Wall Street Banks Coordinate To Fight May Day Protests, Compare Themselves To Elk Hunted By Wolves

[Galraedia]

Source: ThinkProgress

Organizers and protesters around the world will come together to commemorate International Workers Day tomorrow, and they are taking on familiar targets. Large protest actions are planned in more than 115 American cities, where activists will continue the anti-Wall Street message started by the 99 Percent Movement last fall. The action will again center in New York, where protesters have identified 99 targets in Manhattan, including large Wall Street banks like JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, and Bank of America.

Wall Street banks are pooling resources and coordinating with each other to plan for the New York City protests and will work with local law enforcement to monitor the protests throughout the day. Though the New York-based banks offered no specifics on how they plan to deal with the protests, one security adviser made the laughable comparison that Wall Street banks — the same ones whose errors include triggering the financial crisis and wrongfully foreclosing on thousands of Americans — were innocent elk defending themselves against attacking wolves, Bloomberg reports:

bBanks cooperating on surveillance are like elk fending off wolves in Yellowstone National Park, he said. While other animals try in vain to sprint away alone, elk survive attacks by forming a ring together, he said. [...]

Spokesmen for Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, Bank of America, Citigroup Inc. (C), Morgan Stanley (MS), UBS AG (UBSN) and Credit Suisse Group AG (CSGN) wouldn’t describe security measures for the protests. One likened commenting to telling al-Qaeda about the bank’s continuity plans.

Read more: http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2012/04/30/473503/wall-street-wolves-may-day-protest/

[OffWithTheirHeads]

1. Off with their heads!

[woo me with science]

2. Good grief.

It takes some serious nerve for the ones harvesting millions of Americans for profit to claim to be the elks.

[Cleita]

3. I think they've got it backwards. The elk are the 99% finally fighting back at the 1% bankster

wolves in self-defense. They love that projection meme to make themselves look like the victims, when they are in fact the predators.

[Dawson Leery]

4. No suprise to find the coppers on the same side with the banksters.

[TexasTowelie]

5. This makes me want to get my elk hunting license.

The flaw about the elk gathering in a circle as a defense is that when the targets are so concentrated, several of them can be taken out at one time.

[sakabatou]

6. Projection

[AllyCat]

7. Wrong guys. The 99% are the elk who are finally fighting the wolves (read: you)

We have banded together to fight off a deadly force. You jerks are hardly victims.

[nxylas]

11. More like bees fighting bears

The bears have been stealing all the honey for years, but the bees have finally realised that one bee can't do much, but a whole swarm....

[truedelphi]

14. I'm loving your analogy. n/t

[AllyCat]

17. That's a good one! Thanks :)

Peace.

[FailureToCommunicate]

34. The hive! Resistance is futile...

I like your analogy.

[raouldukelives]

8. I wouldn't expecxt people who worship a golden calf

to think any differently.

[caveat_imperator]

9. I'm sure while in that ring

one or more elk will backstab their fellow elk (for survival purposes or otherwise) if the opportunity presents itself.

[gratuitous]

13. It does sound like a ploy, doesn't it?

I mean, how dumb would you have to be to turn your back on a bankster? Yeah, right, sure, "mutual defense." Uh huh.

[geardaddy]

10. It's more like this.

the 99% are the Elk, the Wolves are the apologists for the bankers and the bankers are the poachers.

[Iliyah]

12. ACTUALLY

wall street, banksters, et al., are the ones with machine guns and the 99% have the sticks. The 99% have the body numbers and the 1% have the "money" numbers.

I believe majority of the 99% will vote in November and hoperfully vote a lot of the tea brats out and replace them with progressive women and men.

[crunch60]

36. The banksters hate and fear large numbers of people, so go OWS, continue to grow,

you are the change, you and your courageous protests, will change our future. I am with you.

[Blue Hen Buckeye]

15. May 1 - The real Labor Day.

Because of evens and deaths that happened in America - yet we don't celebrate at the right time - disgusting.

[annabanana]

16. Oh Brother!.."elk fending off wolves"??

these guys are truly delusional

[wordpix]

18. Have you ever seen a male elk's rack? Those banksters know how to stick it to US, like knives

Although I agree, the banksters are the wolves and the 99% are the elk.

[solarman350]

19. Jump Elk...Jump!

--Jump Now and Avoid the RUSH!


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[Dont call me Shirley]

20. Conmen, the banksters, always love acting the victim while being the predator.

[tclambert]

21. Wait, there's a wolf analogy in which the Wall Streeters are NOT the pack of wolves?

I suppose if we have an analogy about people attacked by sharks, the Wall Streeters will claim they're not the sharks.

[lib2DaBone]

22. A car is going down the road....

There is a car going down the road.

There is a Wall Street Banker and a Skunk lying in the road... how do you tell the difference?

