Occupy Seattle Tries to Pull Off Citizens Arrest of JP Morgan CEO

[lifelongMOgal]

Originally Posted by majoun

Long before the Seattle riots occurred during the WTO meeting, there was a general strike in Seattle in 1919 which was the closest that America came to having a workers' revolution, and was violently suppressed. There is a long tradition of strikes and protests in Seattle.

WTO, that was it, thanks. I know someone who was working that event who got tear gassed. She didn't appreciate that I laughed when she told me about it.

[doctrain]

Originally Posted by lifelongMOgal

So, what specifically did Dimon personally do that warranted a "citizens arrest" by members of the OWS movement? Why hasn't OWS filed some kind of class action lawsuit against specific wall street entities if crimes are being committed?

They just want to make it "personal." They think its more effective.


"Such tactics were used perhaps most skillfully by the Justice for Janitors campaign, which was founded in 1985 by the Service Employees International Union...Built into the fabric of the campaign was the idea that these are not faceless companies that by some condition of the marketplace happened to end up impoverishing workers,” said Stephen Lerner, the veteran labor organizer who planned Justice for Janitors."

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