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    The Green Party has continually opposed entry into war and has consistently called for the immediate return of our troops, in stark contrast to the Democratic and Republican parties.
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    Reflections on Occupy Wall Street, with photos, fun, and good wishes for the future. eBook, Occupy Wall Street: What Just Happened? (Only $.99 !) In the eBook, the Occupy movement is explored through original reporting, photographs, cartoons, poetry, essays, and reviews.The collection of essays and blog posts records the unfolding of Occupy into the culture from September 2011 to the present.  Authors Kimberly Wilder and Ian Wilder were early supporters of Occupy, using their internet platforms to communicate the changes being created by the American Autumn.

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December 17th: Occupy Events in NYC and DC

More info at occupwallst.org and nycga.net:

Saturday, December 17th at 12PM
DUARTE SQ. PARK, 6th AVE & CANAL in NYC
Protect & Celebrate the Occupy Movement
for social and economic justice

Join artists, musicians, and local community members for an all-day performance event in support of Occupy Wall Street and the occupation of space and reclaiming of the commons.

Freedom of expression and the right to assemble are sacred human freedoms. Through bold, courageous actions, Occupy Wall Street has renewed a sense of hope, revived a belief in community and awakened a revolutionary spirit too long silenced. To Occupy is to embody the spirit of liberation that we wish to manifest in our society.

On Saturday, December 17th – the 3 month anniversary of the birth of this movement, we will gather to celebrate Occupy Wall Street and to occupy space together.

And, for folks who can get to DC on Dec 17th:

Occupy DC has a big event to support Bradley Manning (who allegedly leaked government secrets about the war): Read more »

Don’t let the police start hiding: Contact the Houston Police about their red tent

Who to contact to complain about the sneaky, red tent, used by Houston Police against occupiers:

Houston Police non-emergency number:  713-884-3131
Houston Police Public Affairs contact:  public DOT affairs AT cityofhouston DOT net
Any politicians, civil rights groups, or human rights groups who you feel may pay attention to your concerns.
Look for future action updates at Occupy Houston

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Story at Hispanic Business News: here.

Video of Houston Police covering their tracks with a big, red tent over the occupiers:


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Why you must do something about this… Read more »

Long Island: Fire Commissioner Elections Today – Tues 12/13/2011

2012 Results at Newsday: here.

Gordon Heights 2012: The challenger, Joyce Bourne, won in Gordon Heights. So, the Fire District will be controlled by a board who wants to cut costs and explore consolidation. Gordon Heights Fire Department website is: here.

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Across Long Island today (Dec 13, 2011), there are hundreds of votes for local fire commissioners.

It is important to participate in the process where your money (ie: tax money) goes. Consider calling your local fire department, or swinging by, to find out about your local election. Read more »

Green Prez hopeful Stein (G) calls White House role in Blocking Climate Progress “Unforgivable”

English: Jill Stein in 2010

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This morning,Dr. Jill Stein, Green Party presidential candidate, issued this statement regarding the role of the White House in blocking climate progress at Durban:

“Unlike my Republican opponents, President Obama professes to believe in science. He knows that America and the world is rapidly rushing to the catastrophic financial and environmental impacts of climate change, and yet he joins the deniers in blocking action to save our children’s future.

Current levels of fossil fuel use are already heading us toward indisputably catastrophic levels of global warming.Yet with emissions rising faster and faster every year, the Obama Administration has shockingly pushed an agreement to do nothing before 2020, ensuring that the critical time window for saving the climate will be missed. That the White House is responsible for this is unforgivable.People are already dying from climate change. Extreme weather changes have already inflicted tens of billions in damage. This is a mere hint of the far greater impacts we are already on track for. The clear solution to the growing worldwide economic crisis is to invest in a sustainable fossil fuel-free economy. This is common knowledge, except among the politicians, oil barons and bankers that profit from the present system.  Read more »

Occupy Updates: Places to find news on West Coast Port Shutdown & NYC GS Squid Event

12/12 update at 8pmish EST:
About 2,000 occupiers march in Portland
Live Updates at Mercury News: here.

12/12 Late afternoon update:
Ports shut down from California, USA to Vancouver, Canada.
Story at Boston.com/AP: here.
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Houston, Texas at about 4pm EST:
Stuff is happening at Occupy Houston. I believe that the police have used tents to hide their actions while arresting. Please consider being an eye-witness. Live Streaming of Texas (in solidarity) at an NYC Livestream: WATCH HOUSTON – here.

