Occupy Wall Street

OCCUPY WALL ST ADBUSTERS THE MOVEMENT WAS SPARKED IN PART BY VANCOUVER-BASED ADBUSTERS MEDIA FOUNDATION, AN ANTI-CONSUMERISM ORGAN WITH A MAGAZINE, WHICH URGED PEOPLE TO OCCUPY WALL STREET TO PROTEST INHERENT INEQUALITIES IN THE ECONOMIC SYSTEM. ADBUSTERS HAD ALREADY REGISTERED THE DOMAIN NAME OCCUPYWALLSTREET.ORG BACK IN JUNE. THE MOVEMENT'S CALL TO OCCUPY: Declaration of the Occupation of New York City THIS DOCUMENT WAS ACCEPTED BY THE NYC GENERAL ASSEMBLY ON SEPTEMBER 29, 2011 TRANSLATED INTO FRENCH, SLOVAK, SPANISH, GERMAN, ITALIAN THE ECONOMICS OF LUXURY 40% TOP I PERCENT POPULATION WEALTH OWNED OF US WEALTH IS HELD BOTTOM 80 PERCENT IN HANDS OF THE TOP 1 PERCENT OWNS 42 PERCENT OF THE 01% WEALTH (CALCULATED BY NET WORTH MINUS THE VALUE OF ONE'S HOME). THE BOTTOM 80 PERCENT OWNS ONLY 7 PERCENT OF THE WEALTH. OF COURSE THAT PUTS THE TOP 20 PERCENT AT OWNING 93 PERCENT OF THE PERCENT WEALTH. THE TOP 1 PERCENT ALSO OWN 50 PERCENT OF ALL STOCKS AND BONDS. THE TOP OF THE POPULATION, 10 PERCENT OWN OVER 90 PERCENT OF STOCKS AND BONDS WHO ARE TAXED MORE ARGUABLY, THE 80 PERCENT WHO ARE WORSE LIGHTLY THAN THE OFF WHO NEED TO BAND TOGETHER TO FIGHT THE 20 PERCENT WHO HAVE REAPED THE MAJORITY OF AMERICANS REWARDS OF GREED. $6,600 DIOR DRESS $7,800 G UCCI COAT $1,850 HERMES BELT $1,000 EDDIE BORGO BRACELET $11,900 POMELLATO RING $34,200 PATEK PHILIPPE WATCH =$47,100* CONSIDER A NOT-ATYPICAL FASHION SPREAD IN THE MOST RECENT EDITION OF THE NEW YORK TIMES T MAGAZINE SHOWING A WAI-FISH MODEL WEARING: "THE U.S. ANNUAL MEDIAN HOUSEHOLD INCOME WAS $50.046 IN 2010. SUPPORTERS PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA REFERRED TO THE PROTESTS ATAN OCT. 16 DEDICATION OF A MONUMENT FOR MARTIN LUTHER KING JR., SAYING THE CIVIL RIGHTS LEADER "WOULD WANT US TO CHALLENGE THE EXCESSES OF WALL STREET WITHOUT DEMONIZING THOSE WHO WORK THERE." A CBS NEWS POLL NEW YORK CITY VOTERS TIME MAGAZINE POLL OCCUPY VS TEA PARTY MOVEMENT POPULARITY 43% SUPPORT 67% SUPPORT 30% NOT SURE 27% DON'T SUPPORT 23% DON'T SUPPORT 150 US CITIES HAVE HAD RALLIES TOP 5 SUPPORTING STATES NEW YORK-CALIFORNIA-TEXAS-FLORIDA-ILLINOIS OCCUPYWALLST.ORG WEBSITE SURVEY 74% BARUCH COLLEGE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS RELEASED AN OCTOBER 5TH USE SURVEY OF 1,619 