This video from the USA is called Action Protesting Mortgage Bankers Association Meeting on 10-11-2011, Hyatt Regency Chicago.
Mortgage Bankers Association Comes to Chicago, Receives Wrathful Welcome. Yana Kunichoff, Truthout: “When the Mortgage Bankers Association decided to hold their annual conference in Chicago, they weren’t counting on a welcome committee. What they got was more than 7,000 protesters taking over the road underneath their downtown rooftop reception at the city’s Art Institute, chanting, ‘We are the 99 percent’ and ‘How to fix the deficit? Tax, tax, tax the rich.’ Take Back Chicago, a coalition of labor unions and community groups, were joined by Occupy Chicago in the first of a three-day series of demonstrations around the Mortgage Bankers Association meeting”: here.
Capitalism and Poverty. Richard D. Wolff, MR Zine: “The US Census Bureau recently reported what most Americans already knew. Poverty is deepening. The gap between rich and poor is growing. Slippage soon into the ranks of the poor now confronts tens of millions of Americans who long thought of themselves as securely ‘middle class'”: here.
Domestic Violence Law Repealed in Topeka, Kansas, to Save Money. Joe Lambe, McClatchy Newspapers: “The Topeka City Council on Tuesday voted to repeal the city’s law against misdemeanor domestic battery, the latest in a budget battle that has freed about 30 abuse suspects from charges. One of the offenders was even arrested and released twice since the brouhaha broke out Sept. 8”: here.
On the News With Thom Hartmann: New Poll Shows 53 Percent of Republicans Support Raising Taxes on the Wealthy, and More: here.
Occupy Wall Street Takes the Upper East Side. J.A. Myerson, Truthout: “Fifth Avenue at number 838 is a massive building, overlooking the southeast corner of Central Park. Blocks from the world-famous Plaza Hotel, the only people likely to pass by this block are extremely wealthy. See, New York is a de facto segregated city, by race, by income and by power status. No one who lives on this block or any of the blocks near it is poor, middle class, upper middle class, or even quite well off. The people who live on this block are all extremely rich”: here.
The Fight for “Real Democracy” at the Heart of Occupy Wall Street: here.
Hundreds “Occupy Dublin,” Europe’s Next Greece. Ryan Harvey, Even If Your Voice Shakes: “Hundreds ‘Occupy Dublin’ as Wall Street tactic spreads. ‘What are you protesting against?’ asks a man walking home from the pub last night. ‘Is this about the IMF?’ When I answer that yes, this is about the IMF, he gets excited. ‘Fuck the IMF,’ he says as he starts to walk further into the crowd. For another hour, he enters conversations with various people at the camp site set up in front of the Central Bank of Ireland the day before after an internet call went out to ‘Occupy Dublin'”: here.
Irish domestic violence victims suffer from spending cuts: here.
The Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU) called on the Northern Ireland Executive today to defend the economy of the six counties from the “wasteful and arrogant policies” of the British Con-Dem coalition: here.
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NYC Labor Against the War
10.12 Occupy Wall Street Report: This is SO Not Over
OWS-NYC: INFORMATION & RESOURCES
OccupyWallStreet
The resistance continues at Liberty Square and Nationwide!
http://occupywallst.org/
Donate Money to #occupywallstreet
http://nycga.cc/donate/
NYC General Assembly
The Official Website of the GA at #OccupyWallStreet
http://nycga.cc/
Occupy Wall St.: Immediate Needs
Comfort Committee’s Current NEEDS: thermal wear (especially smaller sizes), blankets, toiletries (especially toothpaste), hats & gloves, towels for showers We do NOT need more ponchos or space blankets. All donations can be sent to: The UPS Store Re: Occupy Wall Street 118A Fulton St. #205 New York, NY 10038
OWS-NYC: UPDATE
Thurs., Oct. 13: Defenders of Mary Ward, 82-Year-Old Facing Eviction, Join with Occupy Wall Street to Fight Foreclosure
The group Organizing for Occupation will bring Occupy Wall Street to Downtown Brooklyn on Thursday, in a joint action from the two groups at Brooklyn Supreme Cout that will call for an end to foreclosure auctions.
