Occupy Wall Street Lyrics

Third Eye Blind- If There Ever Was A Time

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gf45vXByCg

If there ever was a time, it would be now
Is all I'm sayin'
If there ever was a time, to get on your feet
Take it to the street
Cause your the one that's getting played right now
By the game they're playing
Come on meet me down at Zuccotti Park
And say,

Oh where are the youth we need you now
Come speak the truth come break it down
Where are the youth we need you now

If there ever was a time, it would be now
To make the masters hear this
If there ever was a time to get downtown
And get non violent and fearless
Things only get brighter, when you light a spark
Everywhere you go right now is Zuccotti Park

And news corps says you don't have a plan
Well sit down man, I'll tell you again
The plans that stand together up to greed
And a tear gas can in a veteran's face
Won't change the case

Oh where are the youth we need you now
Come speak the truth come break it down
Where are the youth we need you now

If there ever was a time it would be now
For the rest of us
If there ever was a time it would be now
Because money and power incestuous
A moment makes a movement
Or it fades out in the dark
Come on, meet me down at Zuccotti Park

And I saw a sign in the Oakland Spring
It said: "Occupy everything"!
Or by and for and off won't mean a thing

Oh where are the youth we need you now
Come speak the truth come break it down
Where are the youth we need you now

If there ever was a time it would be now
Is all I'm saying
If there ever was a time to get on your feet
Take it to the street
Cause you're the one who's getting played right now
By the game they're playing
Come on meet me down at Zuccotti Park
Come on meet me down at Zuccotti Park
Come on meet me down at Zuccotti Park

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Research Log #5

http://occupychico.com/

For the final research log I decided just to use a website used to promote the occupy movement in Chico, CA. The reason I am using this is to show that this movement is effecting everyone across the U.S. On the website you can find anything you want to know about the occupy movement and what you can do to help or join the movement. Going over it I saw that there were hundreds of events to attend or help out with just from the last couple of months. It has a calendar to show events and times and will keep you up to date on what is going on in the occupy movement.  It really showed me how organized this movement is. Since the movement started in New York and moved across the nation and globally I was surprised to see how organized and up to date everything was with the occupy movement. The website shows the different committees it has to help out the movement and just by having an account with the website and hitting join anyone can join any committee. The committees range from the rally committee that deals with when and where the rallies will be held, to the media committee that deals with press releases and general materials for distribution, to even a medical committee dedicated to the medical needs of anyone involved in the movement.  The events can even be split up into sub groups if you don't want to be fully committed to the movement with women occupy movements to occupy the crime scene. What I was the most surprised to see however was that they showed the meeting minutes from every meeting or rally the Occupy Chico Movement involved talking about what they have scheduled to talking about exactly what questions were asked and answered and by whom.  Every insight you could possibly need for the Occupy Chico Movement is involved in this website and it is kept up to date.

Research Log #4

Schmidt, Michael S. “Occupy seeks ways to regain attention; Visibility has waned, putting movement in need of fresh new tactics”. The International Herald Tribune(Washington) April 2, 2012. Web.

This article talks about how after 6 months since the start of the Occupy Movement, the movement has actually had a big impact on everybody, including politicians, and how the issues brought up by the movement will have to be addressed even in the upcoming presidential elections. The issues mainly deal with the inequalities of the 99% of the population and the greed and corruption of the top 1%. The protesters believe that the large corporations and banks are so greedy that it is costing the 99% money from the debt they have piled up for the economy.  It goes on to talk about how they believe the movement was starting to lose its fire but when the better weather comes the movement will regain its momentum.  Protesters said they were more dormant during the winter and that they were laying roots to boost the reemergence of the protest in spring.  From this they believe that the inequality issues will have to be addressed in the upcoming presidential elections and could have a big affect on the outcome of who is elected.

The part of this article that I had the biggest reaction from is when they talked about how they believe the movement will have an effect on the presidential elections. I was surprised that the movement had grown so big that they believe it will be part of the presidential platforms and not just from the democratic side, but now the Republican Party because the issue had grown so big. This made more sense when the article went on to talk about how the Occupy movement covered 6% of the news and had moved up to 14% by November. The only problems arose when even though 48% of the American population agreed with the occupy movements but only 29% of the voters agreed with how the protests were conducted.  The solution to this problem by the protesters is to change their protesting tactics. Some of the tactics brought up were to do things that have been tried in European protests including flash mobs and banner drops.

The reason I chose this article was because it was the most recent article I could find on the issue. It seems like for now it is the most relevant because it is so up to date on today’s issues. The article brings up points and issues that weren’t originally brought up or expected 6 months before when the movement started.  I don’t think most people thought that when the movement first started it would grow across the globe and become such a popular issue that it would be talked about in the next upcoming elections. 

