Occupation is Participation. Among the remarkable developments at Liberty Square have been the Working Groups, created by occupiers to forward the movement’s goals. In these groups ideas are exchanged, strategies are collectively shaped and the future of the occupation is being written. Here are dispatches from a few. Outreach Since the best place to reach the 99% is on the subway — where 10 million New York commuters travel daily — Occupy Subways is turning New York City’s underground into a democratic platform. Elsewhere in the city, Outreach has helped general assemblies convene in the Bronx, Harlem and Brooklyn.
Medical Staffed 24 hours a day with 15 to 20 volunteers, the group ranges from nurses and doctors to street medics, herbalists, chiropractors, EMTs and acupuncturists. Facilitation Food The Food group, which began on Day 1 of the occupation, has received hundreds of donations from local farmers to sympathizers in Europe and Asia. People of Color Comfort. So Real it Hurts: Building a New Republic. Illustration: Beth Whitney On a Thursday night when I showed up at Occupy Wall Street from a community meeting with some South Asian friends, we were handed a sheet of paper with a working draft of the Declaration of the Occupation. The night before, I’d heard the Declaration read aloud at the General Assembly and turned to my friend, Sonny, after noting the line that hit me in the stomach: “As one people, formerly divided by the color of our skin, gender, sexual orientation, religion, or lack thereof, political party and cultural background…” Initially we’d shrugged it off as a rhetorical flourish.
Then we realized this was about to become the Declaration of the movement, sent out to the world as a defining document of the occupation. The proposed text ignored people from countries that have been colonized and communities right here where democratic participation is anything but a given. It was not something I could get behind. So our radical South Asian contingent stood up. Enacting the impossible. Consensus! Photo: Bogie Harmond On August 2, at the very first meeting of what was to become Occupy Wall Street, about a dozen people sat in a circle in Bowling Green. The self-appointed “process committee” for a social movement we merely hoped would someday exist, contemplated a momentous decision. Our dream was to create a New York General Assembly: the model for democratic assemblies we hoped to see spring up across America. But how would those assemblies actually operate? The anarchists in the circle made what seemed, at the time, an insanely ambitious proposal.
It was, in the least, a wild gamble, because as far as any of us knew, no one had ever managed to pull off something like this before. OCCUPY38 - 38 Greene Street NYC Occupied. General Assembly At Noon 10.23.11. 23 / 10 / 2011 The Shocking, Graphic Data That Shows Exactly What Motivates the Occupy Movement. October 23, 2011 | Like this article?
Join our email list: Stay up to date with the latest headlines via email. What are the Occupy Wall Street protesters angry about? The same things we’re all angry about. Now is not the time for wonky policy solutions, as the media meatheads are calling for. 1. (click for larger version) The productivity/wage chart says it all. 2. (click for larger version) Actually the top tenth of one percent. 3. (click for larger version) As women entered the workforce, family income made up for some of the wage stagnation. 4.
(click for larger version) To add financial insult to injury, the richest of the rich pay less and less each year as a percentage of their monstrous incomes. 5. (click for larger version) When the rich become astronomically rich, they gamble with their excess money. Pluie de dons chez les «indignés» Indignés... à temps partiel. 130 indignés arrêtés à Chicago. La police de la ville américaine de Chicago a interpellé près de 130 manifestants d'"Occupons Chicago" tôt aujourd'hui alors qu'ils étaient s'installés dans un parc de la ville, en solidarité avec le mouvement "Occupons Wall Street", a-t-on appris auprès de la police.
Manifestation d'indignés contre le sommet européen à Bruxelles. Les «indignés» occupent le jardin de Saint-Roch. Une douzaine de tentes ont été plantées en fin de journée, hier, accueillant sous leurs toits un peu plus d'une vingtaine de personnes.
Le responsable du comité «campement», Michaël Blanchette, ne cachait pas son souhait d'attirer des centaines d'«indignés» comme à Montréal, où le square Victoria, rebaptisé la place du Peuple, affiche complet. Celui qui est à l'emploi d'un groupe d'entraide internationale a partagé au Soleil son intention de demeurer jusqu'à nouvel ordre au jardin de Saint-Roch, prévoyant travailler à partir du campement. Est-il inquiet de voir le groupe se faire déloger par les policiers? «Non. On les a rencontrés. «Ce n'est pas un mouvement avec quelqu'un en avant qui dit : "Qui m'aime me suive. " Régional: Les «indignés» manquent de place. Le mouvement Occupons Montréal attend du renfort au cours de la fin de semaine, alors que plus de 200 tentes commencent à s’empiler les unes sur les autres.
Certains manifestants parlent de déplacer le campement. «Sommes-nous obligés de rester devant la Bourse? Pourquoi ne pas nous déplacer plus à l’est ?» Londres: les manifestations anti-capitalistes se poursuivent. AUSTRALIE. La police disperse des activistes anti-capitalisme - Monde.