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Occupy Wallstreet is growing
Oct 6, 2011
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Since September 17th, there has been an ongoing, peaceful occupation of Zuccoti park - now renamed
Freedom Plaza - by protesters who are frustrated with the division of wealth and power in society.
These non-violent protestors have faced a mainstream media blackout (until recently) been arrested
and beaten en mass by the police (The NYPD incendentally, recently recieved a "donation"
of 4.6 million dollars by JP Morgan chase - one of the banks who has recieved
heavy scrutiny from protesters ). Yet with each day this movement grows stronger, gaining
support from labor unions, veterans, marines, celebrities, independent and mainstream media,
Anonymous, and sympathizers all over the world.
watch the live stream
On September 15, this movement will grow around the world. OccupyTogether currently has events listed in over 750 locations around the
world.
What do you think about this recent development? How can we channel this energy and creativity
towards lasting social change?
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Re: Occupy Wallstreet is growing
Oct 7, 2011
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"Occupy Together", now has over 873 participating cities and over 70,000 members on
facebook. The movement is growing, and more people join every day.
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Re: Occupy Wallstreet is growing
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I hope the protest movement can stay focused on it's original objectives.
Wall street and the banking system have ruined our economy by using undue influence over our
governments legislators.
I fear the movement is now being hijacked and taken over by a myriad of other groups. The final
effect will be to dilute Occupy Wallstreet's demands and turn it into a circus, or merely a demand
for more jobs... We need to remove Wallstreets financial influence over our government
legislation...
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Occupy Wall Street: The Most Important Thing in the World Now / Naomi Klein - October 6, 2011
Oct 7, 2011
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I was honored to be invited to speak at Occupy Wall Street on Thursday night. Since amplification is
(disgracefully) banned, and everything I say will have to be repeated by hundreds of people so
others can hear (a k a “the human microphone”), what I actually say at Liberty Plaza will
have to be very short. With that in mind, here is the longer, uncut version of the speech.
I love you.
And I didn’t just say that so that hundreds of you would shout “I love you” back, though that
is obviously a bonus feature of the human microphone. Say unto others what you would have them say
unto you, only way louder.
Yesterday, one of the speakers at the labor rally said: “We found each other.” That sentiment
captures the beauty of what is being created here. A wide-open space (as well as an idea so big it
can’t be contained by any space) for all the people who want a better world to find each other. We
are so grateful.
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Re: Occupy Wallstreet is growing
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If there is one thing I know, it is that the 1 percent loves a crisis. When people are panicked and
desperate and no one seems to know what to do, that is the ideal time to push through their wish
list of pro-corporate policies: privatizing education and social security, slashing public services,
getting rid of the last constraints on corporate power. Amidst the economic crisis, this is
happening the world over.
And there is only one thing that can block this tactic, and fortunately, it’s a very big thing:
the 99 percent. And that 99 percent is taking to the streets from Madison to Madrid to say “No. We
will not pay for your crisis.”
That slogan began in Italy in 2008. It ricocheted to Greece and France and Ireland and finally it
has made its way to the square mile where the crisis began.
“Why are they protesting?” ask the baffled pundits on TV. Meanwhile, the rest of the world asks:
“What took you so long?” “We’ve been wondering when you were going to show up.” And most
of all: “Welcome.”
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Many people have drawn parallels between Occupy Wall Street and the so-called anti-globalization
protests that came to world attention in Seattle in 1999. That was the last time a global,
youth-led, decentralized movement took direct aim at corporate power. And I am proud to have been
part of what we called “the movement of movements.”
But there are important differences too. For instance, we chose summits as our targets: the World
Trade Organization, the International Monetary Fund, the G8. Summits are transient by their nature,
they only last a week. That made us transient too. We’d appear, grab world headlines, then
disappear. And in the frenzy of hyper patriotism and militarism that followed the 9/11 attacks, it
was easy to sweep us away completely, at least in North America.
Occupy Wall Street, on the other hand, has chosen a fixed target. And you have put no end date on
your presence here. This is wise. Only when you stay put can you grow roots. This is crucial. It is
a fact of the information age that too many movements spring up like beautiful flowers but quickly
die off. It’s because they don’t have roots. And they don’t have long term plans for how they
are going to sustain themselves. So when storms come, they get washed away.
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Re: Occupy Wallstreet is growing
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Being horizontal and deeply democratic is wonderful. But these principles are compatible with the
hard work of building structures and institutions that are sturdy enough to weather the storms
ahead. I have great faith that this will happen.
Something else this movement is doing right: You have committed yourselves to non-violence. You have
refused to give the media the images of broken windows and street fights it craves so desperately.
And that tremendous discipline has meant that, again and again, the story has been the disgraceful
and unprovoked police brutality. Which we saw more of just last night. Meanwhile, support for this
movement grows and grows. More wisdom.
