OCCUPY WALL STREET

Ebon · 10-12-2011, 06:26 PM

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Originally Posted by atomiczombie

I worry about just how long the protests can go on with winter coming.

Yeah I was thinking about that.

SoNotHer · 10-12-2011, 06:43 PM

on indigenous peoples' day. Maybe another quote here would serve to embolden and allay - I've worried as well about the effect of winter on the protests:

From A People's History of the United States, "Robber Barons and Rebels":

"That winter in Yonkers, a few women carpet weavers were fired for joining the Knights [of Labor], and in the cold of February, 2,500 women walked out and picketed the mill. Only seven hundred of them were members of the Knights, but all the strikers soon joined. The police attacked the picket line and arrested them, but a jury found them not guilty. A great dinner was held by working people in New York to honor them, with two thousand delegates from unions all over the city. The strike lasted six months, and the women won some of their demands, getting back their jobs, but without recognition of their union.

What was astonishing in so many of these struggles was not that the strikers did not win all that they wanted, but that, against such great odds, they dared to resist, and were not destroyed."

Corkey · 10-12-2011, 10:23 PM

http://rt.com/usa/news/umbrellas-out...y-seattle-585/

If one is going to protest in Seattle, you're going to get wet, or collapse

Starbuck · 10-12-2011, 10:25 PM

There's even people protesting here in Oklahoma! Don't know the size of the crowd but it made it onto the evening news last night.

SoNotHer · 10-12-2011, 10:41 PM

What Comes After Money? Book Signing. Reasons to Occupy Wall Street
Evolver NYC, Fri, Oct. 28

Come out for the book launch of What Comes After Money: Essays from Reality Sandwich on Transforming Currency & Community, edited by Evolver co-founders Daniel Pinchbeck and Ken Jordan. This anthology is particularly relevant as thousands of protesters across the U.S. take part in the #Occupy movement, challenging the current financial paradigm in order to create a better, more equitable world. Join the editors, as well as Jivamukti co-founder Sharon Gannon, and Day 1 Wall Street occupier Kelly Heresy.

Jivamukti Yoga School, 841 Broadway, 2nd Fl, Free, 8p.
http://www.realitysandwich.com/beyond_money

atomiczombie · 10-12-2011, 11:08 PM

10-12-2011, 06:43 PM	#2
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10-12-2011, 10:23 PM	#3
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SoNotHer Senior Member How Do You Identify?: Professional Sandbagger and Jenga Zumba Instructor Join Date: Sep 2011 Location: In the master control room of my world domination dreams Posts: 2,811 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 6,587 Thanked 4,734 Times in 1,409 Posts Rep Power: 21474852	For Cheryl and Others in NYC What Comes After Money? Book Signing. Reasons to Occupy Wall Street Evolver NYC, Fri, Oct. 28 Come out for the book launch of What Comes After Money: Essays from Reality Sandwich on Transforming Currency & Community, edited by Evolver co-founders Daniel Pinchbeck and Ken Jordan. This anthology is particularly relevant as thousands of protesters across the U.S. take part in the #Occupy movement, challenging the current financial paradigm in order to create a better, more equitable world. Join the editors, as well as Jivamukti co-founder Sharon Gannon, and Day 1 Wall Street occupier Kelly Heresy. Jivamukti Yoga School, 841 Broadway, 2nd Fl, Free, 8p. http://www.realitysandwich.com/beyond_money

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