Portland Re-Occupies
*Update: eviction on ustream:* Occupy Portland has reoccupied a new home. Marchers arrived at Shemanski Park at the corner of SW Park & Salmon around 5pm PST today and began setting up tents, canopies, and other infrastructure. Two police with batons arrived and threatened the crowd, but were shouted down by the jubilant Occupiers and eventually left. There is an open kitchen and live music on stage. As of 6:30pm PST, there were already over 20 tents set up. There will be a General Assembly at 7pm PST. *Occupy Portland is anticipating an eviction and encourages all supporters in... more »
Occupiers Launch Hunger Strike to Liberate Outdoor Space
On Saturday, December 3, in Liberty Plaza, we—THE OWS HUNGER STRIKERS—began a hunger strike. We are striking to demand outdoor space for a new occupation. We are holding our strike at Duarte Square on Sixth Avenue and Canal Street in Manhattan as part of a continued effort seeking sanctuary on Trinity Church’s unused land. This is a call for escalation, in response to the escalated levels of government-enacted violence and repression The Occupy Movement has endured over the last few weeks. In dozens of cities across the nation, Mayors chose to stifle freedom of speech and the ri... more »
Occupy Seattle Joins Wave of Building Occupations
[image: Seattle u10 warehouse] Last night, undeterred by the city's destruction of their original encampment, hundreds of Occupy Seattle supporters occupied a vacant warehouse slated for demolition and condo development. After entering, Occupiers erected barricades, held a General Assembly, and began plans to fix up the space for community use. Using SWAT teams and a ladder truck, police swarmed the warehouse, making 20 arrests and setting an unsettling precedent for the escalating use of military-style tactics against nonviolent occupiers who are liberating public space. *Oc... more »
Farmers Join Occupy Wall Street, Calling for Food Justice
[image: Walmart] As Wall Street’s corrupt influence on the economy has grown, the corporate ownership of our food system has hurt the health and livelihood’s of some of our most vulnerable communities. This *Sunday, December 4th* food justice activists and occupiers will be traveling from as far as Colorado, Iowa, Maine and Upstate New York to join together for the Occupy Wall Street FARMERS’ MARCH.Through a day of dialogue, musical performances, and a march, farmers and their urban allies working for food justice in their communities will form alliances to fight and expose corpor... more »
Occupy Wall Street Goes Home
On December 6th Occupy Wall Street will join in solidarity with a Brooklyn community to re-occupy a foreclosed home. The day of action marks a national kick-off for a new frontier for the occupy movement: the liberation of vacant bank-owned homes for those in need. The banks got bailed out, but our families are getting kicked out. *The fight to reclaim democracy from the banks is growing from Wall Street to Main Street.* The NYC foreclosure tour and home re-occupation is part of a big national day of action on Dec. 6 that will focus on the foreclosure crisis and protest fraudulen... more »
Occupy Broadway
[image: Imgur] [image: Imgur] This Saturday, creative artists, performers occupy Broadway and commence an all-night performance in an undisclosed bonus plaza. [image: Walmart] *EVENT:* Occupy Broadway (theatre/shopping district) with a 24-hour performance. *WHEN:* From December 2nd starting at 6pm until December 3rd at 6pm *WHERE:* Times Square by the red stairs, between 46th and 47th streets, along 7th Ave, NY, NY *SHHH!*: location released at 6pm day of: @OccupyWallStNYC #OccupyBroadway NEW YORK, NY (December, 2011) – On December 2, 2011 New York artists will introduce tou... more »
Moving Forward Together: An Open Space for Discussion
*When:* Saturday, Dec 3 from 11am-6pm @ 311 W 43rd St. Since losing our encampment, different spaces have been used for continued discussion and creative reflection together. This Saturday, a process called Open Space will be piloted to look at what we value, what we’ve accomplished, and where we are going. Please join us as an individual or with your work group. Invite friends, family or any others who you want in this conversation with you. Open Space is based in decentralized small conversations that are documented and shared with the whole group. It is more resilient to disru... more »
Occupy to Celebrate: The Resilience of OWS
On Saturday December 3rd, 2011, at 10:00 am, Occupy Wall Street and members of the New York faith community invite the Occupy Movement to join in a celebration of our occupation at Liberty Square. We are calling on all occupiers to reenergize our movement, keep Liberty Square active, and share ideas about the importance of outdoor spaces for our future. Bishop George Packard, Pulitzer prize-winning author and journalist Chris Hedges, and OccupyFaith will rally around Occupy Wall Street's immediate need for spaces to continue organizing for social and economic justice. The event ... more »
Phillip Glass Joins OWS in Protest at Lincoln Center
[image: Walmart] Phillip Glass will join OWS for an action at the Lincoln Center tonight, outside the final performance of his opera Satyagraha, on the life of Gandhi and the history of non-violent civil disobedience. Lincoln Center is sponsored by the Koch Brothers and Bloomberg. At the same time that they celebrate this story of a historic social movement, they are working to shut down the contemporary Occupy movement. In protest, Phillip Glass will lead a mic check / people's mic outside, reciting the libretto (chorus of Gandhi quotes). *When*: Thursday December 1, 2011 at 10... more »
March for Jobs and Economic Fairness
[image: Walmart] The NYC Central Labor Council has called a march on Dec 1st for Jobs and Economic Fairness that's "not just for the labor movement, but for everyone who is frustrated and worried about the growing economic disparity in this country. It's for anyone who has ever agonized about finding a job, paying for college, meeting a mortgage payment, or how to buy enough food for dinner. " #OWS will be there. More info here. *Image Info*
Police Reattempting Raid On Occupy Los Angeles
Police are once again attacking Occupy Los Angeles after occupiers successfully defended Solidarity Park a few nights ago. Watch the events unfold live via Spencer Mills: Live Updates - *1:16 a.m. EST*: Occupy LA being surrounded by police - *1:17 a.m. EST*: LA NLG present, numerous press agencies, Russia Today... - *1:20 a.m. EST*: Occupy Philly received third and final warning, local ABC news crew left at 1:10 local time. - *1:24 a.m. EST*: Occupy Philly may be relocating? Unconfirmed.Protesters at 18th and Locust st. - *11:27 p.m. PST (Los Angeles)*:... more »
War Profiteers Meet Tomorrow In NYC. They Won't Be Alone.
