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OCCUPY (Utilize) THE LAW!
National Lawyers Guild Files Restraining Order To Make Cops Leave Occupy Encampments Alone…
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OCCUPY (Deal with) CONFLICT!
We are not a protest with demands. We are a movement of values that will prevail…
Michael Stone speaks about the essence of the Occupy movement.
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Halliburton charged with selling nuclear technology to Iran
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OCCUPY THE BULLIES!
Officers in pepper spray incident placed on leave.
By JASON DEAREN | AP
Maybe there’s hope for us yet…
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OCCUPY (Adopt and Internalize) THE SPIRIT, THE ESSENCE, AND THE WISDOM OF JOHN F. KENNEDY
John F.Kennedy was a very astute, insightful, and wholistic person… If we don’t listen to him and correct our mistakes, if we don’t obey the call of our higher selves to find equitable solutions to our common problems, who will we listen to?
John F.Kennedy was a very astute, insightful, and wholistic person… If we don’t listen to him and correct our mistakes, if we don’t obey the call of our higher selves to find equitable solutions to our common problems, who will we listen to?
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Interview with a pepper-sprayed UC Davis student
By Xeni Jardin at 1:58 am Sunday, Nov 20
Photo:Brian Nguyen/The Aggie.
22-year-old UC Davis student W. (name withheld by request) was one of the students pepper-sprayed at point-blank range Friday by Lt. John Pike while seated on the ground, arms linked and silent.
W. tells Boing Boing that Pike sprayed them at close range with military-grade pepper spray, in a punitive manner. Pike knew the students by name from Thursday night when they “occupied” a campus plaza. The students offered Pike food and coffee and chatted with him and other officers while setting up tents. On Friday, UC Davis chancellor Linda Katehi told students they had to remove their #OWS tents for unspecified “health and safety” reasons.
“Move or we’re going to shoot you,” Pike is reported to have yelled at one student right before delivering pepper spray. Then, turning to his fellow officers and brandishing the can in the air, “Don’t worry, I’m going to spray these kids down.”
Photo:Brian Nguyen/The Aggie.
XJ: So, we see in the videos and photos that you were one of the students pepper-sprayed by Lieutenant John Pike yesterday. How are you doing today?
W: I still have a burning sensation in my throat, lips and nose, especially when I start coughing, or when I’m lying in bed. Everyone who got sprayed has sustained effects like this.
XJ: Can you tell us how it happened, from where you were sitting?
W: I’d pulled my beanie hat over my eyes, to protect my eyes. I received a lot of pepper spray in my throat. I vomited twice, right away, then spent the next hour or two dry heaving. Someone said they saw him spray down my throat intentionally, but I was so freaked out, and I was blinded by my hat, so I can’t verify. I did get a large quantity of pepper spray in my lungs.
Another girl near me who has asthma had an attack triggered by the pepper spray, and she was taken to the hospital.
Photo:Brian Nguyen/The Aggie.
He used military grade pepper spray on us. It’s supposed to be used at a minimum of 15 feet. But he sprayed us at point blank range. Another student, 20 years old, who was sprayed and then arrested—instead of receiving medical care for the pepper spray exposure, he was made to wait in the back of a police car. His hands were sprayed, and he had intense burning in his hands throughout the evening while he was being held. He asked a police officer what they could do to stop it, and they refused to give any advice.
Photo:Brian Nguyen/The Aggie.
XJ: Take us back to what led up to that moment. Friday’s protest wasn’t an isolated expression, or the beginning of the Occupy Wall Street movement on the university campus, right?
W: We’d been protesting at UC Davis for the last week. On Tuesday there was a rally organized by some faculty members in response to the brutality on the UC Berkeley campus, and in response to the proposed 81% tuition hike.
One of the reasons I am involved with #OWS, and advocating for an occupy movement on the UC campus, is to fight privatization and austerity in the UC system, and fight rising tuition costs. I think that citizens have the right to get an education regardless of economic condition. Most people are not going to get a job where they can afford to pay off student loans. But to exclude people from knowledge is unconscionable.
The #OWS movement is global, but it’s expressed locally in ways that are relevant to each city. People who are in NYC go to Wall Street. Oakland takes the port. At Davis, we have a university.
Photo:Brian Nguyen/The Aggie.
So the Tuesday protest was one of the biggest rallies on the campus since tuition hikes in 2009. That protest ended with a march around the campus, which led us to the administrative building. Sort of spontaneously, we all decided to occupy an area on the grounds and we stayed the night. The administration allowed it. I had a wonderful conversation with Lieutenant Pike that night. I dialogued with him for a while. He was cordial to me. He knew me by name. We offered him coffee and food.
We have a food collective, and we are organizing to feed the occupiers with food we grow at the student farm. It was all really lovely.
On Wednesday there was the big protest in San Francisco, and striking at the UC regents meeting over the proposed 81% tuition increase next year. The regents actually canceled their meeting because they knew we were coming, and they have since decided to do it by teleconference next Monday so we can’t disrupt them.
UC Davis police cleared out the 15 or so protesters who remained in Mrak Hall while the rest of the occupiers had left for the demonstration in San Francisco.
We had another rally on Thursday, with a big General Assembly. We decided to have an occupation against the injustices we were facing, and on Thursday night there were 35 tents set up, with more planning on coming.
Photo:Brian Nguyen/The Aggie.
It was beautiful. We we had food, we sang songs, students were tutoring other students. We were talking about important issues, dialoguing over issues affecting our campus.
Chancellor Katehi agreed to let us waive the “no camping on campus” policy that night, and allowed us to stay there.
That same night, we went to the associated students of UC Davis student government meeting on campus, and we asked them for a resolution for peaceful protest without police intervention. We wrote it, they passed it, and we now had the support of the student body to have this protest, which was great.
The next morning we woke up, made breakfast, and had a lovely morning.
