VICTORY: News announced at Occupy Wall Street

Via Progressive Change Campaign Committee:

The crowd at OccupyWallStreet learns they defeated an attempt to close down the park!

#OccupyWallStreet: 'This is an occupation, not a permitted picnic'

Update: Occupy Wall Street Responds to Bloomberg’s Cleaning ‘Eviction Notice’
After being told that they would have to “temporarily” vacate Zuccotti Park for sanitation reasons by Mayor Bloomberg, Occupy Wall Street responded to what one member is calling “an eviction notice.”
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"We won’t allow Bloomberg and the NYPD to foreclose our occupation.
This is an occupation, not a permitted picnic."

EMERGENCY CALL TO ACTION : Keep Bloomberg and Kelly From Evicting OWS


Mainstream media vs. Occupy Wall Street -- the battle

While the MSM criticizes the demonstrators for being anarchist hippies, corporate media outlets don't actually go into the crowd that much to listen to what the frustrated people have to say. Reporters go live from across the street. TV satellite trucks are on stand-by for violence and arrests. The independent and foreign channels are the ones covering the important issues from within the action. RT's Anastasia Churkina takes a look at media coverage of Occupy Wall Street.

ANONYMOUS OCCUPY WORLD 15th October 2011 #globalrevolution #worldrevolution

How Anonymous emerged to Occupy Wall Street

Mocked at first by some, Occupy Wall Street is showing the potential of online 'hacktivism' allied with street protest
Defying harsh critiques from Stephen Colbert and slews of bloggers who scoffed last week at the "leaderless", "directionless", Frisbee-throwing hipsters camping out on cardboard at a random New York City park in the financial district, Occupy Wall Street appears to be gaining ground. From the modest 200 occupiers last week, numbers of protesters rose to an estimated peak of approximately 3,000 to 5,000 at the weekend's march. Media attention has grown exponentially.

After taking their inspiration from the Egyptian "one demand" model, Occupy Wall Street have now released their list of "one" demands, bringing much-needed clarity to their objectives. The movement has moved to reach out to a broader base, including labor unions. Last week's execution of Troy Davis also contributed to the growth of Occupy Wall Street as crowds of protesters in Zucotti Park, renamed Liberty Plaza, swelled to approximately 1,500 last Thursday night demanding an end to capital punishment.

Violence caught on camera over the weekend of police arresting approximately 80 protesters and, in one now-notorious case, apparently spraying mace into the faces of female protesters has generated an outcry over the NYPD's "cowardly" use of force on peaceful protesters. Thanks to these two incidents, says one protester, Danny Garza, "Occupy Wall Street has gotten bigger than we ever thought it could be."

But the protest's profile cannot be measured purely in numbers of street protesters: on the periphery of Liberty Plaza is a parallel internet-based activism buttressing the movement. Under the banner of the virtual collective Anonymous, these "hacktivists" are now engaged in the physical action of street protest. "Groundfags" in Liberty Park communicate back and forth with online activists. The new dynamics of combined street and online activism have significantly underpinned Occupy Wall Street as a distinctive new movement.

"We can physically be at a protest one day and the next day show up online," according to an Anonymous activist who goes by the name of "MotorMouth". The most concrete example of this symbiotic relationship is the rapid online identification by Anonymous activists of an NYPD officer they claim to have been the perpetrator in the pepper-spray incident.

Naming an individual police officer may be a controversial tactic, but Occupy Wall Street has used social networking media as a positive organisational tool. When it emerged that a handful of activists were prepared to incite rioting and provoke the police days before Occupy Wall Street was to begin, Anonymous developed a Twitter application called URGE, launching an online campaign designed to quell potential violence. Anonymous "culture-jammed" Twitter with messages to keep protests peaceful, using top Twitter trends from around the world.

The involvement of Anonymous activists has also helped the movement make new connections. When activists expressed outrage at Troy Davis's execution on Wednesday night, Anonymous linked the death penalty with the protests. One Anonymous figure, by the name of "Jackal", says: "This is a new way to protest. Many of us have done our fair share of street protesting. But they drag us into the streets, and they mace us. Now we have brought our protests into the online social media space. We do it all at once -- the street protesting along with our distributed denial of service [DDoS] attacks. We are a bit of an online flash mob."

What will become of Occupy Wall Street is uncertain: protesters now face eviction from Zucotti Park; yet the movement has sparked similar activism in Chicago, Boston, Denver and other cities throughout the United States. Much has been written about the "Twitter revolution" dimension of the Arab Spring; now it looks as though, in this emerging alliance between street protest and online activism, the Arab Spring is turning to American Fall.

