Oakland to Pay $4.5 million to Iraq War Vet Scott Olsen. The City of Oakland has agreed to pay a $4.5 million legal settlement to Scott Olsen, the 24-year-old Marine Corps veteran who was critically wounded by Oakland Police on the night of October 25, 2011 during a chaotic confrontation between law enforcement and Occupy Oakland demonstrators.
Police had evicted the Occupy Oakland encampment from Frank Ogawa Plaza that morning, prompting thousands of people to return to downtown that afternoon. Olsen, who is now 26 years old and has permanent brain damage, was struck in the head by a shotgun-fired beanbag that consisted of lead birdshot wrapped in cloth. At the time, he was standing about 15 feet from police barricades at 14th Street and Broadway. Occupy Will Be Back - Chris Hedges' Columns. Occupy Will Be Back Posted on Jun 18, 2012.
Occupy your soul! The Christian Left gets active. A court in London has ruled that the Occupy camp near St Paul’s Cathedral should be evicted.
When the bailiffs and police turn up, they are likely to find the camp surrounded by hundreds of people kneeling or standing in prayer. This is the face of radically leftwing religion. To much of the British media, it as a strange new phenomenon. The proximity of the camp to Britain’s best known cathedral has turned Christianity’s relationship with politics into headline news. The camp began after police prevented protesters from getting closer to the London Stock Exchange.
Occupy.com. Occupy Draws Strength From the Powerless. There is a recipe for breaking popular movements.
I watched it play out over five years in the war in El Salvador. I now see these familiar patterns in the assault against the Occupy movement. It goes like this. Physically eradicate the insurgents’ logistical base of operations to disrupt communication and organization. Dry up financial and material support. An Occupy demonstrator sprawls beside a police car in Urbandale, Iowa, during a protest last December outside Republican presidential campaign offices in the Des Moines suburb. Occupy Folks are Right. Capitalism, in its current form, has no place in the world around us.
Those words are not mine. They're a quote, from a fellow named Klaus Schwab. For the many who are unlikely to have heard of Klaus Schwab before, rest assured--he's no socialist rabble-rouser. He's a billionaire, in fact, and the founder of something called the World Economic Forum, in Davos, Switzerland. Prime Minister Stephen Harper was at Schwab's Davos gathering last week, as were dozens of other world leaders and billionaires. While Harper didn't perform the last rites on capitalism, plenty of others weren't so shy. No Justice—Or Future—in an Industrial Economy « Deep Green Resistance Wisconsin.
A letter to the national Occupy Wall Street Movement, written by a member of Deep Green Resistance Austin, reminding us of a fundamental premise for any movement seeking a brighter future. from: an open letter to the national Occupy Wall Street movement Dearest Occupy :: I write y’all with the greatest admiration, excitement, hope, and humility.
I write with the intention to contribute to the conversations that people are having nationally – and internationally – about what the building of a just and sustainable world would look like. I know these conversations have been going on for a very long time – longer than I can imagine – and that they did not begin with this movement and will not end with it, either.
The 99% Declaration: There is a solution. 10 Important Questions (And Answers) On Occupy Vancouver. FROM ITS BEGINNING on October 15th to this day in early January 2012, Occupy Vancouver has prompted many questions about its nature, aims, and practices. I here offer responses to some of the more frequent and wide-ranging of these questions. They are my personal responses, but they also tap the spirit of the movement, and the experiences and thoughts of many fellow occupiers, gleaned over the months of my involvement. I hope that people may use the comments stream here to add their thoughts, their questions and answers; we will then update and expand this list again in the future. This is only a beginning. 1. Occupy Vancouver is a movement for social, political, and economic change—a direct response to current economic and ecological crises. Between these two points stretches the whole history of capitalism’s evolution—a story filled with exploitation, profit making, and suffering.
After the Encampments. Movement to Occupy Vacant Houses Spreads. Bronx activists supported by Occupy Wall Street enter second month of occupation - Transcript JAISAL NOOR, JOURNALIST: In New York, Occupy Wall Street is continuing to shift its focus away from occupying parks and squares to other actions, such as occupying homes.
In Brooklyn, New York, an occupation of a vacant home has entered its second month. Twenty-seven-year-old father of two Alfredo Carrasquillo has been in and out of homeless shelters for nearly ten years.ALDREDO CARRASQUILLO, COMMUNITY ORGANIZER, VOCAL-NY: When I was going through the shelter with my kids and their mother, and we decided we didn't want to go through that no more.