Pretty early on, before noon we got a letter from chancellor Katehi to please remove our tents, citing health and safety reasons, but not saying what those reasons are.
We took the letter, and replied more or less: look, we understand we’re in violation of the camping code. But we believe that this is superseded by our first amendment rights.
Photo:Brian Nguyen/The Aggie.
On Friday, they delivered another letter: at 3pm your tents will be taken down. This letter was not signed, it was just one paragraph in a big ugly font. Not on letterhead.
“We are demanding you remove these tents by 3pm,” it read, “You need to move to another area on the campus so we can remove these tents, and if you do not comply you will be arrested.”
We talked amongst ourselves, and decided that we were going to stay. We spent the next few hours talking about tactics so our tents wouldn’t get stolen. Maybe we’d go to the Occupy City of Davis camp, and just keep migrating so they couldn’t take us down.
And then, at around 330pm Friday, riot police. A lot of them showed up. We saw them and put our tents in the middle of the area. We’d been keeping the paths clear keeping space immaculately clean, feeding everyone who was hungry who came by… we tried to talk to the campus groundskeepers and tell them that we understood they need to do their job. We offered to move our tents so they could water the lawn. We wanted not to disrupt unnecessarily.
Photo:Brian Nguyen/The Aggie.
When the riot police came, we put our tents in a circle. We walked around in a circle, and said nothing hateful towards the police. Maybe one guy chanted, “Fuck the police” a few times, but it died down right away. None of us wanted to chant against the police.
And then the police officers rushed in.
We were chanting so loud we couldn’t hear any order to disperse. And with no warning, moving incredibly violently, they seized a few students.
Photo:Brian Nguyen/The Aggie.
They handcuffed the students so tightly. One kid, later on they were unable to cut off his ties, they’d been tied so tight. One of the other students couldn’t feel his hands they were so purple, his circulation was cut off so badly for so long. He took himself to the hospital after he was released from the zip-tie restraints. They told him he had nerve damage and not to expect to be able to feel his hands for the next week. He has to come back next week to see if there was permanent nerve damage in his wrists.
We came back to the area after that round of arrests. That’s when the recording for most of the video you see on the internet was started.
We yelled, “clear these tents,” we didn’t want them to take our tents. Aside from refusing the order to disperse, the only rule we were breaking was camping on campus. But since we had the first night waived by Chancellor Katehi, we really hadn’t even broken university policy, she waived the code.
Photo:Brian Nguyen/The Aggie.
So, everyone removed the tents, and they were in the process of arresting more people. A collective decision was made on the fly to just sit in a circle arms linked legs crossed, with police officers and “prisoners” in the middle because we didn’t want them arresting only 3 of us. It wasn’t fair that 50 of us were there, and only a few arrested who hadn’t volunteered to be arrested. There was still one walkway open that the police were going to use to walk the arrestees out. I saw some friends of mine sit down there, and they were my friends, so I joined them. We linked arms, legs crossed.
Photo:Brian Nguyen/The Aggie.
We were never warned that we were going to be pepper-sprayed.
Lt. Pike walked up to my friend, and I am told that he said, “Move or we’re going to shoot you.”
Then he went back and talked to a few of his police officer friends. A couple of other officers started to remove people who were sitting there, blocking exit. Pike could have easily removed us, just picked us up and removed us. We were just sitting there, nonviolent civil disobedience.
But Pike turned around and I am told that he said to the other officers, “Don’t worry about it, I’m going to spray these kids down.”
He lifts the can, spins it around in a circle to show it off to everybody.
Then he sprays us three times.
As if one time of being sprayed at point blank wasn’t enough.
I was on the end of the line getting direct spray. When the second pass came, I got up crawling. I crawled away and vomited on a tree. I was yelling. It burned. Within a few minutes I was dry heaving, I couldn’t breathe. Then, over the course of the next hour, I was dry heaving and vomiting.
Photo:Brian Nguyen/The Aggie.
More people were arrested, then. One other person told me he was pepper sprayed while he was on the ground subdued. They tried to go up his shirt, because he’d pulled his shirt over his face to protect himself. So they aimed it up his shirt to spray him, to make sure he got it.
XJ: Chancellor Katehi finally gave a press conference tonight about that incident.
W: I was the first one there. I went right up to her and introduced myself. “I’m an undergrad here. I’m a victim of police brutality,” I told her. “The police sprayed pepper spray down my throat. I do not feel you have done your job protecting me on your campus. I hold you personally responsible for inflicting pain on me.”
Photo:Brian Nguyen/The Aggie.
XJ: What do you want from Katehi, and the UC system?
W: I can’t speak on behalf of the movement, I can only speak on behalf of myself. But I personally request that Chancellor Katehi and Lt. John Pike resign. We have a petition out there already. I request that a mechanism be set up for the impeachment of chancellors, and a system for democratic election of our chancellors. There is no good reason why students and faculty don’t make that decision. Even when a chancellor makes a decision likes this, they feel safe, because they’ve been appointed by the regents, and the goal of the regents is to make more money. They sit on the boards of big institutions like Bank of America, they are the richest of the 1%, and they’re using this institution to fatten their pockets and they’re putting students into debt to do that.
There will be a large rally on Monday at UC Davis, and I invited her to take part in our GA, if she’s willing to speak to us on our terms and operate on consensus method with no power dynamics.
She made a promise right there, on video, to come to our meeting.
I think she has done a terrible misdeed and that she and Pike should resign immediately so we can figure out a better way to run this institution.
Photo:Brian Nguyen/The Aggie.
Photo:Brian Nguyen/The Aggie.
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XENI JARDIN
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STOCK Act boosted by ’60 Minutes’
Updated: November 19, 2011, 11:00 PM
Insider trading and conflict of interest in Congress.
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There is no ‘Other’ in the world we want to create – No 1% – only One.
PLEASE SHARE WIDELY!
