Occupy Wall Street Sunday 10.16.11

(4 pm. – promoted by ek hornbeck)

***DemocraticUnderground:

Cornel West was just arrested in front of the Supreme Court!
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*Live Stream october2011 recorded live on 10/16/11 at 3:50

*Live Stream october2011 recorded live on 10/16/11 at 3:52 CORNEL WEST ARRESTED

*October2011: Margaret Flowers: Dr. Cornel West and 14 others Arrested Protesting Corporate Power at U.S. Supreme Court (10.16.11)

For more Information on Occupy Protests Please See:

Occupy Wall Street Basic Information~

Civil Rights Resources for Occupying, How to Donate money or food,

Web sites & Facebook pages to find an Occupy near YOU, Live Streaming links,

Unions/Organizations/People in Solidarity & more.

Previous editions in this series can be found HERE for earlier articles, etc

**NOTE: Updates will be done at the TOP of each section & have an asterisk**

**ACTION ITEMS**


PARTICIPATE: Locate Occupy Events in YOUR area–WORLDWIDE!!

PARTICIPATE MONDAY OCTOBER 17th:
Occupy Their Mailboxes The Pen Is Mightier Than The Sword

ATTEND: Occupy Wall St. Benefit Show !

Saturday, October 22 at 6:30pm – October 23 at 2:00am

Gussy’s Bar & Grill  20-14 29th St  Queens, NY

TURN ON LIVE STREAM: open a tab for Live Stream- Global Revolution

SIGN PETITION: WE the People: petition the obama administration to: Make Bribing Politicians Illegal

SIGN PETITION: Change.org: NYC Mayor: Stand with Occupy Wall Street



SIGN PETITION: Change.org: Occupy Wall Street: Occupy Together

SIGN PETITION: AVAAZ: The World vs Wall Street

SIGN PETITION: Credo: Stand with Occupy Wall Street

SIGN PETITION: Get Money Out

SIGN PETITION: Eric Grieco: Tell Congress: We need jobs, not cuts!

(for more info see “Petitions” HERE)

DOWNLOAD: POSTERS!!

(see more under “NEWSPAPER/MEDIA” HERE)

WEAR/DISPLAY 99%: CafePress store T-shirts!

SHARE A RIDE: Are you going to an Occupy event & have room in your car? Do you want to go but have no ride?

Carpool-to-Occupy is endorsing yRides (promoted by Occupy Together)

OCCUPY ANNOUNCEMENTS!!


Are You with an Occupy Event? Make sure YOUR General Assembly sees this:

*Recognition of Oppression Across Occupations – ‘An injury to one is an injury to all’

Occupy Together Meetups

in 1831 cities as of 10.16.11 at 1pm EDT

Occupy Together is creating has created an Occupy Directory!

Please make sure YOUR Occupy Group is listed!


First Declaration of the Occupation of New York City 09.29.11


LINKs & ARTICLEs

Be sure to see the TWO posts from Oct 15 Oct 15 #1 and Oct 15 #2 for a wealth of articles, photos, videos & Live Stream links.

please excuse any repeated listings.


AROUND THE COUNTRY


*BREAKING: CORNELL WEST ARRESTED AT SUPREME CT. BUILDING

*The Venus Project: Response to Occupy Wall Street  (10.16.11)

*All Voices: catspirit: Homeless kicked out of public park for Utah’s ‘Wall Street’ protest (10.11.11)

*Washington Post: Ezra Klein: Financiers for Occupying Wall Street  (10.14.11)

*Media Matters: REPORT: Economists Shut Out Of Debt-Ceiling Debate – Only 4.1 Percent Of Cable Guests Were Actual Economists (09.2.11)

*HuffingtonPost: Al Gore: Thoughts on Occupy Wall Street (10.13.11)

*KnowThankYou: We Are Corporate Compost: Government Of The Corporation (10.16.11)

*RawStory: Eric W. Dolan: ‘Occupy’ protesters remain camped out in Frankfurt and London (10.16.11)

*Think Progress: Jeff Spross: VIDEO: Republicans Change Their Tune On The 99 Percent Movement (10.15.11)

*MotherJones: Josh Harkinson: Exclusive: Video of NYPD’s Arrests at Washington Square Park (10.16.11)

*Buisness Insider: Zeke Miller: Bernie Sanders Calls For Boycott Of Big Banks To Support Occupy Wall Street (10.16.11)

Daily Chronicle wants YOUR opinion on OWS

(poll at bottom right)

Lancaster Online: David O’Connor: Occupy Lancaster: Protestors march against corporate greed, make camp

Read more: http://lancasteronline.com/art…

(10.15.11)

