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have surrounded the financial district, backed by the Marines, Army, Navy and Air Force. Thousands more protesters arrive daily.
NYPD cops are staying home or protesting themselves.
None of the traders are able to enter or exit the area. They are running out of food and violence has erupted on the floor of the exchange. The protesters say they won't let them go until their demands are met:
*Living wage
*Single payer health care
*No dismantling of Social Security or Medicare
*End to war
*Investment in Green Energy
*Maximum wage/Maximum bonus for CEOs
*Higher taxes on affluent/top 20%
*Higher taxes on those who employ more workers abroad than in US
*End of subsidies for oil companies and other corporations
*End of War on Drugs
*Criminalize For-Profit Prisons
*Marriage Equality
*Available capital to start/run American companies that hire Americans
*Free college education/trade school for all
*End to Black Box voting
*End of Citizens United decision
*Reinstate the Fairness Doctrine
Someone has hacked into the market computers (Anonymous has denied responsibility, though they claim to admire the work) and all financial activity has ceased. However, Navy SEALS have found the missing billions lost in our OIL Wars and are assisting local community organizers to distribute it to those in need.
The National Guard is helping run hospitals and provide order in their own communities. Americans are afraid, but mostly just working together, waiting for Wall Street and Congress to decide they will meet demands. No one is working except to help their communities keep the communication and emergency services running and in the hospitals and community kitchens and schools and nursing homes. Many plan to march to DC to meet the #OccupyWallSt protesters.
The protesters plan to walk in a swarm to DC and surround Congress and the White House this week.
The President finally got progressive on America's ass and backs the unions and the people. Most of Congress have bailed to their homes in places like Costa Rica and Monaco, as have many elite. (A few, like Rumsfield, have been arrested in nations such as Paraguay and Spain for war crimes.) The skies are silent as pilots and air traffic controllers stand down, joined by unions all over the US. Only the private planes of the very wealthy can be heard churning across the sky.
The media is mostly focused on selling war with Pakistan and Iran, showing nothing but negative footage of these two nations. There have been numerous hijackings of feeds, which has been amusing, but most Americans have turned off their TVs and are getting news in their communities and over the internet, as Anonymous and other donors have sent out free laptops to anyone who needs them.
Obama is rumored to be planning to issue an executive order adopting The List (as Americans have begun calling the demands) since Congress will not return to vote .
However, voters across America, in emergency action, are swiftly recalling their absent congresspeople and electing people who believe in the List. They are Calling them "Listerines" in some places, ready to give a fresh, minty taste to the halls of Congress. Next week, many will be sent to Washington to take part in an emergency swearing in ceremony and they are expected to pass The List handily.
If so, the people who swarm Washington plan on holding a huge party before they head home and get to work rebuilding the nation.
That's about all.
So wassup with you? :)
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