On Tuesday, March 6th, Direct Action Working Group reached a unanimous consensus to make the call for a Spring Resurgence by making weekly marches on Wall Street. We’re excited to bring the heat back to Wall Street as the weather gets warmer! As part of the 7-week initiative building toward May Day, we’ve committed to [...]
OCCUPY WALL STREET MAYDAY COMMITTEE MINUTES 2-18-2012 AGENDA- Break –out Groups Logistics Break –out Groups – Outreach Report, discussiont- 2/16 Mayday Meeting with OWS, Labor, MAY 1 Coalition, Immigrant Groups List-Serves Announcements Time, Place & Facilitators for Next Meeting LOGISTICS – REPORTS BACK INTERNAL- Structure of meetings – most go to Action [...]
Testimony What happened yesterday words cannot describe… The brutality of police repression units cannot be put into words. In these few lines I will do my best to narrate what I witnessed first hand, along with at least 500.000 of my co-citizens. Early afternoon around 18:00. Ermou St is the most famous pedestrian shopping road, [...]
Information/Important Background: Occupy Portland National Call to Action: http://www.shutdownthecorporations.org/?page_id=21 Portland Action Lab: http://www.portlandactionlab.org/ Agreed Upon Goals Educate & Disrupt Target Bank of America for F29, which is an ALEC member. Organize several educational events for next two weeks leading up to F29 Open the day up to coordinated Affinity Groups Tuesday @ DA: We will work to [...]
May Day Planning Committee Meeting Schedule Wednesdays 6:30pm – 33 West 14th Street Saturdays 1:00pm – 55 Washington Square South
2/4/12 Intros Update Discss loose framework for May 1st PROPOSAL: Morning: disruptive action around midtown (where financial firms have headqarters) Noon: rally/march with May 1st coalition at Union Sq Evening rush hour: disruptive action Evening mass march Discussion: -why this is important: hard to move forward, do outreach, without a framework for what we’re asking [...]
Dear Occupy Oakland, We, the Direct Action Working group of Occupy Wall Street, condemn the wholly unacceptable and morally repulsive wave of repression against the Oakland Commune initiated by Oakland’s Mayor Quan and stand in firm solidarity with you, our comrades. Quan and Oakland’s cops have waged open warfare on you, and we draw great [...]
Reportbacks 1st May Day (possible general strike) meeting: 40 or so peeps. Worked on definitions of a general strike; goals; inreach & outreach (WGs, immigrants, unions, CBOs, etc). Want to build for huge May Day. Next meeting J14 (Sat.), 1pm, Judson Church. point of info: there’s a non-OWS general strike group who had a meeting– [...]