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Russian Court Orders Removal of ‘Occupy’ Protest


As an international movement, Occupy meets different challenges in different countries. One problem they all face, however, is a political and legal system that’s none too happy about people making themselves heard and refusing to be ignored.

The protests in Russia, sometimes known as Occupy Abai (named after the statue of Kazakh poet at the center of their camp), are in their second week against inequality and political corruption, especially the disputed “re-election” of Vladimir Putin.

The Wall Street Journal reports:
MOSCOW—A Russian district court ordered the removal of an opposition protest encampment from a park in downtown Moscow, signaling an apparent end for the capital’s first Occupy-style protest. Ilya Yashin, one of the opposition leaders, told the demonstrators that Tuesday’s court order mandates they vacate the park by noon Wednesday, according to a copy he said he was shown by police.

Demonstrators voted later to hold out until police move in to break up the encampment, then relocate to a different part of the city. The camp at a park in the Chistiye Prudy area of central Moscow sprouted spontaneously in the wake of protests last week against Vladimir Putin’s inauguration for a third presidential term.
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Following the ruling, a group of about 100 activists gathered around the Karl Marx statue just a short distance from Moscow’s Red Square. Mr. Yashin, the activist who has been one of the leaders of the Chistiye Prudy protest, denounced the court order and called on Moscow’s mayor to defy it.

Mr. Yashin lashed out at state-controlled media broadcasts saying the movement had sullied the city parks and disturbed neighbors. “All this nonsense you see on state television doesn’t correspond with reality,” he said. “If anything we have left the parks cleaner than they were before.”
Videos of the protests and the crowds (in Russian): Один, Два, Три, Четыре

A quote from the last video, at 1:24, made by the organizer Boris Akunin:
“What is the purpose of this walk? We need to teach people in power to treat us with respect and in peace, not with batons and violence. If they learn, our job is done. If not, we will explain to them further…”

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CANG8 March & Mass Rally Against the NATO/G8 Summits
Posted 3 days ago on May 20, 2012, 7:32 a.m. EST by OccupyWallSt

CANG8 March & Mass rally against the NATO/G8 summits
Time: 10 a.m. - 3 p.m. CDT
Location: Petrillo Band Shell, Grant Park, downtown Chicago. Followed by protest march to McCormick Convention Center, sight of NATO summit

This is the official permitted protest rally against the NATO summit organized by the Coalition Against NATO/G8 War and Poverty Agenda (CANG8). CANG8 is a broad international coalition of organizations formed in August 2011 to organize protests against the NATO summit taking place in Chicago May 20-21, 2012.

For a more detailed schedule and list of events today, see NATOprotest.org.

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The march is led by Afghanistan and Iraq Veteran Against the War

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No Elections Under Military Rule: Solidarity With The Egyptian Revolution

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Egyptians occupy Tahir Square on June 2, 2012 to demand a new revolution in the wake of the Mubarak trials
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According to election officials, most voters themselves (75%) have chosen neither Shafiq nor Morsi in the first round of elections. We refuse to recognize the choice of “lesser of two evils” when these evils masquerade in equal measure for the same regime. We believe there is another choice. And in times where perceived common sense is as far from the truth as can be, we find the need to speak out once again.

We perceive the affair of presidential elections in Egypt as an attempt by the as yet prevailing military junta and its counter-revolutionary forces to garner international legitimacy to cement the existing regime and deliver more lethal blows to the Egyptian revolution. We ask you to join us in resisting the logic of this process that seeks to further entrench the counter-revolution.

Our struggle does not exist in isolation from yours.

What is revolution, but the immediate and uncompromising rejection of the status quo: of militarized power, exploitation, class stratification, and relentless police violence — just to name a few of the most basic and cancerous features of society in the present moment. These structural realities are not unique to Egypt or the Egyptian revolution. In both the South and the North communities resist what we are meant to accept without questioning, rising up against the narrow realist perspective that tells us that democracy is merely choosing the lesser of ‘two evils’, and that the election of either represents a choice in government rather than what it is: an affirmation of the only government that exists — that of unbridled, repressive and dehumanizing capitalist relations. We stand in solidarity with the masses of precarious and endangered people who have chosen to defend their being from an aggressive global system that is in crisis; indeed, a sputtering system that, in its twilight hours, reaches for unprecedented levels of surveillance, militarization and violence to quell our insurrections.
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June 3-9, Germany: Blockupy Düsseldorf!

