(4 pm. – promoted by ek hornbeck)
and up-to-date OWS Basic Info is HERE
***OccupyTogether: Tonight: Vigils Across America for Scott Olsen (10.27.11)***
PARTICIPATE: Locate Occupy Events in YOUR area–WORLDWIDE!!**PARTICIPATE FRIDAY OCT 28: Occupy Harlem
Friday October 28, 6:30 PM – 9:30 PM – St. Philip’s Church – 204 West 134th Street [west of 7th Av./Adam Clayton Powell Blvd]**PARTICIPATE OCT 29: Occupy Against Big Food
Saturday Oct 29, 1:00PM – Zuccotti Park**PARTICIPATE OCT 30: Climate Justice Day
Sunday Oct 30, 12:00 PM – 8:00 PM – Liberty Plaza; Throughout Liberty Plaza and beyond**PARTICIPATE NOV 25 (& throughout the holiday season): OCCUPY BLACK FRIDAY
Let’s take a day that is all about consumption and make it our own, and let’s make it loud and clear that we will not support the corporations that destroyed our economy and undermined our Republic.Instead of a “Buy Nothing Day” we’ll have a “Buy Local Day.” Instead of buying a bunch of useless crap, let’s instead go out and help the poor. Volunteer at soup kitchens and host toy drives and do the other charitable things that the government refuses to do. A season of giving instead of a season of buying.DOWNLOAD: SIGNS & POSTERS!!
(see more under “NEWSPAPER/MEDIA” HERE)***Can’t get to an Occupy?? HERE are things you CAN do!*** TURN ON LIVE STREAM: open a tab for Live Stream- Global Revolution
VOTE FOR A BILLBOARD #OCCUPYTOGETHER #OCCUPYWALLST BILLBOARD
An outdoor billboard in New York, NY 20,000+ VOTES = 1 FREE GIGANTIC BILLBOARD.PARTICIPATE TODAY: Occupy The BoardRoom
The 1% have addresses. The 99% have messages.*** They’ve Got Mail! Delivering the Occupy The Boardroom letters- Friday, October 28 ยท 2:00pm – 5:00pm
WRITE YOURS TODAY!!PARTICIPATE TODAY: Occupy Their Mailboxes The Pen Is Mightier Than The Sword
PARTICIPATE BEFORE NOV.5 Operation Cash Back
PARTICIPATE WHEN YOU SHOP Sustainable Connections
(see their other Sustainable Programs also)SIGN PETITION: Credo Action: Clarence Thomas is not above the law.
SIGN PETITION: Working America: I Am Not Your ATM
(for more info on these & many others go HERE & look under “Petitions”)
WEAR/DISPLAY/SHOW Your Solidarity: CafePress store T-shirts!
T-shirts, bumper stickers, decals, mugs & much much more!
99% items, Occupy Items, Fawke Items
***NEW SITE: The OCCUPIED Wall Street Journal
MINUTES: Occupy Movement National Conference Call: Monday, October 24th
Occupy Together is working with Take the Square to buildHowToOccupy/HowToCamp
designed in order to promote the methods, techniques and knowledges on taking the square. This is the place to all of those who are keen on researching about how to starting by him/herself a pro-democratic and non-violent uprising in its region. We are opened to the whole world, we are an open community of sapience, we believe in the powers of synergy applied to information, creative commons, copyleft. We want to establish a global network which is able to offer to global public the necessary tools of rising up. We are in the beginning and our project will depend of everybody. We plan to install more features to this platform soon, as we develop and unite. Be welcome, let’s make it together!
Occupy Together Meetups
in 2164 cities as of 10.26.11 at NOON EDT
Occupy Together is creating has created a Worldwide Occupy Directory!
Searchable. Lists Occupation Name, State/Country, City, Website or Twitter
Please make sure YOUR Occupy Group is listed!
Scheduled Events at OWS in NYC
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’
Reader Supported News: OWS Organizers Blast MoveOn (10.15.11)
please excuse any repeated listings.
