#OCCUPYWALLSTREET campaign - September 17

[Twyla LaSarc]

...[nina simone video I'd never seen]...

Thanks!!

[Laodicean]

My pleasure.

[Laodicean]

[Laodicean]

this says... Occupy Columbus Circle! Pete Seeger, Arlo Guthrie in 99% Solidarity "This Little Light" 10/22/11



but I don't see Seeger, anyone?

:50 mark in this beautiful clip.

[2012 Countdown]

Occupy website born in Lincoln
By Matthew Hansen
WORLD-HERALD BUREAU

LINCOLN — Ella was all packed with nowhere to protest.
The 25-year-old Lincoln resident had planned a road trip halfway across the country in mid-September, ending in Zuccotti Park in New York City, the epicenter of the Occupy Wall Street movement.
Then, at the last second, a serious snag: Her ride fell through. She wasn't going anywhere.
This is how Ella, an out-of-work artist and designer, came to be sitting in front of her computer one month ago today, frustrated and determined to do something to aid the embryonic protests.
This is how Ella, with the help of friends in Lincoln and Omaha, came to build and then run a wildly popular website that has helped to connect and grow the Occupy protests as they spread across the United States and the globe. By Oct. 3, roughly one out of every 2,000 Internet users in the world had clicked over to occupytogether.org, according to Web traffic analysts, looking for information on the locations, times and firsthand accounts of protests. That day, the brand-new, homemade website had about 10 times as many visitors as Huskers.com, official website of the Nebraska football team. "Had I gone to New York City, I'm sure we wouldn't have started this. But I didn't go, so we did," Ella said. "That's when everything started becoming a little bit surreal." Nearly 1,500 people marched in Occupy protests in Omaha and Lincoln last weekend. Dozens continue to camp out near the State Office Building, leaving to go to work, then returning. Their 35 tents stretch from south of the State Office Building to the edge of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln campus.

Protesters are angered by myriad issues, including unemployment, the growing gap between rich and poor and the relationships between politicians, lobbyists and business leaders.
But the state's largest contribution to the Occupy movement has come online, with a hastily designed website that now lists protests or meetings in more than 2,000 cities and towns in every continent save for Antarctica.

It features video from the large protests in New York and San Francisco. It offers dozens of free posters, designed by people all over the world, that can be downloaded and used at rallies. It hosts a freewheeling public forum where, on Thursday, users discussed the meaning of democracy, the two-party political system and whether or not the dollar and the Federal Reserve should be abolished.
It connects prospective protesters in Moscow, Idaho, to one another — and to protesters in Moscow, Russia.

"Our initial expectations were that we're going to help out in some small way," said Sam, who co-designed the site. "Then this small thing we started ... it just exploded."
This was the first extended interview that Ella and Sam agreed to hold since starting Occupy Together. They spoke to The World-Herald on the condition that their last names not be used because of security concerns, given the controversy of the movement. They also said they don't want to take the spotlight in what is a leaderless movement.
They say they brainstormed the idea and began designing the site about 8 p.m. one night, Ella said. They finished about 3 a.m.
Occupy Together went live Sept. 23. Almost immediately, its server started to strain under the weight of tens of thousands of hits an hour.
It crashed, and then crashed again and again, until a donor who wants to remain anonymous gave them $1,000 to buy more server space.
As they tried to keep the website from crashing, they also tried to keep it updated with every new protest location and bit of information from the larger protests.
But soon they were getting hundreds of emails a day. Then thousands.
They posted a frantic call for help. Now a core of six volunteers, mostly from Omaha and Lincoln, helps Ella run the site. (Sam has returned to his full-time job.)
One volunteer runs the Twitter account. Two more moderate the forum. Others comb through the emails and search the Internet for news to post.
Some work four hours a day, others eight, they said. Ella said she's logging 12-hour days.
"I'm an unemployed workaholic, so that works out for me," Ella said, and laughed.

Liberal firebrand filmmaker Michael Moore has tweeted about Occupy Together. Left-wing TV personality Keith Olbermann has mentioned it, and progressive website moveon.org has linked to it.
That sort of attention makes Ella and Sam a little bit uncomfortable, they said — they don't want the website, or the Occupy movement, for that matter, to be co-opted by celebrities or companies or political parties. Their low point may have come when other protesters ripped into them for being a puppet of these established organizations, Sam said.
Ella said they have declined every donation (except to buy server space) and have declined to raise money.

