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#D12#PortShutdown flyers around your city! http://pic.twitter.com/BIAFp3hG #OLA #OO #OPDX #Occupyseattle #occupyvancouver (via@postnaught)
I love the occupy movement, I think it’s a beautiful thing to see all that energy and all that love that’s out there and all those people making a commitment. I’m hoping that some of that energy can go towards occupying places where we can actually stop the 1%. Right? Because we don’t want to just tell the 1%, “you’re horrible and this is wrong”, we want to actually stop them and the way to stop them is to occupy the places where they make their money.
I’ve heard a lot of talk about this distinction between occupy going after Wall Street and the financial sector versus focusing on the environment. To me, it’s a false distinction because I know that the people who run the world and are living off of all of us make their money by exploiting the environment and by taking away land from indigenous peoples. These are not separate issues at all – they are all one issue.
If we want to stop the 1%, we have to go to their factories, we have to go to the pipelines, we have to go to the ports where trade happens, we have to go to the stock exchanges inside… and all those things have to be occupied.
Hopefully, we can begin a conversation about switching to more direct targets for occupying. We’re calling it “Occupy the Machine”.
– Premadasi Amada, Deep Green Resistance organizer
(Source: http://pic.twitter.com/BIAFp3hG)
New Poster and info on #OccupythePort #d12 #OO #OSF #OLA #OSD
www.WestCoastPortShutdown. org
Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGqncu3wlEISUPPORT GROWS FOR OCCUPY MOVEMENT’S COORDINATED WEST COAST SHUT DOWN ON DECEMBER 12TH
As of November 27, 2011, the Occupy movement in every major West Coast port city: Occupy LA, Occupy San Diego, Occupy Portland, Occupy Tacoma, Occupy Seattle have joined Occupy Oakland in calling for and organizing a coordinated West Coast Port Blockade and Shutdown on December 12, 2011.
Most of the biggest Occupy Wall Street camps are gone. But their slogan still stands.
Whatever the long-term effects of the Occupy movement, protesters have succeeded in implanting “We are the 99 percent,” referring to the vast majority of Americans (and its implied opposite, “You are the one percent” referring to the tiny proportion of Americans with a vastly disproportionate share of wealth), into the cultural and political lexicon.
First chanted and blogged about in mid-September in New York, the slogan become a national shorthand for the income disparity. Easily grasped in its simplicity and Twitter-friendly in its brevity, the slogan has practically dared listeners to pick a side.
“We are getting nothing,” read the Tumblr blog “We Are the 99 Percent” that helped popularize the percentages, “while the other one percent is getting everything.”
Within weeks of the first encampment in Zuccotti Park in New York, politicians seized on the phrase. Democrats in Congress began to invoke the “99 percent” to press for passage of President Obama’s jobs act — but also to pursue action on mine safety, Internet access rules and voter identification laws, among others. Republicans pushed back, accusing protesters and their supporters of class warfare; Newt Gingrich this week called the “concept of the 99 and the one” both divisive and “un-American.”
Perhaps most important for the movement, there was a sevenfold increase in Google searches for the term “99 percent” between September and October and a spike in news stories about income inequality throughout the fall, heaping attention on the issues raised by activists.
“The ‘99 percent,’ and the ‘one percent,’ too, are part of our vocabulary now,” said Judith Stein, a professor of history at the City University of New York.”~(NYTimes)
The New York Times, “Camps Are Cleared, But ‘99 Percent’ Still Occupies the Lexicon.”
And further down in Brian Stelter’s story: “A Tumblr blog that was set up to compete with ‘We Are the 99 Percent,’ called ‘We Are the 53%,’ (referring to the estimated percentage of Americans who pay federal income taxes) has not been updated for two weeks.”
(via inothernews)
A protester @OccupyLA, where the police cleared a park near City Hall early Wednesday. #Nov30 #Epicfailguise #OccupyChill #<3 (Photo Credit: NYTimes)
Police just stole our whiteboard and 3-5 protest signs. #Shame Pic of them walking away with them (Via: @occupyphoenix)
This happened during the #OccupyLA/#OccupyPhilly raids last night/early morning #N30
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