http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2011/10/defenders_of_ma.php
Sat., Oct. 15: Take Times Square: Massive convergence
You can come right to Times Square at 5pm or take part in one of many other earlier actions. Student meet up at 12pm, Washington Square Park, Labor March on the Banks 11am from Liberty Square.
https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=159911157436152
Labor Solidarity; Video of cross trade solidarity and activists from Occupy Wall Street at the Sotheby’s auction today
Occupy Wall Street protesters march past millionaires’ NYC homes
When the march reached Park Avenue and East 93rd Street, protesters stopped in front of a building where they said Dimon has an apartment. Marchers screamed, “Where’s our bailout?” and “How do we end this deficit? End the war, tax the rich!”
http://www.lohud.com/article/20111012/NEWS05/110120366/Occupy-Wall-Street-protesters-march-past-millionaires-NYC-homes
Building Bridges Radio: Occupy Wall Street plus Labor and Community Support Despite Police Repression
Occupy Wall Street, the movement whose organizational forms and demands are evolving continues to pick up support including organized labor. Transport Union Local 100, hospitals Local 1199, city workers’ DC 37 AFSCME, UAW Local 2110, Teamster Local 814 and building service workers Local 32-BJ and the United Federation of Teachers were just some of the unions which pledged solidarity at a massive support rally in NYC which drew tens of thousands.
http://nyc.indymedia.org/en/2011/10/116464.html
#OWS Stands In Solidarity With 100 Arrested At Occupy Boston | OccupyWallSt.org
With each passing day, as the violence of the state continues to escalate, the myth of American “democracy” becomes further shattered.
http://www.occupywallst.org/article/ows-solidarity-100-arrested-occupy-boston/
BEYOND OWS-U.S.
About OCCUPY TOGETHER
Welcome to OCCUPY TOGETHER, an unofficial hub for all of the events springing up across the country in solidarity with Occupy Wall St.
http://www.occupytogether.org/
Downloadable Posters
The posters provided on this page are free for you to download, print, and hang up within your community, not only to promote local efforts, but the solidarity of all occupiers around the country. In fact, we highly encourage it as this will be a great means of spreading the word and getting others involved.
http://www.occupytogether.org/downloadable-posters/
Student/Worker March-Occupy Boston-Day 11-Oct. 10, 2011
Lost in the ruckus of yesterday’s police riot on Occupy Boston was the fact that earlier in the day, approximately 10,000 students marched through the streets of Boston in support of the “Occupy” movement.
Protesting a decade of war
Chants like, “Not another nickel, not another dime, no more money for Obama’s crimes,” and “They got bailed out, we got sold out,” reflected the diversity of demands among the crowd. Many carried signs opposing Obama’s increased use of unmanned aerial drones to carry out extra-judicial assassinations in places like Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia as part of a campaign across upstate New York called, “Ground the Drones.” Others brought attention to the $3 billion in direct aid that the U.S. gives Israel each year to enable to continued oppression of Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza.
http://www.socialistworker.org/2011/10/12/protesting-a-decade-of-war
From Occupying the Financial Districts to Occupying the Goods in Our Hoods | Black Agenda Report
“We’ll see a lot more black people involved in this occupation stuff,” J.R. Fleming of the Chicago Anti-Eviction Movement told me, “when we start occupying these thousands of vacant bank-owned homes and apartments. You can take a day to protest downtown, and come back here and you’re still homeless or about to be homeless. When we occupy the goods in our hoods, that will be the occupation that means something to people out here. That will be the occupation that really makes a difference.”
http://www.blackagendareport.com/content/occupying-financial-districts-occupying-goods-our-hoods
A festival, a rebellion, an awakening
Of course they should stand with the workers, an exasperated young woman responded. The workers are the 99% who are ruled and oppressed by the 1% in American society, and that’s exactly with whom Occupy L.A. must stand.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-1012-lopez-occupyla-20111011,0,6934158.column
Occupy the Hood Cleveland
Occupy The Hood stands in Solidarity with the Occupy Wall Street movement… It is imperative that the voice of POC is heard at this moment! We must not be forgotten as the world progresses to the next economical stage. We can all agree that the voices in our communities are especially needed in this humanitarian struggle. We are our future and we posses the energy needed to push the occupy movement to the next phase.
