Occupy Wall Street, the Global Revolution, is Moving Forward #OWS

As the protest known as Occupy Wall Street is advancing to great lengths across America, police officials are beginning to defy the rights of the constitution and go against the protestors. The police in many cities/states are attempting to order protestors to stop and go home, therefore going against their rights in the U.S. Bill of Rights that states that citizens have the right to assemble regarding common interests or  to petition against the government for any grievances. 

Despite the efforts of officials, the protestors state their rights and use it. They will (as the right allows them) protest and petition the government for the grievances in which it has brought upon them. If this is not enough, the police are also blocking the protestors of from certain areas (or attempting to) and are wrongfully stopping them and frisking them with no reason to. They are coming together in a peaceable (non-hostile) manner, and they are being frisked. Must be the governments petty and annoying way of going back at the occupiers. 


Above all, a new uncompromising movement against NYPD's notorious Stop & Frisk program began yesterday as hundreds of demonstrators marched from the Harlem State Office Building to Harlem’s 28th precinct. At the station, Cornel West, author and Princeton professor, Carl Dix of the Revolutionary Communist Party, Rev. Stephen Phelps, interim senior minister of Riverside Church, and dozens of others were arrested in an act of non-violent civil disobedience. Following this the crowd chanted loudly , "We are serious and we will continue until we Stop Stop & Frisk! Stop & Frisk don’t stop the crime, Stop & Frisk IS the crime!"

Government officials and police officials are beginning to unlawfully take away the citizens rights. They do exactly what the protesters are against, just to stop the protest. This is when you know our country is circling the drain...

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Finally! Utopia is closer than you think! #WeAreThe99%

You’ve said it. I’ve said it. We’ve all said that if all activists, everywhere, would concentrate on one issue at a time that we could claim victory after glorious victory. We have planeteers fighting for clean air, renewable energy or rain forest preservation. Utopians rally for the end of factory farming, fur, leather and Snapperfest. Ocean activists fight to stop whaling, shark finning, sealing and the slaughter of thousands of dolphins in Taiji, Japan. Human rights advocates want to feed the world, provide clean water or insure civil rights. Imagine if we all focused on one specific issue. There would be millions of us working together and our sheer numbers would accomplish miracles!

Whatever you passion, whatever your cause is, it can be remedied by getting your government on your side. You can save the planet, the animals and the people if only your government would lend you a voice! In the Academy Award winning documentary The Cove, we see how the Japanese government lies to its people. In A Fall From Freedom, we see how Seaworld has bought out politicians to manipulate the laws. In Forks Over Knives we learn how the government has lied to us for decades in the interest of corporations and the money that feeds greed. Everything goes back to big business and corrupt systems. If only we could get money out of politics, we could save the world!

Guess what! It’s happening! There are thousands around the world who are working to do this. They are not simply signing petitions and protesting. They are not making a documentary. They are not even on a hunger strike. Instead, they have planted themselves in public view and refuse to move until the problem is solved. They are “occupying” their cities!

The movement started with about a dozen people in New York City. Now there are thousands and it is growing. You may say, “Oh, well I am not into politics.” Well, neither am I and chances are, neither are they. We don’t want politics to be an issue when it comes to saving the air we breathe, innocent animals or our planet’s life blood: the oceans. That is exactly what the Occupy Wall Street movement has addressed in their Official Statement. See Video below . . .

Many of us are still in the flooding basement with our favorite buckets. We are attempting to toss the water out of the windows while someone else (Occupy Wall Street) has come along to fix the leak once and for all! We are still trying to pamper the symptoms while they are determined to cut out the cancer. We finally have a unified single cause that addresses everything we fight for. We finally have a specific solution that will rid this world of evil. Have you figured it out yet? It’s rather simple when you think about it. Revolution!

Join with me! Put down your buckets and support the revolution! Spread the word about Wall Street. Visit the occupied city nearest you and lend a hand. Donate food, water and supplies. If possible, join them in their occupation!

*Re-blog by: Holise E Cleveland III

Standing against the government, for the Earth #OWS #We Are The 99%

      Starting September 1, 2011 the citizens of New York City decided they had had enough, and they were gonna take a stand in what they simply called "Occupy Wall Street". By noon, this protest had recruited hundreds to, quite descriptively, Occupy Wall Street. These numbers quickly grew, and quickly became a trend around the world. Now, many events are being scheduled on several different continents to occupy their cities, in hope that the government would use reason to make the world a better place for us all.

      As the cause grew, as the voices raised louder and began to be heard, a sign of the government cracking under pressure revealed itself. A quote from U.S. Congressman Peter King: 

"We have to allow this to get any legitimacy. I'm taking this seriously in I am old enough to remember what happened in the 1960's when the left wing took the streets and somehow the media glorified him and it ended up shaping policy." 

 This message is important in the context that it is said. Without forwardly stating it, he is expressing that this needs to be stopped because if it continues to grow then it will make changes like in the 1960's. This, in my view, gave signs of weakness of the government and signs of progress. Signs that this movement is moving. Earlier this week those involved in the protest released their first document to the government entitled the "Declaration of the Occupation of New York City". More documents are underway to be released in the upcoming days: 1) A declaration of demands. 2) Principles of Solidarity 3) Documentation on how to form your own Direct Democracy Occupation Group. 

This outreach from the citizens can only be described in one word that sums up everything that it is, in exactly the way it is... Revolution. All across the nation people are uniting together to make a stand. Uniting together for change. Uniting together to do what needs to be done, when it needs to be done. And YOU can be a part of it. Without even needing to physically be on the street. 

• Sign the Stand With Occupy Wall Street Petition (CLICK HERE)
• Read 5 Ways to Support the 'Occupy Wall Street' Movement

• Visit OccupyWallSt.org 
• Donate food, water and supplies. If possible, join them in their occupation! 

"First they ignore you, they they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win." - Gandhi

We Are The 99%!