#OCCUPYWALLSTREET campaign - September 17

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At the Occupy Wall Street protest, the Raging Grannies shared their songs with us for the live stream. This was their first. Visit http://raginggrannies.org/

[N8wide]

Plutonia,

If that does not make a protester think I do not know what will. I like the idea of the 99% personally, and I think it is great to see and support a movement that is "giving it to the man." What stuck out to me most when reading this letter written by JohnPaul Montano was the idea that the occupy group represents some strong views that alienate many of the 99%. To be the true 99% you must include and respect the 99% as a whole. This does not mean peace and love and everything nice or even having to agree, but I think if this continues to be partisan it could die out or cause a larger split in American politics. I remember the weeks of the bank bail outs and fellow employees both republican, democrat, and everyone in between and on the sides were outraged with what wall street was proposing. I cannot stop thinking how powerful that voice could be.

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NYPD Caught On Camera Punching #OccupyWallStreet Protestor In The Face



More on the Wall Street Police Brutality: http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/

In yet another show of the rampant police brutality being waged against the peaceful non-violent Occupy Wall Street protestors, this video captures a NYC police officer grabbing a man by the back of his neck and then punching him in the face for no apparent reason.

The man was then arrested and hauled off in a police van, presumably charged with some frivolous crime to cover up the unprovoked assault he suffered

This is a video I edited down from an original. This shows a protestor getting punched in the face then tackled down. He is arrested then walked to a police van where he is searched (I presume illegally but we cant assume things) then left to wait in the police van. The original videographer got the badge numbers of the arresting officers but not the officer who punched the protestor.

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A Punch In The Face: The Hidden Police Brutality At Occupy Wall Street
September 29, 2011By Jason Easley
http://www.politicususa.com/en/occupy-w ... -brutality

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5 minutes ago » chrislhayes Christopher Hayes
Down at #occupywallstreet and watching the meeting process - really inspiring.
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nickbwhalen nick whalen
Charles M. Young - How to Annoy the Ruling Class: 13 Ways to Look at the Occupation of Wall Street http://bit.ly/nvVdmf #occupywallstreet
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saveanescapist Myc Arkey
Even @TheDailyShow diminishes #occupywallstreet. Don't ever forget that even the smartest, most reliable liberals are in someone's pocket..
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UnifiedLeftNews UnifiedLeftNews
"Occupy Wall Street" Is Getting Huge -- But Where Are the Democratic Politicians? - AlterNet http://bit.ly/nRDgfF #OccupyWallStreet
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Video clip-
Fri Sep 30, 2011 at 04:49 AM PDT.

Daily Show: Tony Bologna
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/09/3 ... na-ROFLMAO

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Michael Bloomberg
Mayor Bloomberg: "We'll See" If The City Will Let Occupy Wall Street ContinueBy Harry Siegel Fri., Sep. 30 2011 at 8:59 AM

New Yorkers need "to help the banks" was Mayor Michael Bloomberg's message to the Occupy Wall Street crowd in his weekly radio appearance on the John Gambling show.

"The protesters are protesting against people who make $40-50,000 a year and are struggling to make ends meet. That's the bottom line," Bloomberg said, presumably meaning service workers on Wall Street, adding that "we all" share blame for taking on too much risk, not just the financial industry.

"And people in this day and age need support for their employers. If the banks don't go out and make loans we will not come out of our economic problems, we will not have jobs so anything we can do that's responsible to help the banks do that is what we need."

Asked if there's an "end-game" for the protesters and if they will be allowed to stay in Zuccotti Park, which is privately owned but open to the public, Bloomberg said, "We'll see.

"You know people have a right to protest but we also have to make sure that people who don't want to protest can go down the streets unmolested. We have to make sure that while you can say what you want to say, people who want to say something very different have a right to say that as well. That's what's great about this country."

Warning of "other societal concerns," offering sanitation as his example without elaborating, he then skipped down memory lane and away from the question to recall protests on Wall St. during the Vietnam War. His conclusion: "when the Vietnam vets came back we didn't treat them the way they deserve to be treated."

http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninsca ... 8.php#more
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Is Radiohead Going to Play for Wall Street Protesters Today?
By Adrian Chen Sep 30, 2011 10:53 AM

The Occupy Wall Street protesters camped out in Lower Manhattan's Zuccotti Park are buzzing over a big secret musical guest scheduled to play this afternoon at around 4pm. We hear that it's Radiohead, who are in New York for a couple concerts.

