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Saturday, October 15, 2011
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.
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.
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
Friday, October 14, 2011
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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.
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Dear Pittsburgh, here is a letter from Anonymous.
Hello ,
We are Anonymous. We call upon you for your support in our fight for our fight against school budget cuts and reining in of gas drilling. Our voices must be heard.
Our overnment focuses more on what is going on oversea 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 buzzthe true agenda became apparent. Oan 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. 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 ogether, 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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