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49 Responses to “Bail Money Needed”
Only one hundred? NYPD still holds the record then..
Let’s go Boston, beat New York!!
Has anyone heard if anyone was injured? it looked tough out there for a while. And I am APPALLED by the treatment of those Vets. Shame on Thomas Menino!
Josh… now NECN says “hundreds arrested over night”
Globe is reporting 50 arrested…keep us posted o the real number when it comes out.
HANG TIGHT as the donations roll in. Infinite Love & Respect to those who stood strong. The People United shall never be divided. This is just the beginning.
The whole world is watching — at least footage of — those pigs throwing U.S. VETERANS to the ground. Shame on them is right.
Stay strong, stay legit – no violence. $50 headed your way.
Anyone who chose to be arrested must be part of the 1%. The 99% have bills to pay and can’t additional $600 in fines. I doubt mommy & daddy in flyover country are going to be pleased with the bill.
Get a clue. When you come down and experience first hand what is going on here @ Dewey Square, someone might actually listen to something you have to say.
Their dads are going to give them a stern talking to when their moms bring them home to their respective suburbs in their minivans from the precinct.
Their parents should give them a lesson in Macro Economics. The basic reason for the current unemployment rate stems from the decline in the housing markets. Many people, including a majority of the protestors, secured mortgages and ran up their credit cards balances based on the value of their property and the proceeds of the loans were used for anything from boats to vacation homes. When the bottom dropped out of the real estate market, people defaulted on their mortgages and credit card loans and left the banks (and the rest of us) holding the bag. The economy will recover. (I believe sooner than later) In the meantime, the individuals who defaulted on their loans need to take some responsibility for the current economic crisis.
ladies and gentlemen:
Joey the Troll!
*applause*
In all seriousness, the Omaha and Billings contingency is likely quite small. The majority of the protesters are from Needham, Wellesley, Newton, etc.
Contingent rather.
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what’s the average annual income in those towns?
on October 11th, 2011 at 7:13 am #
[…] Bail Money Needed Posted on October 11, 2011 by Joshua Eaton 8 […]
The mainstream news media has imposed a complete blackout on the shameful massive police attack on Occupy Boston and the Veterans for Peace as of 9:00 am Oct. 11. But that is to be expected considering who owns the boss press. Pretending this isn’t happening won’t make it go away; it only increases the commitment of the disen franchised everywhere. The “authorities” never seem to get this through their heads and invariably make matters worse–it never works. Keep up the pressure all you “Occupiers” everywhere!
DON’T STOP BELEAVING !!!!!!!
i dont know how to “beleave”…
The press says that all of those arrested have been released. Is bail $ still needed?
Most likely, yes, for legal defense fees.
i paid 80k in taxes last year. 20k to charities. sorry, nothing left to help out
How to I find out where my friend is being held so I can go bail him out?
http://www.wellaware1.com
Interesting how these scumbags are collecting “bail” money for a civil citation for which bail is not set and people are let go. But go ahead, line the pockets of the guy getting sweet off of your moronic ‘movement’.
We are collecting money for a legal defense fund that covers bail, court fees, lawyers fees, and medical expenses for those injured by the police.
Lulz, keep believing the 1% the facts are in front of you… and maybe you should actually read why they are collecting money, they are collecting money for lawyers… The rich are getting richer, the poor is getting poorer those are the facts.. It’s time to end corporate greed and allow everyone human to have a decent standard of living… We are the 99% Solidarity with BOSTON!!! You are all true heroes…
Get a job and then you can pay your own bail money. It is not the rich who keep getting richer. It is the hard working who get richer. As it should be!
not true salaries have been stagnant for years only theives are doing better
John, Have you applied for a job lately? There are few jobs to be had and many, many people who have great work histories have lost their jobs and have been trying to get a new one for long periods of time. The longer they are unemployed, the harder it is to find work. Employers are actually posting on the few jobs that they are offering that “anyone not currently employed need not apply”, which should be illegal. How is it that in this country a household can have 2 working parents and still not be able to survive? That is shameful. Being hard-working no longer ensures any stability. Our jobs have gone all over the word and help to create a growing middle class in countries that never had any middle class at all….and that’s a good thing IF there are still jobs to be had for our own people. But when we don’t have jobs here, we need to bring the outsourced jobs home.
