OCCUPY THE HAMPTONS

MARTIN DREW November 28, 2011 at 03:18 pm

Ty - how are the 30 minute marches making a impact on change for the unemployed ?
Is there a real plan that will make a difference? How many people are involved ? Is there a end game? Creating jobs at Industrial park ? Meeting Dec1 about Airport facility ; where removal of Industrial area is part of the issues. This is a opportunity worth exploring . Bringing manufacturing and tech jobs to the area; along with housing .. Is this a solution to the OTH movement? Real issues need real solutions ... How would that be accomplished? Lobbying political leaders for Industry ... To start up business with tax incentives ... The Drug companies set up in Puerto Rico ; W/ 15 year incentives ... Something along those lines would create jobs ... Is this concept acceptable to OTH agenda? Just curious to ask where is the movement heading? Martin Drew

Deborah Klughers November 29, 2011 at 03:40 am

We are a planet holding 7 billion people who exhibit massive consumption. This growing population together with long-term manmade environmental changes such as depletion of natural resources, draining of wetlands, clear cutting forests, eutrophication of Earth’s waters, oceans filled with plastics and chemicals such as PCB’s and flame retardants, over fishing, overuse of pesticides and herbicides on genetically modified food (no labeling required here in the USA), paving over our soils, plowing prairies, unsustainable building, and unabated greenhouse gas emissions is reducing global biodiversity at an alarming rate, and may lead to a sixth mass extinction. Maybe we are already experiencing it! Mega polluters (the 1%) of our soil, water, and air justify their actions as job creation and economic growth. Our defunct economic expansion with no recovery in sight coupled with corporate greed and subsidized petrochemicals is killing the planet. There is no social justice on a dead planet.

Ty Wenzel December 4, 2011 at 04:52 am

You have very pertinent questions, Martin. I urge you to please come to the GA and present these for discussion. None of it will be fixed on Patch, but perhaps if you propose to the General Assembly, an action will begin to form...

Ty Wenzel December 4, 2011 at 04:52 am

Right on, Deborah... it's really intense how far we've let it go... It is very alarming...

Boron January 22, 2012 at 02:48 pm

Can't believe you are still using the expression "right on". Retro!