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May Day Directory: Occupy General Strike In Over 125 Cities

by Admin on April 29, 2012 in Occupier and Chief, Occupy Denver, Occupy Wall Street, Van Jones with No comments

This post is meant as a warning and not as an endorsement of the OWS movement which is a an organized effort by the unions and the far left to cause massive disruption and is an attack on the American people.

may day poster

While American corporate media has focused on yet another stale election between Wall Street-financed candidates, Occupy has been organizing something extraordinary: the first truly nationwide General Strike in U.S. history. Building on the international celebration of May Day, past General Strikes in U.S. cities like Seattle and Oakland, the recent May 1st Day Without An Immigrant demonstrations, the national general strikes in Spain this year, and the on-going student strike in Quebec, the Occupy Movement has called for A Day Without the 99% on May 1st, 2012. This in and of itself is a tremendous victory. For the first time, workers, students, immigrants, and the unemployed from over 125 U.S. cities will stand together for economic justice.

See below for what we believe to be the most comprehensive list yet compiled of cities where Occupy May Day events are being planned, as well as other resources. Note: This is a living document. Check back for updates! If you have any additional events, please let us know in the comment section of this article. You are encouraged to share this page in as many ways as possible!

General Resources

Key City-wide May Day Sites

Show Your Solidarity!

Denver – May 1st General Strike

together, we the 99%, make the world go round

Endorse May Day

When and Where

May 1, 2012 — all day
Events start in Civic Center Park at Noon

 RSVP on Facebook

Contact Event Coordinators

mayday@occupydenver.org

Endorse this Event

To endorse this event, download the May Day Statement of Support (PDF) or fill out the online statement of support.

Opportunities for organizations to have a presence
at the event are available. Please contact the event coordinators above to arrange.

Current List of Endorsements

 

Overview

At noon on May 1st, we rally in Civic Center Park and make our voices heard. At 12:30 we march. At 1:30 we return to Civic Center Park and occupy until dusk with teach-ins, music, trading stations, food, and activities for all. Come together and let it be known that our labor is what makes this world function!

Get Involved

In recognizing the power of our labor, we also recognize that all of us have skills we contribute to the world. You can share that skill by contributing to the events of May Day in the park. The events of May Day will encompass all forms of public engagement using our shared power as workers. If you have a skill to share, contact the Occupy Denver May Day working group at mayday@occupydenver.org. All are welcome, so come down to Civic Center Park and join in the events taking place!

Communities Unite on May 1st

In solidarity with cities worldwide, the diverse communities of Denver will gather together as one powerful force demanding equality and justice for all. Around the world May 1st is known as International Worker’s Day. Recently in America, this day has become recognized as a time for standing up for immigrants’ rights. While fighting our struggles we’ve come to realize that our problems are connected, as are the solutions. We unite in action with Occupiers and Workers all over the globe fighting for a better tomorrow

Our homes are foreclosed, while banks are bailed out. Unemployment remains high, while the 1% continues to accumulate wealth. Federal funding for education is continuously cut, while the military budget skyrockets.

The strategy of divide and conquer has been used against us for too long; these created illusions keep us separate. The few who hold unprecedented power and wealth become deeply threatened as we realize they are reliant on us, WE HAVE THE TRUE POWER. Let them feel threatened, come together and join in solidarity over our common causes: HUMAN RIGHTS and ECONOMIC JUSTICE.

Stand up and take part in an action that demonstrates our true strength. Join us at Civic Center Park for May Day; we are the ones we have been waiting for!

A true alliance is based upon some self-interest of each group component and common interest into which they merge. –MLK, Jr.

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Occupy Work Accident: Occupier Sets Himself On Fire While Torching Historic Colorado Town Hall…

by Admin on February 29, 2012 in Anarchy, Occupy Denver, Occupy Wall Street, Tyrrany with 1 Comment

Number of Tea Partiers who set themselves on fire during an arson attempt still zero.

