Occupy Wall Street Thursday 10.20.11

(4 pm. – promoted by ek hornbeck)

70% of #OWS Supporters are Politically Independent

For more Information on Occupy Protests Please See:

Occupy Wall Street Basic Information and Previous editions in this series for earlier articles, etc

Previous editions in this series can be found HERE for earlier articles, etc

**NOTE: Updates will be done at the TOP of each section & have an asterisk**

**ACTION ITEMS**

PARTICIPATE: Locate Occupy Events in YOUR area–WORLDWIDE!!

PARTICIPATE TODAY: 10 a.m. All Hands on Deck for Square Reorganizing!

Thursday From 10am

PARTICIPATE TODAY: Occupy The BoardRoom

The 1% have addresses. The 99% have messages.

Life gets awfully lonely for those at the top. What can we do to let them know someone’s thinking of them? Maybe they need some new friends! We’ve thought of two ways we can help them with that.

PARTICIPATE TODAY: Occupy Their Mailboxes The Pen Is Mightier Than The Sword

PARTICIPATE TOMORROW NIGHT: OWS Family Sleepover

Friday From 4pm – Saturday 11am

ATTEND: Occupy Wall St. Benefit Show !

Saturday, October 22 at 6:30pm – October 23 at 2:00am

Gussy’s Bar & Grill  20-14 29th St  Queens, NY

TURN ON LIVE STREAM: open a tab for Live Stream- Global Revolution

SIGN PETITION: Working America: I Am Not Your ATM

SIGN PETITION: WE the People: petition the obama administration to: Make Bribing Politicians Illegal

SIGN PETITION: Change.org: NYC Mayor: Stand with Occupy Wall Street



SIGN PETITION: Change.org: Occupy Wall Street: Occupy Together

SIGN PETITION: AVAAZ: The World vs Wall Street

SIGN PETITION: Credo: Stand with Occupy Wall Street

SIGN PETITION: Get Money Out

Over 200,000 signatures!

Help us expose the auction. If you’ve received political fundraising solicitations on the phone or over email, submit them!

SIGN PETITION: Eric Grieco: Tell Congress: We need jobs, not cuts!

(for more info see “Petitions” HERE)

DOWNLOAD: POSTERS!!

(see more under “NEWSPAPER/MEDIA” HERE)

WEAR/DISPLAY/SHOW Your Solidarity: CafePress store T-shirts!

T-shirts, bumper stickers, decals, mugs & much much more!

99% items, Occupy Items, Fawke Items

SHARE A RIDE: Are you going to an Occupy event & have room in your car? Do you want to go but have no ride?

Carpool-to-Occupy is endorsing yRides (promoted by Occupy Together)

OCCUPY ANNOUNCEMENTS!!


Reader Supported News: OWS Organizers Blast MoveOn (10.15.11)

Are You with an Occupy Event? Make sure YOUR General Assembly sees this:

*Recognition of Oppression Across Occupations – ‘An injury to one is an injury to all’

Occupy Together Meetups

in 2019 cities as of 10.20.11 at 10am EDT

Occupy Together is creating has created an Occupy Directory!

Please make sure YOUR Occupy Group is listed!


First Declaration of the Occupation of New York City 09.29.11


LINKs & ARTICLEs

please excuse any repeated listings.

AROUND THE COUNTRY

Irish Times: David Brooks: Americans are quietly trying to restore their economic values(10.19.11)

Irish Times: ROSITA BOLAND: Protesters say they plan to stay despite weather (10.19.11)

Current: Young Turks: Rev. Jesse Jackson: ‘We have reason to fight back'(10.18.11)

Current: Young Turks: The top 1 percent shows up to support Occupy Wall Street (10.18.11)

Wired: Spencer Ackerman: Egypt’s Top ‘Facebook Revolutionary’ Now Advising Occupy Wall Street (10.18.11)

DemocracyNOW: AmyGoodman: Former Financial Regulator William Black: Occupy Wall Street a Counter to White-Collar Fraud (10.19.11)

