Occupy Movement The grassroots Occupy Movement arose because the 99% see the 1% (the Oligarchy) as oppressive, unjust, inhumane, and anti-progressive.

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The 'Occupy Wall Street' Movement began with a call in August 2011 by AdBusters Magazine of Canada for sit-in-style demonstrations at New York City's Wall Street & elsewhere, on September 17th, which is U.S. Constitution Day; the New York City rally settled in at Zuccotti Park {formerly Liberty Plaza Park), which is five short blocks from Wall Street. Similar occupations at parks in other cities followed; the occupiers were very peaceful, so the brownshirt police thugs that attacked protesters in Seattle and Oakland were using intentionally-excessive force. Slogans include 'we are the 99%', 're-occupy', 'occupy the future', 'occupy democracy', and 'the revolution continues'; themes highlight the economic emergency facing the 99%: broken bridges, crumbling schools, disappearing credit, and widespread unemployment.

In a suspiciously-coordinated strategy, many of the peaceful camps were forced to shut down on the night of
November 14th. The Occupy Movement rallied against the fascist onslaught, with all-day demonstrations in cities
across America on November 17th.

The '99% March on Washington' began November 10th, with 50 stalwart men & women leaving Zuccotti Park
for the 230-mile trek to Washington, DC. The greatly-enlarged force arrived in DC on Tuesday November 22nd.

primary 'Occupy Wall Street' Movement website
live coverage at Global Revolution "The Whole World Is Watching"
movement entry at Wikipedia

watch "Occupy Your City" promo video [1:26] from Brave New Films

'Day of Action' worldwide schedule {moot}
westcoastportshutdown

Take Back the Capitol | December 5-9, 2011 = www.99indc.org/

InterOccupy [dot] net: Connect. Collaborate. Organize.

2012 Events

Monday Feb 27th: Global Day of Action: Occupy The Food Supply

Saturday March 24th: {begin} Countdown to Occupy Earth Day

April 9-15: The 99% Spring

Sunday April 22nd: Occupy Earth Day 2012

weeklong Occupy National Gathering [Aug 2012 = #1] in Philadelphia

2013 Events

weeklong Occupy National Gathering [Aug 2013 = #2] in Kalamazoo, Michigan

2014 Events

weeklong Occupy National Gathering [Aug 2014 = #3] in Sacramento, California

Anti-Occupy Propaganda

"/b/: The Random Anonymity Culture and A New Direction For Anonymous" [7/2010] by Mint Lily Chebet-Bouchard Simple-minded right-wing attack on the group "/b/" within 4chan: no facts, no sources, just opinionated screed — there is no reason whatsoever to purchase this drivel

"Occupy Unmasked" [indep Spring 2012] "The film’s effect [is that of] sense-rape, meant to disarm critical faculties." ~~ journalist Rick Perlstein Pack of lies from Breitbart & Bannon, known for their staged entrapment of Acorn and other atrocities. Written & directed by Stephen K. Bannon; featuring Andrew Breitbart, David Horowitz, Lee Stranahan & Brandon Darby, with out-of-context archive footage of Saul Alinsky, Roseanne Barr, Joy Behar, Medea Benjamin (Code Pink), Wolf Blitzer, John Boehner, gangster Al Capone, Fidel Castro, Anderson Cooper, Angela Davis, Jim DeMint, Lisa Fithian (Occupy Wall Street), Janeane Garofalo, Rudy Giuliani, Whoopi Goldberg, Ernesto 'Che' Guevara, Malcolm Harris, Jimmy Hoffa Jr., Van Jones, Kalle Lasn, Natasha Lennard (NY Times writer), Rachel Maddow, Bill Maher, Chris Matthews, Mitch McConnell, Huey P. Newton, gangster Frank Nitti, Richard Nixon, Keith Olbermann, Sarah Palin, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Paul Ryan, Bernie Sanders, Bob Schieffer (CBS News), Eliot Spitzer, Joseph Stalin, journalist Matt Taibbi, Jim Wallace, Cornel West Magnolia Home Ent. widescreen color DVD [9/2012] for $9.99 credits at IMDb • official movie site • movie entry at Wikipedia

