#OCCUPYDC Oct. 6, 2011

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Stop the Machine! Create a New World!

A Call to Action - Oct. 6, 2011 and onward

October 2011 is the 10th anniversary of the invasion of Afghanistan and the beginning of the 2012 federal austerity budget. It is time to light the spark that sets off a true democratic, nonviolent transition to a world in which people are freed to create just and sustainable solutions.

We call on people of conscience and courage—all who seek peace, economic justice, human rights and a healthy environment—to join together in Washington, D.C., beginning on Oct. 6, 2011, in nonviolent resistance similar to the Arab Spring and the Midwest awakening.

A concert, rally and protest will kick off a powerful and sustained nonviolent resistance to the corporate criminals that dominate our government.

Forty-seven years ago, Mario Savio, an activist student at Berkeley, said, "There's a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious—makes you so sick at heart—that you can't take part. You can't even passively take part. And you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop. And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that unless you're free, the machine will be prevented from working at all."

Those words have an even greater urgency today. We face ongoing wars and massive socio-economic and environmental destruction perpetrated by a corporate empire which is oppressing, occupying and exploiting the world. We are on a fast track to making the planet unlivable while the middle class and poor people of our country are undergoing the most wrenching and profound economic crisis in 80 years.

"Stop the Machine! • Create a New World!" is a clarion call for all who are deeply concerned with injustice, militarism and environmental destruction to join in ending concentrated corporate power and taking direct control of a real participatory democracy. We will encourage a culture of resistance—using music, art, theater and direct nonviolent action—to take control of our country and our lives. It is about courageously resisting and stopping the corporate state from destroying not only our inherent rights and freedoms, but also our children’s chance to live, breathe clean air, drink pure water, grow edible natural food and live in peace.

As Mother Jones said, "Someday the workers will take possession of your city hall, and when we do, no child will be sacrificed on the altar of profit!"

We are the ones who can create a new and just world. Our issues are connected. We are connected. Join us in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 6, 2011, to Stop the Machine.

If anyone is trying to join you can get more info at
http://october2011.org/

[Izzy]

aaawesome!

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Originally Posted by Izzy

aaawesome!

I know. I'm very happy to see that "we" as a group are beginning to stand up for what we believe. First New York Wall Street, Next DC then the World.

[MrGiggles]

i already made this thread

http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/...d.php?t=120543

[Crashfan3]

Hashtags irritate me.

[darkshark]

Annnnnd October 7th, the government will continue to govern.

[Emithith]

lol interesting. I never knew the Afghanistan fight started on my birthday. :O

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Originally Posted by MrGiggles

i already made this thread

http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/...d.php?t=120543

But this is the DC Occupy. That was about the New York Wall Street. Sorry If i grabbed your post.

Originally Posted by Crashfan3

Hashtags irritate me.

I never really knew they were called "Hashtags" until last week.lol

[Izzy]

Wow, I could have sworn this was a bot thread...

[Crashfan3]

Originally Posted by Izzy

Wow, I could have sworn this was a bot thread...

At 269 posts I think he would have been caught by now if he was a bot.

Also, no viagra ads

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Originally Posted by Izzy

Wow, I could have sworn this was a bot thread...

No bot! Just dont post alot on the forums because I just come to play here and there. I've been here for 4+ years.lol

Originally Posted by darkshark

Annnnnd October 7th, the government will continue to govern.

But they will govern knowing that we might come back to sit quietly and maybe chant something that catchy.lol

[sebra]

get a job

[ELRayford]

Originally Posted by sebra

get a job

this

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Originally Posted by sebra

get a job

No...........You Get a Yob!lol

[Aldentron]

occupied dallas on the 6th, will be going every tuesday
occupation of fort worth starts tomorrow and i will be there every day before and after class
if you don't know what this is about, or the only things you've heard about this movement is from the corporately owned media, please read the NYC General Assembly Official Statement below.
http://nycga.cc/2011/09/30/declarati...new-york-city/
As we gather together in solidarity to express a feeling of mass injustice, we must not lose sight of what brought us together. We write so that all people who feel wronged by the corporate forces of the world can know that we are your allies.

As one people, united, we acknowledge the reality: that the future of the human race requires the cooperation of its members; that our system must protect our rights, and upon corruption of that system, it is up to the individuals to protect their own rights, and those of their neighbors; that a democratic government derives its just power from the people, but corporations do not seek consent to extract wealth from the people and the Earth; and that no true democracy is attainable when the process is determined by economic power. We come to you at a time when corporations, which place profit over people, self-interest over justice, and oppression over equality, run our governments. We have peaceably assembled here, as is our right, to let these facts be known.

They have taken our houses through an illegal foreclosure process, despite not having the original mortgage.
They have taken bailouts from taxpayers with impunity, and continue to give Executives exorbitant bonuses.
They have perpetuated inequality and discrimination in the workplace based on age, the color of one’s skin, sex, gender identity and sexual orientation.
They have poisoned the food supply through negligence, and undermined the farming system through monopolization.
They have profited off of the torture, confinement, and cruel treatment of countless animals, and actively hide these practices.
They have continuously sought to strip employees of the right to negotiate for better pay and safer working conditions.
They have held students hostage with tens of thousands of dollars of debt on education, which is itself a human right.
They have consistently outsourced labor and used that outsourcing as leverage to cut workers’ healthcare and pay.
They have influenced the courts to achieve the same rights as people, with none of the culpability or responsibility.
They have spent millions of dollars on legal teams that look for ways to get them out of contracts in regards to health insurance.
They have sold our privacy as a commodity.
They have used the military and police force to prevent freedom of the press. They have deliberately declined to recall faulty products endangering lives in pursuit of profit.
They determine economic policy, despite the catastrophic failures their policies have produced and continue to produce.
They have donated large sums of money to politicians, who are responsible for regulating them.
They continue to block alternate forms of energy to keep us dependent on oil.
They continue to block generic forms of medicine that could save people’s lives or provide relief in order to protect investments that have already turned a substantial profit.
They have purposely covered up oil spills, accidents, faulty bookkeeping, and inactive ingredients in pursuit of profit.
They purposefully keep people misinformed and fearful through their control of the media.
They have accepted private contracts to murder prisoners even when presented with serious doubts about their guilt.
They have perpetuated colonialism at home and abroad. They have participated in the torture and murder of innocent civilians overseas.
They continue to create weapons of mass destruction in order to receive government contracts. *

To the people of the world,

We, the New York City General Assembly occupying Wall Street in Liberty Square, urge you to assert your power.

Exercise your right to peaceably assemble; occupy public space; create a process to address the problems we face, and generate solutions accessible to everyone.

To all communities that take action and form groups in the spirit of direct democracy, we offer support, documentation, and all of the resources at our disposal.

Join us and make your voices heard!

*These grievances are not all-inclusive.
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if you can not relate to any of those grievances, congratulations, you are the most wealthy person on ffr.

[Profraine]

Sorry, can't attend, too busy working and such...