#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty Storm Effort Causes a Rift in a Shifting Occupy Movement http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/01/nyregion/occupy-movements-changing-focus-causes-rift.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0 Not long ago, the Occupy Wall Street movement seemed poised to largely fade from the national conversation with few concrete accomplishments beyond introducing its hallmark phrase, “We are the 99 percent.” Then Hurricane Sandy struck. In its aftermath, Occupy Wall Street protesters rushed to apply their rabble-rousing hustle to cleaning out houses, clearing debris and raising more than .5 million for relief efforts. In some minds, Occupy members had become less a collection of disaffected class warriors than a group of efficient community volunteers. Occupy Sandy, as the effort came to be known, became one …http://www.twitpic.com/coku6h
#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty Storm Effort Causes a Rift in a Shifting Occupy Movement http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/01/nyregion/occupy-movements-changing-focus-causes-rift.html?pagewanted=all Not long ago, the Occupy Wall Street movement seemed poised to largely fade from the national conversation with few concrete accomplishments beyond introducing its hallmark phrase, “We are the 99 percent.” Then Hurricane Sandy struck. In its aftermath, Occupy Wall Street protesters rushed to apply their rabble-rousing hustle to cleaning out houses, clearing debris and raising more than .5 million for relief efforts. In some minds, Occupy members had become less a collection of disaffected class warriors than a group of efficient community volunteers. Occupy Sandy, as the effort came to be known, became one …http://www.twitpic.com/cnh5vb
#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty No taxpayers' money for criminal banks in Cyprus http://linksfraktion.de/pressemitteilungen/keine-steuergelder-kriminelle-banken-zypern/ TRANSLATED FROM GERMAN BY GOOGLE CHROME TRANSLATOR “Stick the taxpayers and the little people in Cyprus, but the financial sharks make their money out of the country. Every euro for Cypriot banks is a subsidy for the cartel of the 'banksters' and the black money mafia,” Sahra Wagenknecht says the debate about capital flight from Cyprus and to statements by euro group chief Jeroen Dijsselbloem liability which the saver is a model for future bank bailouts. The First Deputy Chairman of the Group of the Left continues: “The European Central Bank (ECB), the public must immediately inform circumstances and volume of capital flight from Cyprus. There is no bank secrecy for criminals. Should it prove true that billions of euros are especially flown to Malta and the UK, the balance of these transactions frozen immediately be If. uncooperative these EU Member States, their institutions, the banking license for the euro area to be withdrawn. oligarchs may have in Europe no safe haven, either in Nicosia, still in Valletta or the City of London. Indignation of Federal Government over Euro group chief Dijsselbloem is just political theater: Dijsselbloem has as whistleblowers Troika let the cat out of the bag wherever appear in future the Troika locusts, people will storm the banks, the Federal Government must now say clearly whether.. and where they want in an emergency shave Cash Cash -. including pension rights -. shorten overnight with the lawn mower is something completely different than the attraction of owners and major creditors of the banks and the holders of high deposits over a million The Left is the bank bailout and the Euro-saving bombs at the expense of the little people and the real economy in Cyprus refuse. ” RELATED: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323452204578292541738312974.htmlhttp://www.twitpic.com/cgb8ie
#union #iww #ows #p2 #tlot #tcot [VIDEO] OCCUPY SANDY GOES TO CHURCH http://nycitynewsservice.com/2012/12/14/occupy-sandy-goes-to-church/ Occupy Wall Street has branched out into Occupy Sandy, using people-power and social media to aid the storm relief effort. Occupy Sandy operates out of Clinton Hill’s Church of Saint Luke & Saint Matthew, which has become a supply distribution hub as well as the headquarters of what some see as a next step in the Occupy movement…http://www.twitpic.com/bmy59q
