The seed planted on September 17th in New York City has grown into a national and international movement. Occupy Wall Street has branched out into hundreds of groups organizing in their own communities. Reader Supported News will highlight some of the more significant actions from around the country here. Share this page with your friends and associates and come back often for the latest developments.
Occupiers say they are protesting the influence of corporate money in politics, and will show the House of Representatives what real democracy looks like. (photo: Scott Thuman/ABC7/WJLA)
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Occupy Worldwide
19 May 12
NATO Protesters Held on Terrorism Conspiracy Charges
19 May 12
Three Nato protesters, arrested in a late night raid on Wednesday, have been charged on terrorism-related offences.
Police claim the charges of conspiracy to commit terrorism, providing material support for terrorism and possession of an explosive or incendiary device, are the result of a month-long investigation into a group they believe was making Molotov cocktails. They had already been pulled over by police last week and asked about their protest plans in a stop they posted on YouTube.
How the 1% Hijacked Our Courts
19 May 12
For a generation, America's political-economy has been gripped in a vicious cycle. Those at the top of the economic pile have taken an ever-growing share of the nation's income, and then leveraged that haul into ever-greater political power, which they have in turn used to rewrite the rules of "the market" in their favor. Wash, rinse and repeat.
It's the result of years of institutional investments by the corporate Right to advance a reactionary legal regime in America's courts. In the process, the richest Americans now have their hands in both our legislative and judicial branches, while working America has become a voiceless stepping stone.
Emergency Law Considered in Quebec Student Protest
18 May 12
MONTREAL (AP) — Facing the most sustained student protest in Canadian history, Quebec's provincial government weighed emergency legislation Thursday aimed at ending rallies and demonstrations against rising tuition costs.
Authorities said 122 were arrested late Wednesday as thousands of demonstrators spilled into the streets of Montreal, with some smashing bank windows and hurling objects at police. Protests have been going on for three months.
122 Quebec Protesters Arrested
17 May 12
MONTREAL — A bid to restore order in restive Quebec was met with streets clogged with thousands of protesters, a multitude of flying projectiles, several smashed windows, and blasts of pepper spray leading to 122 arrests.
The unrest on Wednesday night followed the Quebec government’s announcement it would suspend the current academic session for striking students in an effort to calm things down.
It also hinted at more punitive measures, without sharing details
G8 and Nato Summit: Chicago Braces for Occupy Protests
17 May 12
The Occupy movement will descend on Barack Obama's hometown intent on reasserting itself as a globally-heard voice for change. After months of setbacks and evictions - first from their spiritual home in Manhattan's Zuccotti Park, then St Paul's Cathedral in London and McPherson Square at the foot of the White House - Chicago offers a massive stage, lit by the cameras of the world's media.
"The media loves the story about Occupy dwindling but the truth is we're stronger than ever," said Rachael Perrotta, an organiser with Occupy Chicago. "These protests will only make us more cohesive and more powerful."
Occupy Chicago NATO/G8 Guide
18 May 12
To better empower travelers and Chicagoans new to Occupy Chicago, we are releasing the Occupy Chicago NATO/G8 Guide.
Keeping People In Their Homes One Action At a Time
17 May 12
When Jeril Richardson checked out of the hospital after he was hit by a car in 2009, he returned home to find that his landlord had not been keeping up with mortgage payments and the bank was foreclosing on his Hyde Park home.
Canvassers knocking on his door told him about City Life Vida Urbana, a community organization that would help him to fight to stay in his home. Nearly three years later, Richardson still lives in the house, pays rent to the bank, and is saving to purchase the property.
#NATO Thursday May 17: Planet over Profits and War!
17 May 12
Announcements
2pm Jackson and LaSalle - Bike Mass for Environmentally Sustainable Transportation
3pm Prudential Plaza, 180 N. Stetson Ave.- Rally outside of the Canadian Consulate
3:30pm Press conference, Prudential Plaza
Thur 5/17: Occupy Chicago Stands against NATO/G8 Member Canada's Environmental Destruction
Shouting out against the NATO war machine, Occupy Chicago is organizing a week of actions highlighting the violence and oppression of NATO, and calling for the organization to be disbanded. Thursday, May 17th Occupy Chicago will defend the environment at the Canadian Consulate, exposing the dirty oil extraction of the Alberta Tar Sands, which is destroying the local ecosystem, fueling G8/NATO’s wars to protect resources and contributing to the global climate crises
Busloads of Occupy Protesters Head to Chicago
16 May 12
More protesters, mostly from the Occupy movement, are making their way to Chicago.
Groups from New York City, Los Angeles, Washington D.C. and Portland boarded buses Wednesday morning and settled in for the long haul singing Walt Disney tunes and "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer."
The groups streamed their trips online along the way, spreading the word about the Occupy movement and their Chicago plans. On a bus from L.A., riders described Occupy as "a new kind of lifestyle" and speculated close to 900 supporters ultimately would converge.
TODAY: Women Occupying Wall Street Reclaim Feminism In Citywide Gathering
16 May 12
Occupy Wall Street reignited a movement for economic justice. Now WOW — Women Occupying Wall Street — aims to do the same for feminism. They’re bringing together a broad range of New York City feminists—and unapologetically using the word—to launch a new, inclusive activism for gender justice and against the War on Women.
The First Feminist General Assembly is Thursday, May 17 at 6:30 in Washington Square Park.
Yes, it’s a meeting—but not just any meeting. The invitation list ranges from SisterSong: Women of Color Reproductive Justice Center to the Sex Workers Outreach Project, from the Granny Peace Brigade to Hollaback, a group of 20-somethings using cell phone cameras to broadcast the faces of street harassers. The conversation will be personal as well as political.
Stop the Neo-Liberal Crisis Politics – Dispossess the Beneficiaries!
16 May 12
We are experiencing the deepest crisis of capitalism since the great depression of the 30s – and the European governments continue to pour oil on the fires! From the very beginning, some governments have prevented a solidarity-based solution to the crisis in Europe and are significantly responsible for its exacerbation. This refers particularly to the German government, which, in August 2008, blocked a substantial economic stimulus package for Europe. Hardly had the recession reached its lowest point in Germany in 2009, when the German government preached the necessity for hard austerity policies. The “debt brake” was anchored in the constitution: politics disempowered itself, shaped by neo-liberal ideology. The austerity measures taken in various EU states affected above all wage-earners, pensioners, the unemployed and the self-employed, while the wealthy, the banks and the corporations were spared.
Frankfurt Police Clear Occupy Camp as Euro Resentment Gains
16 May 12
Police in Frankfurt cleared hundreds of protesters who set up camp outside the European Central Bank in October as they prepare for as many as 30,000 anti-capitalist activists to besiege Germany’s banking capital.
