Inside Occupied Portland – Restoring Our Park

Following a gesture of overwhelming support from the people of Portland, a night of music and peaceful protest Police and Occupiers came to an agreement to reopen the streets and clean up the…

Thursday November 17th National Day of Action #N17 #OWS

Facebook Event | Twitter #N17 | Direct Action Resources On Thursday November 17th, the two month anniversary of the Occupy Wall Street movement, we call upon the 99% to participate in a national…

17th. November Celebration in Greece

On the 17th of November every year all the Greeks but especially the students celebrate the students’ revolt against the colonels’ junta, having celebrations at schools and a march that starts at the…

Trafalgar Square Occupied during the student protest and quickly evicted…

At least six people were arrested in London after setting up a camp in Trafalgar Square while they were trying to establish a third camp in the city in order to galvanise the…

Occupy London Statement on #9Nov and the Right to Protest #OccupyLSX #OWS

Today we offer our support and solidarity to students and construction workers protesting against the creeping impoverishment of our society, in our shared desire to create a better world. We look forward to…

@OccupyLondon Direct Action – Mic Check to Boris

MIC CHECK: We find it amusing That Boris Johnson Is pretending to listen to questions While the government for the people Consistently ignores its people’s voices We stand in this theatre As people…

#OccupyTogether Statement Regarding Recent TV Spots

Originally posted on OccupyTogether.org There has been some confusion over a recent ad campaign that was organized by a group of individual supporters of the Occupy Movement. A few weeks ago, David Sauvage…

Call-Out for Solidarity with Egypt: Defend the Revolution

This call-out was written by Egyptian activists invovlved in ‘The Campaign to End Military Trials of Civilians’ and has been supported by various egyptian social movements and groups involved in the Revolution A letter…

#Oakland – Statement on the Occupation of the former Traveler’s Aid Society

Thursday Nov 3rd, after one of the most remarkable days of resistance in recent history, some of the us within Occupy Oakland took an important next step: we 
extended the occupation to an…

United Network & Global Solidarity before the end of the years – Minutes of the X Squares Meeting

We started the X squares meeting with updates on the  global week for  financial  alternatives: Streaming from the G20 at Nice/Cannes are available on bambuser.com/channel/acampadaparis_int Around 600 people attempt to set up a…

Chronicle of the General Strike, Oakland 2nd Nov 2011. The other side that the media hide

The General Strike on the 2nd of November called for by Occupy Oakland has succeeded. Many businesses closed their doors in solidarity with Oakland, and the main banks like Wells Fargo, Citibank, Chase…

Cannes is not for festivals – Media Center Nice #G20

The G20 summit began in Cannes, France with the presence of governments of the most industrialized countries. Because of the summit, the collective anti-globalization movements from all over the world met in Nice…

Solidarity with Egyptian political prisoners

We have been asked by our comrades in Egypt to share and spread information about the repression of political prisoners occurring there. This article contains content that was originally published by End the…

Here a little chronicle about what´s going on in the Bay Area, US: Oakland, San Francisco and Berkeley.

The Occupy movement here has arisen really fast and it´s getting stronger and stronger, from the 17Sept but specially since the 15O. It reminds me very much the beginning of the 15M in…

October 29, Global March for the RobinHood Tax

Marches occurred in dozens of cities around North America, with about 1,000 taking to the streets of San Francisco, in San Antonio, Las Vegas, Washington DC, Santa Fe, Denver, Liverpool, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Sydney,…

48Hours Global Assembly on Financial Alternatives – Call to all the squares on Nov 5-6

During the European Summit of the last week in Brussels, our “leaders” officially proved that they have no ideas on financial alternatives when the goal of this meeting was to try to save…

The 5th. of November, Move Your Money!

Big banks have gambled our economy away, making the 1% richer and squeezing the rest of us tighter. Its time to take action into our own hands. Break up with the big banking…

Call and Program for the “People First, Not Finance!” Forum in Nice

DOWNLOAD the English version of the program. When 99 % of the population realizes that it has the right to refuse to be governed and exploited by the remaining 1 percent. When it…

The war in Athens, Society trying to keep the bankers out. Seems like austerity is winning, is it?

