CALL TO ACTION: Anonymous members in #OccupyPittsburgh, please print and pass these out.

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Awesome walk around #OccupyPittsburgh with Paradise Gray (X-Clan Founder)

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Picket BNY Mellon - Wednesday at Noon - #OccupyPittsburgh

 CALL TO ACTION

Start: 10/19/2011 11:30 am
End: 10/19/2011 1:30 pm
Timezone: America/New York

Meet at Occupy Pittsburgh Camp
6th Ave. & Grant St.

Bank of New York Mellon Corporation is the “custody bank” for all of these pension funds and others. BNY Mellon is being sued by the attorneys general of New York, Florida and Virginia for ripping off $2 billion from public pension funds around the country by overcharging for foreign currency trades. (The Wall Street Journal, Oct. 5)

Are Pennsylvania workers and taxpayers also on the hook for BNY Mellon’s schemes? Join Occupy Pittsburgh in demanding that BNY Mellon pay back the money!

Also see: "What did Mellon do to deserve an occupation? Quite a bit, maybe?" by Chris Potter, Pittsburgh City Paper

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This will be volunteer, and we would be happy with anyone who can help us. Please pass this along

Robyn Mello from #OccupyPhiladelphia is missing.

Have you seen this woman?

This is Robyn Mello. She has been working with OccupyPhilly since day one and she has been missing since Friday October 14th. All of her belongings are still here but she is not. Her family and friends have had no contact with her since Friday and are concerned for her well being. If anyone has any information regarding her whereabouts please contact her brother (Nathan Mello: 201-220-5654). Please share this on every social networking site you can.

#OccupyPittsburgh pictures from the march this morning.

Pictures from Pittsburgh City Paper of #OccupyPittbsurgh

CALL TO ACTION!

#OccupyPittsburgh Livestream

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WPXI: "Pittsburgh To Close Streets For Occupy Pittsburgh March, Rally."

PITTSBURGH -- This week, police approved a permit for an Occupy Pittsburgh march and rally on Saturday.

Hundreds Of Protestors Expected For Occupy Pittsburgh Event

Posted: 2:22 pm EDT October 13, 2011

Updated: 10:23 am EDT October 14, 2011

The group plans similar protests in other cities targeting broad-based allegations of corporate greed and the political influence of big business.

Pittsburgh police plan to close a two-mile network of downtown streets to minimize any problems. The roads will be closed from about 11:15 a.m. to 3 p.m. but could reopen sooner depending on how quickly and orderly the protesters move.

The group plans to gather in the city's Hill District starting at 10 a.m., and after a smaller rally at 11 a.m. march through downtown to Market Square for a larger 90-minute rally at 1:30 p.m.

"We're going to wind our way past several important corporate offices where we'll have some mini rallies," said Nathaniel Glosser of Occupy Pittsburgh.

Pittsburgh police plan to close a two-mile network of downtown streets to minimize any problems

Pittsburgh police will monitor crowd control, according to city officials. They expect 1,000 to 3,000 participants.

City police and BNY Mellon officials have not responded to the group's stated plans to have some protesters camp on Mellon Green, which is owned by the banking giant.

We are the 99%

Statement of Internal Solidarity

This is a living document. Inspired by the the Internal Solidarity Statement and Memorandum of Solidarity with Indigenous People put forth by Occupy Boston, we the members of Occupy Pittsburgh put forth this Statement of Internal Solidarity and Solidarity with Indigenous Peoples.   The Occupy Pittsburgh community has the right and responsibility to edit this document on an ongoing basis. We welcome feedback and new ideas.

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We are the 99%, and our task is to unify the 99%. Unfortunately, we live in a society that is racist, sexist, classist, homophobic, and ridden with various other forms of oppression.  We recognize that the United States was founded upon the attempted extermination of indigenous peoples and the colonization of their land; the continued and ongoing exploitation of black, brown, and immigrant bodies through the machinations of slavery, imperialism, nationalism, the prison-industrial complex, and capitalism; and the domination and degradation of lands, water, and non-human-animals via enclosure and industrialism.  We further recognize that the Occupy movement is made possible by the many movements and struggles of oppressed people which have preceded it and that continue through the present.

Pittsburgh has been founded upon the extermination, colonization and dislocation of the First Nations of Haudensaunee, Lenape, and Shawnee peoples from their ancestral lands.  Pittsburgh has been built via an economy of labor that has exploited a working class that was then discarded when we no longer benefited those in power.  Black and brown people continue to suffer in Pittsburgh due to police, gentrification, neglect and political invisibility.  Despite these oppressions, Pittsburgh has been a vital place for struggle on behalf of our communities.