Via GWP

Occupy Oakland Thugs Send Cops To The Hospital, Chant “From Oakland To Greece, F**k The Police”…

by Admin on February 28, 2012 in Marxism, Occupier and Chief, Occupy Denver, Occupy Wall Street with No comments

(Miami Herald) — At least two law enforcement officers were injured Monday during a clash with members of the Occupy movement who were at the state Capitol to protest a rally by a pro-white group.

The clash erupted in the afternoon as California Highway Patrol and Sacramento city police officers were escorting about 35 members of the South Africa Project to a parking garage following their protest outside the Capitol building.

About 50 members of Occupy Oakland began throwing cans and bottles at the South Africa group and at the officers. The Occupy members then rushed the officers as people with the pro-whites group rushed into the parking garage.

A city police officer was injured when a member of the Occupy group jumped on him, and a CHP officer was hurt after being struck by an object. Both were taken from the scene by ambulance. [...]

Earlier, a teenage girl was detained outside the Capitol after police separated Occupy protesters from the group opposing black-on-white violence in South Africa.

The girl with Occupy Oakland was taken to Juvenile Hall after she became combative and assaulted an officer who asked her to pick up litter, California Highway Patrol Officer Sean Kennedy said. He did not have her age or city of residence.

Video HT: Ray

Denver Occupier Threatens To “Put Down” Cops Like “Dogs”…

by Admin on February 27, 2012 in Occupy Denver, Occupy Wall Street with No comments

Via: Zip. I wonder if Obama and Pelosi will still claim Occupy is just like the Tea Party?

Hey, remember! We’re American citizens. We don’t have to put up with terrorists…These people are terrorists. These people are fucking terrorists. These people are [something...put in jail?]. These people should be put down like the [mother-fucking?] dogs they are. And when you do no one’s going to cry for it.

You’ve got all the weapons now. America’s the fucking land of [doxing?] and you have addresses, families, don’t you? And we have the internet. That’s scary. Hey, that’s cool you can have the pepper spray now. You’ve got addresses, you’ve got families, you’ve got everything. Go away. We’ll go away. Remember, it can happen here or at your houses.

Via Verum Serum

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DENVER ANARCHISTS JUST LOVE THROWING ‘URINE BOMBS’ AT THE POLICE

by Admin on February 27, 2012 in Occupy Denver with No comments

Via: The Blaze

Denver Anarchists Throw Urine Bombs at the Police

KMGH-TV:

At least five people were arrested Saturday night following a protest in downtown Denver.

The group known as Anonymous, along with other activists, began their march down Denver’s 16th Street Mall around 7p.m. in what they called a protest “against police brutality.”

Denver Anarchists Throw Urine Bombs at the Police

A 7NEWS crew said the group, made up of 40 to 50 protesters walked mostly in the RTD MallRide lanes, against traffic. Denver police moved ahead of the group in an attempt to block traffic. Officials said they were trying to keep the marchers safe and not to impede their demonstration.

Witnesses reported protesters with fireworks lighting them and throwing them. There were also reports that activists at the front of the group were carrying balloons filled with urine.

Denver Anarchists Throw Urine Bombs at the Police

Denver police spokesman Matt Murray confirmed that several cars were spray painted with graffiti by protesters. 7NEWS reporter Marshall Zelinger said he saw one car painted with the red anarchy symbol. There were reports one of the cars vandalized was a police car.

 

 

 

KUSA-TV’s video captures the protest group as they moved through the city:

And a few YouTube uploads give us a few additional insights into what went down:

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Occupy Denver To Hold “F*&k The Police” Rally

by Admin on February 24, 2012 in Marxism, Obama Propaganda, Occupy Denver with 1 Comment

As Nancy Pelosi would say, “God bless them.”

Via Denver News:

Although it is not a general assembly-sanctioned event, select members of Occupy Denver, the Internet collective Anonymous and “an array of other activists” are spreading word online of their first combined “Fuck the Police” march. Scheduled for this Saturday, the event has the potential to become a regular feature in the local movement, pending a successful turnout rate this weekend.

