This is a fantastic idea.  Judging by the photo in this article, and the responsible and mature nature of every other OWS piece I’ve read, these folks are clearly the High-powered “do-er” types, that have both ambition, drive, work-ethic, and marketable skills. 
 
I’m sure all the companies attending this Job fair have an intense need for someone who has a 100k degree in “feminine studies” with an minor in underwater basket weaving…

You are a real douch£……..seriously, you and your ilk constantly tell OWS protesters to get jobs but when some are in the process of doing so, you sneer and make jokes.

You are actually a right wing troll…..stop calling yourself a smug liberal

You are either 15 or one of them.  Getting a useless degree while living in mommy’s house for 6 more years.   Plus by the LIBS on admission the place is over run with the chronic homeless, insane or criminal..  This whole thing hightlights the Liberal Filth as just that FILTH. 

Hi Jackass!….    Here’s the deal with getting a job.  Yes, the OWS need to get off their ass and get a job..no doubt.  But here’s the trick…you actually have to look like you want a job, and attain the appropriate education to get the job.
 
So when a right-winger says “OWS folks should get a job”  This actually equates to a couple implied tasks.
 
Here they are in order:
 
1) Come down of whatever controlled substance your on
 
2) Sober up
 
3) Wash your ass
 
4) Buy presentable job-hunting attire
 
5) get a haircut
 
6) Get a marketable degree
 
                  –or-
Work in an entry level job to get experience
 
7)Apply for a job that pays you what your worth
 
8) Live the dream.
 
 
Any questions?

I’m sober and I have a job and a presentable haircut and two degrees and lots of nice clothes but I absolutely support OWS . I’m so confused. Should I consider killing myself? Pease advise oh wise one.

What, exactly, do you support?

Neither Derek and John, nor OWS NYC are the first in the fight to support American values. Justice and Reconciliation are at the core for all involved. Indeed, OWS NYC should support this effort 100% as MLK, Jr., and SCLC would have supported honest jobs for their followers during the Civil Rights Movement. The Nine Principles:

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Pledge For Nonviolence

1. As you prepare for Occupy Wall Street, meditate on life, love and the blessings of faith, hope, and charity.

2. Refrain from violence of fist, tongue and heart.

3. Walk and talk in the manner of love; for truth and love are the
core of life, neither ambition nor the temptations of control.

4. Sacrifice personal wishes that all might be free.

5. Observe with friends, with false friends and with your foes the ordinary rules of courtesy.

6. Perform regular service for others and the world.

7. Pray or simply ask within to be moved so that all men and women might be free.

8. Remember that nonviolence seeks Justice and Reconciliation – not victory.

9. Strive to be in good spirits and in good health. We are the 99% and we must go in peace.
________________________________________

Jobs are good. At the same time nonviolence will always be the fulcrum for OWS. And discipline will be the lever. Achieving a Reconciliation with Derek and John will be a step forward for everyone involved. Indeed, go in peace.

I support their energy, their frustration, their tenacity and the cause that they are trying to draw attention to. Was that supposed to be a trick question?

You might find the Steve Jobs biography to be shocking.

Also, of course, when OWS started feeding the homeless there was an influx of permanently unemployed/unemployable individuals. Yet OWS continued as before, in keeping with the best of Corinthians. “But God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the strong” even now.

No, no. What cause? What ends? That’s what I’m looking for.

That pledge would improve OWS by 1000%. But I suspect that you’d find maybe 1% willing to take it and abide by it.

There’s no greed in it. There’s no envy in it. There’s no hatred in it. It is a commitment to good faith activism.

Dr. King would be deeply disturbed with OWS.

Look it up. It’s not hard to find and it’s not even slightly complicated. I appreciate that this could be problematic for someone who makes up their mind in advance on every single issue but give it a go. I’ll get you started http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSSM9P3DSio

With everything you have going for you, it’ strange that you would ask for advice, but ask and you shall recieve..

My advice to you, since I’m guessing your your degrees are useful, and you bought your own cloths, is assist your fellow OWS demonstrators in learning how to “play in the sand box”.
 
