Occupy Wall Street Sept 17. Anonymous Occupy The Planet. Occupy Wall St S24 Police Riot. NYPD Turns Violent at Occupy Wall St (2of3) Unbelievable protest footage. NYPD drag girl across the street. Globalrevolution. The Revolution Begins at Home: A Clarion Call to Join the Wall Street Protests | Activism & Vision. September 27, 2011 | Like this article? Join our email list: Stay up to date with the latest headlines via email. What is occurring on Wall Street right now is truly remarkable. They have created a unique opportunity to shift the tides of history in the tradition of other great peaceful occupations, from the sit-down strikes of the 1930s to the lunch-counter sit-ins of the 1960s to the democratic uprisings across the Arab world and Europe today. While the Wall Street occupation is growing, it needs an all-out commitment from everyone who cheered the Egyptians in Tahrir Square, said "We are all Wisconsin," and stood in solidarity with the Greeks and the Spaniards.
Our system is broken at every level. At some point the number of people occupying Wall Street -- whether that's 5,000, 10,000 or 50,000 -- will force the powers that be to offer concessions. After all, who would have imagined a year ago that Tunisians and Egyptians would oust their dictators? Even their solutions are cruel jokes. Observations of a Jailed Journalist | MetroFocus. MetroFocus Web Editor John Farley, kneeling, was arrested while reporting on the Occupy Wall Street protest. Farley was working on a story about citizen journalism at the time. MetroFocus/Sam Lewis. On Sept. 24, while working on a story about citizen journalism for my employer, I found myself arrested, along with many other people.
My arrest gave me a unique vantage point on the risks and rewards of citizen journalists, those non-professionals who capture stories (usually without pay) using videos and images via portable technology like a cell phone camera. Anyone, even a passerby or a police officer can be a citizen journalist. That’s its power. Here’s what happened. My colleague Sam Lewis and I had previously covered Occupy Wall Street, an ongoing demonstration against economic inequality, on the first day it began, Sept.17. When we first arrived on the scene, protesters were marching along the sidewalk in unison, chanting. However, the stream of protesters did disrupt traffic. #OccupyWallStreet: There's Something Happening Here, Mr. Jones. "During movement times, the people involved have the same problems and can go from one communication to the next, start a conversation in one place and finish it in another.
Now we're in what I call an organizational period, which has limited objectives, doesn't spread very rapidly and has a lot of paid people and bureaucracy. It's completely different from what takes place when there is a social movement. " --Myles Horton, from his book "The Long Haul", talking about his work with two American social movements, the labor movement of the 1930s and the civil rights movement of the 1960s America is about to experience the same youth-driven, hyper-networked wave of grassroots protests against economic inequality and political oligarchy that have been rocking countries as disparate as Tunisia, Egypt, Israel, Greece and Spain.
Like many observers, I started out sympathetic but skeptical when I heard about the "Occupy Wall Street" protest several weeks ago. "The TRUTH About The Occupy Wall Street Protests" - MOC #80. First OFFICIAL Release from OCCUPY WALL STREET | OccupyWallSt.org Forum. Posted 2 years ago on Sept. 30, 2011, 2:10 p.m. EST by revg33k (429) from Woodstock, IL This content is user submitted and not an official statement Source: reddit.com/r/politics/comments/...occupy_wall_street/ This was unanimously voted on by all members of Occupy Wall Street last night, around 8pm, Sept 29. It is our first official document for release. We have three more underway, that will likely be released in the upcoming days: 1) A declaration of demands. 2) Principles of Solidarity 3) Documentation on how to form your own Direct Democracy Occupation Group. This is a living document. you can receive an official press copy of the latest version by emailing c2anycga@gmail.com. As we gather together in solidarity to express a feeling of mass injustice, we must not lose sight of what brought us together.
To the people of the world, We, the New York City General Assembly occupying Wall Street in Liberty Square, urge you to assert your power. Join us and make your voices heard! Occupy Wall Street Gets What the 'Very Serious People' Have Missed for 30 Years | Economy. October 6, 2011 | Like this article? Join our email list: Stay up to date with the latest headlines via email. For all their alleged naivete, the thousands of people who have participated in Occupy Wall Street (OWS) have managed to put their finger on something that has completely evaded the "Very Serious People" for more than three decades.
While the talking-heads have insisted that reforming Wall Street has little or nothing to do with getting the economy back on track, the occupiers have correctly diagnosed that the problems we now face flow almost entirely from our out-of-control financial sector. Even so, the question progressives are asking is whether the Occupy Wall Street movement can succeed? Progressive academics, journalists, and writers (a group where I count myself) have been documenting the growing gap between rich and poor ever since inequality began to rise at the end of the 1970s. Union activists have organized workers, led strikes, and won contracts.