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City Hall, Philadelphia, PA
November 15, 2011
by Daniel Brouse

It was almost like being served your last meal at Occupy Philadelphia today. Ben Cohen of Ben and Jerry’s ice cream brought free deserts for everyone at the encampment.

As Ben & Jerry’s gradually grew into a nationwide business and one of the largest ice cream companies in the USA, Cohen turned his new-found wealth and prominence toward a variety of social causes, generally through the Ben & Jerry’s Foundation. The Foundation receives 7.5% of all Ben & Jerry’s pre-tax profits and distributes funds to organizations such as the Anti Displacement Project. Cohen also oversees TrueMajority and Business Leaders for Sensible Priorities.

Cohen has been an active voice in favor of liberal causes. He supports small-scale farming, does not accept milk with rBGH or other implants, and has heavily criticized US budgetary priorities, pointing out that more money is spent on nuclear weapons than on children’s healthcare programs. He is also vocal in his support of Democratic candidates, including Dennis Kucinich for the U.S. Democratic presidential nomination in 2004 and John Edwards followed by Barack Obama in 2008. — Wikipedia

In the true spirit of his beliefs, he brought ice cream and scooped it hour after hour. Thanks, Ben!

Why? What would posses such a 1 percenter to do such act?

The Ben & Jerry’s press release:

To those who occupy: We stand with you

We, the Ben & Jerry’s Board of Directors, compelled by our personal convictions and our Company’s mission and values, wish to express our deepest admiration to all of you who have initiated the non-violent Occupy Wall Street Movement and to those around the country who have joined in solidarity. The issues raised are of fundamental importance to all of us. These include:

• The inequity that exists between classes in our country is simply immoral.
• We are in an unemployment crisis. Almost 14 million people are unemployed. Nearly 20% of African American men are unemployed. Over 25% of our nation’s youth are unemployed.
• Many workers who have jobs have to work 2 or 3 of them just to scrape by.
• Higher education is almost impossible to obtain without going deeply in debt.
• Corporations are permitted to spend unlimited resources to influence elections while stockpiling a trillion dollars rather than hiring people.

We know the media will either ignore you or frame the issue as to who may be getting pepper sprayed rather than addressing the despair and hardships borne by so many, or accurately conveying what this movement is about. All this goes on while corporate profits continue to soar and millionaires whine about paying a bit more in taxes. And we have not even mentioned the environment.

We know that words are relatively easy but we wanted to act quickly to demonstrate our support. As a board and as a company we have actively been involved with these issues for years but your efforts have put them out front in a way we have not been able to do. We have provided support to citizens’ efforts to rein in corporate money in politics, we pay a livable wage to our employees, we directly support family farms and we are working to source fairly traded ingredients for all our products. But we realize that Occupy Wall Street is calling for systemic change. We support this call to action and are honored to join you in this call to take back our nation and democracy.

— Ben & Jerry’s Board of Directors

Who’s on our Board?

What’s our position on the issues that matter?

• Big Picture, Small World
• Fair Trade
• Climate Justice
• Peace Building
• Caring Dairy

Does Ben & Jerry’s spend money on lobbying in the United States?
Ben & Jerry’s has launched numerous activist campaigns over the years that are considered lobbying activities according to federal and state laws.

In the past four years, the positions we have taken in these activist campaigns are:

1. Support for a Constitutional amendment that would limit corporate spending in elections.
2. Support for stronger social and environmental protections in the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement.
3. Support for the Youth PROMISE Act, which funds proven youth violence prevention programs.
4. Support for continued funding for the United States Institute of Peace.
5. Support for continued funding for the Complex Crises Fund which supports State Department emergency efforts to defuse volatile conflicts around the globe.
6. Support for aggressive federal legislation to limit and reduce carbon emissions to respond to the challenge of climate change.
7. Opposition to FDA approval of foods from cloned animals.
8. Support for a USDA program to require mandatory tracking of cloned animals in the food supply to support consumer choice.
9. Opposition to FDA approval of genetically engineered animals in the food supply.
10. Support for the right of dairy companies to label their products as being ‘rBGH-free.’
11. Support for the United Nations Millennium Development goals to eradicate extreme poverty and inequality.

Ben & Jerry’s has reported all expenditures on these grassroots campaign activities as required by federal and Vermont state law.

CITY HALL, PHILADELPHIA, PA
November 13, 2011
by Daniel Brouse

The infamous Jesse Jackson visited the Occupy Philly encampment to show his support. In town for the Joe Frazier funeral, Rev. Jackson advocated for a Joe Frazier statue. Saying that Rocky Balboa is a fictitious character, he encouraged a monument be dedicated to a true hero of the working class.

