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occupy_wall_street's Journal
Source: Occupy Wall StreetThis will be a clear message and observation resource moving forward for OWS NYC. Together with the occupywallst.org site, there should be no problem identifying #occupy positions on society and government. Note that each article reaffirms commitment to Rule of Law. We know that the Depression of 2008 was caused by corporate corruption. We are our own leaders. This web site is available in English and in Spanish. Read more: http://occupiedmedia.org /
Here are example articles: So real it hurts: building a new republic
by Manissa Mccleave Maharawal on Oct 23, 2011
On a Thursday night when I showed up at Occupy Wall Street from a community meeting with some South Asian friends, we were handed a sheet of paper with a working draft of the Declaration of the Occupation.
Enacting the impossible
by David Graeber on Oct 23, 2011 • 6 Comments
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:...
Occupation is Participation
by Allison Burtch on Oct 23, 2011 • 1 Comment
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...
Rule of law vs. the forces of order
by Alex S. Vitale on Oct 23, 2011 • 2 Comments
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....
A New World
by Jed Brandt and Michael Levitin on Oct 23, 2011 • No Comments
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....
The People’s Library
by Jennifer Sacks on Oct 23, 2011 • 1 Comment
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....
We Are the 99% Tumblr
I was forced to dropout of college halfway through because I couldn’t even afford the gas to get there and back. All of my loams have defaulted and there’s nothing I can do. We’ve lived in this apartment for a month and we just got a bed a couple days ago. We don’t have a tv, not even a can opener… but I guess that would only matter if we could afford food in the first place. I’m going job hunting this weekend… wish me luck. My husband fights for the freedom of the 1%, but where are they when we needed them?....
And many more.
Can you identify the individual in the black tee shirt ? To hit the jackpot, is this man another staffer from The American Spectator? Or another Washington interest group office? Or another shadow group that supports our American oligarchy?  The cameraman is Patrick Howley, Assistant Editor at The American Spectator. Connections to TAS or to the Leadership Institute (in Virginia), similar to O'Keefe and Breitbart, are of critical interest.
First, for small donations, this will work: OccupyWallSt.org FundThat site is linked directly from the main occopywallst.org site. ------------------ Also, for larger support, here is what has been arranged: The Alliance for Global Justice, a nonprofit with 501(c)(3) status, declared Occupy Wall Street as a fiscal project. AfGJ has been accepting funds for OWS. Alliance for Global Justice 1247 E St., SE Washington, DC 20003 202-544-9355 afgj@afgj.org Please, please do not send cash to AfGJ. ------------------------ The video operation listed at NYCGA.CC is legally titled as Global Revolution. They claim: "Global Revolution brings you live streaming video coverage from independent journalists on the ground at nonviolent protests around the world. The team includes members of Mobile Broadcast News, Glassbead Collective, Twin Cities Indymedia and the alt.media ninjas that brought you Terrorizing Dissent and Democracy 101 documentaries. Currently broadcasting from #OccupyWallStreet protests in NYC that began on Saturday, Sept 17, 2011." This is not OWS. Never claims to be.
"The task of our time is to turn this around: to challenge this false scarcity. To insist that we can afford to build a decent, inclusive society - while at the same time, respect the real limits to what the earth can take.
"What climate change means is that we have to do this on a deadline. This time our movement cannot get distracted, divided, burned out or swept away by events. This time we have to succeed. And I'm not talking about regulating the banks and increasing taxes on the rich, though that's important.
"I am talking about changing the underlying values that govern our society. That is hard to fit into a single media-friendly demand, and it's also hard to figure out how to do it. But it is no less urgent for being difficult."
-- Naomi Klein, October 6th at Liberty Park NYC
Another message here at DU notes that the panel at the Bill Maher show mocked the OWS "hippies." Alan Grayson Gets Standing Ovation While Bill Maher Panel Mocks Occupy Wall Street ‘Hippies’The NYCGA includes all attendees. However we are frequently observed to be coherent. Thus:
PRINCIPLES OF SOLIDARITY
The following Principles of Solidarity has been adopted by the New York City General Assembly (at Liberty Park) as a "living document: that will be revised through the democratic process of the N.Y.C. General Assembly.
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On September 17, 2011, people from all across the United States of America and the world came to protest the blatant injustices of our times perpetrated by the economic and political elites. On the 17th we as individuals rose up against the political disenfranchisement and social and economic injustice. We spoke out, resisted, and occupied Wall Street. Today we proudly remain in Liberty Square constituting ourselves as autonomous political beings engaged in non-violent political disobedience and building solidarity based on mutual respect, acceptance, and love. It is from these reclaimed grounds that we say to all Americans and to the world: Enough! How many crises does it take? We are the 99% and we have moved to reclaim our mortgaged future.
Through a direct democratic process, we have come together as individual and crafted these principles of solidarity, which are points of unity that include, but are not limited to:
- Engage in direct and transparent democracy
- Exercise personal and collective responsibility
- Recognize individuals' inherent privilege and the influence it has on all interactions
- Empower one another against all forms of oppression
- Redefine how labor is valued
- Sanctify individual privacy
- Support a belief that education is a human right
- Endeavor to support wide application of the Open Source concept
We are daring to imagine a new socio-political and economic alternative that offers greater possibility of equality. We are consolidating the other proposed principles of solidarity, after which demands will follow.
-- from the Occupied Wall Street Journal, Saturday, October 8, 2011.
Principles first, then demands.
We are the 99%.
DU was represented this morning at 11 AM at the Red Cube -- Saturday 11 AM @ Red Cube corner is on for October 15th !!
A company such as Apple or General Motors or the old Ben & Jerrys has a responsibility to act in a responsible manner. Profit is not bad, but adding social justice makes these organizations much better. The companies of Financial Capitalism are different. The crimes of their employees are what produced the Great Recession of 2008 and massive unemployment. They also took trillions of dollars from retirement funds and from other small investors. No one ever thought of prosecuting Steve Job for anything. He was not a criminal. He was a good man. Steve Jobs would not have been a success on today's Wall Street. "We Are The 1%" was not his motto. "Think different" about sums it up.-- DU members are all invited to come to the Occupy Wall Street site on Saturday, October 8th at 11 AM -- Please assemble peacefully at the Red Cube at 140 Broadway, at the corner of Broadway and Liberty Street -- A speaker from OWS will greet everyone from DU. A statement of purpose and an invitation to support OWS will be presented. That site can accommodate 250 DU members and their friends easily. As many as 1,000 extra people connected to DU can be accommodated directly with OWS plans for Saturday afternoon.  Freely exercise your freedom of speech and of the press; and the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.Please, feel free to do all of this with Occupy Wall Street.
From: Occupy Wall Street
The password for this account is held by OWS organizers at Liberty Square. The account will be used to post items directly to DU membership and other DU readers.
-- Most of these items will also appear on the occupywallst.org site. Cross posting will be for the convenience of DU members.
-- A few items will focus specifically to the DU members themselves. Site features at DU are marked conveniences for subsequent discussions.
-- The "private message" function at DU should be used to report editorial problems. Do not count on all of the messages replying to this account's postings to be read by OWS. Things are kind of busy down here.
-- We are in favor of having a first DU Gathering for OWS on Saturday at 11 AM on October 8, 2011. The site is the big Cube on the Broadway side of Brown Brothers Harriman, at the corner of Broadway and Liberty.
-- A speaker from OWS will greet everyone from DU. A statement of purpose and an invitation to support OWS will be presented.
Thank you.
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