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OccuPodcast: 99% Movement Call to Action – A Conversation with David DeGraw

OccuPodcast with host Dennis Trainor, Jr:

Two years ago, David DeGraw called for the 99% to mobilize and aggressively move on common sense political reforms. This past week, AmpedStatus published a two-year anniversary edition of his report, complete with some personal history and context for the events that lead up to September 17th, 2011 and the birth of the Occupy Wall Street movement.

Economic Elite Vs. The People: 99% Movement Call to Action Two Year Anniversary Book Release


Editor's Note: History should record that the birth of the 99% Movement was on September 17, 2011. That was when the movement became a household name known to the masses. However, the 99% Movement was conceived exactly two years ago, with the release of an online report and call to action titled "The Economic Elite Vs. The People of the United States of America." The report was originally released as a six-part series. The first part was published on February 15, 2010 and the last part was published on February 27, 2010.

To celebrate the two year anniversary, we are reissuing the report with a new introduction recapping the history and evolution of the movement, from the experience of researching and writing the original call to action, to building up the movement online and organizing occupations worldwide. At the end of the book, we feature statements from occupiers, organizers and supporters of the 99%.

February 2012 Introduction
By David DeGraw, AmpedStatus Report

I: Respect to the Leaders & Support the Troops
II: On Writing the 99% Call to Action: Economic Elite Vs. The People
III: Time for a Second American Revolution - The 99% Movement
IV: Decentralized Global Rebellion
V: A99 Operation Empire State Rebellion
VI: Occupy Wall Street 1.0
VII: Anonymous & Occupy Wall Street Leaders Exposed
VIII: Get Money Out of Politics & Bernanke Must Go
IX: Disclaimer On the Original Report & Call to Action
X: Mic Check: The People Speak

Get Ready for OWSnews.org


Apologies for the lack of updates lately. We are currently busy working on a new website specifically dedicated to aggregating and producing news reports on the OWS 99% movement. The site will not be announced for another few days, but you can check it out here: http://OWSnews.org/.

An amazing group of people are working on this project. Many very popular journalists / bloggers and activists will be contributing. If you want to be one of the first people to join, you can create your own profile by registering here: OWSnews.org/register.

We are using the same publishing system that is being used on http://AmpedStatus.org/network and http://www.NYCGA.net/.

#OWS Interview: Prosecute the Wall Street Mafia! Bill Black, Dylan Ratigan & David DeGraw on the Destruction of the Rule of Law

In this video, David DeGraw joins Bill Black on the Dylan Ratigan Show to discuss the "epidemic of fraud" and the people who need to be held personally responsible for the destruction of our economic system.

Aftermath of the Police Raid on #OccupyOakland


By Ken Knabb

This seven-minute video gives a pretty good brief impression of what happened in Oakland yesterday, following the police destruction of the Occupy Oakland encampment at Frank Ogawa Plaza. Among other things, I call your attention to a poignant interaction around 4:45 where a few marchers start pushing a dumpster, as if to start a barricade. A guy hugs one of them and pleads with them, “Oh, no, guys, come on, let’s be civil.” One of the others says, “Are they [the police] being fuckin’ civil?!” Hugging that second guy, he says, “I know, brother, they’re savages, they’re fuckin’ savages. But don’t be like them! Don’t be like them!” If you think that rhetoric is excessive, note the very end of the video, where lots of people are running away and one of them is hit by a tear gas canister and falls to the ground. Several of the others run back to help him, and as they are all crowding around, the police throw a flash-bang grenade right down into the group which explodes in the injured man’s face. Here is a clearer view of the same incident. The young man, an Iraq war veteran, has a fractured skull and is in critical condition. But I guess this sort of thing has to be done in order to maintain “public peace” and keep the Plaza nice and “hygienic” . . .

Marine Down in Oakland – “We’re Still Here!”

Marine Scott Olsen made it through two tours in Iraq without an injury, but back home in the United States he was critically wounded by a police riot. Heavily-armed police injured Olsen and other unarmed citizens on Oct. 25 when they attacked the non-violent Occupy Oakland. Olsen, 24, had his skull fractured by a police projectile and is experiencing traumatic brain swelling.

#OccupyOakland: Riot police fire tear gas, flashbang grenades








Defiant Occupy Oakland protesters vow to return to plaza

On Tuesday night and into Wednesday, police clashed with hundreds of protesters whom they’d dislodged from an encampment outside City Hall. More than 100 people were arrested, police said, as officers used tear gas to disperse the crowd, which was returning to City Hall after a march to another encampment earlier that evening....