'Occupy'  Links
primary 'Occupy Wall Street' Movement website
live coverage at Global Revolution "The Whole World Is Watching"
movement entry at Wikipedia
originator AdBusters Magazine of Canada
Occupy Wall Street main website

'Occupy Our Homes' http://www.occupyourhomes.org
Organizing for Occupation [est. April 2011] based in New York City

watch "Occupy Your City" promo video [1:26] from Brave New Films

InterOccupy [est. 12/2011] is national

Organization United for Respect at WalMart
Spirit of America Bookstore's Wal-Mart, Inc. [est. 1962] Page

official website • entry at Wikipedia
Spirit of America Bookstore's Monsanto Company, Inc. [est. 1901] Page

Regional / Local Occupy Groups
Occupy The 1% on Facebook {requires login}
http://www.occupytogether.org
http://www.westcoastportshutdown.org/

OCCUPY New Mexico: We Are The 99% (Somos el 99%)
OCCUPY Albuquerque, New Mexico: We Are The 99%
OCCUPY Santa Fe, New Mexico: The Resistance Continues
OCCUPY Los Lunas, New Mexico meets every Sunday 1pm-3pm at the Main Street River Bridge
OCCUPY Belén, New Mexico meets every Saturday 1pm-3pm at Becker Park, south side (Reinken Avenue)

"We The People are too big to fail!"

AZ = http://www.occupytucson.org/
CA = http://www.occupylb.org/ Long Beach, CA
Occupy Los Angeles (California)
CA = http://www.occupyoakland.org/
Occupy Orange County (California)
Occupy San Diego (California)
Occupy DC: For Revolution
FL = Occupy Palm Beach
FL = http://www.occupytampa.org/
GA = http://www.occupyatlanta.org/
HI = www.DEoccupyHonolulu.org
Occupy Chicago (Illinois)
Occupy Boston
Occupy Ann Arbor (Michigan)
Occupy Detroit (Michigan)
Occupy Helena (Montana)
Occupy Las Vegas (Nevada)
Occupy Upper Valley (in NH & VT)
NY = http://www.occupybuffalo.org
OR = http://www.occupyeugene.org/
OR = http://www.occupygresham.org/
OR = http://www.occupymedfordoregon.org/
OR = http://www.occupynewport.org/
OR = http://www.occupyportland.org
Occupy Providence {Rhode Island}
Occupy Central Vermont
VT = http://www.occupyburlington.org
Occupy Tacoma (Washington)

Occupied Ottawa / Ottawa Occupée (Ontario, Canada)
Occupy Ottawa (Ontario, Canada)
Occupy Toronto (Ontario, Canada)
Occupy New Zealand
Occupy Nigeria [est. 2012]
TI = http://www.occupytibet.com/
UK = http://www.occupylondon.org.UK/

Anonymous Collective

Anonymous is/are not the same folks as the Occupy Movement, but there is a lot of overlap, including the use of the Guy Fawkes masks. Their official motto is "We are anonymous. We are legion. We do not forgive. We do not forget. Expect us." Anonymous (group) entry at Wikipedia

Anonymous Channel on YouTube, Jan-July 2008
newer Anonymous Channel on YouTube, Nov 2011 to July 2012
AnonSynonymous Channel on YouTube, Dec 2011 to June 2012
December 2011 video [5:09] report on The National Defense Authorization Act
October 2012 video [1:38] warning Karl Rove that he cannot steal another election
March 2013 video [1:43] Anonymous Freedom Fighters warning on North Korea and World War III
April 2013 video [3:07] AnonyNews report on Operation Free Korea
April 2013 video [6:57] 'We Will No Longer Tolerate The Sleep of The Masses'

November 2014: After flyers from the Ku Klux Klan threatened protesters in Ferguson, Missouri with 'lethal force' (their words) during any future protests or marches, Anonymous notified the Klan of Anonymous plans to hack their website and semi-official Twitter accounts. Klan members mocked Anonymous and threatened violence against them. On Sunday November 16th, Anonymous captured the website and the Twitter accounts, and began revealing the heretofore secret identities of Klan officials (photos, names, addresses). The video released by Anonymous to explain their actions was taken down next day by YouTube for violation of rules against 'content designed to harass, bully, or threaten'. Another video from Anonymous dated November 16 [1:25] is still available on YouTube.

