Declaration of the Occupation of New York City

This document was accepted by the NYC General Assembly on September 29, 2011
Translations: French, Slovak, Spanish, German, Italian, Arabic, Portuguese [all translations »]

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 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, who are responsible for 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 or provide relief in order to protect investments that have already turned a substantial 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!

*These grievances are not all-inclusive.

We also have a visual representation of this document from the Arts and Culture Group and the Call to Action Working Group. To download your own copy of this image as a jpeg (12.7 MB), click here, or for image inquiries e-mail flowchartart@gmail.com.

625 Responses to “Declaration of the Occupation of New York City”

  2. Katie

    Are they also the source of all evil?
    The reason why people die?

    What else can we blame then for?
    Oh! The 1% is the reason my car doesnt run right. curse you 1%!

    • Marat Roux

      omg… basically this?

      http://econospeak.blogspot.com/2009/12/why-i-am-sadist.html

      SADE: that’s how it is Marat
      That’s how they see your Revolution
      They have toothache
      and need their teeth pulled
      Their soup’s burnt
      They shout for better soup
      A woman finds her husband too short she wants a taller one
      A man’s shoes pinch
      he sees his neighbor’s shoes fit comfortably
      A poet runs out of poetry
      and desperately gropes for new concepts
      For hours an angler casts his line
      Why aren’t the fish biting
      And so they join the revolution
      thinking the revolution will give them everything
      a fish
      a new pair of shoes
      a poem
      a new husband
      a new wife
      So they storm all the citadels
      and there they are
      and everything is just the same
      the soup burnt
      verses botched
      a worn and stinking partner in bed
      and all that heroism
      which drove us down to the sewers
      well we can talk about it to our grandchildrem
      if we have any grandchildren

      • Dar

        their Teeth hurt because the Food they are given is poisonous and destroys the body.
        Their soup is “burnt” because they can’t afford better food.
        They can’t catch fish because the waters are poisoned.
        their shoes hurt their feet because thats the way they were designed, to destroy the feet, making them have to pay more for special shoes.

        Profiteering at the cost of human resources has destroyed this nation.

    • Marat Roux

      but actually, prob. is the reason your car doesn’t run right because if we were truly efficient we would build cars that last a long time and well, that is not how we are presently doing things, not with a situation where they annually push new vehicles

    • Pax Unus

      Yes, to your car. It’s engineered obsoleteness. Check out “The Story of Stuff”. As to evil, yes somewhat… Follow the schooling system (The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America and John Taylor Gatto’s books.) and 440Hz a dissonate frequency monopolized for radio and tv electromagnetic waves.. Minimum wage is disproportionate to feed the people to the military. And both sides of WWII were funded by the banks of the same family responsible for the schooling of us and our children, and the establishment of the 440Hz. (my opinion: at least a third of Americans are biological robots to fuel the materials economy. Skinnerian psychology, frequency manipulation, “foods”, cosmetic products with toxins, and Everything else have been engineering tools.)

    • Dar

      when they are the ones who control and engineer society, yes. yes it is their fault. When 99% of people are sheep, and are shepherded by the 1% who control the money and the jobs in this society, YES IT IS THEIR FAULT.

  4. socrat

    What an astounding bunch of nonsense this Declaration puts forth. And the comments of the people here only reflects the pathetic state of history education in this country. It is clearly a socialist propaganda that has nothing to do with our democracy. This fiasco did not occur because of Capitalism you dummies. It happened because of the monumental failure of Congress to represent the People and the failure of the People to exercise their right to vote. We are by far the freest nation in the world and the richest. We, the People, have failed ourselves in continuing to refuse to exercise our right to vote. We have done more damage to our democracy by failing to hold Congress to task. We continually re-elect the same corrupt politicians who are responsible for the unleashing of the banking system’s greed. The banks did it in the Depression and they did it again as soon as Congress allowed them to in 1999. The banks are very predictable, past behavior predicts future behavior. All of you had better get back to school and learn the history of the founding of this, the oldest, democratic republic. Start by reading the Constitution and then the Federalist Papers. It is not the economic system stupid it is the nature of power in government. This has always been the truth and always will be. The answer is not about scrapping Captialism, it is about keeping Congress under control by the people. The only solution is term limits and the only way for this to happen is to demand the States to use their power under the Constitution to call a Constitutional Convention. And do not give me that crap excuse for doing nothing that the States will not respond or that politicians will not respond. Demand that they respond – tolerate nothing less! You all should be occupying Washington and your State governments not Wall Street!

