Willie Nelson: Occupy the Food System. Thanks to the Occupy Wall Street movement, there's a deeper understanding about the power that corporations wield over the great majority of us.
It's not just in the financial sector, but in all facets of our lives. The disparity between the top 1 percent and everyone else has been laid bare -- there's no more denying that those at the top get their share at the expense of the 99 percent. Lobbyists, loopholes, tax breaks... how can ordinary folks expect a fair shake?
No one knows this better than family farmers, whose struggle to make a living on the land has gotten far more difficult since corporations came to dominate our farm and food system. We saw signs of it when Farm Aid started in 1985, but corporate control of our food system has since exploded. My Occupation - your story about your occupation.
Occupy NRA. South Park "1 Percent" Episode: Occupying The Restrooms. Occupy Democracy. Occupy The Media. Occupy FED Banks Creditcards Stocks Boardroom Foreclosures. Occupy Economics. Occupy Halloween 2011. OccupyCakes (@OccupyCakes) sur Twitter. Occupy Corporations. Occupy Silicon Valley. Occupy Recruiting. Occupy UNESCO. Occupy Reliefefforts. Occupy the Farm. Occupy big food (occupybigfood) Occupy Sport. OccupyTheG8 (@OccupyTheG8) sur Twitter.
NATO, G8 Protests: City Reverses Plan For Fine Increases As Occupiers Gather At City Hall. As members of Occupy Chicago gathered at City Hall to decry Mayor Rahm Emanuel's plans for the NATO and G8 summits -- which will take place in Chicago this May -- a source from the mayor's office told the Chicago Sun-Times that the administration is reversing plans to impose stiff fines on protesters.
Emanuel has been criticized by Occupy Chicago and other local and national protesters for plans to double fines for resisting arrest or obstructing a police officer. The plan would have forced protesters charged with those crimes to pay between $200 to $1,000, versus the $25 to $500 fines currently in place. On Tuesday, however, Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy announced the fine increase is not happening. "We decided to pull that off the table," McCarthy said, according to the Chicago Tribune. A city hall source, who asked to remain nameless, explained further to the Sun-Times: Occupy The Spying. Occupy Drone. It's pretty well-established that Occupy Wall Street is no fan of Rupert Murdoch's media empire, but after one Occupy-friendly videographer test-flew a video-capturing drone he hopes to use to film protests, it looks like they've got something very specific in common.
Tim Pool, who operated a widely viewed live feed the day police cracked down on protesters in Zuccotti Park and again during the massive Nov. 17 protest, posted video Tuesday night from his newest reporting tool, which he's calling the Occucopter. It's basically the same device reporters at The Daily have been using since August: A toy helicopter that comes stock with a video camera.
Occupy het OV. Landelijke Actie 28 januari 2012 in Amsterdam, Rotterdam en Den Haag. #OccupyTVnl - Occupy Openbaar Vervoer 28-01-12. OccupyTheSubway is a chan. #OccupyTheSubway - Troy's Story. Occupy Mobile. OccupyMobile (@OccupyMobile) sur Twitter. Occupy Mobile on USTREAM: We are real. We are relevant. We are the 99%.. Watch without ads Ustream © Search Log in / Sign up With Facebook (faster) Log in or sign up with Facebook See what your friends like and watch, get awesome recommendations Instant login, no passwords.
Occupy Mobile. Occupy Mobile arrests part 2. Occupy Boiler Room to Get Tenants Heat, New Council Meets, More... Just as new Census Data is released revealing that over 49 million Americans, particularly elderly ones, are living in poverty, Occupy movements around the country are using their power to help these most vulnerable and disenfranchised individuals.
In Harlem, a group "occupied" a boiler room in a building where elderly, underserved tenants were going without heat and hot water. They won. After an all-day occupation on Halloween and the arrest of one protester, the landlord relented, allowing access to the boiler room. By late Friday evening, workers were clanging and banging away in the basement, dismantling the old clunker and clearing space for a new boiler, provided in part by an emergency order by the city, Blakely said. In Atlanta, a local group did the same thing on behalf of a family threatened by foreclosure.
