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#OccupyLSX Callout – Let’s do this!

12-10-2011 16:48 | Occupy Everywhere | Public sector cuts | Social Struggles | World

Occupy the London Stock Exchange
15th October
12pm
St Paul’s Cathedral

The Impact of Occupy Wall Street: Some Early Indicators

A quote well-known among activists, variously attributed to Gandhi or US labor leader Nicholas Klein, says that “first they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.” In the space of just the past several weeks, it’s possible to discern the first three steps of this progression in the response of the US political, economic, and media elite to the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement. This fact should be a great source of encouragement for all those brave and dedicated individuals who have helped build this movement.

Eyewitness: Occupying Wall Street

12-10-2011 12:05 | Occupy Everywhere | Analysis | Social Struggles | World

The Occupy Wall Street movement and subsequent protests that are continuing across the United States have drawn world-wide attention. Our correspondent, a college freshman, participates in the first demonstration of his life. Here is his point-of-view of Occupy Wall Street.

Before I went to Occupy Wall Street, I did some research to see what I was protesting. I went to Occupywallst.org which told me the time and location of the occupation, but not much more. “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%,” claimed the site. I felt like I could buy into this cause, so I got a couple of people from my college dorm just outside New York City to come with me to Manhattan to be stereotypical protesting college students. We were going to go down in history, just like the kids from the UC Berkeley Free Speech Movement, the Paris spring of 1968, and Tiananmen Square. Hopefully not just like Tiananmen Square.

Slavoj Zizek at #OWS

12-10-2011 09:17 | Occupy Everywhere | Analysis | Social Struggles | World

Transcripts
Part One:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eu9BWlcRwPQ

…2008 financial crash more hard earned private property was destroyed than if all of us here were to be destroying it night and day for weeks. They tell you we are dreamers. The true dreamers are those who think things can go on indefinitely the way they are. We are not dreamers. We are awakening from a dream which is tuning into a nightmare. We are not destroying anything. We are only witnessing how the system is destroying itself. We all know the classic scenes from cartoons. The cart reaches a precipice. But it goes on walking. Ignoring the fact that there is nothing beneath. Only when it looks down and notices it, it falls down. This is what we are doing here. We are telling the guys there on Wall Street – Hey, look down! (cheering).

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Sentencing From Student and Anti Cuts Protests As Of 10/10/11

12-10-2011 07:42 | Policing | Repression | Social Struggles | World

PLEASE NOTE - WITNESSES STILL NEEDED!!

http://london.indymedia.org/articles/10374

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Advice on writing to prisoners

11-10-2011 11:29 | Policing | Repression | World

The latest version of the 4-page Leeds ABC guide.

The role of the police in the occupations

11-10-2011 10:40 | Occupy Everywhere | Policing | World

The police may sympathize with us, they might even join us, but we can never forget that it is not the working class man behind the riot shield, but the role he plays when he puts on the uniform and attacks our occupations. Whenever we begin to resist the rich and powerful to a breaking point, the police are called out to defend that system that keeps the rich rich and all of us poor.

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No Future

10-10-2011 20:52 | Analysis | World

Many of you might evoke riots and clashes with the police if one were to utter the word Argentina: recuperated factories, run by workers, popular assemblies, demos, alternatives, against the banking system, against politicians. [...] you would be outraged to see how things are now. [...]

Palestine Today10 10 2011

10-10-2011 16:23 | Other Press | Palestine | World

Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Monday October 10th, 2011

10 years in Afghanistan: torture and detention - report

Friday 7th October 2011 marked the tenth anniversary of the start of the current NATO-led war in Afghanistan. As well as leading to the death of thousands of civilians and soldiers, the war in Afghanistan is also the birthplace of one of the lesser known aspects of the so-called "war on terror": the torture and arbitrary detention of thousands of prisoners of all ages and nationalities.

Pics here:

https://london.indymedia.org/articles/10367

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UK tabloid: Shocking revelation on 10th anniversary of the war on Afghanistan

The real shocking issue is the persistent denial of the genocide of Afghan people.

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Anarchist reportback and critique from Occupy Portland

We just got back from the opening march for Occupy Portland, and were even more disappointed by how liberal, reformist, and nonthreatening it was than we had expected. The website for Occupy Portland had promised that "proper actions" would be taken against "instigators" of any "illegal activity (property destruction etc.)," which we can only interpret as a threat to snitch to the cops, so we went with low expectations, but this was by all means a massive disappointment even taking into account our pessimism from the get-go.

We attended the opening march for Occupy Portland because we are some angry-ass proles who really hate capitalism. Although Occupy Wall Street (and the various off-shoot occupations) have few official defined goals or positions, there is a general opposition to "corporate greed" and "corrupt politics". As anarchists, we seek to expose and destroy the roots of these problems - as long as capitalism and the state exist, there will be greedy corporations and corrupt politicians. Capitalism and the state cannot be reformed into something kinder, gentler, or more humane, it is exploitative by nature. We wished to push the discourse at Occupy Portland in a more radical, explicitly anti-capitalist and anti-state direction. So we attended the Occupy Portland opening march in full team colors with a big banner that read "NEVER GONNA GIVE YOU UP (A) NEVER GONNA LET YOU DOWN." Hey, we do have a sense of humor.