    • Lauren Kennedy

      I don’t think anyone said anything able scrapping capitalism. As you pointed out: power invites corruption – or at least over stepping the bounds, wealth equals power in this country and corporations equal wealth and power. Why shouldn’t corporations be subject to the same rules and regulations to which citizens must adhere? That does not equal socialism. When banks and investment companies are allowed to make loans that they know will most like fail, and then use some economic instrument to bet on the outcome -(that they will fail), they make money for making bad loans. The game is rigged. If you don’t believe me, look into it, it’s a fact.
      In addition, a candidate must have extraordinary funds for a successful campaign. So, even though I do vote, my choices are limited to those people who are indebted to their corporate contributors.
      I think one of the points of this movement is to hold the government accountable, to encourage them to enact campaign reform, to reinstate regulatory guidelines for banking, investments, corporation, that were put in place after the Great Depression and have been dismantled in the last 10 years, in spite of the efforts of a select few Congressmen.
      You say its not the economic system, but then point out the bank’s greedy behavior. I submit that its the banks and corporations that corrupt the politicians with their promise of wealth, position, and power. Not that it is an excuse. our politician’s are, according to the constitution, suppose to be public servants, not corporate servants.
      My husband has worked hard to rise in his company. But when our group insurance premium is going up another 15% this year, we are falling further behind even though he has gone from entry level to administration. Insurance companies pay one third to one half less for medical services than an uninsured individual would pay. And that’s just one concrete example of how these big conglomerates have misused the system, and also somehow avoided the earlier anti trust laws that at one time existed. It is they, and other power brokers that are ruining our economic system. It isn’t capitalism that is under fire, it is the perversion of it that is the culprit.

      • William Hay

        …No what you are talking about is scrapping capitalism. We’ve already scrapped it though. Banks do shady things and then ulitmately they fail right? Wrong! The government gives the banks trillions of dollars to bail themselves out and claim that it is to protect the people. I thought that was what FDIC was for? The great thing is, both the Democrats and the Republicans gave taxpayer money to the banks so you can’t blame one or the other. How can you blame corporations for being greedy? The idea behind creating a business is to make money – that is capitalism. If you don’t like what they are doing, boycott their product and/or eventually, they will fall apart. Instead of letting capitalism take it’s course, the government made the gap even bigger by claiming some banks were “too big to fail” so they let the big banks get even bigger and let the smaller ones fail. The problem is clearly the government. I’m honestly not an affiliate of either group but I believe the Tea Party was complaining about similar things. I know that suggesting that Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party are similar in their gripes would probably cause a lot of people to disagree, but really, both are pissed off that the banks are ripping us off. One places the blame on the government and the other places the blame on the banks. Any way you look at it, both the Democrats and the Republicans gave trillions of dollars to banks to keep them in business which encourages them to do the same thing over and over again.

        To another point, what good do you think you are doing by camping out? Why don’t you guys go back to work and just boycott the products of the companies and vote in people who are willing to change the system. That way, you make your OWN money that you can then donate to politicians who stand for you and then they can dismantle the system you despise! That is the way a Republic works. I mean this is supposed to be spawned from Egypt and Tunisia right? Well, they were protesting the government and then overthrew thier government. You can’t overthrow a corporation.

        • lv

          what if a company doesn’t depend on your consuming? I mean weapons exporting, Hedge Fund and commodity futures etc… I don’t think there’s any goods made from Wall Screet that 99% people can consume it.