Occupy Oakland protesters, dislodged from their encampment outside City Hall after a march Tuesday night, are organizing to return Wednesday.

The Twitter handle, @OccupyOakland, called on protesters to return to downtown at 6 p.m., "for round three. and four. and five. and six. We will not be moved.”

Meanwhile, the plaza in front of Oakland City Hall where protesters had camped for two weeks will eventually be cleared and "made available for peaceful demonstrations," said Karen Boyd, an Oakland city spokeswoman. "We’ll continue our facilitation of peaceful expression -- that’s our practice and that's our history."

Banks ‘Livid’ at #OccupyWallStreet Support by Democrats

Go Cenk! Financial Industry lobbyists are furious with Democrats supporting the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) protests. They aren't scared of watered down regulations and financial 'reform' by Obama, but they feel threatened by OWS. The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur breaks it down from the OWS protests in New York City.


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Does Obama Care About the 99%? David DeGraw on OWS & Obama

How Can We Rouse Police and Other Protectors of the Corporatocracy — “Guards” of the Status Quo — to Join the OWS Rebellion?

By Bruce E. Levine

For those of us who have demonstrated and marched in the Occupy movement, it is obvious that the police and the corporate press serve as guards—buffers between the vast majority of the American people and the ruling “corporatocracy” (the partnership of giant corporations, the wealthy elite, and their collaborating politicians). In addition to the police and the corporate press, there are millions of other guards employed by the corporatocracy to keep people obedient and maintain the status quo. Even a partial revolt of the guards could increase the number of protesters on the streets from the thousands to the millions.

Top Fraud Prosecutor: Banking Criminals Can Be Forced to Give Back Their Ill-Gotten Bonuses

By Washington's Blog

I asked Bill Black whether or not bonuses given out based on fraudulent Ponzi schemes and manipulation of a company’s accounting books could be disgorged. And I asked hims to estimate how much could – hypothetically, if prosecutors and judges did their job – collectively be recouped for the American people?

Senator Sanders Gathers Economists for Planned Federal Reserve Overhaul Bill

Editor's Note: Well, we guess you have to walk before you can run. It's a start... Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) unveiled a dozen economists he has tapped to help draft a plan to overhaul the Federal Reserve he says is "riddled" with conflicts of interest, among other problems.

Police Brutality at #OccupyMelbourne, Australia


"The authorities should have negotiated with the protestors before resorting to heavy handed pressure. By their actions, the Premier and Lord Mayor have moved the situation from negotiation to conflict and have hardened peoples' positions." Lachlan Gifford, an Occupy Melbourne spokesman, said the protest would spring up in other public places in Melbourne if they were forcibly removed....

Charles Hugh Smith on the Occupy Wall Street (#OWS) Movement

Here are some notes on the Occupy Wall Street movement, based partly on some “insider” contacts. I am honored to have long been in email correspondence with David DeGraw of AmpedStatus. As a result of our mutual support society/correspondence, I am also honored to be included in an email group of people I consider the leading lights in the movement to restore democracy and fiscal sanity to this nation, people like Matt Taibbi, Barry Ritholtz, William Black, Max Keiser, Dylan Ratigan, Karl Denninger, Yves Smith, Michael Hudson, Nomi Prins, David Cay Johnston, Paul Craig Roberts, “George Washington” and Tyler Durden, to name some whose work you have probably read.

Bill Black: #OccupyWallStreet A Counter to White-Collar Fraud

Broadcasting on the road from Kansas City, Missouri, we’re joined by William Black, a white-collar criminologist, former financial regulator, and author of "The Best Way to Rob a Bank is to Own One." Black teaches economics and law at the University of Missouri-Kansas City and recently took part in Occupy Kansas City. "If you look [at the Occupy protests], not just nationwide, but worldwide, you will see some pretty consistent themes developing," Black says. "Those themes include: we have to deal with the systemically dangerous institutions, the 20 biggest banks that the administration is saying are ticking time bombs, that as soon as one of them fails, we go back into a global crisis. We should fix that. There’s no reason to have institutions that large. That’s a theme. That accountability is a theme, that we should put these felons in prison... That we should get jobs now, and that we should deal with the foreclosure crisis. So those are four very common themes that you can see in virtually any of these protest sites... I think, over time, you won’t necessarily have some grand written agenda, but you’ll have, as I say, increasing consensus. And it’s a very broad consensus."

Time to Clawback $2.2 Trillion in Corrupt Banker Compensation – Nassim Taleb On #OccupyWallStreet

A very interesting interview on the need for #OWS to focus on the "hidden tax" of obscene banker compensation and bailouts. Taleb: "You need something to break the bank cartel... They caused the crisis... and last year they had record bonuses... this is not rational. They are hijacking the American economy."

