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Sat, 2011-10-22 10:56 — mdmcdonald
The Occupy Everywhere Collaboratory is focused on exploring the nature of Occupy Everywhere.

The mission of the Occupy Everywhere Movement Collaboratory in the U.S. Resilience System is to understand the nature of the Occupy Everywhere movement.  Once understanding what this movement is at its core, we will endeavor to ensure that it has every opportunity to provide concrete solutions that will improve health and human security, and not be sidelined into unfruitful disruption or violence. Without positive and sustainable solutions, the #Occupy movement, although impassioned and large, is part of the problem and not part of the solution.

However, if it develops viable solution sets for employment, food security, overpopulation, pollution, poverty, reducing violence and war, social inequity, health services, developing communities living within their carrying capacities ... , then this is a movement that deserves the support of the 100%.

One of its tests will be to escape the Victim - Villain - Hero trap, that seems to plague every right-minded revolution at its beginning.  So far so good.  Even though there are plenty of "Eat the Rich" signs in the demonstrations, especially on Wall Street, there have yet to be any acts of cannabilizing workers on Wall Street.  There do not seem to have been any significant counter-reactions to the violence and unfair arrests against the demonstraters by the police.  The fear is that current peaceful demonstrations could change quickly with agent provacateurs from outside the #Occupy movement, if not from misguided individuals from within the movement that catalyze mob behavior that damages property, disrupts critical infrastructure, or hurts people.

 

PHOTO: A sign is seen on Wall Street at Zuccotti Park in the Financial District Sept. 30, 2011 New York City.

 

Please join in.  Enlighten us with your evidence of what this movement is about.  Although, we are interested in your perspective on Occupy Everywhere, we are even more interested in how you think this movement can actually achieve meaningful solutions. 

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Storm Effort Causes a Rift in a Shifting Occupy Movement

Thu, 2013-05-09 23:20 — Kathy Gilbeaux

      

Goldi Guerra, a member of Occupy Sandy, spoke during a storm-recovery meeting with community members in April at a church on Staten Island.  Yana Paskova for The New York Times

nytimes.com - by Sarah Maslin Nir - April 30, 2013

Not long ago, the Occupy Wall Street movement seemed poised to largely fade from the national conversation with few concrete accomplishments beyond introducing its hallmark phrase, “We are the 99 percent.”

Then Hurricane Sandy struck. In its aftermath, Occupy Wall Street protesters rushed to apply their rabble-rousing hustle to cleaning out houses, clearing debris and raising more than $1.5 million for relief efforts.

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Occupy L.A.: Crowd Swells as Deadline Nears

Tue, 2011-11-29 14:24 — admin

Los Angeles Times - November 27, 2011

      

As a midnight deadline loomed, more than 1,000 Occupy L.A. protesters and supporters crammed onto the City Hall lawn for what might be their last general assembly -- the nightly meeting of protesters.

A few climbed into trees while others stood or sat on the ground. For more than three hours, protesters stood up to make statements, lead chants and, in at least one case, sing a gospel song.

Some of the business related to the impending eviction: Speakers gave out the phone number for the National Lawyers Guild, which is providing legal support for any protesters arrested in the action, and directed the protesters to reassemble at Our Lady Queen of Angels church on North Main Street if police cleared the encampment at City Hall.

PHOTOS: Occupy L.A. eviction

Other issues ranged farther afield. Speakers urged the audience to go vegan, and the assembly passed a resolution supporting the repeal of "corporate personhood."

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Revealed – The Capitalist Network that Runs the World

Wed, 2011-11-23 22:16 — Kathy Gilbeaux

by Andy Coughlan and Debora MacKenzie - newscientist.com - October 24, 2011

      

The 1318 transnational corporations that form the core of the economy. Superconnected companies are red, very connected companies are yellow. The size of the dot represents revenue (Image: PLoS One)

AS PROTESTS against financial power sweep the world this week, science may have confirmed the protesters' worst fears. An analysis of the relationships between 43,000 transnational corporations has identified a relatively small group of companies, mainly banks, with disproportionate power over the global economy.