  5. indeed

    No mention in this declaration of the heinous treatment of Americans in the U.S.? No mention about the heinous “welfare” state treatment against the hard working U.S. citizens IN THIS COUNTRY? No mention of the discrimination against the accused “disabled”? No mention about the FDA preemption travesty, which prevents all redress against hateful medical industry, (except of course, the .01%)? Who the hell made themselves their own god? No mention of the ugly discrimination of the so-called health travesty?

    PERSONAL freedom is what I need. Not more welfare for masses crap. OWS, you have sold your souls to one-size-fits-all hell.

    • Jackie Wilson

      No they haven’t sold out their soul, they have opened up their soul. This is a living document, and if you want to be a part, and have your voice heard, than just attend a GA. If you want to help change the world, than send in your thoughts on what is wrong all over the world, when it comes to ordinary people realizing their dreams. All voices are heard, so let us hear yours.

  6. Marie

    Too bad this declaration (and this website) are in a hard-to-read bold and italicized font.

    Though, I wish OWS and/or the NYC General Assembly had the money to do more investigative reporting and publish their own facts to back this Declaration up. People like the commentators up there need to understand that this is real. They need to focus less on themselves and learn what is happening out there in the great big country that doesn’t revolve around them.

    Capitalism isn’t a bad thing. However, unregulated, capitalism, and the greed that come with it, drive people to do things that negatively affect others. Sometimes to the point of killing them. And that is not right.

    Who oversees the oversight agencies/organizations? At this point, only a few grassroots organizations. OWS/NYCGA have begun trying to bring this to light, but people are just too self-centered to listen.

    Good luck, guys. I’m with you. I’m poor as !#$% but I backed your project on kickstarter. Even I’ve got a dollar left on a BofA credit card I can give.

  7. Bill

    You all can claim any and all of these statements as fact, as much as you want to. Show me proof for every “Statement of fact”. I can claim the government knows the moon is made of cheese and that cows have a super power of invisibility, Its a statement that I might believe to be fact, but there is no proof to back it up.
    Some of these “facts” were only true years ago, and have laws in place to prevent such occurances from happening. or provide accountability if they do occur.
    Why are we asking for a form of communism IMO, when we are a capiltalist society? We have been since the founders started this country.
    My biggest beef with this movement is alot of complaining without a clear unified answer to, “Ok, we see these problems, How do you plan on changing it?”

    • Lauren Kennedy

      Sorry to inform you but the laws that prevented a lot of the “crap”, laws that were put into place after the Great Depression, have been steadily dismantled in the last ten to fifteen years. Look it up.

      • truthisgone

        @pihera Thanks Lauren for bringing this to light. Decimalization of equity markets by “bright light” Arthur Levitt absolutely decimated employment in the financial industry in 2000. The repeal of Glass-Steagall was a reaction to it. When my buddy Art took the spreads away, he wiped out 150,000 jobs. And who is his buddy, his royal highness, Emperor Bloomberg. History will judge both of you poorly!

  8. Ryan

    Ask yourself this:

    How many people in the world would accept 1 million dollars on the drawback that only a single person in the world would be spontaneously die as a result? Keep in mind, this person who is killed would be a stranger and not even remotely affect the profitting individual and the benifactor would not be liable for the death.

    The reason for this question is to provide prespective on the viewpoints and roles of a “1 percenter”. This is not to say a “1 percenter” advocates the spontaneous death of a random person. This is merely to point out a possible disparity of viewpoints between the appearance of a “1 percenter” and the reality of an impoverished person who gets rich.

    A “1 percenter” that started out poor, worked hard to get where they are and cannot be faulted, since others strive to do the same. Being a “1 percenter” disenfranchises you from some realities therefore some inequities of a previous life get forgotten.

    Everyone wants to “not struggle”, most want ot be mildly to filthy rich, while a smaller number is satisfied with simply “not struggling”.

    Everyone cannot be rich. It’s a simple fact. Even if all the income were equally distributed. It would eventually coelesce. Some people are just more talented than others.

    Let’s revert to the original question (see above). Obivously a poor person would be more likely to take the money, because they are poor. The more pertinent question here mirrors the original: “Who would choose something positive that they need to survive at the expense of another person’s feelings?” I would say 99% of the population, let’s face it there are “freaks” out there that would consider the others feelings.

