Occupy Wall Street Basic Information

by: RiaD

Sun Oct 16, 2011 at 12:44:45 PM EDT

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BASIC INFORMATION/LINKs   OCCUPY ANNOUNCEMENTS   OCCUPY ACTIONs FIND YOUR OCCUPATION   ON THE WEB   ON FACEBOOK RESOURCES FOR OCCUPYING NEWSPAPER/MEDIA LIVE STREAMs LIVE BLOGs DONATIONs PETITIONs, ETC STANDING IN SOLIDARITY     UNIONs/ORGANIZATIONs/COMPANIEs     PEOPLE

Occupy Wall Street

Scheduled Events at OccupyWallSt at Zuccotti Park in NYC

Occupy Together is creating has created an Occupy Directory!
Please make sure YOUR Occupy Group is listed!

Locate Occupy Events in YOUR area--WORLDWIDE!! - a wealth of information on Occupy Movements

Occupy Together Meetups- Start YOURS Today!

**OCCUPY BOSTON: Paul "Fetch" Carnes and Sydney Sherrell BANNED (11.03.11)**

Call To Action - Join The Month Of Global Uprising
It is time for us to come together and build a new world through the power of the individual and the community.

Are You with an Occupy Event? Make sure YOUR General Assembly sees this:
*Recognition of Oppression Across Occupations - 'An injury to one is an injury to all'

***How To Occupy - Resources for Small Town Occupations

***General Assembly Guidelines & Hand Signals

Rule of Law vs. the Forces of Order

Bank Transfer Day: It's not too late to Move Your Money!  Find a Bank/Find a Credit Union

VOTE FOR A BILLBOARD before Dec 5  #OCCUPYTOGETHER #OCCUPYWALLST BILLBOARD
An outdoor billboard in New York, NY   20,000+ VOTES = 1 FREE GIGANTIC BILLBOARD.

OCCUPY THE BOARDROOM  The 1% have addresses. The 99% have messages.
Life gets awfully lonely for those at the top. What can we do to let them know someone's thinking of them?
Maybe they need some new friends! We've thought of two ways we can help them with that.
***7347 LETTERS POSTED! Read Them HERE***

OCCUPY THEIR MAILBOXES The Pen Is Mightier Than The Sword!
In solidarity with Occupy Wall Street and the nationwide Occupy movement,
this site is for those who, due to circumstance or distance,
cannot be on site to peacefully protest.
You can still take part.  
We intend to overflow the mailboxes of our government with focused mass mailings.

PARTICIPATE NOV 25 (& throughout the holiday season): OCCUPY BLACK FRIDAY
Let's take a day that is all about consumption and make it our own, and let's make it loud and clear that we will not support the corporations that destroyed our economy and undermined our Republic.Instead of a "Buy Nothing Day" we'll have a "Buy Local Day." Instead of buying a bunch of useless crap, let's instead go out and help the poor. Volunteer at soup kitchens and host toy drives and do the other charitable things that the government refuses to do. A season of giving instead of a season of buying.

PARTICIPATE WHEN YOU SHOP: Get off the Corporate Carousel
* Support the 99% * Buy LOCAL from Independent Owners * Buy American Made *

Sustainable Connections(see their other Sustainable Programs also)
Resource Page to Find REAL Food Locally
Made in USA Products Directory

WEAR/DISPLAY/SHOW Your Solidarity: **PRINT YOUR OWN ANONYMOUS MASK

CafePress store T-shirts!
T-shirts, bumper stickers, decals, mugs & much much more!
99% items, Occupy Items, Fawke Items

ON THE WEB
~Local groups are springing up daily, quicker than I can keep up with. (YaY!)
Please do a simple search on Google if your town isn't listed in one of these links.

Adbusters #OCCUPYWALLSTREET Page- Where the Occupy Movement started. Continually updated.

Occupy Wall Street Organization- The unofficial de facto online resource for the ongoing protests.

Occupy Wall Street's General Assembly- Updates on progress OWS Protest, lists of needed items, addresses to send them

Occupy Wall Street's General Assembly Minutes

Occupy Together- Info on Occupy Actions in every area of the country...& the world!

Occupy the Nation, We ARE the 99%- event listings, live streams, news & updates, resources, event flyers

Occupy Colleges- Campuses nationwide joining in protest.