AROUND THE COUNTRY ***OAKLAND***
***OccupyTogether: Tonight: Vigils Across America for Scott Olsen (10.27.11)****Nation of Change: Flanders on Ed Schultz on Oakland Crackdown (video) (10.27.11)
Laura Flanders and Ed Schultz speak on police violence in Oakland, California.*Antemedius: Marc Ashe: A Witness to the Violence In Oakland (10.26.11)
*Guardian LIVE BLOG on OAKLAND (10.27.11)
*RawStory: Stephen C Webster: Oakland mayor now claims to ‘support’ the occupation (10.27.11)
*OccupyMarines: Response to Oakland Shooting of Scott Olsen
DKos: Charlie Grapsky: Occupy Oakland Calls for General Strike on Wednesday Nov. 2nd (10.26.11)
Guardian: Sam Jones: Occupy Oakland: police fire teargas and baton rounds at protesters (10.26.11)
At least 85 arrests after police clash with protesters attempting to retake Frank Ogawa plaza, which was base for demonstrationsCBS: Tension remains after “Occupy Oakland” clashes (10.26.11)
*New Politics: Lois Weiner: Pushing back on Wall Street’s educational agenda
*MSNBC: Janie Campbell: Fans Plan to Occupy the Miami Dolphins (10.21.11)
*#OccupyMiami Protester Hangs Effigy Of Banker By Noose Over Highway(10.26.11)
*Nation Of Change: Jim Lobe: New Inequality Data Likely to Boost “Occupy” Movent(10.27.11)
“The sense that most of us have been ignored by those in charge of economic policy is totally justified,” said EPI economist and co- author of the report, Josh Bivens. “And I think it is what is driving the energy of the Occupy Wall Street campaign.”*Nation Of Change: Bank Transfer Day – A Guide to Closing Your Account (10.27.11)
“Bank Transfer Day is gaining some serious steam. Although it’s not technically affiliated with Occupy, it’s being embraced by the movement and is the first specific call to action since the Occupy protests began.”*Nation Of Change: Jim Hightower: “We the People” not “We the Corporations”(10.26.11)
“Rather than actually trying to undo this theft of our people’s democratic authority, they tell us to be satisfied with a few tangential regulations, like maybe requiring corporations to disclose how much they’re spending on campaigns.”*Nation Of Change: Amy Goodman: Globalizing Dissent, From Tahrir Square to Liberty Plaza (10.26.11)
“[Asmaa Mahfouz’s] arrest provoked a worldwide response, with groups ranging from the Muslim Brotherhood to Amnesty International condemning it.”*Nation Of Change: Adam Pek: Life in Zuccotti Park: Change Bigger than Politics (10.26.11)
“I can’t help to wonder how many more times in my life time I will see such diverse group of people united not by pain or fear but and an Idea. To me the fact that this movement does not have Political agenda and set demands is its greatest strength.”*Nation Of Change: Lois Beckett: Putting the Global Occupy Movement in Context: Who are these Protesters and What Do They Want?(10.26.11)
“Since May, Chilean students have been staging protests demanding that the government make education free to all.”*Nation Of Change: Glenn Greenwald: Immunity and Impunity in Elite America (10.26.11)
“A rising tide,” as President Reagan put it, “lifts all boats.” The sum of his wisdom being: it is in your interest when the rich get richer.*Nation of Change: Richard Cohen: Where are the Anti-Semites of Occupy Wall Street? (10.26.11)
This right-wing attempt to discredit both the Occupy Wall Street movement and the Democratic Party’s hesitant embrace of it is reprehensible.”*OccupyBangor begins 24/7 occupation on Oct 29
*CrainsNY: Daniel Massey: Occupy Wall Street barrages banks with letters(10.26.11)
Joined by foreclosure victims and activists, protesters Friday will deliver more than 6,500 personal letters collected in less than two weeks to bankers across the city.*Docudharma: TheMomCat: Wall St. Fraud: Justice For The 99% (10.27.11)
OCWeekly: Aljazeera Plugs Occupy Orange County (10.26.11)
*Fredrik Walloe: Chemical bomb thrown at Occupy Maine and threats made against OccupyLSX (10.25.11)
(purportedly very 1st blogpost)
OrdinarySquared: rixiren: On Hippies, Horses, and Necessary Force (10.26.11)CNN: Tear gas used on Occupy protesters in Oakland (10.26.11)