Speaking of the movement, in New York City, the first ever "Spokes Council" meeting took place. The inaugural meeting was brisk at first, but marred by interruptions later. Occupy The Hood (occupythehood) Occupy Sanity. Occupy Psychiatry - Center for the Human Rights of Users and Survivors of Psychiatry. People everywhere are taking back public space, calling for peaceful revolution and claiming economic and political democracy for all the people of the world.
This is what many of us have been waiting for. It is also the meaning of human rights. Human rights do not come from abstractions created by lawyers, they come from people struggling with manifest injustice. Calling attention of the world to unjust, unnecessary suffering that often has a lot to do with inequality and exploitation. CHRUSP stands with the 99% of the world, and welcomes the opportunity to re-make our world, with face to face horizontal relationships, courage and solidarity in the face of bullying, taking care of everyone's needs without shame. Occupy Psychology. Occupy Sanity. @OccupyDisabled. @occupytownsq. #OccupyMap. OccupyRoofTops Greenpeace Solar Power to the People! #occupyrooftops on Community Solar Day. While protesters occupy spaces from Wall Street to Rome, a group of clean energy enthusiasts are encouraging people to 'occupy rooftops' across the world 20th of November, in the name of the solar energy revolution.
You can join them. On Community Solar Day, groups such as Green for All, Solar Mosaic and the Community Power Network are encouraging people around the world to take the first step towards turning their communities solar.
OccupyWriters.com. Introducing OccupyEducated.org - Launching a New Online Library that Can't Be Destroyed. @OccupyEducated. @benzolno. Yes Lab OWS. Funny actions are funny.
People like them. Occupy education. Occupy Love. Occupy Love. Occupation of hate. Occupy Love (OccupyLoveFilm) sur Twitter. Youtube: OCCUPY LOVE (2013) - Official Trailer. NSA Officers Sometimes Spy on Love Interests - Washington Wire. Occupyparis. Occupy the Moon! Occupy Yourself. Occupy Yourself (@Occupy_Yourself) sur Twitter. Occupied Bishop. Bishop, Priest, Protestor Arrested in Trinity Wall Street/Occupy Clash. To chants of “We are unstoppable, another world is possible,” retired Episcopal Bishop George Packard this afternoon led Occupy Wall Street protestors in climbing over the fence at Duarte Square, a property owed by Trinity Wall Street, the iconic Episcopal church now mired in controversy over its refusal to allow the movement to set up camp for the winter in the park.
[image credit: Episcopal Café] Episcopal Café reported that Packard and Episcopal priest John Merz were arrested along with several other protesters. It had been hoped that a letter from South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu to the #OWS community yesterday would sway local, diocesan, and national church leadership to soften their stance toward the movement on the basis of “the higher calling of Our Lord Jesus Christ--which they live so well in all other ways.”
Occupy Judaism. @occupycrush. OccupyBaby's channel. DN! Beka economopoulos @bekamop sur Twitter. Not an alternative. "Occupy Baby" Born In Back Of Taxi! Mila Amie Economopoulos Jones (Aristide Economopoulos) Oh sure, most moms-to-be would love to rent out entire hospital floors to deliver their precious bundles of joy, but contracting mothers can't be choosers: a Brooklyn activist and Occupy Wall Street participant gave birth to a healthy baby girl in the back of a cab on Tuesday in Greenpoint.
And the baby's father was there to document the whole thing—watch the SFW footage below! Mom Beka Economopoulos, founder of the arts collective Not an Alternative and an Occupy Williamsburg worker, had been expecting to give birth in two weeks—then frequent contractions started to happen Tuesday afternoon. "We're both really involved with the Occupy movement, and we were about to host a meeting here," she told us about that afternoon. "People started showing up, and I started to have contractions...what started as a video team meeting turned into birth support team. " The cabbie got out and directed traffic, while police and ambulances arrived. Beka Economopoulos Gives Birth To 'Occupy Baby' In Back Of Brooklyn Taxi. There have been taxi cab births before--it happened twice last year--but this is the first time an expecting father had the wherewithal to film the occasion.
