Occupy Everywhere - Sept 17th - Day of Rage Against Wall Street and what it stands for!

[Ed Jewett]

Ongoing Occupation of Wall Street: 99% Uprising in Full Effect (Day 5 Roundup, Videos, Photos)

September 22nd, 2011


As day five comes to an end and we move into day six, #OccupyWallStreet has been a tremendous success. Despite the corporate mainstream media blackout, the movement is growing in significance and getting support from a very diverse range of people and organizations. Much respect to all the people who have set up camp in Liberty Park. Your leadership just sparked a legit movement in the USA. It's About time!
The 99% Movement has begun!
Here's our latest roundup:
Live Blog of #OccupyWallStreet: Day Five, 99 Percenters Rise Up
By Kevin Gosztola, FDL

Support for Occupy Wall Street is growing by the hour. Solidarity actions in Chicago, Phoenix and Paris, France, are all getting off the ground. In Los Angeles, Cleveland, and Atlanta, actions are in the works. Each of these may be occupations. [read full live blog]

Liberty Plaza prevails over provocation
By Nathan Schneider, Waging NonViolence

The four surrounding police vans drove away at 12:03, leaving the more usual handful of officers and cars and the mobile observation tower. An hour later, in time for the planned General Assembly, the whole place felt different. The rain had stopped, and there were perhaps three times as many people, with new faces as well as familiar ones who had just arrived for the day. The sidewalk of Broadway was full of people holding signs again, and the General Assembly was gearing up. I talked with a man from Washington Heightson the opposite end of Manhattanwho was coming for the first time after learning about this on the internet. People seemed happy, and eager, and curious. [read full report]

Four arrests so far on Wednesday
By OccupyWallSt

Four people have been arrested so far (as of 1:28 PM EST) on day 5 of the Occupy Wall Street protest. The first arrest took place this morning during Opening Bell March. At 10:10 AM, Isaac Wilder was taken into police custody and is being held at W. 154 St. New York, NY. One firsthand witness has informed us he was at the front of the peaceful march taking place on a public sidewalk when police demanded protesters turned left. When Isaac asserted his right to continue marching forward in public space, he was immediately arrested.
Two other arrests took place at 12:30 PM EST at Liberty Plaza. Two first-hand witnesses have confirmed the following story:
People were peacefully assembling on the sidewalk and the police told the public that they could not stand on public sidewalks. one person, was standing peacefully on the sidewalk and holding up a sign and the police swarmed him and arrested him. he peacefully went with them, without resisting in any way. People then peacefully walked with him and chanted in solidarity. And the police ran into the middle of the crowd and tackled one of the people there, and arrested him. [read full report]

Livestream from Global Revolution
The Demand Is a Process
99 Percenters Occupy Wall Street Why Occupy Wall Street' makes sense
By Amy Goodman

Outside in the cold Tuesday morning, the demonstrators continued their fourth day of the protest with a march amidst a heavy police presence and the ringing of an opening bell at 9:30 a.m. for a "people's exchange," just as the opening bell of the New York Stock Exchange is rung. While the bankers remained secure in their bailed-out banks, outside, the police began arresting protesters. In a just world, with a just economy, we have to wonder, who would be out in the cold? Who would be getting arrested? [read full report]

Yahoo Censoring Email Messages About Wall Street Protests
By Lee Fang, Think Progress

Thinking about e-mailing your friends and neighbors about the protests against Wall Street happening right now? If you have a Yahoo e-mail account, think again. ThinkProgress has reviewed claims that Yahoo is censoring e-mails relating to the protest and found that after several attempts on multiple accounts, we too were prevented from sending messages about the "Occupy Wall Street" demonstrations….
It's not the first time Yahoo has been accused of political censorship. Yahoo officially partners with the repressive Chinese regime to provide the government with access to emails related to groups viewed as dissidents. An explosive investigation by Der Spiegel found that Yahoo provided Chinese authorities with access to emails from journalists, and the snooping resulted in the same journalists being sent to prison camps….
UPDATE: Yahoo's customer care Twitter account acknowledges blocking the emails, but says it was an unintentional error:

"We apologize 4 blocking occupywallst.org' It was not intentional & caught by our spam filters. It is resolved, but may be a residual delay."

