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Japan's Tsunami (Wow, I had adyslexic moment with that one (Tsumani) and had to come back in and respell it........) OMG, time to go off to zzzzzzzzzzland.) ...cal
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........and I start to cry as I'd much prefer to fly around and do the Occupy thingys as it is more upbeat and happy for the most part. ALLs I'm saying is IAM going to try and delegate my time to all of it. OMG!!! asif I'm in this 'ALL BY MYSELF'. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OONm1xbf_bA Celine Dion (I don't even live by myself but in the middle of all the brainwashing and crazy crap going on it sure feels like it.) ...cal
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2016653386_apwaoccupyseattle.html
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College teachers focus lessons on Occupy Seattle
Beginning Sunday evening, instructors at Seattle Community College campuses are teaching classes in support of Occupy Seattle.
The Associated Press
SEATTLE — Beginning Sunday evening, instructors at Seattle Community College campuses are teaching classes in support of Occupy Seattle.
The classes are scheduled to be held in the plaza of Seattle Central Community College. They will focus on subjects such as legislative lobbying, the art of the protest sign and filming to document human rights violations.
According to Occupy Seattle and the Washington branch of the American Federation of Teachers, classes were scheduled throughout the night.
Occupy Seattle is moving is its month-long protest to the Seattle college campus.
Occupy Chico Calif rally Oct 15 2011.3gp
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leH20dIwhwQ&NR=1
http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2011/10/occupy_portland_expands_to_sch.html
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Michael Moore speaks to Occupy Portland at Schrunk Plaza Filmmaker Michael Moore says Portland's is the largest occupation he's seen, calls it the seat of our new democracy, and urges the demonstrators to stay involved. Watch video
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/27/occupy-oakland-egyptian-protesters_n_1035959.html
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Occupy Oz: Your days are numbered bourgeois swine!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpyZqUY-MOU
The classes are scheduled to be held in the plaza of Seattle Central Community College. They will focus on subjects such as legislative lobbying, the art of the protest sign and filming to document human rights violations.
According to Occupy Seattle and the Washington branch of the American Federation of Teachers, classes were scheduled throughout the night.
Occupy Seattle is moving is its month-long protest to the Seattle college campus.
Occupy Chico Calif rally Oct 15 2011.3gp
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leH20dIwhwQ&NR=1
Indeed, we are now in many ways involved in the same struggle. What most pundits call "the Arab Spring" has its roots in the demonstrations, riots, strikes and occupations taking place all around the world, its foundations lie in years-long struggles by people and popular movements. The moment that we find ourselves in is nothing new, as we in Egypt and others have been fighting against systems of repression, disenfranchisement and the unchecked ravages of global capitalism (yes, we said it, capitalism): a system that has made a world that is dangerous and cruel to its inhabitants. As the interests of government increasingly cater to the interests and comforts of private, transnational capital, our cities and homes have become progressively more abstract and violent places, subject to the casual ravages of the next economic development or urban renewal scheme.
http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2011/10/occupy_portland_expands_to_sch.html
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Michael Moore speaks to Occupy Portland at Schrunk Plaza Filmmaker Michael Moore says Portland's is the largest occupation he's seen, calls it the seat of our new democracy, and urges the demonstrators to stay involved. Watch videohttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/27/occupy-oakland-egyptian-protesters_n_1035959.html
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Indeed, we are now in many ways involved in the same struggle. What most pundits call "the Arab Spring" has its roots in the demonstrations, riots, strikes and occupations taking place all around the world, its foundations lie in years-long struggles by people and popular movements. The moment that we find ourselves in is nothing new, as we in Egypt and others have been fighting against systems of repression, disenfranchisement and the unchecked ravages of global capitalism (yes, we said it, capitalism): a system that has made a world that is dangerous and cruel to its inhabitants. As the interests of government increasingly cater to the interests and comforts of private, transnational capital, our cities and homes have become progressively more abstract and violent places, subject to the casual ravages of the next economic development or urban renewal scheme.