Reuters: David Cay Johnston: First look at US pay data, it’s awful(10.19.11)

Reuters: The Great Debate: Don Tapscott: Three principles for a new Wall Street (10.19.11)

Reuters: Robert Evans: Young unemployed facing difficult years: ILO (10.19.11)

Reuters: Bruce Olson: Occupy St. Louis to show commercial-free World Series (10.19.11)

Huffington Post: Alec Baldwin Visits Occupy Wall Street, Talks Federal Reserve (10.19.11)

NPR: Chris Arnold: Frustration Over Jobs Unites ‘Occupiers’ In Boston (w/Audio)(10.20.11)

NPR: Nina Porzucki: The Informal Media Team Behind Occupy Wall Street (10.19.11)

NPR: Martin Kaste: Exploring Occupy Wall Street’s ‘Adbuster’ Origins (w/Audio)(10.20.11)

NPR: Margot Adler: How Are Business Impacted By Occupy Wall Street? (w/Audio)(10.19.11)

DailyBeast: Occupy Protests’ Seismic Effect (10.17.11)

The State: Noelle Phillips: ‘Occupy Columbia’ protesters take to Main Street (10.20.11)

MSNBC: Reuters: World intrigued by “Occupy Wall Street” movement

MSNBC: MTV Casting Looks for Occupy Wall Street Protesters  (10.19.11)

MSNBC: VERENA DOBNIK: Occupy Wall Street becomes NYC tourist stop  (10.20.11)

Post&Courier: Schuyler Kropf: Occupy Charleston begins at Brittlebank Park(10.19.11)

Post&Courier: Local Occupy protestors ready to march, preparing for lectures (10.20.11)

Guardian: Matt Wells: Occupy Wall St: Naomi Wolf condemns ‘Stalinist’ erosion of protest rights – Author was arrested alongside Occupy Wall Street protesters after she disputed police claims that they had to clear sidewalk(10.19.11)

Guardian: Alex Slater: Occupy Wall Street: real change requires political embrace(10.20.11)

70% of #OWS Supporters are Politically Independent

CCPA: Why Conservatives are Worried about a Growing Gap (09.23.11)

Rabble: Jim Stanford: Occupy movement: Has a sleeping radical giant finally been awakened? (10.17.11)

RollingStone: Matt Taibbi: Why Rush Limbaugh Is Freaking Out About Occupy Wall Street (10.18.11)

RollingStone: Matt Taibbi: Why Occupy Wall Street Is Bigger Than Left vs. Right (10.17.11)

Washington Post: Greg Sargent: Wall Street lobbyists rage at Dems for supporting Occupy Wall Street (10.18.11)

(independent news source)

The Rising Revolution

Slate: Will Oremus: Occupy Wall Street Seeks Mainstream Appeal (10.18.11)

DKos: Broke and Unemployed: A 39-mile bike ride for the 99%, and an engineer among poets at #OccupyCleveland+ (10.18.11)

Wall Street Swindler: Larry Alger: Inside Occupy LA…… OLA and Staff Threatened by Outside Push-Cart Food Vendors NOT the LAPD!! (10.17.11)

Naked Capitalism: Yves Smith: David Graeber – On Playing By The Rules – The Strange Success Of #OccupyWallStreet(10.19.11)

(It’s enough to make you cry that this source is one of the few outfits actually practicing REAL journalism)

Onion: Nation Waiting For Protesters To Clearly Articulate Demands Before Ignoring Them (10.12.11)

Nation of Change: October2011.org Special Report: Leaked Memo: The Corporate Board Rooms Fear Occupy Movement Occupying Their Board Rooms Targeting Individual Executives(10.19.11)

Nation of Change: Matthew Cardinale: Occupy Movement Heats Up U.S. South(10.19.11)

Nation of Change: Chris Hedges: In Times Square (10.19.11)

Nation of Change: Lee Fang: Billionaire Tycoon Claps For Herman Cain’s Attacks on Occupy Wall Street Movement(10.19.11)

