Tomorrow, the Aviation Week and Credit Suisse will be holding
their 17th annual Aerospace & Defense Finance Conference in
NYC. These war profiteers export death in the name of defense.
They have obscene influence over our democracy with politicians
in their pockets and hundreds of lobbyists working congress.
They sell arms to to the 1% so that war can be waged against the 99% in efficient and technologically
advanced ways. #OWS will not stand silent as these dangerous parasites take our tax dollars and
turn them into arms and profit.
WHEN: Wednesday, 11/30, two rallies/marches--6:30am meet up and rally to non-violently
interrupt business as usual as delegates enter the conference, and 4:30pm to rally against militarism.
WHERE: Both rallies are In Madison Sq. Park near the intersection of 24th and Madison.
The Conference is being held at One Madison Avenue 12th Floor -
(Park Ave South between 24th & 23rd streets).
Originally published on Nov. 19, 2011, 8:35 p.m. EST by OccupyWallSt
Proposal for a Coordinated West Coast Port Shutdown, Passed With Unanimous
Consensus by vote of the Occupy Oakland General Assembly 11/18/2012:
In response to coordinated attacks on the occupations and attacks on workers across the nation:
Occupy Oakland calls for the blockade and disruption of the economic apparatus of the 1% with
a coordinated shutdown of ports on the entire West Coast on December 12th. The 1% has
disrupted the lives of longshoremen and port truckers and the workers who create their wealth,
just as coordinated nationwide police attacks have turned our cities into battlegrounds in an effort
to disrupt our Occupy movement.Read More...
"If it wasn't for them [NYPD], we'd be meeting and talking about solutions and how to make our world a better place right now. Instead, we're talking about our personal safety."
- Heard outside the park
Posted 8 hours ago on Nov. 15, 2011, 1:20 a.m. EST by OccupyWallSt
Liberty Square (Zuccotti Park), home of Occupy Wall Street for the past two months and birthplace of the 99% movement that has spread across the country and around the world, is presently being evicted by a large police force in full riot gear.
We will reoccupy!
Updates
6:05 a.m. Liberty Square has been cleared. General assembly under way at Foley Square.
3:36 a.m. Kitchen tent reported teargassed. Police moving in with zip cuffs.
3:33 a.m. Bulldozers moving in
3:16 a.m. Occupiers linking arms around riot police
3:15 a.m. NYPD destroying personal items. Occupiers prevented from leaving with their possessions.
In a growing national trend spotlighting the aggression, inequality, injustice and ruling class oppression over The People, the University of California Police Department, Berkeley showed up on campus this past Wednesday in riot gear and began without provocation, assaulting unarmed students - who remained peaceful and unmoved - for having the audacity to engage in assembly and speech.
In an effort to protest in solidarity with the Occupy Movement - specifically taking on the issue of the enormous costs of higher learning - students at Berkeley setup occupation-style tents on campus. Shortly thereafter, riot police moved in to exert force on the college kids. Armed with riot batons, beanbag guns, shielded helmets, a tacky amount of body armor, and an apparent total lack of moral code whatsoever - these cowards of men and woman who wear the UCPD, Berkeley Police shield began brutally assaulting America's children. Their souls, traded for the cheap and arbitrary effort of removing and destroying the tents that the students had set up.
The video (below) shows a total absence of any provocation for, or justification of, the violence that police indiscriminately distributed against the crowd of student protesters. The police simply, all of the sudden, begin beating protesters with their batons - hitting them in the ribs, the arms, the legs, the breasts, the hands, and even some in the head.
One brave, sandal-wearing, Peaceful Resister at the front of the line is seen gesturing repeatedly to the police that they are being watched. He stands his ground. He takes their beatings. He shows them the damage that they have inflicted to his hand. He tries to help protect another protester (who is obviously already injured) from the police baton that is relentlessly swinging towards his head. Instead, he draws more clubs in his own direction. This student is courage. These police cannot recognize it.
Eventually, the unified chant of "Stop beating students!" seemed to have it's intended effect. The police, who CHOSE to brutalize a crowd of college kids, could not move them. This is the bravest generation. Though their objective of removing the tents was complete, the police could not intimidate the crowd into dispersing. They could only retreat. Within 2 minutes of the police line moving back, students floated in new tents. And celebrated their momentary victory.