[image: Walmart] 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, tw... more »
Occupy Oklahoma City Now Facing Eviction
Watch live streaming video from occupyspanol at livestream.com *Call Oklahoma City Mayor Mick Cornett (405-297-2424 - email mayor@okc.gov) and voice your opposition to the eviction of this peaceful expression of free speech!* The coordinated crackdown on free speech continues. While Occupations in Los Angeles and Philadelphia are still holding strong (as of 11pm EST) and Washingtonians are occupying their State Capitol, the encampment at Occupy Oklahoma City is now under threat of eviction. City officials declined to renew a permit application and announced that overnight encampm... more »
Washington State Capitol Building OCCUPIED
Today in Olympia, Washington, the Washington State Capitol was occupied. Several occupiers were arrested and forcibly removed by Washington State Troopers. In yet another display of excessive force, *three people were reportedly tased by police.* *Last Updated, 12:28 EST*
CUNY Protests Happening Now
Inside of a barricaded meeting at Baruch College (24th and Lexington Ave), the City University of New York Board of Trustees is voting to raise tuition at the school. Outside, hundreds of Occupy CUNY students and their supporters are chanting, "Education is a right, Fight! Fight! Fight!" *Students are asking all supporters to join them at Baruch College until 8PM this evening.* Following the lead of student protesters opposing tuition hikes and austerity measures, today has been called as a student strike and day of action in solidarity with the protesters at the University of C... more »
Eviction Deadline Passes, Occupy LA Holding Ground
Even as hundreds of police gathered around City Hall, Occupy Los Angelescontinued to peacefully assemble in impressive numbers in Solidarity Park (formerly City Hall Park) throughout the night. Accounts put the crowd at over 2,000. Early this morning, LAPD moved in to evict the encampment. Around 5am PST, police armed with batons and riot gear ordered the nonviolent Occupiers to disperse from the street or face violent arrest. The crowd responded by asking LAPD to lay down their weapons and join them. At least four arrests were made, before the police backed down. In the words ... more »
LIVE: Occupy Philly Still Standing Strong
Though ordered by the city to leave yesterday and threatened with arrest, Occupy Philly remains peacefully assembled. For background on the situation in Philly, see our earlier post. Updates: - *10:54pm EST:* Still there, still peaceful, still no arrests. - *7:15pm EST:* Still at Dilworth! General Assembly underway. - *6:53pm EST:* Police presence reported to be thinning. - *5:43pm EST:* Police are blocking off public park. Occupy Philly still urging supporters to gather, bring cameras! - *4:40pm EST:* More police are reported seen massing near the plaza, ... more »
#OccupyLA Refuses To Leave, Police Attempting To Evict Now
[image: OccupyLA refuses to leave] Yesterday we reported about the planned eviction of Occupy Los Angeles. Occupiers have refused to leave and the police are currently enclosing. Thousands have arrived to defend Solidarity Park, forming human chains. More Information - http://occupylosangeles.org/ - https://twitter.com/#!/OccupyLA
URGENT: Occupy LA Prepares for Eviction
The mayor of Los Angeles, Antonio Villaraigosa, has ordered Occupy LA to pack up and leave Solidarity Park (formerly City Hall Park) by 12:01AM tonight or face arrest. Villaraigosa – who initially claimed to support the Occupation and has lauded OWS for "awakening the country's conscience" – is now citing "public health and safety" as justification to evict the encampment, even as LA police chief Charlie Beck refused to reject the use of tear gas and rubber bullets against nonviolent protestors. As Villaraigosa held a press conference announcing the park would be closed indefini... more »
Occupy Philly Facing Eviction TODAY
[image: support Occupy Philly] Despite having sent a letter of appeal to City Hall, Occupy Philadelphia is facing imminent eviction: [Mayor] Nutter has joined the chorus of Mayors nationwide to silence and render invisible this movement against Wall Street greed. The City told us to leave City Hall with all of our belongings by 5pm today. At 5pm let's show them how much support this movement has. Come to City Hall and stand with the 99%! Chances are police will not move in at that time. The City will probably unleash them in the middle of the night to start ripping down tents an... more »