Occupy Wall Street - Official Demands. The Sovereign People's Movement, represented nationally through the people occupying the various Liberty Square locations across this great country, have laid out and democratically submitted and are currently voting on the list of following Demands to then be distilled into one Unified Common demand of the people.
First of all. There are no Official Demands of the Occupy Movement. that being said, multiple factions of the movement have been assembling to discuss and vote on the output and message for the movement. Below is a LIST OF PROPOSED "DEMANDS FOR THE OCCUPY MOVEMENT" proposed by the website (occupywallstreet.org) which does not entirely represent the Occupy Wall Street General Assembly.
Below this list is a list of grievance that citizens have provided nationally and have voted on in solidarity of the movement. Best video of 2012: Rap News 2012- #Occupy Nibiru Corporations are not People Participate in Democracy and Vote on Occupy Wall Street Demands Here to Have Your Voice Heard. The Sovereign People's Movement @ #Occupy Wall Street. Video News Room Health Finance Politics Spiritual. OccupyDC Protest: Group Pushes Repeal Of Citizens United, Corporate Personhood.
WASHINGTON -- Around 35 OccupyDC protesters huddled in a cluster of trees in McPherson Square on Saturday morning during on-and-off rain showers, the beginning of what they said could be a several month-long occupation of the park in the nation's capital.
The protesters, inspired by the ongoing Occupy Wall Street protests in New York City, are asking for the "repeal [of] corporate personhood," according to the group's website. Thee group is focusing particularly on Citizens United, the landmark 2010 U.S. Supreme Court case that struck down campaign-finance laws applying to corporations and unions, freeing these groups to spend money on independent political ads. That decision expanded the First Amendment rights for corporations under the legal doctrine called corporate personhood, a theory that gives some legal rights and duties to corporations as if they were people. Jeffrey Light, a D.C. "We don't have a consensus yet on what the next step is," Light said.
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I'm sure I get a lot of things wrong too, but here's one thing I do understand: Change doesn't begin with policy. It begins with perception. And you don't change things by asking. You change them by acting. But it begins with perception. In the New York Times, Nick Kristof shows that he understands the #OccupyWallStreet movement more than most of his peers. But like many other sympathetic observers, he misses their most important point when he says "the movement falters in its demands" because "it doesn't really have any. " As movement participant Nelini Stamp told the Take Back the American Dream conference this morning, "We don't have demands.