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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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Welcome to the #OWS 99% Movement “We Will NOT Be Co-Opted” Working Group

October 7th, 2011 | Filed under Activism, Feature, Hot List, Politics & Government . Follow comments through RSS 2.0 feed. Click here to comment, or trackback.

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This is not an official statement from the #OWS 99% Movement. As a decentralized leaderless movement, in our opinion, there is no one group, organization, website or individual who can speak for the movement as a whole.

We, a working group of people currently occupying Liberty Park and many other locations throughout the US, are growing increasingly concerned about divide and conquer attempts being made to co-opt the movement. In the following message, we are issuing our first proposed statement. If you agree with the statement, please post it to your website and/or spread it throughout your social networks, both online and offline at occupations throughout the country. If you would like to read this statement at your local GA meetings and vote or edit it, feel free. If you disagree with the statement, please air your disagreements – this is what democracy looks like.

We appreciate, respect and encourage endorsements from individuals and organizations. We invite them. However, just because an individual or organization endorses our movement, does not mean that they in any way have a leadership role in deciding the future direction of this movement. We will not be co-opted by hierarchical organizations. No matter how wonderful their cause may be.

There are many people, organizations and media outlets within both the Democratic and Republican parties who are trying to label us as the Democrat’s version of the Tea Party. In this working groups opinion, not only is this incorrect, but in labeling us this way, you are, whether you realize it or not, undermining the very essence of this movement with your obsolete divide and conquer groupthink propaganda. Just as the mainstream media and both political parties aided and abetted the co-option of the Tea Party by the Republican Party, there is an attempt being made to do the same to us within the Democratic Party.

We the People, We the 99%, are not the pawns of either wing of the two-party oligarchy.

We emphatically reject the attempted leadership of any political party, organization or individual. If there are elected officials or organizations who endorse our movement, we welcome them.

However, they must do so knowing this: Your voice will be just as loud as any other voice. We are led by no one. You cannot co-opt We The People.

Respect Us.

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  • http://mcthorogood.myopenid.com/ mcthorogood

    GA meeting = General Assembly

  • http://mcthorogood.myopenid.com/ mcthorogood

    GA meeting = General Assembly

  • http://mcthorogood.myopenid.com/ mcthorogood

    GA meeting = General Assembly

  • ahansen

    RESIST!

    Well played, my friends.  Stay amorphous, stay ominous, stay strong.  

    We are the peephole.   ALL POWER TO THE PEEPHOLE!

    (Right arm!)

  • ahansen

    RESIST!

    Well played, my friends.  Stay amorphous, stay ominous, stay strong.  

    We are the peephole.   ALL POWER TO THE PEEPHOLE!

    (Right arm!)

  • Anonymous

    This populist rebellion belongs to neither party. The two political parties are nothing more than the same two-headed snake. The leaders of this oligarchal serpent need to stay away. Politicians of both stripes passed up your opportunity to help the American people. Instead, you have shown nothing more than your own selfish, self-interests. 

  • http://spasticarex.com Robert G. Valiant

    UNITY NOW, details later.

  • http://progressivelever.com/2011/10/07/sounds-of-revolution-reverberate-across-the-web-and-through-the-streets/ Sounds of revolution reverberate across the web and through the streets. | Progressive Lever

    [...] 2011 | Filed under Activism, Feature, Hot List, Politics & Government . Follow comments through RSS 2.0 feed. Click here to comment, or [...]

  • kdelphi

    Solidarity with not being co-opted

  • http://4closurefraud.org/2011/10/07/the-ows-99-movement-we-will-not-be-co-opted/ The #OWS 99% Movement “We Will NOT Be Co-Opted” | Foreclosure Fraud – Fighting Foreclosure Fraud by Sharing the Knowledge
  • Matt Prather

    Genius!

  • http://www.cps-news.com/2011/10/07/a-message-from-ampedstatus-welcome-to-the-ows-99-movement-we-will-not-be-co-opted-working-group/ A Message From AmpedStatus: Welcome to the #OWS 99% Movement ‘We Will NOT Be Co-Opted’ Working Group | CPS News

    [...] Source [...]