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Occupy Protester Hands President Obama a Note

Wed, 2011-11-23 21:35 — admin

submitted by Theresa Bernardo

news.yahoo.com - by Holly Bailey - November 22, 2011

      

(Charles Dharapak/AP)

The Occupy movement trailed President Obama to New Hampshire today, where protestors briefly interrupted his jobs speech at a Manchester high school.

Using the so-called "human microphone" method, protestors shouted Obama down just minutes into his speech, calling attention to the arrest of peaceful protestors at Occupy movements around the country.

They were quickly countered by students, who began chanting, "Obama! Obama!"

But after the speech, a member of the movement got close enough to Obama as the president was shaking hands with members of the audience pass him a note, which was photographed by the Associated Press' Charles Dharapak:

Mr. President: Over 4000 peaceful protesters have been arrested. While bankers continue to destroy the American economy. You must stop the assault on our 1st amendment rights.  Your silence sends a message that police brutality is acceptable. Banks got bailed out. We got sold out.

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'Occupy Portland' Protesters Defy Eviction Orders

Sun, 2011-11-13 08:52 — mdmcdonald

Occupy-Portland

 

 

 

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Protests in Occupy Oakland are Deepening and Broadening, But Perhaps in the Wrong Direction

Wed, 2011-11-09 07:35 — admin

One of the concerns from within the Occupy Movement, as well as from outside observers is that police violence is redirecting the energy of the protests into clashes between protesters and the police toward an escalating Victim - Villain - Hero cycle in which violence action is percevied as essential action between increasingly large crowds of citizens and law enforcement.  Increasing reports of police violence and charges are police brutality in many cities seem to be fueling larger and larger crowds inflamed by the injustice of the use of violence by the police against non-violent protesters and reporters acting within their legal rights. 

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Police Action Causes Critical Injury to Occupy Oakland Protester

Fri, 2011-10-28 13:44 — mdmcdonald

Occupy Oakland, Scott Olsen

Police battled protesters following an Occupy Oakland march to demonstrate against the closing of two occupations in the city in the early hours of Tuesday morning. More than 100 people have been arrested in Oakland since police cleared a camp in Frank Ogawa plaza.

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Gallup Poll: 37% Support Occupy Wall Street Movement

Mon, 2011-10-24 08:08 — mdmcdonald

A recent poll is showing that very large numbers of Americans support the Occupy Wall Street movement and that this support may be growing.  This story also shows the general difference between OWS protesters and Tea Party protesters.  OWS protesters are tending to blame the private sector.  The Tea Party protesters are tending to look at government as being at the heart of the problem.  As the OWS movement grows many Tea Party protesters are realizing that they too are part of the 99% embraced by the Occupy Everywhere movement. 

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/23/occupy-wall-street-poll_n_1027109.html

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Guardian: Maps and Lists of Occupy Everywhere Sites

Mon, 2011-10-24 07:42 — mdmcdonald

 

The below Guardian article provides a map and lists of where Occupy Everywhere protests are emerging.  They are primarily, but not exclusively in the U.S. and Europe, in countries where the economy is in significant decline and inequities are significant.  In most of these places, the youth fear that their future will be worse than their parents, due to the greed of a global elite insensitive to the destruction they have caused economically and environmentally.

 

The list includes 951 cities in 82 countries.

 

To see the story and full list, go to:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2011/oct/17/occupy-protests-world-list-map

 

 

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Guardian: Snapshots of the Occupy Everywhere Protesters Views

Mon, 2011-10-24 07:25 — mdmcdonald

 

This Guardian photo slideshow depicts how the Occupy Everywhere movement is growing globally. The protesters talk about what is motivating them.  In generzl, they are talking about how their governments have failed to provide the fundamentals of resilience to their generation.  They intend to take these matters into their own hands. 

 

Occupy protests: Rita Maestre, Madrid

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/gallery/2011/oct/23/protests-around-the-world-in-pictures

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