Oakland Video

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Occupy Oakland video: Riot police fire tear gas, flashbang grenades:  Police have clashed with hundreds of demonstrators in the U.S. city of Oakland. It happened when hundreds marched to show their anger at police clearing an “Occupy Wall Street” camp.  http://bit.ly/s1GeN4 

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Chris Hedges: Appeal to Trinitiy Church to Turn over to the Occupy Wall Street Movement: Were Were You When They Crucified My Lord?

Where Were You When They Crucified My Lord?

Chris Hedges
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2011-12-05 00:00:00

Chris Hedges gave an abbreviated version of this talk Saturday morning in Liberty Square in New York City as part of an appeal to Trinity Church to turn over to the Occupy Wall Street movement an empty lot, known as Duarte Square, that the church owns at Canal Street and 6th Avenue. Occupy Wall Street protesters, following the call, began a hunger strike at the gates of the church-owned property. Three of the demonstrators were arrested Sunday on charges of trespassing, and three others took their places.

The Occupy movement is the force that will revitalize traditional Christianity in the United States or signal its moral, social and political irrelevance. The mainstream church, battered by declining numbers and a failure to defiantly condemn the crimes and cruelty of the corporate state, as well as a refusal to vigorously attack the charlatans of the Christian right, whose misuse of the Gospel to champion unfettered capitalism, bigotry and imperialism is heretical, has become a marginal force in the life of most Americans, especially the young.Outside the doors of churches, many of which have trouble filling a quarter of the pews on Sundays, struggles a movement, driven largely by young men and women, which has as its unofficial credo the Beatitudes:

Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Blessed are they who mourn, for they shall be comforted.
Blessed are the meek, for they shall possess the earth.
Blessed are they who hunger and thirst for justice, for they shall be satisfied.
Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.
Blessed are the pure of heart, for they shall see God.
Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons and daughters of God.
Blessed are they who suffer persecution for justice sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

Police Cracking Down on Media at OWS Video

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Police cracking down on media at Occupy Wall Street :  Not only are police cracking down on the Occupy movement protesters but also on journalist. According to some reporters police have denied them access to cover the Occupy movement. In New York reporters with NYPD press passes are being physically removed from the scene and some even arrested. RT producer Lucy Kafanov is back in NYC to give us the latest.

The War Against the Poor(est)

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The War Against the Poor

Occupy Wall Street and the Politics of Financial Morality

By Frances Fox Piven November 07, 2011 “Tom Dispatch” – -

We’ve been at war for decades now — not just in Afghanistan or Iraq, but right here at home. Domestically, it’s been a war against the poor, but if you hadn’t noticed, that’s not surprising. You wouldn’t often have found the casualty figures from this particular conflict in your local newspaper or on the nightly TV news. Devastating as it’s been, the war against the poor has gone largely unnoticed — until now. The Occupy Wall Street movement has already made the concentration of wealth at the top of this society a central issue in American politics. Now, it promises to do something similar when it comes to the realities of poverty in this country. By making Wall Street its symbolic target, and branding itself as a movement of the 99%, OWS has redirected public attention to the issue of extreme inequality, which it has recast as, essentially, a moral problem. Only a short time ago, the “morals” issue in politics meant the propriety of sexual preferences, reproductive behavior, or the personal behavior of presidents. Economic policy, including tax cuts for the rich, subsidies and government protection for insurance and pharmaceutical companies, and financial deregulation, was shrouded in clouds of propaganda or simply considered too complex for ordinary Americans to grasp… please, read more there: Tom Dispatch & Information Clearing House

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Photograph shows Charles Dow who co-founded Dow-Jones & Company with Edward Jones & Charles Bergstresser  (Public Domain, Wikipedia)

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Use Your Junk Mail To Occupy Wall Street / Video

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Are you part of the 99%? Are you tired of having the needs of the people ignored by politicians and the ultra-wealthy 1% that owns them?

