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On Oct 1, 6:59 pm, chatnoir <wolfbat3...@mindspring.com> wrote:
> http://tinyurl.com/3sqe66k
>
> Occupy Denver’ protester: We’re standing against corporate rule
> By Eric W. Dolan
> Saturday, October 1, 2011 4  A group of demonstrators have begun
> gathering in front of the Denver capitol building to show their
> solidarity with the “Occupy Wall Street” protesters in New York City.
> The “Occupy Denver” protesters said that more than 200 people joined
> their demonstration on Saturday.
>
> “We are standing against corporate rule in this country, how they’ve
> taken over our politics, our schools, our unions — the union busting
> is horrible,” one protester told Denver Direct on Friday. “The big
> banks need to pay.”
>
> Watch video of “Occupy Denver,” uploaded to YouTube, below:
>
> (((VIDEO at site)))

Exactly what the Wall Street protests are all about.....

http://tinyurl.com/44bacty


This was unanimously voted on by all members of Occupy Wall Street
last night, around 8pm, Sept 29. It is our first official document
for
release. We have three more underway, that will likely be released in
the upcoming days: 1) A declaration of demands. 2) Principles of
Solidarity 3) Documentation on how to form your own Direct Democracy
Occupation Group. This is a living document. you can receive an
official press copy of the latest version by emailing
c2any...@gmail.com.


Declaration of the Occupation of 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 nonhuman 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 supposed to be
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 in order to protect investments that have already
turned a substantive 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.