News ArchiveOccupy National Gathering SchedulePosted 12 years ago on June 30, 2012, 2:16 p.m. EST by OccupyWallSt
Occupy National GatheringView a complete list of speakers, workshops, and trainings here: LEARN & CREATE National Occupy Guitarmy 99 Mile March, July 5-11 2012Posted 12 years ago on June 27, 2012, 6:44 p.m. EST by OccupyWallSt
A call for support from Occupiers, Friends, and Musicians from Philadelphia to New York City The Occupy Guitarmy is spearheading #99MileMarch from Philadelphia to New York City from July 5 to July 11, 2012 in honor of Woody Guthrie’s 100th birthday (July 14, 2012) and in celebration of the National Gathering of Occupy movement. We call on Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New York musicians, social justice activists, union members, and occupy supporters to help support our action. We actively seek: daily, overnight, and long haul marchers, daily location event organizers, street medics, guitar techs, kitchen staff, live-streamers, caravan vehicles, oral historians, and general volunteers. We ask that marchers, volunteers, and on-site supporters of our action visit our website (www.99milemarch.org) to engage with us in advance. Please contact us if you plan to march with us! For more information and details on how to get involved, visit 99milemarch.org and @99MileMarch We Demand Real Healthcare for the 99%Posted 12 years ago on June 27, 2012, 12:52 p.m. EST by OccupyWallSt
On Thursday, June 28th, between 10am and 11am, the U.S. Supreme Court is expected to announce its decision to uphold or strike down all or parts of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), aka “Obamacare.” The same day from 11:30am to 1:30pm, workers and the community will rally against layoffs, healthcare cuts, and hospital closings at Downstate Hospital, a state hospital in Central Brooklyn that handled 75,000 ER visits last year and plays a vital role in the community. #StrikeDebt: An Emerging ConsensusPosted 12 years ago on June 27, 2012, 12:43 p.m. EST by OccupyWallSt
Written by Nicholas Mirzoeff and originally published June 23 & 24 on his blog Occupy 2012 For a long time, Occupy was a combination of radical affect, method and principle. It did not have a central subject. Readers will have noticed that debt has increasingly become a key theme in this project. And now it’s perhaps becoming the theme in OWS as well. A growing consensus is emerging that the next major day of action will be orchestrated around debt. This will be Black Monday, or September 17, Occupy Wall Street Year One. In a sense, this is overdue. After all, OWS’s own David Graeber is the author the global best-seller Debt. But just as the 2011 protest lagged behind the worst of the bailouts, it’s only now that the full extent of the debt crisis is becoming apparent. There are three main factors at work here. One is the exemplary resistance in Montreal to the privatization of higher education and the refusal of endebted futures. Here is a direct challenge to the idea that morality means debt. Quebecois consider that they have already paid for education via direct and indirect taxation, one. And, two, they see a moral society as one that educates its citizens as a public good. #OWS Updates for the Week of June 27Posted 12 years ago on June 27, 2012, 11:46 a.m. EST by OccupyWallSt 'We are the 99%' was a prescient slogan that captured one version of reality - that those who drove our country off a cliff with criminal financial speculation represent a very small group, and that their actions harmed everyone else. But since then, a new kind of reality has emerged, one where groups are focusing on their core issues, constituencies and competencies. Students are organizing around student debt, foreclosure victims are organizing to stop evictions, etc. Let’s remember though, that the birth of #Occupy was when we all came together. It happened then, it happened on May Day, and it will happen again. -- from the ‘Your Inbox: Occupied’ team Occupy These Upcoming Events Wednesday, June 27th, 8:00am Wednesday, June 27th, 6:30pm Thursday, June 28th, 11:30am |
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