Russian Funds Flee as Anti-Putin Activists Occupy Moscow
17 May 12
Investors are fleeing Russia as demonstrators against President Vladimir Putin dig in, exacerbating the impact of Europe's debt crisis on the country's markets, money managers from Frankfurt to Moscow said.
Occupiers Sit Down in Times Square, Declare Another NYC Is Possible
16 May 12
My colleague Sarah Jaffe and I went down to check out the culminating action in a week of anti-austerity protests in NYC.
A group of about two hundred or so activists, occupiers, and community members arrived in the heart of billboard-blaring, lights- blinking, temple-to-money-spending Times Square, where they were greeted by a banner and a saxophonist playing the national anthem.
Occupy, Union Groups Rally for LA Banking Ordinance
16 May 12
More than a hundred demonstrators, including members of the Occupy movement and union groups, held signs and blew whistles on the steps of City Hall on Tuesday to support a proposal requiring banks doing business with the city of Los Angeles to report on foreclosures, charitable giving and other activities.
Occupy Little Rock Protestors Prepare for Arrest
16 May 12
It is a movement that landed in several cities across the nation including here in Little Rock. But at 7:00 a.m. Wednesday, the site known as Occupy Little Rock will be taken back by the city.
The parking lot at 4th and Ferry streets has been utilized as a camp for the protestors but city officials say the lot is needed for Riverfest and other summer activities. Occupy Little Rock has less than nine hours to vacate the premises.
What began at the Clinton Library last fall, will end at the corner of 4th and Ferry streets in Little Rock.
Noam Chomsky: Occupy Has Created Solidarity in the US
15 May 12
Noam Chomsky says the Occupy movement has helped rebuild class solidarity and communities of mutual support on a level unseen since the time of the Great Depression.
"The Occupy movement spontaneously created something that doesn't really exist in the country: communities of mutual support, cooperation, open spaces for discussion ... just people doing things and helping each other," Chomsky says.
UC Police Raid Occupy the Farm
15 May 12
A three-week-long protest on UC Berkeley agricultural research land in Albany came to a quiet close early Monday when police cleared out a small group of protesters who had set up an urban farming camp.
University police officers in riot helmets arrested nine people after giving protesters 10 minutes to leave the Gill Tract near Marin and San Pablo avenues about 6:15 a.m.
When officers fanned out across the fields, the few protesters who had not obeyed the police order scurried off the property and onto San Pablo, which authorities had closed to traffic.
May 15th Day of Action Fight the Banks That Caused the Crisis! Come to Times Square
15 May 12
Today is the one year anniversary of the 15-M movement in Spain, which continues to mobilize hundreds of thousands of people and inspire the world. The following text is an excerpt from 15-M: What Is The Plan? orginally published on TakeTheSquare.net in March. It is republished in part to give our readers a better understanding of the 15-M movement, who we are, what our goals and tactics are, and what we are fighting for.
Today is also a day of action against the banks that caused the global crisis and the culmination of the Another NYC Is Possible Week of Actions Against Budget Cuts And Austerity. Join us in solidarity with the indignad@s for a mass rally at Times Square at 6pm!
Occupy Isn't About Electing Democrats - It's About Exposing a Broken System
15 May 12
The Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party didn't succeed by electing candidates - it succeeded showing the limitations of the electoral system. Occupy should do the same.
Occupy Chicago Outlines NATO Protests (VIDEO)
15 May 12
Occupy Chicago says thousands of protesters will go to Chicago next week before the city hosts the NATO summit, May 20 and 21. While Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel views the summit as raising Chicago's profile, Occupy thinks the event will call attention to their concerns and invigorate the Occupy Wall Street movement that started last fall.
19 Year Old Girl Traveling With OWS Group Goes Missing
15 May 12
New Yorker Stevie Bates, 19, who had been traveling cross country with Occupy Wall Street friends to an Occupy event, stopped at a layover in Pittsburgh on April 27th on the way home to New York. She hasn't been seen since.
Bates was last observed boarding the bus in Pittsburgh bound for arrival in NY on April 28. Her mother Vivian last spoke to her on the phone when she was at the Greyhound station in Pittsburgh at 7:52 pm. She told her mother that when she got back she intended to stay with friends in Brooklyn but would be home later in the day. She never arrived.
Occupy UNC Holds Alternative Commencement
14 May 12
Chapel Hill - While Michael Bloomberg was speaking to tens of thousands of graduates and parents Sunday, a smaller celebration held by members of Occupy UNC-Chapel Hill sought to provide a different graduation experience - one they said was more real and less pretentious.
Welcome to Occupy Brooklyn
14 May 12
Welcome to Occupy Brooklyn.
In the months after Occupy Wall Street spring to life in lower Manhattan, thousands of individual Occupations formed in cites around the world. Now, in neighborhoods throughout Brooklyn, individual General Assemblies are helping transform their neighborhoods, and taking part in a larger movement.
Spain's 'Indignants' Return to the Streets
12 November 11
Spain's "indignants" are demonstrating in cities and towns nationwide to decry economic injustice and mark the first birthday of the grassroots movement which inspired "Occupy" protests in the US and around the world.
Tens of thousands of people rallied on Saturday to mark the beginning of a four-day protest that will end on May 15, the anniversary of the movement's birth.
Several columns of protesters marched separately on Madrid's city centre from all directions to converge on central Puerta del Sol. But authorities vowed to stop them camping in the square, which became the cradle of their popular movement.
Rocking Chicago: Your Guide to the NATO Counter-Summit
10 May 12
The NATO summit is coming to town in a few days and as members of the 99%, we won’t be invited to attend. But there’s good reason not to stay home. Occupy Chicago and numerous community groups have lined up a week of events and actions to confront the agendas of austerity and militarism and to present a vision of a better Chicago. Most events are free; some may require tickets or registration. Check out the links for details. Know of something else that should be here? Let us know at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
#ChicagoSpring: Occupy NATO May 12-21 Full Schedule
10 May 12
On May 19, Mayor 1% Emanuel will bring to Chicago military and civilian representatives of the 28-nation US-commanded and largely US-financed North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and heads of state and finance ministers of the G-8 world economic powers.
They meet on behalf of the 1% of the world, the rich and the powerful, the bankers and generals. Their agenda is to continue to impose austerity, or poverty, by cutting social spending for workers and the poor to maintain profitability for the rich and to launch more wars to stop the rise of the poor nations of the Third World.