Research Log #3

Unknown. “Occupy protest 6-month anniversary ends with police sweep” The Telegraph(U.K.) March 18, 2012. Web.

 

Six months after the start of the Occupy Movement started a huge group of protesters made their way back to Zuccotti Park in New York which is less than a 5 minute walk from the New York Stock Exchange. Many protesters gathered with their tents and sleeping bags and sat and locked arms in the park once the park was closed.  The night ended with the New York Police Department coming through and sweeping the park making many arrests as they came through.  A bus was seen driving away with about a dozen people in plastic handcuffs who were arrested during the police sweep. Earlier in the day the protesters were seen protesting just outside the New York Stock Exchange chanting phrases like “We are unstoppable” and “Spring is Coming”.  Many protesters also talked about how they were happy with where they were in the movement and what had been accomplished so far.

 

I feel like this article was the best one I had read so far about the Occupy Movement. One protester held a cardboard sign in the protests that read, “Spring is Coming”.  This short phrase gave me the biggest reaction from the entire article. It showed me that the mentality now is that the warm spring weather will revitalize the movement and have the same spark the movement once had a few months earlier.  Many people had talked in different articles saying that the movement was dying out and how it was going to fade out soon.  But this protest marking the 6^th month anniversary showed that the movement was soon to get back on its feet and where it had left off once the spring weather comes. Protesters talked about how the movement will have the same momentum if not more than it had a few months earlier. The same protester said, “It's changed the language," she said. "It's brought out a lot of issues that people are talking about. ... And that's the start of change.” This shows me that they have succeeded in the first step of the movement which was just to get the word of the movement out to the public and this was succeeded when the movement moved all over the world and not just around the New York Stock Exchange.

 

I chose this source because the last source I had looked at was about 6 months ago and the very beginning of the movement and now this one was written less than a month ago. From this I was able to see what was going on with the movement and how far they had come along in the movement. I was interested to see that even though it seemed like the movement was starting to die out that they are very optimistic it will come back just as strong as when it had started once the weather gets better and also that they were happy with what the movement had accomplished so far.

Research Log #2

Goodale, Gloria. "Occupy Wall Street: flash in the pan or beginning of a movement?; A growth spurt sent the Occupy Wall Street Movement sprawling across the US and into other countries.  It's showing greater orgainzation and widening appeal.  Will it hold together?" The Christian Science Monitor October 4, 2011. Web.

This article was written at the very start of the Occupy Movement.  It talks about how the movement was first starting to become a serious situation and how it wasn’t just a movement based around only Wall Street or even New York, but it had now grown to a global scale. The article also talks about the main groups of people that are starting to take place in this movement, saying that it tends to be people under the age of 30 and how they are using social networks from Facebook, to Twitter, and even e-mail. Why I chose this article was because it hits main points of what the movement is all about. It says that the movement is a leaderless movement of the 99% of Americans from all race, age, and gender that are being corrupted by greed and corruption of the top 1%. They are looking for a solution to the damage that has been done to the US Economy by the top 1%.

When I first read this article I was still pretty unfamiliar of what this occupy movement was all about. Now I see that they are just a group of people who are trying to make a difference through a nonviolent movement trying to achieve a solution for the debt that has come from what they believe is the greed and corruption from the top 1%.  “The movement was sparked by individuals targeting what they see as the excessive political pull of big banks and the financial sector in contributing to policies they feel are detrimental to the middle class” said a Villanova Professor.One protester described the Occupy movement as the “Movement of all movements”.  My reaction from this quote in the article written about 6 months ago was that I wondered if they would’ve known the growth of this movement throughout the globe and through many college campuses including our own Chico State.

The reason I chose this source was because it written right at the boom of the occupy movement. It had just traveled across the country and across the globe. I want to see what they have achieved in the last 6 months now and if they are anywhere close to where they want to be with the solution.  I am also interested in what has been done to help the movement besides all the nonviolent protests that I have seen personally at 3 different college campuses in California, including here at Chico State. I am excited to see what has come from the movement and the steps that have been taken to achieve their goal.  

Research Log #1

Beja, Mark. "Occupy protesters plan national rallies." Newsday(New York) February 29, 2012: pgA33. Web.




In the article "Occupy protesters plan national rallies" by Mark Beja, the author talks about how many groups around the country from Oakland, CA, to Las Vegas, NV, to Long Island, NY; will be coming out will be meeting to protest for the Occupy Wall Street movement. Some of the groups are receiving large donations in support of their campaign including Ben & Jerry two co-founders who will be donating  $1 million to the Movement Resources Group. The demonstrations are held to show support for the Occupy Wall Street movement and can be seen in just about every state across the nation.