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Occupy Portland

The initiating group for the Coordinated West Coast Port Shut Down today was Occupy Portland.
Occupy Portland (Oregon) Live Blog:
www.portlandoccupier.org
Live Streaming at Portland:
www.livestream.com/occupyptown
Monitoring police movements towards demonstrators and…
Song, “Dashing Through The Snow” as a “Capitalist Carol” — “Let’s make sure that Christmas is a business like affair”

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Long Beach

Rumor on the LiveStreams that the port in Long Beach (Los Angeles, CA)  has been shut down.

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New York City: Squidding Goldman Sachs

New York City: LIVE
Goldman Sachs Squidding demo, police interactions, on LiveStream now:
http://www.livestream.com/occupynyc Read more »

Green Party urges President Obama to condemn police brutality against Occupy protesters

Green Party leaders called for strong national condemnation of the brutal actions of police forces in their treatment of Occupy Movement protesters in several cities.

“We encourage political leaders, beginning with President Obama, to express revulsion and anger at the violent and destructive behavior of police in their handling of nonviolent protesters, and to take whatever action they can to prevent such brutality.  We urge all Americans to understand that police forces that use military tactics and are unaccountable for their actions represent a threat to our freedoms,” said Howie Hawkins, co-chair of the Green Party of New York State.

Greens cited the use of pepper-spray, tear gas, batons, and other weapons, as well as violent manhandling, handcuffs locked tight enough to cause nerve damage, and other tactics that inflict severe pain and injury on peaceful protesters.  Incidents like the use of pepper-spray on the faces of sitting protesters by police at the University of California, Davis constitute torture and deserve aggressive investigation and prosecution, said Green leaders.  Read more »

Does Goldman Sachs rule the world? (And, why was GS Mic-Checked by Occupy Princeton?)

Updates and links about Mon Dec 12th actions: here
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Three pieces about Goldman Sachs:

(excerpt from) Digital Journal/Op-Ed
The Goldman Sachs project — New world government?
November 18, 2011

“By leading the world’s economies into chaos, Goldman Sachs is creating a situation where they can replace key government leaders with their own people.
It’s a cheap con: scare your victim then move in to offer ‘protection.’

That’s the technique that’s now being used on a global scale to oust world leaders and effectively take over world government…”

The piece at Digital Journal points out that two world leaders, in countries where there are financial crises, have connections to Goldman Sachs:

Greek Prime Minister Lucas Papademos has ties to Goldman Sachs.

The Prime Minister of Italy, Mario Monti, “was an international adviser to Goldman Sachs from 2005 until his nomination to lead the Italian government.”

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(excerpt from) The Atlantic Wire
Occupy Princeton Hijacked a Goldman Sachs Recruiting Event
December 9, 2011
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Please check out “Sonny Meadows Week” at Peace Couple (plus, quiz at bottom of this post)

As many of you know, Sonny Meadows is a local musician and activist, here on Long Island, New York. The Wilders have admired his work — and his many solo performances and band performances — over the years. With the advent of the occupy movement, it seems to us that Sonny’s music about injustice, social justice, war and peace, is even more valuable. Now there are legions of empowered people to enjoy these songs, and learn this music.

At our Peace Couple website, we do a “Peace Song of the Day”, every day of the year. We used this past week to celebrate Sonny Meadows. If you go over there, you can check out which 7 songs we picked from among Sonny’s long list of favorites. (Maybe you want to guess first, or, think which of his songs you would have chosen, before you click over?)

For the real insiders, we could not resist making a game out of this project. So, at the readmore, you can find a quiz. See if you can match the Sonny Meadows song, with a brief quote from the lyrics. (And, if my darling husband is reading this, you have to play, too! And, no cheating!)

Sonny Meadows/Peace Song of the Week Quiz Read more »

New video: Reflections on The People’s Library (OWSL)


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NY Parents and Children Rally Against Bullying

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March in Solidarity with Occupy Wall Street

This Saturday [Today, December 10, 2011], Parents for Occupy Wall Street will march with our children from Union Square to City Hall Park to deliver a “stop bullying” message to NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly and his boss, Mayor Michael Bloomberg.  This event will mark International Human Rights Day. The children will place 5,000 paper hearts, one for each peaceful protester arrested nationwide over the past three months, in the center of the park.

WHEN/WHERE: Saturday, December 10th, in Union Square at 11 AM, the children will hold a General Assembly, and paint the paper hearts.  At 12:30pm, we will march down Broadway to Foley Sq. (State Supreme Court) and then to City Hall Park, arriving at approximately 2 PM.

