Join the movement - Occupy Wallstreet

Mission

On the 17th of September, we want to see 20,000 people to flood into lower Manhattan, set up beds, kitchens, peaceful barricades and occupy Wall Street for a few months.

Like our brothers and sisters in Egypt, Greece, Spain, and Iceland, we plan to use the revolutionary Arab Spring tactic of mass occupation to restore democracy in America. We also encourage the use of nonviolence to achieve our ends and maximize the safety of all participants.

Who is Occupy Wall Street?

Occupy Wall Street is leaderless resistance movement with people of many colors, genders and political persuasions. The one thing we all have in common is that We Are The 99% that will no longer tolerate the greed and corruption of the 1%.

The original call for this occupation was published byAdbusters in July; since then, many individuals across the country have stepped up to organize this event, such as the people of the NYC General Assembly and US Day of Rage. 

There'll also be similar occupations in the near future such as October2011 in Freedom Plaza, Washington D.C.

To participate in your area check this site:

http://occupytogether.org/

Each participating area has a facebook page as well. Here are a few but you can just search on facebook by putting occupy and the name of the city in the search box:

Memphis-  http://occupytogether.org/events/southeast/occupy-memphis/

or https://www.facebook.com/pages/Occupy-Memphis/128627820572100

Nashville- http://occupytogether.org/events/southeast/occupy-nashville/ or https://www.facebook.com/OWSNashville or https://www.facebook.com/OccupyNashville

Clarksville- http://occupytogether.org/events/southeast/occupy-clarksville-tn/ or https://www.facebook.com/pages/Occupy-Clarksville/265900563432725

Knoxville- http://occupytogether.org/events/southeast/occupy-knoxville/ or https://www.facebook.com/pages/Occupy-Wall-Street-Knoxville/218196918241973

Lexington, KY-  http://occupytogether.org/events/southeast/occupy-lexington/ or 

https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=288315967862062

 

ACTIONS

Below are a list of currently occupied and organizing actions within cities and states across the country, broken into regions.

MIDWEST

·         Occupy Chicago

·         Occupy Cincinnati

·         Occupy Cleveland

·         Occupy Columbus

·         Occupy Indiana

·         Occupy Indianapolis

·         Occupy Kansas City

·         Occupy Michigan

·         Occupy Minnesota

·         Occupy OKC

·         Occupy Omaha

·         Occupy OSU (Stillwater)

·         Occupy St. Louis

·         Occupy Tulsa

·         Occupy Wisconsin

·         Occupy Yougstown

NORTHEAST

·         Occupy Binghamton

·         Occupy Boston

·         Occupy D.C.

·         Occupy Hartford, CT

·         Occupy Maine

·         Occupy New Jersey

·         Occupy Philadelphia

·         Occupy Pittsburgh

·         Occupy Providence, RI

·         Occupy Rochester

·         Occupy Vermont

SOUTHEAST

·         Occupy Arkansas

·         Occupy Birmingham, AL

·         Occupy Charlotte

·         Occupy Clarksville, TN

·         Occupy Columbus, GA

·         Occupy Daytona Beach

·         Occupy Durham

·         Occupy Jacksonville, FL

·         Occupy Knoxville

·         Occupy Lexington, KY

·         Occupy Louisville

·         Occupy Memphis

·         Occupy Miami

·         Occupy Mississippi

·         Occupy Nashville

·         Occupy New Orleans

·         Occupy Orlando

·         Occupy Richmond, VA

·         Occupy Tallahassee

·         Occupy Tampa

·         Occupy Winston Salem

SOUTHWEST

·         Occupy Albuquerque

·         Occupy Austin

·         Occupy Dallas

·         Occupy Houston

·         Occupy Phoenix

·         Occupy Tucson

WEST

·         Occupy Boise

·         Occupy Colorado Springs

·         Occupy Denver

·         Occupy Eugene

·         Occupy Las Vegas

·         Occupy Los Angeles

·         Occupy Olympia

·         Occupy Portland

·         Occupy Sacramento

·         Occupy Salt Lake City

·         Occupy San Diego

·         Occupy San Francisco

·         Occupy San Jose

·         Occupy Santa Cruz

·         Occupy Seattle

·         Occupy Spokane

INTERNATIONAL

·         Occupy Brisbane

·         Occupy Frankfurt Germany

·         Occupy Hamburg Germany

·         Occupy Manchester | March on the Tory Party Conference

·         Occupy Melbourne Australia

·         Occupy Perth

·         Occupy the London Stock Exchange

·         Occupy Toronto Market Exchange

·         Occupy Vancouver

Starbucks CEO takes political crusade to public

Robert Sorbo  /  Reuters

Howard Schultz has already asked fellow chief executives to stop making campaign contributions to incumbents.

By Steve Gorman

updated 9/2/2011 3:15:09 PM ET 2011-09-02T19:15:09

LOS ANGELES — Starbucks Corp chief executive Howard Schultz urged members of the public on Friday to join a novel campaign he launched last month seeking to break partisan gridlock in Washington and spur economic growth.

In an open letter circulated via email, the head of the world's biggest coffee chain invited "concerned Americans" to take part in a national call-in conversation next Tuesday hosted by the nonpartisan group No Labels, dedicated to fostering cooperative and more effective government.

The group, based in Washington, hopes to draw "a couple hundred-thousand" citizens to join in the 90-minute "tele-townhall" with co-founders of the organization and Schultz, to be streamed live over the Internet, No Labels spokesman Dustin Carnevale said.

The teleconference comes ahead of a nationally televised Republican presidential debate on Wednesday, and President Barack Obama's Thursday address to a joint session of Congress on his plan for creating more jobs.

"Like so many of you, I am deeply disappointed by the pervasive failure of leadership in Washington," Schultz wrote in the letter addressed: "Dear Starbucks Friend and Fellow Citizen."

"And also like you, I am frustrated by our political leaders' steadfast refusal to recognize that, for every day they perpetuate partisan conflict and put ideology over country, America and Americans suffer from the combined effects of paralysis and uncertainty," he said.

The letter concludes: "Yours is the voice that can help ignite the contagious upward spiral of confidence that our country desperately needs."

The message, sent first to customers on Starbucks' email distribution list under the subject: "A special letter from Starbucks CEO, Howard Schultz," directed readers to a website with more information about the "No Labels" forum, at http://www.upwardspiral2011.org/.

Last month, Schultz made headlines when he called on business leaders to pledge to withhold campaign contributions to the president and members of Congress until they reached a "fair, bipartisan deal" on the national debt, revenues and spending.

Story: Starbucks' CEO: Halt the political donations

He also challenged those executives to do their part to invest in new projects or new products that would help spur employment and give the national economy a much-needed jolt.

New York Times columnist Joe Nocera wrote a piece about Schultz's call to boycott campaign contributions. The newspaper also carried an editorial in which billionaire investor Warren Buffett called for an increase in taxes for mega-rich individuals, including himself.

Schultz said in Friday's letter that more than 100 U.S. business executives from companies large and small have since signed on to his pledge.

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