“Love is the felt experience of connection to another being. An economist says ‘more for you is less for me.’ But the lover knows that more of you is more for me too. If you love somebody their happiness is your happiness. Their pain is your pain. Your sense of self expands to include other beings. This shift of consciousness is universal in everybody, 99% and 1%.”
CHARLES EISENSTEIN is a teacher, speaker, and writer focusing on themes of civilization, consciousness, money, and human cultural evolution.
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- One World, One Family
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OCCUPY (Expose) FOX NEWS BIAS!
Fox News Calls Would-Be Obama Assassin ‘Occupy Shooter’ A Day After Authorities Found ‘No Connection’ To Protests by Care2 Causes Editors November 19, 2011.
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Will This Photo Be the Face of the Occupy Movement?
Read more: http://www.care2.com/causes/will-this-photo-be-the-face-of-the-occupy-movement.html#ixzz1eGI79nEM
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Minister Farrakhan Blasts Media During Radio Interview Commercial!
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OCCUPY (Strive for) DEMANDS!
(1)Transparency of Congress campaign donors (2)abolish 501c4 secrecy (3)repeal Corporate Personhood
What we are proposing is a three step agenda to demand by national referendum to repeal three major contributors to the U.S. financial disaster: (1) Total Transparency of Congress campaign donor sources, (2) abolish the 501c4 tax code for campaign donation secrecy, and (3) repeal Corporate Personhood.
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GET MONEY OUT OF POLITICS!
http://unitedrepublic.org/?mid=5311010
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Shock OWS video: Cops pepper spray peaceful California students
Police in the U.S. have used pepper spray against peaceful students taking part in an ‘Occupy’ campaign in front of the University of California. Demonstrators had been ordered to remove their camp, but after refusing, officers showed up and and tore their tents down, using force against unarmed people. 10 protesters have been arrested.
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Don SoekenDr. Donald Soeken is a social worker with 40 years of professional experience in the multidisciplinary areas of practice, research, and teachingProtesters At Occupy Wall Street Are Blowing Whistle on Decades of Corporate Greed and Corruption in U.S.
“Stop the Greed and Start Meeting Human Needs!”
By Don Soeken
Written by Donald R. Soeken and Tom Nugent
New York City – If you want to understand how thousands of ordinary Americans have recently been transformed into corporate “whistleblowers,” just spend a few days hanging out with the demonstrators who’ve gathered here for the social protest known as “Occupy Wall Street”.
The dramatic signs of their spontaneous whistle-blowing are everywhere. PEOPLE ARE WHAT MATTER – NOT PROFITS!
WE ARE THE 99 PERCENT!
STOP CORPORATE GREED AND START RESPECTING HUMAN NEEDS! As you wander among the pounding drummers and the leaping dancers at Lower Manhattan’s now-famous Zuccotti Park, it’s easy to see how an astonishing new “social awakening” is beginning to transform the American landscape.
Like the “Arab Spring” of 2011, in which one Middle Eastern dictatorship after another (think Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and maybe Syria) sank beneath the waves of surging popular dissent, the “American Fall” of rapidly accelerating social awareness now promises to make whistleblowers out of ordinary citizens from Maine to California . . . with earthquake-like consequences that cannot as yet be predicted.
Something new is happening in American, and it’s happening right now.
“Something’s coming, mister,” says Paul Armstrong, a 48-year-old, Los Angeles-based ironworker in a hard hat, as he waves his sign (“I am a union ironworker, I vote, I work, I pay taxes, I’m pissed, so I’m here!” at the swarming TV cameras. “The working people of this country aren’t stupid. They see how things have been going lately, and they’re starting to wake up. They see the widespread unemployment, and they see how people are being forced below the poverty line every single day.
“They’re demanding jobs and decent wages, that’s certainly true. But they’re also demanding respect. They’re letting everybody know that the old days of being ‘talked down to’ by bosses at the top of some distant pecking order are over. Those days are gone for good!
“What we’re now seeing here in New York is the same spirit that was at work in Cairo during the Arab Spring. We’re seeing an outcry from workers who want to be treated with dignity, and who want to be able to make decent wages on the job. If you talk with the working people at this Occupation, you soon start to realize: there’s a big change moving on the wind. I speak only for myself here – not for the ironworkers’ union or anybody else – but I sincerely believe that we have to change the way working people are being treated in this country, and soon.”
Still Looking – And Hoping – For Justice
Like the heavily tattooed Paul Armstrong, thousands of American working people are now speaking up in an act of collective whistle-blowing that continues to make headlines daily. Speaking out against a backdrop of thunderous drums and in a setting where nearby skyscrapers often shut out the sun, they spend their days reiterating a few startling facts about the America of 2011.
Fact: More than 17 percent of the adult population of the United States is now unemployed, if you include those who have stopped looking for work and those who are working part-time out of necessity and not making enough to feed their families.
Fact: More than 49 million Americans are now living beneath the federal poverty line . . . which means their families are living on less than $23,000 a year . . . while in many cases struggling with inadequate housing, medical care and nutrition.
Fact: More than 46 million Americans are now living on food stamps – without which they would literally be walking the streets all day long in search of food. (Yes, that’s right: nearly one-sixth of the entire U.S. population in 2011 is now unable to feed itself and surviving courtesy of federal government handouts.)
Fact: While more and more individual people are sinking into abject poverty in this country, most of the nation’s major corporations and most of its major banks are continuing to make handsome profits. One number says it all: Less than one percent of the American public now controls nearly half of its total wealth . . . and the stories of corporate executives making $10 million and $20 million and even $50 million bonuses (while their companies are laying off thousands of workers each month) long ago became strictly routine.
As the nation sinks into the grind of relentless poverty, however, more and more economic whistleblowers are stepping forward to insist that this degrading state of affairs cannot long continue.