Occupy Oz: Your days are numbered bourgeois swine!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpyZqUY-MOU
http://www.mercurynews.com/news/ci_19211213
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Occupy Oakland makes plans for citywide general strike
Posted: 10/27/2011 08:31:10 PM PDT
Updated: 10/27/2011 10:44:38 PM PDT
OAKLAND -- Occupy Oakland protesters debated Thursday evening the practical difficulties of organizing a citywide general strike with the aim of shutting down the city of Oakland on Nov. 2. Speakers urged teachers, students, union members and workers of all stripes to participate in whatever way they could, and said the entire world was watching Oakland. "Oakland is the vanguard and epicenter of the Occupy movement," said Clarence Thomas, a member of the powerful International Longshoreman and Warehouse Union who urged the hundreds of assembled people to support the strike. http://www.ajc.com/news/atlanta/updated-occupy-atlanta-to-1213111.html
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Updated: Occupy Atlanta to occupy Peachtree-Pine homeless shelter
By Jeremiah McWilliams
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
After a search for a home that has sent them from Woodruff Park to the Martin Luther King Jr. Historic Site, members of Occupy Atlanta say they've found a new place to stay: the homeless shelter at Peachtree and Pine streets.
Johnny Crawford, Jcrawford@ajc.com This is the exterior photo of the homeless shelter at Peachtree and Pine Street on Friday, Oct. 29,2011.
Johnny Crawford, Jcrawford@ajc.com These are some of the bunk beds inside the homeless shelter at Peachtree and Pine Street on Friday, Oct. 29,2011.
The space is currently used by the Metro Atlanta Task Force for the Homeless, which owes the city more than $147,000 in unpaid water and sewer bills and has been threatened with eviction.
http://www.homelesstaskforce.org/programs.html (Please click the ART STUDIO link and watch the enclosed 2 videos) ...cal
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ABOUT US | GET INVOLVED | ART STUDIO | PROGRAMS & SERVICES | STAY INFORMED | OUR VISION
24-HR HOMELESS ASSISTANCE HOTLINEThe initial point of contact for many individuals with the Task Force is through our 24-Hour Homeless Assistance Hotline. The 24-Hour Homeless Assistance Hotline is a toll-free, statewide hotline and is the central component of Task Force service delivery. The Hotline provides a crucial first link between those who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless and the resources that they need, such as shelter, food, housing, employment, or other support. This toll-free, statewide Hotline is a fully computerized, constantly operating service linking more than 10,000 callers and their households each year with shelter, food, clothing, permanent housing, employment services and other support.
(IPS) Occupy Movement Divides Civil Rights Activists
http://www.homelesstaskforce.org/programs.html (Please click the ART STUDIO link and watch the enclosed 2 videos) ...cal
Excerpt:
ABOUT US | GET INVOLVED | ART STUDIO | PROGRAMS & SERVICES | STAY INFORMED | OUR VISION
24-HR HOMELESS ASSISTANCE HOTLINEThe initial point of contact for many individuals with the Task Force is through our 24-Hour Homeless Assistance Hotline. The 24-Hour Homeless Assistance Hotline is a toll-free, statewide hotline and is the central component of Task Force service delivery. The Hotline provides a crucial first link between those who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless and the resources that they need, such as shelter, food, housing, employment, or other support. This toll-free, statewide Hotline is a fully computerized, constantly operating service linking more than 10,000 callers and their households each year with shelter, food, clothing, permanent housing, employment services and other support.
(IPS) Occupy Movement Divides Civil Rights Activists
(IPS) Occupy Movement Divides Civil Rights Activists
- 10-31-2011
This article first appeared on the Inter-Press Service website at: http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=105667
After two weeks of camping out at Atlanta's downtown Woodruff Park, unofficially nicknamed "Troy Davis Park", 52 Occupy Atlanta protesters were arrested with the permission of Mayor Kasim Reed at about 1 am local time (05.00 GMT) the morning of Oct. 26.
That same night, as even more extreme and brutal police activity was seen in Oakland, California, Reed deployed about one hundred Atlanta police officers on foot, in addition to others on horseback and motorcycles and in helicopters, in a display of force estimated to cost taxpayers approximately 300,000 dollars.
Among the 52 arrested was Joe Beasley, a veteran of the Civil Rights Movement, as well as more contemporary progressive civil rights activists such as Vincent Fort, a state senator, and Derrick Boazman, a former city councilman.
ATLANTA, Oct 31, 2011 (IPS) - While some veterans of the Civil Rights Movement have joined forces with the Occupy Movement, other civil rights advocates, some of a new generation, have been more critical, even as the city government's response to the movement reached new levels.