But the biggest difference a decade makes is that in 1999, we were taking on capitalism at the peak
of a frenzied economic boom. Unemployment was low, stock portfolios were bulging. The media was
drunk on easy money. Back then it was all about start-ups, not shutdowns.
We pointed out that the deregulation behind the frenzy came at a price. It was damaging to labor
standards. It was damaging to environmental standards. Corporations were becoming more powerful than
governments and that was damaging to our democracies. But to be honest with you, while the good
times rolled, taking on an economic system based on greed was a tough sell, at least in rich
countries.
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Ten years later, it seems as if there aren’t any more rich countries. Just a whole lot of rich
people. People who got rich looting the public wealth and exhausting natural resources around the
world.
The point is, today everyone can see that the system is deeply unjust and careening out of control.
Unfettered greed has trashed the global economy. And it is trashing the natural world as well. We
are overfishing our oceans, polluting our water with fracking and deepwater drilling, turning to the
dirtiest forms of energy on the planet, like the Alberta tar sands. And the atmosphere cannot absorb
the amount of carbon we are putting into it, creating dangerous warming. The new normal is serial
disasters: economic and ecological.
These are the facts on the ground. They are so blatant, so obvious, that it is a lot easier to
connect with the public than it was in 1999, and to build the movement quickly.
We all know, or at least sense, that the world is upside down: we act as if there is no end to what
is actually finite—fossil fuels and the atmospheric space to absorb their emissions. And we act as
if there are strict and immovable limits to what is actually bountiful—the financial resources to
build the kind of society we need.
The task of our time is to turn this around: to challenge this false scarcity. To insist that we can
afford to build a decent, inclusive society—while at the same time, respect the real limits to
what the earth can take.
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What climate change means is that we have to do this on a deadline. This time our movement cannot
get distracted, divided, burned out or swept away by events. This time we have to succeed. And I’m
not talking about regulating the banks and increasing taxes on the rich, though that’s
important.
I am talking about changing the underlying values that govern our society. That is hard to fit into
a single media-friendly demand, and it’s also hard to figure out how to do it. But it is no less
urgent for being difficult.
That is what I see happening in this square. In the way you are feeding each other, keeping each
other warm, sharing information freely and proving health care, meditation classes and empowerment
training. My favorite sign here says, “I care about you.” In a culture that trains people to
avoid each other’s gaze, to say, “Let them die,” that is a deeply radical statement.
A few final thoughts. In this great struggle, here are some things that don’t matter.
§ What we wear.
§ Whether we shake our fists or make peace signs.
§ Whether we can fit our dreams for a better world into a media soundbite.
And here are a few things that do matter.
§ Our courage.
§ Our moral compass.
§ How we treat each other.
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We have picked a fight with the most powerful economic and political forces on the planet. That’s
frightening. And as this movement grows from strength to strength, it will get more frightening.
Always be aware that there will be a temptation to shift to smaller targets—like, say, the person
sitting next to you at this meeting. After all, that is a battle that’s easier to win.
Don’t give in to the temptation. I’m not saying don’t call each other on shit. But this time,
let’s treat each other as if we plan to work side by side in struggle for many, many years to
come. Because the task before will demand nothing less.
Let’s treat this beautiful movement as if it is most important thing in the world. Because it is.
It really is.
Editor’s Note: Naomi’s speech also appeared in Saturday’s edition of the Occupied Wall Street
Journal.
Naomi Klein
October 6, 2011
http://www.thenation.com/article/163844/occupy-wall-street-most-important-thing-world-now
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Re: Occupy Wallstreet is growing
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I hope that this movement continue growing!
Good lucky people that looking for another system.
I'm brazilian and I'm with you in heart and soul!
Go on!!
Occupy All Streets in the World!!!
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Re: Occupy Wallstreet is growing
Oct 9, 2011
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Hi, folks.
Do you think that this movement will be a long-lasting one ?
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Re: Occupy Wallstreet is growing
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Sign the petition Avazz: Please
The World vs Wall Street
http://www.avaaz.org/en/the_world_vs_wall_st/?fp
thanks
This post was edited on: 2011-10-09 at 01:58 PM by: Elaine CrisXavante (Comitiva
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Re: Occupy Wallstreet is growing
Oct 12, 2011
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Great to see people standing up for their values. It is people that take action that can make a
change. Unfortunately today's world is not idealistic, but is controlled by a well entrenched and
established corporate system, based purely on profit and greed. But the true power in change will
not only come from physical protest, but from the spread of knowledge, ideas, and information via
the internet. It is the internet that holds the cards, we just have to realize it's power and
potential to make a change for the better.
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Oct 12, 2011
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"Wall Street" by Beecher's Fault
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVOLTrhXhac
www.beechersfault.com
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