  • Michael Morgan

    I love it and agree 100 %.  I will read the statement aloud at the GA in Occupy Asheville, NC Sat,. 10/8/11, around 3 pm.  Unless someone else beats me to it.  We have a fired up, socially backed network here.  We have peaceful, mutually respectful relationships with the Mayor’s Office and the A. police dept.  Many businesses are opening up private property for the Occupiers to camp on.  Many sources keep food coming in.  The number of new people who keep arriving is absolutely amazing.  For example, our medical team has a practicing physician, a nurse and 2 people with at least some EMT training.  Other working groups are similarly well staffed with energized folks of all ages, from all walks of life.  You have to see it to believe it.  Find an Occupy movement near you and spend a few days there.  You’ll catch the fire too.  Freedom smells soooooo good!

  • http://pacificprogress.us/2011/10/07/welcome-to-the-ows-99-movement-%e2%80%9cwe-will-not-be-co-opted%e2%80%9d-working-group/ Welcome to the #OWS 99% Movement “We Will NOT Be Co-Opted” Working Group | Pacific Progress

    [...] Welcome to the #OWS 99% Movement “We Will NOT Be Co-Opted” Working Group | AmpedStatus. Posted in Anonymous, Police State, Politics, Revolution, World | Tagged OccupyTheFed, OccupyWallStreet, revolution [...]

  • Messenger for Yahweh

    We the People, Have the Power…..We the People, Have the Power….We the People, Have the Power……Not only are we protesting the wrong that has been done to the people, we are re-establishing and reminding all of who we are.  We the People!!!!!  Chant this in the streets for this is how we have the power.  Only when there is “WE”!

  • John Cause

    All of America has been co-opted in the past.We must seriously be aware of ‘new friends w/money’.We have received no understanding nor empathy from Republicans or Democrats.We must be very careful, this is a most sensitive area.
    Anyone who can leverage the revolution for profit is a risk.Lifting the Veil</a

  • John Cause

    This is a good read: An open letter and warning from a former tea party movement adherent to the Occupy Wall Street movement.

    Personally I have not been a fan of the Tea Party, however I believe this was written in earnest.

  • http://weeknreview.wordpress.com/2011/10/08/occupy/ Occupy | weeknreview

    [...] http://ampedstatus.org/welcome-to-the-ows-99-movement-we-will-not-be-co-opted-working-group/ Share this:TwitterFacebookLike this:LikeBe the first to like this post. [...]

  • http://pacificprogress.us/2011/10/07/this-is-not-michael-moores-revolution-and-all-minorities-should-get-involved/ This is NOT Michael Moore’s revolution, and ALL minorities should get involved | Pacific Progress

    [...] taken notice of this, and a “We Will NOT Be Co-Opted” Working Group has popped up and released this important [...]

  • http://weeknreview.wordpress.com/2011/10/08/37/ weeknreview

    [...] If there are elected officials or organizations who endorse our movement, we welcome them.http://ampedstatus.org/welcome-to-the-ows-99-movement-we-will-not-be-co-opted-working-group/ Share this:TwitterFacebookLike this:LikeBe the first to like this [...]

  • Messenger for Yahweh

    We the People, Have the Power…..We the People, Have the Power….We
    the People, Have the Power……Not only are we protesting the wrong
    that has been done to the people, we are re-establishing and reminding
    all of who we are.  We the People!!!!!  Chant this in the streets for
    this is how we have the power.  Only when there is “WE”!

    Get yourselves acquainted with your freedom on: http://www.republicfortheunite...

    If anyone asks you your name, including the authorities, tell them who
    you are:  “We the People” and We the People take our authority back from
    now on. 
    Blessings,
    We the People

  • http://ampedstatus.org/could-occupywallstreet-be-infiltrated-by-political-groups/ Could #OccupyWallStreet Be Infiltrated by Political Groups? | AmpedStatus

    [...] Welcome to the #OWS 99% Movement “We Will NOT Be Co-Opted” Working Group This is not an official statement from the #OWS 99% Movement. As a decentralized leaderless movement, in our opinion, there is no one group, organization, website or individual who can speak for the movement as a whole. We, a working group of people currently occupying Liberty Park and many other locations throughout the US, are growing increasingly concerned about divide and conquer attempts being made to co-opt the movement. In the following message, we are issuing our first proposed statement. [...]