After two weeks of camping out at Atlanta's downtown Woodruff Park, unofficially nicknamed "Troy Davis Park", 52 Occupy Atlanta protesters were arrested with the permission of Mayor Kasim Reed at about 1 am local time (05.00 GMT) the morning of Oct. 26.
That same night, as even more extreme and brutal police activity was seen in Oakland, California, Reed deployed about one hundred Atlanta police officers on foot, in addition to others on horseback and motorcycles and in helicopters, in a display of force estimated to cost taxpayers approximately 300,000 dollars.
Among the 52 arrested was Joe Beasley, a veteran of the Civil Rights Movement, as well as more contemporary progressive civil rights activists such as Vincent Fort, a state senator, and Derrick Boazman, a former city councilman.
Beasley is the president of African Ascension and southern director for the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition, a national organisation founded by civil rights activist Jesse Jackson.
In an interview with IPS prior to the arrests, Beasley called for Reed's ouster, saying that he had requested a recall petition from the Atlanta municipal clerk's office.
"It's a gross abuse of power and waste of taxpayers' money because he mobilised the Atlanta police, put them on a twelve-hour shift. He's got them walking around the park in great numbers as if there's some great threat to public safety," Beasley said.
Beasley said the actions demonstrated Reed's "unsuitability to hold office. If he's got that poor judgment, he shouldn't be mayor. There's no danger whatsoever, except in his imagination."
Shortly after the arrests, however, Rainbow/PUSH issued a statement distancing themselves from Beasley and the Occupy Movement.
"The Occupy Movement is less than two months old. Its goals – fairer distribution of income, more meaningful regulation of banks and other global corporate interests, fairer criminal and civil justice systems, more consumer protections – are worthy, even noble," Rainbow/PUSH said.
"But they won't come from the mere act of occupying Woodruff Park or any other space. Eventually, those goals will be achieved (if at all) with a focused, peaceful, strategic effort to influence policymakers and others," the group said.
Meanwhile, Atlanta City Councilman Michael Julian Bond, son of civil rights leader Julian Bond, who recently led the National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People (NAACP), withdrew his support after only a few days for Occupy Atlanta's encampment.
The younger Bond was originally among those urging Mayor Reed to be cautious with the protesters, but after a few days said, "Enough is enough."
In a recent interview with the newspaper the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, he said it was unfair to allow Occupy Atlanta protesters to camp in the park after not allowing homeless people to camp even when the latter do not have a place to live.
"But when it's twenty-something white kids, it's allowed to go on. That kind of stuck with me," Bond said.
As previously reported by IPS, Mayor Reed initially issued an executive order allowing Occupy Atlanta to stay in the park temporarily. He then issued a second executive order extending the first until what was supposed to have been a Nov. 8 deadline.
However, relations between Reed and Occupy Atlanta changed after the movement held a hip-hop concert in the park Oct. 22 without a permit from the city.
Reed took issue with the lack of security given the number of people at the park, as well as the use of a small electric generator. Reed then said he would revoke his executive order at a time of his choosing.
Reed said the final straw was when, the day before the arrests, a man began walking around the park with an AK-47 rifle. Occupy Atlanta said they did not know who he was.
But civil rights advocates like Beasley, Fort, and Boazman were there with Occupy Atlanta participants during their last days in the park, becoming their strongest advocates.
Indeed, the presence of respected, long-time Atlanta advocates lent some additional credibility to the movement.
Ironically, Occupy Atlanta, the very group initially so wary of establishment politicians that they would not allow Representative John Lewis, a Democrat from Georgia, to speak at their General Assembly the night they occupied the park came to rely on more established activists to stand with them in their final days at the park.
One of these more established activists, Richard Cobble, president of Concerned Black Clergy, said he has been "on the cutting edge for these past twenty-eight years".
"The tenants and the people around this park are angry, they're angry because they've made money on the backs of the poor. It's time to bring an end to all of this. If they're angry, let's make them mad, because we are tired. And I want to encourage you," Cobble said in a speech.
"Keep it up! Let's do it! Let's make them angry, mad, and what have you," Cobble said. "We're not afraid of law enforcement. We're not afraid of what the mayor's going to do... We're going to be out here loud and clear. This is not the end. I don't want it to be an end. We cannot let it be an end. We cannot give in."