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Occupy-the-Hood-Cleveland/233045550087249
High Court Allows Mumia to Breathe, But He is Still Condemned to Social Death | Glen Ford
The hunger strikers at California’s Pelican Bay prison and tens of thousands like them throughout the U.S. Prison Gulag have been marked for annihilation, in all the ways that matter for human beings. This is not an issue for reformist tinkering, but a fundamental question of human rights. Human rights goals cannot be effectively pursued within the context of institutions that are designed to destroy humanity.
http://www.blackagendareport.com/content/high-court-allows-mumia-breathe-he-still-condemned-social-death
ANALYSIS
OPERATION COOPTATION: THE DEMS TRY TO SEDUCE THE OCCUPATION MOVEMENT | Black Agenda Report
Any collaboration with Obama and his corporate Democrats means the instantaneous death of the movement – and rightly so. Ultimately, finance capital must be utterly destroyed, or it will kill us all. But that’s a truth that will be learned in struggle, once joined.
http://www.blackagendareport.com/content/operation-cooptation-dems-try-seduce-occupation-movement
Freedom Rider: Occupy Wall Street, Denounce the Democrats | Black Agenda Report
Mass action is the only way to prevent further inequality, and further American aggression around the world. Occupy Wall Street can be the beginning of a great movement, or a lost opportunity. The experiment may be in its beginning stages, but the learning curve has to be brief if OWS is to not only remain free from political interference, but make good on its claims of fighting for the interests of working people.
http://www.blackagendareport.com/content/freedom-rider-occupy-wall-street-denounce-democrats
Stepping up the struggle
In every city and town, there are teachers who are under attack, foreclosures mounting, instances of police violence. The Occupy movement can be a part of responding. We want to build the occupations and defend them against police attack. And we also want to build a political space that goes beyond the occupations–a new resistance that brings the spirit of the Occupy movement to workplaces, campuses and communities throughout society.
http://www.socialistworker.org/2011/10/12/stepping-up-the-struggle
We will be here tomorrow
The strength of the Occupy movement lies in the solidarity between all those involved, and this will continue to be the key to the movement’s longevity. “We need to get more workers and more people of color involved in the occupation and to take part in this movement,” Morrill said. “Some are saying that we brought on the police repression. That’s wrong. We have to defend the occupation–ideologically and in real terms.”
http://socialistworker.org/2011/10/12/we-will-be-here-tomorrow
BEYOND OWS: INTERNATIONAL
EGYPT: Egyptians Chant ‘Muslims Christians Are One’ as Military Viciously Attacks Protest
TRNN Report: Angry protestors call for overthrow of the Egyptian military regime as many are killed by Army.
http://www.therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=7439
KOREA: Occupy Wall Street protests spread worldwide as activists plan to take over Seoul, South Korea
The South Korean protest echoes the message of the hundreds camped out in Zuccotti Park for more than three weeks by inspiring the “99%” to stand up against the mega wealthy “1%” who benefit from an unjust, toxic financial system, they say. “We will join the global movement and gather the voices of desperate Koreans,” the group said in a release.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/2011/10/12/2011-10-12_occupy_wall_street_protests_spread_worldwide_as_activists_plan_to_take_over_seou.html
LEBANON: Lebanon pushes ahead with general strike on Wednesday – Economy – Business – Ahram Online
The General Labour Confederation, Lebanon’s largest worker coalition, has spearheaded plans for the 12 October strike demanding a more than doubling of minimum wages in the public and private sectors. Employee unions across the board are vowing to participate in the strike.
http://english.ahram.org.eg/News/23868.aspx
PALESTINE: Hip-hop band DAM supports Palestinian prisoners’ actions with new track
If the swap deal materializes, about five-thousand Palestinian political prisoners still remain in Israeli jails. Every reason for the Hunger Strike for Palestine movement to continue its actions.
http://www.electronicintifada.net/blog/adri-nieuwhof/hip-hop-band-dam-supports-palestinian-prisoners-actions-new-track
UK: Thousands plan protest camp in London’s financial centre inspired by ‘Occupy Wall Street’ campaign
A Facebook page titled ‘Occupy London’s Stock Exchange’ has already amassed over 3,000 people who have agreed to attend the event on October 15 while ‘Occupy London’ on Twitter has over 1,000 followers.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2047277/Thousands-plan-protest-camp-Londons-financial-centre-inspired-Occupy-Wall-Street-campaign.html
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