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Galraedia Donating Member (322 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-19-11 12:28 AM
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OWS Sign Suggestions
Anyone got any sign suggestions for Occupy Wall Street?

So far I've got:

-"A corporation is as much a person as a schoolbus is a child."

-"Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."

-"Labor: If all wealth is gained from it, why is it that most of the wealthy never have to do it?"

-"Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed"

-"Police - protecting and serving the shit out of you"

-"None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they're free"

-"The only thing that trickled down were Boehner's tears"


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Fire Walk With Me Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-19-11 12:30 AM
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1. Good ones! I like what Felonius Munk said recently, badly quoting:
"If capitalism is the best way to do things, why are we $1 trillion in debt to China?"
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snagglepuss Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-19-11 12:32 AM
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2. "Money Talks Too Much"
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tavalon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-19-11 02:39 AM
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6. Love it!!!
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aquart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-19-11 05:01 AM
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13. I want the button.
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Rhiannon12866 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-19-11 12:35 AM
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3. K&R! Really great!
Though the last one made me :rofl: :thumbsup:
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Selatius Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-19-11 12:37 AM
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4. "We're not machines in a factory, farming equipment on a field, counting machines in the office ...
We're human beings with dreams, hopes, and aspirations. You can't throw us away or declare us obsolete or outsource us."
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tavalon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-19-11 02:39 AM
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5. Number 2 is a winner
Number 4 is sublime.

Here's another. "Help the Police, Beat Yourself Up."

Sorry, couldn't help it.
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tavalon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-19-11 02:40 AM
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7. And of course, there is
"Remember, Remember, The Fifth Of November" Bank Transfer Day. See my new sig line.
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socialindependocrat Donating Member (379 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-19-11 02:49 AM
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8. I liked, "Civil obediance is the problem." n/t
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Capitalocracy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-19-11 03:01 AM
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9. We're not protesting against corporations. We're not protesting against the government.
We're protesting against the fact that there's no difference between the two.

K&R, btw
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inna Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-19-11 03:24 AM
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10. Schoolbus serves a useful public service; corporations only exist to make profit/exploit labor.
Edited on Wed Oct-19-11 03:27 AM by inna

ETA: thus the comparison is not valid.

I like most of the gist in your other signs though, I think. :)
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aquart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-19-11 05:08 AM
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14. NOT TRUE.
Edited on Wed Oct-19-11 05:09 AM by aquart
Every business has to incorporate. These businesses are how we exchange goods and services. This is how we feed our families. And use our skills.

Most of the businesses in this country, this world, are part of the 99%. PLEASE remember that.

And it is terrifying when you have worked 80 hours a week to watch the business that holds your heart, sweat, and money fail only because no one has the money to buy anything you offer anymore.
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inna Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-19-11 05:25 AM
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16. sorry, still no sympathy for corporations. nt
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aquart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-19-11 01:25 PM
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20. That's going to be a big problem.
Because making that distinction and bringing in the small business people is going to matter.
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pansypoo53219 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-19-11 03:25 AM
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11. of corporations, by corporation, FOR corporations.
nt
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aquart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-19-11 05:01 AM
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12. No man should be so rich he has nothing left to buy but his government.
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snagglepuss Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-20-11 12:52 PM
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23. That is greatttt.
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in_cog_ni_to Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-20-11 01:35 PM
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27. I LOVE that!
It's PERFECT. :) It says it all.
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chillspike Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-19-11 05:18 AM
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15. .
Corporate taxes are the price modern industry pays for taking away the individuals ability to provide for themselves.

Competition is a danger to the survival of the competitors.

No one has ever starved for food in this world for lack of money. We starve for food in this world for lack of friends. Competition makes everyone enemies and we all eventually starve.

The more competition you see within the same species, the less successful a species it is.

We are here to survive AS A SPECIES, not as competitors. If you're not, then have the decency to renounce your citizenship to humanity.





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REACTIVATED IN CT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-19-11 05:35 AM
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17. Revoke Corporate Personhood
War = Deficit



BTW - I love the last one on your list !
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Gregorian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-19-11 12:40 PM
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18. You must not have read the preamble to the Constitution.
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.



It seems to me that it's all there. But then I'm not awake yet. But really, it shouldn't be too hard to condense this so that the idiots get that lightbulb moment. Hey, maybe the tea party is going the wrong direction.


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alfredo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-19-11 12:41 PM
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19. They got the gold mine, we got the shaft.
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Terry in Austin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-19-11 01:33 PM
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21. Sign suggestions -- yes indeed!
Edited on Wed Oct-19-11 01:38 PM by Terry in Austin
Here's a batch, please feel free...

* Gov't By the Rich -- We Do Not Consent

* Capitalism Doesn't Work -- Neither Do Capitalists

* The Game is Rigged and Now It's Up

* The CEO Has No Clothes

* Bankers Do It For Money

* Invisible Hand, Visible Finger

* Nationalize Money

* Public Banks Now!

* Plutocracy is Un-American

* There's Too Much Interest in Capitalism

* They Lend a Hand, then Charge an Arm & a Leg


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whosinpower Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-19-11 01:36 PM
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22. Corporate feudalism
Corporate feudalism rapes society.


I wanted to keep it very short, concise and to the point.
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Nuclear Unicorn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-20-11 01:06 PM
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24. A pic of business-suiter with lecherous grin & arm around the statue of liberty
Over their heads it reads:

"I see you drivin' 'round town with the girl I love
and I'm like -- "



"&%@$ You!"
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Arugula Latte Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-20-11 01:12 PM
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25. Corporate Control of Government = Fascism
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meow2u3 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-20-11 01:29 PM
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26. Get organized crime out of politics
Edited on Thu Oct-20-11 01:30 PM by meow2u3
- "Too big to fail is too big, period"
- "Trickle down economics: Peeing/Pissing on the 99% and then telling us it's raining"
- "No poor person ever sent my job to China."
- "One PERSON one vote--NOT one DOLLAR one vote!"

Ths one is for the pro-life crowd:
- "Was a corporation an unborn child before it became a person?" :rofl:
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