#OCCUPYWALLSTREET campaign - September 17

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Occupy Wall Street Celebrates Anniversary With Concert
Tom Morello and others perform in New York to mark first year of protest against corporate greed and corruption

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/pictu ... t-20120917



Lee Camp
Comedian and activist Lee Camp gets the crowd roaring at the Occupy Wall Street anniversary concert in New York City.



Michelle Shocked
Michelle Shocked performs at the Ocuppy Wall Street anniversary concert in New York.

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TimKarr ‏@TimKarr
Police arrest 1 livestreamer (Lorenzo) shoving others now, Albany & West St. Live on @timcast #ows #S17 #journarrest http://bit.ly/V3Fo6p

Occupy: The Movie ‏@TheOccupyMovie
Another 4 people arrested on West Street (1M 3F). They were crossing the street... #S17 #OWS

Jeff Rae ‏@jeffrae
Building checkpoint near Wall St. #s17 #ows http://yfrog.com/obrf5nsj

Anonymous ‏@YourAnonNews
Sit-in going down at Goldman Sachs headquarters #s17 #ows

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#OccupyWallStreet ‏@WeROccupyUnited
SEVERAL ARREST, STREAMERS BEING TARGETED:: http://tmblr.co/ZDJZmwTRfEar : #S17 #ows #occupy #nyc #nypd #S17nyc #p2 #tt #NDAA

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its been a few pages, so...

Broadcast started 24 minutes ago
Timcast
http://www.ustream.tv/timcast

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Bring Cake, lulz...

Dicey ‏@DiceyTroop
Video: Mic Check in the lobby of Citibank by the Strike Debt cluster! Clean and joyous getaway. #OWS #S17 http://twitvid.com/CXL4T

[Luther Blissett]

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/tom-morello-occupy-wall-street-concert-nyc-370744

Oof, this piece is the worst. Perfect alignment of finance industry propaganda and hollywood-style nightmare "PR." If there was ever an affective tool to keep my friends away from Occupy it would be to convince them that everyone at Occupy thinks of Tom Morello as a hero. There's nothing necessarily wrong with him or his fans or his music, but his is not a populist voice, and there are very subtle, nuanced cultural codes that, while that may have been your scene when you were 13, it's not anymore.

Perhaps, rather than bemoan the media's blackout / messaging, we should start discussing next steps. No doubt our community was one using codification of the 1% for many years leading up to the national discussion, and we have enough brains here to come up with something equally prescient for phase two.

There has to be some nexus of nonviolence, jamming, warming, analysis, and occupy-tested tactics that hasn't been discovered yet.

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Ignoring the constant nit-picking... BFD, Tom Morello is going to keep them out of OWS. I guess you/they have to draw the line. Tom's in OWS and trying to support it?! Nope, I won't support it or the goals that have nothing to do with him then. Oh well.



Occupy Wall Street: One Year Later
By Rebecca Stropoli
The Exchange – 36 minutes ago

http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/the-exch ... 15472.html
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Occupy Vancouver ‏@OccupyVancouver
Then #OccupyVancouver & #StopHarper rally @ 300 W Georgia federal building at 5pm, then march! #S17 #OWS #Occupy #Birthday


1m Jeff Rae ‏@jeffrae
A march is getting ready to march on Wall St. for the ringing of the closing bell #s17 #ows

1m Paul Weiskel ‏@PWeiskel08
Seems like a march is starting from #Zucotti with the drummers doing a couple rounds around the park. #ows #S17

2m justice!sneeded ‏@KatG4
Perfect Audio and Visual hangin in #ZucotiiPark. getting ready to #March #S17 #OWS ( @occupycarlisle live at http://ustre.am/EXPs)

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wtf? Read that copy-

[norton ash]

^^^ Yeah, that's one hell of a juxtaposition. Thanks for the updates, 2012!

[Luther Blissett]

Tom Morello certainly won't keep me from participating in anything. I'm currently having to defend the entire movement to my real life friends on another forum who joke that there were approximately 200 people, posting photos of empty streets from Yahoo News as proof.

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The Real Meaning of the 1-Year Anniversary of Occupy Wall Street
Submitted by George Washington on 09/17/2012 12:41 -0400

On this one-year anniversary of the start of the Occupy protests, let’s refresh our memories about what really happened.

Despite the divide-and-conquer tricks of both the mainstream Left and the mainstream Right, Occupy and the Tea Party were originally protesting the exact same thing: the malignant, symbiotic relationship between big government and big corporations. Conservative and liberal protesters both railed against the unchecked power of the Federal Reserve.

Indeed, if the partisan shenanigans on both sides hadn’t derailed the protests so quickly, Occupy and the Tea Party would have joined forces in a way which affected real change.

Highly-militarized, federally-coordinated police used such brutal violence to break up the Occupy protests (see this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this and this) that the Egyptian military used the crack down on Occupy as justification for the murder of protesters in Tahir Square, Egypt.

(Despite media portrayals, the Occupy protesters were not violent.)

While psuedo-conservatives may laugh, true conservatives do not find this amusing. Remember that according to Department of Defense training manuals, protest is now considered “low-level terrorism”. And see this, this and this). And an Army colonel has written a paper advocating military methods for “crushing” a Tea Party insurgency.