    Simply put, rich business owners or executives or even legislators are still basically selfish beings trying to survive just like poor people are selfish beings trying to survive. A poor person merely has a bigger reason to be selfish, this in no way diminishes standard survival and human nature tendencies.

    The system can’t change because we can’t change. Even when the system collapses, a new system will take it’s place with just as many flaws as the previous. Whether those flaws are different or the same, who knows.

    • Evan

      Thanks Ryan. I can sense that you went further than most, being so talented, and bravely flexed the muscles of your intellect until you had a vision, bringing to light truth once unclear. I was really touched by one of your ideas, a gem really, that poor people are more likely to “take the money” because they have “a bigger reason to be selfish”.

      It’s amazing to see someone so ass-backwards, and so comfortable in their understanding of “human nature”. Obviously you’re not poor, or you think you were and are no longer. The poor, ostensibly, would have more reason to “take the money”, but being poor is to know what it is to live without, and so maybe empathy, charity and solidarity become increasingly tenets of the poor that the rich, especially the rich who believe falsely they are “self-made”, increasingly might not have. If anything I would contend that the rich, abstracted from the realities of money and the many, saturated in the medium of material well being, are more likely to make flamboyant and emotionally ill-informed financial bargains and decisions.

      This would illustrate that this isn’t a matter of cyclical events reproduced by a homogenized and codified population of equally selfish individual ambitions, but rather of dynamic and contextually embedded structural relationships that individuals play parts in, and that produce and reproduce themselves. As we are at least partially defined by our worldly relationships, we can never be understood as purely atomized, a priori individuals. This concept is liberating because it validates the exercise of free will as a process that can define and redefine relationships in the world, and thus change the environment in which individuals themselves are produced, reproduced, and defined (and thus no “pure” human nature).

      I don’t know, you might be smarter than Gandhi, but he said: “Be the change you want to see in the world”. Collectively we produce ourselves. We are short-lived, feeble minded, and ill-informed. So it makes sense that there is a common perception of mankind’s nature as inert over the millennia – the millennia that we can’t truly bear witness to. It’s easier to justify our nature and structures and thus the reproduction of oppression and domination, because it is wearisome to think and act differently from what you know and how you do.

      It’s tragic to me the amount of misunderstanding and hatred that is being poured onto the backs of the general supporting people of the Occupy Movement, who at least have the courage to see injustice, think change and act accordingly. The “selfish by nature” doctrine doesn’t really help anyone, bro, it just reinforces peoples sense of helplessness.

  9. vets74

    Pledge For Nonviolence

    1. As you prepare for Occupy Wall Street, meditate on life, love and the blessings of faith, hope, and charity.
    2. Refrain from violence of fist, tongue and heart.
    3. Walk and talk in the manner of love; for truth and love are the core of life, neither ambition nor the temptations of control.
    4. Sacrifice personal wishes that all might be free.
    5. Observe with friends, with false friends and with your foes the ordinary rules of courtesy.
    6. Perform regular service for others and the world.
    7. Pray or simply ask within to be moved so that all men and women might be free.
    8. Remember that nonviolence seeks Justice and Reconciliation – not victory.
    9. Strive to be in good spirits and in good health. We are the 99% and we must go in peace.

  10. atmoore

    Is it possible for the OCW supporters to write their own Declaration of Independence and have the courage to sign and publish it? As it is now, you’re message is too disjointed, disconnected, and granola and not representative.
    “The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants”.
    - Thomas Jefferson
    “Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you”.
    - Thomas Jefferson

  11. HotDogCartOwner

    Evensteven said: “Now, next time you buy a 24 pack of toilet paper for $15, realize you are paying a CEO two and a half times as much for his “labor” as you are paying his 100 man crew that turned logs into neatly packaged, delivered rolls. Is that really worth it? Yes. Is the CEO’s take really earned? No. Is capitalism in need of regulation to be equitable?
    Economic justice is at the center of most of what #OWS is protesting”.