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Transnational call to action in Düsseldorf, June 06.-09.
International solidarity in our common struggle

We are calling for massive protests in Düsseldorf this June against the crisis regime of the European Union. We are activists representing a multitude of movements and struggles from different European countries and elsewhere, who have risen up in the past months and years to protest the assaults on our freedoms, jobs and livelihoods that have become fiercely intensified in the global crisis. We have joined together and shared our struggles and experiences, and we have realized that in a multitude of local forms, we are fighting the same fight. Like never before, our movements are starting to strengthen each other: a truly transnational opposition is beginning to emerge.

The metropolis of Düsseldorf after Frankfurt am Main ist the second most important city for banking and stock exchange in Germany. Around 170 banks have their headquarters or offices in Düsseldorf. Also, many companies are seated here: Monsanto Germany, L’Oréal Germany, Vodafone Germany, Metro AG, E.ON, Rheinmetall, Henkel, E-Plus and the ERGO Insurance Group. We resist the attempt to play the employees, the unemployed and the precarious in Germany, Greece, Italy, France or other countries off against each other with nationalistic slogans. We set a sign for solidarity with all people and movements which defend themselves against attacks on their lives and future for months. We will demonstrate against the policies of EU and the Troika, we will blockade the banks and occupy public places in Düsseldorf – we are BLOCKUPY!

We are protesting the widespread impoverishment and denial of democratic rights occurring in the Eurozone as part of a global systemic crisis. In the periphery of the EU we are experiencing the extreme effects of politics pushed for by the governments of Germany and France and enacted by institutions representative of global capitalism: the ECB, IMF, EU, and their imposed technocratic governments. Millions of us have been impoverished and driven to misery by austerity and structural adjustment programs, the denial of labor rights and the slashing and privatization of public services, such as education, healthcare and welfare. We are experiencing the looting of human and natural resources by supposedly democratic institutions!

Yet these processes are only the most evident sign of the precarization of working and living conditions experienced in all of Europe and beyond. Our social uprisings, traversing the internal borders of the EU, are the expression of indignation acting outside every form of political representation. As representative democracy fails, we leave it behind, creating our own democratic practices in everyday struggles against exploitation.

We are experiencing global migration as another clear sign of the refusal of this transnational system of exploitation, its border regimes and violent wars. It is devastating our earth and basic livelihood. The situation is urgent: we are facing a human-made climate disaster!

Yet in Europe and beyond, we are also experiencing the emergence of political movements that are challenging the everyday exploitation of people and the earth, the social fragmentation, precarization and racism that pretend to divide and then weaken us. By creating connections among these movements and making ourselves visible and powerful, we are attempting to practice a real democracy right now. In Frankfurt, we have the opportunity to make these connections real, and to empower local struggles on a transnational level. We will blockade a crucial center of global capitalism, learning from what we watched in Oakland and the Occupy movement in the United States, who in turn learned from the revolutions across North Africa, the Middle East and the Indignados of Southern Europe. Let us bring our movements together in solidarity to continue the fight! Let us not miss this opportunity to set the agenda to reinvent our common future!

Wednesday, 06.06. arrival and night-dance-demonstration
Thursday, 06.07. take the squares, assambleys, actions, walks
Friday, 06.08. shut down the system for a day ;-)
Saturday, 06.09. final demonstration

FOR A TRANSNATIONAL MOVEMENT TO END PRECARITY AND IMPOVERISHMENT!
FOR INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY, FREEDOM and REAL DEMOCRACY NOW!

Austrijski dokumentarac koji je 2008-e rezirao Erwin Wagenhofer. Pogled na svetski finansijski sistem, puteve novca ...
Zanimljiv je intervju sa Johnom Perkinsom koji tvrdi da ljudi poput njega planski unistavaju nerazvijene zemlje uvlaceci ih u kolo dugovanja i eksploatisanjem resursa.

Dokumentarac "Uzmimo lovu"

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The American Dream Is Now a Myth: Joseph Stiglitz

Once seen as the land of opportunity, the U.S. today is grappling with rising inequality and a political system that benefits the rich at the expense of others, resulting in lower growth and risking the death of the American dream, according to Nobel prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz.


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“The U.S. worked hard to create the American dream of opportunity. But today, that dream is a myth,” Stiglitz wrote in an opinion piece in the Financial Times Tuesday.

