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Title: Forum Post: Proposed list of OWS Demands (and yes, they are serious)
Source:
Occupy Wallstreet
URL Source: http://occupywallst.org/forum/proposed-list-of-ows-demands/
Published: Nov 14, 2011
Author: OWS
Post Date: 2011-11-14 18:50:16 by A K A Stone
Keywords: None
Views: 1104
Comments: 3
Repeal the Taft-Hartley Act. Unionize ALL workers immediately. Raise the minimum wage immediately to $18/hr. Create a maximum wage of $90/hr to eliminate inequality. Institute a 6 hour workday, and 6 weeks of paid vacation. Institute a moratorium on all foreclosures and layoffs immediately. Repeal racist and xenophobic English-only laws. Open the borders to all immigrants, legal or illegal. Offer immediate, unconditional amnesty, to all undocumented residents of the US. Create a single-payer, universal health care system. Pass stricter campaign finance reform laws. Ban all private donations. All campaigns will receive equal funding, provided by the taxpayers. Institute a negative income tax, and tax the very rich at rates up to 90%. Pass far stricter environmental protection and animal rights laws. Allow workers to elect their supervisors. Lower the retirement age to 55. Increase Social Security benefits. Create a 5% annual wealth tax for the very rich. Ban the private ownership of land. Make homeschooling illegal. Religious fanatics use it to feed their children propaganda. Reduce the age of majority to 16. Abolish the death penalty and life in prison. We call for the immediate release of all death row inmates from death row and transferred to regular prisons. Release all political prisoners immediately. Immediate withdrawal from Iraq and Afghanistan. Abolish the debt limit. Ban private gun ownership. Strengthen the separation of church and state. Immediate debt forgiveness for all. End the 'War on Drugs'.
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#1. To: A K A Stone (#0)
Scrappleface couldn't have done it better.
Who is they? This is a post made to a public forum. Here is a response from another poster. [-] occupyelections 15 points 2 weeks ago Who wrote this ridiculous thing? Who speaks for this movement? Are you just trying to discredit this movement immediately? Ban the private ownership of land? Are you effing kidding me? You make the rest of us a laughing stock by putting out college acid trip delusions as something serious. STOP IT NOW. We need intelligent, thoughtful, serious people coming forward to make real change possible. This is doing nothing but playing into the hands of Fox News. We have ONE CHANCE to organize effectively to end the corporate coup and take democratic power back for people. I seriously think this could have been written by a Fox News Koch brother operative just to make us look insane.
They haven't the foggiest idea of what a can of lethal Whoop Ass is like, but they're about to find out....
"OWS! Liberals! Their goal is to find a way to live within the means of the working class rich, but without the work."
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#3. To: A K A Stone (#0)
Proposed list of OWS Demands (and yes, they are serious)
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