Watching the live video of the Occupy Los Angeles protesters camped out at City Hall is an education in just how difficult it is to give birth to a revolution.
“I propose that tens of millions of progressives, liberals, true
populists, workers, unions, the liberal blogosphere, women, civil rights
supporters, equal-rights advocates and environmentalists join this
movement in full force, now, today, and begin a new American Spring for
our country,” former Democratic congressional staffer Budd Budowsky wrote in an article Tuesday at laprogressive.com.
LA County Federation of Labor boss Maria Elena Durazo endorsed the Occupy LA protest and planned to join the protesters at 1 p.m. today.
Indicted felon Councilman Richard Alarcon promised the protesters his “full commitment” to support their effort and is bringing a motion before the full City Council on Wednesday to endorse the movement.
About 12:30 p.m., Council President Eric Garcetti and Councilman Bill Rosendahl joined the protesters and promised them their full support for as long as they maintain their effort.
The protesters seem to view people like Durazo, Alarcon and the rest of the City Council as part of the solution and not part of the problem they blame on the 1 percent. But then it’s early in what will be a long struggle if it is to go anywhere and they may not know better at this point, or at least need every bit of support they can get.
It’s hard to see how they can navigate the complexities and conflicts and find goals that unify people but it’s clear that the Occupy Wall Street protest has tapped into real energy with protests springing up around the country.
Even Congressman Ron Paul wants to connect to the Occupy Wall Street movement and its “corporate greed’ is the problem message, producing a youtube video with his message to the protesters: “Let’s End the Fed.”
Protesters at LA City Hall apparently got the message and agreed Tuesday to conduct a series of teach-ins, including one on the role of the Federal Reserve in the economic crisis.
Tune in for a while on the live streaming video of what is going. At the least, it’s fascinating reality TV.
What shameful grandstanding. The clowns of Garcetti and Rosendahl have ruined our city and LA has unemployment of over 12% and these morons decide to speak out and help Occupy LA instead of helping our City get back in shape. Garcetti is becoming a media whore just like Greuel. She has lost respect from many. She’s considered just another clown, do nothing politician.
As easy Eric Garcetti is to like when you TALK to him, when you watch his ACTIONS for awhile, you realize that he is bought and paid for by the “Owners of America” as George Carlin called them.
Campaign contributions make people like Jan Perry, Wendy Greuel, and Eric Garcetti into anxious and willing WHORES for a system that robs the City’s General Fund to enrich the few super wealthy.
AEG, Eli Broad’s ego museum, CIM, walk off the millions while the unions, the police, the firefighters, and a whole bunch of ass-kissing non-profits grovel for a few pennies.
And there is Eric Garcetti smiling and “feeling the pain” of the City workers as he furloughs, downsizes, and fucks over the employees and taxpayers of this City.
People have reached the breaking point. They now graduate from college or grad school with a mountain of debt and no hope of getting a steady job to pay it off. Their parents are losing their healthcare, their overtime, their pensions. Life expectancy of U.S. residents is dropping in comparison with developing nations.
And the superwealthy keep funding the Tea Party to rabidly prevent their taxes from rising or their corporate jet deductions from being cut…..
This frustration is going to lead to civil disobedience and perhaps rioting unless the superwealthy heels release Mitch McConnell and John Boehner from their marching orders to keep the Bush era tax cuts for the wealthy, and the power structure of this City (the Owners) move Garcetti and the other political puppets away from real estate development as the sole purpose for the existence of our City government.
Peace if possible, truth at all costs.
Martin Luther
Eric Garcetti is the ultimate Wall Street, Gordon Gekko with his local bailouts to wealthy development firms such as CIM Group and AEG.
Take from the working class and give to the rich, that’s what Gordon Garcetti always says.
And spineless Rosendahl is right up their with his phony concern over the Downtown stadium deal and then doing the predicted 180 and supporting the project and MOU.
