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FACTS ABOUT OCCUPY WALL STREET

Posted 1 year ago on Oct. 28, 2019, 11:58 a.m. EST by OccupyWallSt

Tags: history , creator of occupy wall street

1. WHO CREATED OCCUPY WALL STREET?

The original idea for Occupy Wall Street was created during a phone

call between Kalle Lasn, the founder of Adbusters

, and Micah White , an

editor at the magazine.

Kalle, Micah and the rest of the Adbusters team then designed a poster

and wrote a tactical briefing that called for the protest, named the

protest, picked the first day of the protest and identified the key

tactic of the protest.

Micah sent the first #OCCUPYWALLSTREET tweet and created the first

Occupy Twitter account: @OccupyWallStNYC

The idea for Occupy Wall Street was taken up by roughly 200 activists

in New York City who then organized for the first day of the protest.

2. WHO ARE THE FOUNDERS OF OCCUPY WALL STREET?

There are roughly 200 people who responded to the call for Occupy Wall

Street by holding organizing meetings at Tompkins Square Park in NYC

prior to the launch date of September 17, 2011.

These activists used the email list september17 on Google Groups to

organize and this website (OccupyWallSt.org) which was created by

Justine Tunney.

It is possible to validate whether or not a individual was a founder

of Occupy Wall Street by checking when they joined the september17

list.

The founders of Occupy Wall Street transformed the concept put forward

by Kalle Lasn and Micah White into the on-the-ground protest in New

York City.

3. HISTORIES OF OCCUPY WALL STREET

• Pre-Occupied The origins and future of Occupy Wall Street

• Some assembly required Witnessing the birth of Occupy Wall Street

• The End of Protest: A New Playbook for Revolution

• We Are Many: Reflections on Movement Strategy from Occupation to

Liberation

4. A WORD OF CAUTION ABOUT OCCUPY'S SOCIAL MEDIA ACCOUNTS

The Occupy movement was crushed in 2012. After the collapse of the

protest, various individuals continue to use the social media

accounts. Not all of these social media accounts are being run by

creators, or founders, of Occupy Wall Street. Furthermore, they are

often pushing an agenda that is at odds with the spirit of Occupy.

See, for example, the case of @OccupyWallStNYC, the account originally

created by Micah White, that was the subject of a lawsuit. Here is a

New York Times article about the situation

.

We do not recommend trusting social media accounts that continue to

post as Occupy Wall Street.

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IF OCCUPY CREATED BITCOIN

Posted 1 year ago on Sept. 13, 2019, 9:56 a.m. EST by OccupyWallSt

Tags: sparkle

Sparkle is money that fights income inequality by proportionally

redistributing two percent of every transaction to each person in the

economy.

Programmed by the co-creator of Occupy Wall Street and powered by

Ethereum, Sparkle is a better money. Learn more about Sparkle at

sparkle.money .

Micah programmed Sparkle to embody the activist ideals of Occupy Wall

Street in commemoration of the eighth anniversary of the Occupy

movement.

Read more about how he learned Solidity, a smart contract programming

language, and the process he used to create Sparkle at

Happy Anniversary Occupy!

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ACTIVIST GRADUATE SCHOOL

Posted 2 years ago on Nov. 21, 2018, 1:38 p.m. EST by OccupyWallSt

Tags: activist graduate school

ACTIVIST GRADUATE SCHOOL :

THE ONLINE UNIVERSITY FOR PROTESTERS, MOVEMENT CREATORS &

CHANGEMAKERS.

Activist Graduate School faculty and guest lecturers include

experienced activists such as the co-creator of Occupy Wall Street,

the co-creator of Black Lives Matter, the creator of Kony2012 and

more. We film our courses with activists at universities including

Bard College and UCLA.

Learn more at activistgraduateschool.org

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THE END OF PROTEST: A NEW PLAYBOOK FOR REVOLUTION FROM THE CO-CREATOR

OF OCCUPY WALL STREET

Posted 4 years ago on Aug. 27, 2016, 10:58 a.m. EST by OccupyWallSt

Tags: Micah White , The End of Protest

, Innovation

> “MICAH WHITE ARGUES CONVINCINGLY THAT ESTABLISHED MODES OF PROTEST

> ARE OUTDATED AND SKETCHES THE OUTLINES FOR HOW ACTIVISTS CAN AND

> MUST INNOVATE. HIS BOOK IS A LOVE LETTER TO ACTIVISTS OF THE

> FUTURE.” — MICHAEL HARDT

IS PROTEST BROKEN? MICAH WHITE , CO-CREATOR OF

OCCUPY WALL STREET, THINKS SO. RECENT YEARS HAVE WITNESSED THE LARGEST

PROTESTS IN HUMAN HISTORY. YET THESE MASS MOBILIZATIONS NO LONGER

CHANGE SOCIETY. NOW ACTIVISM IS AT A CROSSROADS: INNOVATION OR

IRRELEVANCE.

In _The End of Protest _ White

declares the end of protest as we know it and heralds the future of

activism. Drawing on his unique experience with Occupy Wall Street, a

contagious protest that spread to eighty-two countries, White

articulates a unified theory of revolution and eight principles of

tactical innovation that are destined to catalyze the next generation

of social movements. Sweeping from contemporary uprisings to spiritual

and pre-modern revolutions, _The End of Protest_ is a far-reaching

inquiry into the miraculous power of collective epiphanies.