As the Occupy Pittsburgh community, we will consciously and urgently work on dismantling these systems of oppression in our movement.  We are working on creating a community where everyone’s rights are respected, protected, and treated equally. We are working to acknowledge and incorporate a diversity of tactics which requires that we place those who have been in this struggle at the forefront of our movement.  We all have different levels of privilege that we strive to acknowledge and educate ourselves about in order to ensure that these privileges are not used to oppress others. We want to have an inclusive atmosphere of ideas in which we do not police each other’s thoughts, but we have absolutely no tolerance for oppressive or intimidating words or actions. We actively seek the involvement of the First Nations, people of color, women, LGBTQ people, and others in the development of our movement. If a conflict arises it should, if possible, be settled through democratic discussion or debate.

We do not welcome any of the following in our community:
 

• White supremacy or separatism (racism against people of all colors)
• Patriarchy (sexism)
• Ageism
• Discrimination based on ability
• Homophobia or heteronormativity
• Transphobia
• Anti-Arab sentiment
• Anti-Jewish sentiment
• Religious intolerance or intolerance of nonreligious people
• Islamaphobia
• Class oppression (classism)
• Cultural intolerance
• Discrimination based on immigration status
• Discrimination based on experiences with the justice system
• Disregard for indigenous rights
• Weight-based discrimination

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#OccupyPittsburgh - Saturday, October 15th

The Movement Begins

OccupyPittsburgh Day of Action

Saturday, October 15, 2011

Beginning Rally: 11 am Freedom Corner

(arrive as early as 10 am)

March from Freedom Corner to Market Square: 11:45 am

(Marchers can join route at the City-County Building shortly after Noon) 

Movement Kickoff Rally 1:30 - 3 PM Market Square

Occupation of Pittsburgh begins 4 pm

Mellon Green, Grant St. & Sixth Ave.

The following statement was approved by the Occupy Pittsburgh General Assembly on October 12, 2011, in solidarity with Occupy Wall Street.

As we gather together in solidarity to express a feeling of mass injustice, we must not lose sight of what brought us together. We write so that all people who feel wronged by the corporate forces of the world can know that we are your allies.

As one people, united, we acknowledge the reality: that the future of the human race requires the cooperation of its members; that our system must protect our rights, and upon corruption of that system, it is up to the individuals to protect their own rights, and those of their neighbors; that a democratic government derives its just power from the people, but corporations do not seek consent to extract wealth from the people and the Earth; and that no true democracy is attainable when the process is determined by economic power. We come to you at a time when corporations, which place profit over people, self-interest over justice, and oppression over equality, run our governments. We have peaceably assembled here, as is our right, to let these facts be known.

They have taken our houses through an illegal foreclosure process, despite not having the original mortgage.

They have taken bailouts from taxpayers with impunity, and continue to give Executives exorbitant bonuses.

They have perpetuated inequality and discrimination in the workplace based on age, the color of one’s skin, sex, gender identity and sexual orientation.

They have poisoned the food supply through negligence, and undermined the farming system through monopolization.

They have profited off of the torture, confinement, and cruel treatment of countless nonhuman animals, and actively hide these practices.

They have continuously sought to strip employees of the right to negotiate for better pay and safer working conditions.

They have held students hostage with tens of thousands of dollars of debt on education, which is itself a human right.

They have consistently outsourced labor and used that outsourcing as leverage to cut workers’ healthcare and pay.

They have influenced the courts to achieve the same rights as people, with none of the culpability or responsibility.

They have spent millions of dollars on legal teams that look for ways to get them out of contracts in regards to health insurance.

They have sold our privacy as a commodity.

They have used the military and police force to prevent freedom of the press.

They have deliberately declined to recall faulty products endangering lives in pursuit of profit.

They determine economic policy, despite the catastrophic failures their policies have produced and continue to produce.

They have donated large sums of money to politicians supposed to be regulating them.

They continue to block alternate forms of energy to keep us dependent on oil.

They continue to block generic forms of medicine that could save people’s lives in order to protect investments that have already turned a substantive profit.

They have purposely covered up oil spills, accidents, faulty bookkeeping, and inactive ingredients in pursuit of profit.

They purposefully keep people misinformed and fearful through their control of the media.

They have accepted private contracts to murder prisoners even when presented with serious doubts about their guilt.

They have perpetuated colonialism at home and abroad.

They have participated in the torture and murder of innocent civilians overseas.

They continue to create weapons of mass destruction in order to receive government contracts.*

To the people of the world,

We, the New York City General Assembly occupying Wall Street in Liberty Square, urge you to assert your power.

Exercise your right to peaceably assemble; occupy public space; create a process to address the problems we face, and generate solutions accessible to everyone.

To all communities that take action and form groups in the spirit of direct democracy, we offer support, documentation, and all of the resources at our disposal.

Join us and make your voices heard!

This statement is subject to change by future Occupy Pittsburgh General Assemblies.

If you would like more information on this, please feel free to visit http://OccupyPittsburgh.org, or email us at anonpittsburgh@gmail.com. Join the discussion about this protest here.