It makes sense: Radiohead's lead singer Thom Yorke has a history of lefty anti-globalization protest. What do you think: Are the millionaires from Radiohead authentic enough to be the bards of revolution? They're certainly capable of mobilizing people: When their New York show sold out in minutes they almost caused a Twitter riot.

http://gawker.com/5845443/is-rad

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Must see, imo...
Occupy Wall Street Speech by Michael Moore
Uploaded by TheYoungTurks on Sep 29, 2011



Michael Moore went down to the Occupy Wall Street protests in New York City and made a populist speech. The crowd reaction to that speech was amazing. Cenk Uygur discusses the movement.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cxnp2_KV ... e=youtu.be

[Bruce Dazzling]

Cenk Uygur of the Young Turks on the growing union involvement.

[N8wide]

I found this article to be interesting and pertinent.

http://planetsave.com/2011/08/28/who-runs-the-world-network-analysis-reveals-super-entity-of-global-corporate-control/

[Bruce Dazzling]

I found this article to be interesting and pertinent.

http://planetsave.com/2011/08/28/who-runs-the-world-network-analysis-reveals-super-entity-of-global-corporate-control/

This is relevant here, but I want to point out that there's already a thread for this story.

[N8wide]

I found this article to be interesting and pertinent.

http://planetsave.com/2011/08/28/who-runs-the-world-network-analysis-reveals-super-entity-of-global-corporate-control/

This is relevant here, but I want to point out that there's already a thread for this story.

I have been said to have refrigerator blindness.

[lyrimal]

'Rise like Lions after slumber
In unvanquishable number,
Shake your chains to earth like dew
Which in sleep had fallen on you -
Ye are many - they are few

-Percy Shelley, "The Mask of Anarchy"


To All It May Concern,

I deeply regret I cannot join everyone at Occupy Wall Street. Your cause is an inspiration to me, but it is nearly
impossible for me to get there. I WILL be joining a more local event when it kicks off.

I have what I feel to be a significant idea to share with the tenants of Liberty Plaza. PLEASE, bear with me:

A significant motivation for why so many wish to occupy the various financial centers of America, particularly Wall
Street, has to do with the unsurpassed fealty of our president, Barack Obama, towards Wall Street... this despite
many, many campaign promises to the contrary. As occupiers of Wall Street, you all most likely understand by now
that Barack Obama is not an ally of ordinary Americans, but a trojan horse of the 1%.

He is obviously not an ally of progressives either, yet he is setting progressive causes back possibly generations
with his neoliberal policies that confuse many Americans into believing his disastrous presidency is the result of
a progressive agenda. He must be publicly disowned by progressives to crush this association...

Lately, Obama has been extraordinarily crass in his dismissal of ordinary Americans' situations. About a week ago,
at an NAACP event, he told African Americans they needed to take off their slippers and put on their boots, stop
complaining and get to work, as if it were African Americans' own faults that their prospects were so dim within
this once-in-a-century depression. On Thursday evening (Sept. 29), via an Orlando, Florida newscast (WESH),
President Obama told Americans they had gotten soft and less competitive, as if that were why America wasn't
weathering the storm better, once again ignoring how he himself enables the very criminals who created and maintain
our current economic malaise by offshoring jobs and money, foreclosing on millions, and speculating on everything
we rely on to survive.

I'm not one to ever use such language, but this attitude from Obama IS UnAmerican and totally unbecoming of a
leader! 90% of Americans are going to revile him for this "soft" America statement.

And here lies the opportunity. Occupy Wall Street should take lead of the charge against this president. With a
unified voice, Occupy Wall Street should call for the president's immediate resignation. This has multiple
advantages, and one possible disadvantage I will explore shortly.

First advantage, the media is searching for reasons to pay attention to Occupy Wall Street. If your immediate goal
became the resignation of the president, they'd be unable to ignore you. Second advantage, dissociate Obama from being
a 'progressive' champion. Third advantage, being that your mission relies on unifying the 99% to grow your
influence, with Obama calling America soft, supporters are going to flood to calls for President Obama to resign,
thereby potentially securing many more supporters for Occupy Wall Street.

In the event that the pressure became too much for the president, if he were to actually resign would be a
tremendous boon for the continuing success of Occupy Wall Street. Maybe then we could manage a fresh 2012 candidate
that's not just another Wall Street tool. Perhaps Bernie Sanders!

The possible disadvantage, from my consideration, would be that some inopportune timing, such as resigning too close to the election, could possibly make the Republican candidate more likely to succeed, however, such a result would be directly attributable to Barack Obama's UnAmerican attitude, to which it would be better to have his ass outta there anyway.