Take John Bird, a Blackfoot Indian who drove to the Big Apple all the way from Tucson, Arizona. Why? It’s actually quite simple, he says: “I never gave up my hope for justice!”
He’s sitting on a plastic crate, three feet from a hand-lettered sign:
Sure, You Can Trust the Government – Just Ask an Indian
“Indian people have never given up hope that some day there will be justice,” says John Bird. “Our elders teach us that, so we carry it on. Some days, it all seems pretty hopeless. But this” – and he waves at the huge throng of protesters in Zuccotti Park, located in the heart of Manhattan’s Financial District – “this is hope. And what we’re hoping for is not only economic justice, but also environmental justice.”
The reporter leans in closer, with his tape recorder at the ready.
It’s eight o’clock on a recent Friday morning at the nation’s longest-running “Occupation” protest. Since last September 17th, about 300 people per day (on average) have been living here, crammed into a tiny urban green space surrounded by high-rise office buildings and by long blue ranks of silent, expressionless police.
The Occupation encampment houses ironworkers, teachers, truck drivers, college students, clergy members, military veterans, job counselors, environmental activists, psychologists, homeless grandmothers in wheelchairs and a few Native Americans who say they traveled to New York in order to call attention to the various ways in which the current “recession” is making life hard for Indians in American cities and on reservations.
Question for Mr. Bird: Can we really hope to bridge the gulf between Indian society and the rest of America, in 2011? Isn’t it too late for that now?
His answer: “I think we’re going to have to bridge it, and soon – if we’re gonna survive. I’m very hopeful . . . but I also think it’s our last opportunity, and we better not squander it!”
Editor’s Note: Donald R. Soeken LCSW-C, Ph.D., a social worker in Washington, D.C., frequently counsels whistleblowers. Journalist Tom Nugent, the author of a book about coal mining in Appalachia (Death at Buffalo Creek, W.W. Norton) often writes about U.S. labor issues.
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Occupy Wall Street 99% Spotlight Signal #N17 #OWS #OccupyEverything:
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Banks, Corporations, Insurers, Wall Street, and the FED
Move to dismiss foreclosure!
http://www.scribd.com/doc/72722629/Us-Bank-Opinion
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TELL SECRETARY GEITHNER: NO SPECIAL FAVORS FOR TAX DODGERS!
Last year, American taxpayers paid an extra $100 billion to cover losses from corporations’ offshore tax havens. Now, corporate lobbyists are pushing to bring profits back home while paying hardly any taxes. And many are looking to Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner to make the deal…
https://secure3.convio.net/engage/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=3503&mid=52
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Dodd-Frank’s Derivatives Reforms (might not work):
http://www.propublica.org/thetrade/item/dodd-franks-derivatives-reforms-clear-as-mud
Mortgage finance giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac received the biggest federal bailout of the financial crisis. And nearly $100 million of those tax dollars went to lucrative pay packages for top executives, filings show. The top five executives at Fannie Mae received $33.3 million in 2009 and 2010, while the top five at Freddie Mac received $28.1 million. And each company has set pay targets of as much as $17 million for its top managers for 2011. That’s a total of $95.4 million, which will essentially be coming from taxpayers, who have been keeping the mortgage finance giants alive with regular quarterly cash infusions since the Federal Home Finance Agency (FHFA) took control of the companies in September 2008.
OCCUPY (Straighten Out) FANNIE MAE & FREDDIE MAC!
Fannie, Freddie executives score $100M payday post bailout!
The top five executives at Fannie Mae received $33.3 million in 2009 and 2010, while the top five at Freddie Mac received $28.1 million. And each company has set pay targets of as much as $17 million for its top managers for 2011.
- Laura Mirian
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/fannie-freddie-executives-score-100m-105300790.html?mid=52
A Judge Finally Stands up to Wall Street…
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/finally-a-judge-stands-up-to-wall-street-20111110?mid=526
OCCUPY GOLDMAN SACHS!
Nov 3, 2011, Chris Hedges – Goldman Sachs on trial.
OCCUPY (Audit or End) THE FED!
Support H.R. 2990 – The National Emergency Employment Defense Act of 2011.
OCCUPY BANK OF AMERICA & THE FED!
Bank of America’s Death Rattle. Reinstitute Glass-Steagall!
OCCUPY (Switch) YOUR BANK TO A CREDIT UNION!
Dump your Bank Day!
Begins Nov. 4th, 2011
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Customers are dumping their greedy banks in droves ahead of the nationwide “Move Your Money” and “Bank Transfer Day” movements this Saturday. At least 650,000 consumers have already joined credit unions since Sept. 29, the day Bank of America (BAC, Fortune 500) announced plans to impose its controversial $5 debit card fee, according to a nationwide survey of credit unions by the Credit Union National.
OCCUPY (Switch to) THE CREDIT UNONS!
Large-scale switching to Credit Unions in Colorado…
OCCUPY (Favor) YOUR NON-PROFIT CREDIT UNION!
Thousands switching to credit unions…
OCCUPY ACTION: (Hold accountable) BANK EXECUTIVES AND CEOS
Protesters surrounded the Sheraton hotel In Seattle Nov. 3, 2011, there was one main target — the citizen arrest of JPMorgan CEO - Jamie Dimon.
Read more here.
Congress
OCCUPY YOUR REPRESENTATIVE’S SUGAR DADDY!
On Wednesday, November 9th, let’s jam the switchboard of our Congress. Let’s call our representatives and ask them, “Who’s your daddy?“
OCCUPY (Reform) CONGRESS!
Sen. Jim Webb (D-Va.) lambasted his congressional colleagues Friday, calling the rhetoric and gridlock coming out of Washington “toxic.”:
Sen. Webb: Congress is Toxic
Courts
OCCUPY (Reform) THE COURTS!
Jesse Ventura is mad as hell. – May run for president.
Expression of Occupy Philosophy
OCCUPY (Listen to) CHRIS HEDGES!