What ‘Diversity of Tactics’ Really Means for #OccupyWallStreet

By Nathan Schneider, Waging NonViolence

Even as Occupy Wall Street shapes the public conversation about high finance, political corruption, and the distribution of wealth, it has also raised anew questions about how resistance movements in general should operate. I want to consider one of the matters that I’ve returned to over the past month, as I’ve watched the occupation up close and its means of making its presence felt on the streets of New York and in the media.

#OccupyLA: Superior Courts of Los Angeles Served! Stop Stealing Our Homes

#OccupyWallStreet May Address Looting by Bank of America and Federal Reserve

By Washington's Blog

Many people are furious that the Federal Reserve and Bank of America have initiated a coup to dump billions of dollars of losses on the American people. Many are suggesting that the “Occupy” protesters rally to stop this robbery. I understand that the Occupy protesters are, in fact, currently debating making a statement on this theft.

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#TwitterCensorship Blocks #OccupyWallStreet from Top Trending Topic Twice

September 23rd, 2011 | Filed under Activism, Feature, Hot List, Media . Follow comments through RSS 2.0 feed. Click here to comment, or trackback.

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On at least two occasions, Saturday September 17th and again on Thursday night, Twitter blocked #OccupyWallStreet from being featured as a top trending topic on their homepage. On both occasions, #OccupyWallStreet tweets were coming in more frequently than other top trending topics that they were featuring on their homepage.

This is blatant political censorship on the part of a company that has recently received a $400 million investment from JP Morgan Chase.

We demand a statement from Twitter on this act of politically motivated censorship.

Will they block #OccupyWallStreet from trending again tomorrow when actions throughout the country will once again flare up?

We shall see. Will have more on this topic soon…

DO SOMETHING: @OccupyWallStNYC | #OccupyWallStreet | #OpESR
Have Fun and Get Something Done on Wall Steet This Weekend (MAP)
YOUR STREET: @OccupyChicago | @OccupyCleveland | @OccupyDallas
@OccupyFDSF | @OccupySTL | @OccupyHouston | VIDEO: Livestream

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PREVIOUS AMPEDSTATUS #OCCUPYWALLSTREET UPDATES

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> UPDATE: Ongoing Occupation of Wall Street: We Are 99% (Roundup, Videos, Photos)

> Protests on Wall Street: Will Economic Inequality Lead to an American Uprising? (Video)

> Ongoing Occupation of Wall Street: Media Blackout in the Big City; A Surprise Morning March; Live Blog (Roundup, Videos, Photos)

> New York Police Brutally Attack Peaceful Wall Street Protesters (Video)

> Wall Street Protesters Lead By Example – They Moved Their Money Out of the Big Banks (Video)

> Civil Rights Attorney: NY Police Violating Wall Street Protesters’ First Amendment Rights (Video)

> Cornel West: Escalating Civil Disobedience Like #OccupyWallStreet Is Necessary To Wake The Country Up (Video)

> Ongoing Occupation of Wall Street: 99% Uprising in Full Effect (Day 5 Roundup, Videos, Photos)

> Olbermann Calls Out Mainstream Media For “Blackout” Of Wall Street Occupation (Video)

> #OccupyWallStreet Rallies, Stock Market Plummets, As 99% Movement Rises in NYC, Dow Drops -391 Points

> Occupy Wall Street Will Only Get Bigger – Moore & Olbermann (Video)

> Snobby Illiterati to Protest Wall St. ‘Hippies’ With Champagne Toast

> #OccupyWallStreet: Decentralized Global Rebellion – Inspirational Video for September 24th Noon March

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  • http://truth4usa.wordpress.com/2011/09/23/twittercensorship-blocks-occupywallstreet-from-top-trending-topic-twice-ampedstatus/ #TwitterCensorship Blocks #OccupyWallStreet from Top Trending Topic Twice | AmpedStatus | TRUTH4USA

    [...] #TwitterCensorship Blocks #OccupyWallStreet from Top Trending Topic Twice | AmpedStatus. Eco World Content From Across The Internet. Featured on EcoPressed European Debt Crisis [...]

  • http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2011/09/links-92411.html Links 9/24/11 « naked capitalism

    [...] #TwitterCensorship Blocks #OccupyWallStreet from Top Trending Topic Twice AmpedStatus [...]

