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Occupy Wall Street | NYC Protest for World Revolution. Occupy Together | Home. OFFICIAL List of Occupy Wall Street Protest Demands. ‘The Bank Is Messing With Us’: The Enduring Legacy of Occupy Homes. I was having dinner over the weekend with a relative, who innocently asked, "Is Occupy around anymore?

" Now that the big camps are gone –Occupy DC, one of the last major camps was raided over the weekend– some individuals erroneously assume the group has disbanded. The truth is that in addition to planning a spring resurgence, many Occupiers are now involved in smaller cells that branched off from the mother movement. In New York City, Occupy assemblies still meet on the regular outside of the space at Zuccotti Park. These aggregations gather in Sunset Park, Staten Island, East New York, Queens, Harlem, Washington Heights, among other places.

Sunset Park recently posted a "Spring Is Coming" flyer announcing its own plans for Occupy's widely publicized May Day actions. The announcement calls for Sunset Park supporters to gather at Trinity Lutheran on Feb. 11 to discuss plans for the OWS relaunch. Put simply: the actions never stopped. Valley News: Occupy Town Square (occupytownsq) op Twitter... Occupy Wall Street's anarchist roots. New York, NY - Almost every time I'm interviewed by a mainstream journalist about Occupy Wall Street I get some variation of the same lecture: "How are you going to get anywhere if you refuse to create a leadership structure or make a practical list of demands? And what's with all this anarchist nonsense - the consensus, the sparkly fingers? Don't you realise all this radical language is going to alienate people? You're never going to be able to reach regular, mainstream Americans with this sort of thing!

" If one were compiling a scrapbook of worst advice ever given, this sort of thing might well merit an honourable place. I should be clear here what I mean by "anarchist principles". Anarchism versus Marxism Traditional Marxism, of course, aspired to the same ultimate goal but there was a key difference. It's not just that the ends do not justify the means (though they don't), you will never achieve the ends at all unless the means are themselves a model for the world you wish to create. 99% (The Occupy Wall Street Collaborative Film) by Audrey Ewell & Aaron Aites.

PLEASE KEEP CONTRIBUTING! We don't have any corporate sponsorship or institutional funding! We only have YOU, and your support has been amazing! You have our tremendous gratitude, and this money will pay for hard drive storage space for our footage and expenses we've already incurred. The more money we get, the more expenses we can continue to cover, and the further we can go down the path of completing this film! Please keep contributing and encouraging all your friends, family and colleagues to do likewise! On Oct 1, 2011 a few award-winning filmmakers in NY teamed up to make a collaborative film about the Occupy Wall Street Movement. It started with a few filmmakers in NY, but within a couple weeks people were joining in Denver, Portland, LA, Boston, Seattle, Philly, DC, Kansas City, Miami, Pittsburgh, Austin, Dallas, Rhode Island, Nashville, Chicago, San Francisco, Oakland, in short: it took off all over the country.

. $17,500 is our immediate goal. Is this propaganda? No. Ok: Yes. Shut Down the Corporations - Occupy Wall Street And Homelessness: Millions Spent To Evict Camps, While Cutting Shelter Funds. As cities around the country have swept Occupy Wall Street camps from their plazas and parks in recent weeks, a number of mayors and city officials have argued that by providing shelter to the homeless, the camps are endangering the public and even the homeless themselves.

Yet in many of those cities, services for the homeless are severely underfunded. The cities have spent millions of dollars to police and evict the protesters, but they've been shutting down shelters and enacting laws to prohibit homeless from sleeping overnight in public. In Oakland, Atlanta, Denver and Portland, Ore., there are at least two homeless people for every open bed in the shelter system, according to the most recent data from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. In Salt Lake City, Utah, and Chapel Hill, N.C. -- two other cities that have evicted protesters from their encampments -- things are better but far from ideal. So did Shab Bashiri, another protester. Arrested for Meditating? Why it's Radical to Stay Nonviolent in the Face of Police Brutality | Civil Liberties. February 29, 2012 | Like this article? Join our email list: Stay up to date with the latest headlines via email.

Occupy Oakland has been at the forefront of some of Occupy’s most visible actions—a massive general strike on November 2, a shutdown of the Port of Oakland, and attempts to occupy vacant buildings. And it’s become known for the brutality of police actions, especially the case of Iraq War veteran Scott Olsen, who was hit by a tear-gas canister fired by police and suffered a severe head injury. It has also been the center of much controversy over tactics—especially the tactics of the Black Bloc.

These tactics are turning the San Francisco Bay area public against the Occupy movement, according to a report in the East Bay Express. We turned to Pancho Ramos Stierle for some insights into the question of Occupy tactics. Sarah van Gelder: Could you tell the story of what happened the night that the Oakland site was raided by the police and you were arrested? Tweeting for @OccupyWallStNYC. OWS stirs after winter freeze (PHOTOS) Occupy Wall Street Protesters Complain of Police Monitoring.

Occupy Wall St - The Revolution Is Love. Declaration of the Occupation of New York City. This document was accepted by the NYC General Assembly on September 29, 2011 Translations: French , Slovak , Spanish , German , Italian , Arabic , Portuguese [ all translations »] As we gather together in solidarity to express a feeling of mass injustice, we must not lose sight of what brought us together. We write so that all people who feel wronged by the corporate forces of the world can know that we are your allies. As one people, united, we acknowledge the reality: that the future of the human race requires the cooperation of its members; that our system must protect our rights, and upon corruption of that system, it is up to the individuals to protect their own rights, and those of their neighbors; that a democratic government derives its just power from the people, but corporations do not seek consent to extract wealth from the people and the Earth; and that no true democracy is attainable when the process is determined by economic power.

To the people of the world,