Families who need to pay for daycare can often spend an entire second salary on that expense alone, but deal with it just so they won’t be unemployed.
College grads can’t find jobs and have to face huge college loan debts.
Older workers who are laid-off are in a real mess….people close to retirement age have the hardest time finding employment or retraining. Where is your heart?
Sure John, work harder – get richer, but if things keep going the way they are, we’re going to have to work harder for increasingly large amounts of time to make the same amount. Meanwhile top bankers make more in a year than most of us will in a lifetime. This exponential distribution of wealth is not sustainable.
John are you for Golden Parachutes for Execs? I have friends and family who are Republicans and are disgusted, and friends and family who are Dems and are disgusted, I am an Independent and I am disgusted with all the Board of Directors of major corporations who allow the kind of salaries and bonuses being paid out while merit freezes are placed on employees.
I WANT TO HEAR FROM ALL NAYSAYERS OUT THERE.
I want to hear from all the naysayers who care more about the grass and their commute – are you for CEOs getting paid obscene amounts of money while you and I earn our hard earned salaries with minimal increases despite high performance:
By now you’ve probably heard the news: Leo Apotheker has received a severance package worth $13.2 million in cash and stock for his 11-month tenure as CEO of Hewlett-Packard.
By now you’ve probably heard the news: Leo Apotheker has received a severance package worth $13.2 million in cash and stock for his 11-month tenure as CEO of Hewlett-Packard.
I am just saying… I WANNA KNOW….I have not gone to a protest because I do have a job but I feel all those people there are representing ALL of us in middle America. A lot of you just don’t know it yet. Occupy Boston PLEASE continue your peaceful protests as you have been and shame on BPD and the city of Boston.
Generally speaking, no i am not in favor or any form of golden parachute. But that is a function of the contractual relationship between a corporation and the employee. And those are decided on by the corporation’s board, which ultimately answers to its stockholders. Do I want the government to have any say there? Absolutely not! That, my friend, is called Communism. And we all know where that ends.
I was no more in favor of the financial bailout so it does strike me as amusing that those protesting against a bailout are looking for one here.
Have no problem with peaceful protests but we all need to respect the rule of
law.
I BELIEVE IN CAPITALISM BUT DO NOT BELIEVE IN THIS
http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/daily-ticker/another-corporate-outrage-golden-parachutes-failed-ceos-153646807.html
Apotheker’s outsized payout, which includes relocation fees back to Europe and up to $300,000 to cover losses on the sale of his California home, follows the more-than $12 million his predecessor Mark Hurd received from HP after being ousted following a scandal. Hurd’s successor, Carly Fiorina got more than $21 million in severance when she left the firm in 2007.
And new CEO Meg Whitman has received a package worth over $13 million, mostly comprised of stock options tied to performance, according to Equilar. Clearly, there’s something wrong at HP, whose board has been pilloried in the press in the wake of Apotheker’s firing.
But HP is far from alone in lavishing departing CEOs with boatloads of shareholder dollars.
– •Robert Kelly received $17.2 million in severance after being ousted from the CEO job at Bank of New York Mellon last month.
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•Carol Bartz left Yahoo with nearly $10 million in cash and stock options after being fired from the top job at The Daily Ticker’s parent company.
-•John Chidsey received almost $20 million from Burger King when he left in April.
•Baxter Phillips was awarded nearly $14 million after his company, Massey Energy, was sold to Alpha Natural Resources in June.
