Occupy Princeton (www.occupyprinceton.net) students mic-check a JP Morgan-Chase Treasury Services info session on December 7, 2011. This is the first direct action taken up by Occupy Princeton - more to come. Full Script below:
"Princeton's motto is:
In the nation's service and service of all nations
JP Morgan-Chase, your actions violate our motto
Your predatory lending practices helped crash our economy
We've bailed out your executives' bonuses
You've evicted struggling homeowners while taking their tax money
You support mountaintop removal mining in Appalachia
which destroys our ecological future
In light of these actions,
we protest the campus culture
that whitewashes the crooked dealings of Wall Street
as a prestigious career path.
We are here today
as a voice for the 99%
shut out by a system that punishes them
just for being born without privilege.
What we need is not a university for the 1%,
but a university "In the Nation's Service,
and in the Service of All Nations."
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vaire2ubewell put
quantumushroomLike most kollijes, princeton has been occupied for decades by lefty goons.
It never gets through to these clowns that risky lending practices were encouraged and then "guaranteed" by the socialists in government (most peeps won't take nearly as many stupid risks when their own money is at stake).
The occupoopers should be protesting in front of the marxist Kenyawaiian's VERY temporary home. He not only siphons enormous amounts of money from Wall Street but then supports these mobs, or claims to. As Trinity said, "That's a nice trick."
longdemeh. It's a start, I guess, but not very effective.
Diogenessays...next up... a half dozen hermits burn a chinese flag in a walmart
brava!
notarobotWho is the "Kenyawaiian" you mentioned? I'm not sure I follow you.OH did you mean Obama?? Haha. Hm.. I'm not sure his pro-wall street actions can really qualify him to be a marxists--unless you mean the socialization of private debt...
Then again, I'm not sure that Wall Street really represents a market that is "free and open" to me anymore. It seems like a casino that is controlled or manipulate by a handful of uber-wealthy..
Anyway..
Do you think that the capitalism that is practised now is true capitalism?
I don't think either of us would be happy with pure socialism, but do you think that there are any services should be socialized or government run?
>> ^quantumushroom:
Like most kollijes, princeton has been occupied for decades by lefty goons.
It never gets through to these clowns that risky lending practices were encouraged and then "guaranteed" by the socialists in government (most peeps won't take nearly as many stupid risks when their own money is at stake).
The occupoopers should be protesting in front of the marxist Kenyawaiian's VERY temporary home. He not only siphons enormous amounts of money from Wall Street but then supports these mobs, or claims to. As Trinity said, "That's a nice trick."
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