January 2015: After the recent murders of Charlie Hebdo Magazine employees and others in France, Anonymous Belgium posted a French-language video on YouTube notifying the I.S.I.S. and al-Qaeda terrorist groups that worldwide members of Anonymous are determined to shut down all the websites and social media accounts of said terrorists. {NOTE: The English translation on this video fails in one place: the speaker did not say 'we will kill you', the correct meaning is 'we will destroy you' - Anonymous does not murder.}
video from Anonymous Belgique on January 9th: original video in French 'removed by user'! • video with English subtitles [1:09]
January 9th video 'Nous Sommes Charlie' [2:39] in English

	"A Hacker Manifesto" [2004] by McKenzie Wark Draws in equal measure on Guy Debord & Gilles Deleuze and offers a systematic restatement of Marxist thought for the age of cyberspace and globalization; examines the realm of intellectual property that gives rise to a whole new kind of class conflict that pits the creators of information – researchers & authors, artists & biologists, chemists & musicians, philosophers & programmers – against a possessing class demanding protection of their patents & copyrights, and who would monopolize the new information commons. Kindle Edition from Harvard Univ Press [2004 edition] for $12.07 Harvard Univ Press 8½x5½ hardcover [10/2004] for $14.52
	"Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution" [orig 1984, rev 2010] by Steven Levy A history of non-corporate & anti-corporate & anti-government computer geniuses – including Gates & Jobs & Wozniak – with updates 25 years later. Kindle Edition from O'Reilly Media [5/2010] for $9.99 O'Reilly Media 25th Anniv Edition 9¾x6 pb [5/2010] for $14.95 Dell mass pb [11/85] out of print/many used Anchor Press/Doubleday 8½x5½ hardcover [1984] out of print/many used
	"Unmasked" [2011] Edited by Eric Bangeman, Illustrated by Aurich Lawson "How Anonymous took on a computer security firm, spilled its secrets to the world, and got the attention of Congress - all to keep its own identities secret." Five cyber-hackers invaded the computers of HBGary Federal to protect their own privacy, and discovered plans to attack Wikileaks, to create anti-union surveillence cells, and to sell software 'rootkits' to the government for use as offensive cyber weapons. What they did after that is called 'whistle-blowing'. Kindle Edition from Ars Technica [3/2011] for $1.99 {sic}
	"Epic Win For Anonymous: How 4chan's Army Conquered The Web" [2011] by Cole Stryker Kindle Edition from MoRef [9/2011] for $12.99 Overlook Trade 7½x5 pb [9/2012] for $12.50 Overlook 8x5½ hardcover [9/2011] for $16.75
	"LulzSec: How A Handful of Hackers Brought The U.S. Government To Its Knees" [2011] by Kyle Schurman A subset of the membership of 4chan and Anonymous set out to prove that major commercial and government websites were not as secure as advertised - the name that the loosely-organized group ended up with signified 'laughing out loud (LOLs) at security'. For 50 days, LulzSec 'cleaned the clock' of scores of websites, then voluntarily disbanded, their point well proven. Kindle Edition from HyperInk Press [10/2011] for $4.39 HyperInk Press 10¾x8½ pb [8/2012] for $7.99
	"We Are Anonymous: Inside The Hacker World of LulzSec, Anonymous, and The Global Cyber Insurgency" [2012] by Parmy Olson In late 2010, thousands of 'hacktivists' retaliated against the cancellation of charge card accounts for donations to Wikileaks, semi-organized on the 4chan networking site; some of the hackers got carried away, extending to attacks against corporations and release of customer data from porn sites. A splinter group of Anonymous called LulzSec went even further; book includes interviews with "all six core members of LulzSec". Kindle Edition from Hachette Book Group [6/2012] for $9.99 Back Bay Books pb [5/2013] for $13.87 Little, Brown & Co. 9½x6½ hardcover [6/2012] out of print/70+ used
	"Hacker Handbook For Beginners: How To Become A Hacker or To Protect Yourself From Attacks" [2012] by Julius Schiller includes chapters on Anonymous and on Wikileaks Kindle Edition from MoRef [8/2012] for $4.77
	"Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy: The Many Faces of Anonymous" [2014] by Gabriella Coleman Kindle Edition from Verso Books [11/2014] for $14.55 Verso Books pb [DUE Nov 2015] for $14.96 Verso Books 8½x6½ hardcover [11/2014] for $16.60

