Please join Peace Action Wisconsin as we host Matt Rothschild, Editor of The Progressive magazine for the talk "Ten Years of War in Afghanistan: Will We Ever Leave?" at Friends Meeting House, 3224 N. Gordon Pl., 7:00pm.
Peace Action is hosting a benefit earlier in the evening, 5:00pm, at Rio West Cantina (2730 N. Humboldt Blvd.), with Matthew Rothschild. Please call Peace Action for reservations at 414-964-5158. Dinner is $15 and has a cash bar.
"Four people have been arrested so far (as of 1:28 PM EST) on day 5 of the Occupy Wall Street protest. The first arrest took place this morning during Opening Bell March. At 10:10 AM, Isaac Wilder was taken into police custody and is being held at W. 154 St. New York, NY. One firsthand witness has informed us he was at the front of the peaceful march taking place on a public sidewalk when police demanded protesters turned left. When Isaac asserted his right to continue marching forward in public space, he was immediately arrested.
Two other arrests took place at 12:30 PM EST at Liberty Plaza. Two first-hand witnesses have confirmed the following story:
People were peacefully assembling on the sidewalk and the police told the public that they could not stand on public sidewalks. one person, was standing peacefully on the sidewalk and holding up a sign and the police swarmed him and arrested him. he peacefully went with them, without resisting in any way. People then peacefully walked with him and chanted in solidarity. And the police ran into the middle of the crowd and tackled one of the people there, and arrested him."READ MORE & SHARE The Information with others |OccupyWallSt.org
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"Occupy Wall Street" is in place at the time of making and uploading this video. I wish no harm comes to them. I hope President Barack Obama takes personal attention and sees no harm comes to them. I have taken privilege presenting of this video, continued version of nc-Clip 34, in honor of those (mostly young) people who are occupying the 'Wall Street'. I see that they are peacefully rallying to draw attention of the broken American political, economic, and social system. I hope President Barack Obama takes personal attention and sees no harm comes to them.
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 by Adbusters 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. The Website | OccupyWallSt.org
Around three in the afternoon we reconvened our General Assembly. There was a brief discussion on how the Assembly worked due to the new members that were among us. We work as an ordered democratic body that passes proposals through a modified-consensus. Anyone can speak, but there is a list, we call it a stack. Our stack isn't first come first serve – socially marginalized voices are given priority. We use hand signals to express assent (wave your hand high), dissent (wave your hand low), points of process (make a triangle with your forefingers and thumbs), and blocks (make an X with your forearms). A point of process indicates a query or an objection, or, rarely, a valued interruption. A block is used to indicate that the Assembly is disobeying its principles. A block voices its principled objection and the Assembly votes again, a vote of 90%+1 can overturn a block.
The General Assembly heard many proposals, here are some that were approved: the trade union group will attend a meeting with the Teamsters; the arts and culture group are organizing a benefit concert to be held in two or three weeks; our outreach group is heading to marginalized communities; next Saturday is devoted to you, to us, the 99 percent. We also came to consensus on how to respond to the morning's police aggression.
At 4:30 we stood in solidarity with Troy Davis, an innocent man that the state of Georgia wants to murder today. We were joined by the International Action Center.
Afterward we heard a rousing speech from one of our released members, and then broke bread together. At seven we reconvened our General Assembly, which lasted until nine. Among other things, we designated talking spaces and quiet spaces, and we solidified our schedule. We're still here. We intend to stay until we see movements toward real change in our country and the world.
We speak as one. All of our decisions, from our choice to march on Wall Street to our decision to continue occupying Liberty Square in spite of police brutality, were decided through a consensus based process by the group, for the group.| Read More | OccupyWallSt.org | The American Revolution Begins Sept 17th
“Thursday is a day of Direct Action on Wall Street. Meet at Liberty Square 3:30 pm to march on Wall Street.” “We are marching every day. Opening bell 8:30am. Closing Bell 3:30pm General Assembly 7pm. Saturday 12pm Big Day : We are the 99%! Join us.”#OccupyWallStreet
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