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CONTACT: Occupy Wall Street Press Relations Team, 347-292-1444, press@occupywallst.org

Human and corporate “person” to unite in exuberant protest/celebration – “Get Money out of Politics”

New York—A Financial District wedding on Saturday, January 19, will mark the 3rd anniversary of Citizens United, the infamous 2010 US Supreme Court case. 

The event will creatively spotlight the impact of Citzens United — how elections and democracy are corroded with big money from rich people and corporations.  The wedding will join in (un)holy matrimony a real human being to a non-human corporate “person.”

At 3:30 PM the wedding party will gather at 60 Wall Street and then proceed to the steps of historic Federal Hall at Wall and Broad St. for the ceremony.   Officiating will be Rev. Billy accompanied by the Stop Shopping Choir.

Members of Occupy Wall Street and other civic-minded groups will be in attendance to cheer the perfect coupling.  Interlopers are also expected, to jeer and cry out, “Get money out of politics.”   Wall Streeters and the 1%, of course, cheered the Citizens United decision in 2010. 

Further information online at:  https://www.facebook.com/events/313891162046444/

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Re:  the alleged link to Occupy Wall Street (OWS) in media reports about the arrest of two Greenwich Village residents charged yesterday with possession of weapons/explosive material.

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CONTACT: Occupy Wall Street Press Relations Team, 347-292-1444, press@occupywallst.org
For Rockaways action only: Virginia Deer 347-733-8887, Gayle Grantham 917-701-5337
For Staten Island action only: Amin Husain 917-407-1226, Sandy Nurse 917-678-5395
For Manhattan action only:  Bill Dobbs 917-822-5422

New York—With winter closing in and anger rising at Mayor Bloomberg’s foot-dragging, New Yorkers hard hit by Hurricane Sandy will be on the streets on Saturday, Dec. 15 in the Rockaways and Staten Island, with many converging Saturday PM outside the mayor’s Manhattan home. Thousands of New Yorkers are still without power or heat and are fighting for survival against black mold and bureaucracy.

Saturday will be a first – New Yorkers taking collective action to protest the government’s glaringly inadequate response to the storm, and to demand:  emergency local housing, immediate mold remediation and an end to red tape and delays in deploying critical resources. Community residents and activists from groups including Occupy will raise the question, how, in this great city, can thousands still be without electricity, living with mold creeping up walls and getting sicker in an emerging public health crisis.

As the weeks have gone by, many of those hit by Sandy’s fury sense betrayal and are now raising their voices, leafleting and standing together; hundreds are expected to join the protests.

Rockaways 12:00 Noon
Community members gather at Mott Ave. and Beach 21st St. (Thriftway parking lot), and in a show of solidarity, will “March for Health, Housing and Just Recovery” to Beach 29th St. (bet. Seagirt and Boardwalk) while getting a close-up view of homes devastated in the storm including those contaminated by black mold and still without utilities.

Staten Island 12:00 Noon
Residents will gather outside 1128 Olympia (across from St. Margaret Mary’s Church) for a community speakout, and then depart as a group for a ‘Tour of Destruction” of damaged and mold-plagued houses in the area with a public health expert from Hunter College. A statement from Staten Islanders is online at: http://pastebin.com/Q3gBV2ja.

Manhattan 5:00 PM
Rally at Bloomberg’s townhouse, 17 E. 79th St (bet. Madison and Fifth Ave.) – those still suffering in the aftermath of Hurricane will gather, taking their plight to the door of the mayor’s private residence. Staten Islanders, Rockaways residents, community allies will join together for an action in the darkness, emblematic of thousands who are still without power.

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New York — This weekend Occupy Wall Street (OWS) groups join a global day of potbanging-protest (aka Casseroles March, named after the Quebec Student Debt protests) targeting the homes, corporate lobbies and leisure locales of the 1% to make some noise.  The protests will spotlight the huge and growing debts ordinary people struggle under – millions of us have been seduced into taking on unmanageable mortgages, credit cards, student loans, and more by a corrupt financial system.

On October 13 debt protests will ring out around the world, in hundreds of cities, under the banner of “Global Noise” and the global week of action against debt and social injustice. See full list here.

WHEN/WHERE: Saturday, October 13 (#13O), Columbus Circle
4pm: Teach-ins and community gathering with Occupy Town Square and the widely popular Free University. Open to the public.

6pm: Global Noise Assembly, Debt Burn, and March with Strike Debt. Individuals will share their stories of debt and burn their debt notices (student loan notices, underwater mortgage loan papers, credit card bills) as an act of resistance to a culture of debt.
Highly visual + great photo opps.

Read the International Communication on debt, written by Occupy Wall Street’s Strike Debt, Citizen Debt Audit Platform (PACD) Spain and Democratie Réelle Maintenant! of Paris.

Contact: (347) 670-FREU (3738), FreeUPress@gmail.com
Conor Tomás Reed : 979.204.9253, conortomasreed@gmail.com
Mike Stivers : 845.706.2538, mpstivers@gmail.com

Free University Week will transform Madison Square Park, September 18-22
In Solidarity with Occupy Wall Street Anniversary and Global Education Movement

New York, NY (September 12, 2012):  To mark the one year anniversary of Occupy Wall Street, a coalition of students, faculty, and community groups will produce the Free University Week: ‘an experiment in radical education and an attempt to create education as it ought to be.’ This will be held in Madison Square Park from Tuesday, September 18 through Friday, September 21, from 2pm to 7pm, and on Saturday, September 22, from 10am to 2pm. The event will gather in solidarity with Occupy Wall Street’s one-year anniversary of the occupation of Zuccotti Park, as well as with education movements in Chicago, Quebec, Chile, and beyond.