Police-Occupy Stand Off at the Gill Tract Farmland in SF Bay Area
11 May 12
Albany CA – When University of California Police arrived at the Occupied Gill Tract yesterday morning at 6 a.m. and began barricading the gates, with some two dozen members of the Gill Tract Farmers Collective inside, word spread quickly that Occupy the Farm was being raided.
How did the Farmers react?
By planting tomatoes.
'Global May Manifesto': Statement from International Activists with Occupy, Other Groups
11 May 12
An international assembly made up of individuals from Occupy groups in London and New York, as well as Take the Square and social movements in the Middle East, Latin America, Africa and Asia--a total of six continents--has released a statement ahead of a global weekend of action. The assembly, held online between hundreds of activists and then including thousands more via email, worked on the statement for several months and endorsed it by consensus on May 4.
Reclaim Your City with a Global Movement
09 May 12
Well, it happened — massive protests around the world, strikes across Europe, tens of thousands in the streets of New York City, student walkouts, radical art, banners hanging everywhere, slogans stickered to walls, occupation attempts, dozens of arrests around the country. This was May Day in a post-Occupy Wall Street world, but May Day was only the beginning. Again. Winter has peeled away, and the streets are getting warm.
Between May 10 and May 15, New Yorkers — in solidarity with global calls to action from around the world — will carry out Another City is Possible, Another World is Possible, a week of actions connecting the city budget to austerity measures around the world, all culminating on May 15 at 6 p.m. in a mass convergence in Times Square.
No Cops! No Hikes! CUNY Convergence Against Police Repression
08 May 12
In Response to Campus Security’s Use of Excessive Force on Peaceful Students, Petition to Repeal Tuition Hikes and End Securitization of CUNY.
On May 2nd, 2012, peaceful students and faculty experienced unnecessary brutality on the Brooklyn College campus. Brooklyn College President Karen Gould ordered for students to be violently removed by campus security from outside of her office in a main academic building; two students were wrongly arrested, spent a night in jail, and face unsubstantiated charges.
Over the next five years, students face a $1,500 tuition increase, and continuous cuts to student services and a continuation of increased securitization on CUNY Campuses– from the NYPD systematic spying on Muslim Student Associations, to Stop and Frisk racial profiling policies on and off our campuses, to attacks by security guards on peaceful students such as during the Board of Trustees Meeting on November 21st, 2011 at Baruch College.
We refuse to allow these to become the future of CUNY.
A Rebellious World or a New Dark Age?
08 May 12
If you had followed May Day protests in New York City in the mainstream media, you might hardly have noticed that they happened at all. The stories were generally tucked away, minimalist, focused on a few arrests, and spoke of "hundreds" of protesters in the streets, or maybe, if a reporter was feeling especially generous, a vague "thousands."
I did my own rough count on the largest of the Occupy protests that day. It left Union Square in the evening heading for the Wall Street area.
I walked through the march front to back, figuring a couple of thousand loosely packed protesters to a block, and came up with a conservative estimate of 15,000 people.
A Rebellious World or a New Dark Age?
08 May 12
If you had followed May Day protests in New York City in the mainstream media, you might hardly have noticed that they happened at all. The stories were generally tucked away, minimalist, focused on a few arrests, and spoke of "hundreds" of protesters in the streets, or maybe, if a reporter was feeling especially generous, a vague "thousands."
I did my own rough count on the largest of the Occupy protests that day. It left Union Square in the evening heading for the Wall Street area.
I walked through the march front to back, figuring a couple of thousand loosely packed protesters to a block, and came up with a conservative estimate of 15,000 people.
The People's Bishop
07 May 12
Retired Episcopal Bishop George Packard was arrested in Vietnam Veterans Memorial Plaza in New York City last Tuesday night as he participated in the May 1 Occupy demonstrations.
He and 15 other military veterans were taken into custody after they linked arms to hold the plaza against a police attempt to clear it.
There were protesters behind them who, perhaps because of confusion, perhaps because of miscommunication or perhaps they were unwilling to risk arrest, melted into the urban landscape.
Occupy Our Homes Fights On As Media Ignores Foreclosure Plight
07 May 12
One of Occupy Wall Street's enduring legacies is the Occupy Our Homes movement that successfully managed to protect families from evictions at a time when not even the government of the United States seemed overly concerned with an epidemic of foreclosures.
In February, Helen Bailey, the 78-year-old former civil rights activist who was threatened with foreclosure by J.P. Morgan Chase while the company trumpeted its efforts to uphold Martin Luther King Jr.'s legacy, was able to stay in her home following a successful campaign by Occupy Nashville.
The Road to May 12th
07 May 12
We will not stop until we achieve our objectives: the 99% will take to the streets again and again until we have a say in the world in which we live. We want global change. Let's turn the streets into the world's biggest loudspeaker on the 12th of May.
Because we are the 99%, we are not owned by politicians and bankers. Take to the streets on May 12th!
12 May - Flood the City! #GlobalSpring
07 May 12
On 12 May people around the world will rise up again responding to the global call for action. In London we'll visit those who gambled with our futures and we'll deliver our very own personal messages to them.
Free Bus Trips & Call to Action for People's Summit in Chicago 5/18
07 May 12
99% solidarity is excited to participate in nonviolent direct actions in Chicago from May 18 to 22, 2012. We have secured buses to bring people to these actions from several U.S cities.
We are currently working on the travel schedule, agenda and other important details of this trip. We will be contacting you with updated information shortly. For now here are a few updates:
What It's Like When the NYPD Raids Your Apartment At Dawn-- Because Your Roommate Is in Occupy
03 May 12
I chatted briefly with musician Justin Remer, whose Brooklyn apartment was raided by the NYPD on Monday morning in an incident that was first reported on Gawker and sure looks from all angles like a pre May Day intimidation tactic. I was curious about how the experience felt. “At around six-fifteen I was woken up. I sleep in a lofted bed, and there's a police officer standing in my bedroom shining a flashlight in my face. He woke me up and said ‘get down in the living room.," he said. Remer dressed, grabbed his ID as requested, and joined his housemates in the living room.
"Tuition Fees are Class War!" CUNY Brooklyn College Students Roughed Up By Police for Demanding Fairer Treatment
02 May 12
Every gate at the City University of New York's Brooklyn College had doubled security—no one was getting in without a student ID. That and the rain might have dampened turnout for a mass student day of action calling for increased access to higher education and supported by the likes of Naomi Klein and Noam Chomsky, but it didn't dampen the spirits of the student activists who rallied on the quad and then marched into Boylan Hall, chanting, “1, 2, 3, 4, tuition fees are class war! 5, 6, 7, 8, students will retaliate!” It took police, batons and riot cuffs to do that.
