Joseph Couture:  Well, one thing the Occupy Movement is NOT about is Me stupid!  You can take that to the bank and cash it in for One Fair Share of Democracy, Unincorporated, Unlimited, with Freedom and Justice for all.  Even cops. No more. No less. FDIC.

The 99 percent is not a monolithic club of brotherly love.  We fight and claw at each other to further our own selfish interests just like the greedy rich we complain about so much.  We have to acknowledge and understand the flaws of our own people if we can ever hope to bring about real change.

Read about the struggle for survival amongst the 99 percent here: 

http://www.josephcouture.com  “It’s About Me, Stupid”

nbc nightly news gave it two minutes of snickering coverage, after showing huge crowds, guess nbc thinks all those people are just stupid and unfocused, or perhaps it is a message their corporate handlers ordered.

Perhaps the best thing the Occupy movement has done so far is to shine a bright light on serious problems that for decades have been allowed to fester without treatment by government agencies wo are “supposed to be” in charge.
First of course is the vast 1% versus 99% economic gap, and the joblessness and hopeless it induces.
But beyond that, since “Homeland Security” became “big business”, there’s the increasing influence of “police state” tactics (regarding “the people” as the potential enemy!) and para-military weaponry becoming popular for “crowd control” purposes. This has happened almost entirely without public awareness, egged on by arousing public fears as justification, and gleaning millions for corporations and agencies involved in manufacturing of repression.
Then there’s the problem of largely unsolved “inner city” tensions aggravated by increasing joblessness, poverty, drug use, untreated illnesses, and public ignoring of increased homelessness.
Over all looms the problem of the over-militarized all-powerful State silently cutting back on democratic procedures and access of “the public” to the individuals, the money and the power controlling things more or less behind the scenes.
  We, the 99%. have to take responsibility for allowing these issues to go unanswered for so long. We have to get together and invent and advocate and work for solutions that restore democratic processes and disallow the “quick and easy” answers of sending in the armed forces to browbeat “offenders” and put up a pretense of “management”. We are no longer going to be able to get by with ignorance and laziness and irresponsibility.  Thank you, #OWS!

I dreamed I saw Joe Hill last night,
Alive as you or me
Says I, “But Joe, you’re ten years dead,”
“I never died,” says he.
“I never died,” says he.

“In Salt Lake, Joe,” says I to him,
Him standing by my bed,
“They framed you on a murder charge,”
Says Joe, “But I ain’t dead,”
Says Joe, “But I ain’t dead.”

“The copper bosses killed you, Joe,
They shot you, Joe,” says I.
“Takes more than guns to kill a man,”
Says Joe, “I didn’t die,”
Says Joe, “I didn’t die.”

And standing there as big as life
And smiling with his eyes
Says Joe, “What they forgot to kill
Went on to organize,
Went on to organize.”

“Joe Hill ain’t dead,” he says to me,
“Joe Hill ain’t never died.
Where working men are out on strike
Joe Hill is at their side,
Joe Hill is at their side.”

From San Diego up to Maine,
In every mine and mill -
Where working men defend their rights
It’s there you’ll find Joe Hill.
It’s there you’ll find Joe Hill.

I dreamed I saw Joe Hill last night,
Alive as you or me
Says I, “But Joe, you’re ten years dead”,
“I never died,” says he.
“I never died,” says he.