Jay Z, Michael Moore cash in on Occupy
As it says on
their “about” page…
(Occupy Wall Street) is fighting back against the corrosive power of major banks and multinational corporations (and) aims to expose how the richest 1% of people are writing the rules of an unfair global economy.
“Yeeaahh”, says Michael Moore, who
addressed an Occupy crowd in Denver last week and railed against “greedy” corporations. Though, to be fair, that isn’t why he went to Denver in the first place.
Moore was in Denver on a tour to promote his $27 memoir, ‘Here Comes Trouble: Stories from My Life.’
By the way that book is published by Grand Central Publishing, a subdivision of the French company
Hachette, which is the second largest publisher in the world. Hachette is a wholly owned subsidiary of the
Lagardère Group, a multinational conglomerate headquartered in Paris which does business in nearly 40 countries. Among other things they hold a 7.5% stake in
EADS, a global defense and military contractor, which absorbed the Lagardère subsidiary
Aérospatiale-Matra, a French missile and aircraft manufacturer.
Jay-Z ,the millionaire rapper and entrepreneur is
launching a line of Occupy Wall Street-themed t-shirts featuring the phrase “Occupy All Streets,” that go on sale on Jay-Z’s Rocawear website on Friday.But the genius behind “99 Problems” isn’t sharing the profits with the 99 percent. A spokesperson from Rocawear told Business Insider in a statement that the company has not “made an official commitment” to support the movement financially.
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