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Occupy Boston Protests Brookfield Properties

Brookfield properties, owner of Zuccotti Park, is threaten to evict Occupy Wall Street protestors. Occupy Boston protested in front of a Brookfield owned building in Boston to demand Brookfield respect the rights of people to peaceful protest.

OWS Goes Global on Oct15

On October 15th, occupy protests will take place in 719 cities in 71 countries. Aside from the US, countries like Argentina, Russia, Canada, Turkey, Australia, India, and pretty much every country in Europe, to name a few. Just like the Occupy protests underway in the US, this movement will also be peaceful, where people can sit down and talk about ways to improve the current standard of living.

Citizens of China rally to support the Occupy Wall Street Movement
Holding banners which wrote "Absolutely support the American people’s great ‘Occupy Wall Street revolution’", people gathered and passed around flyers about the event happening in New York.

Occupy DC protest 0n Capitol Hill


ANONYMOUS - World Revolution is coming - now in demand


Occupy Wall Street Is Just the Beginning: the Battle Against Financial Darwinism
Nothing about the Occupy Wall Street movement should come as a great surprise, given the events of the past four years. The movement is emblematic of how people eventually respond to tyranny.

The Modern-Day British East India Company: The CIA
Just as the British Empire was in part financed by their control of the opium trade through the British East India Company, so too has the CIA been found time after time to be at the heart of the modern international drug trade. From its very inception, the CIA has been embroiled in the murky underworld of drug trafficking.

EU’s actions could lead to revolutions in Greece and Portugal
The expanded bailout fund will not help if Italy or Spain is dragged into the economic crisis, and the austerity packages are driving Greece and Portugal to revolutions, warned British European Parliament member Nigel Farage.

Interpreting the Land Grab
The so-called “global land grab” continues the historic process of land enclosures described by Sir Thomas More in Utopia as “sheep eating men,” when English peasants were evicted from the commons to make room for private estates.

Afghan Energy Wars

Antonia Juhasz: From oil production to pipelines, energy is a major factor why the US won't leave Afghanistan anytime soon

5/10/11 Strike in Athens, Greece (Eng subs)

5 October 2011 Strike in the public sector, Athens, Greece. Thousands workers demonstrated, united with the university and the school students, in the center of Athens, against the harsh measures of the goverment, the EU and the IMF. The police attacked journalists and strikers, throwing teargas and hitting people even inside the metro station.

Wall Street to Cut Bonuses in 2012, New York’s DiNapoli Says
Wall Street will cut bonuses next year as revenue drops amid a sluggish U.S. economic recovery, the European debt crisis and new compensation structures to curb risk taking, New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli said.

First Statement from #OccupyDameStreet
The General Assembly from #OccupyDameStreet has released their first statement since they began the occupation near the Irish Central Bank in Dublin.

Occupy Dame Street:: Irish Central Bank in Dublin's City Center
#OccupyDameStreet filmed and cut in three hours on the 9th of October 2011.

The Occupation Goes Global - Next Stop Ireland - Occupy Dame Street


Pushing for world peace
In 1967, Howard and Rosemary Harris were two of many Americans that were tired of seeing the damage done to their country by the Vietnam War. In a time when many were taking to the streets, protesting with actions and words, the Bellingham couple decided to do their part in the resistance. Howard declared he would stand in front of the Bellingham Federal Building in a silent peace vigil every day until the war ended.
This dedication sparked a movement, and Bellingham’s Friday afternoon peace vigil is recognized as the longest-running weekly peace demonstration in the nation, according to the Whatcom Peace and Justice Center.

The Power of Music: A Call to Revolution
The power of music is undeniable. In ancient times it was used for religious ceremonies to bring people closer to god. Drums, bagpipes, flutes, and trumpets have led soldiers into battle, and it is music that brings people together in harmony as they protest what is wrong in our world.


Excerpt: "About Face: Military Resisters Turn Against War"
Benjamin “Benji” Lewis was honorably discharged from the Marines after two deployments to Iraq. Subsequent to his discharge, Benji was notified that the Marines were considering recalling him to active duty. On October 18, 2008, at a Winter Soldier event in Portland, Oregon, he announced his intention to refuse to return to the Marines.

Non-violent Resistance: The Sahrawi People Under Moroccan Occupation – OpEd
Women have not been spared. Sahrawi women were always part of the struggle and have played a vital role in fighting against the Moroccan regime through peaceful resistance. These women endure being beaten, sometimes raped, denied their legal rights, and their houses ransacked.

Gay African Man Beaten, Burned Alive By Angry Mob (Extremely Graphic Video)
Real talk, this is the most graphic and shocking example of violence we’ve ever seen in our lives. This video is not for the faint of heart. Hell, it’s not even for most human beings. We honestly argued with one another here in the UB office over who had to cover it, because none of us could even stand to make it all the way through the video.