The police continued to pursue their tyrannical objectives by way of human rights violations into the night. This is a testament to the resolve and fortitude of the hearts of these brave students. This young generation who knows their rights and will not be separated from them. This young generation who knows what's right and will not settle for less. This young generation, that may have once been mistaken by it's predecessors for a socially awkward and technologically subdued, bunch of doomed slackers, has turned out to be a socially networked and technologically advanced bunch of true brave-hearts.
The video can be hard to watch. At a certain point, the brutality of some of the cops on the line in particular, seem clearly to stem from deep rooted sadism. Others, it seems clear, are not as comfortable with carrying out their orders to attack unarmed civilians. This is a testament to the human spirit being greater than the mind alone. Whether or not any of these such officers will step forward to denounce their department and beg the forgiveness of The People for carrying out such atrocious orders - orders that were clearly illegal, but more remarkably immoral - has yet to be seen. We are hopeful.
The University of California Police Department, Berkeley's facebook page has been getting quite a bit of attention lately. One political science student left a comment stating quite reasonably, "You beat me with a baton. I'd appreciate it if you didn't do that again." This kind of firm holding to reason and rational behavior is another testament to this new brand of freedom fighters. Their peaceful resistance stands firm, even in the face of violent oppressors exerting brute force over peaceful people, like grade school bullies on the playground searching for prey to assert their aggression on, as supposed evidence of their authority; desperately seeking a way to violently define themselves as worthy of respecting; angrily wanting for a way to feel a little less afraid of their entire world.
You can beat us down, but you cannot keep us down.
We know our rights.
We are here to claim them.
We are all Berkeley - and we are not afraid of you.
Posted Nov. 4, 2011, 11:28 a.m. EST by OccupyWallSt
To help expose the looming cash-for-immunity deal between the Obama administration and big banks, Occupy Wall Street on Saturday, November 5 will march from Liberty Square to the U.S. Court House Building at Foley Square.
The march will gather at 2:00pm on the east side steps at Liberty Square (Zuccotti Park), and will arrive at Foley Square at 3:00pm. Join the Facebook event page
President Obama is on the brink of cutting a backroom deal that would give bankers broad immunity for illegally throwing tens of thousands of Americans out of their homes. The Administration is pressuring state attorneys general to abandon an ongoing investigation into the massive "robo-signing" fraud, in exchange for a relatively small payoff by the banks.
Numerous investigations by state and federal authorities have demonstrated that banks used illegal procedures to make tens of thousands of foreclosures over the past decade. Rushing to a settlement before the full extent of the fraud is known would be a grave injustice to those who were illegally foreclosed upon and those still struggling to stay in their homes.
“This is a clear, moral issue that cuts to the core of why we occupy,” said Max Berger, an Occupy Wall Street participant helping to plan the event. “Instead of throwing corrupt bankers in jail, the administration is pushing to give them a get-out-of jail-free card.”
“President Obama and the attorneys general have a choice: do they stand with Wall Street, or do they stand with the 99%?” he said.
The Occupy movement has spread throughout the country because the American people will no longer stand by while corporate and government elites strike back room deals to sell out the 99%. On a day when tens of thousands across America will take their money out of big banks, Occupy Wall Street will hold the political class accountable for doing Wall Street's bidding.
“We will not stand for a system that gives campaign contributors a right to immunity, while serving foreclosure papers to the 99%,” said Beth Bogart, a volunteer with Occupy Wall Street. “We will not stand for a country where bankers that issued deadly mortgage-backed securities are bailed out, but homeowners with mortgages are illegally thrown out on the street.”
At New York’s Foley Square, the Occupy movement will stand with those on the front lines of the economic collapse in their struggle against the banks and the politicians who do the banks' bidding. We will join in solidarity with those who have lost their homes to Wall Street greed and political corruption.
We won't let Obama get away with being Wall Street's puppet.
What happens when TRUTH leaks onto CORPORATELY OWNED and CONTROLLED TV? The Revolution Will Not Be Televised; Dylan Ratigan spoke more of this TRUTH on MSNBC - and has since been LET GO.
Tomorrow, the Aviation Week and Credit Suisse will be holding