Signs of solidarity in the Greek population, a hope to the real change

From a Greece on fire, Yesterday (28/10/11) was a national holiday, the 28th of October marks the anniversary of the Greek entrance to WWII or as it is widely known here the day…

Another 48H virtual assembly on November 5-6 to join our projects of financial alternatives – Minutes of the IX Squares Meeting about Global Week for Financial Alternatives & General Strikes

We started this meeting with updates on the Global Week for Financial Alternatives: We just know one city (Nantes) who will participate to the RobinHoodTax March on October 29, but a lot of…

Update on Occupy Asheville, NC. By Michael Morgan

Update on Occupy Asheville, NC. 10/9/11 We began on Saturday, October 1st, 2012. There has been a General Assembly (GA) every day.  We’ve been blessed with good weather and lots of fresh faces…

Violence an tear gas to evict Occupy Oakland

This Tuesday 25th at 5am over 500 police in riot gear from cities all over central California brutally attacked the Occupy Oakland encampment at 14th & Broadway. The police attacked the peaceful protest…

#TransitionDay, Occupy Vancouver escalates with Run on the Banks!

Today at Occupy Vancouver the people moved from the eternal process of the general assembly to the exciting world of direct action. The Run on the banks action marks an escalation on an…

The politics of Occupation: Notes on #OccupyMelbourne, What it might mean. Where we might take it.

(This is edited version of an article  orginal published by the Rooftop Collective. This is a political contribution to the occupymelbourne movement. Yet it is made in the spirit of active engagement with  the international movement and…

A reflection on 10 days at #occupylondon, #occupylsx

 London has been occupied since the 15th of October. More than 2500 people gathered outside St Paul’s Cathedral in London City to take Paternoster Square, home to the London Stock Exchange. The event…

People First, Not Finance! Face to the G20, All in the Street!

“The G20 was formed by 20 of the richest countries in the world, in disregard of all the rest. Though it proclaimed itself to be the guarantor of world economic and financial stability…

What is common in the recent demonstrations in Hungary and in the world?

The wave of demonstrations of civil movements in Hungary are in line with the global trends, namely the mounting resistance against the austerity measures and antidemocratic tendencies. These unfavourable developments in the wake…

Update on Transition Day, some cities already started the action!

  The 5th. of November is becoming a day for global actions, for going from the theory to the praxis and the Bank Transfer Day or Transition Day, or operation CashBack is spreading…

“The system is disliked – Protest!” 100.000 people participate to a huge demonstration in Budapest

About 100 thousand people rallied in the heart of Budapest on 23rd October 2011 demanding system change. The demonstration ended without any atrocities and, despite the unfavorable weather conditions, the organizers managed to…

The 6th. of November, Tar Sands Action will surround the White House!

On Sunday November 6 the Tar Sands Action will return to Washington DC to send an unmistakable message to the President. Exactly one year before the election, we want to encircle the whole…

A second camp start in London to celebrate the One-Week Anniversary!

Our mission continues. We are delighted to announce that our second site of occupation is now open and ready to receive happy campers. 400 people are already creating a radically open democratic space…

Demonstrations brutally repressed in Morocco. A second dead in the 20F movement

On October 13, Boudaroua Mohamed, a young stood militant of the 20F movement died in Safi (350 km. South of Rabat) after ten days of unemployed graduates sitting in the ANAPEC (Moroccan INEM…

After the Global Day, Go to a Global Week for the Financial Alternatives! Minutes of the IX Squares Meeting

The 5th. of NoVember will be signed with a V as Vendetta, After an amazing Global day on October 15 where hundreds of cities started their first assemblies, emerged this last days a…

#Occupymelbourne plans to retake the square after being brutally evicted by police