Dear Pittsburgh, here is a letter from Anonymous.

Hello ,

We are Anonymous. We call upon you for your support in our fight for our freedom of speech, and our fight against school budget cuts and reining in of gas drilling. Our voices must be heard. 

Our government focuses more on what is going on overseas and not whats happening to the people in their own country. It is time we stand up and with your help we will be recognized. With strength in numbers and a unified front a positive change will be made.

In an attempt to change the status quo we elected Gov. Tom Corbett. Once we got past the fancy campaign buzz, the true agenda became apparent. Our States government justifies an attack on the middle class, removing more money from an already failing school system and enlarging already bloated class sizes. All the while corporate interests are secured in the name of tax breaks. According to the Post Gazette: Corbett refuses to tax the Natural Gas industrial complex yet says our state needs to be fiscally responsible. There is also the issue of those jobs that were promised but yet to be delivered. In February 2011, Corbett repealed a four month old policy regulating natural gas drilling in park land, deeming it "unnecessary and redundant". The Pennsylvania Democratic Party called the repeal a "payoff" to oil and gas interests which donated a million dollars to Corbett's campaign.  In April 2011, Corbett proposed that colleges in the state offset budget cuts to education by drilling for natural gas on campus and keeping the revenue.

These issues that plague our state are not even the worst thing going on. We have a president who rode the wave of change into office and seems to have gotten stuck, beached on the same policies he was supposed to change. We are left with only ourselves for hope. It is time to repeal the Patriot Act, allow the Bush era tax cuts to expire and overhaul the tax codes. Our foreign policy is a mess and the domestic is no better off. The great republican hope the "Tea Party" only reinforces religious values and bigotry that furthers the degradation of civil rights. We the people have no one left to turn to. There will be no knights in shining armor riding a noble steed to save us. This is the time of the people. There is a global uprising. Failed economics and politics can no longer sustain us.

Join us, no matter your age, economic status or ethnicity. Together, we can and will make a difference. You are not alone. Together, your voice will be heard.

We are Anonymous

We are Legion.

We are Pittsburgh

We do not forgive "governing for profit."

We do not forget "the bloodshed and domination of innocent people, and innocent countries".

"You are damn right that Pittsburgh along with the world should know to: "Expect Us."

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Hello.

I would like to take this time to call upon all Pittsburgh tri-state area Anons, and ask for your help. I am in need of some upkeep on the website as far as helping post information, and organizing events/rallys in our city! Of course, we will take the smaller steps at the moment, since this area's members are still unknown. So please make yourself known, and help me out. No experience is required, if you would just like to post information about news articles and write your own articles. Do so! Speak your mind, and let your voice be heard. It is our time.

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Wall Street Protests Spread to D.C.

(source: http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2011/10/201110741844516797.html)


Video: http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2011/10/201110741844516797.html



Protests against corporate power in the US have taken root in Washington DC, with hundreds of people occupying Freedom Plaza in the city centre to demand progressive reform.
The "Stop the Machine" rally organised by a group called "October 2011" echoed the demands of the "Occupy Wall Street" movement in New York that drew more than 5,000 people, including labour-union support, on Thursday.

In depth coverage of US financial crisis protests

"The poor are no longer patient," said one of the speakers, Ben Manski, a Green Party activist from Wisconsin, from a stage near the White House, decorated with the "We the People" preamble of the US constitution.
"It took us long enough, but we are no longer patient," Manski told the crowd, a mix of young people and veterans of protest movements of past decades who descended on the square with placards, drums and sleeping bags.
"This is a sacred struggle, on a par with the abolition of slavery, voting rights for women and civil rights," Manski said, "and just like those movements, we are going to win."
The protest - which has a four-day permit - got under way just as Barack Obama, the US president, called the Wall Street protests an expression of the frustration that Americans are feeling.
"I think people are frustrated, and the protesters are giving voice to a more broad-based frustration about how our financial system works," he told reporters at the White House.
Obama also used the opportunity to push forward his $447bn jobs bill, the American Jobs Act, saying it would ensure tougher oversight of the financial industry.
"Any senator out there who's thinking about voting against this jobs bill when it comes up for a vote needs to explain exactly why they would oppose something we know would improve our economic situation at such an urgent time," Obama said.
Congress is to vote on the bill before the end of the month.
Occupy DC
Since October 1, a separate but like-minded protest group called Occupy DC has brought together about 30 people daily to McPherson Square, a stone's throw from both the White House and the offices of powerful lobbying firms.
But it was overshadowed on Thursday by "Stop the Machine", which originated a decade ago in opposition to the October 2001 invasion of Afghanistan and the subsequent Iraq war.
Al Jazeera's Alan Fisher, reporting from Freedom Plaza, said, "There are many desperate groups here. There's not just one group with one message.
"There are anti-war protesters here, anti-globalisation protesters, anti-capitalist protesters. People who are just saying that the financial system is broken," he said.
No uniformed police were seen at Freedom Plaza as the crowd swelled towards 1,000 around lunchtime under sunny skies in an open square that is a frequent venue for political protests.
In the afternoon, many of the protesters - led by a banner that read: "Chamber of Corporate Horrors" - set off in the direction of the White House, pausing at one point at the offices of the US Chamber of Commerce.
Several dozen people brought camping gear to Freedom Plaza, planning to sleep on the concrete surface through the weekend.
"It is time to light the spark that sets off a true democratic, nonviolent transition to a world in which people are freed to create just and sustainable solutions", said a "call to action" published on Stop the Machine's website.
Occupy NYC