Converge for Justice, Occupy Wall Street, South, Break Up BOA’s Business as Usual! - May 6-9, Charlotte, NC
03 May 12
On May 6-9 people from across the country and world will be converging in Charlotte, NC, home of Bank of America’s Headquarters and their annual Shareholder meeting, to demand an end to their practices that are bankrupting our economy and wrecking our climate. Homeowners, students, immigrants, environmentalists, workers, women’s groups, peace activists and more will be in Charlotte, bringing their stories, hearts and communities to the fight against Bank of America and the economic inequality, racial injustice and environmental destruction they have wrought.
Occupy Wall Street Lives!
02 May 12
As I walked around Union Square in NYC yesterday between 4:00 and 5:30, waiting for the march down Broadway to begin, memories of Occupied Zuccotti Park came to mind. Handmade signs about a very wide range of issues were everywhere. There were drumming and musical groups doing their rhythmic things, and people dancing as they did so. There was Reverend Billy performing, and an incredibly well done colored chalk piece of artwork on the sidewalk near 17th and Broadway. People everywhere, mainly white folks but diverse, lots of young people but with a significant number of non-young people.
And a spirit of hope, a spirit that declared: "We are here, we are organized, we have not been defeated and we are not going away."
And so many of us! During the march down Broadway my wife and I stood to the side of the march for a while, holding our own handmade signs (opposing nuclear power and the Keystone pipeline) for marchers to see, and watching happily as block after block of people walked past us.
Guitarmy Highlights Occupy Resurgence
Occupy Makes a Massive May Day Comeback
02 May 12
Midtown is a great place for chanting; your voice echoes off the tall buildings and you can hear it blocks away. Even better for marching bands, bells and whistles. There may not actually be 99 pickets, but midtown Manhattan is clogged with them in the morning, and they're inside the heads of the people on the street - I walk past a couple discussing our "cruel," unequal society as I hurry from picket to picket.
I made it to Bryant Park a few minutes after eight in a haze of rain, and found a crowd of around 100 huddled under their umbrellas or the ones at tables in the park. The Rude Mechanical Orchestra were clustered around their instruments but not playing, and Occupiers chatted with one another.
My first picket stop was at the New York Times building, where the United Auto Workers (UAW) were picketing under a lovely awning in support of the National Organization of Legal Services Workers (UAW Local 2320). The lawyers and legal support staff of Legal Services NYC provide free legal aid to New York's low-income folks who need support - they help fight evictions, support the unemployed, work on benefits for the disabled, and more. They're facing cutbacks from their board, who want them to give back part of their healthcare benefits - not to mention cuts to the services they provide.
Report Criticizes Oakland Police: "Overwhelming Military-Type Response"
02 May 12
Oakland police used "an overwhelming military-type response" to disperse Occupy Oakland demonstrators and fired at a former Marine and Iraq war veteran who was critically injured in the clashes in October, according to a report issued on Monday.
The report by an outside monitor of the Oakland Police Department came one day before anti-Wall Street protesters plan nationwide rallies on May 1, with Occupy Oakland demonstrators vowing to take over San Francisco's iconic Golden Gate Bridge.
Oakland's police practices came under intense scrutiny last year when former Marine Scott Olsen was critically injured during a demonstration in October. Protesters said he was hit in the head by a tear gas canister.)
The Struggle Continues! May 2nd Brooklyn College Education Convergence
02 May 12
Another University is Possible. Today, May 2nd, students from across NYC will be joining together at the Brooklyn College Campus to take back our future from the 1%. Hundreds of students will be staging a continuation of May Day and the Free University by taking over the Quad at Brooklyn College with teach-ins, political theater, food, music, and events to show an alternative university. While subsidies, tax breaks, and corporate loopholes continue to exist allowing banks and corporations to make record profits, slashes to education have resulted in students paying more and more in CUNY while receiving less and less. Noon, Wednesday - May 2, 2012 Brooklyn College Quad (Next to the library and Bell Tower)
Tonight: Shut Down Sotheby's!
02 May 12
Tonight, at an exclusive 7pm auction, Sotheby's is expected to sell Edvard Munch's iconic painting "The Scream" for $80 million dollars. Outside, Occupy and labor allies will protest the Upper East Side art auction house in solidarity with 43 locked-out art handlers who have been replaced by Sotheby's with low wage temporary workers with no benefits.
Occupy May Day Protests Across US As Activists and Unions Link Up
01 May 12
The Occupy Wall Street movement has attempted to breathe new life into its campaign against inequities in the global financial system with a series of May Day protests around the United States.
Thousands of people turned out in New York for a day of action that culminated in a confident march down Broadway in the evening sunshine towards Wall Street, the crucible of the protest that began last year with an angry backlash against banking excess.
The stated aim of bringing business in the commercial capital of the US to a standstill went unfulfilled, but as rain gave way to a bright spring afternoon, traffic ground to a halt around Lower Manhattan as the Occupy movement's most anticipated day of action in months took hold.
May Day Occupy Protests - Live Coverage
01 May 12
Live coverage of Occupy and May Day protests in New York and other US cities, plus highlights from around the world.
Why Are We Striking?
01 May 12
Ocourse, most of us know what's wrong with the world. We know about the poverty, war, violence and disease. We're conscious of the injustice, but not fully conscious of it, because frankly, we have enough to worry about in our own lives.
As such, we've come to accept these injustices as simple facts of life - prepackaged side effects of the human condition, as natural and intertwined with our existence as water to a stream, beyond our capacity to effect in any significant way.
This collective sense of powerlessness and default apathy is why we're striking.
#MayDay: The Whole World Is Waking! Live Coverage of #M1GS in Over 135 Cities
01 May 12
TODAY IS MAY DAY! INTO THE STREETS!
Find events in your city here. Before you head out, check our Last-Minute May Day Checklist. If you are in NYC, check out the full schedule. If you can only make one event, try to come to the (permitted) Solidarity March leaving from Union Square at 5:30pm ET!
Last-Minute May Day Checklist
01 May 12
This May Day, hundreds of thousands of workers, immigrants, students, retirees, and unemployed people across the U.S. and around world will take to the streets, many for the first time. (If you are in NYC, check here for a schedule for the full day!) For folks new to protest (and of course, everyone else) we've thrown together a last-minute May Day Checklist:
What to Bring
Occupy Guitarmy to Rock May Day
01 May 12
You can't arrest a song!
That's part of the idea behind one faction of a large network of demonstrations and protests planned for May Day - the day of action this Tuesday that some suspect will push Occupy Wall Street into the spotlight again in a major way.