 
For example, you could set up seminars where folks like the crew in the photo above can learn that marketable people don’t defecate in public, drugs make you stupid, and you should not touch Sally if Sally Doesn’t want to be touched.
 
After that, you could offer more advanced seminars, such as history of Communist and Socialist movements during the 20th century..and their impacts (truthfully though!), how bank bailouts are socialist in nature where as true capitalism would have let them fail, and lastly…resume building class…
 
Is that enough advice?

#4 In your list is going to be the deal-breaker if you want OWS to abide.  The whole reason for their existance is to have a good time, get free stuff from other people, and not be required to contibute themselve….

Now that I look at it, #6 is going to be problem as well.

Amazing advice. I feel very privileged to have just read all of that. Where on earth did you get the idea that OWS supports the bailouts? Have you actually read anything at all ever?

It’s always very disconcerting to see right-wingers invoke the name of Martin Luther King like you have even the slightest understanding of anything he said or did. It’s like hearing one’s grandmother talk about felching

Every marcher at every one of the SCLC civil rights marches was required to sign off on these Nine Principles.

OWS NYC is in full support. If the Nine Principles improve OWS by 10% that is good. If 100%, an amazing achievement. If by 1000%, then we’ll have to call it a miracle.

OWS is an anti-crime movement at the core. It was not capitalism, per se, that tanked our economy. It was massive crime. The low-income CHC mortgages were only 6% of the subprimes – not a pimple on this train wreck.

http://www.mass.gov/ago/news-and-updates/press-releases/2011/five-national-banks-sued-by-ag-coakley.html

And that’s smaller than the pension fund/investment scams involving CDO morgage bonds and the CDS derivatives scams.

Dr. King would have reached out to OWS protesters with love and brotherhood. I walked with him in the South. There is no doubt about it.

So…the cause you support is a 15 minute Glenn Greenwald interview? Well, if that’s not a reason for indefinite, voluntary homelessness, I can’t imagine what is.

WHAT DO WE WANT? GLENN GREENWALD! WHEN DO WE WANT IT? NOW!

Did you read a single thing I wrote? That was a reference to help you BEGIN researching what OWS is about because I’m not here to act as a panacea for your chronic ignorance. Are you really that dim-witted that you can’t comprehend very simple points when they are written in plain english right in front of your face?

Do you know who wrote the original version of that pledge? Would you commit to it? You can be as disconcerted as you like. It isn’t going to change who MLK was.

I never talked about what OWS does or does not support.   You asked for advice and I provided it. 

Have you ever actually read anything ever…including your own posts?

Of course you didn’t. Pat pat pat.

The Assembly announced the three-day menu crackdown announced earlier in the day — insisting everybody would be fed something during that period.

Some protesters threatened that the high-end meals could be cut off completely if the vagrants and criminals don’t disperse.

Unhappiness with their unwelcome guests was apparent throughout the day. “We need to limit the amount of food we’re putting out” to curb the influx of derelicts, said Rafael Moreno, a kitchen volunteer. A security volunteer added that the cooks felt “overworked and underappreciated.”

Many of those being fed “are professional homeless people. They know what they’re doing,” said the guard at the food-storage area.

Today, a limited menu of sandwiches, chips and some hot food will be doled out — so legitimate protesters will have a day to make arrangements for more upscale weekend meals.

Protesters got their first taste of the revolt within the revolt yesterday when the kitchen staff served only peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and chips after their staff meeting.

Organizers took other steps to police the squatters, who they said were lured in from other parks with the promise of free meals.

http://tinyurl.com/3zesjfu

I asked you what cause and what ends you support. You told me to look it up and to watch Greewald pitching his book.

Answer the question or don’t. You haven’t. See, I’d like the answer written in plain English in front of my face. Are you going to put it there or not?

Actually, that isn’t exactly the SCLC pledge. This is:

1. As you prepare to march meditate on the life and teachings of Jesus

2. Remember the nonviolent movement seeks justice and reconciliation – not victory.

3. Walk and talk in the manner of love; for God is love.

4. Pray daily to be used by God that all men and women might be free.

5. Sacrifice personal wishes that all might be free.

6. Observe with friend and foes the ordinary rules of courtesy.

7. Perform regular service for others and the world.

8. Refrain from violence of fist, tongue and heart.

9. Strive to be in good spiritual and bodily health.

10. Follow the directions of the movement leaders and of the captains on demonstrations.

I think I’ve made it reasonably clear that I have better things to do than cater to your inability to use a search engine. The first two minutes of Greenwald’s interview sums up quite well what the movement is about. I can provide many more links but ultimately you’re going to have to wipe your own ass I’m afraid. Sorry kiddo.