YouTube Video Interviews with Jesse Jackson

Angela Davis Speech at Occupy Philly

Write something…

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyQ3un9yTwI
Angela Davis Freedom of Speech at Occupy Philly
Philadelphia City Hall
October 28, 2011

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The Article * Occupy Wall Street? Occupy Yourself! *

“The Law condemns the lesser felon
That steals the goose from off the Common
But lets the greater felon loose
That steals the Common from under the goose”

Finest justice money can buy. You got no money ?Tough luck

A friend wrote:
Three years ago, the US had one of the most horrific financial crises in history caused by a massive fraud. Not a single financial executive is in jail… helllloooooooo!!!

I replied:
Correction… those who committed crimes on the business side, such as, Bernie Maddof, are in jail for a very, very long time (and/or their son committed suicide.) On the other hand, all the homeowners who commtited fraud… I didn’t see any of them go to jail. not paying back one’s debts is what caused the financial crisis.

“forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors” = debts are not forgiven, they are repaid.

RESPONSE
Adam Harris
Well put. But people were very mislead.

John Bernard
The problem was cause by poor loaning practices in the first place

Daniel Brouse
er, a… poor borrowing practices. it is a conusmers responsibility not to claim ignorance. there was not fraud for that part… consumer greed. as a banker, i blame the individuals who borrowed the money… and the educational system fo…r not teaching even basic finance in public schools.

credit rule number 1 — don’t borrow money you can’t pay back

Adam Harris
True that. But in times tough to turn an offer like the ones they were given down.

John Bernard
It looks nice on paper when you lay it out like that but it isn’t really so simple. You make the lenders seem like a bunch of little angels that screwed by those devilish poor people. How dare they!

Neal Goldberg
as banker you should probably be publicly flogged you greedy little monkey

Neal Goldberg
Not even tough times if I took on all the credit cards I was offered whether I used them or not I’d be screwed…

Neal Goldberg
Banks are allowed access to 9/10 of what actual money they have… Maybe if you scum sucking assholes didn’t pool bullshit loans together that you knew you wouldn’t get paid for and sell them as securities to China we wouldn’t have to accept their lead poisoned toys and we’d have the balls to say something about it…

Neal Goldberg
A person who lends you something and then cuts your life apart to get it back is known as a LOAN SHARK they work for REAL GANGSTERS

Neal Goldberg
And yeah I guess Bernie committed that crime himself huh? NO there were other bankers, other investors, other political organizations that over looked at the very least what he was doing and all those SCUM BAGS should be in jail too…

Neal Goldberg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41s1oWM9vOQ These are REAL GANGSTA’s

Neal Goldberg
Rule number 1 never ever mistake a banker for an actual human being… Humans are born with sympathy, empathy and they feel pain… Bankers are highly trained autobots who only feel pain in the numerical sense, they have no sympathy for you…r job loss or hunger, and no empathy for your social, economical or racial background… In short they don’t give a fuck about YOU… They are interested in ownership, they are not interested in education, they pay for the commercials you see begging you to buy into what they are selling because you need it and “no” you are not good enough without it… They foreclose house’s on troops in Iraq, they simply don’t give a FUCK…

Daniel Brouse
i guess that makes it easier… to blame the shadows for our own casting

Neal Goldberg
Stop hiding in the Dark BITCH I live on earth why do I have to read the small print cause your crooked mouth can’t say that shit out loud

Neal Goldberg
Tell me the truth you loaned me this money as a predatory lender

Neal Goldberg
I’m sorry why the fuck did we bail out the banks? So they can foreclose on the house they didn’t get paid back for, THATS WHY THE FUCK WE BAILED YOU OUT

Neal Goldberg
Oh wait I can’t pay you back cause you took my job too, and now I’ve got no job no car no house the LEAST of my concerns is paying you back 20% interest on money I shouldn’t owe you in the first place

Daniel Brouse
sorry to say… in this regard, you are correct. a lil’ paper i wrote that predicted the current events…

if ya wanna get into that logic… it is the gov’t that is to blame for borrowing money. the gov’t should not borrow money. citizen…s of the US are to blame for that. of course, in the end… the scales of justice will balance:
The Golden Rule’s Social Justification

Neal Goldberg
Word now we’re getting somewhere but the problem is really that ALL of our money is borrowed because it’s printed by a bank THE FEDERAL RESERVE “BANK” is a privately owned “BANK” every dollar we print comes at “25%” interest too the BANK, …this BANK was never ever in the plans for America. We never wanted a central bank, ever, never, ever. Woodrow Wilson says it was his biggest mistake, and they pushed the legislation through on christmas eve so no one could vote against it… WHO OWNS THE FEDERAL RESERVE “BANK” Rockafeller, Morgan, Rothchild and Warburg

Neal Goldberg http://www.apfn.org/apfn/fed_reserve.htm very interesting shit… We Are the Fools Mr. Brouse but no more….