NYC City Councilors Sue NYPD Over Occupy Wall Street Abuses
01 May 12
The City of New York, the New York Police Department, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and several large corporations including JPMorgan Chase have repeatedly violated the constitutional rights of Occupy Wall Street protesters, according to a wide-ranging federal lawsuit filed on Monday morning.
Occupy Wall Street victims of pepper-spray cop Anthony Bologna, September 24, 2011. The NYPD made false arrests and violated free- speech rights of protestors and journalists last year, according to a complaint filed today in a Manhattan federal court.
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You are right, but those who have been asleep and are now waking up, need to be made aware of how they have been brainwashed by the media.
The media (even Brooks of PBS) are so accustomed to lying they have apparently lost their memories ...The latest Repugnican they are touting for President is old (nasty) Newt Gingrich. Has EVERYONE forgotten that this blue-eyed poster boy for 'family values' served his (last?) wife with DIVORCE PAPERS just as she was emerging from anesthesia after having a MASTECTOMY?????
I am so impressed with the protesters.
I know I was critical of us for not having enough will to stick with it. I stand corrected. I eat my words and I apologize. The protesters are AVESOME.
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Great point but there is a reason...follow the money.
They have no intetion to show how angry we are. The demostrations need to be MUCH, MUCH bigger.
There are so many people out of work, they could demonstrate during the week, when ihe rest is at work.
We need our own Tahrir Square,.....NOW
But they are hamstrung by the corporate owners.
Then there are the "big" journalists who, I am afraid, have been blinded by politicians and celebrities and do not want to risk access, by writing anything unflattering, or asking in dept questions.
One in particular puzzle me: Woodward, he seems downright conservative, while Bernstein stayed feisty and liberal.
What is your take on Woodward, Capn??
they have blocked out Japanese protest and the crime of their Nukes in Japan failing as in other places....Boycott GE
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Woodward gave up "critical reporting" as he became more and more a tool of the Establishment. He has lost what critical edge he once had.
Bernstein on the other hand hasn't let up a bit. Maybe it's because of his radical pedigree.
i know it sounds strange, but it could be a good idea to work with the TParty on this. i think there is a large segment of them who do not just protect the rich and are furious about the bailouts. they at least seem better able to generate involvement than the left. fixing wall st investment companies is an issue that has support on the L and the R
Time to get creative to find a way to show how much support there is of this protest by those who cannot be there.
Want to make an initiative Boycott and show the TeaParty you are doing what they do not do...because they are in bed with everyone. Tea Party, an insult to every American
BE SURE to boycott the many companies that are actually the Koch brothers; lots of grocery store items.
It really pains me, because I love the arts, but Koch has put their ugly stamp on the arts in NYC; it's time for avid audience members to say NO to the NO sayers. It really pains me, because sports is so much worse, but what do the arts stand for?
As far as "generating involvement," that is because there is a LOT of money funding the TP demonstrations, and the media covers them if 2 show up. (Remember the article that stated we should say it is a TParty rally?) There are more of us than them, and more of us demonstrating.
But lastly, if I say anything too strong, I will be censored. Remember what the college kids used to do in the late 1960s and early 1970s? They would occupy buildings, not streets, and I'm not suggesting it, but in this case... that would be the big media companies that are an EQUAL overpaid and underserving problem as the stock market and banks.
How many people do you know with a million dollar salaries (i.e., in the pocket of big business); now think of all those well-heeled "news" anchors.
In the precious wind they rot
While paupers change possessions
Each one wishing for what the other has got
And the princess and the prince
Discuss what’s real and what is not
It doesn’t matter inside the Gates of Eden''
Bob Dylan/Gates of eden
News stop watching TV...they thrive on ratings. Watch only Letterman, Kimmel etc...let them loseratings therefore advertising. Get people to call advertisers esp out of Country to pull ads with Stations until Media starts remembering this is America not Hitlers Germany.
Just one word TAHRIR SQUARE, no that was two.
It CERTAINLY was EFFECTIVE. But it would seem the Egyptians want democracy MORE than we do
They sure had the WILL and the PATIENCE to stick it out till they won.
I am afraid that in this INSTANT AGE we Americans lack STICKTUITIVENES S.
If it doesn't happen FAST we loose interest........or will.
ANYTHING WORTH HAVING, IS WORTH FIGHTING FOR
Y'all should watch Dylan Rattigan at one o'clock (pacific time) on MSNBC. He is certainly fired up. Hi makes a lot of sense. I just wish he would TALK instead of yelling. He was interviewing some of the protesters.
Things are beginning to move the right way for us
Boycotts can be very effective as well. An unorganized push on Netflix may not have yielded any results for consumers but look at the damage inflicted on the company. Netflix was trading for $304/share a couple of months ago and now it is $153/share. This was a spontaneous, I'm not gonna take it anymore, response to outrageous rate hikes. Imagine if it was coordinated.
I remember many years ago, in the 60's, attending the Delano Grape Pickers event in Cucamonga, Ca. The Farm workers were advocating a boycott, surely one that would harm them in the short term. Their position was they would win in the long term and that is just what they did. Eventually farmers settled with them, recognized farm workers and wages improved. It cleared the way for the birth of United Farm Workers. Farm workers still have a long way to go but the boycott won some changes. Nothing will happen over night. Both approaches, boycott and protest marches, will move the goals forward. Both approaches allow people to participate when and where they can.
Excellent post! I agree!
A good idea,, 50 years too late to be effective here. The infestation is too widespread and integral to too many vital structures. Killing the disease would kill us all. It has to be destroyed using the same type of tactics that developed it: plain view, accepted deception.
It IS huge and it can be over whelming. But don't 'belly-Up'! That's exactly what they WANT us to do. Great strides HAVE been made. If you can't be active, at least be positive for those who ARE out there in the front lines trying to make a better way for all of us. Hang in there, and stay tuned!
In theory you are correct, one or two days is all it would take but in reality it can't happen because all Americans were willing conspirators in the growth of this cancer and the small economic quake we've recently experienced while generating some noise and discomfort, has not harmed enough of us to motivate widespread consideration of such drastic measures. For example the military and police structure was virtually unharmed and remains completely loyal to the enemy. Its business as usual and those losers who fell under the wheels served nicely as lubricant. One can only hope for a miracle disruption of mega proportions and seriously organize massive events on a relentless basis following that bit of luck. A week long national power blackout of mysterious origin for example.
They got together the nastiest reactionary wing of the republicans. I am sure that some independants and democrats are angry too, but they are not as stupid and backwards as the T-bags
Who are you asking to do this tax thing? Lawmakers and virtually all major federal agencies (FDA, EPA etc.) work only for Wall Street and its related business partners (Monsanto, Big Pharmas etc.), not for us,, so why would they want to bite their own butt? In reality, they likely already have in place, laws that compensate them with tax dollars whenever they make an oops and suffer direct losses,, oh wait.....they actually do have that don't they!! And you want to ask them to play nice? Ha!
