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****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.
PARTICIPATE 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.
Here is a simple list of "Top Ten Ways to Occupy the Holidays" this year. Simplify your celebrations and use your consumer power to invest in your local community; remember we always vote with our dollar!
Please consider having a Buy Nothing Christmas It's not really about refusing to spend a dime over the holiday season. It's about taking a deep breath and deciding to opt out of the hype‚ the overcrowded malls‚ and the stressful to-do lists. It's about reminding ourselves to really think about what we are buying‚ why we are buying it‚ and whether we really need it at all.
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."
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.