•Ian McCarthy walked away from Beazer Homes with about $6.3 million in severance, even after being forced to repay his original package after the company settled with the SEC for filling misleading statements. Beazer even reimbursed McCarthy for up to $10,000 in legal fees.
As a “For-Profit” entity, Corporations must pay their employees a salary equal to what the market bears for a particular position in order to make a profit and stay in business. This is economics 101. If you think you have the talent and drive to be CEO for a multi-national, billion dollar company, go for it.
I did not say that I wish I made that much money or that claim to have the talent to be a CEO. But I do know that the “market does not bear” that many millions for regular CEOs, nevermind ineffective and failing CEOs. Those millions are not proportionate to the value they add or the performance of the companies they lead. Unemployment will decrease a bit if there is some cost cutting at the 1% level and the companies retain a few hundred employees with some of those $. It would also be nice if part of those millions made their way to some decent pay for performance merit increases to the rest of us. I don’t believe (and I hope most will agree) – that anyone is worth that many millions of dollars. I make six figures, work 50-60 hour weeks and am not complaining about my situation – I just feel STRONGLY it is just not right…Sorry Jack !
It is is a disgrace.
Come on Jack, no more reply to Golden Parachutes ? John did not have one either. Maybe you both have ‘come out of the closet’ and are now supporters?
people who are potesting against bailouts are asking for bailouts…
You people are pathetic….. REALLY WE NEED BAIL MONEY!!!! GET OUT OF YOUR TENT AND GO GET A JOB AND PAY YOUR OWN LAWYER FEES!!!! YOU WERE ASKED TO MOVE BY POLICE AND HAD YOU LISTENED AND SIMPLY MOVED YOU WOULDNT NEED LAWYER FEES!!! YOUR BUMS!
I think you’re missing the point of the entire protest. But glad to hear you have a job.
this site disgusts me. I hope people stop giving you attention.
To all my friends who like what they are seeing and hearing get out there and show me what a true democracy looks like. I encourage everyone to begin crafting personal manifesto’s of why they are there and with precision and clarity illustrate at least three cogent grievances and solutions that you are fighting for. THEN share them with one another and with no more than 10 assembled points try to make the most out of a consensus of cogent and intelligable grievances. Please focus on market policy and corporate/banking misdoings and how to punish them and fix the damage done. now is the time to create a stronger organization and better political tactics
I haven’t read one intelligent response in this whole thread. The 99% have the right idea but don’t know why and those who are against the movement either think they are part of the 1% (which I cam almost guarantee they are not) or are knit picking for the sake of being different. Money is nothing more than an invention to ease transactions. The value of money is determined- speaking simply- by its relative scarcity. In other words, the value of your money is based on the proportion you have compared to the total amount. That being said rich people can’t be rich unless there are poor people. When so many middle class people lost money speculating in the housing market of course the gap between the rich and the poor widened. Taxes should be based soley on private property- that way the rich are taxes their fair proportion while consumption and incentive to work are not affected.
Who owns wepay? Did you know it is owned by Bancorp? Take a look at their board of directors, then look where those board members sit, or have sat. You just fed the belly of the monster you are fighting. Good job.
Sometimes the only tools one has to help one take apart the master’s house come from the master’s own shed. (Not that we’re trying to take anything apart, necessarily, but you get the analogy.)
I am a strong supporter of Occupy Boston, but until I have a clearer understanding of who exactly is taking this money, I’ll withhold any donations.
The WePay account is in my name. None of the money has been spent yet—bail came from a cash bail fund raised on-site and other legal expenses either haven’t been incurred or haven’t come due yet—and we are working on a transparent process to distribute the money, document how it is spend, and report that information publicly. If you would like any more information, please feel free to contact me directly: jeaton@post.harvard.edu
Maybe we could redistribute some wealth and get you bailed out. Perhaps instead of camping out in tents you should actually contribute to society and stop looking for handouts.
Where can I donate a bag of crap to you all?