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Occupy Wall Street: List and map of over 200 U.S. solidarity events and Facebook pages
Chris Bowers, Daily Kos
Below the fold, you will find a comprehensive list of links to locations in the United States and Canada with Occupy Wall Street solidarity events.
Unless otherwise noted, all of these links take you to Facebook pages, so you must be logged into Facebook in order to view them. Please, find an Occupy Wall Street Facebook group near you and sign up.
If you would rather not use Facebook, you can also connect to local Occupy Wall Street events through Meetup.com.
Many of these events have already begun. Others are in the planning stage. In the unlikely even that there is no event near you, please start one.
If you know of a solidarity event, Facebook page or website that is not listed, please either post a link to it in the comments or send the link in an email to [email protected]. Use the subject line “new event.”
(October 2011)
Impressive response after only three weeks. Turns out that an Occupy event will be taking place next week three blocks away from us.
The map at the Daily Kos has changed since I made the above screen shot last night. They are now using numbers to show the total events in a region, rather than individual markers. Easier to use perhaps, but not as dramatic. -BA
“We Are the 99 Percent” Creators Revealed
Adam Weinstein, Mother Jones
EXCLUSIVE: MoJo interviews the two activists behind Occupy Wall Street’s poignant Tumblr sensation.
It began as a simple little idea, just another blog among millions. The Occupy Wall Street protest was scheduled to begin on September 17, and launching We Are the 99 Percent on Tumblr seemed like a good way to promote it. Its creator had no clue that it would go viral and become a touchstone for a protest movement soon to spread nationwide.
This week, Mother Jones tracked down and spoke with the two activists behind the 99 Percent sensation, whose identities have remained unknown until now. The blog is the creation of a tenacious 28-year-old New York activist named Chris. (He asked that his last name not be published because he works full time for a small media outlet.) Chris has also been busy managing logistics, including food drives, for Occupy Wall Street in Lower Manhattan—so about two weeks ago, he started sharing the blog’s increasingly demanding curation duties with a friend in the cause, Brooklyn-based nonprofit worker and independent media maven Priscilla Grim.
On August 23, Chris put the idea in motion: “Get a bunch of people to submit their pictures with a hand-written sign explaining how these harsh financial times have been affecting them, have them identify themselves as the ’99 percent’, and then write ‘occupywallst.org’ at the end.”
(7 October 2011)
UPDATE: The website for “We Are the 99 Percent” is http://wearethe99percent.tumblr.com/
-BA
Wall Street protests across the US (photo gallery)
Guardian (UK)
Photo gallery of Occupy Wall Street protests.
(7 October 2011)
It Isn’t Nice
Barbara Dane and the Chambers Brothers, YouTube
Words by Malvina Reynolds (c. 1964 and 1993 )
It isn’t nice to block the doorway,
It isn’t nice to go to jail,
There are nicer ways to do it,
But the nice ways always fail.
It isn’t nice, it isn’t nice,
You told us once, you told us twice,
But if that is Freedom’s price,
We don’t mind.
It isn’t nice to carry banners
Or to sit in on the floor,
Or to shout our cry of Freedom
At the hotel and the store.
It isn’t nice, it isn’t nice,
You told us once, you told us twice,
But if that is Freedom’s price,
We don’t mind. …
Malvina singing.
(2009)
