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Generally, conservatives will dig up every insignificant little thing they can to hate on Occupy
with, or for, no matter what we do. If they can't dig something up, they make it up.
These conservatives are always on the wrong side of history.
"Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better." MLK, Jr.
*Sigh*...it's just the nature of the beast, I suppose...
Four researchers who culled through 50 years of research literature about the psychology of conservatism report that at the core of political conservatism is the resistance to change and a tolerance for inequality...
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Disparate conservatives share a resistance to change and acceptance of inequality...
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The avoidance of uncertainty, for example, as well as the striving for certainty, are particularly tied to one key dimension of conservative thought - the resistance to change or hanging onto the status quo, they said.
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While most people resist change, Glaser said, liberals appear to have a higher tolerance for change than conservatives do.
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Disparate conservatives share a resistance to change and acceptance of inequality...
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The avoidance of uncertainty, for example, as well as the striving for certainty, are particularly tied to one key dimension of conservative thought - the resistance to change or hanging onto the status quo, they said.
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While most people resist change, Glaser said, liberals appear to have a higher tolerance for change than conservatives do.
Those who hate on Occupy are basically the same people that hated on us when we were protesting the War in Vietnam, the same people who were hating on us when we protest the WTO. They are the same people who supported corporate rights and corporations over the establishment of labor unions throughout history. They are the same people who were offended that women, and black people, and LGBTIQ folks, etc. would march in the streets for their civil rights.
Some of those who despise Occupy do not see themselves as these people. That is because the people who fought for their rights in the past, and won, made their rights a part of the status quo and collective consciousness ie, a part of the system. This, despite mass conservative opposition. The people who despise Occupy don't know or understand history, don't really understand that real people made real sacrifices to bring about real change, despite their conservative opposition to real change.
If blacks, women, LGBTIQ, labor, etc, had not marched and struggled back when they did, and not yet achieved the recognition they have today, and they were marching in the streets today to achieve this recognition, the same conservatives that hate on Occupy today would be hating on the blacks, women, LGBTIQ, and labor. Of course,the more extreme among them still do hate on minority groups.
We LGBTIQ persons are still struggling for our recognition and rights, in the face of extreme hostile conservative opposition, opposition that, until very recently, came from conservatives in both the Democratic and republican parties. There are still more than a few conservatives in the Democratic party who hate us and oppose the legal recognition and protection of our Constitutional rights and equality. We have had to struggle mightily, and force the issue in order to make the gains we have made up until this point.
A point where we have finally convinced even some of the conservatives in the Democratic party that we are equal human beings deserving of respect and equality.
These gains would not have come about without our direct action/civil disobedience outside of the electoral system.
All these constructive social changes would never have occurred without the direct action/civil disobedience of courageous people who stood up and said "Enough is enough, we're not going to take it any more". These changes would never have been brought about through the electoral system if people had not spent laborious decades struggling for change from outside the system. Who opposed them at every turn?
Conservatives.
They always support the cops, violations of the Constitution, and the corporate system over the people who are willing to risk their health and freedom engaging in whatever non-violent actions they can think of to help bring about the end of war and social and economic injustice.
They are the conservatives. It doesn't matter what political party they belong to. Reagan Democrats brought us Ronald Reagan. Conservatives. It's always the same people, those people who oppose the leftist radicals who struggle to eventually bring about the significant changes that make a better world.
Those same people that hate on Occupy.
Conservatives.
Same shit; different day.
"I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law."
--Martin Luther King Jr.
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When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong."
Eugene V. Debs
"When the power of Love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace."
Jimi Hendrix
Conservatives.
Wake up!
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Makes no sense. Occupy is the opposite of the GOP - you'd think all Dems would support it, at least in conscience if not in physical participation. Republicans universally hate Occupy. Over half of Occupy will vote Democratic this election, and the rest either won't vote, or will vote for a liberal third party candidate. But no Occupier would ever vote for a republican. So why are all these anti-Occupy Dems on the same side as the GOP on this issue?
Declaration of the Occupation of New York City
This document was accepted by the NYC General Assembly on September 29, 2011
As we gather together in solidarity to express a feeling of mass injustice, we must not lose sight of what brought us together. We write so that all people who feel wronged by the corporate forces of the world can know that we are your allies.
As one people, united, we acknowledge the reality: that the future of the human race requires the cooperation of its members; that our system must protect our rights, and upon corruption of that system, it is up to the individuals to protect their own rights, and those of their neighbors; that a democratic government derives its just power from the people, but corporations do not seek consent to extract wealth from the people and the Earth; and that no true democracy is attainable when the process is determined by economic power. We come to you at a time when corporations, which place profit over people, self-interest over justice, and oppression over equality, run our governments. We have peaceably assembled here, as is our right, to let these facts be known.
They have taken our houses through an illegal foreclosure process, despite not having the original mortgage.
They have taken bailouts from taxpayers with impunity, and continue to give Executives exorbitant bonuses.
