : "American Idol"
Vaguely similar, but not quite getting it.
How quintessentially Canadian.
I laugh at the 'occupywallstreet' movement. Its a bunch of babied white kids prancing around on side walks. Little color or diversity is represented. You have shills like Micheal Moore dancing around with them like hes "one of them" its all a big joke. You only get the establishments attention when they don't expect it.
If people really wanted to stick it to the banks they would withdraw all their cash from their accounts at the same time. Many banks in the USA would crumble over night (Bank of America).
"The sad thing is Jon is right. I wish he wasn't, but he's right.
If you want true social justice, it needs to be better organized and preferably, not organized by a group of notorious shitdisturbers. You need ONE clear message, which is why G20 protests were a total failure."
We allow corporations to make products that die after a it's warranty is up and needs to be replaced yearly, even though our earth has a finite amount of resources to create them. We put profit over our childrens future. Why not just make a product that lasts, a product that has interchangeable parts for upgrades? Is it so hard? No the fact is it's not but this system of the world we live in is driven by consumerism. A corporations fundamental drive is to milk the consumer, to them we are a resource to be taken advantage of just like everything else. That is a crime against humanity.
Our political leaders may as well be wearing Nascar style Blazers with all there sponsor logos stitched to it.The fact is the government does not have the answers to our crisis because they power to change things has always been in the hands of the people. We formed the government as a body to represent the best interests of the people, & when the people evolve & begin to see that is no longer the case we must revolt & form a new system of government. This system has had its time, but now it's time for peace, love & equality.
You may disagree, but it's probably only because you are too ignorant & egotistical to care. A true conscious human being sees suffering as a something they must abolish, when you know you have the power to do so & turn away from that duty you condemn yourself to the same plights within your world.
You are only as strong as your weakest link, our organism is one identity whether you choose to see that or not. It's time to bring us all up to speed with current evolutionary thinking. This movement is the start of that & the youth have been waiting for this a long time...