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*Because I can't not be here
*Because I can't not be here
*inevitability
*debt
*loans
*community
*people
*solidarity
*needs
*wants
*American dream
*future
*washington
*students
*truth
*community
*neighborhoods
*camping
*greed
*money
*justice
*protest
*apathy
*desire
*persistence
*helping
*aid
*welfare
*healthcare
*world
*future
*peace
*love
*lesbians
*gays
*queers
*LGBT
*sexism
*homophobia
*social security
*war
*bitches
*military-industrial complex
*hope
*leadership
*country
*love
*
*congress
*because this is my  future
*because this is my  future
*this my country, not the capitalists'
*this my country, not the capitalists'
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*I care about my future and I care about you.
*I care about my future and I care about you.
*I support occupy boston
*I support occupy boston
*Boston
*toxic waste, nuclear power? No thank  you
*toxic waste, nuclear power? No thank  you
*hemp burns clean, tobacco is toxic.  
*hemp burns clean, tobacco is toxic.  
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*democracy not oligarchy. Power to the people
*democracy not oligarchy. Power to the people
*because...
*because...
*justice
*equal distribution
*oppression
*sexism
*racism
*world view
*social work
*community
*communication
*apathy
*activity
*peace
*peace
*peace
*anarchy, love
*anarchy, love
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*I need to see my kids grow up
*I need to see my kids grow up
*chi-altro
*chi-altro
*voicing concerns
*skepticism
*Obama
*Clinton
*Democrats
*Republicans
*balance of power
*legislative
*justice
*Because its important not to succumb or surrender!
*Because its important not to succumb or surrender!
*My future is better than this
*My future is better than this
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*because Obama had an American citizen murdered
*because Obama had an American citizen murdered
*If not now, never
*If not now, never
*assassination
*because education is too important to be left to the government  
*because education is too important to be left to the government  
*I'm sick of the vocal minorty dictating my life. Fuck corporate. Get high. 99%
*I'm sick of the vocal minorty dictating my life. Fuck corporate. Get high. 99%
*NOW
*because I am sick of my money financing destruction and greed across the globe – 99%
*because I am sick of my money financing destruction and greed across the globe – 99%
*because I am sick of my money financing destruction and greed across the globe – 99%
*because I am sick of my money financing destruction and greed across the globe – 99%
*sickness
*disgust
*birthright
*ability
*future
*hope
*peace
*beauty
*people
*Because people's  futures shouldn't be determined by where they are born and who their parents are
*Because people's  futures shouldn't be determined by where they are born and who their parents are
*Taking a day off from a fruitless job search Love
*Taking a day off from a fruitless job search Love
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*because we are all in this together
*because we are all in this together
*Fair life for everyone
*Fair life for everyone
*fairness
*equality
*women
*gender wage gap
*salary
*jobs
*foreclosure
*housing
*children
*family
*corruption
*humanity
*degradation
*disgust
*the first corruption
*the first corruption
*Tired of seeing fellow humans degraded
*Tired of seeing fellow humans degraded
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*Because our politics cost too much money
*Because our politics cost too much money
*For you!
*For you!
*coporations
*capitalism
*socialism
*The wall whisper with freedom
*The wall whisper with freedom
*Social Justice
*Social Justice
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*In fact for great justice
*In fact for great justice
*For Justice
*For Justice
*ME
*YOU
*US
*Because nature disposes of shit/waste!
*Because nature disposes of shit/waste!
*The future of our United states
*The future of our United states
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*Share and share alike is the fair way
*Share and share alike is the fair way
*For Martin Luther King's dream
*For Martin Luther King's dream
*life
*liberty
*happiness
*privacy
*media
*news
*money
*assholes
*protest
*freedom
*egalitarian
*power
*distribution of wealth and resources
*sharing
*caring
*loving
*living
*joy
*Nature
*indians
*native americans
*blacks
*whites
*asian
*hero
*public land
*parks
*ownership
*leadership
*banks
*credit unions
*money
*lack
*needs
*economy
*hopelessness
*powerlessness
*right
*might
*war
*prisons
*drugs
*alcohol
*Love your life
*Love your life
*cash ate our democracy
*cash ate our democracy
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*Its time people come before the profits of the few
*Its time people come before the profits of the few
*Lose the Fluff
*Lose the Fluff
*sensationalism
*Because capitalism sucks
*Because capitalism sucks
*Expropriate the expropriators
*Expropriate the expropriators
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*Our principles and rights the pursuit of happiness are being threatened by an economy that makes it impossible for some people to pursue their dreams
*Our principles and rights the pursuit of happiness are being threatened by an economy that makes it impossible for some people to pursue their dreams
*we are at a tipping point. We need to change the balance  back to democracy before we end up in violent revolution and the cities burn again
*we are at a tipping point. We need to change the balance  back to democracy before we end up in violent revolution and the cities burn again
*corporate greed
*Corporations are not people with Rights
*Corporations are not people with Rights
*Take back some of the power that is our right
*Take back some of the power that is our right
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*Do it for tourettes/OCD
*Do it for tourettes/OCD
*There is nothing else I can do except change the course of history
*There is nothing else I can do except change the course of history
*group think
*individuality
*To win back my freedom and country that the Feds took away.  
