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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.
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 NANTES *Occupy Nantes: the new camp outraged / disgusted (photo diary)
(this is in french. it says: We do not loose anything. Take Back our street, we reclaimed our lives. After a series of intimidation, lies, harassment, arrests and other controls by the police nantes (photo 1) for a week, campers of the People's Square, formerly the Place Royale decided in a due to the disorder-pressure-cops to move their camp to Hotel Dieu (next to Skate Park). The police strategy is to offset the camp and put under pressure to eliminate the movement: for now, it's not. On the contrary: a big couple of tents, sofas, barbecue and even a yurt is located just steps from the tram stop in front of the fresco of Royal de Luxe (photo 2). As the Place Royale, the public space has been reclaimed (photos 3, 4, 5, 6, 7). Since the camp outraged / disgusted was removed in favor of the Christmas market capitalist mercantile shed better than Christmas, would fight a cabin under construction (photo 8) ... The camp is in the grip of police pressure. Solidarity is needed. Feel free to spend sleeping, exchange, you rebel ...
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'
*Behind the scenes of OWS-INfocus-11-06-2011 We have heard a lot about what they stand for but not how they organized to make this happen. This occupation runs like a village with lots of participation from a diverse group of articulate people. "Behind the scenes of occupy Wall Street is an organization that is pretty invisible. It is decentralized, it's bottom up and it's organized into working committees," editor of the Mediachannel.org, Danny Schechter says. In this edition of the show we will take you behind the scenes of Occupy Wall Street to show you how it all works.
