Sunday: Global Uprisings--Egypt, Tunisia, Iran & Activists @ OWS
Posted 13 years ago on Nov. 6, 2011, 12:35 a.m. EST by OccupyWallSt
GLOBAL REVOLUTIONS: The U.S., Middle East and North African Uprisings
Sunday, November 6th, 5pm
Liberty Square (Zuccotti Park) - under the red sculpture
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We are honored that three Middle Eastern and North African activists: Esraa Abdel Fattah - Egypt, Jamel Bettaieb - Tunisia, Mahboubeh Abbasgholizadeh - Iran, will be with us at OWS.
Esraa Abdel Fattah - Cyber activist and creator of the April 6th Facebook page which called for the first successful Egyptian general strike in 2008. Jailed for her efforts, she quickly became one of the most recognizable and prominent spokespersons for the Egyptian opposition. She was short listed for the 2011 Nobel Peace prize.
Jamel Bettaieb - Tunisian activist and labor leader from the birth city of the Arab Spring - Sidi Bouzid. He recently won the 2011 NED Democracy award.
Mahboubeh Abbasgholizadeh - Iranian women’s rights activist, journalist, and filmmaker - one of the founders of the Iranian Green Movement, the Stop Stoning Forever campaign, the Iranian Women's Charter Movement, and the coordinator for Meydan Zanan Network, Former Director of the women's NGO Training Centre (NGOTC), and editor-in-chief of Farzaneh Women’s Studies Journal.
For further information please contact: Kobi Skolnick, kskolnickATgmail.com
The movement is getting stronger.
But it needs to stay focused on jobs and economic justice.
The #Occupy movement has been very successful at shifting the lexicon of the national debate from the phony national debt distraction to the real issues of jobs and economic justice. Diluting that focus with too many subsidiary interests that are actually a subset of jobs and economic justice simply confuses people while allowing the propagandists and Washington minions for Wall Street to claim that #Occupy is a pointless confused rabble.
They can't help themselves. That's what anarchy is.
And it´s really wonderful seeing all this global solidarity and increasing engagement for creating a better society. The occupy movement is fantastic and the ones participating in it are the true heroes of the world.
please read my contributions to the ows forum:
The ”Free Ride” Society
http://occupywallst.org/forum/the-free-ride-society/
Replace Capitalism with Democracy
http://occupywallst.org/forum/replace-capitalism-with-democracy/
Strategies and Expectations
http://occupywallst.org/forum/strategies-and-expectations/
The Society We Should Strive For
http://occupywallst.org/forum/the-society-we-should-strive-for/
solidarity and greetings sff
Then you won't need Ex-Lax?
Force Change, Boycott Capitalism
We know what the problem is, let us fix it and move forward together.
When you look at a republican or democrat, congress or FDA official, Judges and Justice Department, you see criminals.
Our corruption dates back many years to when those, who in trying to preserve slavery, had to find new ways to preserve it and so created a scientific and advanced form of slavery.
Only two components were required -- the illusion of freedom & choice and the taking away of the freedom to live off the land.
How else would you get a person to submit themselves to mind numbing or degrading work unless you oppress them into it.
Our current system is rooted in corruption and every attempt in preserving it involves manipulating human thought and turning people against one another.
In America the population has been transformed into two major voting groups but they only have one choice.
They had been distracted up until now with television and American culture which prospered through the oppression of other nations.
Americans allowed themselves to be fooled into using their military and economic dominance to seize resources of other nations and create expanding markets for American profiteers.
Now that technology, competition and conscience have evolved Americans are realizing that our current system of government is damaging and unsustainable.
Our government officials have allowed private profits and personal benefits to influence decisions that affect the health and well-being of people all over the planet, not just in America... how much longer will we allow them to rule over us??
Occupy Washington and demand that government officials resign their posts.
We will setup new online elections with a verification system that will allow us to see our votes after we cast them, put our new officials in office and work toward rebuilding our country and our world.
