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The best Occupy Toronto sign spotted so far
It seems there are two key questions asked of those involved in the Occupy Toronto movement: 1) Why are you protesting? and 2) What are you protesting? We've published an explanation from one of the movement's members as well has an extensive photo gallery of protest signs, but this one is of particular note. Titled "Why Am I Here?" it marks the difference between financial innovation and unethical business practices, and offers a kind of straightforward reasoning that I suspect more than a few people will sympathize with.
Photo by Martin Reis in the blogTO Flickr pool
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which I think is a stronger message.
WHY AM I HERE?
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I'm not here to protest the success of hard working people, nor to suggest that there's anything inherently evil about financial prosperity. I applaud responsible decision-making, innovation creativity and hard work leading to success.
Consumerism? Unethical business practises? I think those are our responsibility...If you don't want to support a business, don't buy their product. Don't be a mindless consumer. I will protest / endorse with my spending (not by camping out)
But when government allows financial institutions and big industry to manipulate markets, oppress people and to ravage the planet in pursuit of profit, when businesses using sustainable ethical practises can't compete when institutions that i'm forced to deal with are corrupt and not held accountable? Then I protest!
Once in awhile a company does something outrageous and it catches enough public attention that a boycott works to stop them, but that's the exception, not the rule.
Hence, Walmart and most of our clothing being made in sweatshops and while some people try not to buy the stuff, obviously enough do buy them that the practices continue.
If someone would please post a succinct message that explains to us sympathizers what we should do to CHANGE the status quo? Too bad the US Supreme Court ruled that corporations are legally entitled to make political contributions.
Maybe we need an amendment to the constitution to change that? How else can we keep any sense of idealism and true public service in our government leaders? The way the system is set up now, there is no way someone who supports any or all of the ideas dear to the 99% can fight the political disaster area controlled by the 1%. Any ideas?
We need to make this about Oil. We truly need to go green, not tomorrow not 5 years from now, but NOW!
Algae is the way to do it. We can create long term jobs and all be happy and healthy, for a little while longer.
This is the only solution I see, We need to call upon our government to make the switch TODAY!!!!, not tomorrow not 5 years from now. We need to stop carbon "offsetting" it's just creating another problematic market to move non-existent funds around "creating jobs" We need to make the switch to algae fuel NOW. It WILL create jobs it WILL help save our environment we need to end our usage of fossil fuels and bi-products, all plastics. There are two plastic Islands in the North Pacific Ocean bigger than the size of Texas, there is no solution, we can only stop what we're doing NOW!!!
WATCH THIS! http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/fuel/