On Tuesday, January 17th, 2012, the Occupy Wall Street Movement celebrated its four month anniversary and today, they are also now in DAY 123.
It was a raining day, however rain didn’t stop protesters from celebrating.
El Martes, 17 de Enero, 2012, el Movimiento Ocupa Wall Street celebró el cuarto mes de su nacimiento y también, hoy es su día 123.
Era un día lluvioso, sin embargo eso no detuvo a los manifestantes de celebrar el aniversario del movimiento.
#J17 was a women, female-identified & female-assigned led march.
The march (from the red cube @ liberty square to wall street to Brooklyn Bridge) was in solidarity with the December 2011 women’s march in Egypt, as well as other J17 events by occupations all over the country.
protesters were encouraged to bring and use glitter throughout the march in an attempt to beautify the ugly face of wall street.
Official message from the Facebook page of Occupy Wall Street:
“Happy 4 month anniversary! In just 4 months, with only our spirit and our bodies, we have started to change the political dialogue. Now, in the next 4 moths, we will escalate and expand, so that we can begin to change the unequal distribution of wealth and power. The banks and corporations will not rule the land any longer. This is the year of our liberation.”
Today, they are also in the Capital of the country: Washington, D.C.
AMERICA OCCUPIES THE CAPITAL
Washington, DC—On January 17 Americans from across the nation and the world will assemble in the shadows of a broken system to participate in real democracy.
Global Revolution LIVE from Washington, D.C.
At 9 am on the opening day of Congress, Occupy Congress will convene for a day of action against a corrupt political institution. Actions include a multi-occupational General Assembly, teach-ins, an OCCUParty, a pink slip for every congressional “representative” and a march on all three branches of a puppet government that sold our rights and our futures to the 1%.
This is an illegitimate system. Around half of the nation’s population doesn’t participate in electoral politics. More than 6 million Americans who want to vote are disenfranchised, including the entire populace of the District of Columbia. There is consensus that we are on the wrong track and that our “leaders” do not have our interests at heart.
All “elected” officials bought their way into gerrymandered seats with Wall Street money. These bankers’ henchmen have shown themselves both unwilling and unable to take on the tremendous, systemic issues in our country, our place in this world.
In the face of this endemic corruption, the Occupy movement is about organizing locally to discuss and change these problems from the ground up. We came to show the 1%’s Congress what democracy looks like.
Our nation, and our world, is in crisis and our “elected” officials have failed us. They refused to hold their bankrollers—Wall Street—responsible for the financial crimes that bankrupted our nation and destroyed the global economy. This last legislative cycle was the least productive in recorded U.S. history; 90% of the country disapproves of these “elected” officials.
We refuse to accept the grim future that Wall Street’s cronies have designed. We refuse to be the 1%’s captive citizenry. We stand together to show that the 99% are creating a better world.
The 99% will no longer be complacent. Our many voices will be amplified on the steps of Capitol Hill. We shall have a nation by, for, and powered by the people once again. We are building it.
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#OccupyCongress is a part of the Occupy movement, which began with Occupy Wall Street on Sept. 17, 2011, in Liberty Square in Manhattan’s Financial District. #Occupy is a people powered movement that has spread to sustained occupations in hundreds of cities in the United States and actions in thousands of cities globally. #Occupy is fighting back against the corrosive power major banks and multinational corporations have over the democratic process, and the role of Wall Street in creating an economic collapse that has caused the greatest depression in generations. The movement is inspired by popular uprisings in Egypt, Tunisia, Spain, Greece, Italy and the UK, and aims to expose how the richest 1% are writing the rules of the global economy and the laws of the land, imposing an agenda of neoliberalism and economic inequality that is foreclosing on our future.
THEIR NEXT EVENTS.
#J20: Occupy The Courts Nationwide, San Francisco to Occupy Wall Street West.
via Occupy Portland:
This is a national day of action just one day before the second anniversary of the infamous Supreme Court decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, which held that corporations (as people entitled to the rights of the U.S. Constitution) can spend unregulated and undisclosed sums of money in order to influence elections. [There are] over 80 rallies at federal courthouses around the country, including the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C.
1 de Mayo – May Day.
More info coming soon – Mas adelante daran a conocer mas información sobre este evento.
#OCCUPYWALLSTREET is a leaderless people powered movement for democracy that began in America on September 17 with an encampment in the financial district of New York City. Inspired by the Egyptian Tahrir Square uprising and the Spanish acampadas, They vow to end the monied corruption of our democracy … If you want to join your local #OCCUPY, go to Occupy Together.
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