The protest ongoing at Olympic Plaza is more about occupooping than occupying, if tickets being issued by police and bylaw officers are any indication.
Bylaw head Bill Bruce said officers have handed out around two-dozen tickets so far during the month-long occupation, including some for urinating and defecating in public.
"We've written smoking tickets, there's been urination and defecation tickets, there's been damage tickets, liquor consumption and possession, the whole gamut," he said.
Forum Post: Proposed list of OWS Demands
Posted 3 weeks ago on Oct. 23, 2011, 11:21 p.m. EST by bchang1987
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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'.
Make homeschooling illegal. Religious fanatics use it to feed their children propaganda.
Reduce the age of majority to 16.
TSR said:How about these two:
1 Stopping undue corporate influence
2 Stricter regulation of financial institutions
TSR said:My computer won't load the site but the 2 objectives I stated I read at a site evaluating the OWS movement. BTW I wonder, before the 26th amendment was adopted, were there any acts that were considered, shall we say "wrong" while the protests were going on?
hypocritexposer said:TSR said:How about these two:
1 Stopping undue corporate influence
2 Stricter regulation of financial institutions
as you increase the regulations, they will try to influence more, and government officials will be all too willing to help them out.....
"Regulatory Control"
How about leaving it to the "free market" and let the majority decide if the company is being environmentally responsible, or whatever, and the company's sales/profits will direct their actions?
If enough people believe in "conservation" and "abc company" is being responsible in that respect, then people will buy from them. And "XYZ company" will not profit, because they are not manufacturing their product in a manner that meet the definition of conservation of consumers.