I would but I haven't got a hundred bucks,, will you lend it to me?
Enough of the suck. Game over. A new day dawns.
The "pot calling the kettle black". Republicans may have designed and facilitated this mess but they couldn't have accomplished it without the greedy, shameless participation of all of us. Proud of yourself? If Americans will accept their own complicity in the creation of this ugly monster that has already killed millions and if there is any conscience remaining among us AND enough are willing to accept extreme hardship and sacrifice for a long time, then maybe a well organized effort could begin to turn things around. Personally I don't believe Americans will ever become desperate enough in large enough numbers to be able to achieve such greatness and maybe thats a good thing.
Years ago they began buying up Newspapers, radio and TV stations, so now THEY OWN PRACTICALLY ALL MEDIA.........Guess what? ....only THEIR message is heard. They are poisoning the airwaves with their right-wing crap. And what can we do??.............diddly squat.
We need to have wealthy democrats buy, and or start news outlets, so we can be heard, or we wil basically be out of the game......If you are never heard.......YOU DON'T EXIST
I remember Letterman and GE...now Letterman is one who will have this on tonite, he has been speaking out and in favor of tax on rich...he is one of them
"...any target can always say, 'Why do you center on me when there are others to blame as well?' When your 'freeze the target,' you disregard these [rational but distracting] arguments.... Then, as you zero in and freeze your target and carry out your attack, all the 'others' come out of the woodwork very soon. They become visible by their support of the target...'
Or in this case by their LACK of support for the protesters. The silent media must be really really scared.
Blind.
"I brake for Trolls, Zombies and the Brain Dead"
This has been an interesting and sometimes cloudy back-and-forth but I have to interject here. The fact that you consider the "Fragmented States" to be a "Demockracy" (is that a new spelling for a mockery of "democracy?" -in that case, right on!), demonstrates y'r insouciance and please don't give me any patronizing or flippant claptrap in return. -Just what you base these specious assumptions and mockeries on.
Macing a non-violent bystander OR a protester and cuffing same is not democracy. These are NOT spoiled trust-fund brats but people of all ages who see their future and past (like me ) being shredded by the greed-mongers and their shills in congress. They are occupying public and semi-public spaces as is their right.
The bloody cops should be out there WITH them! -They are just as much at threat as the Wisconsin example shows.
I'm an old activist from way back, physical and conceptual, and I applaud ALL attempts by ALL people from ALL walks of life to get out and say "Enough!".
If you don't like it, get outa the way! I'd be there with them if wasn't one of the "New Poor", caused by -well guess who?
Now git real or git off!
Thank you Coffeewriter!
Time to take it back. ALL of it.
Good morning sleepy,, now you know what your news media is all about. What you see happening here is the norm and can be extrapolated to include all "news" in this country. We call Palestinians "terrorists",, start reading foreign news broadcasts to learn who the real "terrorists" are. This is just one of many glaring examples demonstrating that every word or action, spoken or perpetrated by Republicans is a lie or a deceitful tactic bent on personal gain regardless of cost to others or national consequence. Have a nice day.
The first step in Revolution is to Pull the Plug. Use TV to watch DVDs from the Library; be selective. Listen to one or two remaining radio shows. Ignore the broadcast media. Pull the plug on GE/NBC, Disney/ABC, CBS, Koch, Fox. They are your enemies and your consumerism pays their dividends. Pull the Plug. Take the first step. No cop will bop you if you just Pull the Plug.
put out as well as the way you go about it. I experience a
certain Soul quality which I am not able to explain in words.
Thank You.
These PD are acting like "brown shirts" of yester-year!
Other than ONLINE - has anyone seen these protests in local newspapers?
I wrote and asked them if they were waiting for the blood to flow in the streets before they would bother to inform their readers about what is going on.
Germany and Italy in the 1930´s
is just around the corner.
DEAR POLICEMAN
WE ARE HERE FOR YOU ALSO
SO PLEASE BE NICE TO US
However, by far, the largest number of readers' comments, responding to those articles, articulated that these protests are valid, relevant and intelligently motivated. Despite biased reporting, people are watching and understanding all too well that the 99% are us and that Wall St controls K St and K St controls 1600 Pennsylvania Ave and 1st St.
A few times I have watched. It nearly made me sick. Sadly too many people's brains have been poisoned, and turned into mush by the venom spewed by fix.
I am afraid they are now a lost cause.
212-788-0010
get out your guns and talk ignorant gibberish? i think you crashed the wrong party. u sd have taken a hard right back at the T party exit. sorry, but you'll just have to lick the bankers' ferragamo moccasins [$2,300] with all the other t party toadies.
GUNS DO NOT SOLVE PROBLEMS THEY CREATE THEM. BRAINS SOLVE PROBLEMS.
But, hey, they earn the most and protect it through all the tax breaks they're given by our Congress. What breaks do the middle class have? Unless you own a home, just your mortgage interest, but the wealthy incorporate themselves and buy their cars, vacation homes, etc, through the corporations. The corporation pays at a corporate rate, but since the car is used to haul the CEO around and the vacation home might be used to reward junior execs for a job well done, they become complete write-offs. It's a racket but they get away with it. Jefferson said a little blood needs to be shed every now and then. In recent years, with the two Bush wars, the only blood that's being shed is by working class stiffs. I still think a 2nd Amendment solution sounds pretty good.
I'd rather be locked up for a REAL cause than be sent to die for a phony one!
If corporations are what your after then
Occupy the FED (Federal Reserve Bank) They are a corporate monopoly protected by government with the 'exclusive' power to print money at will.
By the way - the Democratic party, like the Republican party and the US government are corporations as well - legal fictions that have no brain no belly no life and no right to vote.
America allows right wing theocratic zealots to appear at demonstrations supporting the corporate oligarchy and armed with assault rifles and takes no action, but arrests peaceful demonstrators against the corporate power structure. The police who are union members should be ashamed for allowing this to happen (though it appears the police manager scabs are the ones leading the arrests).
These demonstrations need to spread across the country - they cannot be centralized in one location. The arms of Wall St spread through out the country, they must be fought everywhere.
"Don't follow leaders
Watch the parkin' meters."
I don't really care, but if that was the cause, the big players are getting really scared.
They have the power to isolate me, but change my mind and stop me from spreading the word never.
So, some other tactic needs to be invented whereby the media are compelled by public interest to give attention to opinions at variance with the self-serving interests of the plutocracy.