  • Anonymous

    http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/10/02-1  (MAIN ARTICLE)

    essential reading for purposes of agreement on the issues and solidarity:
    Please ALSO read the Principles of Solidarity working draft
    http://nycga.cc/2011/09/24/principles-of-solidarity-working-draft/
     

    Published on Sunday, October 2, 2011 by NYC General Assembly

    Declaration of the Occupation of New York City

    by NYC General Assembly

    This document was accepted by the NYC General Assembly on September 29, 2011, with slight adjustments in wording on October 1, 2011:

  • Jdefili105

    We the people have the power in this so called free counrty we live in to all withdraw all of our asets from the banks..they will have no choice but to work for the customer  again

  • Anne

    When occupywallst.org lists organizational endorsements, it
    strongly suggests that those organizations have great influence, otherwise, what is the point of accepting such endorsements?

    The
    list of endorsers is eerily similar to the list for 2008 Obama election
    campaign. Accepting such endorsements undermines your credibility as a
    grassroots movement of individuals. If you truly reject organizational
    leadership of these organizations, then stop taking their endorsements.

    I fully support a movement for economic fairness, but yeah, I
    think you already got co-opted.

  • Matt Prather

    It’s not co-opted unless most of the people protesting are co-opted.

  • kdelphi

    I am a Socialist…..i believe it in my bones…..if that is not ok with you,well…

  • http://www.84062govmyway.blog James D. Smith

    I can understand the need to keep this movement open to all and that no one group should be called a leader.  However, I feel that in your and others statements you are alienating groups that we need in this fight.  I will give you an example, the unions.  The smugness that I feel coming from some in rejecting opinion and backing of the union leadership is counter productive.  Yes, we union men and women are ourselves sigusted with the people leading our unions, but without the go ahead from those leaders the membership will be hindered from pparticipation in this movement.  All I am asking is for you to choose your words carefully.  You may feel that having 20,000 demonstrators is a large number, but (I am sure you will agree) we need 20 million and the numbers are there unless we start alienating groups because we do not agree with the leaders of the groups.  This is not about groups it is about people with real people problems.  I do not like the anarchist and socialist groups being involved but I would never take it upon myself to tell them that we do not care about their cause.  We should all have an equal opportunity to speak and participate.  I do not want to end up with a more regressive government than we presently have, and thumbing our noses at certain groups because of a few bad leaders is getting us knowwhere.  Please read carefully what you write before making it public, we do not want to fail while we are making such progress.  Thank you for your time.
                                                                               Jim

  • Matt Prather

    Well said. I think this is a time for tolerance and honesty. In all likelihood, all “old” ideas are going to be the “wrong” way forward, but that doesn’t mean we can’t find the right way…
    I for one am not prejudiced against union men and women, even though I came from a background of “believing” that unions are rotten. 

  • Anonymous

    [IMG]http://i282.photobucket.com/albums/kk264/falbergsawco/HereToHelp.jpg[/IMG]

  • http://www.broeckers.com/2011/10/09/der-amerikanische-fruhling/ Der amerikanische Frühling ? : Mathias Broeckers

    [...] kooptieren  lassen, nicht von Parteien und NGOs, nicht von Stiftungen und Thinktanks – und sie weiß warum.  Sie weiß woher der Wind bläst, warum sie auf  “Weathermen” (die US-Version der [...]

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_XWHZSW4DCMEJNM6ZY5WFNJL3AY Green

    Occupy San Francisco here.  Nancy Pelosi came out in support of OWS.  What to do?  Ignore, respond, rebuke?

  • http://blog.thephoenix.com/BLOGS/phlog/archive/2011/10/09/rating-the-occupations-the-complete-guide-to-occupybaltimore.aspx Rating the Occupations: The Complete Guide to #OccupyBaltimore – Phlog

    [...] – following his talk – to implement consensus building techniques that he designed decades ago. As the inevitable freak-out unfolds over whether Occupy is being co-opted by outside entities, it's important to remember that a lot of old picket line standbys like Butler can be a huge [...]