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Beyond ninety-nine-percentism: Not being frightened of ‘revolution’

One notable feature of Occupy Wall Street is its participants’ lack of hesitation in using the term ‘revolution’. Here comes the revolution! This is the first step of the revolution! Get up, get down, the revolution is in this town! You won’t stop our revolution! etcetera, etcetera. Distinguishing from these assertions of a revolution that has arrived, what does it really mean to envisage a revolution? And why should revolutionaries fear to act as well as talk, camp, and march?

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Dear Occupiers: A Letter from Anarchists

Starting with the occupation of a park next to Wall Street on September 17, a new movement is spreading across the country in which people gather in public spaces in protest against social inequalities. We’ll present a full analysis of this phenomenon here shortly; in the meantime, here’s an open letter to the occupation movement, engaging with some of the issues that have arisen thus far. Please forward this widely and print out versions to distribute at the “Occupy” events!

Dear Occupiers [online viewing version]

Dear Occupiers [print version]: A two-sided flier intended to be folded down the middle, longways.

Occupy LA: One Week Old and Going Strong

08-10-2011 16:55 | Occupy Everywhere | Public sector cuts | Social Struggles | World

OccupyLA Day Seven. The encampment at City Hall continues to grow. The camp now numbers close to 100 tents with at least two occupants per tent. Rain on Wednesday failed to discourage the occupiers, and the encampment is now larger and more organized than ever. Tomorrow the camp will have completed its first full week. It has been an action packed week and has drawn much media attention even competing with the Jackson murder trial just down the street.

Prominent Kurdish Activist Assassinated in Syria

08-10-2011 13:27 | Repression | Social Struggles | Birmingham | World

Syrian Kurdish activist and opposition leader Mishaal Tamo was gunned down in the largely Kurdish city of Qamishli on Friday.

http://www.rudaw.net/english/news/syria/4040.html

Voices from #OccupyWallStreet

07-10-2011 07:54 | Occupy Everywhere | Public sector cuts | Social Struggles | World

While the slant of corporate media coverage of the Wall Street Occupation has focused on the general motivations behind the movement, often missed are the variety of personal perspectives, backgrounds and desires that brought this protest-city together. Here are some of the many voices that have combined their efforts to bring New York City the Wall Street live-in protest.

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Local police forces are now little armies. Why?

07-10-2011 07:31 | Other Press | Policing | Social Struggles | World

More and more, in dealing with nonviolent political protesters police across America show up in battlefield dress with intimidating military gear supplied by the Pentagon and Homeland Security. Writer John Hanrahan says reporters, instead of ignoring this ominous development, should ask local, regional and national leaders: Do we need this crap?

The Wrong Kind of Riot

Sheffield anarchobass label serves up it two penneth on the UK summer of rage...

Occupy Britain - Join the 99% for positive change

For anyone who is not familiar with this movement or the events taking place all over the world, we would like to try and provide an introduction….

Here are a number of reasons why one might feel compelled to get involved in the Occupy Britain movement.

In 2008 the global recession was felt worldwide, and although the media reported ‘recovery’ there has not actually been one, in fact, what has held off the, what appears to be an inevitable global financial collapse thus far, is a process called ‘quantitive easing’ and the selling off of national institutions, such as the NHS, with job losses, redundancies, cuts to vital services, school closures, unreasonable welfare reforms, increase in the cost of living, banking institutions requiring bail outs, and the tax payer footing the bill and paying for the mistakes of others.

People are now recognising that there is a split in fairness and equality, we see bankers bonuses increasing, media tycoons controlling and withholding information that they should be reporting, in the public interest, systemic corruption of our police force, politicians and quite possibly our prime ministers, the introduction of, an ever increasing amount of legislation and statutes to further restrict our ability to speak out against them.

World Newswire Archive

#OccupyLSX Callout – Let’s do this!

The Impact of Occupy Wall Street: Some Early Indicators

Eyewitness: Occupying Wall Street

Slavoj Zizek at #OWS

Sentencing From Student and Anti Cuts Protests As Of 10/10/11

Advice on writing to prisoners

The role of the police in the occupations

No Future

Palestine Today10 10 2011

10 years in Afghanistan: torture and detention - report

UK tabloid: Shocking revelation on 10th anniversary of the war on Afghanistan

Anarchist reportback and critique from Occupy Portland

Beyond ninety-nine-percentism: Not being frightened of ‘revolution’

Dear Occupiers: A Letter from Anarchists

Occupy LA: One Week Old and Going Strong

Prominent Kurdish Activist Assassinated in Syria

Voices from #OccupyWallStreet

Local police forces are now little armies. Why?

The Wrong Kind of Riot

Occupy Britain - Join the 99% for positive change

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