Pass this message along to any and everyone, we already occupy the world, unite.
Occupy Washington, Boycott Capitalism, Force Change -- http://wesower.org
There is nothing wrong with capitalism as long as its regulated. I prefer a capitalistic/socialist hybrid myself. I believe the two can co-exist.
I just think pushing a purely anti-capitalistic campaign will hurt our movement in the long run more than it will help it when it comes to garnering public support. Especially when we have a lot of support from small business owners in our respective cities.
there's a lot of cleaning up to do, from the financial sector to the food and drug administration where big pharma writes our bills, energy, where energy companies write our bills, to weapons and manufacturing who fool us into war, drug enforcement which funnels money to weapons building and throws kids in privately owned jails for smoking a joint while letting the entire nation get hooked on pain killers, anti-depressants, pressure & cholesterol and most alarmingly children on behavior modification drugs. - "they" have wedged themselves between us and our freedom to live.
to go against them or the capitalist system they head would mean death.
this is a crime, the system for the exchange of goods and the system of government by and for the well-being of people should always be seperate.
this new form of slavery must end.
Crony capitalism is one good term for what needs to be fixed.
if you like democracy you should favor replacing capitalism with freedom and democracy. please read my contributions to the ows forum (especially "Replace Capitalism with Democracy"):
The ”Free Ride” Society
http://occupywallst.org/forum/the-free-ride-society/
Replace Capitalism with Democracy
http://occupywallst.org/forum/replace-capitalism-with-democracy/
Strategies and Expectations
http://occupywallst.org/forum/strategies-and-expectations/
The Society We Should Strive For
http://occupywallst.org/forum/the-society-we-should-strive-for/
i wonder if it's possible at this point to create a wide conversation about economic democracy that's constructive and not polarizing. if it wouldn't be more effective to focus on fixing our political democracy as a first step. there seems to be more potential unity there. i don't see a how real inclusive national dialogue about capitalism in this country can happen until people from across the spectrum have learned to listen to and trust one another more. if people first are willing to work together to fix and renew our political system, it might create conditions for education and discussion that could lead somewhere.
It is quite true that the base, the logic of political ideology should align with the economic program. market is the human grammar that is built into our behavioral action. but there are people who form the most important part of any system. so, the system can produce more people with less envy, lust for power, .... that will be able to hold out the rest of the time remaining to the real life. it takes courage, sacrifice, patience and a lot of faith in the good.
Not only are you correct, it has already happened. I, for one, and finished with this mob of goofy anarchists. They will effect NO change whatsoever. They have devolved to a form of group narcissism. The movement is already being ignored by the vast majority of the population. It has failed through lack of consensus (it has become polarized by the radical left) and lack of leadership.
I read that the Belgium has no national government and their economy grew more than the U.S.. Here are the growth numbers followed by a link to the article:
"UK’s disappointing 0.2 per cent growth, the US’s anaemic 0.3 per cent and the glum eurozone average figure of 0.2 per cent. That number includes the surprising and alarming German 0.1 per cent, the desperately poor French 0 per cent and then, wait for it, the agreeably frisky Belgian 0.7 per cent."
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v33/n17/john-lanchester/the-non-scenic-route-to-the-place-were-going-anyway
you can´t just boycott capitalism. Capitalism must be dismantled
http://occupywallst.org/forum/replace-capitalism-with-democracy/
http://occupywallst.org/forum/the-society-we-should-strive-for/
there's a lot of cleaning up to do, from the financial sector to the food and drug administration where big pharma writes our bills, energy, where energy companies write our bills, to weapons and manufacturing who fool us into war, drug enforcement which funnels money to weapons building and throws kids in privately owned jails for smoking a joint while letting the entire nation get hooked on pain killers, anti-depressants, pressure & cholesterol and most alarmingly children on behavior modification drugs. - "they" have wedged themselves between us and our freedom to live.
to go against them or the capitalist system they head would mean death.
this is a crime, the system for the exchange of goods and the system of government by and for the well-being of people should always be seperate.
this new form of slavery must end.