WHEN: Tuesday, September 18 – Saturday, September 22, 2012/ Tuesday – Friday, 2pm-7pm, Saturday, 10am-2pm.
WHERE: Madison Square Park, Manhattan, NY. Continue reading →

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: September 14, 2012
Contact: OWS PR Team, 347-292-1444, press@occupywallst.org

OCCUPY WALL STREET
SEPTEMBER 15, 16 AND 17 ANNIVERSARY PLANS SET
PUSHBACK AGAINST 1% GREED, OUTCRY FOR ECONOMIC JUSTICE!
“ALL ROADS LEAD TO WALL STREET”


For the anniversary of Occupy Wall Street (OWS), September 15, 16 and 17, under the banner All Roads Lead to Wall Street three days of education, celebration and resistance to economic injustice are planned — with convergences and assemblies, concerts, and some of OWS’s famous direct action planned for 7 AM on September 17 (also known as S17) at the New York Stock Exchange. See full schedule below.

There’s an array of events signaling lots of energy as OWS begins year two. All offer story ideas and possible availabilities with activists. Sunday’s concert and Monday’s civil disobedience will be especially vibrant and visual with good turnout expected. For more details and last minute changes: s17nyc.org/schedule



SAT. SEPT 15: EDUCATION ~ Washington Square Park
The day’s events are about connecting with a broader community, teach-ins, skillshares, assemblies, public workshops and more. Looking for a chance to see how OWS organizing works, how movement veterans and newcomers interact? Saturday’s activities have many opportunities to tell those stories.

• 10:30am-12:30pm – Welcome and Orientation Activities, Lunch
• 12:30pm-4pm – Inaugural Assembly and Thematic Breakout Groups
• 4pm-7pm – Direct Action & Know Your Rights Training* + Closing Assembly
• 7:30pm-9pm – Debt Resistors’ Operation Manual Exclusive Preview Event, Judson Church
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8-10:00pm – S17 Affinity Group Spokescouncil

SUN. SEPT 16: CELEBRATION
The day’s events are about flexing people power in the streets and utilizing public spaces. The Occupy movement continues to utilize culturally creative tactics to build the movement for social and economic justice.

• 10am-1pm – Spectra Frack Pipeline Blast Zone March with the Occupy Guitarmy, who will lead a musical march through the village to Foley Square. (Meet at Gansevoort and Hudson River Greenway)
• 12-5pm – Educational/community-oriented Occupy Town Square (Thomas Paine Park)
• 1pm-6pm – “99 REVOLUTIONS”, concert featuring Tom Morello, Jello Biafra, Das Racist, Rebel Diaz, Michelle Shocked, and more. (Foley Square)
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6:30pm – Direct Action & Know Your Rights Training* (Foley Square)
• 7:30pm – Occupy Rosh Hashanah Services (Liberty Square/Zuccotti Park)

MON. SEPT 17: RESISTANCE Financial District
On the one year anniversary, people from all walks of life are going to assemble in the streets of the Financial District in an outcry for economic justice. For on-the-ground updates please contact the OWS PR Team directly.

• 7am – The People’s Wall, a non-violent civil disobedience at the Stock Exchange.* + 99 Revolutions: a swirl of mobile intersection occupations throughout the Financial District which will spring from the People’s Wall Action. (Final tipsheet will be out Sunday regarding Monday’s protest and meeting locations)
• 10am – Storm Wall Street, an ecologically themed convergence for a sustainable future (Bowling Green)
• 12-2pm – The 99% Return to Wall Street, this assembly will bring together Union workers and leadership, economics experts, faith, community members, students and occupiers to let our voices be heard once more at (Liberty Square/Zuccotti Park)
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6-8pm – Popular Assembly (Foley Square)

*Building the People’s Wall advance action trainings are open to the press giving a behind-the-scenes look at preparations for the Monday protest and possible availability with inidual protesters.

Occupy Wall Street won’t stop until the 99% gets what it deserves–economic justice.

Occupy Wall Street PR Team
Contact: 347-292-1444 | press@occupywallst.org | @occupywallstpr
For more info on the #S17 visit www.s17nyc.org
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: September 13, 2012
CONTACT: OWS PR Team, 347-292-1444, press@occupywallst.org

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: OWS PR Team, 347-292-1444, press@occupywallst.org

99% TO WALL STREET: WE’RE COMING FOR YOU!
ACTIONS SET FOR SEPT. 15, 16 AND 17 AS YEAR TWO BEGINS;

OCCUPY WALL STREET CONTINUES PUSHBACK AGAINST 1% GREED
“ALL ROADS LEAD TO WALL STREET”

The 99%? “Of course, they’re fighting back after 30 years of being shot at.” -Bill Gross, manager of the world’s largest mutual fund

[NEW YORK] September 17, 2012 (#S17) marks the beginning of year two of Occupy Wall Street (OWS). Under the banner All Roads Lead to Wall Street three days of education, celebration and resistance to economic injustice are planned for September 15-17, with convergences and assemblies, concerts, and some of OWS’s famous direct action planned for 7 AM, September 17th at the New York Stock Exchange. Solidarity actions are being planned in dozens of cities across the country. Continue reading →