Stiglitz said U.S. inequality is at the highest point in nearly a century and the gap between those with the median income and those at the top is growing.

“The U.S. used to think of itself as a middle-class country – but this is no longer true,” he said. “Today, a child’s life chances are more dependent on the income of his or her parents than in Europe, or any other of the advanced industrial countries for which there are data.”

Slideshow: America's Biggest Wealth Gaps
According to a Census Bureau report, U.S. household income inequality has grown by 18 percent since 1967, although this trend has slowed in recent years. Wealth disparity is also proving to be a hot topic during the 2012 election year, with Democrats arguing that Republican candidate Mitt Romney’s wealth makes him out of touch with ordinary Americans.


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Joseph Stiglitz, the Nobel prize-winning economist and former Chief Economist at the World Bank.
According to Stiglitz, regulations, particularly those governing the financial sector are contributing to the disparities.

“Financial regulations allow predatory lending and abusive credit-card practices that transfer money from the bottom to the top. So do bankruptcy laws that provide priority for derivatives,” he said.

Stiglitz argues that Americans were increasingly being made to think that higher income inequality was a byproduct of faster growth, but he says that’s a false choice. The U.S. economy grew faster in the decades after the Second World War, when inequalities were lower, than it did after 1980, he said.

“Textbooks teach us that we can have a more egalitarian society only if we give up growth or efficiency,” he said. “However, closer analysis shows that we are paying a high price for inequality: it contributes to social, economic and political instability, and to lower growth.”

Western countries with the healthiest economies, such as those in Scandinavia, have the highest degree of equality, Stiglitz noted.

To prevent the worsening disparities, Stiglitz argues that the U.S. should stop cutting public education and other programs that enhance opportunities for the middle class and the poor.

“President Barack Obama’s support for these investments, as well as the “Buffett rule” that asks those at the top to pay at least as much in tax as a share of their income as those who are less fortunate, are moves in the right direction,” he said.

He criticized Republican proposals to extend the Bush-era tax cuts on capital gains. But a number of economists as well as Democrats have come out in recent months in support of extending the tax cuts.

“The country will have to make a choice: if it continues as it has in recent decades, the lack of opportunity will mean a more divided society, marked by lower growth and higher social, political and economic instability,” he said.

Pokret Okupirajmo planira proteste u Filadelfiji

Grupe povezane s pokretom Okupirajmo okupiće se ovog vikenda u američkom gradu Filadelfiji na nacionalnoj konferenciji koja će trajati do praznika Dana nezavisnosti 4. jula.

Organizatori kažu da očekuju da će se oko 1.500 ljudi okupiti na protestnim marševima i drugim događajima u gradu u kojem je pre više od dva veka usvojena američka Deklaracija nezavisnosti.

 

Pokret Okupirajmo koji se bori protiv nejednakosti građana i gramzivosti korporacija iščezao je s naslovnih strana posle policijskih akcija pre nekoliko meseci kojima su protestni kampovi uklonjeni iz centara najvećih američkih gradova.

 

Od tada se demonstranti iz pokreta Okupirajmo pridružuju drugim protestima, ali nisu uspeli da prikupe nekoliko hiljada ljudi koliko je bilo na protestima u Njujorku na vrhuncu tog pokreta, krajem 2011.

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Moscow’s Occupy group senses sea change


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When the 10 trucks of riot police rumbled away from Moscow’s leafy Chistye Prudy just after 11pm on Wednesday night, nearly 700 anti-Kremlin protesters roared, whistled and clapped.
Though the protest was far smaller than the sanctioned mass demonstration last Sunday that saw violent clashes with police, the departure of the police was a watershed of sorts for the spontaneous “Occupy” movement in Moscow that this week fanned out across the city, spurred by calls on Twitter.

After a decade in which any unsanctioned attempt to gather has been forcefully dispersed by police, this protest continued throughout the week, despite hundreds of summary arrests. And after three days and two nights of being chased across Moscow by riot police, it secured the leafy square on Chistye Prudy as a camp, although without any tents.