The new parents had been preparing to host a video team meeting with fellow Occupy protesters Tuesday night in their Newell Street apartment in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. "We're both really involved with the Occupy movement, and we were about to host a meeting here," Beka Economopoulos, founder of the arts collective Not an Alternative and an Occupy Williamsburg worker, told Gothamist.
"People started showing up, and I started to have contractions...what started as a video team meeting turned into birth support team. "
Occupied Paddestoel (@occedpaddestoel) sur Twitter. Occupy North Pole. @occupy_np. @OccupyKangaroo. Occupy Giftboxes. Occupy The Rose Parade (Mon, Jan 2, 2012) @OccupyRose2012. Occupy The Rose Parade preparation complete with rapping 'billionaire' Tournament of Roses Parade. A float from the 2008 Rose Parade The Rose Parade, traditionally the Tournament of Roses Parade, and by corporate sponsorship as the Rose Parade presented by Honda, is part of "America’s New Year Celebration" held in Pasadena, California each year, a festival of flower-covered floats, marching bands, equestrians and the Rose Bowl college football game on New Year’s Day (but moved to Monday, January 2 if New Year’s Day falls on a Sunday), produced by the non-profit Pasadena Tournament of Roses Association. Originally started on January 1, 1890, the Rose Parade is watched in person by hundreds of thousands of spectators on the parade route,[1] and is broadcast on multiple television networks in the United States.
It is seen by millions more on television worldwide in more than 100 international territories and countries.[2] The Rose Bowl college football game was added in 1902 to help fund the cost of staging the parade. History[edit] Tournament House Parade[edit] Recent parades[edit] Occupy california. Occupy Armband Facebook. Occupy The Subways: take our own stories to the trains. Call To Action! | Facebook Event | Twitter #N17 | Direct Action Resources On Thursday November 17th, the two month anniversary of the Occupy Wall Street movement, we call upon the 99% to participate in a national day of direct action and celebration!
OCCUPY THE HIGHWAY - DAY 11. Occupy Wall Street marchers arriving in D.C.: Live updates - The Buzz. Posted at 10:54 AM ET, 11/22/2011 Nov 22, 2011 03:54 PM EST TheWashingtonPost Members of the Occupy Wall Street movement leave Zuccotti Park and begin a highway hike to Washington, D.C., on Nov. 9. (Spencer Platt - GETTY IMAGES) @OccupyFreedom sur Twitter. Occupying Academic Freedom: Patricia McGuire. What's the difference between a fire hose and a can of pepper spray? About 50 years. YouTube. Two generations of complacency about civil and human rights. And a radical decline in that essential element of a true university, freedom --- freedom of assembly, of expression, of thought itself. Occupy Cafe - An open space for global conversation.
@occupycafe. OccupyMoon (@OccupyMoon) sur Twitter. Occupy History. In today’s popular imagination, New England Transcendentalists such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and Margaret Fuller are known primarily as canonical literary figures, or in Thoreau’s case as a proto-hippie recluse who lived in the woods by Walden Pond and wrote a book about it. But these writers were engaged with some of the most pressing issues of their day, from abolition and anti-imperialism to civil disobedience.
It was Thoreau himself who coined the phrase “civil disobedience,” in an 1849 essay of the same name in which he argues for the morality of refusing to pay taxes to an unjust government. He spent a night in Concord’s jail for his refusal to pay the poll tax, which he felt was supporting slavery and the Mexican War, but was bailed out by a friend, and spent the next day leading a spirited “huckleberry party” through the woods around town, where “the State was nowhere to be seen.” [1] Americans of Emerson’s day were no strangers to crisis.
. [3] Ibid. OccupyNow - Info. Occupy the Future Noam Chomsky. To read more articles by Noam Chomsky and others in the Public Intellectual Project, click here. Delivering a Howard Zinn lecture is a bittersweet experience for me.