But its word choice — and the occasionally rocky relationship between Denver’s police and protesters — make it a tough issue for the larger body to sign off on.

In other occupations, similar anti-police events have become more commonplace. Occupy Oakland, for example, stages regular “Fuck the Police” marches.

This Saturday, the first Denver version will began at 7 p.m. at the D&F Tower at 16th and Arapahoe as part of a national push spread by Anonymous to build similar simultaneous events in several cities.

HT: Marathon Pundit who has more on this.

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Nancy dear, what happened? Did Occupy hit a little too close to home?

by Admin on January 18, 2012 in Marxism, Nancy Pelosi, Occupy Denver, Progressivism with No comments

Nancy Pelosi: God bless occupy Wall Street protestors

Pelosi: ‘We Don’t Really Have Much of A Connection’ With Occupy

White House locked down because of ‘smoking objects’

The White House was locked down Tuesday night because of “smoking objects” found near the North Portico as hundreds of protesters rallied outside the executive mansion, Secret Service officials said. “We had approximately 1,000 to 1,500 protesters from Occupy D.C. on the fence line. There were no arrests but what we believe … was a smoke bomb was thrown over the fence,” said Secret Service spokesman George Ogilvie. Witnesses said the Secret Service moved people from the area as they investigated what was thrown. “Basically, we took the appropriate measures to clear the scene, working with the Metropolitan Police and Park Police,” Ogilvie said. President Barack Obama was a few blocks away, having dinner with first lady Michelle Obama and friends to celebrate her 48th birthday at BLT Steak. The Obamas returned to the White House at 9:42 p.m. without incident, according to a pool report. The president generally arrives and departs from the South Portico, on the opposite side of the White House from Tuesday’s incident. (Politico)

Here is how things went down yesterday with the so-called “Occupiers”


Pelosi Distances Dems From Occupy ‘We Don’t Really Have Much of A Connection’
This morning, Politico Chief White House Correspondent Mike Allen interviewed House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) for Politico’s “Playbook Breakfast.” The discussion turned to the topic of Occupy DC and their attempt to disrupt Congress. Pressed on whether she was worried about this and what she thought the message of Occupy was Pelosi distanced herself from the movement stating ‘We don’t really have much of a connection with the Occupy’ and declaring the tea party’ as ‘wholly owned subsidary of the Republican Party’ “As opposed to the tea party which was a wholly owned subsidary of the Republican party, we don’t really have much of a connection with the Occupy.” (Fox  Nation)

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“WE WANT THE DOG”: Conservative Media Puts Occupy Denver In Its Place

by Admin on November 16, 2011 in BlogCon11, New Mafia, Occupy Denver with 1 Comment

by: ColoradoPeakPolitics

Tue Nov 15, 2011 at 11:43 45 MST

No one has ever accused the Occupy Denver squatter horde from being savvy or even possessing the remotest amount of intelligence. This past weekend they put their stupidity on display again. Only this time conservative bloggers from across Colorado and the country were there to document their latest inane attempt at relevance.

Video and coverage from Peoples Press Collective (here & here) show a band of unbathed boobs trying to “storm” the conference room last Friday where the Blog Con 2011 conservative blogger conference was meeting. Apparently the protesters incorrectly believed the conference was funded by the infamous Koch Brothers. The Google button on their corporatist iPhones must not have been working, as the conference was sponsored by FreedomWorks, which has no affiliation with the conservative donor siblings. Oops.

Never mind the fact that a group of people exercising their first amendment rights is probably not the best target for a group who claims their first amendment rights are being infringed upon when the cops shut down their squatter camp. What was truly amazing about the Occupier’s stupidity is they chose to crash an event that was populated by conservative bloggers with a combined audience in the millions.

Did they not realize they were setting themselves up to be shamed and mocked ruthlessly?

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Within minutes of the altercation, we started seeing stories pop up on outlets from Breitbart.tv to Hot Air. Last we counted, the cumulative Youtube views of the failed Occupier effort had crossed 100,000.

