Occupy protests in your area

[Duruznik]

We HAD a similar protest a couple of months ago... have you heard of the Israeli protests? We had 500,000 people across the country take to the streets.

 

[Ldude893]

Somebody organized an Occupy Hong Kong just weeks ago. The local branch of Anonymous was there, but so were (no surprise at all considering my location) several socialist activist groups.

 

[RuralGamer]

None up here in Scotland that I know of. Not surprising, because its dropping to nearly freezing every night at the moment.

 

[Pegghead]

Here in Sydney there's been one around Martin Place. The police have apparently been getting a little rough from what I've heard. While I certainly don't support the police brutality, I can't say I much support the movement either. Oh well, I live a fair way out from the city and go to school on the rim so it's no big deal for me except for what I hear on the news.

 

[Supertegwyn]

Furthermore, they're Canadians. I mean, we (in general) have it way better than pretty much every other country on this planet - our economy, in comparison to the rest of the western world, barely felt the impact of the recession, and the disparity between rich and poor is relatively small when compared with the United States.

We Aussies are still beating ya:

"Australia has avoided a technical recession after experiencing only one quarter of negative growth in the fourth quarter of 2008, with GDP returning to positive in the first quarter of 2009"

The only country in the world that suffered less impact from the recession than us was Poland, and nobody cares about them

 

[Colour Scientist]

There's one in Cork city in Ireland but it's laughable to be honest.

No one's taking it very seriously.

 

[SpAc3man]

There are some in Auckland even though an economic analyst pointed out in the local paper that New Zealand is one of the few countries where wages have been going up while corporate profits have been dropping over the last 11 years. The wage gap has also been stable over the last decade.

Link for details [http://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/local-news/5836336/Occupy-protesters-in-NZ-unwarranted-analyst]

 

[Smagmuck_]

There was one here in Yuma. The local PD shooed them away, no arrests made, no violence. Even though I did enjoy trolling the absolute shit out of them.

Feels good to be part of the "1%".

Seriously, if they had gotten their Major in something useful they wouldn't be complaining.

Oh well, one day you will realize how lucky you are to have what you have.
Or you will die (hopefully of old age) ignorant.
Lucky but ignorant.

Seriously, if they had gotten their Major in something useful they wouldn't be complaining.

That attitude is almost as ignorant and willfully misinformed as the occupiers shouting about how their woes are solely a result of rich businessmen.

I will also say, that before enacting my counter-protest, I asked them some rather imprtent questions. Like...

What was your occupation before deciding to protest?
While you were in College what was your Major?
Do you understand how Capitalism works?
Do you own any sort of modern technology?

Now, here's a good example of why i find these people idiotic.

"What was your occupation before deciding to protest?"
<color=green>"I didn't have a job, I've been on Welfare since I moved out."
"While you were in College, what was your Major?"
<color=crimson>"Liberal Arts, there's no jobs for us. It's all because of the 1% pigs."
"You understand that Liberal Arts has been a dead Major for some time, right?"
<color=crimson>"No."
"Do you know how Capitalism works?"
<color=blue>"Capitalism? Isn't that what the Soviet Union was based off of?"
"Do you own any sort of modern technology?"
<color=red>"Yeah, I just bought an iPhone 4S yesterday."

Granted there were SOME people there for the right reasons, but the majority of them were just plain lazy. Now, either the people who live in my town are stupid idiots or this whole OWS movement is because college kids are too lazy to put some effort into a decent Major.

I also plan on studying either Majoring in EngineeringIf I can wrap my head around Algebra or in Information Technologies.

 

[i love headcrabs]

nope I haven't heard anything about occupy in northern Ireland if they do come they would probably be in Belfast

 

[Nihilism_Is_Bliss]

Apparently there was one 'organised' for my city, but the only ones to turn up were a dozen or so hippies so...wooo.

 

[Trololo Punk]

There are a total of two protesters in a huge tent in front of our city hall.

 

[thenumberthirteen]

I saw some protestors in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne last week. Only about a half dozen tents in the main square. Nothing big. I don't know how long they'd been there or if they're still there. I know it's started to get really damn cold now so I wouldn't be surprised if they left of their own accord.

 

[Swny Nerdgasm]

Yes and I have to pass by the smelly hippies everytime I go to work

 

[Davih]

There's Occupy Glasgow in George Square. It's pathetic. There's 3 tents and about 6 people and everyone just ignores them.

 

[Thaluikhain]

Living in Australia, the 'Occupy Wall-street' thing isn't that big - the few I saw around Adelaide were mostly just carrying signs with variations of 'Get America out of Australia', 'Americans are Invading Australia' and 'Occupy Melbourne!' while wearing anonymous masks (automatically invalidating their arguments).
Not that major or significant, but it is still annoying as hell and kind of startling to see a large amount of hatred towards the Americans for no real reason (Seriously, if these people have a problem with the Australian government, why not protest the Australian government instead of spouting anti-American stupidity?)

Fucking hell yes.

Australia doesn't have the same issues as the US, FFS.

Ok, so, nobody seems to have a good plan to deal with refugees, big business is misrepresenting the carbox tax as good to ruin the Aussie battler despite 90% of households being compensated (in the same way that the mining tax taking some of record business profits would have ruined the nation), Aboriginal issues flip-flopping between being ignored or getting collective guilt lipservice etc

But we have to protest about US issues instead. Right.

EDIT: Er, not wanting to seem that I'm one of those people that just hates protestors for trying to change things, it's that they've got their priorities all wrong.