    Mr.Steven, you seem to forget that:

    You’re not forced to buy the toilet paper
    The “100 crew” were free to start their own toilet paper company, but they chose not too.
    The CEO was free to be a crew member, but he freely chose not too.
    You are free to start a toilet paper company yourself, that is more “equitable”, and pay yourself the same as the crew, so you can sell the toilet paper for $13.00 and put the other CEO out of business.

    As for your logger example, any ten year old reading it would come to the same conclusion: Stay in school, get a good education, work your butt off and save enough money to own a store and work their 12 hours a day, otherwise you might end up as a logger, who through his own free choice, barely makes a living.

    Economic justice is a form of enslavement of the successful by the drones..

    So, keep on protesting and not offering any solutions, meanwhile I will keep taking my Hot Dog Cart (it is a corporation and I am the CEO) to Occupy locations and make $300-$500 a day while you guys are laying in your tents, smoking joints and waiting for “economic justice” to give you a handout.

    PS…You guys need a calculator to add up the annual salaries and bonus for all the CEO’s in the Fortune 500. If you all of that money from them, 100%, it would only be enough to run the federal government for 2 days!! If you taxed all of the income of all of the 1% that would only be enough to run the federal government for 8 days. And, if you took all, yes all, of the assets of the 1%, that would only be enough to run the federal government for only 63 days.

    If we chose the last option, and took away every asset from the 1%, where would your toilet paper come from? Or, your clothes, or house or car or medicine of food. Face it, without the 1%, the drones of OSW would be fighting with themselves at garbage dumps.

    Good Luck…….Would you like sourkraut with the hot dog?

  12. HotDogCartOwner

    The declaration if a farce. It looks for some boogey man. Instead of reading “They have”, it should say “we have allowed.” Also there are no, I repeat, no solutions offered.

    The solution is so, so simple.

    You are the 99%, they are the 1%. They own 30% of the nations assets. You 99% own 70% of the nations assets.

    Start your own, Exxon, Goldman Sachs, Walmart, etc. with “economic justice”, and you will be able to make cheaper products than the 1%ers, right. Certainly among you are 500 CEO’s ready to compete against the Greedy CEO’s of the Fortune 500. Then we would have the OWS 500. All you need to do is look around you at the OSW demonstrations, where there are scores of people with degrees from the Wharton School of Business and 35 + years experience in an industry, who would be willing to be a OSW 500 CEO and make $50,000 a year with no other incentive for their success. And, OSW has millions of protesters who will invest in these companies, so there is no need for Wall Street to be involved. These new age CEO’s, unencumbered by limos, jets and mansions will lead the way and never lobby Washington for the dirty self interests of the new OSW corporations.

    Ladies and Gentlemen….start a corporation today that is based on “economic justice”, put your money and your labor where you mouth is………https://www.legalzoom.com/legal-incorporation/incorporation-overview.html

    It is just that simple!!!

  13. HotDogCartOwner

    One question. What is “corporate greed?” Since the measure of greed has to be a number, what is that number?

    Is it a gross profit?
    Is it a net profit?
    Is it a net profit after taxes?
    Is it a Return On Investment of 1%?
    Is it a ROI of 3%?
    Is it a ROI of 5%?
    Is it a ROI of 9%?
    Is it a ROI of 20%
    Is it a ROI of 30%

    What exactly is it?

    Please give me a number that I can understand, so I can identify and boycott a “greedy” corporation.

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  16. Sam McKay

    This is great stuff, but what we really need is a better plan of action. The 99% Declaration is just that a plan for ACTION. This will help the PEOPLE of the United States of America take back control of our government by way of one of our few remaining CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS. Please read this and show your support by joining and volunteering. This needs to spread like wildfire to the masses much the same way OWS did.

    http://www.the99declaration.org/read-the-99-declaration/

  18. Christopher A. Brown

    The lack of “Article V”, a violation of law, the constitution and oath of office at the top of the list assures that no one is reaching for the authority to see demands met and prevailing lawfully and peacefully in revolution.