  • http://jackpotinvestor.com/2011/blogs/09/24/links-92411/ Links 9/24/11 | Jackpot Investor

    [...] #TwitterCensorship Blocks #OccupyWallStreet from Top Trending Topic Twice AmpedStatus [...]

  • http://crisisjones.com/?p=15731 Twitter Blocks Occupy Wall Street From Top Trending List

    [...] to the independent news website AmpedStatus Report, twitter on at least two occasions blocked the #OccupyWallStreet hashtag from showing up on its [...]

  • Bill Cole

    You really need to show evidence beyond flat assertions to be taken seriously in that accusation.  There’s a basic problem with #OccupyWallStreet: there was promotion of both #OccupyWallStreet and #OccupyWallSt. That alone could be enough to cripple any attempt to get either one into the trends list, but once people started the ridiculous series of “#THIS is being censored, switch to #THAT” messages there was little hope of anything related to the protests staying in any trends lists for long. #TakeWallStreet flickered in and out of the US trends list 9/17, implying that there wasn’t any *competent* attempt at “censorship.” Also: using the word “censorship” to describe manipulation of the “trends” lists is semantic dishonesty. Don’t forget that Twitter and any other online service that is given away for free is not given away to customers. If you get a service for free then you aren’t a customer, you are a product being harvested for sale to customers. 

    It is important to understand that what Twitter has said about their “trends” algorithm makes it very clear that pure volume of tweets is not enough, that they have some anti-spamming tricks in the algorithm, and that they include factors like rate of volume growth and diversity of sources and content. The reason the stupid “fill in the blank” hashtags are “trends” is that they are trend bait: tempting games for random children of all ages in diverse social networks that are the only tags on many unique messages. Gaming the Twitter trends system is something of a challenge because the specific details of the system have never been specified, and a look at the tweetstream of what actually makes it “organically” to the trends doesn’t support the conclusion that  #OccupyWallSt[reet]  ever had trends-type traffic. Instead, #OccupyWallSt[reet] looks more like the tag of an email spammer or 3rd-rate SEO clown: lot of retweets, streams of the same tweet done over and over with just a mention of a media account different in each, the same handful of people retweeting the same things from a tight closed graph, and low-content tweets filled up to the limit from the same cloud of tags. 

    Evidence of actual “censorship” would be available to Twitter’s paying customers who have more robust access to the tweetstream and history than they give away for free to their cattle^W users. Given how cheap Google has made it for people to be small-scale advertisers with powerful analytics, I would expect (without having checked) that Twitter also is not charging much for access to their data and tools. It might be possible to know whether there was manipulation of trends for less than the nightly Liberty Plaza pizza budget. Whether anyone cares that much about determining the truth is as yet undetermined, but it seems not, so far.

  • http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2011/09/welcome-to-the-police-state-nyc-cops-mace-peaceful-protestors-against-wall-street.html Welcome to the Police State: NYC Cops Mace Peaceful Protestors Against Wall Street « naked capitalism

    [...] were using Twitter to promote participation and visibility. And so Twitter intervened. From AmpedStatus: On at least two occasions, Saturday September 17th and again on Thursday night, Twitter blocked [...]

  • http://jackpotinvestor.com/2011/blogs/09/25/welcome-to-the-police-state-nyc-cops-mace-peaceful-protestors-against-wall-street/ Welcome to the Police State: NYC Cops Mace Peaceful Protestors Against Wall Street | Jackpot Investor

    [...] were using Twitter to promote participation and visibility. And so Twitter intervened. From AmpedStatus: On at least two occasions, Saturday September 17th and again on Thursday night, Twitter blocked [...]

  • http://www.manarewescrewed.com/?p=5955 New York Police State of Mind | Man Are We Screwed

    [...] Occupy Wall Street, with either hundreds or thousands of participants, has been downgraded as a trend on Twitter. NYT offers an incredibly condescending report/analysis, “The group’s lack of cohesion and [...]

  • http://skydancingblog.com/2011/09/25/the-first-amendment-is-well-and-truly-dead/ The First Amendment is Well and Truly Dead. « Sky Dancing

    [...] Yves at Naked Capitalism, Amped Status reports that Twitter is now following the example of the corporate media in ignoring or blocking information [...]

  • http://4and20blackbirds.wordpress.com/2011/09/25/the-power-of-whats-not-said-whats-not-shown-whats-not-known/ The Power Of What’s Not Said, What’s Not Shown, What’s Not Known « 4&20 blackbirds

    [...] good point in the comments of his post. the comment was in response to some links I provided about Twitter and Yahoo trying to suppress #occupywallstreet related information/momentum (along with a jab at [...]