My reaction to this was that I was surprised in the amount of work and people that are involved in this movement. This isn't just a small group of protesters that are rallying for something. Instead this is a nation wide protest that involves thousands of people from every state. What I also noticed is that this Movement is so big and captivating to people everywhere that I believe it is really starting to have an effect on the economy and the way major corporations are looking at things. They now have to take into consideration the effects this Occupy Wall Street movements is having on their businesses as well as all of the corporations as a whole.

The reason I chose this source was because I felt like it was a good opener to the research that I will be looking at. It's a good place to start from and it shows me the mass population of the movement and how widespread it is. From this piece I can now start to look at what other issues go into this movement and what else the movement is trying to achieve. I'm interested to know the very start of this movement; where it came from and what group of people were the originators of this movement. Or maybe this movement has been going on for a long time and people are now just starting to get the message across. Either way I would like to see where this movement originated from and what impact the movement has had on the economy so far. Also, I'm interested in what this movement will bring in the long run and if this movement can actually make a big impact since the size of the movement has grown so much.

Can There Be World Citizenship

In the article "Can There Be World Citizenship" by Elise Boulding, the author talks about how she is striving for a more peaceful world. A world that is free of war, racism, etc., and she believes that all of this would be possible if the United Nations could do a better job of uniting the countries of this world. Also, she talks about the theory of the melting pot and how she believes it will happen basically letting there be only one common race on the planet. Boulding believes that with all of these pieces being put into place that a World citizenship would be possible. I disagree with what the author believes, and that there can't be a World citizenship. I think that it wouldn't be possible to have this because I don't think all the nations around the World would be free to just drop their borders and let anyone come in and out of the country with no issues. Also, if everyone were free to go anywhere they want and there wasn't any war, I feel like eventually a person or group would get power hungry and try to take over. This would eventually just lead back to where we are right now with new countries starting to pop up. The kind of greed and self think, reminds me of the "Generation Me" and "The Why-Worry Generation" articles, both articles talked about this generation being very selfish and always trying to help yourself out, and this type of thinking is part of what I think would make it impossible to have a world citizenship for everyone.

Generation Y

In the articles, "Generation Me" by Raina Kelley and "The Why-Worry Generation" by Judith Warner, the authors talked about how the Generation Y, or anyone born between 1982-2002, and how they have this new attitude in life where they are very narcissistic and overconfident in life. In the "Generation Me" article, the author talks a lot about how the new generation has produced a generation of narcissists and how they are only all about them. I feel like the good point made in this article was about the strong urge to attain the "ideal" look. 30 years ago plastic surgery was basically unheard of, but now girls are still in high school when they are first getting plastic surgery. Celebrities on TV are putting into teens heads exactly how they should act and what they should look like so people are going out of their way to have the same look. Even if this means to undergo potentially dangerous surgeries. In the other article, "The Why-Worry Generation", the author talked about the overconfidence of the new generation. Today the new generation has been turning down job offers just because they may not be up to their self given standards. 20 years ago anyone would have accepted any job they could get but now the new generation has this ego problem where if the job isn't good enough then they won't accept it.

The Ways We Lie

The White Lie

A white lie is when you lie to another person because you don't want to hurt their feelings, so you tell them a lie that you believe will make them feel better. An example of this would be if your friend came up to you who has been having a bad day and asks you, "How do I look?" and because you don't want to hurt their feelings or make their day worse so you say, "Never looked better!"

Facades

Facades are more of an illusion of yourself to other people. You believe people will judge you based on your appearance so you dress and talk how you want another person to see you as. An example of this would be if you were to buy a nice suit and talk to a person your meeting in a very proper way to make it seem that you are very proper or well educated, when in reality you might not be a very proper or educated person.

Ignoring The Plain Facts

Ignoring the plain facts simply means that you allow something to happen knowing it could go wrong, but just hoping for the best basically. An example of this would be a person with a drinking problem and finally getting them to go to rehab. Then when they get out of rehab they tell you that they have enough self control to go to a bar and not drink. So even though you know what can happen, you let it happen anyways and that person goes to the bar and falls right back into their drinking problem.

Deflecting

Deflecting is a way of taking one issue and instead of confronting it directly, you turn the attention to something else to avoid it. An example of this would be if you got caught stealing something and instead of admitting you did it, you say the reason why you did it was test the security of the place you are stealing from.