Yahoo's main Twitter account adds:

"Thanks to @YahooMail users & @ThinkProgress for catching problem w/ #Occupywallst.org mail. Prob is fixed, but there may be residual delays."

[read full report]

Yahoo Spam filter blocked Wall Street protest emails
"Days of Rage" Occupy Wall St.
Five thousand people demand Wall St. pay for the crisis
Occupy Wall Street: Fun or Misery, It's a Marvel
By Joel Chaffee, ZSpace

Whatever Occupy Wall Street is, it is full of people willing to work hard and suffer at downright insulting odds, to try create something better for people. There is pizza. They have blankets. The medic appears promptly when someone twists an ankle. Looking up from the plaza one sees only vast towers of wealth; looking round about one sees a struggle. Maybe they are having fun. Maybe it's misery. Probably it's both. Whatever it is, it exists where it did not before, which is always a marvel. [read full report]

11 Things You Can Do to Help the Occupy Wall Street' Movement
By Chaz Valenza, OpEdNews.com

These patriot occupiers are fighting for 99 percent of us. Those who are unemployed, uninsured, underemployed and totally insecure in the face of ever increasing social and financial inequities. They are standing up for those who cannot be there right now.
Here's the good news you can help, right now today no matter where you are.
1) Spread the word there's something going on. People have started a movement they're occupying Wall Street. Hundreds of people have been camped out in lower Manhattan for four days!
2) If you're in New York and can only spare a little time or money: bring American flags, cardboard, markers, water, etc. down to Liberty Park.
3) If you're in the New York area and have a day, a morning, an afternoon, go down there. The weather appears to be holding. Take the day off and just go. I know it sounds hard to believe but you will be heard. This is an open general assembly effort and you will get your say and be a real participant.
4) If you are a little ways from NYC, organize foursomes to go to NYC for the day. It will cost you the train/bus/car fare. Take nothing but some food and water and your body.
5) Too far to get to NYC? Sign this petition and I will read your name and comments in Liberty Park this week, I promise. Break Up Goldman Sachs Now!
6) Be subversive against the big money interests wherever you are and encourage others to do the same. Don't give the banksters 4 percent of every purchase you make with a credit or debit card use cash. See: UseCashMovement
7) Be subversive: max out your credit card on large ticket items and return them the next day. (This one is right out of the Saul Alinsky playbook.)
Move your money from a big bank to a credit union.
9) Picket a local branch of a bank. When the press asks you what the heck you think you're doing, tell them it's in solidarity with Occupy Wall Street.
10) Send food to the protesters in Liberty Park through a New York friend or go to the live stream chat for information on local eats that will take your order. (Yes, you'll have to use your credit card, big spender!)
11) Do you know anybody who knows anybody who knows a writer, a celebrity, etc. who will show their face at the protest? Get to them now.
Bonus Support Idea 12) Spread the word again, and repeat!

PREVIOUS AMPEDSTATUS #OCCUPYWALLSTREET UPDATES

> Occupy Wall $treet If You Want Real Change…
> UPDATE: Ongoing Occupation of Wall Street: We Are 99% (Roundup, Videos, Photos)
> Protests on Wall Street: Will Economic Inequality Lead to an American Uprising? (Video)
> Ongoing Occupation of Wall Street: Media Blackout in the Big City; A Surprise Morning March; Live Blog (Roundup, Videos, Photos)
> New York Police Brutally Attack Peaceful Wall Street Protesters (Video)
> Wall Street Protesters Lead By Example They Moved Their Money Out of the Big Banks (Video)
> Civil Rights Attorney: NY Police Violating Wall Street Protesters' First Amendment Rights (Video)
> Cornel West: Escalating Civil Disobedience Like #OccupyWallStreet Is Necessary To Wake The Country Up (Video)

The Road to Revolution: 99% Uprising
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