“We teach our children at home and in schools that bullying is wrong,” said Mark Hamilton of Parents for Occupy Wall St. “The violence by some in the NYPD against peaceful protesters is confusing our children; we are left to explain unprofessional and inexcusable actions.” Read more »

“99 Silver Bells”: An Occupy Christmas Carol performed by OccupyThe Hamptons

Occupy The Hamptons has been holding demonstrations, marches, and teach-ins. See video below of the song “99 Silver Bells”, performed after a teach-in gathering on Thursday night. And..Sunday, December 11th…please show your support for an occupy march:

12:30pm on Sunday, 12/11/11 – Occupy The Hamptons/Southampton March

Meet in the parking lot behind the Parish Art Museum (back of the store). The focus of the march is to bring awareness to the foreclosure crisis, however, all sign messages are welcome. Please bring red armbands! A General Assembly meeting will follow for those who wish to stay. More info at www.occupythehamptons.com

Video info:

On Thursday, December 8th, Occupy The Hamptons held at teach-in with political cartoonist Ted Rall. There was a potluck, discussion, and music. DMac wrote new lyrics, in the spirit of the 99%, for the Christmas song “Silver Bells”. (See lyrics below.) The video shows DMac performing the song live, with an impromptu, Occupy The Hamptons Choir. The video is by Peace Couple. There are photos of the teach-in event at Flickr: here.

Occupy Wall Street: 99 Silver Bells

NY’s Tea Party Guv Gives 1% a Tax Cut

IW: I figured it was the media swallowing NY Guv Cuomo’s PR wholesale when they were reporting he was hiking taxes on the wealthy.  Cuomo got elected with contributions from the Koch Bros.  Cuomo stated before taking office that the rich are taxed too much already.  Cuomo refused to ever discuss repealing the rebate of the stock transfer tax.  He still doesn’t get it.  One. Term . Governor.

Green Party Slams Cuomo’s Tax Cut For The Rich

 The Green Party of NY State slammed Gov. Cuomo and the State Legislature’s proposed tax bracket reshuffling as a major tax giveaway to the wealthiest New Yorkers.  The Green Party also called for seizing the assets of the “too big to fail” banks, breaking them up, and turning them into state and community owned banks oriented towards developing the economy for the public good.

“Cuomo’s plan is once-again a tax giveaway to his friends on Wall St. and in the 1% who donate to Democratic and Republican party campaigns.” said state party co-chair Howie Hawkins. ”Gov. Cuomo should explain why his regressive tax reform, which cuts taxes for the wealthiest should be adopted when it will actually cause a a multi-billion dollar budget deficit.  Last year I ran on a platform of raising personal income tax rates to the progressive rates of the 1970s and collecting the stock transfer tax, and using that money to and provide full employment through a Green New Deal. It’s time to make the Wall St. criminals and the wealthy pay for the mess they created. If we followed the Green Party plan, we’d raise nearly $8 billion yearly from income taxes while cutting what most people pay, and collecting the $15 billion we get from the stock transfer tax would go a long way towards making Wall St. clean up the mess they created.

State party co-chair Howie Hawkins pointed out that a family making:  Read more »

Occupy Oakland and others call for a shutdown of all west coast ports on December 12th

When Occupy Oakland called for a general strike on November 2nd, they were able to shut down the Port of Oakland. It was a great moment for the power of the people, the power of the 99%, and the cause of the occupation.

Now, many of the west coast occupations have gotten together in an attempt to shut down all west coast ports. Occupy Portland (Oregon) and Occupy Oakland (California) are hubs for this action, though, all west coast cities are being asked to participate in a “Coordinated West Coast Port Blockade”.

How can you support this historic event on Monday, December 12th? (Some ideas: Let your friends in California, Oregon, and other west coast states know; Blog about the action alert; Share the video; Go to Oakland or Portland.)

Dec 12, 2011: Shut Down Wall Street on the Water Front

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OWS & Brooklyn community reclaim a vacant Bank of America house

Some great photos of the event at someone’s Imgur: here.
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Online updates & multimedia: http://occupyourhomes.org

Location: East New York — Vermont Street, Brooklyn (3 train to Pennsylvania, L train to Livonia)

Brooklyn, NY — In a bold new phase for the 99% movement, a vacant home in the center of New York City’s foreclosure crisis is presently being reclaimed today for a local homeless family. Occupy Wall Street, along with local neighbors and community groups, has pledged to stay with the family and defend them from eviction. Read more »