Footage shot by bloggers also made its way to CBS4 and Fox News, ensuring an even wider audience would know the depths of the Occupiers’ ineptitude.

Even The Denver Post joined in the coverage, noting that the small group of Occupiers were chanting “We are the 99%” with the bloggers chanting back “We want the dog” — a reference to Occupy Denver’s elected leader, a border collie named Shelby.ColoradoPeakPolitics :: “WE WANT THE DOG”: Conservative Media Puts Occupy Denver In Its Place

Saul Alinsky‘s spirit was alive and well with the bloggers. One of Alinsky’s famous “Rules for Radicals” is man’s most potent weapon is ridicule.

It seems all the Occupiers succeeded in doing was to give great content to a group of bloggers and further expose themselves to be nothing more than an angry and mindless group of leftist activists with nothing better to do than attack those they disagree with.

Also caught on tape and covered by Gateway Pundit’s Jim Hoft was the fact that a private school teacher from Denver’s St. Mary’s Academy had taken a class of students to watch the Occupiers trespass on private property and barge in on a private conference. You know…a learning opportunity. That blog coverage led to a report on Channel 7, highlighting a brazen act of poor judgment that would have gone uncovered if not for the conservative media’s effort.

The following day the “stubborn” Occupiers had their weekly Saturday march, leading to yet another violent confrontation with police, who had warned them for days that it was illegal to continue to squat on public property. Not to be deterred from their selfish belief that wherever they feel like squatting is all of the sudden their property, the protesters proceeded to shut down public streets with chants of “Whose streets? Our streets.”

The drivers of the cars that were trying to get down Colfax probably felt differently about who owned the streets, but we digress.

We were able to follow these events not because the mainstream media was covering it, which it barely was, but because of the good work of conservative media outlets. In Colorado, you can find the most extensive collection of coverage on all things Occupy Denver from Complete Colorado. On Saturday night we were able to watch the Occupiers make fools of themselves and get chased up and down the 16th St Mall thanks to Complete’s embedding of a livestream of the events.

Peoples Press Collective had video up from the Occupier crashing of the conservative blogger confab minutes after the confrontation. Kelly Maher has covered the violent threats and roving mob mentality of the Occupiers for the Daily Caller and WhoSaidYouSaid, giving the world a peek behind the curtain of absurdity and sometimes downright violent intentions.

Had there been weekly violent confrontations between police and the Tea Party, we don’t doubt for a second that the street would be lined with news trucks covering the events ad nauseam. Violent leftist radicals is apparently a played out narrative for the mainstream media. Nothing we haven’t seen here before. Better get back to covering the latest snow storm.

The behavior exposed by the conservative media, including the burning of an American flag at Occupy Denver, led even ProgressNow’s Alan Franklin to say he was “disappointed” in the protesters. Consider that a victory. How often do you see the Left castigating its own?

It used to be said that you should never pick a battle with those that buy ink by the barrel. The new reality seems to be never pick a battle with someone who generates clicks by the thousands. In this case the Obama-backed Occupiers charged the lion’s den, only to see their credibility and influence destroyed in a fit of blog posts and cell phone video clips.

We wonder if Rep. Wes McKinley is regretting setting up his TeePee alongside the squatter hordes at this point? We know we wouldn’t want the association to be brought up with our rural constituents back home.

(Photo credit: Peoples Press Collective)

 

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Horrible. St. Mary’s Academy Supports Far Left Teacher Celia Bard in Bringing Students to Storm BlogCon11 With Occupy Denver Goons

by Admin on November 15, 2011 in BlogCon11, Occupy Denver with No comments

Posted by Jim Hoft on Monday, November 14, 2011, 7:36 PM

On Friday far left teacher-activist brought Celia Bard brought members of her “21st Century: Challenges and Choices” class down to the Occupy Denver squatters camp in downtown Denver. From there the teacher and her 17 year-old girls marched three blocksover to the Crowne Plaza Hotel to disrupt the BlogCon 2011 conservative conference. Ms. Bard said they were learning about “free speech” by joining protesters in violently disrupting the conference.