The Extinction Protocol: 2012 and beyond

The illusion of peaceful revolutions
There are numerous illusions about the "Arab Spring", some of which are apparent and clear to any observer, whilst others may require years or even decades for us to uncover.

One Indignant marcher brutally kicked in the face by a policeman in civilian cloth[es]

Wednesday 12th of October of 2011, a group of 30 indignant decided to occupy the headquaters on Dexia Bank in Brussels. As characteristic of this movement, the occupation was done pacifically sitting in the sofas of the reception hall and pasting flyers on the windows on that floor. Minutes after uniformed police and other citizens appeared in the building and began to push them with the objective of throwing them out.
They directed them to the door. Some of them stayed behind and began to be reduced to the floor violently, pushed down with their hands behind their backs and handcuffed.
One of the officers, dressed in civilian clothing and without identifying himself pushed one of the idignants, a girl of Greek origin, making her fall to the floor, grabbing her by the hair and dragging her on the floor, finally punching her in the face. Those already in the exterior of the building began to offer their support to their colleages by shouting and singing against the violence.
When all those detained were together on the floor in a circle, the same police officer responsable for the aggression minutes earlier returned to the same girl and kicked her in the face while she was handcuffed and defenseless.
After a while, the people outside managed to speak with the police. They promised the police to leave if they let go of those detained. 20 minutes later, the 7 people were freed and they exchanged a big collective hug and continued on their way.

Desperate Greece

I put this together a couple of days ago but a post by The Boiling Frog, highlighting a Telegraph article, has prodded me into putting it up.

There is a sneaking area of concern I have for my fellow human beings in Greece, and I’m sorry if I seem to be verging on the conspiratorial.

We know that a team of European Union apparatchiks have been assigned to Greece to ‘help’ impose the austerity measures demanded of the EU, and we know that a EU armed force, Frontex (under investigation already it seems) has been sent to Greece to help to contain an influx of refugees.
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Should the situation become too much for the nation states’ baton-wielding police, we have a paramilitary force waiting in the wings – Eurogendfor (European Gendarmerie Force).

Uranus in Aries ~ A Taste of Armageddon
Do you remember the Star Trek episode, A Taste of Armageddon (1967), where people fought a computerized war and reported to disintegration booths as casualties?

WHY WE REMEMBER THE FIFTH OF NOVEMBER
GUY FAWKES AND HIS FIREWORKS
"Penny for the old guy!" "Penny for the old guy!" Why do we remember 5th November with bonfires and fireworks? There is a reason, as you will see.

Vivi Bach & Dietmar Schönherr - Molotow Cocktail Party


Pig Business — a film by Tracy Worcester
The film reveals that that these huge meat factories overcrowd and mistreat the animals, put small farmers out of business and pollute the water and air endangering the health of local residents.

The Disturbing Secrets of the Air Force’s Jesus Loves Nukes Nuclear Missile Program

From Gizmodo:

Jesus loves everyone. He loves innocents, he loves sinners, he loves cream colored ponies and crisp apple strudels. And according to the United States Air Force, Jesus loves atomic intercontinental ballistic missiles and nuclear mass-murdering too. That's basically what they have been telling their nuclear missile officers for decades under a special ethics training program colloquially known as Jesus Loves Nukes. It seems that the use of nuclear weapons to destroy enemy populations is perfectly fine according to their interpretation of Christian ethics. Now, after being exposed by Truth-Out and the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, the Air Force is canceling it.

What is it?

The "ethics" training—imparted by USAF chaplains—uses many passages of the Old and New Testament to justify the use of atomic weapons to obliterate innocent populations (aka the enemy). Its core document, a 43-page Powerpoint presentation, also quotes St Augustine's Causes to Just War. It contains references to Hiroshima and Nagasaki too, teaching the official—and much debated—excuse for the bombing of those two Japanese cities.

The document also dedicates an entire slide to rocket scientist Wernher Von Braun, who justifies the use of missiles as a morally just decision:

We knew that we had created a new means of warfare and the question as to what nation, to what victorious nation we were willing to entrust this brainchild of ours was a moral decision more than anything else. We wanted to see the world spared another conflict such as Germany had just been through and we felt that only by surrendering such a weapon to people who are guided by the Bible could such an assurance to the world be best secured.

Braun, before becoming one of the fathers of the space program, was a Nazi scientist who used Jewish prisoners to make the V-2 missiles that terrorized London during the end of World War II. Those words were his justification for the use of those bombs. By the way, the emphasis on that quote is in the original document.

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