We do this for Eric Garner - 4 December 2014 - The Occupied New York Times

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  WE CAN'T BREATHE!

Protest and vigil in NYC all day today

WE DO THIS FOR ERIC GARNER 

And for all occupied peoples and all people living in exile 

all around the world

in

Ireland

Palestine

Israel

All indigenous peoples including the Maori people in New Zealand, 
the people of the Six Nations in the USA and Canada, 
all people who are homeless, 
all people with disabilities, 
including people with significant psychosocial 
and other mental disabilities, 
including perceived disabilities,
all women and girls with disabilities, 
all boys with disabilities, 
older people, especially widows, 
people who have been traumatized and displaced by war, especially women and children
and on and on and on . . . 

It's time for peace in this world.

Pray in whatever way you know how.

No more deaths

Too many people have died

Trayvon Martin

Mike Brown

Eric Garner

and on and on and on

We call for an end to WORLD WAR III

The Bush "War Against Terror"

Hands up

Don't shoot

No justice, no peace!

Let's live up to the commitments we have made to each other at the United Nations 

under the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

in honor of Eleanor Roosevelt and Kate Millett and all the other 
Veteran Feminists of America (www.vfa.us)

Posted by

Myra Kovary

Editor-in-Chief

The Occupied New York Times
and a Veteran Feminist of America (www.vfa.us)

December 4, 2014 

How America Got Bought Out [VIDEO]

It's really not rocket-science...

Narration by Ed Asner / Animation by Mike Konopacki. 

"[It's a] video about how we arrived at this moment of poorly funded public services and widening economic inequality. Things go downhill in a happy and prosperous land after the rich decide they don't want to pay taxes anymore. They tell the people that there is no alternative, but the people aren't so sure. This land bears a startling resemblance to our land." - Director, Fred Glass

Michelle Malkin - one of Fox News' hot-air-bags for hire, actually likened the TAX-EVASION of the 1% mentioned in the cartoon, to the LEGAL tax-exemption status of NOT-FOR-PROFIT organizations. 

Sean Hannity - Fox News' #1 talking airhead and chicken-hawk - called Malkin's 'analysis' (for lack of a better word) a "good point".

Pay close attention to the part of the video that mentions who OWNS the American media and communications companies - and why!

Vietnam was stopped by American Protesters at a time when American media was controlled by 50 or so, different companies. Most American media & communications systems now sit in the hands of only 5 war-mongering GIANT corporations. They lie to you. Their goal is to take your money away and to perpetuate GIANT industry - of any kind. Ask any Wall Street Banker or Advertising professional. They'll likely smile while admitting it. It is their business; it's what they do. Turn off your TV if you want to learn.

What Have We Been Up To?

If you've passed DeWitt Park over the past week or two, you might have noticed something.
We are occupying.

What started with about 7 tents the Monday before last, has now grown to about 17.
We have a "Hospitality Table" as well, with plenty of information and - for as long as we can keep them in stock - hard copies of the newly launched Occupied Ithaca Journal.

The immediate local business community has been wonderfully accommodating - helping to keep us warm, fed and equipped for the long hard task in front of us. We are grateful for all of our donors, but it is especially nice to be so warmly welcomed by our own downtown business and resident neighbors.

 

2nd day of the Occupy Ithaca encampment.

The official "Occupy Ithaca - Declaration of the Occupation" has been published,
and is hosted online by the Occupied Ithaca Journal. 

So, why now? Why take to the park in Ithaca more than 2 months since the start of the movement?
Because the time was right. 

Since very early on, Ithacans had been supporting the greater Occupy Movement from it's fledgling stages, right on through to it's global networking. As a more socially-conscious city than most, and with plenty of activists ready to stand up for what we believe in - in a call for social justice worldwide, targeting at the core of global social and economic corruption, Wall Street - it seemed obvious early on that our resources were best spent on helping OWS (Occupy Wall Street) to hold it's ground and Occupy Together to help spread the message. Carpools and ride-shares brought our people-power resources to where they were needed most, helping to ensure the longevity and stability of the greater movement. Once the N17 International Day of Action proved the worldwide success of the movement in terms not only of that longevity and stability, but also the enormous growth of the movement, it was clear to Occupy Ithaca that our resources could safely be directed more toward local actions, here at home. 

We have had many visitors since setting up our round-the-clock public protest.

• Mayor Carolyn Peterson came by to chat with us on day one, and to personally deliver a permit application, requesting that we file it with the city. We did. 
• Ithaca's Finest visit regularly and help to keep us company in the late hours, when company is harder for us to come by. 
• Mayor Elect, Svante Myrick has been by more than once to check in, and to join us in discussions.
• Your friends and neighbors are dropping by regularly to get some direct information on the Occupy Movement, from the source rather than from sensationalist "news" media.

Everyone has been warm and congenial.

If you haven't joined us for discussion yet, please do.
You may not yet understand our movement if your only source of information has been corporate news media, but we are eager for all who are curious to drop by for some direct, sincere, and long overdue dialogue about how we can make our world a better place.