  • http://stephenlazar.com/blog/2011/10/resources-im-using-to-discuss-occupy-wall-street/ Resources I’m Using to Discuss Occupy Wall Street « Outside the Cave

    [...] Welcome to the #OWS 99% Movement “We Will NOT Be Co-Opted” Working Group [...]

  • http://howfreeami.com/2011/10/10/a-revolution-beyond-left-and-right-remaking-the-political-spectrum-in-the-west/ A Revolution Beyond Left And Right: Remaking The Political Spectrum in The West | How Free Am I | Alternative News

    [...] which helped to launch the original Occupy Wall Street protest in New York, recently published an article stating that all attempts by the Democratic party or any establishment group to infiltrate and [...]

  • http://www.im-jus-sayin.com Robert Bostick

    U got it oh so right. Would that all of America understood the implications of your short paragraph.

  • http://www.yesbiogreenclean.com/greengolf Potomac Oracle

    This is what the Oligarchs have created and will do anything to sustain. Occupy Wall St must destroy this enslavement of America.

  • http://www.chrisroubis.com/2011/10/a-revolution-beyond-left-and-right-remaking-the-political-spectrum-in-the-west/ A Revolution Beyond Left And Right: Remaking The Political Spectrum in The West

    [...] which helped to launch the original Occupy Wall Street protest in New York, recently published an article stating that all attempts by the Democratic party or any establishment group to infiltrate and [...]

  • NadePaulKuciGravMcKi

    Nader Paul Kucinich Gravel McKinney Baldwin Ventura Sheehan
    Catch the mist, Catch the myth, Catch the mystery, Catch the drift

    we don’t play their corrupt game any more  
    learn from each other teach each other  
    we agree on more than we disagree  
    left wing right wing parakeet wing

  • http://www.guitarforums.com/open-discussion/15724-wall-street-protests-8.html#post225038 Wall street protests. – Page 8 – Guitar Forums

    [...] We will not be co-opted by hierarchical organizations. No matter how wonderful their cause may be.Welcome to the #OWS 99% Movement “We Will NOT Be Co-Opted” Working Group | AmpedStatus __________________ Walk [...]

  • http://independentnewshub.com/?p=45979 A Revolution Beyond Left And Right: Remaking The Political Spectrum in The West | Independent News Hub

    [...] which helped to launch the original Occupy Wall Street protest in New York, recently published an article stating that all attempts by the Democratic party or any establishment group to infiltrate and [...]

  • http://daviddegraw.org/2011/07/complete-list-of-david-degraws-reports-2/ Complete List of David DeGraw’s Reports | David DeGraw

    [...] Welcome to the #OWS 99% Movement “We Will NOT Be Co-Opted” Working Group [...]

  • BrettMcQ

    Sign the petition!!!!!     I spend a lot of time tracking stories about the movement and the amount of misinformation, finger pointing, partisan bickering, and propaganda is rage inducing!
    Please don’t allow anyone to put their Auctioned political party bs on our movement.
      If you want one thing all 99% can agree on, it is to end the auction for our government.    Separate business and their corrupting money from government.  GetMoneyOut.com

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_NINIJVBKPLEW7PLCA56JWRDO5I kowsgiterdone

    “it’s become kind of a political left movement in the U.S., hopefully to rival the Tea Party”.  Kalle Lasn Adbusters Founder.  

    So by the premise of your article, you mean that the original organizer is undermining your movement?  Do tell.

  • http://www.urbansurvival.com/blog/?p=4436 Coping: The Largest-Ever SOC…But…. | UrbanSurvival

    [...] “While I can agree with much of Ms. Sylke’s letter, I beg to differ with her assertion that the OWS movement is a “left-wing” founded and funded movement. Really?? Is that why they’ve made such a point to repeatedly state We Will Not Be Co-Opted – by anyone? [...]

  • Clearskies345

    we probably don’t have enough savings for them to care, that’s why the fees on the checking accounts.  But it’s better than no action. And better still, let’s stop using the credit cards.  