The high point? That might have been Oct. 15. That day, Ella logged onto her computer and watched as protesters filled Puerta del Sol square in Madrid. She read reports of protesters arrested at a Citibank in New York City. She watched the minute-by-minute account of the estimated 10,000 protesters who marched from Zuccotti Park into Times Square.
At least some of these people had been stitched together by Occupy Together. "It's been incredible," Ella said. "The great thing about all of this is that anyone can step up and use what they have to help out in the bigger picture. It's been really exciting to see how that actually works."
World-Herald staff writer Chris Dorwart contributed to this report.

http://omaha.com/article/20111021/NEWS01/710219928


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V for Vendetta masks: Who's behind them?
By Rosie Waites
BBC News Magazine

The sinister Guy Fawkes mask made famous by the film V for Vendetta has become an emblem for anti-establishment protest groups. Who's behind them?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-15359735

[vince]

My favorite band The Residents give a 'shout-out':
http://www.printfection.com/residents-t ... _p_6480318

[Jeff]

New York cops defy order to arrest hundreds of ‘Occupy Albany’ protesters

By Andrew Jones
Monday, October 24, 2011

Occupy Albany protesters in New York’s capital city received an unexpected ally over the week: The state and local authorities.

According to the Albany Times Union, New York state troopers and Albany police did not adhere to a curfew crackdown on protesters urged by Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) and Albany mayor Gerald Jennings.

Mass arrests seemed to be in the cards once Jennings directed officers to enforce the curfew on roughly 700 protesters occupying the city owned park. But as state police joined the local cops, moved past the property line dividing city and state land.

With protesters acting peacefully, local and state police agreed that low level arrests could cause a riot, so they decided instead to defy Cuomo and Jennings.

“We don’t have those resources, and these people were not causing trouble,” a state official said. “The bottom line is the police know policing, not the governor and not the mayor.”

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http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/10/24/n ... rotesters/

[AlicetheKurious]

It's cool to see all those big names hopping onto the bandwagon; it shows they recognize the significance of the OWS movement and don't want to be left out. It's not their movement, though, it belongs to the 99%. If it has any chance of accomplishing genuinely revolutionary change, it better stay that way.

[gnosticheresy_2]

OWS is over after Tuesday:

Friends, mediation with the drummers has been called off. It has gone on for more than 2 weeks and it has reached a dead end. The drummers formed a working group called Pulse and agreed to 2 hrs/day at times during the mediation, and more recently that changed to 4 hrs/day. It's my feeling that we may have a fighting chance with the community board if we could indeed limit drumming and loud instrumentation to 12-2pm and 4-6pm, however that isn't what's happening.

Last night the drumming was near continuous until 10:30pm at night. Today it began again at 11am. The drummers are fighting amongst themselves, there is no cohesive group. There is one assemblage called Pulse that organized most of the drummers into a group and went to GA for formal recognition and with a proposal.

Unfortunately there is one individual who is NOT a drummer but who claims to speak for the drummers who has been a deeply disruptive force, attacking the drumming rep during the GA and derailing his proposal, disrupting the community board meeting, as well as the OWS community relations meeting. She has also created strife and divisions within the POC caucus, calling many members who are not 'on her side' "Uncle Tom", "the 1%", "Barbie" "not Palestinian enough" "Wall Street politicians" "not black enough" "sell-outs", etc. People have been documenting her disruptions, and her campaign of misinformation, and instigations. She also has a documented history online of defamatory, divisive and disruptive behavior within the LGBT (esp. transgender) communities. Her disruptions have made it hard to have constructive conversations and productive resolutions to conflicts in a variety of forums in the past several days.

At this point we have lost the support of allies in the Community Board, and the State Senator and city electeds who have been fighting the city to stave off our eviction, get us toilets, etc. On Tuesday is a Community Board vote, which will be packed with media cameras and community members with real grievances. We have sadly demonstrated to them that we are unable to collectively 1) keep our space and surrounding areas clean and sanitary, 2) keep the park safe, 3) deal with internal conflict and enforce the Good Neighbor Policy that was passed by the General Assembly.