“The police are getting tired and they are starting to refuse to carry out orders,” said Ilya Ponamaryov, one of the opposition leaders encircled by young protesters as the police trucks rolled away.
“There are more of us and we are able to constantly rotate. As soon as people are arrested, others come and take their place. They don’t know how to deal with it any more.”
This marks “a very important psychological change”, Mr Ponamaryov said. People are signalling to the police that they can do what they want, but the protests would happen anyway, regardless of the arrests. People are being arrested but people now don’t care whether this happens to them or not.

“An education of the people is going on. Before now people had always thought politics was a dirty business. But what has happened is an inauguration of the Russian people. People want action and they want results,” Mr Ponamaryov said.

At this protest which is not officially a protest — slogans, banners and speeches are banned so as not to give police any formal reason for arrest — being arrested has become a badge of honour. Hundreds were detained initially as protesters first tried to occupy the boulevards near Pushkin Square on Monday while Mr Putin’s inauguration ceremony was going on.

Then, as night fell, they tried to occupy a square next to the presidential administration, telling police they were just “out for a walk”, only to be pursued by the police. Hundreds were detained, often for no more than wearing the white ribbon that symbolises the protest movement.

But some queued up to enter the police trucks and when police arrested socialite and reality TV celebrity Ksenia Sobchak — who has become one of the protest leaders — she jokingly complained over Twitter about the lack of wifi coverage in the detention vans.

“People aren’t frightened any more,” said Olga, a 24-year-old dreadlocked protester, who cheerily told of her arrest on Monday. “Things have changed already. Society is changing before our eyes.”

Many observers feared that the violent clashes that broke out on Sunday could frighten off many of the middle class protesters that have peopled the demonstrations so far. But those attending the camp at Chistiye Prudy played down any such chance.

“This is, if you will, the birth of civil society,” says a former magazine editor, now pensioner, and one of the few elderly faces in the crowd.

Spontaneous discussions and debates break out at the camp as protesters discuss how to organise and enforce change. People bring tea and food throughout the day. Alcohol is banned and rolling concerts of drums, guitars and poetry reading go on day and night.

However, critics say the low numbers are a sign that support for the opposition movement could be dwindling.
“Mass support for this movement has fallen away after the violence on May 6,” says Sergei Markov, a political spin-doctor and former member of the pro-Kremlin United Russia. “The older generation believe that life will worsen if there is change. But the youngsters here just want to make a stand, and they’re doing it just because their friends are.”

Others attending wonder whether the Chistye Prudy gathering has anything to do with the majority of the Russian population.

“I support the people here,” said Pavel, a salesman. “But the vast majority of Russians have still not learnt to question anything, they’re not ready for the responsibility of a real vote.”
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Occupy Tampa’s Official Statement Regarding the RNC


Banner from Occupy Tampa

Occupy Tampa has stood in solidarity with Occupy Wall Street since its inception, and will function as the host occupation for the Republican National Convention in Tampa, FL on August 27th – 30th, 2012.

Preparations have included: 1) Securing sleeping arrangements for as many occupiers as we can fit in our current encampment. In order to maximize available space to accommodate as many people as possible, we will (2) remove individual tents and replace them with large canopies to offer shade and protection from the weather. (3) Our liaison with Fire Dog Lake, Sonja Ebron, continues to work with Occupy Tampa by securing items such as sunscreen, bug spray, bandanas, portable water containers, sleeping bags and mats, UV protective shirts and other useful items.

Occupy Tampa has formed a Regional General Assembly to coordinate Occupy groups throughout the bay area, including: Occupy Lakeland, Occupy St. Petersburg, Occupy Bradenton, Occupy USF, Occupy New Port Richey, and Occupy Sarasota. We have tried to plan as much as possible ahead of time, but we want to leave space open to spontaneously produce additional actions by harnessing the number of people that arrive.

Food Not Bombs has called a World Gathering and plans to run feeding operations throughout the duration of the RNC. A week before the Republican National Convention, chapters of Food Not Bombs from every corner of the globe will convene in order to prepare to feed the thousands of protesters flooding into the city. FNB will serve brunch everyday at 10 am, at Voice of Freedom Park, and will also serve dinner before the General Assemblies. We will offer warm-ups at 9 am, including yoga & other light exercises.

We invite everyone to come and take advantage of the preparations we have made, to help ensure that all occupiers and other supporting groups can use this moment of national attention to confront the political status-quo.

We currently occupy a privately-owned, publicly accessible park (fittingly named “Voice of Freedom). The owner has donated the space for use by the Occupy Movement. Facilities include: running water, two port-a-potties, parking, Internet access, and electricity.