"Americans are not soft... Barack Obama must resign!"
"Americans are not soft... Barack Obama must resign!"
"Americans are not soft... Barack Obama must resign!"

...I'll let others come up with better chants



Bless you rebels for all you are doing, your strong spirits are breeding resolve. Peace and love to you all.



P. S. - Don't let 'em call it the 'American Autumn', that's to close to 'American Fall'. This is the early
beginning of The American Spring!!

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Radiohead at 4PM
Posted Sept. 30, 2011, 12:13 p.m. EST by anonymous

Radiohead will play a surprise show for #occupywallstreet today at four in the afternoon.

https://occupywallst.org/article/radiohead-4pm/

[Project Willow]

http://nycga.cc/2011/09/30/declaration-of-the-occupation-of-new-york-city/

Declaration of the Occupation of New York City
Posted on September 30, 2011 by NYCGA

As we gather together in solidarity to express a feeling of mass injustice, we must not lose sight of what brought us together. We write so that all people who feel wronged by the corporate forces of the world can know that we are your allies.

As one people, united, we acknowledge the reality: that the future of the human race requires the cooperation of its members; that our system must protect our rights, and upon corruption of that system, it is up to the individuals to protect their own rights, and those of their neighbors; that a democratic government derives its just power from the people, but corporations do not seek consent to extract wealth from the people and the Earth; and that no true democracy is attainable when the process is determined by economic power. We come to you at a time when corporations, which place profit over people, self-interest over justice, and oppression over equality, run our governments. We have peaceably assembled here, as is our right, to let these facts be known.

They have taken our houses through an illegal foreclosure process, despite not having the original mortgage.
They have taken bailouts from taxpayers with impunity, and continue to give Executives exorbitant bonuses.
They have perpetuated inequality and discrimination in the workplace based on age, the color of one’s skin, sex, gender identity and sexual orientation.
They have poisoned the food supply through negligence, and undermined the farming system through monopolization.
They have profited off of the torture, confinement, and cruel treatment of countless nonhuman animals, and actively hide these practices.
They have continuously sought to strip employees of the right to negotiate for better pay and safer working conditions.
They have held students hostage with tens of thousands of dollars of debt on education, which is itself a human right.
They have consistently outsourced labor and used that outsourcing as leverage to cut workers’ healthcare and pay.
They have influenced the courts to achieve the same rights as people, with none of the culpability or responsibility.
They have spent millions of dollars on legal teams that look for ways to get them out of contracts in regards to health insurance.
They have sold our privacy as a commodity.
They have used the military and police force to prevent freedom of the press. They have deliberately declined to recall faulty products endangering lives in pursuit of profit.
They determine economic policy, despite the catastrophic failures their policies have produced and continue to produce.
They have donated large sums of money to politicians supposed to be regulating them. They continue to block alternate forms of energy to keep us dependent on oil.
They continue to block generic forms of medicine that could save people’s lives in order to protect investments that have already turned a substantive profit.
They have purposely covered up oil spills, accidents, faulty bookkeeping, and inactive ingredients in pursuit of profit.
They purposefully keep people misinformed and fearful through their control of the media.
They have accepted private contracts to murder prisoners even when presented with serious doubts about their guilt.
They have perpetuated colonialism at home and abroad. They have participated in the torture and murder of innocent civilians overseas.
They continue to create weapons of mass destruction in order to receive government contracts. *

To the people of the world,

We, the New York City General Assembly occupying Wall Street in Liberty Square, urge you to assert your power.

Exercise your right to peaceably assemble; occupy public space; create a process to address the problems we face, and generate solutions accessible to everyone.

To all communities that take action and form groups in the spirit of direct democracy, we offer support, documentation, and all of the resources at our disposal.

Join us and make your voices heard!

*These grievances are not all-inclusive.

[Project Willow]

Radiohead at 4PM
Posted Sept. 30, 2011, 12:13 p.m. EST by anonymous

Radiohead will play a surprise show for #occupywallstreet today at four in the afternoon.

https://occupywallst.org/article/radiohead-4pm/

I thought it would be they! I am looking for that great little video clip of the protester's Radiohead sing-along, it was great. Double plus good I guess.

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Radiohead at 4PM
Posted Sept. 30, 2011, 12:13 p.m. EST by anonymous

Radiohead will play a surprise show for #occupywallstreet today at four in the afternoon.

https://occupywallst.org/article/radiohead-4pm/

Weird. ZeroHedge now suggests, via RadioHead's spokesperson, via WSJ, that '"we can officially say its not happening" re: #occupywallstreet performance."'