"We Are Legion: The Story of The Hacktivists"
[FilmBuff Oct 2012]

93-minute documentary film tracing the 'Anonymous' cyberpatriot collective’s evolution from merry pranksters to a full-blown, global movement, one armed with new weapons of civil disobedience for an online world; covers early group actions and the Chan4 era, and includes interviews with members returned from prison and members recently indicted for their (alleged) actions. Co-produced, written & directed by Brian Knappenberger Luminant Media color DVD [11/2012] for $22.97 with s/h via Amazon third party watch full movie online at Vimeo for $4.99 full credits at IMDb • official movie site • watch official trailer [3:21] at YouTube

"V For Vendetta"
The first episodes of the graphic "V For Vendetta" story appeared from 1982 to 1985 in the black-and-white U.K. comic anthology "Warrior"; after "Warrior"
folded, DC Comics published ten color issues of "V For Vendetta" in 1988. The various stories were collected in book form in 1995 in USA and in 1998 in U.K.
The Anonymous Collective arose spontaneously in 2003 without any branding symbol; with the release of the "V For Vendetta" hit movie in 2006, Anonymous
(and later the Occupy folks) adopted the Guy Fawkes mask to maintain personal secrecy and to show solidarity.

THE ORIGINAL STORY – BOOK ONE: A global nuclear war in the 1980s has left Britain under one-party rule by fascist Norsefire white supremacists. On Guy Fawkes Night in 1997 London, a masked figure rescues a girl named Evey from government thugs, remotely detonates explosives underneath the Parliament Building, then takes Evey to his secret underground lair, the 'Shadow Gallery'. Two police detectives track the terrorist's history to a prison camp where he was subjected to torture and trained in use of explosives. BOOK TWO: V breaks into the government propaganda TV network and broadcasts a call to revolution, then escapes; several people are killed and Evey is wrongly arrested for attempted murder; she is tortured but refuses to give away V's identity, but then is freed: the torture was V's way of showing her how the revolution began. V hacks into the government's Fate computer system with the intention of driving the leader mad. BOOK THREE: Next Guy Fawkes Night, V blows up several government buildings, and the masses react with mob violence. The senior detective concludes that V is based at the abandoned Victoria Station and shoots him in a gunfight; V escapes to his deeper lair and dies in Evey's arms. The government begins to self-destruct and Evey (in one of V's costumes) announces that Ten Downing Street will be destroyed on the morrow, that the people now must decide their own future. Evey blows up a train containing V's body underneath Downing Street, meant as a sort of explosive Viking funeral. and kidnaps the younger detective to train as V's real successor.