*To win back my freedom and country that the Feds took away.  
*The Nation needs change
*The Nation needs change
*Sick and tired of the rich living off the back of working people
*Sick and tired of the rich living off the back of working people
*Revolution, end the fed
*Revolution, end the fed
*revolution
*Che
*nursing
*social work
*education
*arts
*music
*value
*humanity
*Its not like I have a job to go to
*Its not like I have a job to go to
*I'm a certified Nurse's assistant whose dream is to help others but I can't find work when I don't have a college degree.  
*I'm a certified Nurse's assistant whose dream is to help others but I can't find work when I don't have a college degree.  
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*For my students
*For my students
*End the drug war
*End the drug war
*war on drugs
*war on people
*defense of marriage act
*don't ask don't tell
*queers
*drag queens
*communism
*socialism
*equality
*Because I'm sick of rich white men telling me what to buy, do, wear, and listen to!
*Because I'm sick of rich white men telling me what to buy, do, wear, and listen to!
*For my children
*For my children
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*Don't give up
*Don't give up
*Love 4 earth
*Love 4 earth
*change
*1 trillion – flying car  
*1 trillion – flying car  
*I'm tired of being raped by my bank  
*I'm tired of being raped by my bank  
*Because its my right as an American
*Because its my right as an American
*I want ethics in government remove corporate influence in politics
*I want ethics in government remove corporate influence in politics
*rape
*women
*love
*I am proud to be an American
*I am proud to be an American
*Because I am a transgendered second-class citizen
*Because I am a transgendered second-class citizen
*transgender
*bisexuals
*Occupy for better education
*Occupy for better education
*Was tired of being quiet
*Was tired of being quiet
*Tired of this bullshit
*Tired of this bullshit
*rules
*laws
*freedom
*liberty
*speech
*communication
*For the planet and the animals
*For the planet and the animals
*I want my piece of the american dream, slice of the american pie
*I want my piece of the american dream, slice of the american pie
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*Because I'm tired of being fucked by bankers
*Because I'm tired of being fucked by bankers
*Democracy
*Democracy
*fear
*To better this country
*To better this country
*A living Planet
*A living Planet
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*Serve humanity not money
*Serve humanity not money
*If we don't who will
*If we don't who will
*99%
*1%
*Because socialized loss and privatized gain is not the American dream
*Because socialized loss and privatized gain is not the American dream
*I had to choose between college and homelessness (yay america)
*I had to choose between college and homelessness (yay america)
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*get the corrupt out of the health system  
*get the corrupt out of the health system  
*Justice
*Justice
*togetherness
*Because I love my country
*Because I love my country
*Because $70000 student loans is too much
*Because $70000 student loans is too much
*Justice
*Justice
*maxed out on student loans
*My heart is sick, My heart is broken, my soul aches, its time to heal  
*My heart is sick, My heart is broken, my soul aches, its time to heal  
*Because my friends lost their jobs when my company gave you that loan
*Because my friends lost their jobs when my company gave you that loan
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*HFTs
*HFTs
*Hope
*Hope
*assholes

Revision as of 21:56, 29 October 2011

  • Because I can't not be here
  • inevitability
  • debt
  • loans
  • community
  • people
  • solidarity
  • needs
  • wants
  • American dream
  • future
  • washington
  • students
  • truth
  • community
  • neighborhoods
  • camping
  • greed
  • money
  • justice
  • protest
  • apathy
  • desire
  • persistence
  • helping
  • aid
  • welfare
  • healthcare
  • world
  • future
  • peace
  • love
  • lesbians
  • gays
  • queers
  • LGBT
  • sexism
  • homophobia
  • social security
  • war
  • bitches
  • military-industrial complex
  • hope
  • leadership
  • country
  • love
  • congress
  • because this is my future
  • this my country, not the capitalists'
  • tired of wall st sleeping with washington...its dysfunctional
  • because the truth is hidden
  • To protect my voice and my future
  • because my faith calls me to care for my brothers and sister
  • I care about my future and I care about you.
  • I support occupy boston
  • Boston
  • toxic waste, nuclear power? No thank you
  • hemp burns clean, tobacco is toxic.
  • The corporations want you to smoke cigarettes
  • korea is one
  • democracy not oligarchy. Power to the people
  • because...