Links to US & WorldWide Occupation Events & Solidarity Accounts- event, email & twitter info

**The Occupy Canada movement -- info and city directory

**Guardian's Interactive Map: Occupy protests around the world - full list visualised
Be sure to add your event!

ON FACEBOOK
~Local groups are springing up daily, quicker than I can keep up with. (YaY!)
Please do a simple search on Facebook or Google if your town isn't listed here.

Occupy Wall St.  ↔  Occupy Together  ↔  Occupy Wall Street West  ↔  Occupy Colleges ↔  Occupy The Hood

DKos: Directory of Facebook Occupy Event Pages

Occupy Marines   Occupy Army   Occupy Navy   Occupy Air Force   Occupy Police

Occupy Auckland  ↔  Occupy Australia  ↔  Occupy Belfast  ↔  Occupy Birmingham UK  ↔  Occupy Britain  ↔  Occupy The British & Celtic Isles  ↔  Occupy Canada  ↔  Occupy< Cristchurch/a>  ↔  Occupy Deutschland  ↔  Occupy Dundee  ↔  Occupy Eidenburgh  ↔  Occupy Europe  ↔  Occupy Frankfurt  ↔  Occupy Glasgow  ↔  Occupy Greece- Athens  ↔  Occupy Central (Japan)  ↔  Occupy Liverpool  ↔  Occupy London Stock Exchange  ↔  Occupy Manchester  ↔  Occupy Melbourne  ↔  Occupy Mexico  ↔  Occupy Monaco  ↔  Occupy Namibia  ↔  Occupy The Netherlands  ↔  Occupy Newfoundland  ↔  Occupy North Georgia  ↔  Occupy Norwich  ↔  Occupy Nova Scotia  ↔  Occupy Perth WA  ↔  Occupy Peru  ↔  Occupy Philippines  ↔  Occupy Puerto Rico  ↔  Occupy Prague  ↔  Occupy Scotland  ↔  Occupy Sweden  ↔  Occupy Switzerland  ↔  Occupy Taiwan  ↔  Occupy Tokyo  ↔  Occupy Winnipeg  ↔  Occupy Worcester  

↔  Occupy Earth  ↔

Do you know of an Occupy Facebook page NOT listed here?
Please reply using 'Disqus' below or email the link to:
RiaD@firefly-dreaming.com

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☆ ☆ RESOURCES FOR OCCUPYING☆ ☆
Demonstrator's Manual-Print This Out, Carry It With You

Civil Disobedience Index- lessons in how to Participate in a Nonviolent Action All are pertinent to Occupying.

ACLU Affiliates- There are in EVERY State and Puerto Rico & will handle requests for legal assistance.

Know Your Rights- Printable list to take with you/distribute to Protesters

*PDF* YOUR RIGHTs Printable Wallet Card from National Lawyers Guild

Civil Rights Lawyers by Location- find one before you go, write down the name & number on your arm (often all your belongings will be taken from you)

***Carrying a Camera> KNOW YOUR RIGHTS!

**Cell Phone Guide for Occupy Wall Street Protesters (and Everyone Else) | Electronic Frontier Foundation

***Please consider equipping yourself with a GASMASK
they are relatively cheap & well worth the price

HOW TO DEFEND AGAINST TEAR GAS

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NEWSPAPER & MEDIA
Occupied Wall Street News- News, Upcoming Actions, Occupied Sites & more

from We Occupy America: Occupation Times Newspaper!

** Issue#2 The Occupied Wall Street Journal

FIRST EDITION AVAILABLE IN PDF

** Adbusters FREE downloadable POSTERS!!

** OccupyTogether FREE downloadable POSTERS!!
"The posters provided on this page are free for you to download, print, and hang up within your community, not only to promote local efforts, but the solidarity of all occupiers around the country. In fact, we highly encourage it..."

FREE downloadable files
These are promotional materials to help support the Occupy Wall Street Movement and are NOT FOR COMMERCIAL USE.

PLEASE DONATE to: Occupy Wall Street Media and/or We Are The Other 99% Media Fund
This money will go towards the batteries for the cameras, the Live Streaming, food for these people who are volunteering their time to bring YOU the news as it unfolds

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LIVE STREAMs
~Local groups are springing up daily, quicker than I can keep up with. (YaY!)
Please do a simple search on Google if your town isn't listed here.