Nov. 7. 2011. Chris Hedges is quickly becoming the voice of the Occupy Movement…
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/finding_freedom_in_handcuffs_20111107/?mid=5225
You Might Be A Fascist If…
Are you a fascist? Many people are fascists and they don’t even realize it. And sometimes, they know it all too well, but hide and deny it. Most of the time though, it’s obvious who the fascists are. For instance, you might be a fascist if…
1. You are obsessed with national power and pride and believe your country doesn’t have to follow the rules and shouldn’t ever apologize for doing things that are wrong. You think your nation can do whatever it wants.
2. You believe in the rule of the few, election rigging, political decisions being made by a select group of officials behind closed doors, embrace the informal and unregulated exercise of political power, arbitrary deprivation of civil liberties, and little tolerance for meaningful opposition.
3. You believe in survival of the fittest, an every man for himself mentality that causes you to believe that poor people and sick people are weak and must be punished. You think rich people are strong because they are wealthy and that they should rule us. You also believe your race is superior to all others.
4. You use the media as a political propaganda machine to target a specific audience and to push your agenda on others. You make sure the media demonizes your opponents and takes your side on nearly every issue. You use your propaganda machine to play on the fears of others.
5. You are obsessed with security, and war. You feed this obsession by spending trillions of dollars building up a large military force and are willing to sacrifice domestic programs your people count on to keep your military huge. You start unnecessary and costly wars and you are paranoid of other nations.
6. You are driven to indoctrinate others into your way of thinking. So much so, that you try to re-write history, change the way school children are taught and you brainwash the ignorant. You use your propaganda machine as a tool to achieve this.
7. You fear and demonize intelligent people who have a higher education because they are the ones who can thwart your effort to brainwash people. You then attempt to prevent others from achieving a higher education because you want the people as ignorant as possible so you can convince them that your way is the right way.
8. You have a deep hatred and fear of communists and you instill your followers with hatred and fear of others by accusing your political opponents of being communists. This gives you an easy scapegoat to blame when things go wrong. Any person or policy you don’t like is branded as communism.
9. You disrespect women and think their place is in the home. You believe women are weak and cannot do things that men do. You believe that sexual harassment or assault is no big deal and that the only thing women are good for is cooking meals and having babies.
10. You strongly align yourself with corporations and you support corporate money and influence in government. You despise government regulations that keep corporations honest because you believe everything should be controlled by the free market and that corporations should be allowed to do whatever they please.
11. You are obsessed with Christianity. You seek to declare a Christian State and to impose religious laws on all the people across the country and the world. You believe other religions are inferior and that those who practice them should either be converted or destroyed.
12. You believe your race is superior and seek to disenfranchise or humiliate other races. You believe in legalized discrimination and fantasize about a return to times when the races were separate or when those of color were enslaved. You use code words in an attempt to hide your racism and you make laws that weaken the influence of those of color. Immigration and voting laws in particular.
13. You absolutely despise unions. To you and those like you, labor unions represent the empowerment of workers. Since you believe corporations can do whatever they want, you see organized labor as a threat because they fight for higher wages, health care, safety regulations, less hours, vacations, sick days, and holidays off. This obviously threatens the amount of money corporations can give to you and your cause so you brand unions as proponents of socialism and make laws that severely weaken them so that corporations can have a cheap, mindless labor force.
14. You are obsessed with crime and a major supporter of punishing those who commit crimes. So much so, that you don’t care about the concept of ‘innocent until proven guilty.’ You are proud of executing people and aren’t bothered if an innocent person is killed. You seek to make harsher laws, especially laws that target specific groups of people such as immigrants, women, and people of color. You also oppose Miranda rights and using humane interrogation tactics and you seek to undermine the independent judiciary.
15. You believe every election should go your way and to reach that goal, you push voting laws that disenfranchise those who traditionally vote for opponents such as people of color, the elderly, college students, and the poor. You even stoop to fixing elections in some cases and complain when your opponents challenge the vote counts.
16. You believe in rewarding your friends with positions when you gain power and you reward those who support you with government contracts and money, especially corporations. You also do your best to aid your supporters in any way you can, such as repealing undesirable pieces of legislation and regulations. You often have something to gain financially from this.
17. You create scapegoats to blame when problems arise. Whether it’s communists, liberals, minorities, homosexuals, the poor, or non-Christians, one thing is for certain. You and your propaganda tool will blame each and every one of those groups for bad things that happen even if you were the cause of the problems in the first place.
18. You take advantage of a national disaster such as an economic collapse or an attack to demonize your opponents and push your agenda. You use these events to strike fear into the population in an attempt to scare people into voting for you and your cause. It’s all about fear and scare tactics.
Sound like anybody we know?
Inspiration
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMHA4c6h-YI&feature=fvsr
Politics
OCCUPY (Shame on) GOV. SCOTT WALKER!
Protest against Gov. Scott Walker…
OCCUPY (Love) YOUR ENEMY!
Occupy Nashville – GOP confrontation turns into a love fest!
OCCUPY (Transform) THE WORLD!
Occupy Wall Street with Danny Glover…
Protests
Occupy Buffalo Heads to Albany
By Jaclyn Asztalos
November 17, 2011Updated Nov 17, 2011 at 12:21 PM ESTBuffalo, N.Y. (WKBW) – The Occupy Buffalo sight in Niagara Square was a bit quieter than it has been in the passed few months as protesters take to the road.
“Taking 100 to Albany to coordinate with other state Occupys. We’ll be having lunch and sharing ideas, as well as bringing our petitions to continue the Millionaire’s Tax,” protester John Washington said.
The group collected signatures of those supporting extension of the tax, locally and across New York. Now, they hope the Legislators will listen.
“We have to at least make our voice heard any way we can, I guess,” Curt Rotterdam said.
Protester Mocha Garcia said it’s about uniting forces.