Our address is 2101 W. Main St. Tampa, Fl. You can contact us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/occupytampa or through our website www.occupytampa.org.

Peace, Love, & Solidarity,
Occupy Tampa



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17. septembar, godisnjica pocetka OWS:

Godinu dana nakon ovoga.

Kristalni sta ste okupirali sem zatvora? 

Mi? : ))

Koje zatvore "smo" okupirali? : ) Ne moze se uhapsiti ideja. Da li je nestankom Hitlera ugusen nacional socijalizam? Nije, ima ljudi koji i dalje veruju u to, iako se radi o prevazidjenoj ideji : )

Nalazimo se u pocetnoj fazi globalne promene drustveno-politicko-ekonomske klime (primer: Dzeremi Rifkin je naziva Treca Industrijska Revolucija). Sve vise ljudi shvata da je ovakav sistem neodrziv. Medjutim, ne moze se forsirati promena na velikim grupama ljudi, ne moze se promena siliti, moze ali sustinski se nece desiti nista novo i dalje cemo se vrteti u zacaranom krugu nasilja, gluposti, jada i bede.

Ono sto ce se desiti je da ce se sistem jednostavno urusiti sam od sebe, to je odlika kapitalizma, jednostavno bice (vec je) prevazidjen. Ne moze se trenutno uspostavljeni sistem "zamrznuti" i ocekivati da ce isti funkcionisati u vecnost.

Svakako, najveca promena dolazi od strane svakog od nas, obicnog coveka. Vrlo tesko, gotovo nikako ne mozete ubediti nekog u nesto tako sto ih napadate, tako sto im napadate vrednosti koje su zauzeli, jer to stvara otpor. Rezoni i logika nece uticati na ljude koji nikad nisu bili izlozeni rezonima i logici, kao drsutvenim vrednostima. Granice za ljudsku glupost ne posotje ako su rasli uz indoktrinaciju.

Jednostavno, po recima Bakminster Fulera Nikada necete promeniti stvari, boreci se protiv postojece realnosti. Da biste nesto promenili, napravite novi model, koji cini postojeci model zastarelim.

99% je samo jedan vid nenasilnih protesta. Licno, ne verujem u ideju protesta, ne verujem u nasilje jer se nasilje svodi na proncip Kurte i Murte, kruga bez izlaza. Ja nisam clan nikakvog pokreta, religije, grupe gradjana, nevladine organizacije, politicke partije. Ne verujem u ideju liderstva.

Na zalost, bicemo svedoci da, kako vreme odmice sve vise drzava ce tonuti u fasizam, neke vise, neke manje.

Tako da, kada ti pitas "sta je postignuto?" Mnogo toga! Najbitnije je "sadjenje semena" za nove ideje : )

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Moskva: Marš miliona za reformu

Moskva -- U Moskvi se održava opozicioni Marš miliona, na kojem će, prema najavama organizatora, biti izneti zahtevi za političke i socijalne reforme u Rusiji.

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Učesnici akcije su se okupili u centru Moskve, a prvi put su se maršu priključili i aktivisti komunističke partije.

Marš, treći po redu ove godine, kreće iz centra Moskve, od spomenika Puškinu, i završiće se mitingom na prospektu Saharova, a obezbedjivaće ga oko 7.000 policajaca.

Na čelu kolone su bivši premijer Boris Njemcov i šahista i opozicioni aktivista Gari Kasparov, kao i aktivista Levog fronta Sergej Udaljcov. U centru Moskve su jake mere bezbednosti, učesnici akcije na predvidjenu trasu ulaze kroz detektore na metal, a zabranjeno je i unošenje tečnosti. Aktivista Levog fronta i jedan od organizatora Marša Sergej Udaljcov rekao je da će na skupu, pored već tradicionalnih zahteva za prevremene predsedničke i parlamentarne izbore, protiv političkih represija i za oslobadjanje političkih zatvorenika, biti izneti i socijalni zahtevi koji se odnose na nezadrživ rast troškova života, nedovoljno finansiranje nauke, obrazovanja, zdravstva i kulture, kršenje prava radnika i sindikata. Opozicija je prijavila učešće do 25.000 ljudi, a na predvidjenu trasu učesnici će ulaziti kroz detektore na metal i zabranjeno je unošenje tečnosti.