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ATLANTA, Oct 31, 2011 (IPS) - While some veterans of the Civil Rights Movement have joined forces with the Occupy Movement, other civil rights advocates, some of a new generation, have been more critical, even as the city government's response to the movement reached new levels.After two weeks of camping out at Atlanta's downtown Woodruff Park, unofficially nicknamed "Troy Davis Park", 52 Occupy Atlanta protesters were arrested with the permission of Mayor Kasim Reed at about 1 am local time (05.00 GMT) the morning of Oct. 26.
That same night, as even more extreme and brutal police activity was seen in Oakland, California, Reed deployed about one hundred Atlanta police officers on foot, in addition to others on horseback and motorcycles and in helicopters, in a display of force estimated to cost taxpayers approximately 300,000 dollars.
Among the 52 arrested was Joe Beasley, a veteran of the Civil Rights Movement, as well as more contemporary progressive civil rights activists such as Vincent Fort, a state senator, and Derrick Boazman, a former city councilman.
Sent: Sunday, October 30, 2011 1:47 PM
Subject: [pf-friends] URGENT Occupy Fresno Sun 6 p.m. & Mon
To All Occupy Activists and Supporters--
Please come out for tonight's, Sunday's, General Assembly, 6 pm at Courthouse Park. The county has issued notices that Occupy Fresno will be evicted on Monday night at midnight. We need to be prepared for that. We will develop a plan for resiting the eviction tonight.
The County is engaging in a smear campaign, falsely claiming that Occupy Fresno members were openly defecating and urinating in Courthouse Park and that we were destroying public property (i.e., using chalk to draw on the sidewalks). What we have been doing is peacefully exercising our constitutional rights of free expression and freedom of assembly. PLEASE SHOW YOUR SUPPORT FOR THE WORLDWIDE OCCUPATION MOVEMENT AND FOR OCCUPY FRESNO! JOIN US ON MONDAY NIGHT AS OCCUPY FRESNO WILL RESIST THE COUNTY'S ILLEGAL EVICTION NOTICE. EVEN IF YOU CHOOSE NOT TO BE ILLEGALLY ARRESTED YOU CAN HELP US. WE NEED LEGAL OBSERVERS, FOLKS TAKING VIDEO, AND A LARGE SHOW OF PUBLIC SUPPORT.
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/10/30/18696193.php
Santa Cruz Indymedia | Anti-War | Education & Student Activism
The march is part of multiple efforts on the part of the Watsonville Brown Berets and other community groups to stop gang-related violence in the Watsonville area. According to Brown Beret Diego Espinoza, one challenge is that public after-school programs have been cut and there are limited spaces for youth to express themselves besides getting involved in gangs. The Brown Berets seek to fill this gap by providing an open space at the Bike Shack in Watsonville for youth to participate in workshops on Youth & Power, art and music, indigenous and Latino culture, and to organize around important community issues, such as the struggle to ban the use of methyl iodide on crops in California.
http://www.anngarrison.com/content/natos-occupy-libya-action-is-not-for-the-99
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NATO didn't bomb Libya for the 99%
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Contrary to what the video below suggests, the U.S./NATO invasion and occupation of Libya, behind the National Transition Council (NTC), does not belong on the growing map of global movements identified with the phrase "We are the 99%." The video, featuring Libyan rebels backed by the U.S./NATO, appears on the OccupySouthAfrica web page, and on the Youtube, under the heading Evolution of Revolution - World Revolution Day 15 October 2011, where it's winning thousands of viewers, most of whom, excepting myself, seem enthusiastic.
But the U.S./NATO did not bomb Libya in the interests of the 99%, not the 99% in Libya or anywhere else. They bombed in the interests of the 1%, which is hungry for control of Libya's sweet crude oil, uranium, gold, and other resources, and its militarily strategic location.
Why is Syria, which is most likely next on the U.S./NATO list, also in this video? Why not Uganda, where demonstrators have marched in the streets and been shot and jailed to protest a fraudulent election followed by soaring food and fuel prices? Why not Congo, where political opposition is struggling against all odds for a free and fair election? Why not Rwanda, where opposition leader Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza is on trial for challenging Rwandan President Paul Kagame's official, Constitutionally codified version of the genocide in Rwanda, and opposition leader Bernard Ntaganda is already in prison? The presidents of these three countries, Uganda, Rwanda, and Congo, all facilitate the extraction of tens of billions of dollars worth of African natural resources to Western investors, as the Libyan NTC will, even as it struggles, with U.S./NATO support, to conquer ongoing Libyan resistance.