Around 5,000 demonstrators converged on New York's financial district on Wednesday, their ranks swelled by nurses, transit workers and other union members who had joined the protest over economic inequality and the power of US financial institutions.

Police arrested at least 28 people and used pepper spray and batons to confront the crowd after protesters joined forces near police barricades.

According to protest organisers' website, OccupyTogether.org, frustrated Americans have planned "Occupy Together Meetups" in more than 500 cities across the nation.
The "Occupy Wall Street" protests started on September 17 with a few dozen demonstrators who tried to pitch tents in front of the New York Stock Exchange. Since then, hundreds have set up camp in nearby Zuccotti Park and have become increasingly organised.

Occupy Wall Street: The tea party to the left?

A following CNN article about the Occupy Wall Street protest is as follows:

 Washington (CNN) -- Wall Street should have seen it coming. After all, market forces were at work.Take a financial crisis that yielded few prosecutions; add a broken government in Washington; then mix in millions of unemployed adults with nothing but time on their hands and it's no wonder Occupy Wall Street came screaming out of the economic chaos.The calls for revolution echoing from Lower Manhattan to Washington and the rest of the nation are also conjuring up comparisons to the battle cries of another political movement, the tea party."It's time to get crazy," Occupy D.C. protester Kay Deamer said at a rally organized by a variety of liberal groups on Capitol Hill. "In fact our country is getting too crazy in a way that's unhealthy for the ordinary American people. And so any way that we can, we got to get people to wake up," Deamer added. Both Occupy and tea party movements are angry. They just see different remedies.
When tea party rallies flared up across the country more than two years ago, conservative activists were mad about bailouts and their impact on the national debt. To them, government "There's a general sense that we're getting screwed and we need to fix things," Occupy D.C. protester Eric Lotke said at the same rally. Unlike the tea party, Lotke would raise taxes on the rich to pay for bridge and school construction projects to put people back to work.Occupy demonstrators are also upset about the financial crisis and the economy. But they see government as part of the solution. But if Lotke had a tri-corner hat, he said he would tip it to the tea party for showing the Occupy movement how to turn anger into action. "Some of it is tea party. And some of it is hippies," Lotke said of the Occupy protests. With all of that rage, tea partiers can attest, trouble can brew quickly. Violent clashes between Occupy Wall Street protesters and New York City police officers have raised obvious questions about the demonstrators' intentions."It's a classic mob uprising. It's utterly incoherent. They're always left wing," conservative commentator Ann Coulter said in a Fox News interview.During the height of the tea party movement, there were few confrontations with police. But violent rhetoric was often caught on camera and immediately uploaded onto YouTube."If ballots don't work, bullets will," tea party activist and radio talk show host Joyce Kaufman said at a rally about the midterm elections of 2010. Still, many tea party organizers are offended by the comparisons.

"OWS (Occupy Wall Street) reminds me of an out-of-control child having a temper tantrum," Tea Party Express Chairman Amy Kremer said. "Stop having a temper tantrum and channel your energy into effecting change." That's just what former White House Green Jobs Czar Van Jones has in mind."I am not mad at the tea party for being so loud. I am mad at the rest of us for being so quiet," Jones said at a rally at the U.S. Capitol.Having watched the tea party movement propel Republicans into power in the U.S. House of Representatives in the 2010 midterm elections, Jones said he relishes the idea of building a tea party movement for the left."When you talk about the people on Wall Street, I think that those young people and the people who are struggling are doing a great service. They may not have message clarity, but they have moral clarity," Jones said. He now leads the liberal activist group, Rebuild the Dream, which now seeks to join forces with the protesters.Those sentiments may explain why the top two men at the White House are all but saying "we feel your rage."

"I think people are frustrated and the protesters are giving voice to a more broad based frustration about how our financial system works," President Barack Obama said at a news conference Thursday."There's a lot in common with the tea party. The tea party started why? TARP. They thought it was unfair. We were bailing out the big guys," Vice President Joe Biden said at a different public event earlier in the day.The trick for this new movement, as it was with the tea party, is to keep things from boiling over.