DOWNTOWN, ST. LOUIS, MO. (KTVI-FOX2now.com)—
The protest metformin side effects in men movement calling itself “Occupy Wall Street” has spread to the streets of St. Louis. You may not have heard of “Occupy St. Louis” but if you are passing Kiener Plaza you can’t help but see them.
Since Saturday, several dozen have made a base camp at the corner of 7th and Market, with some actually sleeping there, and leading protests here and at the Federal Reserve of St. Louis, trying to metformin er 1000 mg price turn their anger about the direction of the country, into action.
Based on their chants and their signs, they seem to be advancing a cafeteria of causes.
But the thing all of their messages have in common is one figure, 99%, the us, in USA.
“One percent of the nation controls the majority of the wealth. They are sitting on it, they aren`t spending it, they aren`t recirculating it and it is not coming back to us,” said Conen Tyrson, a protester from Granite City.
Occupy St. Louis is trying to emulate an on going protest in New York called Occupy Wall Street, a three week old movement that over the weekend led to 700 arrests for blocking traffic on the Brooklyn Bridge.
Organizers in St. Louis are hoping to avoid that kind of trouble. “I feel as long as we stay peaceful and don`t really incite any arguments or fights which we`ve been working very hard to not do that everything should be good and under control, said protester Brian Staack.
“Our primary message is to raise awareness to the state of our country and for us as citizens to be able to react and restore some sort of equalization between the powers that be and the powers that aren`t,” said organizer Jason Counts.
If the New York movement is grass roots, the St. Louis movement so far seems to be grass seed.
Still, as recent protests in the Middle East have shown, with the power of the internet, words can quickly produce action. But whether their actions produce change is different matter.
“The lower and middle class the ones who are struggling the ones who get overlooked, we the people there is power in us, we have the power in ourselves, said protester Apollonia Childs.
“I plan on being here all this week, all next week, all month as long as it takes to generate some positive change,” Staake said.
While it is easy to see how this started, it’s hard to know how it will end. So far, the City of St. Louis seems to be tolerating the few tents that have sprung up here, but if the movement continues to grow, then what?
First Official Statement released by Occupy Wall Street.
Declaration of the Occupation of New York City As we gather together in solidarity to express a feeling of mass injustice, we must not lose sight of what brought us together.
We write so that all people who feel wronged by the corporate forces of the world can know that we are your allies. As one people, united, we acknowledge the reality:
- that the future of the human race requires the cooperation of its members;
- that our system must protect our rights, and upon corruption of that system, it is up to the individuals to protect their own rights, and those of their neighbors;
- that a democratic government derives its just power from the people, but corporations do not seek consent to extract wealth from the people and the Earth;
- and that no true democracy is attainable when the process is determined by economic power.
We come to you at a time when corporations, which place profit over people, self-interest over justice and oppression over equality, run our governments. We have peaceably assembled here, as is our right, to let these facts be known.
- They have taken our houses through an illegal foreclosure process, despite not having the original mortgage.
- They have taken bailouts from taxpayers with impunity, and continue to give Executives exorbitant bonuses.
- They have perpetuated inequality and discrimination in the workplace based on age, the color of one’s skin, sex, gender identity and sexual orientation.
- They have poisoned the food supply through negligence, and undermined the farming system through monopolization.
- They have profited off of the torture, confinement, and cruel treatment of countless nonhuman animals, and actively hide these practices.
- They have continuously sought to strip employees of the right to negotiate for better pay and safer working conditions.
- They have held students hostage with tens of thousands of dollars of debt on education, which is itself a human right.
- They have consistently outsourced labor and used that outsourcing as leverage to cut workers’ healthcare and pay.
- They have influenced the courts to achieve the same rights as people, with none of the culpability or responsibility.
- They have spent millions of dollars on legal teams that look for ways to get them out of contracts in regards to health insurance.
- They have sold our privacy as a commodity.
- They have used the military and police force to prevent freedom of the press.
- They have deliberately declined to recall faulty products endangering lives in pursuit of profit.
- They determine economic policy, despite the catastrophic failures their policies have produced and continue to produce.
- They have donated large sums of money to politicians supposed to be regulating them.
- They continue to block alternate forms of energy to keep us dependent on oil.
- They continue to block generic forms of medicine that could save people’s lives in order to protect investments that have already turned a substantive profit.
- They have purposely covered up oil spills, accidents, faulty bookkeeping, and inactive ingredients in pursuit of profit.
- They purposefully keep people misinformed and fearful through their control of the media.
- They have accepted private contracts to murder prisoners even when presented with serious doubts about their guilt.
- They have perpetuated colonialism at home and abroad.
- They have participated in the torture and murder of innocent civilians overseas.
- They continue to create weapons of mass destruction in order to receive government contracts.*
To the people of the world, We, the New York City General Assembly occupying Wall Street in Liberty Square , urge you to assert your power. Exercise your right to peaceably assemble; occupy public space; create a process to address the problems we face, and generate solutions accessible to everyone. To all communities that take action and form groups in the spirit of direct democracy, we offer support, documentation, and all of the resources at our disposal. Join us and make your voices heard! *These grievances are not all-inclusive.