One protester was arrested by police and at least one incident of physical abuse was caught on tape.

Jeff Goldstein also filmed the 17 year-old girls cussing at conservative bloggers and telling the bloggers that this is what they learn at school.

The school costs $14,000 a year.

Today the Academy President Deirdre Cryor defended the radical teacher and the dangerous field trip on Friday. Sadly, President Cryor was less than honest about the events.
Channel 7 reported:

Bard and another teacher from St. Mary’s Academy in Denver took 10 students on a field trip Friday, explained Academy President Deirdre Cryor.

“We have a class called 21st Century Challenges and Choices,” said Cryor. “They’re studying the current world. They went on a field trip to see Occupy Denver.”

The students walked to Civic Center Park and interviewed police officers, then walked to a nearby hotel to observe Occupy Denver members, said Cryor.

That hotel was hosting a conference called BlogCon 11. There some Occupy Denver members got into a confrontation with some members of the blogging conference.

It was during that confrontation that cameras got turned on the students and their teacher.

In a video posted on YouTube, a woman is seen yelling and one of the students yells, “Yeah.”

At that point, someone off camera starts yelling at the girls and arguing with them about bloggers and what they do.

“The students are in class today talking what happened on Friday,” Cryor said Monday.

In one of the YouTube videos, Bard is asked if she is concerned about the students’ physical safety.

“We’re aware that we need to be safe,” said Bard. “We want them to see the democratic process in action.”

“They were never in harm’s way,” said Cryor. “They did nothing wrong. They were on a field trip, observing not demonstrating. They were learning, inquiring and taking notes.”

Just to be clear – There have been 7 deaths, over 3,000 arrests, several overdoses, sexual abuse, rapes, physical attacks and drug use. And, this is considered a safe place for school girls at St. Mary’s Academy? Outrageous.

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Occupy Denver protesters invade conservative conference, one man arrested

by Admin on November 13, 2011 in Anarchy, BlogCon11, Occupy Denver with 1 Comment

By Marla Gillaspie

Examiner provided some of the excerpts.

Occupy Denver protesters attempted to “occupy” a conference of conservative bloggers Friday afternoon, but failed miserably.

BlogCon 2011, a conference held by FreedomWorks at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in downtown Denver, was scheduled to continue through Saturday, Nov 12.

The Denver Post reported that protesters first arrived at 2 pm, three hours earlier than originally scheduled.

The Post adds:

Attendees of Blogcon say they knew Occupy Denver was going to try to disrupt their conference because the group had advertised their intentions on Twitter.

This was the arrestee’s first mistake, barging into Tony Katz, All Patriots Media; live radio show and demanding that he sit and speak with him while on the air. He was promptly removed by hotel security and then continued on outside to shove a cop and that is when he was arrested. See the arrest, 2 videos below.

Tony Katz and Tabitha Hale interviewed by more MSM at Blogcon in Denver after the first occupy confrontation, 11/11/11 Denver

Tabitha Hale, new media director of the conference, said Blogcon was prepared for the onslaught and had purchased Milk Bones earlier in the day for Occupy Denver’s elected leader, a 3-year-old Border Collie named Shelby.

Another view of the arrest by Denver resident Nancy McKiernan, founder, Tea Party Brewing, caught this video as she went outside to check on her car that was parked directly in front of the hotel.
 
But the protesters got more than they bargained for.

John Hawkins of Right Wing News wrote:

They succeeded — but, not in the way they expected because after they started chanting, bloggers poured out of the conference to take pics and videos. Soon, there were 30 bloggers surrounding 15 Occupy people and chanting things like “We love Koch money” and “Breitbart, Breitbart!” There was lots of chanting, lots of yelling, and Steven Crowder got shoved by one of the female Occupiers.

