FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
National Call to Action
Houston, TX, October 3, 2011 – This Thursday, October 6, 2011, Occupy Houston will take part in a simultaneous national demonstration. Participating cities include: Austin, Dallas, Washington D.C., Portland, Las Vegas, Salt Lake City and more.
Occupy Houston is a local expression of the global movement to end the corporate corruption of our democracy. It is a volunteer-organized effort providing infrastructure and support for Houstonians to exercise their First Amendment rights. We stand in solidarity with other communities expressing their right to peaceably assemble in a similar fashion.
We, the people, will assemble at Market Square Park at 301 Milam at 8:30AM. We, the people, will march to the JP Morgan Chase Tower at 600 Travis at 9:00AM to hold a demonstration. We, the people, will convene a General Assembly at Hermann Square in front of City Hall at 901 Bagby at 10:00AM.
CONTACT:
Occupy Houston
info@occupyhouston.org
http://occupyhouston.org
6 Responses to “Press Release – Oct. 6th”
Isn’t shrinking the size and power of government the most efficient way to reduce corruption?
The size of government has nothing to do with the legislative process. The corruption within the individual government institutions are not the greater threat. The greatest threat is the effect of money influence on the individual elected leaders who draft the nations laws.
If you want to fight government corruption, it starts with the law makers, not the institutions created by law.
Without “corporations” there would be no pharmaceuticals to treat cancer patients or Medical centers to monitor the delivery of them; there would me no way to process, package and deliver food; there would not be airlines to transport people where they need to go or employ people to fly them and repair them. Capitalism has made this the greatest country on the planet…at least it was. The people I’ve seen interviewed seem to have a lot of “dead space” between their ears. They are young, have poorly thought out views or have done way too many drugs.
Socialism punishes the productive and enables the slackers.
Do not suppose “corporations” are benign entities or are even there for the betterment of mankind. On the contrary, most everything they promote are unsustainable ways of dealing with life. By law, corporations have only one mandate: to increase ‘shareholder value’. Thus, they will seek a bottom line profit at the expense of everything else, if possible. Of course, they need to keep ‘consumers’ coming back for more, so they won’t do things to drive people away per se. But in the areas of finance, medicine, science, economics, education, etc., the goal of corporations is to control the system, and prevent anything counter to their accepted ‘conventional wisdom’ from being brought to light.
The most insidious corporations are the banks that create fiat money out of nothing, charging interest, and putting the burden of debt upon the whole world. To control the creation and supply of money is to control every aspect of society, because money, directly or indirectly, is the means by which everything in the world functions and interacts.
yeah, we want the end of corporations…no one is suggesting this. At least I AM suggesting they pay the same taxes I do, and that they don’t buy out our elected politicians…in order to bend the will of the people and rig the game..Remember how Perry mandated the injection of 12 year old girls to prevent STD’s that cause cervical cancer? You think he did that for free?
To suggest that the the only two options are either complete and total corruption of the Democratic process by corporate donors, and/or slackers living off the government is short sighted at best…I suggest you take a look at Germany and their economy before you start babbling about “Socialism” and associated evils…take a look, a CLOSE look at the German economy, then tell me how unbridled Capitalism is doing a good job here and how government regulation destroys jobs.