HELLO....new person to the site here...While I understand the magnitude of the issues raised by the occupy movement, I can honestly say in earnest that I don't think most of the population does. It is my belief that if they knew what the movement was pressing for in simple concise terms..the majority of this countries Americans would be on board....it seems to me that the occupy movement is all over the map and that being in a scattered position of protest hinders the highly significant message that could be delivered. I am not being critical--just real. Maybe the occupy leadership could hold an online election to discern 3 or 4 specific platforms from which the movement could mobilize and bombard the media with a position on these 3 or 4 selected issues of protest.

As a side note--the AARP organization has really taken a wise stance with their medicare benefits on the line by recently running ads putting politicians on notice of their strength in voting numbers--and by directing their solidarity right at the politicians running for office. Their ads say--we are 5 million strong voting Americans and we will be watching you (politicians) over the next few months and you will hear from us on election day...hence if you want to keep your job--you best be considering our desires because we are the people you represent--and we are watching.

Occupy should take this same bold in your face voting agenda. We need short concise issues that the movement feels strongly about in solidarity to target as our platform issues for resolution.

Example platforms:
1) Occupy demands an immediate criminal investigation and congressional inquiry into the reasons justifying the recent us tax dollar bail outs of financial institutions
2) Occupy demands new legislation that prohibits the --currently legal--practice of insider trading by elected officials in Congress
3) Occupy demands immediate government pressure, transparency and accountability of all banks and financial institutions that received us tax payer bail out money to disclose how the tax payer money was used to renegotiate upside down loans for Americans facing foreclosure--with renegotiation intent on Americans keeping their homes
4) 3% of the foreign aid budget redirected immediately to fund US infrastructure projects that create jobs for Americans.

These are just examples!

Next, it would be wise to bombard the media with whatever selected platforms derive so that public opinion and politicians can take sides and thus be held accountable, inspired or empowered. Lastly, the movement can be--and is--identified by the 99% population characteristic--however, we are also a remarkable voting power by our sheer numbers that if reasonably flashed in the face of politicians have the capacity to bring criminals to justice via congressional inquiry into the wall street deception and good ole boy antics. The occupy movement has this capacity! It is ripe for demanding change if simple organizational functions and leadership can focus and target. Just a thought and commentary?

It's time to bombard the media with OUTRAGE over the travesty of an agreement that the Obama Administration just tauted regarding settlement of all the illegal bank foreclosures of these very homes that Occupy has been concerned about. Occupy and the homeowners just LOST massive battle. We've not lost the war, but this was the biggest battle lost in history.

"The Obama administration says this deal is about “righting the wrongs that led to the housing market collapse.”

Really? How much wrong does it right? The average amount that will be given by the banks to those who actually lost their homes through these wrongful foreclosures is $2,000! Wow! What’s that? One month’s mortgage payment in exchange for the loss of your home by a foreclosure that was not even legally carried out? (Some people were not even in arrears in their payments; see below.) That won’t even pay for the person’s moving expenses when they packed the family out the door and moved back to grandma’s!"

The banks apparently get to keep the $180,000 or so that they sold each house for on the average and have to only pay the wrongly dispossessed homeowner back a maximum of $2,000! Unbelievable. The bankers will be swilling caviar this weekend!

For many more details on this case that ran for more than a year, you can read about it here:

http://thegreatrecession.info/blog/2012/02/mortgage-foreclosure-fraud-settlement-is-payoff-to-bank-of-america-wells-fargo-chase/

They may go down in history as the greatest travesty of justice ever carried out in broad daylight. Is anyone going to raise a fuss about it? If anything should galvanize Occupy and the foreclosed homeowners this massive loss in court should be it.

--Knave Dave
http://TheGreatRecession.info/blog