Moskovska policija je već upozorila da bi na skupu moglo doći do provokacija, imajući u vidu najave Evroazijskog saveza omladine da spreči skup.

Predstavnici te organizacije juče su saopštili da neće dozvoliti da se u centru grada organizuje Marš i da planiraju kontraakciju, ali policija kaže da će svaki pokušaj održavanja neprijavljenih skupova biti sprečen.

Organizatori Marša miliona Udaljcov i deputat partije Pravedna Rusija u Dumi Ilja Ponomarjev kažu da ne veruju da su te pretnje ozbiljne i da se nadaju da će policija obezbediti red.

Prema dosadašnjim najavama, u akciji u Moskvi učestvovaće bivši premijer i nekadašnji vicepremijer Rusije Mihail Kasjanov i Boris Njemcov, sada kopredsednici Republikanske partije Rusije – Partije narodne slobode.

Najavljeno je da će se Maršu prvi put pridružiti i predstavnici komunista, dok opoziciona partija Jabloko neće učestvovati u akciji u Moskvi.

Kako je objasnio lider Jabloka Sergej Mitrohin, iako su predstavnici te partije ranije bili članovi organizacionog komiteta Marša, oni "ne mogu da učestvuju na manifestaciji na kojoj dominiraju crvene zastave i smedje uniforme“.

"Za mene je takodje sumnjivo učešće Jabloka u zajedničkim akcijama sa Komunističkom partijom“, rekao je Mitrohin ruskim medijima.
Opozicioni marševi održaće se istovremeno i u drugim gradovima Rusije, od Sankt Peterburga do Novosibirska.

Ovo je već treća slična akcija u Moskvi ove godine: prethodna je bila u junu, a prva i najveća održana je 6. maja, dan uoči inauguracije predsednika Vladimira Putina, a završila se masovnim neredima u kojima je povredjeno oko 30 policajaca a privedeno oko 400 osoba.

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Protect Occupy's Right to Peaceably Assemble For #S17



Nearly one year ago a bottom up protest movement erupted in New York City, calling attention to the role of Wall Street in robbing the 99% and wrecking the economy. It was a movement that inspired millions.

But Mayor Michael Bloomberg, a global leader of the 1%, unleashed his ‘private army’ to pepper spray, beat, arrest, imprison and evict us. As we prepare for the one year anniversary of Occupy Wall Street on September 17th, what will his response be this time?

Tell Mayor Bloomberg to respect Occupy’s right to peaceably assemble.

Occupy organizers from all five boroughs and from across the country are striving for a different kind of democracy. One where million$ and billion$ don’t decide who gets elected and who gets arrested. Do you have our back?

If so, tell Mayor Bloomberg, and join us in exercising our right to protest.

Tell the Mayor of Wall Street to put away his violent white shirts, helicopters, guns, chemical agents, jail cells and undercover spying operations.

Occupy is a nonviolent movement. And if Mayor Bloomberg hears all of our voices together and sees our collective power in the streets, we might just make it out of #S17 in one piece.

More ways to help support #OWS On Our One-Year Anniversary

On the weekend of September 17th we are calling all members of the 99% to converge on New York City for three days of celebration, education, and resistance.

And we need your help to make this convergence a truly historic event.

Donate to help support Occupy Wall Street actions on our one year anniversary.

Over the past year we have fundamentally changed the conversation and empowered people to take to the streets in their communities. We pinpointed the proper Villain in the American Nightmare, and displayed how when it comes to the degradation of the American Dream, All Roads Lead to Wall Street.

Yes we changed the conversation, and now we act that much more forthrightly to change the world. Likewise, we are seeking funds to facilitate such large ambitions.

Help provide resources to support our actions on the weekend of September 15-17.

Our previous request for contributions to the OWS May Day Fund was a great success, helping make May Day a large scale spectacle. The funds were utilized to support communications, transportation, food, printing costs, art fabrication, and music production for actions throughout the day, including the pop-up occupation of Bryant Park, the solidarity rally and concert at Union Square, and the Popular Assembly in the financial district.

We are using the same system of resource allocation this time, which we have renamed the Action Resource Fund (ARF). ARF will be raising and distributing funds via the S17 Planning Group, a body convened by the Direct Action Working Group in July.

The most important way you can show your support is by joining us in the streets on #S17. But we also need financial and material resources to spread the word and support actions.

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