Saturday October 8th, Harry and the Potters joined Occupy Boston to play a show for everyone at Dewey Square! They explained Occupy Boston on their website, saying, “These protests are not about liberal or conservative values. They’re about the very basic idea that government should serve the people (and not the corporations). It’s about the hope that we can continue to be a ‘government of the people, by the people, for the people.’”
11 Responses to “Harry and the Potters play at Occupy Boston”
What. A. Bunch. Of. Losers!!!! TOTAL, COMPLETE FOOLS w/ ZZEERROO clue.
@Mr. X: PETRIFICUS TOTALUS!!
Welcome Tea Party … Listen, the republicans have a ‘big tent’ as they have said indeed… But thanks to their performance in Washington the 99% have an even bigger PARK to live in…. We welcome anybody who’s got a constructive attitude towards America!
Political bribery has been legalized by the courts, and both major parties have been co-opted and corrupted by the system.
The result: The upper 1% have done well. The other 99% of us have been left behind. And now we’ve reached a breaking point.
http://www.rootstrikers.org
Stop crying you wuss and get a job. Stop looking for handouts.
Have you asked YOUR Company’s HR Department WHY they won’t look at resume’s from people who admit being currently unemployed?
7 out of 10 companies are currently practicing the ‘policy’ (others call it something ELSE)… Really X … you should ask the hard questions in your own back yard… See, cause that’s where the real answers lie for why this is happening.
It’s before noon; I’d be surprised if any of these BUMS are up yet.
What jobs? Even getting a job at Wal-mart or MacDonald’s is impossible right now- have you tried it lately? People are refusing to hire. Jobs have gone overseas as a matter of policy. Companies are sticking to part time to avoid paying benefits. Those who have jobs are doing the work of 6 people since so many positions have been cut – they haven’t had pay increases in over 10 years. Corporations have enacted wage freezes as a matter of policy. They’re using the economy as an excuse to keep cutting every little bit – meanwhile their profits have actually risen. What are the people supposed to do? College degrees are a detriment to those applying to entry level. Companies don’t want educated people because smart people know when their being taken advantage of – they put up with less. Companies consult with psychologists to know how to best screw their employees without any backlash. HR departments have a closed door policy (there’s no one in the office) If you go there they rat you out and your job is in jeopardy. They make you sign your rights away before you’re hired so you can never sue them for wrong-doing – not even sexual harassment. The deck has been stacked against employees and the working class. We are at their mercy and hate to say it – they don’t have any. We are not looking for handouts – we build these companies on our backs with our minds – with our sacrifice. They’re hording it all at the top and we’re told well we could do that too if we wanted and somehow that’s an excuse. But we can’t there is no upward mobility – no savings to accumulate. When your bills are paid and there’s nothing left each month; Nothing for retirement, nothing to invest, and banks won’t lend, and pay doesn’t nearly meet the cost of renting or food, let alone anything extra – where do you turn? Tell me where should we turn. ? What recourse is there – to accept our station? That we weren’t born into wealth that education should cost $20,000 a semester even in state schools? That we should learn to live in a card-board box and be happy with what we’ve got. That we should accept we will never be part of the American Dream. I say it’s been stolen from us. I have a job – but I work only to work – everything I make goes back into being able to get back to that job. I choose between food and gas or food and my modest mortgage. I will never be able to afford children. I pay medical but I can not afford my co-pays so I don’t see a doctor. Is this the way of life that we want for ourselves and our children? This is the way the majority of us live. I guess you have yours – so like Wall Street you have no compassion because you can’t possibly imagine what it’s like to live like we do. We are not all at the protest – we can’t be. Many are there on our behalf because they can be. Your insults deflect from your own guilt or sense of responsibility for your lack of caring or compassion towards your fellow Americans. It’s easier to think of us as lazy than to analyze the reality. Does it absolve your own guilt -make it easier to turn the other cheek?
Hi Mr. X …
Please allow me to introduce myself.
I am a SINGLE Father of two beautiful young kids. I work hard everyday. I keep a roof over my children’s head. They EXCEL in school partly due to my stewardship. I keep trying to grow a small consulting business after being discarded by a blue chip firm sending my job to India during the previous administration. I am BARELY holding things together. BUT I AM. And what I will not accept is you trying to call me a ‘BUM” for supporting this movement.
If you have something that demonstrates some form of actual intelligent thought, the people here will be GLAD to discuss it with you. But trust me … SPAMMING won’t sway anyone and it won’t discourage anyone.
Don’t bother responding to the hectoring of Mr X. He clearly doesn’t get it and probably never will. He’s either a crank or a plant from the Republican Party LOL. If he doesn’t understand the sea change that this economy has been undergoing since the financial crisis four years ago, he’s beyond hope. If he doesn’t see that the very rich have cornered the economy to their own benefit at the expense of everyone else he still doesn’t get it. If he doesn’t understand that the US Congress is owned by the very rich and the corporations and that legislation is written to benefit exactly those people who are the big campaign contributors he also doesn’t get it. I’m a sixties activist who participated in the Civil Rights and anti-Vietnam war movements, and I was beginning to despair that the American people would again wake up and fight for their rights, but with the beginning of this movement I now feel that there is a chance to get the country back from the corrupt forces that have taken it over mainly since the Reagan years. By the way that fool Cantor in the House of Representatives who calls the occupy movement a mob is really out of it.
I read much of why we fight, the truth of this fight, and even how to organize for this fight by reading “The Book of Jack” by Gandesbery. I hope that is blessed, I hope you have it with you. I plan to buy 10 copies to hand out in my home town. May God Blass you all for being so brave and him for writing how to do it.
It’s funny how the socialist big money machine is attempting to ignore you, me, us. You know that CNN and other owned mouth pieces of the old money that controls us tries so hard not to talk about us in a positive way.
Their fake news spewed out over the nation is set against us. Yes against America at large.
They don’t like to admit that the Tea Party, The Occupation of Wall street, the support of Ron Paul over their socialist puppet choices are all linked. We the people, the pissed off, fed up, and fully awake now people. It’s the 99% finally taking off the blinders and the chains. God Bless You.
America never mind we begin to see them for who they are. Focus on change and move only forward. Remain invested in the futures of OUR tomorrow. Fighting now spares dying later.
May God Bless Your Efforts/Lives!!!!!