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Nov 17th National Day of Action On Thursday November 17th, the two month anniversary of the Occupy Wall Street movement,
we call upon the 99% to participate in a national day of direct action and celebration!
[name redacted]: Interesting log: I watched thru the night as multiple Portland MSM covered the 11/13 raid on Occupy Portland. (foot note: declare this coverage as a MAJOR victory.) One after another, on every channel, reporters were sympathetic and impressed with the Occupiers, the democratic process, and the firm, non-violent response of Occupiers. There was awe and wonder in their voices. It was clear that being there, experiencing a Possible Other Way impacted them in important ways. By the time the morning Nooz hit the air, the readers read the script about Safety, drugs, unwashed hippies...
But they had been there, they knew...
Sumptin good gonna come from this... I hope we will all remember that in every word, action and attitude, we are the real advertisement for our perspective. Who knows what magic moment changes the course of history... about an hour ago · Unlike · 2
**NOTE: Updates will be done at the TOP of each section & have an asterisk**
PARTICPATE NOV 24: Occupied Thanks Giving Plan to cook ONE extra VEGETABLE, BREAD OR DESSERT dish this Thanksgiving & deliver it to YOUR Local Occupy by 2pm.
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.
OCCUPY THE HIGHWAY A group of OWS'ers are embarking have embarked on a two-week 200 mile march TODAY on Wed Nov. 9, 2011 from Liberty Plaza to the Whitehouse to let the Congressional Deficit Reduction Super-Committee know what the 99% think about whether or not to keep Obama's extension to the Bush tax-cuts. Join them if you can or give support along the way
****START A LOCAL: Occupy Your Block Occupy Wall Street is calling for the winter months to be a time of teach-ins, open forums, potluck meetings, discussion groups, local general assembly meetings and community building projects. This is how our movement builds. To plan an event, request teach-in materials, attend a training, find a local event, or organize with others in your area, please visit our website at OccupyYourBlock.org or stop by the Outreach/Info table at Liberty Plaza anytime. Please email OccupyYourBlock@gmail.com with questions or to discuss event organizing.
****START A LOCAL: Sockupy Movement~because wet feet suck~ Read Michael's story & donate. Or get inspired & set up some support for your local Occupy.
Whether it's Socks or Soup, the Occupiers have needs, let's help fill them.
PARTICIPATE TODAY:Occupy The BoardRoom The 1% have addresses. The 99% have messages.
***7347 LETTERS POSTED! Read Them HERE***
PARTICIPATE TODAY:Occupy Their Mailboxes The Pen Is Mightier Than The Sword!
Write to your Elected Officials, sample postcards and letters to copy &/or personalize.
SIGN PETITION: 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."
(for more info on these & many others go HERE & look under "Petitions")
Occupy Together is working with Take the Square to build HowToOccupy/HowToCamp Methods, techniques and knowledge on Taking the Square. We want to establish a global network which is able to offer to global public the necessary tools of rising up.
Nov 17thOccupy Wall Street NYC has a full day planned with events in all five boroughs: 7am- Shut Down Wall St; 3pm Occupy the Subways; 5pm- Take the Square
Occupy Portland OR day starts at 8am on the East Side of Steel Bridge with an action in support of organized labor demanding Jobs Not Cuts; 10am Rally at Waterfront Park @ SW Ankeny; 11am we march to visit civil disobedience actions in progress!
Occupy Detroit 8am Morning banner drops; 3pm to 4pm- Teach-in and arts, Grand Circus Park; 4pm- March from Grand Circus Park to the City/County Building; 4:30 to 5:30pm Rally at Coleman A. Young Municipal Center, 2 Woodward Ave; 5:30pm March back to Grand Circus Park to highlight the brutal impact of government cuts on ordinary citizens.
Occupy Atlanta is holding events targeting two major corporations: Home Depot and Verizon.
Occupy Las Vegas Protest at Lloyd George Federal Building, 333 S. Las Vegas Blvd. from 7 a.m. (10 a.m. ET when OWS will be finishing their protest) until we are asked to leave.
Occupy Chicago 3:30 pm: Occupy Chicago joins StandUp! Chicago to "demand jobs, not cuts, from our government!" Rally at the Thompson Center (100 W. Randolph St); 5:30 pm: Occupy Chicago engages in a mass action at Jackson and LaSalle
Occupy Memphis 3-4pm Protest March Starts at Civic Center Plaza;
Occupy Phoenix 7am Occupy Light Rail; 11:45 meet at Cesar Chavez Park for a flashmob protest at a secret target in the city's business district; 6pm teach-ins.
Occupy Boston 4-7pm Mass Uniting's Jobs Not Cuts March & Rally, Dewey Square
Occupy Denver 24 hours of protest.
First Rally: Noon at Municipal Building @ 201 West Colfax Avenue
Second Rally: 6PM @ The Greek Ampitheatre in Civic Center Park
Occupy Maine Rally at Monument Square November 17th at noon; At 2pm, we will head to some financial offices nearby on Fore Street and call them out on their dirty money using the People's Mic.