VISITORS TO THE OCCUPYWALLST.ORG SITE. You Tube REGULARLY 29% USE GENDER twitter 66% REGULARLY 1.5% OTHER 37.5% FEMALE USE ETHNICITY 6.8% HISPANIC/LATINO 7.6% OTHER facebook. REGULARLY 2.8% ASIAN 1.6% BLACK/AFRICAN AMERICAN 81.2% WHITE 61% MALE 46.5% <$25.000 47% FULL-TIME 19.9% PART-TIME 12.3% UNEMPLOYED 10.7% OTHER T0% FULL-TIME STUDENT JOB A WALL ST PROTESTERS SURVEY *200 PERSON SAMPLE 85% 52% 98% 31% 65% HAVE JOBS (NOT TOO FAR OFF FROM 91% NATIONALLY) HAVE PARTICIPATED IN WOULD SUPPORT CIVIL WOULD SUPPORT VIOLENCE SAY THAT GOVERNMENT HAS A POLITICAL MOVEMENT DISOBEDIENCE TO ACHIEVE THEIR GOALS TO ADVANCE THEIR AGENDA A MORAL RESPONSIBILITY TO GUARANTEE ALL CITIZENS ACCESS TO AFFORDABLE HEALTH CARE, A COLLEGE EDUCATION, AND A SECURE RETIREMENT NO MATTER THE COST. 51% 44% 48% 25% DISAPPROVE OF THE PRESIDENT APPROVE WILL VOTE TO RE-ELECT HIM WON'T VOTE 49% 51% 77% 58% 36% PROTESTERS ARE THINK THOUGHT BAILOUTS SUPPORT RAISING TAXES ON OPPOSE RAISING TAXES IN FAVOR OF RAISING BANK BAILOUTS WERE NECESSARY WERE UNNECESSARY THE WEALTHIEST AMERICANS FOR EVERYBODY TAXES ON EVERYBODY THE POLICE 2,500+ 3,000| 154% OCCUPY ARRESTS WORLDWIDE NYPD OFFICERS KEEP PEACE ON MARCH DAYS SHOOTING VICTIMS RISE COMPARED TO OCT 2010 AS OF OCT 27 APPROX 10% OF TOTAL FORCE THE MEDIA flickr facebook. E-MAIL VIBE twitter tumblr. LAPTOPS WEBSITES CAMERAS PHONES You Tube TRENDRR DID A BROAD SEARCH, INCLUDING DUPLICATES, OF OCCUPY-RELATED VIDEOS ON 123,832 VIDEOS YOU TUBE: THE TALLY AS OF OCT. 17 HIT THE FUNDING THE MOVEMENT HAS $435,000 $1,500 11 DAILY SPENT ON FOOD $2,000 O OUT OF WICH ADDITIONAL $85,000 $8,000 RECENTLY SPENT ON LAUNDRY BILLS WAS DONATED IN PERSON IN MANHATTAN PARK IS COMING DAILY FROM THE LOCK BOXES AT ZUCCOTTI PARK ALONE $20,000 O SPENT ON ELECTRONIC DEVICES $100 THE MOVEMENT HAS THE ACCOUNT AT (SANITATION, MEDICAL. FINANCIAL, MEDIA.) BANK "THE ONLY 100% UNION-OWNED BANK IN THE US" SOURCES: GUARDIAN.CO.UK; CLEANTECHNICA.COM: CHRONICLE.COM: ADAGE.COM: TIME.COM: NATIONOFCHANGE.ORG. CMO.COM: FASTCOMPANY.COM: 0CCUPYWALLST.ORG, DEMOCRATICUNDERGROUND.COM 54% OCCUPY 27% TER 2.4% REPUBLI 27.4% DEMO CRAT POLITICS 70.2% INDEPENDENT 23.3% $25.000 - $49.999 30.1% $50.000+ 4l4.5% 25-44 INCOME 32% 45+ 23.5% 24 AND UNDER AGE 60.7% COLLEGE 29.4% GRAD SCHOOL NAMOT 80 10UHJS HOIH X66 SCHOOL