Whether or not you personally feel that the support of the community board and local residents and their reps is needed to maintain our occupation, many of us believe that maintaining Liberty Square (aka Zuccotti Park) as a flagship and nerve center for our movement right now is in fact critical to our efforts that are much bigger picture, longer term, more revolutionary than the internal conflicts that are consuming too much energy right now.

We need to take this seriously, and be clear that if we can't deal with conflict and self-organizing then we are facing eviction very soon (this week), and the allies that helped turn out mass numbers at the last one will not be around this time, nor will the press be supportive. Additionally, Bloomberg released a statement a few days ago that said that he / the City plans to crack down on any violations as of this week. Once we lose community and ally support at Tuesday's vote, the door is wide open for an eviction.

What to do? We need an all hands-on-deck clean-up and everyone sharing responsibility for the Good Neighbor Policy, including enforcement of 12-2pm and 4-6pm drumming hours. (While recognizing that the community board has been firm that they can only support 2 hrs/day of drumming). We should also start serious conversations internally about what this movement might I look like without Zuccotti Park / Liberty Square. How can we set ourselves up for continued organizing and momentum without an active occupation? I don't write this to be dramatic, it's a serious question. If so much of our organizing time currently (for many of us, 20 hrs a day) is going to putting out fires and maintaining the space, what does it look like if we lose the space?

http://jdeanicite.typepad.com/i_cite/20 ... mmers.html

[Bruce Dazzling]

Chris Hedges and Amy Goodman will be on the Charlie Rose Show tonight.

[wordspeak2]

Amy Goodman's usually pretty good talking to the corporate press.

Here's Joe Rogan on OWS, inspiring in that Joe Rogan way: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjMcDXGkR8I

[Laodicean]

Amy Goodman's usually pretty good talking to the corporate press.

Here's Joe Rogan on OWS, inspiring in that Joe Rogan way: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjMcDXGkR8I

No music version. Good stuff!

[2012 Countdown]

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Olbermann and Letterman discuss Occupy Wall Street
http://occupyblogosphere.wordpress.com/ ... ll-street/

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The Battle Of The Brooklyn Bridge e-book


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We are all mentally ill!-

O'Reilly Hosts Psychotherapist To Analyze Occupy Wall Street Protests: "They're Asking To Be Out Of Control"
October 18, 2011 9:56 pm ET
http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/201110180026

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The Omnius Manifesto
A Program for the Occupy Movement

Something to Be For
In order for change to happen it is not enough to be against greed or even for stricter government regulation and corporate accountability, you have to have a program, a plan to make this change. And this program has to be well thought out, rooted in a deep understanding of the present system and a high but also practical vision of the changes that have to be made. The whole systems economics paradigm of the Omnius Manifesto is that vision and is a true plan of action to change the system that forms not only our economy, but also our very consciousness.

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http://drjeffeisen.com/omnius-manifesto/

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Goldman Sachs Backs Out Of Fundraiser After Occupy Wall Street Listed As Honoree
First Posted: 10/24/11 06:12 PM ET

Apparently there's not enough room at a fundraiser for both Goldman Sachs and Occupy Wall Street.
The investment banking giant backed out of sponsoring a fundraising event hosted by the Lower East Side People's Federal Credit Union -- a lender that aims to help New York City's poor -- after Goldman officials found out the list of honorees included Occupy Wall Street, the Wall Street Journal reports. Goldman's $5,000 donation was expected to cover 25 percent of the dinner's cost.
The protesters camped out at Zuccotti Park mere blocks away from Goldman Sachs' headquarters have held up signs deriding the investment bank and ridiculed its compensation packages, according to CNN Money. One protester called the approximately $292,000 per employee the company has set aside for compensation "ridiculous."
The firm's profit dropped 75 percent in the first three quarters of this year, but Goldman only notched 25 percent off of its compensation expenses, according to CNN Money. The company's CEO Lloyd Blankfein took home an extra $3.6 million in bonuses in 2010, Dealbook reports.
The fundraiser fiasco might be the most direct confrontation between the two parties because Goldman employees will likely stay away from the protests if they want to keep their jobs. The investment bank, which has a reputation for carefully controlling its image, has banned its workers from going to the site of the protests for any reason, according to CNBC.
That hasn't stopped some from imagining what a meeting between the two decidedly opposite camps would look like. Dealbook created an animated video featuring an Occupy Wall Street protester crashing a Goldman event. When the cartoon version of Blankfein encounters the protester he asks her:
"Shouldn't you be on your recyclable couch not looking for a job?"
To which she responds: "Shouldn't you be stealing candy from a baby and lobbying for a candy-stealing tax deduction?"
Goldman employees haven't been free of suffering, however. In June, the investment bank announced plans to lay off 1,000 employees in order to save $1.2 billion, a trend that has been mirrored throughout the financial industry.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/2 ... 29284.html