Solidarity from Missouri to all those brave soldiers for peace occupying all around the world. From Arab Spring to American Autumn, there's one thing for sure, "Take the power from the people, they're gonna want it back!" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2sFLkY99r8
Nonviolence trumps nukes. Anyplace. Even the mideast. U new? Peace.
I am an iranian and i am wonder how do you call her as an iranian representative of 99%. She is one of 1% people in iran who are anti democratic activity in iran and operated anti election form. She and their friends didn't respect to rules and majority vote and played in CIA game field.
VIDEO of the Iranian Green Movement activists speaking can be found here: http://mantlethought.org/content/occupy-wall-street-iranian-activists-speak
VIDEO of the Iranian activists speaking can be seen here: http://mantlethought.org/content/occupy-wall-street-iranian-activists-speak
I suggest you also get Anna Hazare for this movement from India. He has been an inspiration on his fight for getting government to legislate a strong anti corruption bill. He can do to OWS what Mahatma Gandhi did to Europe/South Africa long back.
I am Iranian too. Mahboubeh Abbasgholizadeh is not representative of Iran. green movement was & is supported by 1%. gm doesn't believe 99% vs 1% as they didn't respect vote of majority of Iranians in elections. CHANGE THE TITLE OF THIS NEWS. OWS should be very careful. They are using your voice your community to only show themselves and their Idea.
These professional Egyptian activists work for Wall Street funded NGOs, they are not the grass roots egyptian protestors. NED and other NGOs are funded by Wall Street in order to control populist and democratic movements to make sure the outcome is in their favor. They like to make sure real populist leaders who will send Wall Street packing never come to power. Just look up NED or any of the other NGO's and you can see how they are all corporate funded fronts for Wall Street.
The click of the upper class who had engaged does not represent the Iranian masses, the people, but an anti-people generation on the order of one percent betrays his people. Mahbobe should think about whether her work is consistent. She belongs to the small percentage of Iran.
The click of the upper class who had engaged does not represent the Iranian masses, the people, without a förlurad generation on the order of one percent betrays his people. Mahbobe should think about whether her work is consistent. She belongs to the small percentage of Iran.
Good job Al Qaeda. Great job in Libya. How will occupy feel if NATO starts bombing their neighbors houses?
How about we all focus on getting all Government appointed officials, from our local City, County, State, Mayors to Governors and all their elected cabinets, all the way up to and including the Federal Government, Congress, Senators’, Obama and his cabinet take, a 10% cut in their outlandish salaries and freeze their raises for the next two years!!! This would make a serious impact on our economy, Christ maybe even balance the budget!!!! They all keep talking about cutting into our very needed social and educational programs, but no mention on their lavish life styles.
The NED is the CIA! Many of the people that you gave favorable accord to in your blog here are involved in shadow operations favorable to the US Govt. They infiltrate countries and perform overt and covert activities to further the Global neo-liberal agenda. Why are you friendly with these folks? It makes me wonder about you all!
Good luck getting the Ayotollahs support, those morons are quite protected by the Quds forces.
Be Strong. Fair-ness.
I am from Iran and have suffered a lot by the 1% inside and outside my country, which is why I think I have experienced and collected a fair knowledge of how 1% can occupy 99%'s achievements. That is why I had kept a watching eye on your activities in the occupy movement until you got connected to Iranian green movement. This clearly shows there are elements of CIA (representing 1%) active in there. I warn all real Americans (whom I respect for their hard work and their great achievements) who are suffering from atrocities of 99% to take care about what is being done in their name outside US and also inside OWS. We all in Iran pray for your success in the great struggle for justice and freedom from “Global Arrogance” (A term used by late Imam Khomeini).
