Occupy Wall Street | NYC Protest for American Revolution #OCCUPYXMAS begins This years’ Black Friday was a resounding success. Fifty-five billion dollars chimed through cash registers across the USA. Two hundred and fifty-thousand people went into the malls and spent on average 400 hundred dollars each, the biggest shopping day ever. We in the 99%, alongside our sympathetic friends in the 1%, need to challenge this “normal” way of doing Xmas and come up with a new normal. So what are we occupiers going to do different this season? NYC General Assembly | The Official Website of the GA at #OccupyWallStreet
Would Jesus Occupy Wall Street? There’s a fascinating article at Michigan Live about the faith community’s efforts to connect to the burgeoning Occupy Wall Street movement. I must say (and I’m as secular as they come) I did actually describe my three recent visits to Occupy Wall Street to several people as being like “Going to a new church and EVERYONE you meet is friendly and very WELCOMING.” There’s something special going on at Zuccotti Park and if you think otherwise you are… wrong. It makes sense that a state as hard hit economically as Michigan has been would have clergy so supportive of the anti-capitalist protests. It’s because they know what post-capitalism looks like in Michigan! If Jesus were alive today, would he be at Occupy Wall Street movement? As senior pastor of the nondenominational Fountain Street Church, [Rev. —Snip— It’s interesting to read this brain-damaged comments thread at NewsBusters for the opposite side of this issue, including who Jesus would hate, using nukes on OWS, etc, etc.
William Pfaff: American Government’s Indifference to Popular Protest American Government’s Indifference to Popular Protest Posted on Oct 5, 2011 By William Pfaff The obvious is not easily seen when you don’t want to see it. The Wall Street sitdown, and the copycat sitdowns elsewhere in the U.S., were suddenly discovered by the mainstream press last weekend (rather against its own inclinations, it seems, since the uprising of “Indignation”—“los indignados” in Spain where it all started—has in one way or another been going on in Spain, Portugal, France and Israel since the summer began). The Wall Street affair was initially ignored by press and politicians for two reasons, so far as I can see. Thus the habit of the mainstream press to ignore “left-wing” issues in Europe, and in the U.S. to report only on what Washington political players do and say: meaning the president, his administration, the candidates, Congress and K street (whence the millions in lobbyist money comes from to keep all the rest of them comfortably in charge of the United States).
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The Political Notebook — Yesterday at #OccupyOakland in pictures: Occupy... The Political Notebook Yesterday at #OccupyOakland in pictures: Occupy protesters swarmed the port area during yesterday’s general strike in the thousands, effectively shutting it down. Protests went from peaceful to violent when police and groups of protesters clashed . Flash bang grenades and tear gas were used. 125 notes Show Disqus Like Dislike Glad you liked it. Share No thanks Login Add New Comment Image Showing 0 comments Trackback URL <p>Please enable JavaScript to view the <a href=" Blog comments powered by Disqus posted 03 November, 2011 125 notes for this post Permalink / Short URL Previous post Next post This blog is a mix of Internet curation and global news commentary. Home About the Blogger Writing, Work and Elsewhere Call for Submissions Occupy Wall Street Original Submissions blogroll FAQs Picture Of The Day Interviews Protest Music Subscribe to This Week in War Best Of Archive Ask me anything This set of Sebastian Rich conflict photography is stunning. RSS feed
We Are the 99 Percent 14th October 2013 Question with 172 notes Anonymous asked: How can you claim to speak for 99% of people? We don’t claim to speak for anyone, we merely present stories. 14th October 2013 Photo with 186 notes I am 23 years old I am a female (not that it should make a difference, but apparently in our society it does…) From the day I moved out of my parent’s house, I’ve supported myself 100%, not because they don’t love me but because they can’t support my dreams financially. For over two years I schlepped 2-for-1’s and shots to pay for my rent, a used car, and tuition at a community college. Now I’m attending the University of MN and I depleted all of my savings just so I wouldn’t have to take out a loan this semester. I’m majoring in journalism, a profession I consider a civic duty. I am the 99%. occupywallst.org 14th October 2013 Question with 12 notes Anonymous asked: We are the 99 percent- Why don't we RECALL these extremist NUTS that are in Washington, DC.??!!!! 9th September 2013 Thank you!
Call for Transition Day on November 5th The 5th. of November is becoming a day for global actions, for going from the theory to the praxis and the Bank Transfer Day or Transition Day, or operation CashBack is spreading faster than light! (Seen on Fox Business, Good Morning San Diego, EVBLive, Fox13, msnbc). Greetings to the people of the world, We are Anonymous In this day, as we speak, there is a revolution brewing. We are Anonymous we are Legion we do not Forgive we do not Forget Expect Us! Proposal to your assembly: The proposal is to start an international campaign for everybody to take their money out of the commercials banks and pass it to ethic banks (bank account), credit unions (savings), or invest it in ethic or alternative economy, you can also build your own financial institution. So this action will have two fronts: take the money out from the banksters elites, and also put more money available for sustainable projects who will contribute to everybody and help to heal the world. What is the plan: Follow-up:
Transport Workers Union Votes Unanimously to Support Occupy Wall Street Occupy Wall Street is in its 13th day, with support growing among factions veering from the "grungy unemployed hippie stereotype." There's the event led by two CUNY professors to protest the treatment of the protesters at the hands of the NYPD (Critical Mass has written they'll join in this rally, which may be preceded by a feeder march from Zuccotti Park consisting of other groups as well). Michael Moore, who's been involved for days now, is doing a book signing at St. Marks Bookshop (another cause!) with royalties on sales to go to support Occupy Wall Street. And last night, the Transport Workers Union voted to support Occupy Wall Street. We spoke to TWU Local 100's spokesman Jim Gannon, who told us that the executive board voted unanimously last night at their regular monthly business meeting to support Occupy Wall Street. Why did they join? Via Animal NY, here's a video of a woman who identifies herself as a TWU 100 member talking about support for the demonstrators.
Dante’s inferno: massive riots in Rome — pictures and videos 200,000 peaceful protesters march on Rome, but an army of riot police and a small militia of anti-capitalist urban guerrillas wreak havoc across the city. As the European debt crisis spills over from Greece to Italy, so do the flames of indignation spread from Athens to Rome. On Saturday, the Italian capital was the theater to a spectacular 200,000-strong peaceful anti-austerity march. Makeshift bombs were detonated, missiles and Molotov cocktails fired at police, a church was ransacked, and the Ministry of Defense set ablaze. As the tear gas and petrol bombs fly from one ancient city to the next, the social sustainability of our present political economic arrangement is once again being thrown into question. In December 2010 we made a gloomy prediction for the new year: “The rage is spreading, and the legitimation crisis of global capitalism is only going to deepen in 2011 as austerity measures aggravate inequality, insecurity and unemployment.