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  24. Larry

    FOCUS THE OWM TO — REFORM CONGRESS MOVEMENT — vote to enact 28th Ammendmant ( Reform Congress Act)

    How about printing this proposal below onto leaflets & pass them out to the protesters in your area(s)
    NOTE**
    The American people did not make what is currently the contract with Congressmen.
    Congressmen made existing contracts for themselves.
    Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career.
    The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators,
    so ours should serve their term(s), then go home and back to work

    Proposed 28th Amendment
    *Congressional Reform Act of 2011*
        •    1. No Tenure / No Pension.  A Congressman collects a salary while in office and receives no pay when they are out of office.
        •    2.  Congress (past, present & future) participates in Social Security.  All funds in the Congressional retirement fund move to the Social Security system immediately. All future funds flow into the Social Security system,and Congress participates with the American people. It may not be used for any other purpose.
        •    3. Congress can purchase their own retirement plan, just as all Americans do.
        •    4. Congress will no longer vote  themselves a pay raise.  Congressional pay will rise by the lower of CPI or 3%.
        •    5. Congress loses their current health care system and participates in the same health care system as the American people.
        •    6. Congress must equally abide by all laws they impose on the American people.
        •    7. All contracts with past and present Congressmen are void effective 1/1/12..

    A Congrational Reform Act may be a way to remove Congress from the “pocket(s)” of the 1%  (wall street/corporations/special interests) ….(although many politicians ARE the 1%ers)  This in turn would remove the unbalanced power & influence that wall street now has over politicians.

    If  you agree with the above, please pass it on. 
    How about printing this proposal onto leaflets & pass them out to the protesters in your area(s)
    or at least copy/paste & forward this on to 20 people you know.

    God Bless You & God Bless the USA

    If each person contacts a minimum of twenty people
    then it will only take three days for most people (in the U.S.) to receive the message.

    Maybe NOW is the time.
    THIS IS HOW “WE” FIX CONGRESS !!!!!  

    If  you agree with the idea(s) below, please pass it on.
    If not, just delete & pardon my 1st amendment rights.

    –Some background–
    Warren Buffett, in a recent  interview with CNBC, offers one of the best quotes about the debt ceiling:
    “I could  end the deficit in 5 minutes,” he told CNBC.
    “You just pass a  law that says that anytime there is a deficit of more than 3% of GDP, all sitting members of Congress are ineligible for re-election.

    Warren Buffet (and now myself) is asking each addressee to forward this email to a minimum of twenty people on their address list; in turn ask each of those to do like wise.  In three days, most people in The United States of America will have the message.

    Of the 27 amendments to the Constitution, seven (7) took 1 year or less to become the law of the land…
    all because of public pressure.

    The 26th amendment (granting the  right to vote for 18 year-olds) took only 3 months & 8 days to be ratified!
    Why?
    Simple!
    The people demanded it.
    That was in 1971…  before computers, e-mail, cell phones, etc.  

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  30. Leah Youngquist

    I understand this declaration, meaning, I know what it’s saying, and I agree. What I don’t understand is how the Occupy Movement is solving any of this.

    I guess it’s making people think, spreading information, yeah. But how can a leaderless movement make that much of a difference when we’re not revising laws or anything?

    If any of you have an answer for me, I would love to hear it. I’m pursuing this because I do not understand how this is helping.

