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Hey folks! I’m sure you are aware that Firedoglake has been providing support to the Occupy efforts throughout the country via Occupy Supply. This is the first in a series of periodic diaries that I will be writing that will highlight diaries written by Firedoglake members who are acting as Liaisons to their local Occupy efforts. I will also be including some other Occupy related links to FDL posts and diaries that I think you might find interesting.
Just in two months time, Occupy Wall Street has already made a significant impact in moving the national dialogue towards the needs of people rather than the needs of the elite.
KrisAinTX had a couple of diaries at the end of November. This first one covers the delivery of Occupy Supplies to the Austin encampment while this second one is on some positive coverage for Occupy Supply by the student run newspaper at the University of Texas, Austin.
This diary from Bob Brigham is on Occupy Charlottsville. Unfortunately, Charlottsville is one of the sites that has been evicted.
Djvjgrrl let us know about the reception in Tacoma, WA of Occupy Supplies along with an update on the Tacoma and Washington State Occupy efforts.
Popyeye99 let us know about Occupy St. Louis with a great video of a march by local Shia Muslims accompanied by Occupy St Louis folks in solidarity.
RF Shunt wrote about the delivery of Occupy Supplies to Occupy Pittsburgh.
Figaro tells us about Occupy San Diego, including a video of a march led by a seven year old boy.
While not directly related to Occupy Supply, JiminTampa tells us how Occupy Tampa has been feeding breakfast to occupiers for 18¢ per person.
Finally, in case you missed it, here is yesterday’s (Saturday, December 10) FDL Book Salon on The 99%: How the Occupy Wall Street Movement is Changing America.
Below is a slideshow of pictures taken for Occupy Supply at some of the efforts around the country:
This link is to an FDL Activism Toolkit in case you want to write a diary for your local efforts (or just wish to write a diary at MyFDL for whatever topic you choose). Keep us informed as you fight the power!
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Well done, sir. Will this be a weekly or monthly feature? Or recurring feature on any other timeline? I like it. Sometimes folks miss these diaries and all of them are wonderful.
Right now, it will be intermittent but if we start getting a bunch more diaries on Occupy Supply support, then it may become as often as twice a week.
And yes, many of these (including your two that I mention) are not to be missed
This is cool. Thanks.
Great roundup daikine01.. Do keep it going.. Tis sad so many of the Occupy sites have been evicted.. They seem to came and go quickly now.. The MOTU are getting scared the people ARE uniting and getting sick and tired of being abused. Robert Rech has a great article on Wall Streets costs and how the people are losing complete trust in them: http://www.alternet.org/world/153394/wall_st%27s_latest_shameless_ploy_to_fleece_you/
America is now being run by the Reagan Youth brigade ( punks.) The abuse is just starting.
I always check out the ‘Occupy Supply’ raised and spent numbers.
Has anyone else noticed that at $38,500 per plate at Obama fund raising events, it would take just 3.795 of those super rich Dems to fund the amount raised so far.
And this all boils down to the golden rule: those who have the gold rule.
In America deep pockets rule and shallow pockets just talk and talk and talk.
Sooner or later the talk will become repetitious, as if it is not now, and meaningless, as it is becoming, and only action, concerted action will change anything.
If we want change, we must grab it by the nape and force it down the throats of the PTB.
Otherwise it’s always nice to talk to other enlightened spirits on FDL, but as far as a real impact on fascist, theocratic America, I am not holding my breath.
Thanks dakine01, sorry to be such a downer but I like to think of myself as a realistic pessimist and the reality is depressing at best and tragic at worst.
Well, with all due respect, the fact that Occupy Wall Street has gotten enough traction to force the wealth inequality into the talk and forced the 1% to respond is already a positive impact that none of us could have envisioned just three months ago.
And action is occurring. Slow, laborious, time consuming action.
Maybe you are missing the action of people working together and morphing the Occupy movement from encampments in cities on public property to Occupying foreclosed homes and marches on ports but it is happening.
It is not an overnight effort to halt and reverse 30 plus years of drumbeats from the right wing and 1% ya know.
“…to force the wealth inequality into the talk and forced the 1% to respond is already a positive impact that none of us could have envisioned just three months ago.”
A bit of an analogy: Fleas are initially annoying and might even be tolerated for a short duration, but a pesky and determined flea will always and quickly succumb to a well placed swat.
The elite own the political system in this nation; they own the police and the army; they own the banks and have forced the people to scratch and scrape for a meager existence.
Who will fight, not just talk, for the people?
We will need one hell of a big fly swatter to remove the hand that has relegated the people to the role of indentured servants for the wealthy.
Seen any Godzilla-sized fly swatters for sale recently?
By the way all is said with respect and thanks for your tireless efforts on behalf of the fleas.
Sometimes it takes a bunch of small bites rather than the big fly swatter. You may have noticed that each time the overreaction by local authorities hits the news, the Occupy movement has gotten more and deeper backing from people who were on the fence before.
I am assuming that you are out and actually participating and trying to do something in your local area to support and further the goals of the Occupy movement and not just sitting behind your computer playing Debbie Downer
You bet your tuchis!!! I have given the Tea Party types here in Torrance, California a run for their money.
Terrific roundup, dakine! Thank you so much for putting this all together in one place. I certainly appreciate it and I know others will too!
Book Salon up with Vanessa Williamson’s The Tea Party and the Remaking of Republican Conservatism hosted by Paul Street
great roundup dakine — tweeted and recommended with thanks
Thanks Dakine it is not easy to put skin in the game as Demi says but I guess at least we have to try. I for one see the determination in the eyes of these protesters. They are committed and won’t give up. Just my 2 cents. Recommended.
” needs of people rather than the needs of the elite”
Please be careful not to dehumanize the elite, they are people.
Although I do not comment on the OccupyWallStreetMovement, I am reminded of an analogy utilized by the Chicano Movement from back in the 1960′s and 1970′s, and which applied to any opposition to our Public Lands and Parks within the Interior Department, and which was applied directly and ulitized in New Mexico, and which still contains considerable relevance today and for those of us who identify as Chicanos and Native Americans.
As you probably know and recognize, today, Congressman Raul Grijalva of Arizona (Tucson), holds the title of the Subcommittee Chair of the Public Lands and Parks in the House, and he is careful, or more careful that we–Chicanos do not fail to appreciate our “dissent” to governmental behaviors, relative to mining, minerals, gas and oil, among other entrepreneurial activities, that will lead to the destruction of otherwise, America’s “features” not readily available to oncoming generations.
Thus, the notional of a “bee in the ear of the American Lioness of Empire” still contains considerable “resonance” for those among us and who appreciate their “self-imposed dissent” on misguided and nonsensical/erroneuous public policy.
And what makes, “the bee in the ear…” historically prescient, has to do with local, state, and federal governments, requires to understand that the subject of ‘land limitations’ will have to eventually address the lack of municipalities access to or have readily available privately=owned land masses for expansion, either from brick and mortar business outlets and to housing development, since the governments are “edging” up to publicly-owned lands.
Therefore, “ghosting” the U.S.Chamber of Commerce with a U.S. Chamber of Citizen Affiliates will have to crafted and established, in order to compete with the “big boys” that dominate K Street in our nation’s capital and before both Chambers of Commerce. Otherwise we will lose our slow-walking Democracy and where “factories, not fences” will fail to achieve the requisite gravitas of any sort or importance.
Jaango