Occupy Detroit: Need to get the word out

Bloomberg: Max Abelson: Wall Street Sees ‘No Exit’ From Financial Woes as Bankers Fret (10.12.11)

SodaHead: Jason Easley: Rupert Murdoch Declares War On Occupy Wall Street (10.10.11)

(some related Good News)

Slate: Peter Fulham: Billionaire Hedge Fund Founder Given 11 Years Sentence (10.13.11)

MotherJones: A Global Day of Action for Occupy Wall Street (10.15.11)

Jay Rosen: Reuters vs Reuters – News agency makes an ass of itself by trying to connect George Soros to Occupy Wall Street (10.13.11)

NY Daily News: Mike Lupica: Occupy Wall Street protesters should aim their wrath at Fundraiser-in-Chief Obama (10.14.11)

eNews Park Forest: Minnesota Wells Fargo Offices Locked Down as Marchers Block Streets to Stop Foreclosures (10.15.11)

Gawker: Adrian Chen: Meet the Guy Who Snitched on Occupy Wall Street to the FBI and NYPD (10.15.11)

Gawker: Max Read: This Video of NYPD Arresting a Woman at Citibank Certainly Doesn’t Look Good (10.16.11)

Gawker: Lauri Apple: Citibank Not Alone in Turning Away Account-Closing Customers (10.16.11)

Gawker: Max Read: Thousands of Protesters Occupy Times Square, Hundreds Arrested Across U.S. (10.16.11)



The Atlantic: James Fallows: ‘False Equivalence’ Reaches Onionesque Heights, but in a Real Paper (10.15.11)

(referring/answering above article)

MotherJones: Kevin Drum: Reality Has Changed, Reporting Should Change Too (10.15.11)

Nation: Francis Reynolds: After Zuccotti Park: Seven Privately Owned Public Spaces to Occupy Next  (10.14.11)

Nation: John Nichols: The 99 Percent Rise Up  (10.14.11)

Reddit: The City of Cleveland Said ‘NO Tents”

NewsNet5: Mike Vielhaber: Occupy Cleveland protesters granted public event permit (10.13.11)

NewsNet5: Cristin Severance: Small group turns out for ‘Occupy’ event in downtown Akron – Larger event planned for Canton on Saturday (10.13.11)

Daily Chronicle: AP: Anti-Wall Street protesters rejoice after Zuccotti Park cleanup postponement(10.14.11)

DKos: Senor Unoball: San Jose: Millions Withdrawn from Bank of America and Wells Fargo!+ (10.13.11)

Liberal OC: Dan Chmielewski: Scenes from Occupy Irvine (10.15.11)

HuffingtonPost: SNL Mocks Bloomberg Over Occupy Wall Street (VIDEO)  (10.16.11)

InForum: Marino Eccher: Carrying signs, crowd gathers in Fargo to rally against social, economic inequality (10.15.11)

DKos: pistols at dawn: Middle-Class Tourist Visits #OWS, Debunks Myths (with photos)+ (10.15.11)

poco, in the comments of above post relates a story about Police Stand-off

LBO News: Doug Henwood: OWS takes a walk uptown (10.15.11)



NY Times: NELSON D. SCHWARTZ and ERIC DASH: In Private, Wall St. Bankers Dismiss Protesters as Unsophisticated (10.14.11)

MSNBC: Protests go global, rampage, tear gas in Rome – Minority of violent demonstrators stretch into evening, hours after tens of thousands of people join global ‘day of rage’ against bankers, politicians (10.16.11)

AROUND THE WORLD


*Chronicle Herald: DIANA MEHTA: Occupy Canada keeps peace(10.16.11)

*Globe & Mail: kim mackrael: CAW throws support behind growing Occupy movement (10.15.11)

Canadian Auto Workers, Service Employees International Union, and the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada have all endorsed the movement

*Globe & Mail: jeremy torobin: Bank of Canada head calls Occupy protests ‘entirely constructive’ (10.14.11)

*Think Progress: PHOTOS: Zaid Jilani: The Global 99 Percent March In Hundreds Of Cities Worldwide For Social And Economic Justice (10.15.11)

(related)

BBC: Dexia bank gets massive bailout – France, Belgium and Luxembourg are to bail out the troubled bank Dexia, following fears it could go bankrupt. (10.10.11)

Guardian: Alan Travis: Riot curfews for public proposed by Home Office (10.13.11)

Occupy Dame Street: #OccupyDameStreet March (10.16.11)

PERTINENT TWEETs


@SalmanRushdie Salman Rushdie

No not just kids. All ages all races – this feels like everyone. No leader, no ideology: just a demand to fix a broken system. #occupywallst

14 minutes ago via Mobile Web   (10.6.11  4:28pmEDT)

@SalmanRushdie Salman Rushdie

At #OccupyWallStreet now. It’s so civil and polite. And the idealism is overwhelming. Keep going kids!