  • justice
  • equal distribution
  • oppression
  • sexism
  • racism
  • world view
  • social work
  • community
  • communication
  • apathy
  • activity
  • peace
  • peace
  • anarchy, love
  • restore america
  • For Equality
  • Everyone deserves a voice
  • because I've got a really good feeling about this
  • because I've got a really good feeling about this
  • because I've got a really good feeling about this
  • peace
  • because I believe in sharing
  • I need to see my kids grow up
  • chi-altro
  • voicing concerns
  • skepticism
  • Obama
  • Clinton
  • Democrats
  • Republicans
  • balance of power
  • legislative
  • justice
  • Because its important not to succumb or surrender!
  • My future is better than this
  • for lionel messi
  • because Obama had an American citizen murdered
  • If not now, never
  • assassination
  • because education is too important to be left to the government
  • I'm sick of the vocal minorty dictating my life. Fuck corporate. Get high. 99%
  • NOW
  • because I am sick of my money financing destruction and greed across the globe – 99%
  • because I am sick of my money financing destruction and greed across the globe – 99%
  • sickness
  • disgust
  • birthright
  • ability
  • future
  • hope
  • peace
  • beauty
  • people
  • Because people's futures shouldn't be determined by where they are born and who their parents are
  • Taking a day off from a fruitless job search Love
  • Because it matter. Lets get along
  • because we are all in this together
  • Fair life for everyone
  • fairness
  • equality
  • women
  • gender wage gap
  • salary
  • jobs
  • foreclosure
  • housing
  • children
  • family
  • corruption
  • humanity
  • degradation
  • disgust
  • the first corruption
  • Tired of seeing fellow humans degraded
  • For Social Justice
  • Even the lowliest of the low have a voice
  • We have money for war and no money for health care, education, the poor, the elderly.
  • Because Capitalism has no future for any of us
  • Because our politics cost too much money
  • For you!
  • coporations
  • capitalism
  • socialism
  • The wall whisper with freedom
  • Social Justice
  • Because we are human beings, not commodities
  • In fact for great justice
  • For Justice
  • ME
  • YOU
  • US
  • Because nature disposes of shit/waste!
  • The future of our United states
  • Because the media won't
  • I'd be happy to pay more taxes
  • because the power of corporations has compromised our democratic ideals and threatens to dehumanize us
  • For the better of the people. Not the banks.
  • I was military...I got a raw deal
  • We built this bullshit, we need to dismantle it NOW
  • Share and share alike is the fair way
  • For Martin Luther King's dream
  • life
  • liberty
  • happiness
  • privacy
  • media
  • news
  • money
  • assholes
  • protest
  • freedom
  • egalitarian
  • power
  • distribution of wealth and resources
  • sharing
  • caring
  • loving
  • living
  • joy
  • Nature
  • indians
  • native americans
  • blacks
  • whites
  • asian
  • hero
  • public land
  • parks
  • ownership
  • leadership
  • banks
  • credit unions
  • money
  • lack
  • needs
  • economy
  • hopelessness
  • powerlessness
  • right
  • might
  • war
  • prisons
  • drugs
  • alcohol
  • Love your life
  • cash ate our democracy
  • cuz the economy needs to be about 20% cooler
  • Because we own it!
  • It's time for the ordinary people to speak up
  • because I want to speak out before there is no one left to speak with me.
  • Public-ize banks
  • Its time people come before the profits of the few
  • Lose the Fluff
  • sensationalism
  • Because capitalism sucks
  • Expropriate the expropriators
  • because we are occupying two foreign countries, but they tell us we can't afford to fix our roads & schools at home while millions remain unemployed
  • Our principles and rights the pursuit of happiness are being threatened by an economy that makes it impossible for some people to pursue their dreams
  • we are at a tipping point. We need to change the balance back to democracy before we end up in violent revolution and the cities burn again
  • corporate greed
  • Corporations are not people with Rights
  • Take back some of the power that is our right
  • Reproductive Justice
  • For my kids
  • Jobs or Mobs, you decide
  • For all the species we might not kill, including our own
  • For Avani and Joao, my classmates, people in Boston, people in Massachusetts, people in the US, people in the World, love and love
  • Do it for tourettes/OCD
  • There is nothing else I can do except change the course of history
  • group think
  • individuality
  • To win back my freedom and country that the Feds took away.
  • The Nation needs change
  • Sick and tired of the rich living off the back of working people
  • Revolution, end the fed
  • revolution
  • Che
  • nursing
  • social work
  • education
  • arts
  • music
  • value
  • humanity
  • Its not like I have a job to go to
  • I'm a certified Nurse's assistant whose dream is to help others but I can't find work when I don't have a college degree.