Despite global challenges—catastrophic climate change, economic

collapse and the decline of democracy—White finds reason for

optimism: the end of protest inaugurates a new era of social change.

He argues that Occupy Wall Street was a constructive failure that

exposed the limits of protest at the same time as it revealed a

practical way forward. On the horizon are increasingly sophisticated

movements that will emerge in a bid to dominate elections, govern

cities and reorient the way we live.

In this provocative playbook, White offers three bold revolutionary

scenarios for harnessing the creativity of people from across the

political spectrum.

White also shows:

* How social movements are created and how they spread

* How materialism limits contemporary activism

* Why we must re-conceive protest in timescales of centuries, not

days

Ultimately, the end of protest is the beginning of the spiritual

revolution within ourselves, the political revolution in our

communities and the social revolution on Earth.

Rigorous, original and compelling, _The End of Protest

_ is an exhilarating vision of an

all-encompassing revolution of revolution.

CLICK HERE TO BUY THE BOOK WORLDWIDE

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

MICAH WHITE, PhD is the influential social

activist who co-created the Occupy Wall Street movement while an

editor of _Adbusters_ magazine. White has a twenty-year record of

innovative activism, including conceiving the debt-forgiveness tactic

used by the Rolling Jubilee and popularizing the critique of

clicktivism. His essays and interviews on the future of activism have

been published internationally in periodicals including _The New York

Times_, _The Washington Post_, _The Guardian Weekly_ and _Folha de

São Paulo_. He has been profiled by The New Yorker, and Esquire

recently named him one of the most influential young thinkers alive

today. White directs Boutique Activist Consultancy

—an activist think tank specializing in

impossible campaigns. Dr. Micah White lives with his wife and son in

Nehalem, a rural town on the coast of Oregon.

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#OCCUPYDNC COMMUNIQUÉ NO. 1

Posted 4 years ago on July 27, 2016, 11:57 a.m. EST by OccupyWallSt

Tags: occupydnc , communique

You may remember September, 17th 2011, the fateful night when

Occupiers annexed a square block of Manhattan’s financial district.

They called it Zuccotti Park—but we renamed it Liberty Square. It

was a great victory. We sparked a global uprising against Wall Street

tyranny. Now we’re in Philadelphia for the next chapter of our

revolution.

We heard the news of Hillary Rodham Clinton’s treachery. We do not

view the DNC roll call vote as legitimate. She stole a Democratic

nomination that rightfully belongs to Bernie Sanders. She is a true

enemy of the people. Her lies have infected the body politic of our

global community. Her crimes, revealed by Wikileaks

, once punished, will be the end of

the Democratic Party.

Last night, July 26th, 2016, we fought this injustice. Our revolution

was televised

. You

may remember the broadcasts of the #DNCWalkOut. These revolutionary

delegates walked out on the floor of the Democratic Convention and

into the pages of history. They cast a vote of no confidence in

Hillary’s autocracy and left the dust of neoliberalism in their

wake.

To further escalate the struggle, WE HAVE BEGUN A NEW OCCUPATION.

Adjacent to the convention, we have pitched our tents in Franklin

Delano Roosevelt Park

. This

park now belongs to the people and will henceforth be known as Liberty

Park.

We call on our comrades to join us. We will work together to shut down

the convention and the manipulations of capitalism and racism found in

our government and day to day lives

. Join us to

#OccupyDNC by

joining #OccupyFDR

.

Our peaceful presence in this beautiful park will help us strengthen

our networks to each other and build political power beyond the

campaign of Bernie Sanders.

In light of the WikiLeaks’ revelations of top level DNC undermining

of the Sanders campaign, WE DEMAND a review and possible re-vote in

the states with open lawsuits concerning voter tampering.

We are at the end of July, take a day off, take a sick day, take two

days, join us in the park and let your presence be your action. Come

to the park and sit-in against both Republican and Democratic

leadership. One betrays us with neoliberalism and the other with

fascism. Today we stand in a world that is dominated by critiques of

capitalism and possible alternatives. Today we stand in a world in

which a Democratic Socialist almost became the presidential nominee,

were it not for the undermining efforts of top Democratic National

Committee leaders

.

Our tomorrow is up to you.

#OccupyDNC

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LOCATION OF THE OCCUPATION

FDR Park, Philadelphia, PA

East Side

Adjacent to the Democratic National Convention at Wells Fargo Center

The City of Philadelphia has informally told us that camping will be

"tolerated" around the city, including in FDR Park at night. Please

fold/pack up your tents during the day - it will be crazy full with

activities at FDR Park.

PHOTOS OF THE OCCUPATION

VIDEO OF THE WALKOUT

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OCCUPY WALL STREET is a leaderless resistance movement with people of

many colors , genders and

political persuasions. The one thing we all have in common is that We

Are The 99% that will no longer

tolerate the greed and corruption of the 1%. We are using the

revolutionary Arab Spring

tactic to achieve our ends and encourage the use of nonviolence to

maximize the safety of all participants.

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