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Goldman Sachs Sends Its Regrets to This Awkward Dinner Invitation
Bank Withdraws From Fund-Raiser After 'Occupy Wall Street' Gets Place at Table
Earlier this month, hundreds of New Yorkers received an unusual dinner invitation from the Lower East Side People's Federal Credit Union.
The Credit Union, a small lender serving New York's poor, was holding a fund-raiser to celebrate its 25th anniversary. Among the chief sponsors listed on the invitation was Goldman Sachs Group Inc.
Among the honorees: "Occupy Wall Street."
They might as well have asked Marie Antoinette to dig into her purse to support Madame Defarge's knitting business.
Shortly after the invitation was sent out, Goldman withdrew its name from the dinner. It also pulled the plug on its $5,000 funding pledge.
The debate that ensued—between bankers and nonprofit chiefs, philanthropists and financiers—turned a modest fund-raising dinner into a heated battleground between Wall Street and the Occupy protestors, exposing contradictions on both sides.

The public has every reason to be angry at what's going on in this country, and every reason to protest. But will the Occupy Wall Street movement succeed in changing anything? Don't count on it, Brett Arends says. Photo: AP.

On one side was Goldman Sachs, which told the credit union it didn't want its name or money used to celebrate a protest movement known for placards like "Goldman Sachs is the work of the devil," dinner organizers said. The investment bank's giant glass-and-steel headquarters tower is just blocks away from the protest headquarters in Manhattan's Zuccotti Park.

On the other side of the debate were several hosts and board members of the credit union, who said honoring the protesters is more important than the money from Goldman—even though the funds were slated to cover a quarter of the dinner's $20,000 cost.

"Their money was welcome, but not at the price of giving up what we believe in," said Pablo DeFilippi, one of the dinner hosts and associate director of member development at the National Federal of Community Development Credit Unions. "We lost their $5,000, but we have our principles."
Linda Levy, CEO of the Lower East Side People's Federal Credit Union, declined comment saying "I made promises to people about talking about this."
Protesters take a lighter view: Pete Dutro, 36, of Brooklyn, chuckled when told about Goldman's withdrawal from the dinner, and said: "Do you blame them?"
The spat began in late September. On Sept. 30, the Friends of Liberty Park—the unincorporated association of the Occupy Wall Street protest— opened an account at the Lower East Side People's Federal Credit Union to accept donations.
Mr. Dutro, who says he's on the Occupy Wall Street finance committee, said the protesters chose the credit union because "it's a people's bank. It's not run by Wall Streeters." Another protestor, who calls himself "Mercury John" called the credit union "an honest, good local bank." The group later opened an account at Amalgamated Bank, which is closer and now has most of their cash. The group has about $450,000 in donations.

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http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142 ... dman+Sachs

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Occupy Wall Street Photographers: Who is the Best and More
http://photographiccoach.com/726/occupy ... test-2011/

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occupyoakland Occupy Oakland
#occupyoakland attacked by 500 cops in suprise assault. tear gas, rubber bullets, shotguns, flash bang grenades. Many injured.
26 minutes ago

[crikkett]

Apparently getting to work today will be a bitch, if you are anywhere around Oakland. Barricades are up.