Veterans get it. They know that protecting all political protesters – Occupy, Tea Party, etc. – is the core of American liberty. See this, this and this. Even active-duty police know it.

(While the slur of "dirty hippies, get a job" was applied to Occupy protesters, most of them actually had jobs, and many economists supported their demands. Again, people may agree or disagree about specific positions, but true conservatives defend everyone's right to speech and assembly.)

Speak with most Americans today and you will be amazed that they don’t realize (1) how much police violence was inflicted or (2) that the protesters – like the original Tea Party protesters – were standing up for the American people against the incest between big banks in New York and politicos in Washington.

The bottom line is that the powers-that-be used a combination of brutal violence and disinformation to take the wind out of the protests. Any protests – whether they be of a conservative bent like the Tea party, or a more liberal flavor like Occupy – are doomed to failure unless we can reach the people with the real facts.
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OCCuPY THiS!
Submitted by williambanzai7 on 09/17/2012 10:06 -0400

ONE YEAR LATER...

As most of you are aware, today marks the first anniversary of Occupy Wall Street.
Many people call it a "movement" and there are arguments about precisely what kind of movement it is if it is one. I personally spend zero time worrying about this. For me OWS was an event and that event was about raising the public's awareness of one thing, the intersection of rampant control fraud and political corruption between the TBTF banks and Washington DC; the many ways this phenomena has decimated the lives of so many ordinary Americans. In this respect they succeeded. Few would argue otherwise.

Unfortunately, the efforts fell on deaf and corrupt ears in our hollow halls of democracy. Now, instead of making wisecracks about the people who are on the street today attempting, as hard as it is in Blumfukistan, to raise a civil ruckus, I would ask you all to consider the following.

When OWS was conceived and first kicked off last year, there was no MF Global fiasco, Jon Corzine was still CEO, no one knew who the London Whale was, Jamie Dimon was still exhaulted by the MSM as Wall Street's Mr Clean, Bob Diamond was still CEO of Barclays, no one in Washington knew what LIBOR was. There was no sham Fraudclosure settlement, no sham Securitization task force. There were, however, a handful of ongoing criminal investigations of Wall Street Banks...all subsequently terminated. Last week we learned of the latest Mother of all Keynesian Bailouts. Try as they will to convince us that QE3 is designed to help the little guy, we of Zero Hedge all know otherwise don't we?

What is obvious is that since last September, our corporatist kleptofraudtocracy has only gotten exponentially worse.

The final insult was not the silence on these matters at the GOP convention (after all, we all know that Mitt the Twit is a Wall Street Ponzi pimp).
The final insult was the expectation of the Obamocrats that we would all accept their Big Lie. The biggest lie of all, that they and their Wall Street Bitch in Chief have cracked down on Banksterism.
There is not one shred of evidence that supports this Big Lie. A Big Lie that would make Herr Goebbels very very proud.
So today, instead of making wiseass remarks about unemployed, dirty long hair hippy anarchists armed with iPhones, iCollectivists and liberal arts students stepping off the curbs or chalking up the sidewalks, I would ask all of you to do something else...

Remind as many as you can of the outrageous fucking fraud that continues to be perpetrated by the thieves in pinstripes and hand made brogues and their harem of DC Bitches.



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[JackRiddler]

I'm currently having to defend the entire movement to my real life friends on another forum who joke that there were approximately 200 people, posting photos of empty streets from Yahoo News as proof.

Without saying it's true about your real-life friends, for some people unfortunately there is no substitute for direct dealing with the conduct of the police at radical gatherings to understand how perception of movements is distorted from the ground up. How they'll kettle, brutalize and disperse crowds and create spaces unfriendly to peaceful assembly (let alone a family outing!), so that the media can then broadcast images of empty streets (when the latter are not just resorting to stock footage or pointing the camera away from the center of a protest). If this is what your friends want to see, it's very hard to move them. Life will keep slapping some level of awareness into increasing numbers, but (we should know from message boards) mere rational argument or empirical expose doesn't usually move anyone.

With liberals I think anything that exposes the essentially Pravda-like essence and practice of all corporate media, including the most respected, helps a little bit. Because they'll be critical up to a point, and then (for example) assume if Enemy XYZ is the story of the day it may be inflated, but must be more drastic than anything happening at home. Understanding that they're lying even when occasionally using truth is important. Show them the NY Times caption from the last page?

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I really liked that second Zerohedge article I'd posted. Made use of it elsewhere. I'd made an OWS S17 thread someplace and the usual 'hippies, bums, etc. comments started. I must say, I am getting much less resistence this time. I get the idiot dog trained type, but those are hopeless. They worry about flag burning and such. But some are more sympathetic. That article details why.

Yes, things will get worse, and as I've said before, when they do, some people will not aknowledge until they are personally affected or homeless. Fine, tell them or wait for that if you want. Thats likely what it will take for some to wake the fuck up. Until critical mass is reached, we should point the way/be ready. In the meantime, we will get called all sorts of names from both 'sides'. Fuck it, so what.

In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.
- Notebook, 1904 - Mark Twain