| Peoples Strike! – Thurs. Nov 17 - All Out to Defend 'Occupy Wall Street'!
The peoples fight back has reached a new level. Thursday, Nov 17 is a day of National Actions all across the country. On Tuesday, November 15 thousands of people were in the streets again to respond to the brutal, coordinated police attack on the center of the Occupy Wall Street movement - Zuccotti Park – at 1 am Tuesday morning. The mass arrests and destruction came without warning or any provocation. When word went out of the police attack immediately supporters descended on the Wall Street area of Manhattan. At Zuccotti Park, activists resisted the police destruction and theft of their personal belongings. There were beatings and 200 mass arrests.The media was illegally barred from the area during the police assault. Refusing to be intimidated, the movement quickly regrouped and mobilized on Tuesday. Activist lawyers rushed into court for a temporary restraining order. The city immediately appealed the order and not surprisingly the courts sided with billionaire Bloomberg. The police and courts, just like the Pentagon, defend the interests of the 1%. Billionaire Mayor Bloomberg who ordered the illegal, unconstitutional sneak police attack and his Wall Street conspirators want to destroy this movement. The court ruled that tents, tarps and sleeping bags were prohibited. As of Tuesday night thousands of people braved barricades, police checkpoints and bag searches to move back into the Zuccotti Park. This is a struggle that will not be decided by appointed judges defending property rights in the isolation of courtrooms. Similar coordinated police attacks were carried out against peoples Occupations in a half dozen cities in the past few days. The people have a right to assemble and demand address of their grievances. We have a right to meet, gather and occupy public space. We have a right to demand jobs at a living wage, union protection, free healthcare, quality education, decent housing and an end to wars for corporate profit. But these rights have to be asserted and won in mobilized struggles in the streets again and again.
Millions of people across the U.S. sympathize with this new Occupy Wall Street movement. Outraged by these criminal police attacks many more youth, working people and unemployed are beginning to move into active resistance. Repression breeds resistance.
In NYC on Nov 17 join early morning actions at Wall Street from the opening bell to community actions in every borough, student marches to Wall Street and finally a massive labor rally starting at 4pm at Foley Square. Occupy 4 Jobs will gather at Worth St. and Lafayettte - the north end of Foley Square, starting at 4 PM.
Thursday, Nov 17 is the next major challenge. Unions across the country have called for support. Community groups and students are mobilizing. Be in the streets on Thursday, November 17 in cities across the U.S. and around the world. These united actions are a Peoples Strike.
On Wed. Nov 23 be in the streets again when the illegal congressional Super Committee of Democrats and Republicans announces their Super CUTS to balance the budget. Congress serves the 1%. Mass actions on Nov 23 will demand jobs, jobs, jobs, NOT super cuts to benefit the bankers.
You cannot evict an idea whose time has come. Occupy everywhere! Click HERE to join, endorse or volunteer for the OCCUPY FOR JOBS NETWORK! Occupy 4 Jobs Network |
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