Not everyone can spend days camping at their local Occupy Wall Street protest, but there are other ways to show your support. The video below demonstrates a fast, easy, free, and non-violent way to drive the big banks out of their greedy little minds.

And it’s sitting in your mailbox right now.
 

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W.S.P. Goes Global

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Wall Street protests go global; riots in Rome:

Demonstrators rallied on Saturday across the world to accuse bankers and politicians of wrecking economies, but only in Rome did the global “day of rage” erupt into violence.  http://goo.gl/aG5UB

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First video of ‘Occupy Rome’ rally turning violent

Video  http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=0aMD4QIvGUE

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Wall St protesters gather in Sydney:

Demonstrators plan to set up a permanent campsite outside the Reserve Bank in Sydney today, as part of a global day of action inspired by the Occupy Wall Street movement.  http://www.skynews.com.au/national/article.aspx?id=673704&vId=

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Occupy movement goes global – in pictures:

Occupy Wall Street protests are linking up with other Occupy movements around the world  http://goo.gl/JNNWg

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Consensus: Direct Democracy: Video -

 A look into the “HOW” of the Occupy Wall Street movement: The consensus process.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dtD8RnGaRQ

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Thousands turn out for Occupy Toronto:

Thousands of people have gathered at St. James Park in the heart of downtown Toronto, where protesters will set up camp for an undetermined length of time to demand changes to global finance.  http://news.nationalpost.com/2011/10/15/the-occupy-movement-comes-to-toronto/

Occupy the Board Room: Email Your Anger Directly to the Richest Bankers in the Industry

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 Today a new action seeks to take Occupy Wall Street online: Occupy the Board Room, which seeks to “use digital technology to give a massive number of people a vehicle to express their anger directly at the banks and see that anger reflected in the expressions of their peers across the country.” Which is to say, they’ve compiled the contact information for 400 of the richest and most powerful banking executives in the industry—the 1%—so the rest of us can let them know exactly why we’re uprising. More specifically: 

Nearly 100 organizations will send an email blast to their membership that, if clicked, will direct users to a webpage that documents the finance industry’s wrongdoings and allows users to send an email directly to all 400 executives, or a smaller subset thereof.  The text of each email will also be submitted to a Tumblr blog, where it will appear alongside other emails from across the country. 

 

 

Users may visit a landing page on the Tumblr blog and select an executive to adopt as a Pen Pal.  After doing so, they will be enable to email the executive directly and try to get in touch with her or him in whatever other creative ways they can imagine, document their attempts, then post the results to the Tumblr blog.

Thus, the blog will accumulate a running log of America’s frustration with the 1%.  We aim to generate at least 100,000 entries.

Devised by a large coalition of non-profits and activist organizations, Occupy the Board Room will also be blogged by some familiar faces: Digby, Daily Kos’ Chris Bowers, Down With Tyranny’s Howie Klein, and Crooks and Liars’ John Amato. The site launches today at 11 am, but take a sneak peak: occupytheboardroom.org. Stay tuned for updates!

 

By Julianne Escobedo Shepherd | Sourced from AlterNet  All Rights there

Posted at October 15, 2011, 7:28 am

Against the Institution: A Warning for ‘Occupy Wall Street’

By Andrew Gavin Marshall

October 03, 2011 “Information Clearing House” – I fully endorse the efforts and actions of the Occupy Wall Street protests, now emerging internationally, there are concerns which need to be addressed and kept in mind as the movement moves forward.

The process through which a potentially powerful movement may be co-opted and controlled is slight and subtle. If Occupy Wall Street hopes to strive for the 99%, it must not submit to the 1%, in any capacity.

The Occupy movement must prevent what happened to the Tea Party movement to happen to it. Whatever ideological stance you may have, the Tea Party movement started as a grass roots movement, largely a result of anti-Federal Reserve protests. They were quickly co-opted with philanthropic money and political party endorsements.
Please, read more there: Information Clearing House