NYC Police and demonstrators on Brooklyn Bridge before 700 arrests. Oct 1, 2011.
Occupy San Diego: OccupySD.org, #OccupySD, Twitter, Facebook
There is so much going on right now all over the country (and world?) about these “Occupy” actions, it’s getting difficult to keep up. So, for right now, I’m posting links to interesting stuff involving these events. And I’m constantly updating these reports.
- Occupy Tijuana has a facebook.
- 700+ Arrested on Brooklyn Bridge – Saturday Oct 1; most were cited and released. The Occupation at Liberty Plaza continues, with 800 people in the downtown financial district.
- Los Angeles: 1500 protesters march on City Hall, camp out on sidewalks. LA Times ; OccupyLA website; KPCC;
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Those participating in Occupy Los Angeles march toward City Hall. Eric Richardson / blogdowntown
- The United Steelworkers‘ union comes out in support of the Occupy Wall Street protesters:
“The United Steelworkers (USW) union stands in solidarity with and strongly supports Occupy Wall Street. The brave men and women, many of them young people without jobs, who have been demonstrating around-the-clock for nearly two weeks in New York City are speaking out for the many in our world. We are fed up with the corporate greed, corruption and arrogance that have inflicted pain on far too many for far too long.” Leo W. Gerard, International President of the United Steelworkers (USW), North America’s largest industrial union with 1.2 million active and retired members,
16 cities in California have Occupy actions either held or being planned:
- Occupy Arcata
- Occupy Chico, CA
- Occupy Fresno
- Occupy Long Beach
- Occupy Los Angeles
- Occupy Modesto
- Occupy Napa
- Occupy Riverside
- Occupy Sacramento
- Occupy San Diego
- Occupy San Francisco
- Occupy San Jose
- Occupy Santa Ana
- Occupy Santa Barbara
- Occupy Santa Cruz
- Occupy Ventura
- Occupy Maine takes off;
- Occupy Boston ; Friday night a crowd of 1,000; occupation in front of Federal Reserve Bank continues despite rain.
MAKING A STAND: Occupy Boston members, who braved the rain and camped out in front of Boston’s Federal Reserve Bank, awake yesterday to continue their protest of Wall Street greed. Photo by Mark Garfinkel
- Occupy DC takes off; organizing group has its first General Assembly meetings on 10/01/11;
- Toronto, Canada – Activists are planning an occupation of Toronto’s financial district, following in the footsteps of protesters currently camped out on Wall Street. A group calling itself Occupy Toronto Market Exchange has launched a website to organize a march on Bay Street beginning Oct. 15. About 830 people on Facebook have replied they would attend the event in Toronto.
- Occupations are also planned in the streets in other Canadian cities, including Vancouver, Montreal and Calgary.
- OccupyDC Protest: Group Pushes Repeal Of Citizens United, Corporate Personhood
To find out what other cities are doing around the country, go to occupy together. Many locales are planning actions on October 15th.
Cities around the globe are also organizing occupy actions:
- Occupy Tokyo is organizing a facebook page.
Many cities and countries have budding movements in solidarity.
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I think all of this will provide finger moving for the iPhone people, but otherwise not accomplish a heck of a lot. Remember the BUMS in the congress and senate still get their pay and still have the power to give themselves a raise. So far there is no evidence that any super rich Americans are worried about any of this changing their life style.
Old Hermit Dave- can you give the effort just one more week to topple the corporatocracy???? Yes, I know it should have been accomplished in three weeks. :)
Here’s Tony Krvaric, the local head of the Republican Party, who grew up with “Kill A Commie For Your Mommie.” (Really!) as his motto on the Occupy Movement via his Twitter Account:
“@Tony Krvaric You proud of that? Coalition of communists, socialists, hippies, anarchists, environmentalists, feminists, union goons. No thanks.”
I don’t know about the rest of you, but that’s best endorsement I’ve heard yet.
You mean this Tony Krvaric
“Currently a financial consultant and licensed securities broker, Tony Krvaric was born in Sweden in 1971 to a family of Croatian immigrants. He arrived in the United States in 1992 on an H1B visa, wanting to leave Swedish social democracy. Krvaric had been known even in his teens as a conservative; his motto was “Kill A Commie For Your Mommie.” In his official Republican party biography, Krvaric claims that he was inspired by the legacy of Ronald Reagan and criticized the European system for not providing an economic climate that would ?encourage free enterprise and competition.?”
Yup. Now that OccupySD is limited to 100 tents, there’s been discussion of an OccupyKrvaric movement.
Tony Krvaric’s business, Krvaric Capital, and the Republican Party of San Diego County are one in the same – a twofer for the OccupyKrvaric movement!
Krvaric Capital and Republican Party of San Diego County
11440 West Bernardo Court, San Diego, CA 92127-1641
what are we waiting for! where is san diegos stock exchange or financial district. publish a meeting place and i’ll see all of you there!!!!
hey dave… glad you’re interested. Start with this link http://obrag.org/?p=46145 for the San Diego Occupy info.
If you want to donate to OWC, here is a link to what they need and what you can do. There is a UPS store close by where non-perishables and money orders can be sent. There are also local restaurants and pizzerias (yes, there is an Occu-pie) which are accepting donations and delivering food.
There are ways to help OccupySanDiego as well, and as soon as the details are worked out we will post them.
Looking forward to learn more about how we can all help.
Best,
Fred
Thank God, we have a new generation of youth taking to the streets to confront injustice and war. Those of us who are seasoned leftys and power liberals must stay away from the microphones, stages and media cameras, in spite of our reflexive ego stroking, this week-end and let the youth of our city not only articulate the future of their movement, but allow them to lead us timid reformists into confrontation and civil disobedience, even arrests. It is the only way to build solidarity across generations and economic classes, the only basis for true revoluntionay change and the only way we are going to find the collective courage to dis-engage ourselves from the U.S. Empire.
You must be proud of protestor yelling “Shame” repeatedly to NYPD police officer. Good on you.
Thanks, Frank, for putting all this info in one place. You also did this type of thing during past elections and I appreciated it then too!
“Occupy America”…I like that.
It’s bigger than just Wall Street in New York, or C Street in San Diego. It’s about how this world’s economy is to be organized in the future, because enough of us, regardless of political affiliation, can see where things are going now and simply won’t allow it to happen without a fight.
Best,
Fred