Nation of Change: Jim Hightower: Wall Street Is Dazed and Confused(10.19.11)

Nation of Change: Amy Goodman: The Arc of the Moral Universe, From Memphis to Wall Street (10.19.11)

DKos: One Pissed Off Liberal: #OWS: Let Me Tell You Wall Street Asshats a Little Something About Hippies (10.19.11)

AROUND THE WORLD

BBC: Paul Mason: ‘Occupy’ is a response to economic permafrost

BusinessWeek: London Protesters May Close St Paul’s, Cathedral Leaders Say (10.20.11)

BusinessWeek: Protests Show Capitalism Losing ‘License to Operate,’ Blood Says (10.20.11)

BBC: Occupy London: St Paul’s Cathedral faces closure threat (10.20.11)

Guardian: Deborah Orr: Want to resist the rat-race? I hope you’ve got some cash – Dale Farm highlights what happens when people try to live outside the system(10.19.11)

Guardian: Adam Gabbatt: Occupy Wall Street, London and Frankfurt – your questions answered(10.19.11)

Guardian: Seumas Milne: The Occupy movement has lit a fire for real change – Establishment praise for the Occupy protests reflects anxiety at public anger – which needs to be turned into political pressure

Guardian: Alison Flood: Occupy movement attracts support of top authors (10.20.11)

Guardian: Michael White: Protesters of the world beware: remember what happened to Liberty(10.20.11)

Guardian: Symon Hill: Would Jesus kick the Occupy London protesters off St Paul’s grounds?(10.20.11)

FILE UNDER: WHY THE 99% ARE ANGRY


The State: Gina Smith: Study: Middle incomes hit hard – S.C. taxes favor wealthy, group says (10.19.11)

Bloomberg: Noah Buhayar: AIG Assembles Managers, Distributors at ‘Ultra Luxury’ Resort (10.8.11)

End of the American Dream: The Big Wall Street Banks Are Already Trying To Buy The 2012 Election (10.19.11)

Guardian: Denis Campbell and James Meikle: Revealed: how NHS cuts are really affecting the young, old and infirm – Services slashed affect patients on frontline such as pregnant women and elderly despite assurances they would be protected (10.17.11)

Talking Points Memo: Evan McMorris-Santoro & Ryan J. Reilly: Herman Cain Spends $100K In Campaign Cash On Herman Cain Inc. (10.17.11)

Hullabaloo: Digby: More Crackdown Politics (10.18.11)

DKos: FishOutofWater: GMO Crops Yield Suicides, Hunger, Pesticides, Superbugs, Superweeds and Huge Profits for Monsanto (10.19.11)

Naked Capitalism: Yves Smith: Quelle Surprise! GAO Finds the Fed is a Club of Backscratching, Well Connected, White Bankers (10.20.11)

Naked Capitalism: Yves Smith: Latest Attorney General Bailout Plan: Give Banks “Get Out of Jail Free” Card for a Few Refis (10.19.11)

Naked Capitalism: Yves Smith: Eurozone Leaders Ready €80 Billion Band-Aid for Banking Industry Gunshot Wound (10.19.11)

Naked Capitalism: Yves Smith: Bank of America Deathwatch: Moves Risky Derivatives from Holding Company to Taxpayer-Backstopped Depository (10.18.11)

Bloomberg: Bob Ivry, Hugh Son and Christine Harper: BofA Said to Split Regulators Over Moving Merrill Derivatives to Bank Unit (10.18.11)

Nation of Change: Aaron Mehta and Josh Israel: Super Congress Hauls in Super Donations as Special Interests Try to Influence Budget Cuts (10.19.11)

SOME GOOD NEWS


Business World: Gov’t pressed on ‘inclusive growth’ (10.17.11)

FBIC – Ranking Of Group Insurers Claims Payment Practices *

Huffington: John Celock: New Hampshire House Denies Speaker Power To Jail Citizens (10.17.11)

