Occupy Louisville

Occupy Louisville Anti-austerity Rally

Occupy Louisville is taking BACK TO THE STREETS to mark the only 2012 Vice-Presidential Debate (being held in Kentucky) whose Republican participant, Paul Ryan, is the “austerity dean” with an ANTI-Austerity Rally and March !

With at least 23 million people UNEMPLOYED (Romney’s number), we DON’T need austerity, but we DO need JOBS!

When:    5:00 p.m. Thursday, October 11, 2012

Where:   RALLY outside the Federal Courthouse at

                                    6th/Broadway, then

                MARCH up 6th St. to the Metro Council building at

                                    6th/Jefferson,   then

                 ENTER Metro Council chambers with 8.5 x 11”

                                    ANTI-austerity signs.

SEND A VITAL MESSAGE TO LEGISLATORS BOTH NATIONAL AND LOCAL !

For further information: Gail Helinger (635-5600) or Ike Thacker (384-3875).

7 months ago

modestinferno:

Occupy Louisville Anniversary (Taken with Instagram)

Occupy Louisville Anniversary

7 months ago

modestinferno:

Occupy Anniversary (Taken with Instagram)

Occupy Louisville Anniversary

7 months ago

occupylouisville:

A reminder from Occupy Louisville:

       Occupy Louisville’s One Year Anniversary is October 4th; to celebrate, we will be hosting a special event at the Carl Braden Memorial Center on the 6th (Saturday)!

       The event will consist of a Documentary Showcase, featuring Anne Braden: Southern Patriot and the first-edition release of our social justice newsletter The OccupyLouisville Journal. We will begin the event officially at 5:00PM, but you will be welcome to join us anytime after 4:00PM and to stay as long as you like!

       The Braden Center (our current base of operations) is at 3208 West Broadway, Louisville Kentucky 40211. You can call us at (502) 873-7610. This event is a chance to meet and greet members of Louisville’s social justice, activist community. The event is also a pot-luck, so please bring good spirits and something to share.

       Thank you all very much for your support and interest; we will be glad to see you there!

(via modestinferno)

7 months ago

A reminder from Occupy Louisville:

       Occupy Louisville’s One Year Anniversary is October 4th; to celebrate, we will be hosting a special event at the Carl Braden Memorial Center on the 6th (Saturday)!

       The event will consist of a Documentary Showcase, featuring Anne Braden: Southern Patriot and the first-edition release of our social justice newsletter The OccupyLouisville Journal. We will begin the event officially at 5:00PM, but you will be welcome to join us anytime after 4:00PM and to stay as long as you like!

       The Braden Center (our current base of operations) is at 3208 West Broadway, Louisville Kentucky 40211. You can call us at (502) 873-7610. This event is a chance to meet and greet members of Louisville’s social justice, activist community. The event is also a pot-luck, so please bring good spirits and something to share.

       Thank you all very much for your support and interest; we will be glad to see you there!

7 months ago

Greetings from Occupy Louisville,

       Occupy Louisville’s One Year Anniversary is October 4th; to celebrate, we will be hosting a special event at the Carl Braden Memorial Center on the 6th (Saturday)! Please review the attached flyer.

       The event will consist of a Documentary Showcase, featuring Anne Braden: Southern Patriot and the first-edition release of our social justice newsletter The OccupyLouisville Journal. We will begin the event officially at 5:00PM, but you will be welcome to join us anytime after 4:00PM and to stay as long as you like!

       The Braden Center (our current base of operations) is at 3208 West Broadway, Louisville Kentucky 40211. You can call us at (502) 873-7610. This event is a chance to meet and greet members of Louisville’s social justice, activist community. The event is also a pot-luck, so please bring good spirits and something to share.

       Thank you all very much for your support and interest; we will be glad to see you there!

8 months ago

weeptowaterthetrees:

#OWS, please help! #NCPD deliberately run over 13 boy on bicycle outside the Long Island #Hempstead food share today! #Police then try to cover up their crime, they confiscated cell phone memory cards, arrested the boy, are currently denyin

g him medical attention, a lawyer and were preventing his family from visiting him. Police also arrest LI #fnb volunteer who was trying to get the boy medical attention. #policebrutality http://instagr.am/p/Ppz8EkyUMr/

REBLOG! REBLOG! REBLOG! REBLOG!

(via biscuitmunroe)

8 months ago

stephenclark:

To occupy or unoccupy?

8 months ago

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Maybe Occupy was too successful a brand in that it sometimes disguised how much this movement was part of popular surges going on around the world: the Arab Spring (including the three successful revolutions, the ongoing Syrian civil war, uprisings in Yemen, and more); the student uprisings in Montreal, Mexico, and Chile that have continued to develop and broaden; the economic revolts in Spain, Greece, and Britain; the ongoing demonstrations and insurrections around Africa; even various acts of resistance in India, Japan, China, and Tibet, some large and powerful. Because, in case you hadn’t noticed, these days a lot of the world is in some form of rebellion, insurrection, or protest.

And the family resemblances matter. If you add them all up, you see a similar fury at greed, political corruption, economic inequality, environmental devastation, and a dimming, shrinking future.

Rebecca Solnit, Success Is for the Stubborn | TomDispatch (via nickturse)

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8 months ago

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[T]he one-year anniversary [of Occupy Wall Street] is likely to produce a lot of mainstream media stories that will assure you Occupy was only a bunch of tents that came down last year, that it was naïve, and that’s that. Don’t buy it. Don’t be reasonable, don’t be realistic, and don’t be defeated. A year is nothing and the mainstream media is oblivious to where power lies and how change works, but that doesn’t mean you need to be.

That same media will tell you 99 ways from Tuesday how powerless you are and how all power is made by men in suits who won or bought elections, but don’t buy that either. Instead, notice how terrified Vladimir Putin was of three young performers in bright-colored balaclavas, and how equally frightened Wall Street is of us. They remember something we tend to forget: together we are capable of being remarkably powerful. We can make history, and we have, and we will, but only when we keep our eyes on the prize, pitch a big tent, and don’t stop until we get there.

Rebecca Solnit, Success Is for the Stubborn | TomDispatch (via nickturse)

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8 months ago