Call Your Mayor: Complete List of Numbers for Occupied Cities On October 13, I started calling Mayor Bloomberg’s office to protest his threatened attack on Zuccotti Park, and urged others to do the same. Apparently they did, mostly without any urging from me, because the high volume of calls from around the country was credited, by the New York Times, with making the mayor back off. The next day, prompted by reports from occupiers, I used Facebook to tell people to call the mayor of San Diego. Then it occurred to me: We need a list of the phone numbers of the mayors of all the occupied cities. When a movement has no leaders and no staff, the only way to get something done is to do it yourself – or, in my case, to get some friends and relatives to do it for me. We can’t all sleep outdoors in tents, but we CAN all provide a sturdy “second line” of support. ALABAMA (Gov. AuburnAlabamaGary Fuller(334) 705-5150gfuller@ci.opelika.al.us BirminghamAlabamaWilliam A. HuntsvilleAlabamaTommy Battle(256) 427-5000contact@hsvcity.com MobileAlabamaSamuel L. Ft.
We All Occupy Occupying is behaving as if you live in the better world we all dream of: where basic needs are met for all, where greed is unacceptable, and where people consider others when they make decisions. To be honest, being kinder and more helpful is everything. Imagine if all of the people who work for banks and corporations had been kinder and more helpful. But if you want to take more concrete actions, then pick an issue that matters to you and pressure your government or a corporation to change their behavior. To occupy does not require that you go out and protest, or that you join a group. You may want to connect with others to join in their actions (or to invite others to do your actions). Hopefully this page answers the questions that many have about occupy. CHARTS: Here's What The Wall Street Protesters Are So Angry About... The "Occupy Wall Street" protests are gaining momentum, having spread from a small park in New York to marches to other cities across the country. So far, the protests seem fueled by a collective sense that things in our economy are not fair or right. But the protesters have not done a good job of focusing their complaints—and thus have been skewered as malcontents who don't know what they stand for or want. (An early list of "grievances" included some legitimate beefs, but was otherwise just a vague attack on "corporations." Given that these are the same corporations that employ more than 100 million Americans and make the products we all use every day, this broadside did not resonate with most Americans). So, what are the protesters so upset about, really? Do they have legitimate gripes? To answer the latter question first, yes, they have very legitimate gripes.
Citibank arrestees say undercover cops set them up Well, we now have more information about the foolish but well-meaning action by Occupy Wall Street at that Citibank branch in New York. According to one demonstrator, they were all Citibank customers who intended to close their accounts except for one journalist and three others, Chase customers who went with the Citi group for moral support. All of them were arrested (See: DON’T close your Citibank account today. We have three insider accounts, one from Elana Carroll, published at Gawker (via Xeni), and another from Marshall Garrett, at the Village Voice. The third is by Anindya Bhattacharyya, an actual socialist from Britain (where socialists aren’t an actual endangered species, as they are here in the US), wast here as a reporter (for a publication suspiciously titled “The Socialist Worker“). Spread the word! Here are his tweets, live from the scene: The protesters were entirely respectful towards bank staff and customers. About the Author
Arrests Outside Goldman Sachs in New York | The People Occupy Posted on 03 November 2011 by The People Occupy This morning a march and trial on Goldman Sachs resulted in arrests after a small group of protesters blockaded the entrance to the Goldman Sachs building. Footage below was rebroadcast from the TheOther99 channel on Ustream . Watch this footage on Livestream.com AnonOps Communications One account. All of Google. Sign in to continue to Blogger Find my account Forgot password? Sign in with a different account Create account One Google Account for everything Google The Great American Bubble Machine | Politics News The first thing you need to know about Goldman Sachs is that it's everywhere. The world's most powerful investment bank is a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money. In fact, the history of the recent financial crisis, which doubles as a history of the rapid decline and fall of the suddenly swindled dry American empire, reads like a Who's Who of Goldman Sachs graduates. Invasion of the Home Snatchers By now, most of us know the major players. But then, any attempt to construct a narrative around all the former Goldmanites in influential positions quickly becomes an absurd and pointless exercise, like trying to make a list of everything. The Feds vs. They achieve this using the same playbook over and over again. BUBBLE #1 The Great Depression Goldman wasn't always a too-big-to-fail Wall Street behemoth, the ruthless face of kill-or-be-killed capitalism on steroids —just almost always. Where to go?
