Occupy Denver

Information on Occupy Denver can be found here.

FROMTHE PROGRESS REPORT:
It’s not news that Republicans will do nearly anything to protect the wealthy and special interests like Wall Street banks and Big Oil. Now they’re taking their own brand of class warfare even further by outright attacking the other 99 percent.

Here’s the rundown. Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) Calls the 99 Percent Movement ‘Mobs’

The White House today responded by calling out Cantor’s previous support for Tea Party protests, some of which behaved like actual mobs:

After Cantor’s remarks Friday, White House press spokesman Jay Carney said the Republican leader’s criticism of the Wall Street protests was “hypocrisy unbound,” when compared to his support of Tea Party protests. He said both were examples of American democratic traditions.

“I don’t understand why one man’s mob is another man’s democracy,” Carney said.

Mitt Romney Calls 99 Percent Movement ‘Dangerous…Class Warfare’

Mitt Romney, who reportedly pays an effective tax rate of just 14 percent despite being worth nearly $200 Million, wasted no time in attacking the other 99 percent earlier this week:

I think it’s dangerous, this class warfare.

Herman Cain Calls 99 Percent Movement ‘Un-American,’ Says ‘If You Don’t Have a Job and You’re Not Rich, Blame Yourself!’

After attacking the other 99 percent, later in the week Herman Cain stepped up his attacks and called demonstrators “un-American.”

FROM FOX NEWS
History is littered with social movements that failed to emerge as political forces to create lasting change — including mass labor protests to end unemployment and to call attention to job injustices, said Immanuel Ness, a professor of political science at Brooklyn College and the editor of the “Encyclopedia of American Social Movements.”

He compared it to the tea party movement, saying both were raising concerns about general anxieties over the economic system.

“The messaging is directed at working people,” he said. “Both the tea party and Occupy Wall Street are arguing that something needs to change. The question is, What is the source of the problem?”

In the late 1990s, a global movement to reject corporate-driven globalization took to the streets, most famously in the U.S. by shutting down the 1999 meeting of the World Trade Organization in Seattle. In spite of several actions aimed at summits by world institutions, the “movement of movements,” as it soon came to be known, faded away.

Much like the Occupy Wall Street protests, one of the main criticisms was that it lacked a cohesive message. FULL ARTICLE