  • To End Capital
  • Because our republic has become a plutocracy
  • It's a mother earth thing, I wouldn't expect you to understand.
  • Only 9-11 truth will end the 9-11 wars
  • Black people are murdering each other because of crack
  • I am a citizen not a subject
  • No Banks, more Jobs
  • Because its my country and my city
  • Peace, love and happiness because I believe in the power of the people
  • My life is occupied by debt and my free time is occupied with work to service that debt and the banks keep raining their rates...I keep paying but it never gets paid off. All because I wanted an eduction and a piece of the American dream
  • the People
  • Trickle up poverty
  • because our freedom has become an illusion ie Patriot Act
  • because its better than being unoccupied
  • Humanity
  • To end capitalism once and for all
  • Because I love my fellow man
  • It is my right as an American
  • To create peace and love
  • Education in too important to be left to the government
  • Shining a little light in a night devoid of stars
  • Its very simple....Justice and fairness excludes no one
  • I believe in dignity
  • because people matter and need to wake up
  • Our money is whatever we say it is. Our money can be trust and generosity instead of violence and greed
  • I just want to smash corporate greed and expand social services
  • why have a voice if you don't use it
  • To educate ignorance and fight statism
  • We preserve a chance to speak
  • Economic justice
  • Parents unemployed student loans
  • Peace
  • my governments relationship with me should be more important than its relationship with corporations
  • Th rich did not get rich alone
  • I need to forge a path to prosperity for my generation
  • change the world change your generation
  • the voices in my head told me so
  • Corporations aren't people. Money doesn't talk. But we do
  • Copyright extensions
  • I have the right
  • because my future shouldn't be linked to my bank account google
  • healthcare is a human right
  • I'm a teacher
  • I am the 99%
  • Hooverville 2011, thanks bush
  • communism
  • I still believe in America
  • For my students
  • End the drug war
  • war on drugs
  • war on people
  • defense of marriage act
  • don't ask don't tell
  • queers
  • drag queens
  • communism
  • socialism
  • equality
  • Because I'm sick of rich white men telling me what to buy, do, wear, and listen to!
  • For my children
  • Because I remember when the oceans teemed with life
  • Inequity should not be institutionalized
  • because change is possible
  • Unitarians for Occupy Boston
  • Because it Matters
  • End the Fed
  • Don't give up
  • Love 4 earth
  • change
  • 1 trillion – flying car
  • I'm tired of being raped by my bank
  • Because its my right as an American
  • I want ethics in government remove corporate influence in politics
  • rape
  • women
  • love
  • I am proud to be an American
  • Because I am a transgendered second-class citizen
  • transgender
  • bisexuals
  • Occupy for better education
  • Was tired of being quiet
  • Tired of this bullshit
  • rules
  • laws
  • freedom
  • liberty
  • speech
  • communication
  • For the planet and the animals
  • I want my piece of the american dream, slice of the american pie
  • To get money out of politics
  • because my friends want to go to college too
  • Because I love America and I don't want it to be stolen by greed
  • Its my right to feel secure when I retire
  • because to understand we must begin to think better of our nation's actions in the world
  • Take back control of the conversation from the propaganda machine of and for the rich
  • To occupy everywhere
  • because money stole my vote
  • Because I'm tired of being fucked by bankers
  • Democracy
  • fear
  • To better this country
  • A living Planet
  • I was brought as a revolutionary activist. It is my job. I want my country back Let us grow our own cooperatives rather rely on corporations
  • Justice
  • Ron Paul 2012
  • because there are people who have me dead for having a preexisting condition that is too expensive.
  • Because homeless people have been occupying long before we got here and this is really where they live
  • For the future
  • for Corruption
  • Respect and Protect all laborers, not just CEOs
  • debt education
  • Because we are the 99% but to the rest of the world, we are the 1%
  • Not banks, people rights
  • Serve humanity not money
  • If we don't who will
  • 99%
  • 1%
  • Because socialized loss and privatized gain is not the American dream
  • I had to choose between college and homelessness (yay america)
  • For my baby sistr's future
  • For a good cause
  • End the wars. 9-11 truth
  • because 18-25% is indentured servitude
  • we need to do this together
  • because my faith requires me to witness against injustice and stand on the side of love
  • for the bean
  • get the corrupt out of the health system
  • Justice
  • togetherness
  • Because I love my country
  • Because $70000 student loans is too much
  • Justice
  • maxed out on student loans
  • My heart is sick, My heart is broken, my soul aches, its time to heal
  • Because my friends lost their jobs when my company gave you that loan
  • Because my friends lost their jobs when my company gave you that loan
  • Fixing conundrum
  • Im concerned
  • Namaste
  • My dad is bankrupt and my mom is forced to work while disabled
  • because we need to change everything
  • HFTs
  • Hope
  • assholes