Originally Posted by Patters

Occupy Wall Street has been doing some good things lately. I thought I'd list a couple. Does anyone want to list some of the compassionate acts being organized by the Tea Party?

Occupy Wall Street Launches 'Rolling Jubilee' To Buy Up And Forgive Debt | ThinkProgress

OWS is going to start buying distressed debt (medical bills, student loans, etc.) in order to forgive it. As a test run, we spent $500, which bought $14,000 of distressed debt. We then ERASED THAT DEBT. (If you’re a debt broker, once you own someone’s debt you can do whatever you want with it — traditionally, you hound debtors to their grave trying to collect. We’re playing a different game. A MORE AWESOME GAME.)

This is a simple, powerful way to help folks in need — to free them from heavy debt loads so they can focus on being productive, happy and healthy.

Occupy Wall Street morphs into Occupy Sandy, offering relief - The Denver Post

The social media savvy that helped Occupy Wall Street protesters create a grassroots global movement last year is proving to be a strength in the wake of Hurricane Sandy as members and organizers of the group fan out across New York to deliver aid such as hot meals, medicine and blankets.

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Now the group has dozens of relief centers across the city and a stream of volunteers who are shuttled out to the most desperate areas. It is partnering with local community and volunteer organizations.

A recent post on Occupy Sandy's Facebook page said: "Attention! If anyone in Rockaway needs to have their basement pumped, please contact Suzanne Hamalak at suzybklyn@aol.com. Her family wants to help and have industrial pumps ... they will do it for free ..."

Originally Posted by E1Downey

Red vs. blue......Black vs. white....Rich vs. Poor.....OWS vs. Tea Party

I'm ******* tired of it. How is no one else? Why should we buy into this ****? Because the talking box in our living rooms says so? No that's bull****. Please don't let them convince us that this 'divide' is really a natural divide.

One side hates the regulating, big/centralized gov't. One side hates the cheating, greedy mega-corporations/financial institutions. So what do we do? We split into teams and fight...EACH OTHER!

Must just be coincidence that both of the "bad guys" seem to gain more and more of what they want(wealth,power) while we get less and less of what we want.(wealth,liberty)

Let's not consider that though. It's so much more fun trying to convince ourselves that we are both intellectually and morally superior to those "racist republicans" or "limousine liberals".


I've been told big business is against big government. Big Gov't wants to protect us from Big Business.

It's bull. They've been in bed together for a very long time now, it's just that we are the ones getting ****ed...

Originally Posted by Patters

OWS is often seen as the left counterpart to the Tea Party movement, and comes under a lot of criticism in this forum from the right. Is the Tea Party anything more than part of the political establishment? It came about as response to politics and usual, but really that mantel seems to belong more to OWS, which has not yet been co-opted. But, I could be wrong. I really would like to know if the Tea Party activists have been there for natural disasters or other good works.