I’m seeing alot of “I get it” type of posts, as more and more people are starting to focus on what IS the problem with the country and why all the B.S. Rosenstupid and RICOgarcetti are two of the biggest two faced, lying, cheating, rot guts in L.A. political history! They have overseen the THEFT of $913,000,000 from you and me in the form of property tax payments to AEG and Eli Broad and the other filth for Welfare for Billionaires. Last years property tax bill for Encino was 1.32% OF HOUSE VALUE!!! It’s even highter when the COUNTY PIGFACED ASSESSOR pushes up the ASSESSED VALUE 2% every FUCKING YEAR! Did you know L.A. COUNTY DOESN’T HAVE TO RAISE THE ASSESSMENT AT ALL? Yet they push the full 2% on all of us, and have for decades.A law called prop 13 says it’s 1% FLAT, yet the L.A. MAFIA steals an extra 33% for their friends at LAUSD, 911, MWD, and of course the Illegal Alien Community College District (IACCD.) I called KFI to talk about this, and they said “It’s not germaine to the topic and hang up.” Our media in L.A. may be the worst enabler of them all, giving cover to all of them Downtown while they rob the City’s treasury blind. Some of the protestors say they’re “SOCIALISTS?” WE ALREADY HAVE A COMMUNIST JUNTA INSIDE SPRING ST! What L.A. needs is a LIBERATOR FROM SOCIALISM in L.A.
Carmen “Gaga” Dumbtanich could of been the gamechanger—but he was too weak and scared. The City Charter gave him the power to shut down the Council’s crummy dealings. Then we have on the talk radio circuit one of the true pompous jackasses who peers his tiny pinhead now and then—former “Gagaist” himself
David “The Burger” BERGER! He talks a tough game, but when he was inside the Council chambers, he ran like a scared cat to the exits in a few weeks, seeing the crap that goes on in there—it’s a crime seen waiting to happen!
Then we have the thugs in the Congress, the REPUBLICRATS selling out and “funding” the Budget without cuts! We’re already down to 58 honest Housemembers–thats the number who voted NO ON THE BUDGET YESTERDAY. That’s out of 435!
No guts, no brains, no ingenuity, no class, no FUCKING CLUE—that’s what runs the show in virtually every city, county, state, and of course Washington. We the bloggers can only watch the fall of our Republic and opine (and perhaps show up to Council meetings wearing a chicken suit to pay homage to Janis Hahn and her dumb cluck fellow fowl.)
‘Gotta agree that Council rewards the Eli’s and AEG’s of the City. However, a previous comment states that the unions get pennies and there I disagree.
But, rather than arguing who gets what and who doesn’t, we need to eliminate the venue that causes this disparity–campaign financing.
Proposal (in need of major fine tuning): A cease and desist order has been issued for any and all campaign contributions. Campaigns shall be run with existing matching funds, no longer to be referred to as matching funds. These funds will be renamed “Tax Payer Campaign Fund.”
The “Tax Payer Campaign Fund” will support debates, campaigns and election related events-such as transportation to debates. ‘Nothing fancy-they can car pool from the Motels they stay in.
Candidates shall be given equal coverage in the media.
No campaign commercials or mailers allowed. If you don’t wish to learn about the candidates, you should not vote-especially if all you did was vote based on a commercial or pretty junk mail.
There might need to be initial signatures to qualify candidates, which is sort of an endorsement. However, all endorsements (aka signatures) shall cease after that. ‘Just trying to figure out how not to flood the pool.
Okay-that’s as far as I got.
I dream of a law that states: If you file to run for another elected office before your term is up, you immediately forfeit your present seat….it would be no different than being run-over and killed by a High Speed Rail Train, with a ‘Special Election’ following closely behind.
As I look at those ‘Occupy’ protesters throughout the country, I see the very ‘anti-establishment’ protesters of the 60′s who are now corrupt bureaucrats destroying our America and our City of Los Angeles.
Then, there’s the two-faced ‘antonio’ handing out rain-pancho’s to the protesters as a gesture of approval of their cause….only to turn and walk away, leaving them to soak in the rain while he heads out to join the very people these protesters hate; ‘antonio’s’ capitalist, billionaire, ‘establishment’ friends.
I dream of a law that states: If you file to run for another elected office before your term is up, you immediately forfeit your present seat….it would be no different than being run-over and killed by a High Speed Rail Train, with a ‘Special Election’ following closely behind.
As I look at those ‘Occupy’ protesters throughout the country, I see the very ‘anti-establishment’ protesters of the 60′s who are now corrupt bureaucrats destroying our America and our City of Los Angeles.
Then, there’s the two-faced ‘antonio’ handing out rain-pancho’s to the protesters as a gesture of approval of their cause….only to turn and walk away, leaving them to soak in the rain while he heads out to join the very people these protesters hate; ‘antonio’s’ capitalist, billionaire, ‘establishment’ friends.