One Day Occupy L.A. from Alessandro Cima on Vimeo.
The Reverend Billy of the Church of Stop Shopping.
One Day Occupy L.A.
The music and words in this film are by Tom Morello (nightwatchmanmusic.com), former Rage Against the Machine guitarist. He sings his own 'Maximum Firepower' and Woody Guthrie's 'This Land is Your Land.'
The mood at City Hall was high energy and cheerful. The underlying anger and frustration of the movement seemed to be moving through a positive channel. It was exciting but also comfortable there because of the people and their open attitudes.
The Los Angeles police headquarters is directly across the street from the protest grounds. That's where I began shooting my film - right into the windows of police headquarters. Several squad cars drove up First Street, but there was not a single cop anywhere near the protest area. The crowd is organized and respectful, but also very serious about its messages which are various and multifaceted.
The city has taken a protective stance over its protesters. I'm very proud of Los Angeles for this.
Occupy Los Angeles is one of the spreading protests coming out of the Occupy Wall Street protest in New York. Hopefully, the incredible momentum of the movement will continue and be heard very clearly across the country and the world.
The simple messages that I get from the protests are that government cannot function while it is under the control and influence of corporations. The economy cannot function properly while corporations and their extremely wealthy owners are allowed to operate without oversight and control. The country cannot pave its roads or build its schools or house its people while corporations and the wealthy play with money that is nearly tax-free, removing it entirely from the real world economy. The country cannot function as a democracy while its politicians and Supreme Court justices are working for corporations. The country cannot be free while racism and bigotry are increasingly seen as legitimate reactions to change. The country cannot be secure while corporations are given the power to run wars and people's basic privacy rights are removed.
That's what I see in the Occupy movement.
If every city in the U.S. could have as fine an Occupy movement as Los Angeles, they would be very lucky indeed."
Why Musicians Matter to the Occupy Movement
As far as we're concerned, the more music, the merrier; the louder, the better.
'Occupy' movement reaches New Zealand
Almost 2000 protesters with tents and sleeping bags plan to occupy Auckland's Aotea Square for the next six weeks as part of a worldwide grassroots movement against corporate greed and inequality.
‘Writers in Support of the Occupy Movement’ Petition Counts 200+ Signatures
The petition is composed of a single sentence: “We, the undersigned writers and all who will join us, support Occupy Wall Street and the Occupy Movement around the world.” So far, the petition has virtual signatures from Alison Bechdel, Samuel R. Delaney, Jennifer Egan, Barbara Ehrenreich, Neil Gaiman, Jonathan Lethem, Ann Patchett, Salman Rushdie and many other authors.
Deepak Chopra - The 'Occupy' Movement: Turning Anger Into Awareness
If you haven't found yourself caught up in the Occupy movement yet, the best place is in the thick of the action. I went down to Wall Street one night to see for myself. Like many people, if not all, the outcome of the financial crash still rankled. No one can watch the TV coverage of the Occupy America sit-ins and marches without sharing in some kind of frustration and anger.
Occupy movement goes global - in pictures
Occupy Wall Street protests are linking up with other Occupy movements around the world
10 Ways to Support the Occupy Movement
There are many things you can do to be part of this growing movement—and only some of them involve sleeping outside.
Top 15 Ideas For The Occupy Movement Right Now
Written for you, all of you, from some friends in Portland, Oregon.
Occupy Wall Street, JPMorgan, And The Fall Of The Banks
There is a connection between JPMorgan’s disappointing earnings, and what probably will be a disappointing earnings season for the whole sector, and the Occupy Wall Street movement.
Saturday, October 15, 2011
Rev. Billy - Moving Words to Occupy - REVOLUYAH!
A manifesto for regime change on behalf of all humanity
Inspired by protests from Tunis to New York, activists and people's assemblies have collaborated on a vision for a new global governance
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United for #GlobalDemocracy
On 15 October 2011, united in our diversity, united for global change, we demand global democracy: global governance by the people, for the people. Inspired by our sisters and brothers in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Syria, Bahrain, New York, Palestine-Israel, Spain and Greece, we too call for a regime change: a global regime change.
In the words of Vandana Shiva, the Indian activist, today we demand replacing the G8 with the whole of humanity – the G7,000,000,000.
Undemocratic international institutions are our global Mubarak, our global Assad, our global Gaddafi. These include: the IMF, the WTO, global markets, multinational banks, the G8/G20, the European Central Bank and the UN security council. Like Mubarak and Assad, these institutions must not be allowed to run people's lives without their consent. We are all born equal, rich or poor, woman or man. Every African and Asian is equal to every European and American. Our global institutions must reflect this, or be overturned.
Today, more than ever before, global forces shape people's lives. Our jobs, health, housing, education and pensions are controlled by global banks, markets, tax-havens, corporations and financial crises. Our environment is being destroyed by pollution in other continents. Our safety is determined by international wars and international trade in arms, drugs and natural resources. We are losing control over our lives. This must stop. This will stop. The citizens of the world must get control over the decisions that influence them in all levels – from global to local. That is global democracy. That is what we demand today.
Today, like the Mexican Zapatistas, we say "¡Ya basta! Aquí el pueblo manda y el gobierno obedece": Enough! Here the people command and global institutions obey! Like the Spanish Tomalaplaza we say "Democracia Real Ya": True global democracy now!" Today we call the citizens of the world: let us globalise Tahrir Square! Let us globalise Puerta del Sol!
Guide for civilian participation on #15OCT
From Tahrir to Toronto: it’s time to occupy the world!
It is time to occupy the world. We are the masses. We are the power. We have glimpses of what we want. We need only have the courage to fight for it.