According to Ed Morrissey of Hot Air:

The clash erupted before I had a chance to get too close to the Occupiers themselves.  They were briefly in sight, but got swallowed up by the BlogCon attendees. Frankly, the BlogCon response overwhelmed whatever the protesters tried to say — with chants of “Mike check!” and “We paid for your student loans!”, among others, the Occupiers got roundly shouted down. At one point, the entire BlogCon contingent in the lobby started chanting, “We want the dog!”, a reference to the elected leader of Occupy Denver — a pooch named Shelby.

In this clip, note that at the 0:31 sec mark the punk with the green hat walks behind Steve Crowder, wiping his nose on his back. Then at the 4:23 the heavy set blond woman tries to break for the door to enter the conference. At the 4:46 mark the same punk that wiped his nose on Steve Crowder’s back crawls on the floor and tries to break through to the door where Matt Arnold, Clear The Bench Colorado, stands holding up a Coke can symbolizing the anarchists/marxist/communists chants that the conference was brought to Denver by the Koch brothers.   Andrew Breitbart‘s editors and contributors held a heavy presence at the conference, reflecting the Chants by the bloggers Breitbart, Breitbart, Breitbart. In this video: Steve Crowder, StevenCrowder.net; Ben Howe, Mister Smith Media; Michael Sandoval, Peoples Press Collective; Larry O’Conner, Breitbart.tv; Dana Loesch, Big Journalism; John Notle, Big Hollywood.
 

Jim Hoft of Gateway Pundit wrote that conference attendees “bought bars of soap to hand out as gifts.”

According to Hoft, conservative columnist “Michelle Malkin brought face masks for disease protection.”

In a separate report, Hoft said a teacher brought her students to the protest, allegedly to teach them about democracy:

A Denver high school teacher brought students to an Occupy Denver event for a field trip today where they joined Occupy Denver activists as they storm the BlogCon conference. The teacher said she was showing them how democracy worked.

The teacher was too ashamed to give her name or the name of the private girls school she teaches at.

Morrissey adds that as the protesters left the lobby, bloggers began singing “Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye.”

But the protesters returned and began chanting outside the hotel.  Hawkins reported:

Occupy Denver came back and again, I don’t think it came off like they expected. There were more of them this time and it was outside the hotel instead of inside. They did their chants, bloggers came out, we mixed in. They chanted, we chanted, someone offered them soap and it was quasi-friendly as we started. Emily Zanotti and I even got a pic in the middle of the scrum. But, as they moved on, some chick shoved Steven Crowder and bellied up to him like she wanted to fight, which was perfectly ridiculous. Then there was a threat to kill him and a bunch of angry comments as they stormed off.

Tina Korbe of Hot Air added:

Personally, my favorite moment of the conference counter-protest came when one blogger shouted over the crowd, “Who here gets Koch money?” To which another blogger responded by raising a Coke can high over the crowd. Laughs all around — although I’m pretty sure the Occupiers didn’t get the joke.

A post at Ace of Spades concludes: “What they are angry at is, ultimately, the universe itself for giving them life but not giving them ability.”

On Saturday Keith W Peterson of Hear Us Now and Elliot Fladen did a great job confronting the Occupy Denver anarchists.

And later that night Ben Howe, Mister Smith Media; was over at Civic Center Park to watch the eviction process of the Occupiers after months of little or no action on the parts of Governor Hickenlooper or Mayor Hancock. Good job Governor and Mayor for letting this get so out of hand that it came to violence before you had it shut down, let alone the expense to taxpayers of the clean up, overtime paid to law enforcement and extra security detail to maintain peace.

There is much more video over at Breitbart.com and Breitbart.tv if you haven’t heard and seen enough from the “useful idiots” yet.

In conclusion, do you think the anarchists/marxists/communists really thought it through when they decided to crash Bloncon11, a technology conference for bloggers all packed to the hilt with video cameras, laptops and the networks and technology to move it quickly out onto the internet?

I wouldn’t exactly call these people brainiacs.

Thanks to Occupy Denver for the most successful BlogCon11 Conference ever. 

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