Marco Sforza
Neal Goldberg, your comments are real. And just amazing. I’m glad i read this all. And dude Neal, you just made me wiser i think. thanks dude. youre really smart. and if ur comments were any more correct I’d start reconsidering perfection to be real again haha. good man. good.

Neal Goldberg
Dude listen I’m not smart or I’d have these people’s heads on a stick but I can’t do it alone I’m just musician and there’s nobody who wants to here songs about this shit… They ain’t putting you on a clear channel owned station if you’re …gonna talk shit about their sponsor’s but together, WE OWN THEM… All their money means shit if we don’t buy their goods… My dream is that Walmart folds with there rottin milk wreaking up their whole cheap store full of shit Americans used to make with their own hands… This whole bank talk has major implications to what is going on in the world… People in the middle east are saying enough is enough but unless an educated extremely righteous person who is willing to sacrifice, steps up we’re all gonna get sucked back into the this bullshit money game…

Neal Goldberg
We are out there we are struggling and they are pitting the middle class against itself, divide and conquer… That union shit is not about better teacher performance it’s about indoctorinating your kids with test scores and ZERO critical t…hinking… How many kids you go to highschool with that did better then you but couldn’t logically find there way around a fucking mall map, gimme a break… it staggering. it’s all connected they are robbing all of us in every possible way, worse yet we’re robbing each other in the name of progress, eat or be eatin… There’s enough food for ALL of us, to bad it’s genetically modified so that you have to buy the fucking seeds from them the next year, like they’re selling you a disposable car charger, like they make each one different for more profit, for a bigger fucking yacht… I hope they burn still tied to the dock… Shit rolls down hill folks lucky I grew up in the Valley, I went to school in the Hills, and I was born so far south that my blood boils with the have-nots…

Daniel Brouse
ha! well, justification is here. guess it doesn’t matter if we like it or not… everything balances out in the end. that’s why they talk about it in the Religions Of The Book… jews, christians, muslims… all believe in gods Book… H…er accounting book… and in the end, they say God’s checkBook will balance

however, i must disagree with you about being just a musician and not writing songs about this stuff. i find the message of music to be the mose powerful, if we humans are gonna envoke change and help right the injustice?

like this one:
Tell me this again:
Time is growing thin
Many will lose
And, some may win

The who whose
Baring a grin
Looked within
And, gave throughout
The entire route
From birth to death
Earns worth

One second’s value
Is the same as two
The value holds true
I can’t save time
For a rainy day
I can’t accumulate
At any rate
Time

I’m
To emulate
My potential
The energy in me
Make my genetic
Kinetic
The value in me

Figure how
To find the value
In now

One second’s value
Is the same as two…
Or more
The value holds true
For sure
Put meant
In every
Moment
Make very
Important
The presentSee More

Daniel Brouse
ps this conversation seems to be *worth* something… does anyone mind if i repost it publicly?

Neal Goldberg
Word. but banker, man, you are an artist…. Help us fight from the inside… Read their fucking names out loud, who are these scum suckers where can we find them. If some asshole is gonna protest at a funeral about gays in the military I’m …sure I can find some peeps to picket outside dushberries 5 mil. apartment in the city… Lets get the truth out, get angry, you gotta say “I’m a human being god Damn it” The fucking were tolls on the turnpike were to build a fucking bridge that now you’re not gonna build, so tear down down the fucking tolls… We passed the legal marijuana law now fucking build the infrastructure or we’re gonna kick your ass to the curb, YOU DUMB ASS POLITICIANS WORK FOR US THE PEOPLE… Lobbyists should be ousted on site, it BRIBERY a five year old could see that… TELL ALL THE PEOPLE THAT YOU SEE… FOLLOW ME DOWN

John Bernard http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/03/14/1323257/Anonymous-Leaks-Internal-Bank-of-America-Emails?from=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Slashdot%2Fslashdot+%28Slashdot%29

Daniel Brouse
‎”I’m a human being god Damn it”

Slavery never went away. It just evolved into more efficient slavery: wage servitude.
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