  • http://www.marksinvestingblog.com/2011/09/the-future-is-in-the-past-ancient-rome/ The Future is in the Past – Ancient Rome

    [...] If you have a look around at the world currently its not a happy place – in fact you could almost compare our current situation (in the context of a civilization) with the fall of ancient Rome. Greed, government corruption/stupidity, the top 1% controlling 99% of the worlds resources, the people rising up to do what the governments don’t want to do such as the “Occupy Wall Street” movement #OCCUPYWALLSTREET. Social media controlled by Wall Street and blocking movements such as Occupy Wall Street. [...]

  • http://ampedstatus.org/google-censors-our-occupywallstreet-report/ Google Censors Our #OccupyWallStreet Report | AmpedStatus

    [...] #TwitterCensorship Blocks #OccupyWallStreet from Top Trending Topic Twice On at least two occasions, Saturday September 17th and again on Thursday night, Twitter blocked #OccupyWallStreet from being featured as a top trending topic on their homepage. This is blatant political censorship on the part of a company that has recently received a $400 million investment from JP Morgan Chase. [...]

  • http://benjamindavidsteele.wordpress.com/2011/10/06/democracy-protests-movements-tipping-points/ Democracy & Protests, Movements & Tipping Points « Marmalade

    [...] were using Twitter to promote participation and visibility. And so Twitter intervened. From AmpedStatus: On at least two occasions, Saturday September 17th and again on Thursday night, Twitter blocked [...]

  • http://vyshalimanivannan.wordpress.com/2011/10/08/reflections-on-occupywallstreet-censorship-being-the-99/ Reflections on #OccupyWallStreet, #Censorship, & Being the 99% « ROW ROW FIGHT THE POWAH

    [...] AdBusters, and the supposedly unintentional or accidental censorship of emails and Tweets with the Occupy Wall Street phrase or hashtag.  It does seem ridiculous that with the Occupy movement spreading to Washington [...]

  • http://socialmediacollective.org/2011/10/19/can-an-algorithm-be-wrong/ Can an algorithm be wrong? Twitter Trends, the specter of censorship, and our faith in the algorithms around us « Social Media Collective

    [...] time it has been asked. Gilad Litan at SocialFlow (and erstwhile Microsoft researcher), spurred by questions raised by participants and supporters of the Occupy Wall Street protests, asks the [...]

  • http://tarletongillespie.org/scrutiny/?p=149 Scrutiny » Can an algorithm be wrong? Twitter Trends, the specter of censorship, and our faith in the algorithms around us

    [...] time it has been asked. Gilad Litan at SocialFlow (and erstwhile Microsoft researcher), spurred by questions raised by participants and supporters of the Occupy Wall Street protests, asks the [...]

  • http://alexwhite.org/2011/10/the-conservative-dilemma/ The conservative dilemma | Alex White

    [...] on middle-class revolutionary movements, there are at least some parallels in how people respond to censorship and crackdowns in Industrialised [...]

  • http://occupy.scoop.co.nz/?p=61 Occupy.Scoop » #TwitterCensorship Blocks #OccupyWallStreet

    [...] #OccupyWallStreet from being featured as a top trending topic on their homepage. … – #TwitterCensorship Blocks #OccupyWallStreet from Top Trending Topic Twice On at least two occasions, Saturday September 17th and again on Thursday night, Twitter blocked [...]

  • http://owsnews.org/google-censors-our-occupywallstreet-report/ Google Censors Our #OccupyWallStreet Report | OWSnews.org

    [...] out by publishing and linking to the report on their sites. The lesson here for sites like Google, Twitter and Facebook who attempt to censor activism: Your censorship make us [...]

  • http://worldwright.wordpress.com/2011/11/26/twittercensorship-blocks-occupywallstreet-from-top-trending-topic-twice-ampedstatus/ #TwitterCensorship Blocks #OccupyWallStreet from Top Trending Topic Twice | AmpedStatus | WorldWright's …

    [...] DO SOMETHING: @OccupyWallStNYC | #OccupyWallStreet | #OpESRHave Fun and Get Something Done on Wall Steet This Weekend (MAP)YOUR STREET: @OccupyChicago | @OccupyCleveland | @OccupyDallas @OccupyFDSF | @OccupySTL | @OccupyHouston | VIDEO: Livestream via ampedstatus.org [...]

  • http://ashchetri.wordpress.com/2011/12/29/zeitgeist-what-2011-was-like-with-twitter/ Zeitgeist: What 2011 Was Like With Twitter | Ash Chetri

    [...] Twitter accused of censoring #OccupyWallStreet from trending worldwide. OCT [...]

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