تعالی بسمه با سلام و تشکر از بیان اینکه گروه کمتر از 1% سعی در مخفی کردن چهره کریه نامردمی خود بین مردم میشود.چمعیت های مردمی ایران اسلامی از کوچک تا بزرگ و کارگر و کشاورز/حوزه و دانشگاه/و تمام مجموعه های انسانی که در طول دهه ها رننج و مرگ با دستهای خالی رو به توکل خداوند در مقابل زورگویان هزاره قد علم کرده و پیشگام اینده ای برای بشریت شدها اند/سعی در افشای نامردمانیکه می خواهند در صف مردمان تفرقه بیاندارند وظیفه هر انسان و هر مسبلمانی است. امیر صدر سوئد
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تعالی بسمه با سلام و تشکر از بیان اینکه گروه کمتر از 1% سعی در مخفی کردن چهره کریه نامردمی خود بین مردم میشود.چمعیت های مردمی ایران اسلامی از کوچک تا بزرگ و کارگر و کشاورز/حوزه و دانشگاه/و تمام مجموعه های انسانی که در طول دهه ها رننج و مرگ با دستهای خالی رو به توکل خداوند در مقابل زورگویان هزاره قد علم کرده و پیشگام اینده ای برای بشریت شدها اند/سعی در افشای نامردمانیکه می خواهند در صف مردمان تفرقه بیاندارند وظیفه هر انسان و هر مسبلمانی است. امیر صدر سوئد
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تعالی بسمه با سلام و تشکر از بیان اینکه گروه کمتر از 1% سعی در مخفی کردن چهره کریه نامردمی خود بین مردم میشود.چمعیت های مردمی ایران اسلامی از کوچک تا بزرگ و کارگر و کشاورز/حوزه و دانشگاه/و تمام مجموعه های انسانی که در طول دهه ها رننج و مرگ با دستهای خالی رو به توکل خداوند در مقابل زورگویان هزاره قد علم کرده و پیشگام اینده ای برای بشریت شدها اند/سعی در افشای نامردمانیکه می خواهند در صف مردمان تفرقه بیاندارند وظیفه هر انسان و هر مسبلمانی است. امیر صدر سوئد
Capitalism can be dismantled in this way:
Exercise just indipendent jobs. Produce and consume for yourself and your family. Refuse to work as a policeman, a bodyguard or a soldier. On these conditions the corps, without a protection, will be compelled to suffer the will of the 99%. The war in Libya has been just a scenario organized in the studios of Hollywood and that in Iran is impossible. It would be the beginning of a nuclear war.
at present we are suffering from seizure of all branches of american gov by demonic cable and its obama corp regime. look back bush II put into power with the connivance of criminal acts of his brother jeb. under corp money power ,american became imperialistic,militaristic banana republic. as adam said once 1776 civil goverment,so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for defence of the rich against poor,and now system creat slavery wage for rich and open border and ligall permit to all to control slave wage or send jobs to asia or any other places
you are commy
Ok I posted this in one other place so please do not think I am a troll but this video from Occupy Gainesville really caught my attention. Keep it up guys! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLS0qnv5N38
greetings to three uprising-leaders from tunisia, egypt and iran on their visit to ows. An indian sends this greeting to these leaders and ows activists in international solidarity for uprising against the greed of corporate-government alliance. From: http://indianpeoplescongress.org/index.php
Iranian who cheated his way in, belonging to the less than one percent who tried to make a reality of the American coup earlier in Iran and elsewhere. you should ask mahbobe if she stands for the corrupt element in cooperation with the rough American military power vpen taken so many hundred tous life in Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, ..... mahbobe claiming to be one of the people to be confronted with the Iranian people, do not think an international movement that OCC, WAS can accept those who are betraying the people and the poor majority, we shall discuss in this page mahbobes and her INSULAR NATION methods and betrayal of the people.
this is great news! Ras Tafari the True Christ said the christians and the muslims must unite to defeat the enemy. the fascist rulers use these rabid christians to preach a christian muslim war. despite the 911 INSIDE JOB they continue to blame muslim terrorists to justify drone strikes and the murder of wedding parties. both religions are BS! child protection will destroy christianity just as surely as womens liberation will destroy islam. we must exclude christian preachers from our community they are PREDATORS recruiting followers for their imaginary friend and BS delusions of world domination. both the bible and the koran end with cannabis growing everywhere. the end of cannabis prohibition is the RAPTURE.