Live Stream- Global Revolution

OTHER LIVE STREAMs:
Occupy Albany NY  *  Occupy Anchorage  *  Occupy Atlanta  *  Occupy Austin  *  Occupy Baltimore  *  Occupy Bellingham  *  Occupy Bentonville  *  Occupy Birmingham AL  *  Occupy Bloomington MN  *  Occupy Boston  *  Occupy Brooklyn NY  *  Occupy Chapel Hill NC  *  Occupy Chicago  *  Occupy Cincinnati  *  Occupy Cleveland  *  Occupy Columbia SC  *  Occupy Columbus Ohio  *  Occupy Corpus Christi TX  *  Occupy Dallas   *  Occupy Detroit  *  Occupy DC  *  Occupy Duluth MN  *  Occupy Durango CO  *  Occupy Edmonton  *  Occupy Erie  *  Occupy Fort Wayne  *  Occupy Fresno CA  *  Occupy Gainesville  *  Occupy Harrisburg PA  *  Occupy Houston  *  Occupy Indianapolis  *  Occupy Jacksonville FL  *  Occupy Lakeland FL  *  Occupy Las Vegas  *  Occupy Los Angeles  *  Occupy Louisville KY  *  Occupy Macon GA  *  Occupy Madison  *  Occupy Memphis TN  *  Occupy Miami  *  Occupy Minnesota  *  Occupy Missoula MT  *  Occupy Myrtle Beach SC  *  Occupy Nashville TN  *  Occupy New Haven  *  Occupy New Jersey State House  *  Occupy Pensacola  *  Occupy Philly  *  Occupy Pittsburgh  * Occupy Portland Maine  *  Occupy Portland Oregon  *  Occupy Portsmouth, Chillicothe Street  *  Occupy Providence RI  *  Occupy Raleigh NC  *  Occupy Reno  *  Occupy Riverside CA  *  Occupy Rochester NY  *  Occupy Sacramento  * Occupy Salt Lake City  *  Occupy Saint Louis  *  Occupy St Petersburg FL  *  Occupy San Francisco  *  Occupy San Diego  * Occupy Santa Barbara  *  Occupy Sarasota FL  *  Occupy Seattle  *  Occupy Tampa  *  Occupy Toledo  *  Occupy Topeka KS  *  Occupy Tucson  *  Occupy Vancouver WA  *  Occupy Ventura CA  *  Occupy Wheeling WV  *  Occupy Wichita  *  

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Occupy Amsterdam  *  Occupy Athens Greece  *  Occupy Auckland  *  Occupy Belgrade  *  Occupy Bonn Germany  *  Occupy Calgary  *  Occupy Dame Street (Ireland)  *  Occupy Denmark  *  Occupy Düesseldorf  *  Occupy Glasgow  *  Occupy Italy  *  Occupy Istanbul  *  Occupy Kingston ON  *  Occupy Ljubljana  *  Occupy Mexico  *  Occupons Montreal/ Occupy Montreal  *  Live Stream MOSCOW  *  Occupy Den Haagstream (The Netherlands)  *  Occupy Italy  *  Occupy Québec City  *  Occupy Sao Paulo Brazil  *  Occupy Seville  *  Occupy Spanish Revolution Sol  *  Occupy Sydney  *  Occupy Tijuana  *  Occupy Toronto  *  Occupy Valencia Spain  *  Occupy Vancouver  *  Occupy Zürich Switzerland  *  

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Do you know of an Occupy Live Stream NOT listed here?
Please comment using 'Disqus' below or email the link to:
RiaD@firefly-dreaming.com

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LIVE BLOGs
Plutocracy Files ∞ Guardian's Adam Gabbett ∞ TheNation's Greg Mitchell ∞
Dissenter- Kevin Gosztola

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MOST UP-TO-DATE INFO/ARTICLEs (imho) check frequently, updated continually
The Guardian OWS Section  ⇔  Aljazeera OWS Section  

Current TV OWS  ⇔  RawStory OWS Section  ⇔  Teamster Nation OWS articles  ⇔ Huffington Post OWS Section  ⇔  
DocuDharma Live Stream & Links   ⇔  DKos OWS posts

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DONATIONs
(this is ONLY for Occupy Wall Street in NYC)
To Send Money: EASY ONLINE LINK

Virtual Address: Please indicate "Occupy wall street" in the memo line.

