by admin
on Oct 25, 2011 •
Around 2am word spread that riot police were massing in around the area where Occupy Oakland has been for more than two weeks. Hundreds of people gathered and began to make non-violent barricades at all the entrances to the plaza. At about 4:30am, riot police appeared on all corners of the encampment. There were roughly...
by admin
on Oct 23, 2011 •
On August 2, at the very first meeting of what was to become Occupy Wall Street, about a dozen people sat in a circle in Bowling Green. The self-appointed “process committee” for a social movement we merely hoped would someday exist, contemplated a momentous decision. Our dream was to create a New York General Assembly:...
by admin
on Oct 23, 2011 •
Among the remarkable developments at Liberty Square have been the Working Groups, created by occupiers to forward the movement’s goals. In these groups ideas are exchanged, strategies are collectively shaped and the future of the occupation is being written. Here are dispatches from a few… Outreach Since the best place to reach the 99% is...
by admin
on Oct 23, 2011 •
Occupy Wall Street, with its defiant style of non-violent protest, has consistently clashed with the NYPD’s obsession with order maintenance, resulting in hundreds of mostly unnecessary arrests and a significant infringement on the basic rights of free speech and assembly. Prior to the massive protests at the WTO in Seattle, protest policing in the U.S....
by admin
on Oct 23, 2011 •
What it is, the demand the 1% can’t comprehend, is us. It is the individuals and villages, the cities and peoples across the world who are seeing each other on the far side of appeals and petition. It is the world we are becoming. Establishment polls confirm what everyone in the street already knows: a...
by admin
on Oct 23, 2011 •
Howard Zinn is here. Dominick Dunne and Tom Wolfe, too. Ernest Hemingway and Barbara Ehrenreich and Dr. Who and Beowulf: All here, and all free. Barnes & Noble may be endangered and the Borders across the street closed months ago, but The People’s Library at Liberty Square is open for business and thriving. That a...
by rizzo
on Oct 23, 2011 •
5:00 AM Friday — In the daybreaking hours of a long night spent scrubbing and brushing and gardening and packing, a stalwart girl named Julia meticulously swept the tiniest specks from the ground into a dust pan, retracing her steps through Liberty Square again and again. Occupiers carried boxes to a storage space around the block, and...
by admin
on Oct 14, 2011 •
A year ago, New Yorkers watched in horror as voters in the progressive heartland of Wisconsin replaced progressive standard-bearer Russ Feingold with a Tea Party mega-millionaire, and the state’s capitol came under the control of self-described Tea Party Republicans. Months later, the impact of that electoral change became clear. Governor Scott Walker unleashed attacks on the right to organize, to engage...
by admin
on Oct 14, 2011 •
Labor organizers and unions across New York City and the United States have endorsed the occupation at Wall Street, promising continued support and backing of the movement of the 99%. The following are excerpts from their letters of solidarity: TRANSPORT WORKERS UNION LOCAL 100 “The Transport Workers Union Local 100 applauds the courage of the young people...
by admin
on Oct 14, 2011 •
What’s one way for Occupy Wall Street participants to avoid problems with the police as well as their Financial District neighbors? To police themselves. Lifelong New York resident Brendan Burke, 41, was asked early in the occupation to help, and he saw a need. “There was chaos in here, and this is the media center, so security here is...
by admin
on Oct 14, 2011 •
To the September 17 Occupiers HEY MONEYMAN, the crowd is outside. The past, the future and the now is outside. The teachers and cooks and the drop-outs too. Word on the street is they looking for you… HEY MONEYMAN they saying whats the score? And how much blood have you spilled on the butcher shop...
by admin
on Oct 14, 2011 •
The lords of finance in the skyscrapers surrounding Zuccotti Park, who toy with money and lives, who make the political class, the press, and the judiciary jump at their demands, who destroy the ecosystem for profit and drain the U.S. Treasury to gamble and speculate, took little notice at first activists on the street below them three weeks ago. The elites consider everyone outside...
