11 Things You Can Do to Help the 'Occupy Wall Street' Movement. September 20, 2011 | Like this article? Join our email list: Stay up to date with the latest headlines via email. Editor's note: Today is the fifth day demonstrators have staged an "occupation" of Wall St. and other parts of lower Manhattan in protest of America's staggering economic inequality and the influence of big finance on our politics. As of Tuesday night, 16 people had been arrested. There are also reports that law enforcement has confiscated camera equipment. Below, writer Chaz Valenza describes 11 things you can do to help out the protesters. These patriot occupiers are fighting for 99 percent of us.
Here's the good news -- you can help, right now today -- no matter where you are. 1) Spread the word -- there's something going on. 2) If you're in New York and can only spare a little time or money: bring American flags, cardboard, markers, water, etc. down to Liberty Park. 3) If you're in the New York area and have a day, a morning, an afternoon, go down there. Occupy Wall Street | September 17th | #OCCUPYWALLSTREET. The joyous freedom of possibility. Dissent can be personal, collective, creative — whatever you want it to be. Revolt can be physical or spectral, a blackspot on a corporate logo or a digital mindbomb posted online. Edit a billboard, speak to a friend. There are no limits, no minimum or maximum. The revolutionary spark is the same one that lit human existence. It’s there in all of us.
So live wild. Print & Post If you only do one thing today and during the heady days of climate protest that follow, print out as many copies of this #WORLDREVOLUTION poster as you can and tape them up on bus stops, bank and shop windows, cash machines, government buildings, everywhere in your city where people will see them. Download September 11, 2014 What will you do on the September 17th anniversary of Occupy Wall Street?
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Youtube. Globalrevolution. Wikio. #OccupyWallStreet : Après Yahoo, Facebook censure! Facebook, le réseau social où vos amis racontent leur vie et se superpokent joyeusement, aime à entretenir la légèreté. La politique, l’activisme, c’est pas trop son truc. Sauf peut être quand il faut aider certains régimes pas très démocratiques à tomber sur le râble d’activistes. On reprochait déjà au réseau social de vous mentir sur les informations que vous partagez. On lui reprochait également de lire vos messages privés, violant au passage le secret de votre correspondance, et de ne pas acheminer les dits messages si ces derniers contenaient des choses qui ne plaisent pas à Facebook (comme un lien sur The Pirate Bay)… Voilà que maintenant, comme Yahoo il y a quelques jours qui affichait un message d’erreur à l’envoi de tout mail contenant les mots Wall Street, Facebook censure purement et simplement des posts et des sets de photo de la manifestation qui enflamme le haut lieu du capitalisme mondial, aujourd’hui sur le déclin.
Welcome to Google Docs. #occupywallstreet on Twitter. Occupy Wall Street Sept 17. Why #OccupyWallStreet Matters | Alex Levinson. Up until now, I haven’t been very involved or excited about the #OccupyWallStreet protests. While the protests are circling around economic reform, a new subject of debate, and ultimately protest, has surfaced. The big three media companies – Fox, NBC, & CNN have knowingly shelved the story as much as possible. They’ve executed the common practice of not completely turning it off, but giving it as minimal coverage as possible. Even the liberal slanted MSNBC only has it as a secondary story under their U.S. section. And guess what – these companies are traded publicly on where else? This is not right. The largest problem in the world today is the systemic corruption that is plaguing every corner of mankind.
All of the issues the world faces are solvable except when it goes against the interests of the people running the show. I don’t care if you’re rich or poor, educated or not. I’m an engineer with a good job and even though I’m not the majority, I’ll stand with them on this one. The Psychology of Occupy Wall Street. Some people will see anything they want to see in any particular movement or demonstration. Movements like Occupy Wall Street are like a Rorschach Inkblot Test — although it’s just ink on a piece of paper, you can see the future and the past in every blot.
Psychologist and psychoanalyst Todd Essig sees what he wants to see in the movement. When contrasting it with the Tea Party, he idealizes the motivations and focus of the Occupy Wall Street demonstrators, as though they were all joined together in a common cause (other than the cause to agitate for change, something President Obama actually started more than 4 years ago).
What I have a hard time wrapping my head around is to understand how people who have such a deep understanding of psychology and insight can’t see how they turn such demonstrations into their own personal Rorschach test. For the record, I’m not a proponent of either the Tea Part of Occupy Wall Street. Xenophobia is nothing new, and the Tea Party hasn’t invented it. The Geography of Occupying Wall Street (And Everywhere Else) The nascent movement known as Occupy Wall Street had its largest single day of protests on Saturday. And a funny thing happened: most of the action was far from Wall Street itself. No, I don’t mean at Zuccotti Park — which is not, technically, on Wall Street. Nor do I mean Times Square — all of 19 minutes away from Wall Street on the C train — where large crowds of protesters gathered on Saturday. Instead, I mean Europe, where crowds in cities like Rome, Barcelona and Madrid were estimated at 200,000 to 500,000 per city (more, probably, than the protests in the United States combined).
And I mean California and other parts of the Western United States, where crowds were proportionately much larger than in the Northeast or elsewhere in the country. The way that I studied this was to search through hundreds of local news accounts for credible estimates of the crowd sizes for each gathering. It should be cautioned that the comparisons are not quite apples to apples. The Contrasting Psychologies of 'Occupy Wall Street' and the 'Tea Party'
A PHOTOJOURNALIST AND WAR PHOTOGRAPHER'S BLOG: Occupy Wall Street - Pictures of the Protests. I have had the opportunity to drop by the Occupy Wall Street Protests a couple of times this past week and have taken a few pictures which I am posting below. The main idea behind the movement is to try to restore democracy to the United States and to create a better balance of wealth (currently one percent of the population controls a vast amount of the worlds wealth and resources while ninety nine percent of the population lives on what remains.)
The inspiration for these protests was taken from the Arab Spring. The concept of fighting social injustice and bringing back more power and wealth to the 99% fit into the kind of photography I have dedicated to my career to, so it has been an interesting experience for me to see these protests. Since they began here in in New York City a few weeks ago, the protests have spread across the United States and the world. Protestors dance in a drum circle Crowds filling Liberty Square A man yells slogans out to crowds of protestors.