   Alliance for Global Justice
   1247 "E" Street, SE
   Washington, DC 20003

Or CALL at 202-544-9355 to make a telephone donation.

To Snail Mail ITEMs:
Please see the twitter-feed list of needs (scroll down a bit) You can also send MONEY ORDERS.

OCCUPY WALL STREET
118 A Fulton St #205
NY NY 10038

To Send FOOD:
These wonderful restaurants will deliver to Zuccotti Liberty Park:
** Please try to focus on vegan and vegetarian options with some meat options.

Panini & Co 115 Broadway:;  Lemongrass Grill;  Tolache Taqueria
 Liberatos Pizza - order the "Occu-pie"
Please order vegan or non-meat pizzas :)

Other local business that deliver

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HISTORY of Occupy Wall Street
Anonymous joins Occupy Wall Street (09.10.11) (video HERE)

Adbusters original call to Occupy Wall Street (07.13.11)

Time Line of Occupy Wall Street (wiki)

Credo: Tell President Obama: Don't sell us out to Wall Street
"Don't sell us out to Wall Street. Stop pushing the state Attorneys General to agree to a settlement that gives banks immunity for mortgage and foreclosure fraud that hasn't yet been investigated. Wall Street banks must be investigated, indicted and prosecuted to the full extent of the law."

Tell the Dept of Justice: Protect the right to peacefully protest
We call on the Department of Justice, our nation's top law enforcement agency, to stand up and protect American citizens whose rights to protest peacefully are under attack -- from New York to Oakland and every occupation in between.

Americans for Financial Reform: Tax Wall Street.
We know where the money is. Tell Congress its time for Wall Street to start Paying US Back! A tiny tax on financial services can generate billions of dollars.

ACLU: Stop excessive police force in Oakland
Tear Gas. Rubber Bullets. Bean Bag Guns. Flash Grenades.
Reports keep coming in of extreme force by Oakland Police in dealing with Occupy demonstrations. As tensions rise in the Occupy movements in Oakland and around the state and the nation, we need to let police departments know that excessive force is not acceptable.
What happened in Oakland impacts all of us
When police respond to peaceful protest and civil disobedience with excessive force, the result is to make people afraid to exercise their free speech rights. The Constitution was intended to protect us from exactly that.
Use this form to tell the Oakland Police Department and the mayor to stop the excessive force.

Recipients: Oakland Mayor Jean Quan;  Oakland Interim Police Chief Howard Jordan
Read more about it HERE

Democracy In Action: People of faith say no to attacks on Occupy Wall Street
Police in Oakland, California, have attacked thousands of largely peaceful protesters -- firing tear gas, flash grenades and rubber bullets into crowds that included children, the elderly and people with disabilities. Local police have cracked down on other Occupy encampments across the country, evicting and arresting hundreds of nonviolent protesters in Chicago, Atlanta, and Albuquerque. Occupiers in Baltimore, San Francisco, and other cities are also being threatened with eviction.

When a peaceful movement for social and economic justice is met with violence and repression, people of faith have a moral obligation to speak up. If local authorities see that Occupy encampments have the support of the religious community, they'll think twice about shutting them down and resorting to violence.
Add your name to a petition calling for an end to attacks and arrests on Occupy protests:

As people of faith, we condemn all violence and repression targeting the Occupy Wall Street movement. In communities across America, occupiers are providing a peaceful witness against corporate greed and economic injustice. We call on local authorities to respect their freedom of expression.

Working America: I Am Not Your ATM

The people who gave us the financial crisis are at it again. Their greed and irresponsibility demolished our economy, leaving us to bail them out-and how do they thank us? They're going right back to business as usual, getting rich off of our money and spending millions lobbying against new rules to prevent a future crisis. Now, to add insult to injury, some banks are creating new monthly fees just for having a debit card. Around the country, starting from New York's Liberty Plaza, people are standing up and saying enough is enough. It's time for banks to be a safe place for our money, not another place to get nickeled and dimed.

Sign our petition!

WE the People: petition the obama administration to: Make Bribing Politicians Illegal
No corporation should be allowed to give campaign contributions to any politician or political party that is involved in writing or voting on legislation that affects them or the industry they profit from. [...] Corporations giving millions of dollars to politicians could not create a more clear conflict of interest in policy making - ITS A BRIBE. If the Administration disagrees we would love to hear why.
Created: Sep 23, 2011

Change.org: NYC Mayor: Stand with Occupy Wall Street
Not a single banker has gone to jail for crimes that led to the financial meltdown. But now over 1,000 protesters have been arrested in the inspiring Occupy Wall Street protest in New York City.

