Take Action: OCCUPY WALL STREET Protest in progress now
http://www.occupywallstreet.org/
Wall Street, New York City
THE OCCUPATION HAS BEGUN
Join us at Zuccotti Park (Liberty St & Trinity Place) in NYC
Beginning on September 17, we want to see 20,000 people flood into
lower Manhattan, set up tents, kitchens, peaceful barricades and
occupy Wall Street for a few months. Once there, we shall incessantly
repeat one simple demand in a plurality of voices.
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CAMPAIGN TIP:
First, invite all of your friends to this event, then weigh in on what
our "one demand" should be at
https://www.facebook.com/home.
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Alright you redeemers, rebels, radicals and utopian dreamers out there,
A worldwide shift in revolutionary tactics is underway right now that
bodes well for the future. The spirit of this fresh tactic, a fusion
of Tahrir with the acampadas of Spain, is captured in this quote:
The antiglobalization movement was the first step on the road. Back
then our model was to attack the system like a pack of wolves. There
was an alpha male, a wolf who led the pack, and those who followed
behind. Now the model has evolved. Today we are one big swarm of
people.
-- Raimundo Viejo, Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, Spain
The beauty of this new formula, and what makes this novel tactic
exciting, is its pragmatic simplicity: we talk to each other in
various physical gatherings and virtual people's assemblies ... we zero
in on what our one demand will be, a demand that awakens the
imagination and, if achieved, would propel us toward the radical
democracy of the future ... and then we go out and seize a square of
singular symbolic significance and put our asses on the line to make
it happen.
On September 17, we want to see 20,000 people flood into lower
Manhattan, set up tents, kitchens, peaceful barricades and occupy Wall
Street for a few months. Once there, we shall incessantly repeat our
one simple demand until Barack Obama capitulates.
for the wild,
Culture Jammers HQ
http://www.occupywallstreet.org/
Organizing for this event is happening at the following places:
* On Adbusters:
http://www.adbusters.org/
* Independent site
http://www.occupywallst.org/
* On Reddit:
http://www.reddit.com/r/
* On Twitter:
https://twitter.com/#!/search?
* On Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/
The S17 meme is rumbling all over the world now:
Milan:
https://www.facebook.com/
Madrid:
https://www.facebook.com/
Valencia:
https://www.facebook.com/
London:
http://www.ukuncut.org.uk/
Lisbon:
https://www.facebook.com/
Athens:
https://www.facebook.com/
San Francisco:
https://www.facebook.com/
Santander:
http://www.15msantander.org/
Madison:
https://takethesquarewi.
Amsterdam:
https://www.facebook.com/
Los Angeles:
http://www.usdayofrage.org/
Algeria:
https://www.facebook.com/
Israel:
https://www.facebook.com/
Occupy Wall Street - Day Three: 11 Things You Can Do In Support
By Chaz Valenza
Monday September 19, 2011: I knew nothing about Occupy Wall
Street, hadn't heard a work about it up until about a week ago. Did
you?
The connection between money and politic is the issue I write about!
This is the issue I read every book and blog I can get my eyes on!
How did I miss this?
Wall Street Occupation General Assembly by Chaz Valenza
My point is none of us knew is you were not part a tiny core of people
at Annonoymous, Adblasters, Culture Jammers or hung out on the right
night in Thompson Square Park in NYC.
Occupy Wall Street is not ASTROTURF organizing, it is not even
GRASSROOTS organizing, what you're see on this live feed OCCUPY WALL
STREET LIVE STREAM is what's left after about 3,000 GRASS SEEDS
gathered on Bowling Green this past Saturday.
It's just a core of about 500 people who have camped in Zoccotti Party
at Liberty Street and South Broadway, under the shadow of the erection
of the Ground Zero Freedom Tower. Could this fizzle? Absolutely.
Is it inevitable at this point? Absolutely NOT!
More people, many more, know about the October Event in Washington
D.C. I say, so what (sorry, Rob Kall). All that's going to happen
there is already conjoined at the hip to the money that the Democrats
must raise from Wall Street. You may go. It may feel good but it
will have no lasting significance.
What is happening in NYC is embryonic, democratic and authentic. If
it doesn't work this time we, and I will be part of this, will be
back. The enemy is clear, it's money flowing from the banks, the
hedge funds, the financiers, the corporations to Washington that is
the problem. Not your congressman, not your senator and not Barack
Obama, they are just pawns being played by the money.
These patriots in Liberty Park (on Google Maps now as Zoccotti Park)
don't have a dime. I talked to them. They came with bedrolls and
recycled cardboard. The most expensive things this protest has are
video cameras and millions of dollars worth of police protect.
These patriot occupiers are fighting for 99% percent of us. Those
who are unemployed, uninsured, under employed and totally insecure in
the face of ever increasing social and financial inequities. They
are standing up for those who cannot be there right now.
Here's the good news you can help, right now today not matter
where you are. Believe me when I tell you nobody, but nobody knows
this is going on!
1) Spread the word there's something going people have started a
movement, they're occupying Wall Street and they have been there for
three days!
2) If you're in New York and can only spare a little time or money:
bring American Flags, cardboard, marker, water, etc. down to Liberty
Park
3) In the New York area and have a day, a morning, an afternoon go
down there. The weather appears to be holding take the day off and
just go. I know it sounds hard to believe but you will be heard,
literally. This is a open general assembly effort and you will get
your say and be a real participant.
4) A little ways from NYC organize foursomes to go to NYC for the
day. It will cost you the train/bus/car fare. Take nothing but
some food and water and your body.
5) Too far to get to NYC? sign this petition and I will read your
name and comments in Liberty Park this week, I promise. Break Up
Goldman Sachs Now!
6) Be subversive against the big money interests wherever you are and
encourage others to do the same: Don't give the banksters 4% of every
purchase you make with a credit or debit card Use Cash. See:
UseCashMovement
7) Be subversive: max out your credit card on large ticket items and
return them the next day (This one is right out of the Saul Alinsky
playbook.)
8) Move your money from a big bank to a credit union.
9) Picket a local branch of a bank, when the press asks you what the
heck you think you're doing tell them it's in solidarity with Occupy
Wall Street
10) Send food to the protesters in Liberty Park through a New York
friend or go to the live stream chat for information on local eats
that will take your order. (yes, you'll have to use your credit
card, big spender!)
11) Do you know anybody who knows anybody that knows a writer, a
celebrity, etc. that will show there face at the protest? Get to
them now.
See you in Liberty Park. (This is being posted raw, typos and all, I
try to correct them later in the day. Thanks.)
More:
http://www.opednews.com/
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Together, we can change the world, one mind at a time.
Have a great day,
Tommy