#union #iww #ows #p2 #tlot #tcot NYC Teacher Pension Fund Pledges Billion to Investments in Post-Sandy Rebuilding http://www.aflcio.org/Blog/In-The-States/NYC-Teacher-Pension-Fund-Pledges-1-Billion-to-Investments-in-Post-Sandy-Rebuilding In the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, the New York City Teachers Retirement System today pledged billion in new investments for infrastructure projects, including improvements to transportation, power, water, communications and housing in New York City and throughout the state that was hit hard by the massive November storm. The billion pledge is part of a multiyear Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) Commitment to Action made by the AFL-CIO, AFT and partners in 2011…http://www.twitpic.com/blqg9j
#union #iww #ows #p2 #tlot #tcot Become a Secret Santa for Hurricane Sandy Victims With SecretSandy.org http://mashable.com/2012/12/02/secretsandy-gift-website/ After more than a month, life has yet to return to normal for many of those hit by Hurricane Sandy, but one website hopes to spread a little holiday cheer to some of these families. SecretSandy.org, a website launched two weeks ago, encourages concerned citizens to purchase and donate presents to Hurricane Sandy victims through a Secret Santa-style gift exchange. Those who still don’t have power, Internet or shelter as a result of the storm can fill out a form on SecretSandy’s website explaining a little about their situation and including links to items on Amazon that would be really helpful f…http://www.twitpic.com/bilenc
#union #iww #ows #p2 #tlot #tcot Occupy Sandy volunteers aid storm cleanup in Moonachie, Little Ferry http://www.northjersey.com/littleferry/181689141.html A month after floodwaters from superstorm Sandy severely damaged the Vanguard trailer park in Moonachie, its residents remain frustrated with the park management’s pace of response and disappointed with the level of assistance from the Federal Emergency Management Agency. And as a group of volunteers from the North Jersey branch of Occupy Sandy — a grass-roots relief effort to assist the storm victims — knocked on trailer doors on Saturday afternoon offering assistance, residents remained cautiously guarded about accepting outside help. “They’re afraid to talk and to ask for help,” said Herman Fe…http://www.twitpic.com/bikw3g
#union #iww #ows #p2 #tlot #tcot Psst, We’re Showing a Film on This Guy’s Wall, and, Oh, Don’t Warn Him http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/29/psst-were-showing-a-film-on-this-guys-wall-and-oh-dont-warn-him/ At a Hollywood film premiere, sequined starlets drift across red carpets. At an Occupy Wall Street film premiere, people trespass on gas station parking lots. So it went on Wednesday night when 200 people — academics, environmental activists, dudes on bikes — descended flash-mob style on a Mobil station at Houston Street and Avenue C for a guerrilla screening of a documentary film about climate change and Occupy Sandy, the movement’s ongoing effort to assist the victims of last month’s storm. In classic Occupy fashion, the 20-minute film, “Occupy Sandy: A Human Response to the New Realities of…http://www.twitpic.com/bhn0vi
#union #iww #ows #p2 #tlot #tcot They 'occupy' themselves by helping victims of Sandy http://www.pressherald.com/news/they-occupy-themselves-by-helping-victims-of-sandy-_2012-11-24.html Maine members of the Occupy movement give precious free time to New Yorkers who are still struggling. Dawn Eve York has already made two trips to New York this month, driving a borrowed SUV jam packed with supplies for storm victims and volunteers who are cleaning up from Hurricane Sandy. Between working at a mental health agency in Auburn and caring for her two young sons, the single mother and Occupy Maine member from South Portland collected and delivered much-needed items to Occupy Sandy headquarters. York, 28, said she was compelled to act after seeing news reports about families struggling amid the storm'…http://www.twitpic.com/bg7f8x
#union #iww #ows #p2 #tlot #tcot From Occupation to Liberation http://dissidentvoice.org/2012/11/from-occupation-to-liberation/ Despite a myriad of obituaries for the movement that began in Manhattan in September 2011, the people of Occupy refuse to let it die. There are hundreds involved in the Occupy Sandy effort in the New York City region following the devastation of Tropical Storm Sandy. Individuals and groups connected to Occupy Wall Street have organized relief efforts that are feeding and caring for thousands of people left without power, work and homes. Those being helped are primarily the working poor and folks on assistance. They are also those traditional relief efforts tend to ignore, precisely because of their income status and, in the USA, also pe…http://www.twitpic.com/bg7xea