  31. jonathan davidson

    A process of resistance was followed by the founding fathers who challenged the lawful authority of the governing power for enacting laws that taxed the colonists in order to generate an income from colonial trade (the stamp act 1765) or promoted the personal interests of the East India Company (the tea act 1773) violating the rights of the colonists in America that resulted in the American Revolution. The colonists who resisted the British authorities became united in their efforts by their grievances. They resisted the British encroachment upon their rights with acts of civil disobedience. They had no intention of severing their ties to the empire at first. The British tolerated such acts at first while maintaining their ultimate authority over the colonies. Civil disobedience to the tax laws only affected the income parliament hoped to generate from colonial trade. When some of the sons of liberty in Boston disguised themselves as Indians and emptied the cargo of tea off the boats and into the bay on December 16, 1773, only the personal interests of the East India Company and its consignees were affected. Though this act of defiance was conducted by only a few colonists, Parliament retaliated against the entire colony. In 1774, the four coercive acts were passed in order to make an example out of Massachusetts and to subjugate the colonists in Massachusetts by force and the other colonists by the implied threat. The first closed Massachusetts Bay until the East India Company had been compensated for the tea and the king was satisfied that order had been restored. The second suspended the local government of Massachusetts and consolidated authority over the colony under the governor and king and the officers they appointed. The third provided for offenders arrested to be tried for their crimes overseas. The fourth provided for the quartering of British troops by the colonists. Massachusetts was subsequently invaded and Boston was occupied by 4,000 British troops under General Thomas Gage who was sent to enforce the coercive acts. The colonists responded by assembling the first continental congress from representatives of 12 of the 13 colonies in September of 1774. They appealed to the king for redress of grievances, boycotted importation of all British goods (a suitable response to the forceful enforcement of the coercive acts by Parliament who sought to secure the private interests of the East India Company), and scheduled a second congress to meet the following year. The king declared the colonies to be in rebellion, and the British troops in Boston began dispatching forces intent on seizing colonial weapons stockpiled for the militias. The battles of Lexington and Concord resulted as colonists attacked British forces using tactics that were successfully employed by the Indians against the colonists who were better armed and equipped. The colonists laid siege to Boston from April 19, 1775 to March 17, 1776 during which the Battle of Bunker was fought in June 1775. The Massachusetts provincial congress authorized General Benedict Arnold to raise forces suitable for capturing Fort Ticonderoga in New York which he did also capturing Fort Crown Point. The second continental congress was assembled on May 10, 1775. They created an army out of the militias, appointed Washington commander in chief, and published a declaration of the causes and necessities for taking up arms. The Declaration of Independence was finally agreed upon after over a year of fighting a war against the British, and the colonists had determined there was no way to secure their rights under the British.