Omission

An omission is when you leave out a couple parts of a story, but the parts you leave out completely changes the entire story. An example of this would be if your phone was under warranty for any problems that the phone has, and you drop it and even though it doesn't scratch the outside the phone starts messing up from the drop. So you take it in to get a new one and because they don't see any scratches, and they don't know that you dropped it they give you a brand new phone since they believe the phone messing up was just a manufacturing error.

Stereotypes and Cliches

This type of lie is when you make an assumption of a group based on one person in the group. For example if you watched a person who was very old, fall or trip and you make the assumption that all people who are very old are clumsy, then that would be a stereotype of all very old people.

Groupthink

Groupthink is more of a psychological lie where you ignore facts or even what you feel in order to have the same opinion as the group you are in. An example of this would be if you were in a religious group and they told you that if the group committed suicide that the group would go on to a better second life. Now even though you don't think it's a good idea to kill yourself you do it anyways because everyone else is.

Out-and-Out Lies

This lie is when you ask a question you already know the answer to, just knowing that you are probably going to get lied to. If you have a roommate that doesn't like to do dishes and is always leaving his dishes out and you know that the dishes out are his so you ask him, "Hey do you know whose dishes these are?" and he lies to you saying, "No, I think they are the other roommate's."

Dismissal

Dismissal is when someone tells you something, maybe how they feel, and you basically tell them no that's not how you feel instead you actually feel this way. An example would be if your friend didn't want to go out and party one night and he says, "I feel pretty tired and I don't want to go do anything tonight." and you come back and tell them, "No, you're fine you aren't tired we're going to go out and have fun tonight."

Delusion

Delusion is taking facts and twisting them into excuses that you want to believe. If you're lost in the middle of the desert with no food or water, you might use delusion to try to help you survive by telling yourself that you are going to get out soon and that you are going to find water soon.

Project Rant

Dear neighbors upstairs,
I understand that Chico State has had its reputation of being a party school, and that's fine and everything, but when you guys upstairs decide that it would be fun to do drugs that make you stay up all night and make you want to blast your techno music through your new DJ speakers that you always brag about, it makes us neighbors downstairs a little irritated. I'm all for playing loud music and having fun at night, but really, on weekday nights Monday through Wednesday... Some people actually go to class during the week and have to get this thing called sleep in for a few hours. Now this is very difficult to do when I hear that bass speaker rattle my apartment until 5 am in the morning, every morning. Now just because in your guys' fantasy life of not going to school or having a job allows you to party all night every night, but for the rest of us, turns out there's this thing called the weekend that is usually a pretty popular time to do all these things.  What makes us downstairs a little more irritated is when you wander down the stairs and knock on our door curious of what we are doing at 2 am. Yes, we are trying that sleeping thing I mentioned earlier. Oh, and all the glass bottles that you guys decide to knock over onto the concrete out front of my apartment, well those do break into very sharp pieces of glass that do hurt when stepped on. So if you guys could keep it down, even just on weekdays, that would be awesome.
Thanks from,
Your annoyed neighbors downstairs

P.S. I heard there's a drug, even common to this state, which actually relaxes you. Maybe you should give that one a try so you won't stay up all night.

Why I Like Vicious Online Comments/Make Out Ugly Discourse Better

In the two online articles "Why I like vicious, anonymous online comments", and "Make Our Ugly Discourse: Join the Civilogue", the authors both make points about the nastiness and rude comments made by people on online blogs, posts, etc., but both have very different viewpoints. I agreed and liked what the author of the article "Why I like vicious, anonymous online comments", talked about and how with these vulgar comments made by people all over really show what Americans are like. He talks about how racism, sexism, or anti-Semitism are believed to no longer be a problem in America, but from the comments it's obvious that they still are. The author of this articles opinion on these comments is that he loves them. They show him what people are really like and there "real" thoughts on things without it being filtered because they are things that people are too scared to say in person or if it can be tracked back to him. My favorite quote from this article is, "They show us what the species is really like: the full spectrum of human behavior, not just the part that we find reassuring and enlightening." This quote shows me that when people are online they are saying things they truly mean because they won't get in trouble for it or be judged by it, "That's the real us."

I disagreed with what the author of the article, "Make Our Ugly Discourse: Join the Civilogue" talked about. His opinion was exactly the opposite of the other authors opinion. He believes that when people go and see comments like that they should tell them they are wrong and that everyone should basically not be saying any of this. I disagree because I think that when people say things that are filtered, they aren't saying what they truly believe and they have to hold back which may take away from there point or opinion. This author believes that these comments are evil and that they are "proof that cleaning up this mess will not be easy." What this author calls a "mess" is what I believe are people's true opinions.