TO THE PEOPLE OF THE WORLD: The Global Revolution Beginneth!

Whose side are you on?

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.

·  Thanks to Counterlight Peculiars, sidebar
·  Thanks to Preludium, sidebar
·  Thanks to The Guardian, United Kingdom
·  Thanks to Wall Street Protestors

THE GREAT AMERICAN RELIGIOUS FRAUDSTERS: ¨...wrap themselves in the flag, but when push comes to shove, their religious values, theocratic values, they are not talking about the same America the rest of us are looking at...¨

Michele Bachmann is a Minnesota Congresswoman and the sweetheart of the Tea Party. She has ignorantly riled up thousands of people with barrels of lies and propaganda against Obama and the Democratic party. Her actions have been at best irresponsible and at worst, criminal. All the while, she has smiled and made some of the most hysterical comments ever made in a political arena HERE

Governor Rick Perry of Texas

¨....any guy that starts a national run by calling a prayer meeting and mixing the issues of church and state as he has in Texas is someone who has his eye on this little group. But I say one more time just before we go. It's total hypocrisy because these people know that group helps them win the primary but when the Republicans get into office it's about serving corporate Wall Street interests.

It has nothing to do with the social agenda they get elected on so it's a scam, but it's a scam that keeps working. Forty years of Republican domination of the American political process based on abortion, gay rights, these other things they wave around, but actually it's really about corporate America.¨  By Frank Schaeffer, HERE

Congresswoman Bachmann comes from the ¨literal understanding of the Bible¨ evangelical movement

Her own anti-gay views have been well-documented and her allies in the fight against us are some of the most violently homophobic people we have seen in this decade. The Reverend Bradlee Dean/pictured (who has defended the execution of gay people) is her pal. HERE

¨...It will be a liability with the general public when they learn how radical she is.
She comes from a wing of the evangelical movement where takes the Bible literally, and that includes the old testament that has passages about stoning gay people to death and all the rest of it...

Half-term Governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin is a member of the far ¨religious right¨

...And, of course, Michele Bachmann, like Sarah Palin and others on the far religious right is too politically savvy to express clearly what she believes...

Husband Marcus Bachmann’s Ex-Gay Problem is part of Michele Bachmann´s secret hypocrisy, HERE

...But the fact of the matter is, the part of Christianity she comes from is radical even for evangelical Bible believers. And so I think- I think gradually, it will become apparent to American voters that she could not win the general election. And Republicans are going to have to make a choice to either be a normal political party or, really, theocracy in waiting with people like Michele Bachmann, who in the best of all possible worlds, as far as she would see it, would produce a theocracy in the country where the Bible would be paramount and no longer the Constitution or the Bill of Rights...¨ By Frank Schaeffer, HERE

Former ALASKAN Governor Sarah Palin and Todd Palin are linked to ¨secessionists¨

¨...Well, you know when you mentioned her husband talking about gay people being barbarians and if you look, for instance at Sarah Palin's family, they've had a lot to do with the secessionist movement in Alaska. You're not part of a movement that says it wants to secede from the union in the United States if you like this country...¨ By Frank Schaeffer, HERE

·  Thanks to Frank Schaeffer*, sidebar
·  Thanks to Crooks and Liars, sidebar
·  Thanks to Video Cafe
·  Thanks to MSNBC's Richard Lui
·  Thanks to Box Turtle Bulletin, sidebar
·  Thanks to Jim Burroway
·  Thanks to City Pages, Minneapolis HERE
·  Thanks to Illustration by Robin Eley for City Pages
·  Thanks to G.R. Anderson Jr.
·  Thanks to Talk About Equality,  HERE
·  Thanks to Anna Grau, Nueva York    HERE

* For anyone not already familiar with Frank Schaeffer, I posted this interview back in 2009 just after Schaeffer came out with his book, Crazy for God -- Frank Schaeffer, Author of "Crazy for God" on What's Left of the GOP: Today the Republican Party is rooting for doom. Schaeffer has a new book out, this time focusing on his mother rather than his father as the previous book did and MSNBC's Richard Lui brought him on to discuss the current crop of GOP presidential candidates and whether Michele Bachmann or Rick Perry should he get in, would actually have a chance at winning the nomination.  Heather