Chili/New York : Similarités entre “Occupons Wall Street” et la contestation étudiante Photo de mar i sea Y sur Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0) [Liens en anglais sauf mention contraire] 81 millions de jeunes sont sans emploi dans le monde, mais “seulement 4,4% du revenu global est dépensé pour l'éducation et une fraction de ce chiffre pour le chômage des jeunes”, écrit l'ancien premier ministre britannique Gordon Brown dans un article intitulé “Donnez des emplois aux jeunes !” Ceci peut tout aussi bien qu'autre chose servir d'indice pour expliquer la situation au Chili. Depuis ces cinq derniers mois, les étudiants chiliens ont activement réagi, et Global Voices a couvert leurs manifestations (voir: 12 octobre, 10 août [en français], et plus.) Dans un billet pour la Revue Commerciale d'Harvard publié durant la première semaine d'Occupons Wall Street, James Allworth a posé l'hypothèse que le réel choix offert était un choix entre le capitalisme et la démocratie et comment la tension entre les deux pouvait être résolue. Photo de rafa2010 sur Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0) Le Times poursuit:
Here are a list of Police Officer names that beat US Berkeley students : occupywallstreet Adbuster - OWS The joyous freedom of possibility. Dissent can be personal, collective, creative — whatever you want it to be. Revolt can be physical or spectral, a blackspot on a corporate logo or a digital mindbomb posted online. Edit a billboard, speak to a friend. There are no limits, no minimum or maximum. The revolutionary spark is the same one that lit human existence. Print & Post If you only do one thing today and during the heady days of climate protest that follow, print out as many copies of this #WORLDREVOLUTION poster as you can and tape them up on bus stops, bank and shop windows, cash machines, government buildings, everywhere in your city where people will see them. Download September 11, 2014 What will you do on the September 17th anniversary of Occupy Wall Street? September 16, 2013 Revolution is a Rhizome September 19, 2012 Tactical Briefing #38. September 12, 2012 Where do we stand? July 23, 2012 Tactical Briefing #36 June 5, 2012 Occupy morphs into a new model! May 24, 2012 May 16, 2012
Wall Street Aristocracy Got $1.2 Trillion From Fed Citigroup Inc. (C) and Bank of America Corp. (BAC) were the reigning champions of finance in 2006 as home prices peaked, leading the 10 biggest U.S. banks and brokerage firms to their best year ever with $104 billion of profits. By 2008, the housing market’s collapse forced those companies to take more than six times as much, $669 billion, in emergency loans from the U.S. Federal Reserve. Fed Chairman Ben S. “These are all whopping numbers,” said Robert Litan, a former Justice Department official who in the 1990s served on a commission probing the causes of the savings and loan crisis. (View the Bloomberg interactive graphic to chart the Fed’s financial bailout.) Foreign Borrowers It wasn’t just American finance. Peak Balance The balance was more than 25 times the Fed’s pre-crisis lending peak of $46 billion on Sept. 12, 2001, the day after terrorists attacked the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon. Odds of Recession Liquidity Requirements ‘Stark Illustration’ 21,000 Transactions
Corée du Sud : “Occupons Wall Street” à Séoul, les photos Le mouvement Occupons Wall Street a débarqué à Séoul, capitale de la Corée du Sud. Malgré une pluie diluvienne, les éclairs et le tonnerre, et une soudaine chute de la température, quelque 300 personnes se sont rassemblées pour la manifestation “Occupons Séoul” du 15 octobre 2011, d'abord devant le Service de Supervision Financière à Yeoido, le coeur financier de Séoul, avant de défiler vers d'autres endroits du centre de la ville. La twittersphère s'est animée de messages et photos postés par les jeunes et les militants qui protestaient contre l'inégalité financière. Des photos ont aussi été mises en ligne [en coréen] sur Wiki Tree, le site coréen d'information citoyenne en ligne. Min Gyeong-chul (@mgc0909) a tweeté plusieurs photos de la manifestation. Mis en ligne surr Twitter par @mgc0909 Voici une autre photo qu'il a prise de Yeiodo : Mis en ligne sur Twitter par @mgc0909 La photo ci-après montre une occupation par les victimes du défaut de la banque de dépôts Busan. 월가 시위하는 것들!
At Occupy Camps, Veterans Bring the Wars Home - Tina Dupuy - Politics Expert at living in tents, some veterans are finding new purpose in the streets We're in a coffee shop near McPherson Square, the location of Occupy DC, and Michael Patterson, 21, and I are having hot cocoa on a cold November night. He's wearing an Iraq Veterans Against the War sweatshirt and baggy shorts. In Zuccotti Park, Army Specialist Jerry Bordeleau, 24, was sitting next to a table of IWW (Industrial Workers of the World) literature. At Occupy Baltimore, I met 21-year-old Justin Carson, who tells me he served in the Army National Guard in Iraq from 2009 until this February. It was a surprise to meet Iraq war vets at these protests. Their presence became national news when Iraq vet and former Marine Scott Olsen's skull was fractured by a non-lethal round fired by police in Oakland in late-October. At Occupy DC, a painting of Scott Olsen in uniform is draped on the side of a tent. Patterson still sports a military haircut and a bit of the Army swagger. Image credit: Tina DuPuy
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