Global revolution day demonstration and march in Nelson in solidarity with the Occupy Wall Street movement

By Nelson Daily Staff

October 14th, 2011

Global revolution day demonstration and march in Nelson in solidarity with the Occupy Wall Street movement

This Saturday has been declared Global Revolution Day in an effort to unite the 99 per cent and the residents of Nelson are rising to the occasion to show their solidarity.

The term ’99 per cent’ has been used to refer to the majority of the world’s population who have access to less of the world’s wealth than the top one per cent.

On Saturday a percentage of that 99 will be on hand for a demonstration at City Hall at 1 pm, with a march at 2 pm, returning to City Hall for speakers and live music and Occupy Wall Street, Nelson style. The theme is ‘Wake Up, Nelson.’

All are welcome. For more information visit Occupy Nelson on
Facebook http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=142597779170709 (it’s
visible to the public) or email occupynelson@peacemail.com.

Occupy Wall Street started on Sept. 17 when about 2,000 people took over Liberty Plaza in New York City to protest the corruption of the global economic system, corporate greed, the widening gap between rich and poor, and a host of other grievances as a result of cuts to social services and lack of action on climate change.

Inspired by the Arab Spring occupations, this burgeoning movement has spread like wildfire. Gaining support from worker’s unions, students’ unions, environmental organizations and celebrities, there have been upwards of 30,000 people demonstrating at a time on Wall Street, in addition to solidarity gatherings taking place in over 1,100 cities throughout the world (cited from occupytogether.org).

This movement has received little attention in the mainstream media. Instead, the movement has been live streamed, blogged and posted on alternative news websites. To watch events unfold live, and to read more, visit occupywallst.org, occupytogether.org, or
occupystream.com.

What are Occupy Wall Street rallies and movements like them?

Occupy Wall Street is leaderless resistance movement with people of many colours, genders and political persuasions.

The one thing they all have in common is that We Are The 99% that will no longer tolerate the greed and corruption of the one per cent. They are using the revolutionary Arab Spring tactic to achieve their ends and encourage the use of nonviolence to maximize the safety of all participants.

Bands of mostly young adults are gathering in normally peaceful settings to generally express their outrage over the inequity between the haves and have-nots.

At New York City’s Zuccotti Park, talk among the Occupy Wall Street protesters repeated similar themes from the start of the effort last month: the gap between rich and poor in the U.S. and how the 2008 bailout of Wall Street didn’t really help Main Street, and the lack of jobs and opportunity afflicting the shrinking middle class.

What they want to do about it is unclear just yet. There is no specific agenda. There isn’t a hierarchy.

But the numbers getting involved in the movement seem to be growing. Protesters also claim similar actions are taking place in more than 200 cities around the U.S., Canada and the world.

The unrest

Almost two-thirds of people surveyed in recent polls support raising taxes on those earning more than $1 million a year.

Last week, U.S. Senate Democrats and President Barack Obama supported such a tax, less than a year after the president backed an extension of the Bush-era tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans.

The rage behind the anti-Wall Street protests is similar to the Tea Party’s backlash two years ago against giant government bailouts of big corporations in response to the financial crisis, although the new movement is dominated by liberals instead of conservatives.

Other related reading:

http://www.facebook.com/OccupyWallSt

http://occupywallst.org/

http://www.occupytogether.org/

http://www.facebook.com/OccupyTogether

Other Canadian and International events for October 15th that we stand in solidarity with:
Occupy Calgary

http://occupycalgary.ca/

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Occupy-Calgary/181809888563004

Occupy Vancouver

http://occupyvancouver.com/

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=272031446152373

Occupy Montreal