Michael " How can I live in a nation where 100's of peaceful protesters get arrested but not one banker that robbed us and the nation are arrested.
O'Donnell - " We have to protest this." who says protests don't work?
Thak you Lawrence!
I guess Beohner is keeping his word. "No jobs so be it!
This state of affairs is a threat to the health, safety and welfare of ten's of millions of people. The Pew Foundation just reported that those without jobs will live shorter lives. And it made me sick to see the wall street gang standing above the crowd laughing and sipping wine! How dare they!
OWS
http://act.credoaction.com/campaign/warren_thankyou/index2.html
Of course they did. This is the nation we have become. The theives are paying their private police. This is why we are out there becasue of abuse of power.
JP Morgan Chase reported over $100 billion in revenue last year. Donating $4.6 million is like a person who made $50,000/year donating a little over $2. Despite JP Morgan Chase’s role in destroying police jobs and pensions, this pitiful ‘tip’ – to “let [NYPD] know how much we value their hard work” – apparently bought them police brutality on their behalf.
you can be proud of this movement - go for it! We from the outside are looking in on what is going on in NY.
This is like Libya, like Egypt - a bottom-up movement against the plutocrats.
They are all of one kind: But Mubarak fell, Gadaffi fell - Wall Street and its filthy thugs will fall too for the better of the people.
I just wished we could get NATO to support you in your march to Wall Street ;-))
You are not living in a democracy yet, but hopefully you will be soon.
Best wishes and good luck
The Sheepole demand a new dictator!
VT is now a progressive state. Gee how did that happen? They VOTED FOR ALL PROGRESSIVES! So whatever it takes vote for Obama and a Progressive congress and senate!
Hay Hay B of A
How many homeowners did you Bankrupt today!
700 arrested, thousands beaten, women groped, peaceful protesters maced, yet the media won't report it!
http://occupywallstreetnow.blogspot.com
Occupy Albuquerque !
New Mexico supports Occupy Wall Street !
Restore 95% federal personal income tax rates on Americans who NET $1 million or more a year.
Close all USA corporate federal income tax loopholes.
Use these new tax revenues to create at least 14 million new jobs !
We care because so many ordinary, ok people are led astray by the media to think these are just the un-washed fringe of young protestors. They remain ignorant because they are fed this interminable hogwash. A good example: there's a repeating disgusting Rove TV ad featuring a woman with a little girl at her door being told by a HIDDEN figure that she owes the govt. $70,000 to be paid out immediately or over 20 years etc.so as to cover'public expenditures like pensions.' When she protests she does not have that money and can not pay, the hiding figure says, 'I wasn't talking to YOU,...." and the ad implies that our children will have to foot the bill for e.g., public pensions and other 'entitlements'. Very CLEVER ad, but a total lie ...public pensions (for e.g.nurses, college teachers, teachers, cops, firemen) etc. were PAID FOR BY THESE PEOPLE! AND IT IS JUST THAT THE GOVERNORS AND LEGISLATURES HAVE BEEN UNDERFUNDING THE PENSIONS BY STEALING FROM THEM TO PAY THEIR BILLS/BUDGETS!!!! The real 'ENTITLEMENTS' (don't you just love that term??) are for unpaid, underpaid taxes by the corporations, and those super-medical plans for legislators including the Repugnican loudmouths in congress!, not the piddling pensions for public workers!!
http://occupywallstreetnow.blogspot.com
I think, for greatest effect, it may be time to take the protest to cyberspace. And summon the will and strength of tens of millions.
ALL OF THEM had references to "class warfare", or "occupy wall street" in the subject heading.
I'm sure it's just another one of those "bugs" they're trying to fix.
Wall Street has bought our government - and ... VOTE DEM VOTE OBAMA in 2012 -- the most important election ever.
Carl Rove already has 350 Million in his "super pack" thanks to the Supremes' decision to give "person hood" to big $$$ (the motion was put before the Supremes by the Koch Brothers - after they wined/dined Scalia/Thomas - that was in the news)
Go to your Dem headquarters to go with others to minority, old people etc. neighborhoods so these people get registered and get MAIL-IN ballots. Our elections in USA are "still" free so those "required" IDs in some states FOR VOTING are also free. Walker of WI is trying to charge $28 for an ID - and there are other crazy laws being put in to limit Dems from voting.
This advice is from Michael Moore & others.
Do not sit home as in 2010 or we'll have more GOP/TP supported by the Koch + GE + ???.
And if you CAN take the day off - volunteer to COUNT VOTES -- so Dems votes do not end up in trunks of cars, garbage cans etc (as they found in OH in 2004 after John Kerry conceded.
Thank You --- VOTE DEM VOTE OBAMA -- "trust me I'm Jewish" (old saying) and old (truth)
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No, Mr Obama. the frustration is not with how "the system" works, as if "the system" were the product of some kind of natural economic laws. The frustration is over DECISIONS that have thrown millions out of work, out of their homes, out of what passes in the USA for insured medical care, in order to serve the interests of Wall Street billionaires who produce no goods and no services for the community with their own hands and brains. The decisions are ones they buy through their lobbyists with the wealth they accumulate. The decisions in large measure are those made by you and by your largely chosen administration, Mr Obama, and by the venal pollies predominating in the chambers of Congress. Yes your predecessors did the main damage, but Mr Obama you are following with essentially the same decisions.
They have published articles very critical of Occupy, one after another, editorials as well.
I've had similar responses to them in my head many times.
A word of caution, there are members of the FED, corporate monkeys, some government moles amongst you with an agenda to thwart the cause or to misdirect it. You are vulnerable because you are not yet well organized and that is when you are weakest and most likely to have a breach in leadership. Be careful of whom you follow and what road they will lead you down. Dont get infatuated with a dynamic leader who may have been coached on how to create a following and steer you down the wrong path.
Keep up the great work!
Big Business is trying to rig the justice system.
Multibillion-dollar banks, cell phone companies, cable providers and other industries are slipping forced arbitration clauses into the fine print of their contracts.
These clauses strip the signer’s right to take the company to court. Instead, consumers and employees who have been hurt or ripped off are forced into a private, secretive tribunal that favors corporations.
Tell Congress: Stop the corporate attack on our rights and end forced arbitration.
No one should have to sign away their rights in order to buy a product or get a job.
Last April, the Supreme Court made this bad situation worse. It ruled that corporations can use forced arbitration clauses to deny people the right to band together in class actions.
There is virtually no way for the customers to hold the company accountable for stealing $100 million.
.
This is corporate mugging on a grand scale.
The Arbitration Fairness Act (S. 987, H.R. 1873) would fix this injustice. The Consumer Mobile Fairness Act (S. 1652) would specifically fix the problem Don’t let Big Business rig the justice system.
