InterOccupy | Connect. Collaborate. Organize. Work Group International. Occupy the Net Edition. What To Do If You’re Arrested at an Occupy Protest - Disorderly Conduct Laws. What started as “Occupy Wall Street” has quite literally turned into a worldwide movement . People across the country and the globe are picking up signs and gathering together to protest greed and corruption. The movement remains most pronounced in the United States where the common rallying cry is, “We are the 99%”, referring to the distribution of wealth at the top 1% of the population.
But at these rallies, some people aren’t leaving of their own accord; they are being carried away by the police. There are YouTube videos popping up every day that show arrests bordering on brutality. In the initial days, a NYPD administrator in a white shirt could be seen pepper spraying a crowd who had done nothing but exercise their right to protest. The protests strive to be completely peaceful, though it seems as though the cops are sometimes the ones disrupting the peace. Scanning the headlines of major city publications, you can find that scores are being arrested on any given day. Chaîne de OccupyTV. Cahier de doléances / Libro de los Pueblos / Book of the people #marchabruselas #agorabxl #walktobrussels | The Marches to Brussels. NOVEMBER 5TH BANK TRANSFER DAY. PASS ON | OccupyWallSt.org Forum.
La cote de la révolte. Encercler la finance mondiale. La contraindre. L'opération Occupy Wall Street gagne en intensité sur de nouveaux espaces politiques. Sociologues et politologues y voient l'émergence de véritables mouvements politiques. Le mouvement Occupy Wall Street, comme son cousin européen du Mouvement du 17 septembre, tout comme Les Indignés, ne se réduisent pas à des accès de contestations contre la finance mondiale. Pour plusieurs sociologues et historiens de nos démocraties contemporaines, ils représentent surtout des mouvements politiques à part entière, capables de porter des propositions qui un jour seront adoptées par l’ensemble de la société. Un nouveau cycle doit (…) s’ouvrir dans la vie des démocraties, aussi décisif qu’avaient été ceux de la conquête du suffrage universel au XIXe siècle, puis de la mise en place des États-providence au XXe siècle. Il faut maintenant donner à nos démocraties une assise élargie, il s’agit de les comprendre autrement et d’enrichir leur signification.
OCCUPY THE INTERNET. A Vision of Post-Clicktivist Activism. Clicktivism is a Trojan horse, a tactical malware, deployed by a dying American empire. What better way to cripple the revolutionary potential of a whole generation than to embed the logic of the marketplace within the very tools that would-be revolutionaries use? Forget infiltrator "Anna" and the plague of agent provocateurs. The cop we need to worry about is residing in the computer code. If #OCCUPYWALLSTREET fails, it will be because we've blindly adopted "best practices" put forth by wealthy Californian techies turned reformist campaigners.
Most clicktivist organizations today can be traced back to the $13.8m (£8.8m) sale in 1997 of a software company located in Berkeley, fifty miles from the heart of Silicon Valley, whose claim to fame was an iconic flying toaster screensaver. Clicktivism uses invasive databases to meticulously track which members are opening emails, signing petitions or donating money. Clicktivist organizations grow like the capitalist cancer we are fighting. Blogs. Protest. The Spine | News from the Front. October 2011 | Human Needs, Not Corporate Greed.