38 minutes ago via Mobile Web   (10.6.11  4:32pmEDT)

@SenatorSanders Bernie Sanders

How do we change the system to work for all Americans, not just the top 1%? 6) Establish a Wall Street speculation fee. #ows

30 minutes ago via HootSuite   (10.16.11 3:30pmEDT)

@franyafranya franya

From Buddhists to great-grandmothers, #Halifax’s best minds & hearts came out in support of #occupyns on #oct15 – peaceably assembling. #ows

24 minutes ago via TweetDeck

@FELDart Frank

RT @CBCAlerts: ‘Occupy’ protesters take to Toronto streets again . Dozens chant, ‘Whose streets? Our streets!’ #occupy

19 minutes ago via TweetDeck (10.16.11 3:45pmEDT)

@GregK_ABC Gregory Krieg

You can’t arrest an idea, they say. Incredible the turns this keeps taking. #OWS

21 hours ago via Twitter for iPhone  (10.15.11 appx 12:30pm EDT)

@JeffreyFeldman JeffreyFeldman

Amazing to see people standing together across the US, public squares filled across Europe. Just…wow #OWS #OccupyWallStreet

23 hours ago via TweetDeck  (10.15.1 appx 2:30pmEDT)

@TheNewDeal TheNewDeal

0 Bankers Were Arrested After Purposely Crashing Our Economy. 1,000s Have Been Arrested for Speaking Up About it. #OWS

14 Oct via web

OccupyEarth Occupy Earth

We #OccupyEarth and we claim the right to protect our land from unsustainable interests. #globalchange #tomalacalle15o #Oct15 #takewallst

2 minutes ago  (10.12.11 appx 9:45pm EDT)

@OccupyPeoria OccupyPeoria

We’re not the left. We’re not the right. We are the bottom and we’re coming up. #ows #occupychi #occupypeoria #occupyamerica #occupyearth

8 Oct via web (9:45amEDT)

OccupyWallSt Occupy Wall Street

Organizations and politicians are supporting us but they are not sponsoring us #ows

about 3 hours ago (10.08.11 appx 8:20am EDT)

OpWallStreet #OccupyAmerica

by OccupyWallSt

To those who are worried about #OWS becoming co-opted by partisan politics, DONT WORRY. #OccupyWallStreet by design cant be controlled.

9 hours ago  (10.06.11 appx 2am EDT)

PHOTOs


*Occupy Madrid

*Tony Tracy: #OccupyHalifax / #OccupyNS Occupation Photos

(scroll thru others)

*Police promise of toilet return now denied. local pubs providing access to toilets look for this sign #OccupyLSX

*CBS: “Occupy” protests go global

*Group hug at #OccupyHalifax / #OccupyNS occupation

(scroll thru others)

DKos: Occupy Wall Street goes global, in pictures

Superman Occupies Congress

Police in front of bank of America’s hq in nyc

(click “display media”)

Photos from Day 1 – Occupy London Stock Exchange

(need a laugh?)

We Are the 1 Percent

RawStory: Slideshow: Occupy Wall Street Posters

Global Grind: Occupy Wall Street Goes Global (PHOTOS)

Guardian: Occupy movement goes global – in pictures – Occupy Wall Street protests are linking up with other Occupy movements around the world

LINK to TheOther99’s photo account

We Are the 99 Percent (bring tissues!)

Official Occupy Wall Street Flicker Photos (ALL from people THERE)

VIDEOs

*RoarMagazine: Jérôme E. Roos: Global revolution: protests in 1,000+ cities – in videos (10.16.11)

*Raging Grannies at Nova Scotia

Tens of thousands of people fill the Puerta del Sol in Madrid while playing the ‘Ode to Joy’. October 15, 2011

They’re holding their empty palms in the air, chanting “These are our weapons!”

It’s to show their peaceful resistance movement.

Bill Hicks on Marketing

Global Revolution Live is scrolling through Protests Worldwide!!

Occupy Wall Street Music Video

Shocking statistics illustrate the song “The Bus” written by Scott Ernster.

Occupy Dame Street, Dublin Ireland

Occupy Wallstreet Humans On Planet Earth (appx 20min)

The Countdown Library

DemocracyNOW’s OCW channel

3 comments

    • RiaD on October 16, 2011 at 21:12
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    • RiaD on October 16, 2011 at 23:04
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    CORNELL WEST ARRESTED AT SUPREME CT BLDG

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