A dip in the twitter stream from about 5:30am

studentactivism Angus Johnston
Reports: Local BART stop shut down, police tell local workers to stay away as #OccupyOakland rousted. #OWS
13 minutes ago

unhaunting prz grz
#solidarity with @moefeministdog and everyone else at #occupyoakland
14 minutes ago

TheRiverWanders TheRiverWanders
If you can get a thousand cops to raid #OWS, why can't you get 100 to look door2door when a kid is reported missing? #occupyOakland
17 minutes ago

studentactivism Angus Johnston
MercuryNews liveblog says #occupyoakland cops threatened use of "chemical agents" prior to apparent teargas use. #OWS
17 minutes ago

RawStory The Raw Story
We're hearing that #OccupyOakland is being broken up by police. Watch their live stream here: bit.ly/uHiSsi #ows
18 minutes ago

exiledsurfer exiledsurfer
This is what freedom of assembly looks like in America: yfrog.com/klq26mcj OPD drag protester at #OccupyOakland
23 minutes ago

rosegoggles Kirsten T
@occupyconvvoy #occupyoakland attacked by 500 cops in suprise assault. tear gas, rubber bullets, shotguns, flash bang grenades. Many injured
25 minutes ago

occupyoakland Occupy Oakland
Police protect the 1%! #occupyoakland
27 minutes ago

TheRiverWanders TheRiverWanders
Sad thing is, the police who tear down #OWS will have pensions, benefits, shredded by gop agenda just like protesters. SAD. #occupyOakland.
27 minutes ago

Ghostpickles poems
Mass Arrests at #OccupyOakland . Sonic Cannon, rubber bullets and tear gas used. Cops in riot gear beat at least one person. #Anonymous
28 minutes ago

occupyoakland Occupy Oakland
#occupyoakland attacked by 500 cops in suprise assault. tear gas, rubber bullets, shotguns, flash bang grenades. Many injured.
28 minutes ago

CelestialBeard Thom J.
attn @BenLaden is safe, not at #occupyoakland right now
11 minutes ago

exiledsurfer exiledsurfer
RT @TimKarr: #BART shuts down Oakland City Center stop to prevent people from coming to #OccupyOakland to protest police eviction
12 minutes ago

democracynow Democracy Now!
Today's podcast will be available for download at 9:15am EDT from our website: democracynow.org #ows #OccupyOakland
14 minutes ago

exiledsurfer exiledsurfer
I, for one, am NOT surprised at the use of LRAD'S and riot gear at #occupyoakland. What do you think they bought this gear for?
15 minutes ago

studentactivism Angus Johnston
Twitter reports use of rubber bullets at #occupyoakland, but no confirmation on livestream or news liveblog. #OWS
20 minutes ago

CelestialBeard Thom J.
if you know a cop, shame him. Make it unbearable for him to continue. Make him feel self-loathing #OccupyOakland
23 minutes ago

occupyoakland Occupy Oakland
#occupyoakland emergency reconvergence plan activated. Reconverge 4pm at oakland public library main branch 14th & madison.TELL EVERYONE
25 minutes ago

CelestialBeard Thom J.
man, can't wait to hear what soothing words @cynthiaboaz has for #OccupyOakland
33 minutes ago

exiledsurfer exiledsurfer
RT @anon_pinko: All eyes on #OccupyOakland Huge police raid underway follow @occupyoakland @OakFoSho @alyssa011968 #ows
41 minutes ago

michaelwhitney Michael Whitney
Seems necessary... RT @OakFoSho: Batons & shotguns. yfrog.com/kj86893807ej #occupyOakland #ows #p21
41 minutes ago

studentactivism Angus Johnston
For those just waking up, #occupyoakland is being raided by riot cops right now. Mass arrests, reports of teargas. #OWS
41 minutes ago
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GenKreton Doug
5 am in California and the Oakland Police decide to tear gas and assault #occupyoakland with batons and shotguns yfrog.com/nz60715703j #ows
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MHarrisPerry Melissa Harris-Perry
This is seriously terrifying. #occupyOakland
1 hour ago

davidhorvitz davidhorvitz

Getting raided right now #OccupyOakland #ows police coming in
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[brainpanhandler]

We are all mentally ill!-

O'Reilly Hosts Psychotherapist To Analyze Occupy Wall Street Protests: "They're Asking To Be Out Of Control"
October 18, 2011 9:56 pm ET
http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/201110180026

Why did I watch that?

We're not just mentally ill. We're lazy, stupid, cowards that lost in the genetic lottery and expect our entitlements and want someone else to take care of us and solve our problems from cradle to grave.

I... I... I....