As the one year birthday (anniversary) arrives on September 17, 2012, you might enjoy the Adbusters Magazine story “S17 One Year Anniversary”
The story begins with “As the one year anniversary of OWS approaches, where do we stand?
To put it in a nutshell: the Zuccotti encampment model might have passed its heyday, but the spirit of Occupy is still very much alive … evolving and inspiring, expanding our understanding of the possible, exploding our political imagination. Before S17 we relied on the same dinosaur paradigm of the dusty old left. We looked backward for inspiration instead of forward. With Occupy we jumped over that old dead goat. Now it’s time to leap fresh again.
Occupy began as a primal scream against the monied corruption of our democracy … but after a year of struggling against an unrepentant corporatocracy, our goals are now deeper, our dreams wilder. We see a common thread emerging — a blue-green-black ( Read the rest of the story at http://www.adbusters.org/blogs/adbusters-blog/s17-one-year-anniversary.html )
Or watch this YouTube Occupy Birthday Video: Copy and Paste into your URL!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVWtCGGtCQU&feature=related
We have been honoring OCW and trying to get the word out every Wednesday at 5 pm at the Coos Bay Boardwalk. Please come join us and bring a sign. We are the 99%! When we occupied Rep DeFazio’s meeting we were delighted to learn about and meet some of the folks from Occupy Lakeside.
Many happy returns, Occupy all over the world, and here’s to many more.
I find it interesting that in the article by Adbusters, they mention actions all across the world by hundreds of thousands of people about student debt, national debt, austerity troikes, corrupt elections, foreclosures, destructive fracking, pipeline, tarsands protests, other environmental protests, corrupt politicians; as well as artists, writers, intellectuals, unions, people of every color uniting and sharing. But, what do we in the USA see on major corporate news (abc, nbc, cnn, msnbc, fox, cbs)??
Everyone of these corporate news sources, wherever they’ve buried news of the Occupy Wall Street actions today, Sept. 17, the Anniversary of the Movement, has a picture of someone in the throws of being arrested by NYPD! Meanwhile, for anyone who is watching livestream of NYC knows that the activists are completely Peaceful; and the NYPD have been randomly grabbing people off the sidewalks or streets and arresting at least 1 per minute!! Oh yeh? Just Cause!
Well.. I for one, am proud of this Occupy Movement. Happy Birthday – Occupy Wall Street!
Well….Happy, Happy Birthday, OccupyWallStreet! Thanks. The video is great. Be sure and copy and paste into your URL, so you can see the video. I like that this Occupy movement is full of joy and fun, as well as opening our eyes, upping our consciousness, increasing our awareness of the destructiveness of Big Money and Large Corporations, who destroy our environment, our schools, our local businesses, for greed.
Occupy is alive and well, and will go on & on & on, until We the World have morphed into new (and people-oriented) economies, with clean water, healthy food, and vital communities! Let’s Dance. Happy Birthday Occupy the World!