Tell Mayor Bloomberg and Police Commissioner Kelly: Respect the Occupy Wall Street protesters' constitutional right to peaceful assembly.

Change.org: Occupy Wall Street: Occupy Together
We, the 99%, are fed up with our elected officials doing nothing to curb corruption and allowing, if not assisting, in the degradation of our rights, freedoms and liberties as not just citizens of the United States of America, but citizens of the Planet Earth.

We won't stand for intimidation and brutality that is taking place against these protesters. We support them, support their cause, and support their actions.

Eric Grieco: Tell Congress: We need jobs, not cuts!
Speaker John Boehner:

We stand with the 99%.
We're fed up with Wall Street greed and Washington inaction.  We need jobs, not cuts, and policies that benefit 99% of Americans instead of only the top 1%.
Congress needs to work to build an economy that works for all of us, not just the richest.  As a first step to putting America back to work, Congress should pass the American Jobs Act immediately -- no later than by the Thanksgiving Recess.  And pay for it by taxing Wall Street speculation.

AVAAZ: The World vs Wall Street
To fellow citizens occupying Wall Street and peoples protesting across the world:

  We stand with you in this struggle for real democracy. Together we can end the capture and corruption of our governments by corporate and wealthy elites, and hold our politicians accountable to serve the public interest. We are united - the time for change has come!

Credo Action: Stand with Occupy Wall Street
"Not a single banker has gone to jail and yet over 1,000 protesters have been arrested. I stand with the protesters of Occupy Wall Street, and I demand that the NYPD respect their constitutional right to peaceful assembly."

Get Money Out
It's Time to GET MONEY OUT of politics
Bailouts. War. Unemployment. Our government is bought, and we're angry. Now, we're turning our anger into positive action. By signing this petition, you are joining our campaign to get money out of politics. Our politicians won't do this. But we will. We will become an unrelenting, organized wave advocating a Constitutional amendment to get money out of politics.

READ CoupMedia's LIST OF PROPOSED "DEMANDS FOR CONGRESS"
VOTE BEFORE OCT. 20^th

First of all. There are no Official Demands of the Occupy Movement.  that being said, multiple factions of the movement have been assembling to discuss and vote on the output and message for the movement.  Below is a LIST OF PROPOSED "DEMANDS FOR CONGRESS" proposed by the website (occupywallstreet.org) which does not entirely represent  the Occupy Wall Street General Assembly.  Below this list is a list of grievance that citizens have provided nationally and have voted on in solidarity of the movement.

UNIONs/ORGANIZATION/COMPANIESs
(logos are clickable, link to official statements or articles)

 



               



                   



                   



               

PEOPLE

**An impressive group of Economists: Occupy Economics

**An impressive number of Published Authors: Occupy Writers

Danny Glover, Willie Nelson, Dr. Patch Adams, Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine, Al Gore, Russ Feingold, 1968 Olympian Dr. John Carlos, Hip-Hop Artist Immortal Technique, Billy Bragg, John Lewis. Jeff Mangum of band Neutral Milk Hotel, Radiohead, Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas), Louisiana Gov. Buddy Roemer, Reps. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio), Former Sen. Russ Feingold (D-WI), Eliot Spitzer, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), Reps. Raul Grijalva (D-Ariz.), Keith Ellison (D-Minn.), Caucus Chairman John Larson (Conn.), Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) and Louise Slaughter (D-N.Y., Howard Dean; Michael Franti; Rep. Peter DeFazio; Richard Wolff at OWS; Stuart Appelbaum, President Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Union (RWDSU);  Peter Yarrow;  Bernie Sanders;  San Francisco District Supervisor & Mayoral Candidate John Avalos;  Kansas State Rep. Marci Francisco;  Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz & economic columnist Jeff Madrick;  Mark Ruffalo, Alec Baldwin & Yoko Ono tweet support;  Russell Simmons;  Rapper Lupe Fiasco;  Roseanne Barr;  Regina Spektor, singer;  Van Jones;  New York City Councilman Charles Barron;  Michael Moore;  Cornel West;  Susan Sarandon;  Noam Chomsky