After Goldman, Italian Protestors Besiege, Storm Headquarters Of Berlusconi's Fininvest
First Goldman, next the heart of all that is wrong and corrupt with Italian politics: the headquarters of Silvio Berlusconi's Milan Fininvest office itself. And this is just the beginning...
From Wall Street to South Africa - The Rebellion of the Poor
In The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck’s novel about the Great Depression, Tom Joad, the novel’s central character, a man who has been made poor and who is on the run from the law, tells his mother in the climactic scene that: “I been thinking about us, too, about our people living like pigs and good rich land layin’ fallow. Or maybe one guy with a million acres and a hundred thousand farmers starvin’. And I been wonderin’ if all our folks got together….”
Occupy the World
Day of global Occupy protests gets underway
People of the world urged to 'rise up' and 'claim their rights and demand a true democracy'
A day of worldwide protests inspired by the Occupy Wall Street movement in the United States began Saturday with the hundreds of people gathering in cities from Japan and South Korea to Australia.
We Are The Ones
"Human history has been recorded as a succession of wars and changing empires. But a ray of hope has been carried forth throughout the Ages by Dreamers who have envisioned a more peaceful, just and sustainable world.
These Visionaries have manifested milestones that have transformed the world as it had been -- rewriting the rules that governed that society so that they were more fair, just and equitable -- more Utopian. The Magna Carta, The US Constitution, and The Universal Declaration of Human Rights were quantum leaps forward in our collective quest for a better world. We still have far to go, but we can help create that better world countless Dreamers have imagined, wished for, and endeavored to make come true. Every moment has brought us to this moment. We are the ones we've been waiting for to manifest our shared Peacetopian Dream." - Robert Alan - BetterWorldQuotes.com
Message To Humanity: The Time is Now - The rEvolution Is Coming!
A revolution is coming to America.. Not Just America but the World, people are waking up and finally realising how the world works and that their rights as free human beings are slowly being taken away from them.. The 99% are rising up!
The Nation: The 99 Percent Rise Up
Occupy Wall Street started small, took a beating from the cops and struggled for weeks to get the attention of the political class, the media and even its own natural allies. The only thing going for this unlikely intervention has been the pitch-perfect resonance of its founding premises. The American people understood Occupy Wall Street, and began to embrace its promise, long before the mandarins who presume to chart our national discourse noticed that everything was changing. That's because the generators of this movement—and it is a movement—have gotten three things right from the start...
15th of October - REVOLUTION WORLDWIDE
OCCUPY EVERWHWERE! watch live: http://globalrevolution.tv/ END THE FED!
Can a Supercomputer Predict a Revolution?
On Dec. 6, 1941, the Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS), a radio monitoring operation set up by the U.S. intelligence community and one of the earliest experiments in what it now called open-source intelligence, delivered its very first report, an analysis of Japanese media sentiment. The report noted that Japanese radio stations had sharply increased their level of criticism of the United States and dropped their calls for peace. The next day, Pearl Harbor was attacked.
#Syntagma release on #DIRECTDEMOCRACY #globalchange
At Zuccotti Park Occupy Wall Street protesters are disconnected from the news. Since most of their time is taking up Occupying Wall Street and not in front of a television, a group came together to bring the news to the protesters. Arun Gupta, head of The Indypendent newspaper, tells us why it was important to have a newspaper for the Occupy Wall Street movement.
OWS Contagious: Global Revolution Live
The anti-corporate protests in America have spread, and so now have the arrests, and the accusations of police heavy handedness. Dozens more activists have been taken into custody across several cities. One New Yorker was pushed face-down into the pavement, after apparently being run over by a police motorcycle. By the thousands of demonstrators camping out in a park near Wall Street for a month, have claimed a victory over the mayor. Michael Bloomberg's orders to evict them under the pretext of a clean-up, were overturned when the park's owners said the protesters can stay - for now. The movement against corporate influence has gone global, with demonstrations planned in dozens of cities worldwide. But the American members of "Occupy together" claim they're still being ignored by the mainstream media. RT's Marina Portnaya met an activist who's breaking the information blockade.
Incredible Speech By Wall Street Protester "End The Fed" 2011
Chris Savvinidis
Protesters in Tokyo join 24-hour global 'Occupy Wall Street' movement
Groups spanning the globe from Asia to Europe—and in every U.S. state—announced demonstrations and other action on Saturday protesting corporate greed and inequality in what organizers describe as 24 hours of public action.
Détournement in Bahrain: Revolutionary arts & crafts
Recently some Bahrainis have taken to collecting used rubber bullets/slugs and tear gas canisters that the regime's security forces fire at protesters in clashes almost every night in villages around the country. With some glue and a pair of scissors,the spent ammunition is then creatively put together to make something altogether new and with the opposite message intended for it.
Occupy Melbourne joins day of global solidarity
The Occupy Melbourne day in Melbourne's City Square kicked off with approximately 750 people and a large number of police.
Globe against the greedy: protests spill worldwide
Protests against economic mismanagement and corporate greed are going global. In addition to the Occupy Wall Street movement sweeping the US, protesters from over 70 European and Asian nations are set to hold co-ordinated mass rallies on October 15.
Israel to build new east Jerusalem district
Israel has formally submitted plans for a new settlement neighbourhood in annexed east Jerusalem in what will be the sector`s first new district in 14 years, Peace Now said on Friday.
Six60 - Rise Up 2.0
The new Six60 music video for Rise Up 2.0 exclusive to Rip It Up ripitup.co.nz.
Friday, October 14, 2011
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
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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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