  32. Stephen

    the government says for the people by the people when in reality its taking from the people and by the people..the government had its faults and doesnt like to look weak so it takes away from the people taking jobs and making sure we get into debt so that we will have to rely on the government so they feel they are still in power of something..the whole worl is in debt and yes it is part of the peoples fault..certain people are greedy and feel they are owed something so they abuse any and all priveiledges to get all they can from the governments resources free…free government housing,tanf , food stamps,they get their light bills paid for and even get their cars repaired also free from the government..the money has to come from somewhere…the reason why the world is in debt is because of these people crying to get what they want and them knowing the governments too scared to do anything about it because that would be racist and they dont want that…the people is the reason but the government allows it…these people take away from people that really need it..for an example of me and my family needing to get christmas presents from the christmas mother program,we arrive there and there is people pulling up in brand new mercedes with 10,000 dollar rims,their 4 to 5 kids had brand name clothing and shoes and decked out with jewelry..my kids are wearing salvation army clothes half torn shoes and no jewelry…the world has gone to hell..im tired of seeing people live in luxary for free and have pockets full of money they can keep cause the government takes care of them all…the world will not i repeat will not get better..it will over populate and get poorer………i tried to get a voucher to get a nice house like they get to live in free but i was denied..another example is my mother has lupas a disease thats eats you away, she filed for social security dissability..she can barely get around,falls down and everything and she was denied and is still waiting on the process to get it…i see people all the time with dissability tags get right out their cars no problems and walk into the stores…so whats wrong with them and what makes them be able to get it and not my mother…people taking care of their own people……..the law for segregation was passe for us all to be together and help eachother…certain people choose to segregate themselves and other people cant even live in that community or you will have to worry about things happening when you shouldnt have to…the govermnet is currupt and they will continue to fault and go down until they will have to rely on another form of government…oops too late we are all owned by china..land of the free…noone is free here we are all owned by china…people dont realize that today is today and back then was then…they want to live back then so they can get what they want from the government, when they and we dont have nothing to do with back then, we are today..i wouldnt have been one to allow what went on back then but others feel they all would have…thats just there mentality….the president talk a good game but thats all it is is talk..he hasnt done nothing for the people as long as he has been president…but he has enjoyed his vacations and traveling and putting away tons of money for his family when he gets out of the office…it really doesnt matter who you are where your from or color, as long as you do your job and help the people and be the president, its a responsibilty not a debate and speech practice…im tired of the way the world is, it used to be a time where certain things you could do and have,but now you have to pay taxes on it or pay more for it..its all about the money…money is the key to it all…back then you could hunt for your food and thats how you survived, now you have to pay to do it, thats another example..the people need to be for the people …as far as the system goes, i got pulled over by a young cop that followed me for over 8 miles before pulling me, he claimed in court he was stationary sitting on the side of the road and clocked me going over the speed limit..running radar is stationary,clocking is pacing someone..he claimed i was going 55 from the highway to a 35 mile an hour zone..i was deaccelerating from 55 into the 35 mile an hour zone…i dont know anyone that gets to the lower zone sign and jams on their brakes to slow down,deaccelerating and slowing speed is what everyone does..further more he lied in court and he got away with it because he has a cop suit on..the accused is automatically wrong and the cops are always right..thats not right..i told my side of the story and the judge shunned that remark and got mad..i guess honesty was not their policy..that rooky cop needed to make his quota and i just happen to be the guy he messed with to get his pay grade..its all currupt…they say you are innocent until proven guilty…no i dont think so..its guilty until you prove your innocence..thats why they lock you up first then ask question later…they should give you a court order and then go to court to prove your innocence and go from there..but they dont..i had a good 5 year driving record and no faults, im beyond doing things you arent supposed to do but the officer ruined a family mans freedom to drive because he wanted that money..and if you have a court appointed lawyer and cant afford one forget about it, your automatically guilty..i had a court appointed lawyer and he didnt argue or do much of anything but make a plea….after that fact i shuld have asked if the officer was certified to run radar, and what side of the street he claimed to be sitting on when he clocked me at that speed…the street he said he was sitting on was almost two blocks away from where the speed limit changes and on the opposite side of the street where if he were to be running radar he woulda been clocking people going from 35 into 55..he lied and i couldnt do nothing about it..im tired of the way things work and the way things are going…all i can say is keep to yourself as i do and just be with family and try and leave the outside world alone but keep aware of it….

  34. Marat Roux

    is not the point of having a society, the general point of society to secure the basic needs of peoples… ? if so, we do not have a society, we have traded it in for something else, some call it empire, other know it as civilization… we have take the individual to be an alienated being, not the social product and individual (that is able to communicate with signs recognizable to others beyond their self) is part and parcel only by signs or language that is of a common source and commonly recognizable, that does not mean that lanaguage is not singluar and particular, it is as we know… as we have a common that can invite new words, new ideas into it, that can mingle, that can be social again? is this not simply a quest to be social to do what we are taught societies need to do, fundementally we come together beyond our groupings to do more together than we could apart, even if we are disconnected, our worlds take many to make it function, the 99% have not become yet, the majority are working or have become disabled, some are in school, but they are not all at the park… down at the park… the idea of the Public … the idea that there is a public … we need to start speaking of fundementals, and can we not dream beyond capitalism… or our we poeple that even treat family like business when it comes to money… can we not give and receive? sharing, doing things together, things we want to do… and the discourse of rights, rights are no longer any good… they get us no where because where does one found a right? but yet there is this universality that we think all should have, this has been declare, and yet we are jaded by the term democracy something we have been said to use, but a thing that we never have had… and this is just the start… but let me try to keep it simple, society, and our basic needs, is that not the point?

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  36. TRISH: NYCGA COUNCIL (WG)

    May 29, 2012 (Eight months later)…

    The New York City General Assembly, Occupy Wall Street (OWS)

    is in total disarray, with the General Assembly being discredited by those

    recently charactized as….An anarchist cult.

    Stay tuned…nycga.council@gmail.com

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