>    This article contains content that was orginally published  by indymedia melbourne. After six days of peaceful occupation of the Melbourne city square in Australia, Lord Mayor Robert Doyle warned that if the protestors didn’t leave today they would…

#OCCUPYMELBOURNE FIRST ASSEMBLY – MINUTES #Oct15 #OccupyTogether #GlobalChange

Melbourne General Assembly one October 15th 2011 -City Square Overview given of purpose of General Assemblies. Aimed to work on consensus model, having one General Assembly each day at 4PM Weekends, 6 PM…

IX Squares Meeting 21/10 Welcome to the new members / Next steps of the global network

HOW TO PARTICIPATE?   In webchat.freenode.net Friday at 19h (Spanish hour) Enter your nickname with your city (i.e: Mark_Lisbon) Enter in the channel #takethesquare Here the Pad of the Agenda https://n-1.cc/pg/pages/view/853297?init=true There you…

Naomi Klein: “Occupy Wall Street is the Most Important Thing in the World Now”

I was honored to be invited to speak at Occupy Wall Street on Thursday night. Since amplification is (disgracefully) banned, and everything I said had to be repeated by hundreds of people so…

“Y’en a marre!” call for the Senegalese revolution on February 26

Senegal’s president is facing the most serious political unrest of his career just months before seeking re-election to a third term. It has been getting unusually hot in the normally stable and democratic…

Welcome to the Global Network, an invitation to all the assemblies

We invite everybody to share this text all around the world via mails, feedbacks, websites… Dear comrades of the global change, We are about 400 people in squares all around the world, from…

#London Square initial statement #OccupyTogether #GlobalChange #15o #OccupyLSX

At today’s assembly on the steps of St Paul’s, #occupylsx agreed the initialstatement below. Please note, it’s a draft statement at this stage and it will always be a work in progress. 1…

15O through the world. Chronic

 [This post will be updated through the next days as we collect and filter the information] We’re collecting data (videos, press release, photos…) from October 15th in a unique Site. You can view…

15O – GLOBAL DAY Ep1 – It’s a new day for Asia & Oceania

  Chronic of the first hours of the 15O in Asia & Oceania Tokyo, Seoul, Taipai, Auckland, Sydney, Hong Kong, Manila with a early wake up in the protest camp of Israel to…

Bloomberg backs down, occupiers can stay (for now) #OWS #OccupyWallStreet

Originally published on RoarMag.org The occupation at Wall Street received good news this morning: after spending the night preparing for eviction, the clean-up order was postponed. A spectacular piece of news reached the…

Guide for civilian participation on #15OCT

ACT! A complete map with social-network events can be found at http://map.15october.net Check your location and participate! NEWS DATABASE On the 15th there will be protests in almost 1 thousand cities worldwide. The…

#OccupyWallSt warns of immediate eviction by NYPD

EMERGENCY #OWS EVICTION DEFENSE: Prevent the forcible closure of Occupy Wall Street Tell Bloomberg: Don’t Foreclose the Occupation. This is an emergency situation. Please take a minute to read this, and please take…

#Syntagma release on #DIRECTDEMOCRACY #globalchange

On July 24th, the thematic group of Direct Democracy in Syntagma Square was allocated, by the Popular Assembly of the Square, to compose a document on the “Principles and Theses of Direct Democracy.”…

Ideas that came out from 48h Virtual Global Assembly

Last weekend (8th and 9th of October) took place our first global virtual assembly, its was increible, people connected from all over the world  (Australia, Mexico, US, Spain, Greece, Portugal, Germany, Russia, etc,…

#HowToCamp? #HowToOccupy? http://howtocamp.info or http://howtooccupy.info

HowToCamp is designed in order to promote the methods, techniques and knowledges on taking the square. This is the place to all of those who are keen on researching about how to starting…

Boston Police Brutally Assault #OccupyBoston #OccupyTogether #OWS

*FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 11th, 2011* Contacts: OccupyBostonMedia@gmail.com Twitter: @occupyBOS_media Boston Police Brutally Assault Occupy Boston At 1:30 this morning hundreds of police in full riot gear brutally attacked Occupy Boston, which had peacefully gathered…