  • Lisa Bracken

    I am writing to share news of what has been called the “perfect ocnvergence of book and movement”. In August I launched “You And What Army? How to Neutralize Conflict and Negotiate Justice for the Totally Outgunned, Inwardly Timid, Burnt Out or Socially Defunct”. Its THE field guide to social justice and political reform in the 21st century – and written by one of the standing 99 stomped for eight-years by the oil and gas industry’s corporate greed (Gasland). I want the people to have this book, and I’m offering a digital download through Amazon for .99 cents. If I could find a way to link ‘profit’ from the download to this site in order to help support it I would. Anyone have any ideas? Please help me share word of this book – those who don’t realize their role in conflict are destined to be guided by those who do – and this book is available to everyone. I mean everyone, people. I cannot control that. The US War College has recommended it to cadets. It is circulating on Capitol Hill and in AG’s offices. I don’t have a problem with this, because I think it’s message can help balance those who may be otherwise without a rounded persepctive. But, the 99 need it, and like the title says – that’s who I wrote it for.

  • http://www.resume-6.info/useful/resume/will-the-real-99-please-stand-up Will The Real 99% Please Stand Up? – DOCUMENTS – DOCUMENTS

    [...] a past dual weeks, a organisation of Occupy Wall Street supporters called “We Will NOT Be Co-Opted” has been operative on a matter to announce a autonomy from any organisation or domestic [...]

  • Anonymous

    There is a fundamental error in this analysis and in the media efforts to label the protestors.  The error is this:  the people sitting on Wall Street are not “the” organization, they are not “the” leaders, they do not have the power to change anything and the most likely outcome is that soon, they will go home because it will be too damned cold in New York.  The OWS groups should be seen as the opening salvo, and that’s all.  They must be followed by public action in NYC and other forums for as long as it takes.  Sit-ins, in public spaces and in private businesses, picketing, organizing boycotts and/or support of businesses who treat their workers well.  It must turn into something more than a few people on a sidewalk in New York.  Any struggle over the name, or the not-name, misses the real point:  this group will go home, soon, and be of no consequence.  Ongoing dispersed actions throughout the country, hopefully throughout the world, is the only result which is going to matter.  Whatever name anybody gives it.  There’s just so much fighting over trivia that it distracts from the need for a clear plan for the future.

  • Gaelen

    “The Robin Hood Tax: Occupy Movement now Marching Straight Off the Globalist Cliff”

    http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=27322

  • Amara

    I am making and selling buttons that say 99%, selling them as fast as I get them, and turning the money into more buttons to give away.  I hope others will do the same.

  • http://owsnews.org/could-occupywallstreet-be-infiltrated-by-political-groups/ Could #OccupyWallStreet Be Infiltrated by Political Groups? | OWSnews.org

    [...] October 8, 2011 in Co-opting, OccupyTogether, Video  Email This Post We are fighting to make damn sure it is not co-opted. After watching this great interview – Thanks Andrew! – checkout our proposed statement here. [...]

  • http://www.challengeyourlender.com/3539 The #OWS 99% Movement “We Will NOT Be Co-Opted” | Challenge Your Lender
  • Anonymous

    occupy walmart on nov.25th,black friday. occupy don’t buy. make the crowds so large that the real shoppers go home. occupy the time of the workers by asking for help. occupy the check out lines buying one thing made in the usa,like a can of pabst blue ribbon,union made beer.

  • http://riverdaughter.wordpress.com/2011/11/22/happy-birthday-ows-bat-signal/ Happy Birthday OWS Bat Signal « The Confluence

    [...] so now that these efforts will inevitably fail: those who have animated the Occupy movement are not motivated by partisan allegiance or an overarching desire to devote themselves to one of the two…. In fact, one of the original Occupy groups — as opposed to partisan organizations swooping in to [...]

  • Bettydonnelly

    And keep the Movement Secular I don’t want any Religious overtones or people to take over our thing. I vote foe a strong Separatiom of Church and OWS.

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  • Davidkamins

    Start by demanding a thourgh explanation of who owns the federal reserve (2)
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    Of where our money went and how do you propose to pay the American
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