The last time there were some applications available, only two people actually took one.  Everyone else said that they either wouldn’t work for “that company”, weren’t happy with the pay offered, or wasn’t the job they were looking for. 

Actually, MLK was a Republican so we understand very well what he was about.

I can provide many more links but ultimately you’re going to have to wipe your own ass I’m afraid.

My question is what YOU support about OWS. You could have saved us both some time and yourself some face if you’d just said “I’m not telling.”

If you can’t express your own feelings on the subject, another option would have been to have simply said “Baaaaaa.”

Reportedly Dr. King wrote the original ass “Pledge to Nonviolence.” However, every local effort made modifications.

The 1950 seminary lecture on Gandhi changed his life.

In 1955 “Republican” meant Dwight David Eisenhower, who sent troops into the South and who had nominated CJ Warren.

Today the States Rights bigot Dixiecrats are all Republicans.

The historical version from the 1950s/1960s was the Nine Principles. Each march and each church in a march could well have its own version.

There aren’t any Style Points.

You’re funny. The 25,000 people at the Times Square protest or the 160,000 at the Oakland protest are all about gaining freedom from the corporations.

We give our time and effort.

Wow…what an interesting irony.  On one hand you have OWS protestors, who want to leach off of society, and get something for nothing, while showing great displeasure when another group wants to leach off them, and get something for nothing….

PBJs… jum-jum ! (I missed that day.)

So your saying that “judging a man by the content of his character, and not the color of his skin” is not a right wing philosophy?

Please tell me which political party pushes racial quotas every chance they get and which does not….

Oh yeah…the ol’ down is up and up is down argument…   Does that mean that if roles truly did reverse back then, than FDR would be considered a conservative republican since Eisenhower could be compared to modern day Democrats?

They are free from coperations…..not a one works for any…although they very much like the products offered by the corperations they hate…

That was the pledge MLK used. The one with God all over it.

insane. The proper term is mental illness. BTW mental illnesses can be successfully treated by the right meds, family and community support. I work for a social service agency for the mentally ill so I know what I write.
Plus you might be overgeneralizing when you wrote chronic homeless,insane, crimincal. Many of the homeless are there because of untreated mental illness. Other factors are lack of housing.  Women who are victims of domestic violence by their husbands.

Tuffsnotenough.  You wrote justice and reconciliation> I like and am with you on what you posted. Wonder if you ever heard of “Council for Reconciliation” Not a criticism.  Just a question.  What are the nine principles? I’m very curious. .I like your progressive views. 

I like progressive views as well, along with  Adam Sandler and Chevy Chase movies….all provide hours of hilarious entertainment,

OWS is anti-crime. This is a protest against gangster capitalism at its worst, ever.

- Exactly equivalent mortgage frauds and failures to disclose bank/S&L losses totaling $180-billion brought 2,500 felony convictions in 1991-1995.

- Mortgage frauds totaling $2,100-billion have brought zip-zero indictments of the player today.

- Pension and investment fraud with the CDO and CDS frauds (including rating agency bribery) is also not prosecuted. This totals more than twice the money in the straight mortgage frauds.

Why are you not out protesting ???

and now they have a NY office to plan out this conspiracy to redistribute the wealth.
“Occupy Wall St.” Gets an Office

show full description Occupy Wall
Street has legally taken over office space blocks away from Zuccotti Park as
the New York movement transitions from outdoors to indoor http://www.newslook.com/videos/379537-occupy-wall-st-gets-an-office?autoplay=true

do you support them actually targeting the right people???  Or should they just visit more banks and bother more bank tellers???

http://www.mediaite.com/online/former-mf-global-ceo-jon-corzine-i-never-intended-to-break-any-rules/

the tabocco bros look more like they are in an organized crime family right bob check it!!!