"V For Vendetta" graphic novel [1990 bestseller] Written by Alan Moore, Illustrated by David Lloyd, with color by Steve Whitaker & Siobhan Dodds book entry at Wikipedia Kindle Edition from Vertigo [11/2011] for $9.99 Vertigo 10¼x6¾ pb [10/2008] for $11.29 Vertigo 10¼x6½ pb [4/95] out of print/100+ used Titan Books U.K. 10x6¼ pb [1/98] out of print/used Vertigo 10¼x6¾ hardcover [11/2005] out of print/used

"V For Vendetta" feature film [Warner Bros. March 2006] Filmed in Germany & Britain; Germany won World War II and England is under totalitarian rule; a young woman is rescued by a mysterious figure wearing a Guy Fawkes mask and is persuaded to help him stir the people toward revolution. Directed by James McTeigue; adapted & co-produced by the Wachowski Brothers; starring Natalie Portman, Hugo Weaving {as V}, Stephen Rea, Stephen Fry, John Hurt, Tim Pigott-Smith, Rupert Graves Warner Home Video widescreen color Blu-ray [5/2008] for $7.88 Warner Home Video Special Edition widescreen color DVD [8/2006] 2 disks for $24.66 Warner Home Video widescreen color DVD [8/2006] for $5.00 full credits at IMDb • official movie site • movie entry at Wikipedia

"V For Vendetta: The Revolutionary Speech" movie excerpt
watch video [3:32] on YouTube
entry for historical Guy Fawkes [1570-1606] at Wikipedia

official Guy Fawkes mask licensed by 'V For Vendetta' Guy Fawkes mask from China via Rubie's Costume Company - single item for $4.99 Guy Fawkes mask from China via Rubie's Costume Company - pack of 10 for $5.18

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Reading Material

	"The Progressive" Magazine [est. 1909] "[Our] mission is to be a journalistic voice for peace and social justice at home and abroad. The magazine, its affiliates, and its staff steadfastly oppose militarism, the concentration of power in corporate hands, the disenfranchisement of the citizenry, poverty, and prejudice in all its guises. We champion peace, social and economic justice, civil rights, civil liberties, human rights, a preserved environment, and a reinvigorated democracy." subscription: 12 issues/year for $36.00 • The Progressive website
	YES! Magazine [est. 1997] Their slogan is "Powerful Ideas, Practical Actions". Co-founded by David Korten and exec editor Sarah van Gelder; Fran Korten is the publisher. The quarterly is printed on recycled paper and accepts no advertising. subscription: 4 issues/year for $24.00 • YES! Magazine website
	"The Uprising: An Unauthorized Tour of The Populist Revolt Scaring Wall Street and Washington" [2008 N.Y. Times bestseller] by David Sirota Kindle Edition from Random House/Crown [5/2008] for $9.99 Three Rivers Press 7¾x5¼ pb [4/2009] for $13.46 Crown Books 9¼x6 hardcover [5/2008] out of print/100+ used author's official website
	"The Practical Progressive: How To Build A Twenty-First Century Political Movement" [2008] by Erica Payne Kindle Edition from PublicAffairs [8/2008] for $9.99 PublicAffairs 8x5½ pb [8/2008] for $12.94
	"This Changes Everything: Occupy Wall Street and The 99% Movement" [2011] Edited by Sarah van Gelder & the staff of YES! Magazine Kindle Edition from Berrett-Koehler [11/2011] for $7.96 Berrett-Koehler Publrs 8¼x5½ pb [11/2011] for $9.95
	"Occupy!: Scenes From Occupied America" [2011] Contributors include Judith Butler, Thomas Paine [1737-1809], Slavoj Žižek, activist Angela Davis, author Rebecca Solnit, and several editors at n+1 Magazine Kindle Edition from Verso Books [11/2011] for $8.99 Verso Books 8½x5½ pb [11/2011] for $11.24
	"What Is Occupy?: Inside The Global Movement" [2011] from the Editors at Time Magazine Kindle Edition from Time Home Ent. [12/2011] for $4.99 Time Inc. mass pb [12/2011] out of print/used
	"The Occupy Handbook" [2012] Edited by Janet Byrne 66 pieces by authors Brandon Adams, Tyler Cowen, Peter Diamond, Ariel Dorfman, Barbara Ehrenreich, Amy Goodman, David Graeber, David Cay Johnston, Paul Krugman, Michael Lewis, Bethany McLean, Salvador Martí Puig, Raghuram Rajan, Robert B. Reich, Nouriel Roubini, Emmanuel Saez, Robert Shiller, Matt Taibbi, Gillian Tett, Scott Turow, Lawrence Wechsler, Robin Wells, Martin Wolf, Neri Zilber — and 42 others Kindle Edition from Little, Brown/Hachette [4/2012] for $9.99 Back Bay Books 8½x5¼ pb [4/2012] for $8.71