Washington Post: Greg Sargent: America: A nation of populists and class warriors (10.26.11)
Nation: Josh Eidelson : Longview Labor on the Line (10.25.11)
AROUND THE WORLD ***OCCUPY LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE***
*Guardian: LIVE BLOG of OCCUPY LSX(10.27.11)*Guardian: Alan Rusbridger: Canon of St Paul’s: church cannot answer peaceful protest with violence(10.27.11)
In his first interview since his resignation, the Reverend Giles Fraser says he was unable to reconcile his conscience with the breakup of the Occupy London camp*Guardian: Alexander Chancellor: Think the canon who quit St Paul’s is radical? You should have met his predecessor …(10.27.11)
The Rev Dr Giles Fraser assumed the leftwing mantle of a remarkable clergyman who joined the cathedral 60 years ago*Guardian: Marina Warner: Giles Fraser is a conscience for St Paul’s(10.27.11)
The canon chancellor’s resignation over Occupy London shows the church must engage with new forms of faith and belief*Guardian: Riazat Butt: Bishop of London offers debate with Occupy protesters if they disband(10.27.11)
‘Pack up your tents and let us make you heard,’ Richard Chartres urges activists camped outside St Paul’s Cathedral*Guardian: Andrew Brown: Giles Fraser is never taken in by establishment self-delusion(10.27.11)
Fraser wasn’t so foolish as to imagine the City takes more notice of a bishop than the Occupy protest – unlike some AnglicansSt. Pauls: Statement from the Dean of St Paul’s (26 October) on OCCUPY LSX
*Nation of Change: Massimo D’Alema: The Arab Spring and Europe’s Chance (10.27.11)
“If Europe does not want to be marginalized in international affairs, it must quickly develop a strategic response to the Arab Spring, underpinned by a compelling vision of the future of the Middle East and North Africa.”
*Nation of Change: Robert Reich: Wall Street is Still Out-of-Control and Why Obama Should Call for Glass-Steagal and a Breakup of Big Banks (10.27.11)
What better way for Obama to distinguish himself from Romney than to condemn Wall Street’s antics since the bailout, and call for real reform?*Nation of Change: Richard Eskow: Rich People and Corporations: GOPs Trillion-Dollar “Failed Stimulus” (10.26.11)
The simplest and best thing the country could do is adopt and increase the President’s direct job creation proposals, the ones that put people to work doing things that need doing.BBC: Almost 10,000 Doncaster Council workers face ‘dismissal’ (10.26.11)
Almost 10,000 council workers could have their contracts terminated, a union has warned.
DemocracyNOW: Headlines: Uruguay Revokes Amnesty Law Protecting Officials from Past Dictatorship
Atlanta Journal Constitution: Occupy Atlanta | Protesters to be freed on signature bonds (10.26.11)
Made in USA Products Directory
Green Party to Democratic apologists: The message of the Wall Street protests is not ‘Vote Democrat’
***OAKLAND*** Wait? DHS?! Department of Homeland Security?
CalFireNews (@CalFireNews)
10/26/11 5:35 PM
#OWS #Alert multiple channels reporting possible raid on #OccupySF tonight around midnight, apparently #DHS wants all cities to clear camps
19 hours ago via web (10.26.11 appx 8:30pmEDT)
@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)
***OAKLAND*** *Want to see what protesters did with the barricade fences used to keep them out?
*Miami-Dade students are being asked by security to leave the campus for practicing political speech.
(h/t alma)
*Occupy Detroit Flikr PoolOccupy Oakland Before & After Police Raid
Guardian: Occupy Together Flickr Gallery
Guardian: Occupy Everywhere: geotagged photos of demonstrations and events of the global movement
***OAKLAND***
Current: KOlbermann: Oakland Cops Open Fire With Shotgun Beanbags & Tear Gas On Peaceful Protesters
RT: US cops tried to erase online evidence of brutality
(h/t Kathleen)
Charlie Rose: Chris Hedges and Amy Goodman Talk OWSJourneyManPictures: Occupy Wall Street – USA
TED: Richard Wilkinson: How economic inequality harms societies
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