War on plants. Lost that one 2. Cartels love it conservatards 2. Fuckn hopeless. 99% far better leadership
the plants are winning!!!
i am iranian. iranians dont protect Mahboubeh Abbasgholizadeh. she isn't our Representative. green movement were as a movement against freedom and democrasy. and now you anvited her. do you forget that green movement were soppurted by 1% in US? it happened in ukrain and .... too. you are going to Deviate.
Very professional. Well spelled.
I love reggae
Green movement in Iran is a CIA operation
I thought the OWS knew that
reason:
CIA had planned the Green movement before the Arab spring because they knew the Arab Spring would happen.
They plan to attack Iran using the formula for Lybia because Iran is not like Egypt or Tunesia.
But they want to use the Green movement as an excuse. Corporate media has exaggerated the scale of Green movement in Iran. They don't have that many followers. They are not the 99%. Maybe not even 1%!!
CIA and US military want to attack Iran on the idea to divide Iran into two or more zones. They want to turn southern Iran into a Sunni-Arab region and integrate it into the oil rich Arab region while turning Kurdestan and Azarbayejan into two other independent states and turn the Caspian and its resources into another.
What is left is a just a couple of big deserts and some useless land around it.
OWS has the responsibility to at least research before letting its force getting involved into a CIA ploy.
good luck.
The 99%
CIA operations are dictated by private interests, ie the 1% - going back as far as civil war there have been "ops"
look up American Fruit and what they did to Guatemala, Domino and Cuba, Chevy and Vietnam, Haliburton and Iraq, and on and on and on.
Banana Republics and forceful oppression by way of media corruption, military force and economic impoverishment are common practice of CIA for the 1% that basically own and operate them.
Their great achievement is in openly sponsoring terrorism while calling their opposition the terrorists, with control of media, this is cake. Political undermining is easy for them, they have $$ and weapons to hand out, our money pays for both.
Even the DEA and justice department serve weapons building manufacturers.
It's common knowledge, I thought??
I don't deny what you're saying but i'm going to need to see some sort of reference materials or sources.
Were u in a coma?
You should deny what he is saying. You are not obliged to be open minded about every insane theory that someone comes up with.
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Hold on ! The force is with you...
The force certainly better b with us. If not 99% will make it so. Rightfully
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This lady, Mahboubeh Abbasgholizadeh, is confederate with the US One% to extend the power of the US establishment into Iran. Nature of movements are different and should be gauged on its background.
It's ridiculous that OWS invites these speakers and compares their movement with theirs. They are simply confusing matters. People need to educate themselves and understand what OWS is and what it's not. It's definitely not a movement similar to those in Egypt, Tunisia, and Iran. Saying it is doesn't do justice to OWS, nor those movements.
Hey, do not mix things, the U.S. 1% was thrown out by the Iranian 99% 33 years ago, on the way from Tehran to Cairo, Tunis, Trip Poli, Sana'a. And OWS. 1% American + 00.5% + many Iranians bag U.S. dollars was an attempt by many after the failure of the Saddam / American 1% war to stop the Iranian 99%. The Iranian 99% trick to snap 1% American lilgger of moral honesty, sacrifice, patience, courage,,, people should learn from each other and do not be stingy with his knowledge and experience, lessons learned, without sacrifice to win is not in the long run. the U.S. vicious Iranian majorities have much to learn from and to each other, a good start to a popular collaboration for a better world,
I'm all for learning between each other. One of the first step is to understand our differences.
Every part of man's unique features is an evidence of that. Our common humanity above the animal will allow us to solve problems, not only in labratorier but on the human perspective.
What are you talking about? Please try to stay on topic. No need to pull out a Chewbaca defense.
our differences despite we have that the speaking / thinking the animal is more common than differences. in a dialogue that can respect the differences and similarities to be taking on a diverse healthy landscapes.