 

[ThyReaper]

Yeah, Melbourne got cleared out, went to a have quick walk-about in it, lots of intellectual individuals, interesting environment.

 

[Ambi]

The one in my city got shut down and fined...
Then the whole movement disbanded in the area.
Then the trolls moved in on the facebook page.

Also they ruined the park.

How did they get shut-down? Really, i'm curious.

They were kicked out of the first park, and were told they were allowed to use a park that was away from everything

Because that defeated the purpose, they found another park, and were evicted from there too.

POLICE have moved on Occupy Brisbane protesters squatting in Queens Park, their temporary camp following yesterday's eviction from Post Office Square.

Read more: http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/police-move-to-evict-occupybrisbane-protesters-from-post-office-square/story-e6frfku0-1226184253210#ixzz1cu4xypYa

They're in Musgrave Park now and have received the blessing of an indigenous elder there. It will be highly politically incorrect for the police to kick them out of land the traditional owners said they could stay on. This will be very interesting.

I spent some time milling around the tent city in Post Office Square. Reading some of the signs, I couldn't help but think some people were just doing it wrong. Despite my petty critical instincts and having ideological differences with some of the people there, I decided that I still wanted to stay to support the movement as a whole. Just seeing all the effort people put into it is endearing and inspiring, and I met some very kind people. I haven't heard of any violence except for one idiot punching a cop, and a woman screaming that a cop hurt her. This was during the eviction.

There are a few protests on the Gold Coast now and then, but I kind of left them indefinitely. Both Occupy Brisbane and Gold Coast had some quarreling among themselves, but they've gotten back up again.

There was one in Canberra, but I have no idea why. Our income rate is higher than the national average and our unemployment is lower. I really don't understand what they are complaining about, I know plumbers who make $50,000 a year and live quite happily.

We should stand up for our principles when they are violated instead of waiting to see if everything turns to shit, and living in a globalised world, it's not unreasonable to also show support for people fighting for their rights globally. People have also been expressing grievances for various Australian problems related to the rights of "the 99%", such as coal seam gas, refugee rights, growing inequality, animal rights, poverty, Indigenous rights, the monetary system itself, and there are probably more. I think there are a few things that are a bit too divergent to be put on signs, but it's been interesting hearing about all these issues.

There was one here in Yuma. The local PD shooed them away, no arrests made, no violence. Even though I did enjoy trolling the absolute shit out of them.

Feels good to be part of the "1%".

Seriously, if they had gotten their Major in something useful they wouldn't be complaining.

Oh well, one day you will realize how lucky you are to have what you have.
Or you will die (hopefully of old age) ignorant.
Lucky but ignorant.

Seriously, if they had gotten their Major in something useful they wouldn't be complaining.

That attitude is almost as ignorant and willfully misinformed as the occupiers shouting about how their woes are solely a result of rich businessmen.

I will also say, that before enacting my counter-protest, I asked them some rather imprtent questions. Like...

What was your occupation before deciding to protest?
While you were in College what was your Major?
Do you understand how Capitalism works?
Do you own any sort of modern technology?

Now, here's a good example of why i find these people idiotic.

"What was your occupation before deciding to protest?"
<color=green>"I didn't have a job, I've been on Welfare since I moved out."
"While you were in College, what was your Major?"
<color=crimson>"Liberal Arts, there's no jobs for us. It's all because of the 1% pigs."
"You understand that Liberal Arts has been a dead Major for some time, right?"
<color=crimson>"No."
"Do you know how Capitalism works?"
<color=blue>"Capitalism? Isn't that what the Soviet Union was based off of?"
"Do you own any sort of modern technology?"
<color=red>"Yeah, I just bought an iPhone 4S yesterday."

Granted there were SOME people there for the right reasons, but the majority of them were just plain lazy. Now, either the people who live in my town are stupid idiots or this whole OWS movement is because college kids are too lazy to put some effort into a decent Major.

I also plan on studying either Majoring in EngineeringIf I can wrap my head around Algebra or in Information Technologies.

I have some important questions for you too.

What do people learn when they study liberal arts?
How could this knowledge be relevant to the Occupy movement?
Is money the only measure of the value something has for society?
What are the factors affecting unemployment, other than the tendency of some people to decide to follow their intellectual interests? You know, economic and political factors.
Should people stand up for the rights of others?
Is participating in lifestyle politics a prerequisite to protesting?

 

[Miles000]

They're in Musgrave Park now and have received the blessing of an indigenous elder there. It will be highly politically incorrect for the police to kick them out of land the traditional owners said they could stay on. This will be very interesting.

I spent some time milling around the tent city in Post Office Square. Reading some of the signs, I couldn't help but think some people were just doing it wrong. Despite my petty critical instincts and having ideological differences with some of the people there, I decided that I still wanted to stay to support the movement as a whole. Just seeing all the effort people put into it is endearing and inspiring, and I met some very kind people. I haven't heard of any violence except for one idiot punching a cop, and a woman screaming that a cop hurt her. This was during the eviction.

There are a few protests on the Gold Coast now and then, but I kind of left them indefinitely. Both Occupy Brisbane and Gold Coast had some quarreling among themselves, but they've gotten back up again.

An elder? This will be interesting, if not messy.

I would have really liked to have seen it though. But work has kept me busy.
It only takes one idiot to ruin a peaceful event though. One of the sad facts of these things =/

I saw on Facebook on Friday they were having some internal troubles. It's good to see them back on their feet though.
I support the movement too.