Žižek at Wall Street: “don’t fall in love with yourself” #occupywallstreet #ows

“We’re not dreamers. We’re awaking from a dream turning into a nightmare. We’re not destroying anything. We’re watching the system destroy itself.” Via Occupy Wall Street andImpose Magazine — TRANSCRIPT — We are…

A day that will remain a milestone in the history of the european Indignant Movement #15oct #globalchange #agorabrussels

The last few kilometers of the marches to Brussels are unwinding in an atmosphere of unity and cooperation among the belgian people and the marches. Yesterday, the march that started from Barcelona arrived…

Conclusions of the speech of the sociologist Manuel Castells on #15M

Translation of the conclusions of the speech in Spanish  of the sociologist Manuel Castells, professor at Berkeley University  (California) and researcher at the Open University of Catalonia (UOC),  on May 27 at the…

Right Here All Over – Occupy Wall Street

A tribute to #Sept17 #Antibanks Day #OccupyWallStreet #OWS #15oct

Declaration of the Occupation of New York City #OWS #OccupyWallStreet

by NYC General Assembly This document was accepted by the NYC General Assembly on September 29, 2011, with slight adjustments in wording on October 1, 2011: As we gather together in solidarity to express a…

Occupy South Africa – 15 October 2011

Who is Occupy SA - Operation Ubuntu? Occupy SA – Operation Ubuntu is a leaderless resistance movement with people of many colors, genders and political persuasions. The one thing we all have in common is that We…

A hole in the ceiling #15M #Madrid

Call for Collaboration of all the assemblies for the Brussels Agora #WalkToBrussels

On October 8, the various marches of the movement from different countries arrive in Brussels. On the same day begins the first Global Agora of the movement to which are invited all the…

Letter from the Indignados of the Bastille in Paris to the#J14 movement for social justice in Israël

Letter from the Indignados of the Bastille in Paris – For Real Democracy Now to the J14 movement for social justice in Israël 1 We, the Indignados of the Bastille, share your indignation…

Message from The General Assembly of New York City #OccupyWallstreet #Sept17 #Antibanks

Dear Friend, We are the citizens and non-citizens of the General Assembly of New YorkCity. We come from every walk of life, a variety of cultural, political, and religious backgrounds. Yet we share…

Arab revolutions: “natural allies in a common struggle”

Source: http://globalinfo.nl Geschreven door Klasse woensdag, 31 augustus 2011 23:04 On the urgency of international solidarity with the Middle Eastern uprisings and global resistance to mass privatization imposed by European and US loans….

Voices are calling from the other side of the sea #15oct #Oct15

Originally published on Roarmag.org The sun shines out of a corner. Its crystalline laughter unfolds a bridge over the sea. People cannot cross over it. But you can hear their whispers.   Puerta…

India against corruption

Text extracted from documents in http://www.indiaagainstcorruption.org/ Shri Anna Hazare spearheaded a nationwide campaign to demand a strong anti-corruption law Jan Lokpal Bill. Today, despite overwhelming evidence, corrupt people are not punished. Jan  Lokpal Bill…

If today is Wednesday and you are in #Belarus, join the protest! #europeanrevolution

First published in spanish at www.periodismohumano.com. Written by Claudia Ciobanu. Hundreds of young people in Belarus take the streets weekly, bonding through social networking sites. They are protesting against the lack of free…

In #Chile and #Israel, a revolt against neoliberalism

By Jerome E. Roos. Originally published on RoarMag.org. The recent outbreak of mass protests from Santiago to Tel Aviv shows that capitalism doesn’t need to be in “crisis” to be effectively contested. It…

Syria: Tired Slogans and a Looming Dawn

Source: Ramzy Baroud There is no linear narrative capable of explaining the multifarious happenings that have gripped Syrian society in recent months. On March 23, as many as 20 peaceful protesters were killed…