“Talk about how we should get everybody as one, get people jobs, stop downsizing libraries, taking away education,” Garcia said.
This trip all comes after a few rough and violent days at occupy protests in New York City and across the country. Here in Buffalo, protesters said it’s a different story.
“In Buffalo, things are going great. In other cities, no so much,” Rotterdan said.
Washington said Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown and the police force have been nothing but supportive.
“Mayor Brown has been cooperative and the police have been supportive. Now we feel it is our duty because we don’t have the pressure to continue to push forward because we don’t have to rebuild every night like other cities,” Washington said.
Although the protests are peaceful in the Queen City, Mother Nature may not be as kind. Demonstrators said they are ready for the cold and snow even in the wind tunnel called Niagara Square.
“We’re weatherizing right now with the tarps. We hope to get a generator and dome,” Garcia said.
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Police arrest Occupy protesters on Steel Bridge
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The Occupy protesters are taking action in concert with other protests around the nation and world as part of a “day of action” known as “#N17″ , Internet shorthand for November 17th. That day is the two-month mark of the start of the Occupy Wall Street protests in New York City.
Officers told protesters in Portland via loudspeakers to vacate the Steel Bridge and began arresting protesters sitting down on the bridge. Once all the sitting protesters were arrested, the group began to move off the bridge.
Many protesters moved across the lower deck of the bridge to Waterfront Park.
Police worked to reopen the bridge to all vehicle traffic shortly after the protesters left the span.
KATU News reporter Lincoln Graves said local union members joined protesters before they moved onto the bridge. KATU’s Dan Tilkin reported some protesters sat down on the bridge and were willing to be arrested in acts of civil disobedience.
“I need health care, I need to keep my family home, I need to keep my family healthy,” said protester Sandra Thomason, who is a member of the local Service Employees International Union. “Occupy means stand until everything is done.”
Tilkin also reported that the crowd on the bridge was made up of more older people than was seen at the Occupy Portland protests at two downtown Portland parks. He saw around a dozen people being arrested.
Some praised the peaceful arrests.
“We’re learning how to do this better,” said Mac McKinlay, a retired landscaper and teacher.
A protest representative said the group was committed to non-violent protest actions. They say they are demonstrating against banks’ improper use of bailout funds, the influence of financial institutions on government and the low tax rate paid by the most wealthy, which they refer to as “the 1 percent.”
Sgt. Pete Simpson with the Portland Police Bureau said the protesters were “orderly” and officers were arrested some individuals then removed them from the area. The protesters were set to be cited and released unless there was another crime involved, Sgt. Simpson said.
Simpson said officers had to repeat many warnings to protesters asking them to clear the bridge. He said at times it was “like dealing with difficult children.”
Police said Wednesday they may use “chemical agents” such as pepper spray to disperse the crowd if need be.
The bridge remained closed to auto, bike and pedestrian traffic during the standoff but mass transit trains and buses for the most part got through. A TriMet official said some eastbound MAX trains were delayed for a short time.
Banks in Portland were on edge after Occupy protesters took over a Bank of America in San Francisco Wednesday and Occupy Portland said it plans to shut banks down here Thursday.
Protesters said they plan to march into banks and try to stop business. They claimed similar disruptions will happen in cities across the country in honor of the Occupy Wall Street’s two-month anniversary.
Portland protesters vowed not to be violent or destructive but banks are on high alert for whatever happens during “#N17” – the name Occupy protesters coined for the bank protests on Thursday.
One Portland bank had windows broken earlier this week but no arrests have been made in that incident and police did not say if they think the incident was related to the Occupy protesters.
“We want banks out of our democracy, and we are going to get the attention of the public to make that happen,” said Kari Koch, who is part of the group organizing the protest.
The plan was for peaceful civil disobedience like the sit-in in the Bay Area.
“It’s not just about shutting down the banks on this particular day,” said Koch. “It’s about getting out the message of why we want the banks shut down.”
“We need to bring the message that these financial institutions are corrupting our political system and damaging our communities,” said Occupy Portland protest David Osborn.
“There are a lot of complaints about big banks but if you think about this company, we started out with two employees, with Mr. Wells and Mr. Fargo in 1852, and we had no customers,” said Tom Unger with Wells Fargo. “The reason we became a big bank is people chose to do business with us.”
Unger said banks around Oregon are prepared with extra security so their staff and customers will feel safe.
“This group of protesters is very unpredictable, so you want to prepare for any contingency,” he said.
Occupy Portland voted as a group not to engage in any property destruction or violence. Its target is the big banks, not the local ones.
Police urge people to avoid the area around the Steel Bridge and Waterfront Park Thursday morning. The first march starts at 8 a.m.
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Occupy protesters arrested in NYC finance district
By KAREN MATTHEWS | AP – Thu, Nov 17, 2011
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PLEASE SHARE WIDELY – WHO ELECTS MAYORS? THE 1% OR THE 99%?
These mayors have a decision to make about who they will stand with: The 1% or the 99%.
Occupy Mayors: Where do They Stand?
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Day of Action: Nov. 17, 2011 in solidarity with the Occupy movement
http://www.coffeepartyusa.com/occupy-nov-17?mid=52
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OCCUPY (Stop) THE BULLIES!
Nobody likes a bully…
OWS 11/15/11:
Seattle Police officers deploy pepper spray into a crowd during an Occupy Seattle protest on Tuesday…
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OCCUPY GLOBAL DISOBEDIENCE AND OCCUPATION on November 26
GLOBAL DISOBEDIENCE, All Around The World!
OCCUPY (Observe) WORLD FREEDOM DAY!