They have perpetuated inequality and discrimination in the workplace based on age, the color of one’s skin, sex, gender identity and sexual orientation.
They have poisoned the food supply through negligence, and undermined the farming system through monopolization.
They have profited off of the torture, confinement, and cruel treatment of countless animals, and actively hide these practices.
They have continuously sought to strip employees of the right to negotiate for better pay and safer working conditions.
They have held students hostage with tens of thousands of dollars of debt on education, which is itself a human right.
They have consistently outsourced labor and used that outsourcing as leverage to cut workers’ healthcare and pay.
They have influenced the courts to achieve the same rights as people, with none of the culpability or responsibility.
They have spent millions of dollars on legal teams that look for ways to get them out of contracts in regards to health insurance.
They have sold our privacy as a commodity.
They have used the military and police force to prevent freedom of the press.
They have deliberately declined to recall faulty products endangering lives in pursuit of profit.
They determine economic policy, despite the catastrophic failures their policies have produced and continue to produce.
They have donated large sums of money to politicians, who are responsible for regulating them.
They continue to block alternate forms of energy to keep us dependent on oil.
They continue to block generic forms of medicine that could save people’s lives or provide relief in order to protect investments that have already turned a substantial profit.
They have purposely covered up oil spills, accidents, faulty bookkeeping, and inactive ingredients in pursuit of profit.
They purposefully keep people misinformed and fearful through their control of the media.
They have accepted private contracts to murder prisoners even when presented with serious doubts about their guilt.
They have perpetuated colonialism at home and abroad.
They have participated in the torture and murder of innocent civilians overseas.
They continue to create weapons of mass destruction in order to receive government contracts.*
To the people of the world,
We, the New York City General Assembly occupying Wall Street in Liberty Square, urge you to assert your power.
Exercise your right to peaceably assemble; occupy public space; create a process to address the problems we face, and generate solutions accessible to everyone.
To all communities that take action and form groups in the spirit of direct democracy, we offer support, documentation, and all of the resources at our disposal.
Join us and make your voices heard!
*These grievances are not all-inclusive.
This document was accepted by the NYC General Assembly on September 29, 2011
As we gather together in solidarity to express a feeling of mass injustice, we must not lose sight of what brought us together. We write so that all people who feel wronged by the corporate forces of the world can know that we are your allies.
As one people, united, we acknowledge the reality: that the future of the human race requires the cooperation of its members; that our system must protect our rights, and upon corruption of that system, it is up to the individuals to protect their own rights, and those of their neighbors; that a democratic government derives its just power from the people, but corporations do not seek consent to extract wealth from the people and the Earth; and that no true democracy is attainable when the process is determined by economic power. We come to you at a time when corporations, which place profit over people, self-interest over justice, and oppression over equality, run our governments. We have peaceably assembled here, as is our right, to let these facts be known.
They have taken our houses through an illegal foreclosure process, despite not having the original mortgage.
They have taken bailouts from taxpayers with impunity, and continue to give Executives exorbitant bonuses.
They have perpetuated inequality and discrimination in the workplace based on age, the color of one’s skin, sex, gender identity and sexual orientation.
They have poisoned the food supply through negligence, and undermined the farming system through monopolization.
They have profited off of the torture, confinement, and cruel treatment of countless animals, and actively hide these practices.
They have continuously sought to strip employees of the right to negotiate for better pay and safer working conditions.
They have held students hostage with tens of thousands of dollars of debt on education, which is itself a human right.
They have consistently outsourced labor and used that outsourcing as leverage to cut workers’ healthcare and pay.
They have influenced the courts to achieve the same rights as people, with none of the culpability or responsibility.
They have spent millions of dollars on legal teams that look for ways to get them out of contracts in regards to health insurance.
They have sold our privacy as a commodity.
They have used the military and police force to prevent freedom of the press.
They have deliberately declined to recall faulty products endangering lives in pursuit of profit.
They determine economic policy, despite the catastrophic failures their policies have produced and continue to produce.
They have donated large sums of money to politicians, who are responsible for regulating them.
They continue to block alternate forms of energy to keep us dependent on oil.
They continue to block generic forms of medicine that could save people’s lives or provide relief in order to protect investments that have already turned a substantial profit.
They have purposely covered up oil spills, accidents, faulty bookkeeping, and inactive ingredients in pursuit of profit.
They purposefully keep people misinformed and fearful through their control of the media.
They have accepted private contracts to murder prisoners even when presented with serious doubts about their guilt.
They have perpetuated colonialism at home and abroad.
They have participated in the torture and murder of innocent civilians overseas.
They continue to create weapons of mass destruction in order to receive government contracts.*
To the people of the world,
We, the New York City General Assembly occupying Wall Street in Liberty Square, urge you to assert your power.
Exercise your right to peaceably assemble; occupy public space; create a process to address the problems we face, and generate solutions accessible to everyone.
To all communities that take action and form groups in the spirit of direct democracy, we offer support, documentation, and all of the resources at our disposal.
Join us and make your voices heard!
*These grievances are not all-inclusive.
