Top 10 Demands at Occupy Protests

The Activist Beat with Rose Aguilar (Your Call, KALW) is a roundup of activism the mainstream media ignores, under covers, or misrepresents (UprisingRadio.org)

TOP 10 DEMANDS

1. Jail the banksters
2. Help folks stay in their homes
3. Stop the buying of politicians
4. Corporations are not people
5. Support public education
6. Put the unemployed to work
7. Assist the less fortunate
8. Health care for all
9. Stop the wars
10. Love our mother!
    

After spending the last year covering under covered activism, it’s heartening to see the Occupy Wall Street movement gain so much [mainstream] momentum.

While the movement is getting the coverage it deserves in the national media, several talking heads still can’t seem to figure out what the people want. They’re either really good actors or even more disconnected than I thought.

All they have to do is venture out and ask questions.... John Sutter, a building contractor, held a professional looking “Top 10 Demands sign.” More

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Dr. Gabor Mate @ Occupy Wall Street (video)

Democracy Now!, Occupy Wall Street
LINK (Bigsteelguy3, Oct. 11, 2011)

On a trip from Vancouver, Dr. Gabor Maté stopped by Occupy Wall Street. He talked to "Democracy Now!" host Amy Goodman and observed:

"50 percent of American adults have a chronic medical illness. And much of that has to do with stress. And if you look at the literature of what causes stress, it's uncertainty and lack of information and loss of control, and lack of expression of self.

"And the uncertainty that has been forced upon the American population by the recent economic crisis -- the loss of control as power has flown into the hands of very, very few people, and the absolute powerlessness of the many in the face of all that, and the lack of expression through the ordinary political process -- people are totally disempowered and deprived of their voice.

"This protest addresses all those issues. So I can only say that this is an extraordinarily healthy thing to happen. People who participate here will be healthier as a result. And maybe society in general as well."

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