Occupy Wall Street Movement Strategy. Oakland Police Shoots Occupy Protester In Face, Flash Bangs Supporting Crowd. The Movement Action Plan: A Strategic Framework Describing The Eight Stages of Successful Social Movements. By Bill Moyer, Spring 1987 The United States anti-nuclear energy movement was launched in the Spring of 1977, when 1,414 Clamshell Alliance activists occupied the Seabrook nuclear power site and spent the next 12 days in jail. During those two weeks, nuclear energy became a worldwide public issue as the mass media spotlight focused on the activists locked in armories throughout New Hampshire.
Support demonstrations popped up across the United States, and in the following months hundreds of new grassroots anti-nuclear energy direct action groups started. The Clamshell Alliance was considered a prototype of the new movement. Activists throughout the country idealized the accomplishments of the Clamshell activists. That Friday night, I expected to meet a spirited, upbeat group that was proud of its accomplishments. The Clamshell experience of discouragement and collapse is far from unusual. The Movement Action Plan (MAP) was first published as the Fall 1986 edition of the Dandelion. Then They Fight You. At first glance, it looked like something out of Pink Floyd's film 'The Wall': menacing images of creatures in gas masks swarming toward the camera under a dark and forbidding sky.
This was no dystopian fantasy, however; these were members of the Oakland police department charging into a group of protesters behind a wall of tear gas, flash-bang bombs, rubber bullets and bean-bag projectiles. The police bull-rushed these unarmed protesters with the intention to do violence, and violence is exactly what they did. As of this writing, one woman is known to have been seriously injured when a flash-bang grenade went off right by her head. She was seen being carried away unconscious from the scene of the police riot by other protesters. Welcome home, Marine. According to Oakland officials, the justification for this eight-hour-long explosion of force was that the area being occupied by protesters had become unsanitary, and that people were being raped within the camp zone.
SO REAL IT HURTS: Notes on Occupy Wall Street. By Guest Contributor Manissa McCleave Maharawal, originally published on her Facebook page I first went down to Occupy Wall Street last Sunday, almost a week after it had started. I didn’t go down before because I, like many of my other brown friends, were wary of what we had heard or just intuited that it was mostly a young white male scene. When I asked friends about it they said different things: that it was really white, that it was all people they didn’t know, that they weren’t sure what was going on.
But after hearing about the arrests and police brutality on Saturday and after hearing that thousands of people had turned up for their march I decided I needed to see this thing for myself. So I went down for the first time on Sunday September 25th with my friend Sam. At first we couldn’t even find Occupy Wall Street. We biked over the Brooklyn Bridge around noon on Sunday, dodging the tourists and then the cars on Chambers Street. Sam and I get off our bikes and walk them. Manissa. Congressman introduces "Occupied" Constitutional Amendment to overturn Citizens United. In my inbox this afternoon: Washington, DC, Nov 18 - Today, Rep. Ted Deutch (FL-19), a Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, introduced the Outlawing Corporate Cash Undermining the Public Interest in our Elections and Democracy (OCCUPIED) Constitutional Amendment. The OCCUPIED Amendment both overturns the Citizens United Supreme Court decision that wrongly awarded the Constitutionally-protected free speech rights of people to corporations and totally bans corporate money from America’s electoral process.
In a shout out to the Occupy movement, Deutch is quoted: “No matter how long protesters camp out across America, big banks will continue to pour money into shadow groups promoting candidates more likely to slash Medicaid for poor children than help families facing foreclosure,” said Rep. Links below the Squiggly Full press release: The Amendment can be found here: A background document is provided as well:
Situating Occupy. UPDATED 11/16/2011: Complete List of Occupy Evictions Worldwide: Evicting Our Rights. Added 11/16/2011 Auckland Aotea Square, Pending Eviction. Eviction of Fort Point Channel Park, Boston, Massachusetts. Occupy London, now pending again. Occupy UC Berkely, new camp now under threat. Compiling eviction information here to help media. A sad Day for America and our Constitutionally protected Republic. THERE ARE HUNDREDS OF OCCUPY MOVEMENTS WORLDWIDE. I snarked on Saturday that the Mayors must have all read the Memo: EVICT Occupiers Well, I guess they did chat: Conspiracy theorists are going to love this one.
Question: If police are successful in breaking up the camps, what next? Anyway, I volunteer to keep this Eviction Report running so we can see the trends. Are there enough evictions to see a trend? NYPD try new way to break up Occupy Wall Street – send in the homeless and the drunks Sad Day for America and the World. Shame on the Mayors of America and the 1% they work for. Occupy Wall Street Occupy Eugene Occupy Youngstown evicted 7:30am, November 11, 2011 Occupy Oakland.