There are skid marks by the Skunk.

[midnight]

23. Kick for the workers.

[got root]

24. lol - the wolf, in little red riding hoods garb, ain't fooling most people any more

[Jefferson23]

25. Can someone please make them stop, lol.

One of my favorite signs used to comment on these thieves when the crisis happened was and remains today;

JUMP
YOU FUCKERS

[KansDem]

27. One of my favorites, too.

[Jefferson23]

35. Thanks for posting it, fantastic. n/t

[KansDem]

26. "...like elk fending off wolves"

I wonder which "think tank" (P.R. firm) gave them that talking point?!

[muriel_volestrangler]

28. More like Staphylococcus aureus trying to evolve some antibiotic resistance

Parasites have to keep changing, or the hosts will work out a way to expel them.

[proverbialwisdom]

29. Counterpunch Exclusive: Talking With Noam Chomsky, April 30, 2012.

http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/04/30/talking-with-chomsky/

April 30, 2012

On OWS, Anarchism, Labor, Racism, Corporate Power and the Class War

Talking With Chomsky
by LAURA FLANDERS

A CounterPunch Exclusive

Noam Chomsky has not just been watching the Occupy movement. A veteran of the civil rights, anti-war, and anti-intervention movements of the 1960s through the 1980s, he’s given lectures at Occupy Boston and talked with occupiers across the US. A new publication from the Occupied Media Pamphlet Series brings together several of those lectures, a speech on “occupying foreign policy” and a brief tribute to his friend and co-agitator Howard Zinn.

From his speeches, and in this conversation, it’s clear that the emeritus MIT professor and author is as impressed by the spontaneous, cooperative communities some Occupy encampments created, as he is by the movement’s political impact.

We’re a nation whose leaders are pursuing policies that amount to economic “suicide” Chomsky says. But there are glimmers of possibility – in worker co-operatives, and other spaces where people get a taste of a different way of living.

We talked in his office, for Free Speech TV on April 24.

LF: Let’s start with the big picture. How do you describe the situation we’re in, historically?

NC: There is either a crisis or a return to the norm of stagnation. One view is the norm is stagnation and occasionally you get out of it. The other is that the norm is growth and occasionally you can get into stagnation. You can debate that but it’s a period of close to global stagnation. In the major state capitalists economies, Europe and the US, it’s low growth and stagnation and a very sharp income differentiation a shift — a striking shift — from production to financialization.

The US and Europe are committing suicide in different ways. In Europe it’s austerity in the midst of recession and that’s guaranteed to be a disaster. There’s some resistance to that now. In the US, it’s essentially off-shoring production and financialization and getting rid of superfluous population through incarceration...

<...>

LF: You describe Occupy as the first organized response to a thirty-year class war….

NC: It’s a class war and a war on young people too… that’s why tuition is rising so rapidly. There’s no real economic reason for that. It’s a technique of control and indoctrination. And this is really the first organized significant reaction to it which is important.

<...>

[proverbialwisdom]

30. DemocracyNow.org May Day Special on OWS, Immigration, Labor Protests

http://www.democracynow.org/2012/5/1/no_work_no_shopping_occupy_everywhere

Tuesday, May 1, 2012

"No Work, No Shopping, Occupy Everywhere": May Day Special on OWS, Immigration, Labor Protests

As Occupy Wall Street plans nationwide protests marking International Workers Day, or May Day, we discuss the movement with Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter, Chris Hedges; Amin Husain, editor of Tidal Magazine and a key facilitator of the Occupy movement; Marina Sitrin, author of "Horizontalism: Voices of Popular Power in Argentina" and a member of Occupy’s legal working group; and Teresa Gutierrez, of the May 1st Coalition for Worker and Immigrant Rights. We also get an update from protests on the streets of New York City from Ryan Devereaux, former Democracy Now! correspondent, now with The Guardian.

“People all over the country are talking about May Day as our day, whether you want to call it 'workers’ holiday' or 'immigrant rights' or 'the 99 percent,'’ says Martina Sitrin, who notes Occupy activists hope to use May Day as a way to also build solidarity with the student movement and non-unionized workers as well. "This year is an important year to revive the struggle for immigrants in the wake of a million of our people being deported," adds Teresa Guitierrez.

<...>

[annm4peace]

31. my brother said:

"It is actually, the french aristocrats being protested by french revolutionaries with the guillotine "

[IDemo]

32. Will they recruit Caribou Barbie to hunt them from a helicopter? /nt

[proverbialwisdom]

33. Denver Post: Photos - May Day Rallies Around the World 2012

http://photos.denverpost.com/mediacenter/2012/05/photos-may-day-rallies-around-the-world-2012/34512/

[lovuian]

37. Workers Unite

They are Awesome!!!