Thanks for all you do,
Public Citizen’s Online Action Team
action@citizen.org
Subject: Wages
Salary of retired US Presidents .............$180,000 FOR LIFE
Salary of House/Senate .........................
$174,000 FOR LIFE
Salary of Speaker of the House ............$223,500 FOR LIFE
Salary of Majority/Minority Leaders ...... $193,400 FOR Life
These are unfair compared to the above salaries...
Average Salary of Soldier DEPLOYED IN AFGHANISTAN $38,000.00
Average income for SOCIAL SECURITY seniors $12,000
I think we found where the cuts should be made!
If you agree... Pass it on!
How can we get them Porta- Toilets Services and Porta- Shower Services?
You gets just dont sem to get it!
anybody with smarts knows that the MOVEMENT is not about voting, but changing system.
Start with shutting MILITARISM - $1.3 trillion/year
Your inability to uphold the rule of law and justice and your willingness to destroy equal rights for American citizens and protect criminals at our expense does not make us want to vote for you.
How many people did Bush and company kill and torture in Iraq? A war that was based on lies.
How many innocent men women and children have we murdered in Afghanistan.
I cannot believe this is who you really are in you heart.
How can you face your children when you support such horrific crimes?
What is your objection to respecting the rule of law?
Why do you support immunity for criminals and use the law to protect crime?
We are no longer a nation that lives by the rule of law and we fly a hollow flag of Democracy that has lost all meaning.
Desperate Americans, faced with a dire economy, fighting for their lives as the gluttonous military, blithely spends 9 billion per week for the so called war in Afghanistan one of the world's poorest nations, corporations and the 1% are sucking our economy dry, as you stand impotent to protect the people who elected you and now support the abuse they are receiving while practicing their right to assemble. How can we cast our vote for you in light of all this?
OCCUPY THE CONSTITUTION https://www.facebook.com/pages/Occupy-the-Constitution/254037607976976
continuation of the movement???
A circle of people holding hands
(or tents!) around the White House
as long as it takes.
We need framers for our new revolution.
We need our great minds to get together and create a new view of the kind of goverment we want and a way to achieve it.
Bill Moyers: "Our Politicians Are Money Launderers in the Trafficking of Power and Policy"
John Boehner calls on the bankers, holds out his cup, and offers them total obeisance from the House majority if only they fill it.
That’s now the norm, and they get away with it.
Barack Obama criticizes bankers as “fat cats”, then invites them to dine at a pricey New York restaurant where the tasting menu runs to $195 a person.
That’s now the norm, and they get away with it. The President has raised more money from banks, hedge funds, and private equity managers than any Republican candidate.
Our politicians are little more than money launderers in the trafficking of power and policy – fewer than six degrees of separation from the spirit and tactics of Tony Soprano.
Why New York’s Zuccotti Park is filled with people is no mystery. Reporters keep scratching their heads and asking: “Why are you here?” But it’s clear they are occupying Wall Street because Wall Street has occupied the country.
This is why why need to protest and vote and organize hard cause these SOB's are destroying us and they do not care! They are getting rich as we become impoverished!!! !!!
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I call for OWS to bring forth the ghost of USMC Smedley butler to bring fear into the ranks of Wall street.
Want links to verify this?
http://coat.ncf.ca/our_magazine/links/53/butler01-by_schmidt.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mav69K2zkgw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Na8Kv0h6OvE
I have just been doing some googling!
Barrery-driven heating blankets and clothes do exist!
Please tell us from where and how we can
get this stuff so we can support our friends during wintertime!
http://occupyamericamovement.com/video/occupy-wall-street-protest-uc-davis-berkeley
If OWS is successful, it will wake up to a world that is lorded over by federal bureaucrats and jack-booted enforcement thugs. The entire world will be run like the Post Office, the TSA, the IRS, and the Customs Bureau. This has nothing to do with freedom and nothing to do with human rights.
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The Government is US. The problem is that it is currently owned and operated by the capitalist powers-that-be. We The People need to take it back and make it work for US!
The 'ruthless and cruel elements' come from the capitalists that control what is supposed to be "OUR" government.
Just my take on all of this.
It's what I feared would happen when OWS began. These wealthy SOBs are not going to give up without a fight and their troops are in the training camps of Blackwater.....or whatever it is now called.
And why are the police being fortified with military gear, tanks with bunker buster capability, assault weapons, etc.
IT IS TO KEEP US DOWN. TO MAKE US FEARFUL TO DEMONSTRATE.
I don't think most people in this country realize that we are already living in a police state. And the head of this state is most likely the wealthy who are seizing control of......everything they can get their greedy little hands on.
http://www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/moyermap.html
The Movement Action Plan:
A Strategic Framework Describing The
Eight Stages of Successful Social Movements
By Bill Moyer, Spring 1987
to congress:
"The liberty of a democracy is in danger
if the people tolerate the growth of
private powers (corporations/Adelson)
to a point where it becomes stronger than
the democratic state itself.
That, in it´s essence is fascism"
As the world is in the throws of irreversable Global Warming threatening our very existence, the NSA is spying on everyone and spending billions to do it. I asked what the objection was to warrents for spying so that there was some accountability and it seemed to work very well for decades? They don't answer the question. I asked if all regard for the Constitution was gone?
I didn't need an answer for that one. Just imagine if thousands stopped using Face book! If you want to join in call your reps and tell them. 202-224-3121.
We are just sick of being abused and very upset that we are living in a lawless nation where we can be taken away without any legal recourse at all. They have taken away our right to due process and now they are spying on us in such a vast way it would shock Orwell.
This strip search decision poses a threat to every single American, but it poses a particular threat to the female population of our country. Women and girls are much more likely to be stopped and strip searched for the sexual charge it will give male cops, and now no one can stop them.Not long ago, on Long Island, cops were stopping women driving alone at night, threatening them with tickets and arrest, and then telling them they could avoid this in exchange for stripping and/or sexual favors. At the time their conduct was illegal. Now police have free reign. With one decision this corrupt, partisan court has turned America into a police state. That is the brutal truth. And while I dislike comparisons to Nazisim, because they are too often used inappropriately , unfettered police power (SS/SA) was one of the primary ways Hitler consolidated his power. A read of William Shirer's "Berlin Diary" will confirm this.Now I worry about my daughter every time she leaves her home. I fear for myself, and for all women stepping outside their homes and schools. This is not paranoia. This is a reasonable response to the facts of the decision.
My sign today : Police R 99% People. Keep politics out of policing.
I was a little disappointed nobody asked about the other 1%. All in all, a good day at the town common vigil and farmer's market.
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