As I am sure most of you are aware, the Occupy Wall St. AND other Occupy[s] are happening all over the country and sprouting all over the world. The General Assembly, hereinafter referred to as the GA, has dubbed itself "The Sovereign People's Movement".
The GA is working to formulate demand[s] for which to consolidate their message and further their protest.
Link here: http://coupmedia.org/...
There's an anonymous link as well, but when I went there it said I had won an I-Pad and wouldn't let me pass, so I went to the one above instead. If you have dissimilar results, please advise and I will list that link. Feel free to add more links as you want.
Go to http://occupytogether.org to find where the other locations and dates are.
The DC event has been moved up to October 1st instead of the 6th, btw.
There are Occupy[s] in Kansas City, Sacramento, Austin, Houston, Los Angeles, Chicago and many others cropping up by the minute. Facebook also has a large number of pages for organizing and getting the word out. The MSM is tending to ignore the whole thing. Hopefully that is changing.
Livestream for NYC is here:
http://www.livestream.com/...
Other livestreams such as LA are up already according to livestream chat entries.
The http://coupmedia.org/...
Link takes you to a site that invites you to vote on issues on the table presently and suggest further issues to be considered by the GA and the online voters.
The Sovereign People's Movement, represented nationally through the people occupying the various Liberty Square locations across this great country, have laid out and democratically submitted and are currently voting on the list of following Demands to then be distilled into one Unified Common demand of the people.
The issues presently available for vote are as follows [explanations at site] :
1. Eliminate Corporate Rights as Persons
2. Repeal of the Patriot Act
3. Forced Acquisition of the Federal Reserve for $1Billion USD by the US Congress
4. Restructure Political Campaign Finance Programs
5. Forgive Student Loan Debt and reconstruct the education system
6. End the War on Drugs
7. Free Education Kindergarten Through College
8. National Repeal of Capital Punishment
9. Equal rights for women
10. Office of the Citizen
11. The United States must sign and ratify all human rights agreements with all other countries
12. Rights of victims must take precedent in courts.
13. Prosecutions of the guilty
Of these, 13 should be the priority in my opinion. Though general in title, it refers to corruption by financial entities and actors and the infrastructure exists and the people with the will and resources are ready to do it.
Chief among those are four state Attorneys General, Eric Schneiderman, NY AG is leading the charge against the paltry settlement being pushed on the states which will bar any further recourse if it gets through. Beau Biden of Delaware, Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada and Jack Conway of Kentucky are all on board. That's 8% of the country, We can do better and we NEED Schneiderman to help and he needs us to get the political will behind him. The other AGs need him so they can act by and through the NY statutes which Schneiderman can employ to examine the goings on of MERS, foreclosure fraud, the derivatives mess and any other item that comes to his attention during his term of office. NY is the key because of its laws and that virtually all financial instruments flow through Wall St. on their way to and from investors and the global financial world.
I submit that the GA contact AG Schneiderman and see what can be done. All the rest of it is gravy until we can correct our monetary system and restore the rule of law.
The rest of the demands are wonderful for the most part, but will require legislation. 13 would be elected officials doing their jobs, no legislation needed, just political will and support from the electorate.
Update: per Tarheel Dem:
link to official site:
nycga.net.
http://nycga.cc/...
On September 17, 2011, people from all across the United States of America and the world came to protest the blatant injustices of our times perpetuated by the economic and political elites. On the 17th we as individuals rose up against political disenfranchisement and social and economic injustice. We spoke out, resisted, and successfully occupied Wall Street. Today, we proudly remain in Liberty Square constituting ourselves as autonomous political beings engaged in non-violent civil disobedience and building solidarity based on mutual respect, acceptance, and love. It is from these reclaimed grounds that we say to all Americans and to the world, Enough! How many crises does it take? We are the 99% and we have moved to reclaim our mortgaged future.
Through a direct democratic process, we have come together as individuals and crafted these principles of solidarity, which are points of unity that include but are not limited to:
Engaging in direct and transparent participatory democracy;
Exercising personal and collective responsibility;
Recognizing individuals’ inherent privilege and the influence it has on all interactions;
Empowering one another against all forms of oppression;
Redefining how labor is valued;
The sanctity of individual privacy;
The belief that education is human right; and
Endeavoring to practice and support wide application of open source.
We are daring to imagine a new socio-political and economic alternative that offers greater possibility of equality. We are consolidating the other proposed principles of solidarity, after which demands will follow.
1 The Working Group on Principles of Consolidation continues to work through the other proposed principles to be incorporated as soon as possible into this living document.
This is an official document crafted by the Working Group on Principles of Consolidation. The New York City General Assembly came to consensus on September 23rd to accept this working draft and post it online for public consumption
Legal Page:
http://nycga.cc/...
7:44 PM PT: New Link: http://nycga.cc/...
Not much there yet, scroll down and see the [mission statement]