Read my first post again. I'm talking about the differences between the movements, not differences between humans. The Egypt protests were started for different reasons than the ones in New-York. The historical, political, economical, and sociological contexts are entirely different.
we have reached a turning point in history when we should reflect the different cultural 'H-P-E-S' aspect of finding the common denominator, this is humanity's single mission, for we have everything we need on our planet except distribution principle resource allocation theory, and the most crucial, important that controls all functions is the human mentality.
Read my first post again. I'm talking about the differences between the movements, note differences between humans. The Egyptians protest were started for Different Reasons Than the ones in New York. The Historical, Political, Economical, and Sociological contexts are Entirely different.
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Exactly. Good point.
Say NO! to any US and / or Israeli attack against Iran.
We must be realistic, given the right to stand against militarism and war, but honestly who think the US / Israel dare think of such an act, they have nothing to gain from it, and everything to lose, the OWS is an instructive factor in these dark times, it will be light with the real American people standing up, meet well,,,
Well some folks seem to be itching for just that, an attack on Iran.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEbFOpIbNHU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGGgNeXUMLs&feature=related
BTW RT (formerly Russia Today) is a good news source.
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Is that u guv rick?
Do you think you will be asked? For that matter, why would anyone advise Israel NOT to attack Iran? What should Israel do - just wait for the end to come? What is your PRACTICAL solution to this?
No, and Congress won't be asked either. Iran can only lose by attacking Israel. Israel needs to do the hard work of making peace with the Palestinians, which is why the moslem people are angry with Israel and us too not trying to choke the life out of them in Gaza. That's practical.
http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/peres-i-believe-israel-world-approaching-military-option-on-iran-nuclear-threat-1.393801
Iran has announced that they will destroy Israel. Iran is building missiles and nuclear weapons. Your advice is that they should just look the other way. As for the Palestinians, when Hamas stops bombing Israel things might improve.
They never made any such announcement. Israel must stop trying to suffocate the Palestinians and offer real peace including status of Jerusalem and the right of return.
Good to see!
If you protect green movement you automatically join to 1% and your 99% will put away #OWS I said in previous comment that you are in the beginning of a long way and have to study a lot about revolutions specially Islamic ones in the world. american haven't ever had such an activity. Don't let strange guys to join to your assembly. this is very very dangerous for your novice movement and exterminate your movement from inside. Iran had a few external injury but most of brunt had been from inside. that's why I emphasis this point. I wish again you would over come these difficulties and feel the final victory. good luck.
U.S. military completed four major military coups in Iran, which is well documented, one of the dug in the sand in Tabas, the last one was the most well planned was carried out using the pentagon organized colored, in this case green, planning preceded by several well-planned preparation with millions of U.S. dollars, the people's funds should be used for better purposes for the American people, Mahbobeh is too cool to stop in a place that will reveal all the traitorous clique upper class who betray the Iranian people and the vast majority who will unite for a just world, mahbobe should confess his INSULAR NATION color and apologize for his INSULAR NATION behavior,
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If yer that lilylivered yer only get in the way
Hehehehehehe!
OWS is under control by the CIA
99% will control better than 1
Why do you think so?
the tea bagger movement is under control by Mossad .
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Congrats 4 yer promotion
This movement is getting weaker. We are losing our foothold. We are becoming a laughing sitock of snot nosed kids and drug takers.
It is comments like these that confirm that OWS is a threat and is going very well. Keep up the good work.
They are a threat to themselves and public property.
U forgot ows is also a potential threat to others and 2 private property 2. Should entire global populist movement disband due to your irrational phobias & lack of access 2 healthcare?
Yes
Discuss issues and argue for the necessary dialogue beyond weapons and power. You probably have something positive to bring to it. welcome to the actual description of the movement.
Why defend snotnosed 1% then?
Hater. Take yer meds
Yep. Time for the grownups to take control.
Agreed!