Video Material

"This Is What Democracy Looks Like"
[Independent Media Center Oct 2000]

A filmed account of the historic street protests against the World Trade Organization Summit in Seattle, Washington in 1999, culled from footage by over 100 news teams and activists with cameras Co-produced, co-directed & edited by Jill Friedberg (Corrugated Films) and Rick Rowley (Big Noise Films); narrated by Susan Sarandon & Michael Franti; featuring Noam Chomsky & Vandana Shiva P.M. Press color DVD [2/2011] for $19.95 full credits at IMDb • official movie website watch full movie [10/2011 upload; 1:08:51] online at YouTube

"Battle In Seattle" [Insight/Remstar Sept 2008]

Filmed in Seattle, Washington and Vancouver, BC; activists arrive in Seattle en masse to protest the November 1999 meeting of the World Trade Organization (the first on U.S. soil). Leaders meet with the mayor and form an agreement for peaceful action on both sides, but the first day brings riots and chaos. Demonstrators successfully stop the W.T.O. meetings, while activist groups within the conference attempt to persuade policy changes from within. • Co-produced, written & directed by Stuart Townsend; starring André Benjamin, Jennifer Carpenter, Isaach De Bankolé, Woody Harrelson, Martin Henderson, Joshua Jackson, Ray Liotta, Tzi Ma, Ivana Milicevic, Connie Nielsen, Michelle Rodriguez, Rade Serbedzija, Channing Tatum, Charlize Theron, Christopher Jacot, Garry Chalk, Gary Hudson, Barbara Tyson, Alistair Abell, Tyler Hazelwood, Tobias Mehler, Moishe/Max Teichman, Richard Ian Cox, Arminder Randhawa, Richard Hendery, Ryan McDonald, Louis Chirillo, Deborah DeMille, Lindsay Bourne, Mark Gibbon, Tony Alcantar, Mark Brandon, Rex Davison, Haskell Wexler {as himself}, and archive footage of Bill Clinton Redwood Palms Pictures widescreen color Blu-ray [undated] out of prodn/SOLD OUT! Blockbuster Exclusive widescreen color DVD [undated] for $6.64 Screen Media widescreen color DVD [3/2009] for $7.99 E.B. Acquisition Corp. widescreen color DVD [7/2017] for $9.99 full credits at IMDb • movie entry at Wikipedia watch full movie [4/2016 upload; 1:39:13] online at YouTube

"The Occupy Movie" documentary film [Jan 2012]
Filmed during Occupy Los Angeles in 2011 by Code Zero Media, i.e. Angel Stanz; released on the internet in January 2012
bare credits at IMDb • official movie site • watch the film online [24:50] at YouTube

"Occupy: The Movie" [indep 2013?]

Co-produced & directed by Corey Ogilvie; featuring Noam Chomsky, Kalle Lasn, Chris Hedges, Cornel West, Andy Bichlbaum, Sandy Nurse, Liz Evans, Jesse LaGreca, George Machado, Tim Pool, Vlad Teichberg, Makh Aten, Priscilla Grim, Justin Wedes, Aaron Black, Bishop George Packard, Pete Dutro, Michael Premo, Jen Waller, Gideon Oliver, George Martinez, and other key figures from the Occupy Wall Street movement DVD/Blu-ray not yet available full credits at IMDb • official movie site official YouTube channel • watch 1/2013 official trailer [2:49] at YouTube

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