ACLU: Google Turns on Encrypted Search by Default for Users

Sanders Statement on Social Security COLA

Naked Capitalism: Yves Smith: Bank of America Setback: $8.5 Billion Mortgage Settlement Successfully Removed to Federal Court (Updated) (10.19.11)

DKos: Raul Grijalva: The Progressive Caucus Introduces The People’s Priorities+ (10.18.11)

PERTINENT TWEETs


@SenatorSanders Bernie Sanders

Jamie Dimon, CEO of JP Morgan, was on the board of the NY Fed while his bank received loans from the Fed Reserve. **PDF**LINK #Fed

5 minutes ago via web

@kgosztola Kevin Gosztola

#OWS is not going to get in the business of helping two major US political parties further rig system. They aren’t a #GOTV movement.

9 minutes ago via web   (10.16.11  7:51pmEDT)

OccupyEarth Occupy Earth

We #OccupyEarth and we claim the right to protect our land from unsustainable interests. #globalchange #tomalacalle15o #Oct15 #takewallst

2 minutes ago  (10.12.11 appx 9:45pm EDT)

@OccupyPeoria OccupyPeoria

We’re not the left. We’re not the right. We are the bottom and we’re coming up. #ows #occupychi #occupypeoria #occupyamerica #occupyearth

8 Oct via web (9:45amEDT)

OccupyWallSt Occupy Wall Street

Organizations and politicians are supporting us but they are not sponsoring us #ows

about 3 hours ago (10.08.11 appx 8:20am EDT)

OpWallStreet #OccupyAmerica

by OccupyWallSt

To those who are worried about #OWS becoming co-opted by partisan politics, DONT WORRY. #OccupyWallStreet by design cant be controlled.

9 hours ago  (10.06.11 appx 2am EDT)

PHOTOs


Guardian: Occupy Together Flickr Gallery

Guardian: Occupy Everywhere: geotagged photos of demonstrations and events of the global movement

What’s Wrong With This Picture

OWS Canada

Occupy Charlotte Photos

VIDEOs


(my daughter’s SO filmed this)

ABC News4: Occupy Charleston March

Peter Joseph: Message to Occupy Wall Street & The World | The Zeitgeist Movement

The Banker

FOX: Chicago Political Economy Group’s Bill Barclay argues imposing a tax on speculation trades at the exchanges would create jobs.

10-18-11 1a – Law And Order, with Felix Rivera-Pitre – Countdown with Keith Olbermann

A message from Anonymous to Wall street, New York and the protesters

4 comments

Skip to comment form

    • RiaD on October 20, 2011 at 18:21
      Author

    • TMC on October 20, 2011 at 23:35

    evenyc is helping organize a March Against the Health Insurance Industry on October 26 from 4 PM EDT to 7 PM EDT

    Date/Time

    Date(s) – 26 Oct 2011

    3:00 PM – 7:00 PM

    Location

    Liberty Plaza

    Under the Big Red Thing

       March

    Time:

    3:00pm Sign Making in Liberty Plaza

    4:00pm Open Speakout – come share your personal struggles with our healthcare system

    4:30pm March Against the Health Insurance Industry

    March Details:

    4:30pm – Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield / One Liberty Plaza: located across the street from Zuccotti park, Empire is a subsidiary of WellPoint, the largest publicly-traded health insurance company. CEO Angela Braley’s overall compensation is $13.1 million dollars, enough to cover 1455 New Yorkers.

    5:30pm – WellCare / 110 5th Ave: the for-profit company that administers Medicaid and Medicare Advantage programs in New York and other states. Currently being investigated for fraud with estimates that WellCare illegally siphoned $400 million to $600 million from state health insurance programs for the poor. (1)

    6pm – St Vincent’s Community Hospital / 12th St & 7th Ave: closed earlier this year due to bankruptcy, St Vincent’s is a casualty of profit-driven insurers and a healthcare system that leaves 50 million Americans uninsured. There are now no hospitals on the westside below 57th st.

Comments have been disabled.