Hello Occupation!

From the beginning, I watched in amazement and appreciation of your message, your idea that gave voice and then form to what so so many of us knew in our bones: that something is very wrong in this country. In the early days, I watched,waited, shared, and wondered if it was real.

You're now in day 26 of your occupation of Wall Street. You have boots on the ground. Pretty impressive. It can't be easy, camping on the cold hard ground, dodging police clubs, and pepper spray, organizing, and sharing information and food and meeting needs, and staying vigilant for those who mean you harm.

Your message is powerful; it always was-- even as a small whisper passed from person to person on the Internet. Now, it's being heard as a roar, it's spreading like a wild fire all over the world, and you are making an impact. As always, with powerful messages that comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable, somebody will try to shut you-- the messengers, up. They'll try, but you already know they can't kill an idea. Ideas are bulletproof.

Wall Street's private rented security force tries to scare you, disperse you, club you into silence. Certain cynical politicians pandering to the privileged and powerful try to marginalize and/or ridicule you.  They fail because too many people of too many backgrounds from too many places hear your message and agree. The infiltrators and trolls online, and on the street, will lurk and stalk amongst you, trying to silence you through deception and theatrics.

Your message has always been peaceful resistance. Anyone claiming to be with you who acts violently is either:

1. Nutz, or
2. Trying to get you busted and hauled off to jail.

Don't let them. You're more creative than that, #OWS. Trust your gut.

Somebody reminded me of a song the other day. Five to One by the Doors. The lyrics: "They got the guns but we got the numbers."

Michelle Speaks from Occupied Wall Street

http://youtu.be/PvPe2lBVmaA

The avalanche of hate messages that follow this video only go to prove this woman's point: that whistleblowers ARE being targeted. Some people don't want the truth told, and they are feeling extremely threatened, it seems.

For What it's Worth

This landed in my inbox.

We just had our Twitter account suspended while working on collecting contact information from arrested protesters.

If you've seen news about us recently you will know that the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund filed a class action lawsuit against New York Mayor Bloomberg, Police Commissioner Kelly and the City of New York, charging mass violations of constitutional rights from the mass arrest at the Brooklyn Bridge last Saturday. The lawsuit charges that "the NYPD engaged in a premeditated, planned, scripted, and calculated effort to sweep the streets of protesters and disrupt a growing protest movement in New York."

While working on this lawsuit, the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund was using Twitter as one way get in contact with those arrested through friends, acquaintances and other users who can help spread the word.
Unfortunately, at 1:00 p.m. today the PCJF's account was suspended.
Suspended moments after tweeting: "PCJF filed the class action lawsuit in the Brklyn Bdg arrests representing protestors. Arrested? Contact us http://ow.ly/6QGwH"
Time is of the essence in getting in contact with those protesters who were arrested. PCJF appealed to Twitter, but there has been no response.
Help us continue to get in touch with those arrested related to the lawsuit and help us get our Twitter account back. Spread the news!

• If you know someone arrested in the Brooklyn Bridge mass arrest,
  tell them to go to: www.JusticeOnline.org
• Forward this email to protesters and friends of protesters
• Get on Facebook and Like Us to keep in touch
• Get on Twitter and continue sharing our message

OK Consider it shared.

Occupy Florida





Inappropriate? YOU Decide.

http://youtu.be/xpOMlDVaXzc

Video of NYC cops clubbing Occupy Wall Street protesters at last night's march. Video has been deemed "inappropriate" by YouTube. Is it the video that's inappropriate--or the beating of citizens exercising their First Amendment rights?