Nov. 11, 2011 is World Freedom Day…
As a sovereign citizen of Planet Earth, we declare Nov. 11, 2011 to be World Freedom Day. On 11-11-11, we invite all the people of the world to reclaim whatever freedom and power have been lost to them in all aspects of our common life – politics, economics, education, religion, relationships, medicine, and all other areas. As a non-violent act of conscious resolve, we ask everyone on Earth to stop whatever they’re doing at 11:11 (local time) on 11-11-11 and spend one minute in silence, not working (unless in emergency services), not consuming, and not distracting ourselves. - Steve Beckow
OCCUPY (Assert our 1st amendment rights) ON WALL STREET – MORE ARRESTS!
Nov. 5th, 2011. More arrests… No freedom of speech or freedom of assembly on the sidewalk. The New York Police trampled on the rights of the 99%. They shut down the sidewalk in front of the federal court house, because hundreds decided to peacefully voice their displeasure with our government. How much longer can this country hold together when the most vital rights guaranteed by the constitution are denied daily? The 99% will not accept our inalienable rights being taken away by a government bought by the 1%. We will continue to occupy this nation until we can remove the corporate control of our government.
Reforms Needed and Inequities Found
OCCUPY (Secure) SOCIAL SECURITY
‘Scrap the Cap’ on higher income payroll taxes to save Social Security & lower the deficit…
OCCUPY (Lobbyists) WITH PROPER OVERSIGHT AND REGULATION
After watching this, does anyone NOT think that we need proper oversight and regulation?
OCCUPY (Defeat) AVARICE AT GOLDMAN & SACHS
There’s no sign except “200 West Street.” They don’t want us to know their average employee makes $422,000 a year. I bet that’s more than you make. A nobrainer. This morning NPR announced that it’s official: the stock market is now at its most profitable period in the past ten years. Great for Wall Street. Meanwhile Main Street languishes from a lack of jobs and capital. Our elected officials in Congress bailed out the very people who caused this GREAT Recession, and left us with the bill. They obviously value profits over people, finance over families. Only We the People can end this nightmare. THIS is Why We OCCUPY. Share this far and wide. You can walk around this building, but you won’t find even one sign designating its tenant, Goldman Sachs, whose sacks of gold consist of the sweat equity of working class Americans and their taxes used to bail out the Wall Street investment banksters. There’s no sign except “200 West Street.” They don’t want us to know their average employee makes $422,000 a year. This morning NPR announced that it’s official: the stock market is now at its most profitable period in the past ten years. Great for Wall Street. Meanwhile Main Street languishes from a lack of jobs and capital. Our elected officials in Congress bailed out the very people who caused this GREAT Recession, and left us with the bill. They obviously value profits over people, finance over families. Only We the People can end this nightmare. THIS is Why We OCCUPY.
- Jere Douglas
Spirituality, Ethics, Morality and Oneness
Don’t look to someone else to do all the work. Pitch in and participate, lend your time and effort and opinion. Altogether, we are responsible for each other and for the Earth… We ARE the world… BE the change you want to see in the world.
OCCUPY WALL STREET’S MORAL GROUND!
Much of the Occupy movement’s power comes from a simple moral message: It’s wrong to wreck the world. It’s wrong to wreck the health and hopes of others, and it’s wrong to wreck America. Occupy the moral high ground!
OCCUPY (Embrace) THE FAMILY OF MAN!
Sign the Declaration Of Peace And Oath Of the Family of Man…
http://www.change.org/petitions/declaration-of-peace-and-oath-of-family-of-man-peace-event-2012-document-for-all-governments-leaders?mid=52
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OCCUPY (Create) A WORLD WITHOUT WAR OR VIOLENCE!
Millions of people, in hundreds of cities around the world are coming together to say no to a violent and brutal system…
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Occupy Theme Songs
OCCUPY (Sing) THE THEME SONG
Good Occupy Theme song?
OCCUPY (Unite) TOGETHER AS ONE!
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Don’t think he’s married, has children, a pet.
But knows every pizza in his neighborhood!!
If you will not even hold them to the same standard you demand of everyone else, you want the system to fail.
You allow them to heap abuse on those you feel are less than you, and then click your tongue as those people reach their breaking point and lash out. You then go on and on about those stupid people not listening to the police, and using it to justify treating them like crap.There are so many steps for them to make sure the officers rights are protected, do you really need to review the video and photos more than once?
This is someone on a power trip, who was hoping to get the crowd to be violent so they would be justified in their tactics.
He needs to be suspended, and then arrested.One wonders how the raid on Liberty Park would have changed had the OWS protesters taken this page from the playbook, to stand up and refuse to sink to the level they want to show the Fox News cameras.
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The talking heads do the thinking for far to many people in this country.
The talking head tells them that the OWS people are kids just bored and not wanting to work, that they want the government to take money from you poor average people and give it to them.
The talking head tells them that the OWS are pooping on the street and making everyones life more difficult.
The talking head tells them that OWS is a joke that needs to be stopped or babies will get aborted!
The talking head tells them it is perfectly ok to take away the rights of these people, because you good people who listen will still be allowed those rights (as long as you don’t ever try to use them.)If you think this is bad, you should have seen the coverage of the BART protest, where people were angry and wanted the protesters jailed.
Because free speech is a good thing, until it slows down my commute… then its a freaking crime and we need jack booted thuggery.
As long as they can keep us focused on whats good for a single person above what is good for all people, the more people who will believe the lie that anyone different, who does not accept the lies, who exercises the rights we are supposed to have is just a trouble maker who should be stopped.Freedom is not always clean, neat, orderly.
thousand dollars ($1,000), or by both the fine and imprisonment, except that, if the use is against a peace officer, as defined in Chapter 4.5 (commencing with Section 830) of Title 3 of Part 2, engaged in the performance of his or her official duties and the person committing the offense knows or reasonably should know that the victim is a peace officer, the offense is punishable by imprisonment in a state prison for 16 months or two or three years or by a fine of one thousand dollars ($1,000), or by both the fine and imprisonment.
If you wish to live in a nation where they do, I suggest you move to Iran or China.