Occupy Wisconsin 3:30pm North Ave. over 143 at Carver Park, 911 W. Brown St, Milwaukee
Occupy Charlotte 5:30pm until 12:00am 100 North Tryon Street. Charlotte, NC 28202
In solidarity with Occupy Wall Street's call for a Day of Action call to close down Wall Street we will march to Back of America. Meet @ 600 E. Trade St., Charlotte, NC 28202
*Occupy LA 7am meet at Bank of America Plaza at 333 S Hope St. and march to the corner of Figueroa and 4th St.
*Occupy Minneapolis 3:00pm Student Rally @ Northrop Plaza; 4:00pm March onto the 10th Ave Bridge; 5:30pm Rally on the Peoples' Plaza (Government Plaza)
*Occupy New Orleans: 11am-City Council Action; 12pm-Outside of City Hall; 2:30pm-Pre-March Rally; 4:00pm-March Leaves from Duncan to go through downtown. Specific issues highlighted: Save the Post Office! Save McDonogh No.11 Public School! Stop Police Brutality! Stop Charter schools from destroying communities! Quit funding cuts to health care! Build and rehab homes for the homeless! Stop the wars abroad! **Bonus** 5:30pm-Action at John McDonogh High school on Esplanade; 6:00pm-Post march rally/celebration at Duncan
*Occupy Greece will join thousands of students and workers will take part in an annual November 17 march marking the anti-junta student uprising in 1973
Occupy Berlin "students, pupils and others will join the "education strike"."
Occupy Spain General Strike from Universities & Schools in many locations; 5pm Demonstration in Madrid, From Nuevos Ministerios to Puerta del Sol Square
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**NY1: Deputy Mayors Defend Zuccotti Park Raid Deputy Mayors Howard Wolfson and Cas Holloway explained to Inside City Hall's Errol Louis why the city decided the clean Zuccotti Park and defends the arrests made during th
**VIDEO: ZUCCOTTI PARK 11-17-11 PROTESTER BEATEN - ARRESTED A protester was allegedly thrown to the ground in the middle of Zuccotti park as a mass of riot gear police seemingly randomly swarmed into the park. This man was dragged bleeding from his head out of the park.
Occupy Chicago: Nov17 National Day of Action! On Thursday, November 17th, 2011, Occupy Chicago will engage in a mass action as part of the National Day of Action!
Thursday, Nov 17 3:30pm - 7:30pm State of Illinois James R Thompson Center 100 West Randolph
MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON Twitters FROM: kgosztola Kevin Gosztola
ABOUT 1 hour ago(11.16.11 1:30pmEST)
CHECK HERE FOR UPDATES ~>Boston city attorneys refused to participate in mediation with @Occupy_Boston. That ultimately swayed judge to issue TRO. #OWS
~>Preliminary hearing for @Occupy_Boston is now scheduled for December 1 from 9-1 pm.
~>This TRO for @Occupy_Boston is huge. No judge has granted preemptive protection to any occupation in the country thus far. #OWS
~>TRO handed down by judge gives @Occupy_Boston camp protection from full sweep in dark of night #OWS
~>@Occupy_Boston gets a temporary restraining order #OWS
OCCUPY GREECE **Guardian: Greek police fire teargas at protesters - video (11.17.11) Police in Athens fired teargas as thousands of Greeks protested against further austerity measures after the new national unity government was confirmed. The annual rally, marking a bloody student uprising on 17 November 1973, often becomes an opportunity for other protests. Unions said they would use the rally to demand the new government reverse the policies that they say sent Greece into a 'death spiral'
OCCUPY BRUSSELS Occupy Ghent University Demonstration Nov 17h Demonstration by students from nearby Ghent University Rectorate and High Schools
7:30 p.m.: General meeting Blandijn.
Guardian: Occupy Cif On 15 November, a month after Occupy London set up camp outside St Paul's cathedral, the Guardian invited them to guest-edit Comment is free (Cif). This series includes all the pieces they wrote and commissioned that day
In SC (!!) First Amendment Attorney Responds to Occupy Arrests
Columbia, SC (WLTX) -- Columbia First Amendment Attorney Jay Bender responded to the Occupy Columbia arrests Wednesday night.
Bender joined News19 at 7 p.m. Wednesday night, minutes after Occupy Columbia protesters were arrested without incident at about 6:20 p.m.
On November 17 at 7am #OccupyWallStreet will march on the NYSE. This Week at one of the largest General Assemblies ever, OWS called upon all of THE 99% movement to stand with them tomorrow in solidarity
Eighty-four-year-old activist Dorli Rainey tells Keith about her experience getting pepper-sprayed by the police during an Occupy Seattle demonstration and the need to take action and spread the word of the Occupy movement. She cites the advice of the late Catholic nun and activist Jackie Hudson to "take one more step out of your comfort zone" as an inspiration, saying, "It would be so easy to say, 'Well I'm going to retire, I'm going to sit around, watch television or eat bonbons,' but somebody's got to keep 'em awake and let 'em know what is really going on in this world."
Capt Ray Lewis Joins OWS Protest,Gives Message to NYPD and Slams The Greed 1% from Zuccotti Park Philadelphia Police Capt Ray Lewis Joins OWS Protest and Gives Message to NYPD from Zuccotti Park.
Why is New York City major Michael Bloomberg defending raids on Zuccotti Park to destroy the Occupy Wall Street protests? The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur breaks it down.