My ancestors spilled their blood to ensure the rule of law in this one.
They were warned they would be shot, according to one witness; but sprayed, shot, they would have deserved it so long as they were warned, do you think?
Indeed. I’m guessing that irony isn’t your strong suit, am I right?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…Only 10 days after the Kent State killings, and hardly remembered now. Perhaps because the victims were black.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J…
But do you think that shooting non-violent student protestors would be an excessive use of force by the police? You leave that rather up in the air.
In any case, the courts appear to have ruled that using pepper spray on non-violent protestors is contrary to the 4th Amendment, so it’s pretty clear that the law on what constitutes excessive force contradicts what you seem to be trying to say. Perhaps it depends on how much weight you put on the law.
This is called The “Nuremberg Defense”.While I agree disagree that we are living in Nazi Germany (history doesn’t quite repeat itself that cleanly), I’d say the actions of our police forces around the nation really do seem like the actions of thugs, jackbooted or not.If what you were looking for is another example of an entire nation falling to the will of a corrupt group, I’d urge you to look at the history of almost any nation. You probably won’t find overt thuggery that often anymore if you’re middle-class. Surveillance technology has evolved, and it’s rather hard to forcibly convince someone to change their cultural ideology. Besides, it’s very easy to convince them they are doing a ‘good moral thing’ when they supporting the atrocities of the state, especially when the enemy is some nebulous ‘terrorist, who is brown today, white tomorrow, and black always.So: No, this is nothing like Nazi Germany, but only because they’ve become more efficient and covert in regards to repression. I’d say they’ve probably learned from the mistakes of the regime more than the populace has.
There is no rational whatsoever to justify this kind of excessive behavior on the part of the police. It’s happening way too often in too many cities. The cops ARE escalating the violence and I truly believe that’s what they want to do.- This way they can blame the protestors.
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I’ve read all your comments on this thread, and I can’t for the life of me figure out why you are such an naive apologist. Let’s all feel sorry for the “Embarrassed Policeman”? Are you from Lego Town where everything is simplified, black & white, and sugar coated?These police chose this profession. Is the stress too much? They’ve had the choice to get out of it at any time. And, “We can be safe knowing that the people who are in a position to judge these men will do so and will do so fairly.” Hahaha. Any of these cops or the many others beating the shit out of Occupy protestors seen even a reprimand yet? It’s like you get your knowledge from a middle school government textbook that presents everything in a idealist, ‘cops are your pals’, ‘this is how it should be’ way rather than, ‘this is how it is’ way. You know, the way it actually is – real life.
of the greatest speeches in history. Here’s Charlie Chaplin’s moving
oration from The Great Dictator set to contemporary imagery.I’m sorry but I don’t want to be an Emperor – that’s not
my business – I don’t want to rule or conquer anyone. I should like to
help everyone if possible, Jew, gentile, black man, white. We all want
to help one another, human beings are like that.We all want to live by each other’s happiness, not by each other’s
misery. We don’t want to hate and despise one another. In this world
there is room for everyone and the earth is rich and can provide for
everyone.The way of life can be free and beautiful. But we have lost the way.Greed has poisoned men’s souls – has barricaded the world with hate; has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed.We have developed speed but we have shut ourselves in: machinery that
gives abundance has left us in want. Our knowledge has made us cynical,
our cleverness hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little:
More than machinery we need humanity; More than cleverness we need
kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent
and all will be lost.The aeroplane and the radio have brought us closer together. The very
nature of these inventions cries out for the goodness in men, cries out
for universal brotherhood for the unity of us all. Even now my voice is
reaching millions throughout the world, millions of despairing men,
women and little children, victims of a system that makes men torture
and imprison innocent people. To those who can hear me I say “Do not
despair”.The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed, the
bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress: the hate of men
will pass and dictators die and the power they took from the people,
will return to the people and so long as men die [now] liberty will
never perish…Soldiers – don’t give yourselves to brutes, men who despise you and
enslave you – who regiment your lives, tell you what to do, what to
think and what to feel, who drill you, diet you, treat you as cattle, as
cannon fodder.Don’t give yourselves to these unnatural men, machine men, with
machine minds and machine hearts. You are not machines. You are not
cattle. You are men. You have the love of humanity in your hearts. You
don’t hate – only the unloved hate. Only the unloved and the unnatural.
Soldiers – don’t fight for slavery, fight for liberty.In the seventeenth chapter of Saint Luke it is written ” the kingdom
of God is within man ” – not one man, nor a group of men – but in all
men – in you, the people.You the people have the power, the power to create machines, the
power to create happiness. You the people have the power to make life
free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure. Then in the
name of democracy let’s use that power – let us all unite. Let us fight
for a new world, a decent world that will give men a chance to work,
that will give you the future and old age and security. By the promise
of these things, brutes have risen to power, but they lie. They do not
fulfill their promise, they never will. Dictators free themselves but
they enslave the people. Now let us fight to fulfil that promise. Let us
fight to free the world, to do away with national barriers, do away
with greed, with hate and intolerance. Let us fight for a world of
reason, a world where science and progress will lead to all men’s
happiness
“When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will finally know peace. Jimi Hendrix”
http://news.yahoo.com/officers…
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A California university placed two of its police officers on administrative leave Sunday because of their involvement in the pepper spraying of passively sitting protesters, while the school’s chancellor accelerated a task force’s investigation into the incident amid calls for her resignation.
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On Saturday, the UC Davis faculty association called for Katehi’s resignation, saying in a letter there had been a “gross failure of leadership.” Katehi has resisted calls for her to quit.”I am deeply saddened that this happened on our campus, and as chancellor, I take full responsibility for the incident,” Katehi said Sunday. “However, I pledge to take the actions needed to ensure that this does not happen again. I feel very sorry for the harm our students were subjected to and I vow to work tirelessly to make the campus a more welcoming and safe place.”
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