CO-OP/Occufest, OCCUPY: "Corporations Can't Cry at CAC"

Crowd on hand for the screening of Liza Bear's "Corporations Can't Cry" at Cinema Arts Centre in Huntington, LI

It was a special evening, thanks to the contributions of many people, and the hospitality of Cinema Arts Centre staff and admin. Chris Moylan, Occupy with Art co-organizer, did much of the heavy lifting in coordinating the events, which included the screening of "Corporations Can't Cry" in the big theater (which was nearly packed), a brief Q&A with filmmaker and longtime artist-activist-filmmaker-writer Liza Bear, followed by a mixer with food, free art, music and poetry, and a roster of activist organizers presenting information on their activities. Special thanks to Dylan, Charlotte, Brian, the Occupy Screenprinters, and all the other good people who made our first CO-OP/Occuburbs festival a memorable one. 

Occufest at the CAC Skyroom, post-screening.Another view of the Occufest audience, as the band plays on at CAC.

Alexander Schaefer, 'Burning Banks' Artist, Arrested For Chalk Drawings Outside Chase Bank In LA

Alex Schaefer B of A: Eagle Rock; oil on canvas, plein air, 8 by 6

[LINK]

[EXCERPT]:

Alexander Schaefer, the artist behind the"burning banks" series, was arrested Monday afternoon, the LA Weekly reports.The arrest of the artist whose popularity skyrocketed in the height of Occupy LA came less than two weeks after the clash between LAPD and Occupy protesters at the "Chalk Walk" demonstration.

Painting by Alex Schaefer

CO-OP/Occufest Flyer [b/w]

Free flyer download (8.5" x 11" 300dpi 1.9mb GS) HERE:

• http://artforhumans.com/co-op/occufest-flyer2-bw-op.tif

CO-OP/Occufest Flyer

Download a printable flyer (8.5"x11" 300dpi TIF 18.5mb) HERE.

Evaluating the GA

NEW YORK, June 23. 2012--Tonight's discussion of the General Assembly, held at Liberty Plaza, aka Zuccotti Park, was intended to analyse the working of  GA over the past six months and to try to fix its flaws-- through break-out groups. Proceedings took off at 6pm sharp with a detailed report of last week's meeting.  Excerpts from transcript: "If some people at the GA are well fed [but others] are thinking about where their next meal is coming from, that's not really equal". . ."we wanted to check in with other occupations to analyse how they've acted and what their GAs have done so we can learn the lessons of their mistakes, not just the lessons of our own..."We want to bring back the community, that's kind of a hard thing" . . ."We also wanted to take personality [ego] out of the decision-making. We want to get the right answer, not 'my' answer. The group by discussion should find the right answer"...."We talked about rebuilding the squandered good will and trying to bring back the people who left because they couldn't put up with the b.s. the longest ...finding some way to fix our process so that it's not so inhuman and leads to fist fights. Maybe some way to have a more human conversation, instead of the point of process fight. Perhaps this could suggest some break out groups we want to work on." Video of other speakers at the meeting continues on Part 11. Filmed by Squaring Off.

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NEW YORK, June 23, 2012--In Part II , individual occupiers get on stack and nail down aspects of General Assembly that have proved particularly irksome and make suggestions for fixes. 

Excerpt, first speaker:" One, GA became too centralized. People began to feel it was gatekeeping for the movement and that some people were using GA to restrict people's activities in ways that were not empowering and not horizontal." 

Excerpt, Second speaker: " From September 17th ...I watched something I loved a lot come under accumulating abuse with no one there to defend it."

NB filmmaker's note: while this re-evaluation of the GA is taking place on a weekly basis, the activities of other working groups continue and are open for participation.

Transcript and more speakers TK.

WS2MS: OCCUPY THE LANDSCAPE: MAY 26, 2012

Photos by Ellen Davidson

OCCUPY THE LANDSCAPE: MAY 26, 2012
A 22-MILE WALK
ROUTE: WOODSTOCK TO SAUGERTIES TO CATSKILL, NY
Walk for Human Rights and Social & Economic Justice

On May 26, 2012 people gathered on a path to walk 22 miles from Woodstock through Saugerties to Catskill, NY carrying a collection of Human Rights.

The first mile marker suggested, in the words of Dorothy Day, that "the greatest challenge of the day is: how to bring about a revolution of the heart..."

We dedicate this slideshow to all those that walked and to all those for whom we walked. It was a profound, collective public action, a call for the recognition of universal Human Rights. Whether walking one mile or 22 miles, every step we took together counts.

At the end of the day Adrienne Rich's poignant words "It will take all your heart, it will take all your breath. It will be short, it will not be simple" remind us that all living species are on a similar path.

May we Reclaim The Heart for each and every one of us.


QUOTES OF THE DAY: MILE MARKERS

"My address is like my shoes. It travels with me. I abide where there is a fight against wrong."

- MOTHER JONES

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WS2MS: Occupy the Landscape

Each alone, each part of another
Your steps shall ring
Shall raise the cloud...
-Patti Smith

Heads up gamers! Week of actions coming up.

Hey radical gamers, as a heads up there is a week of actions coming up soon. Below is the framework. Feel free to plug in. We definitely need some play all over this thing. The final day we take times square so definitely a good opportunity to make some awesome shit happen.

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OCCUPY THE LANDSCAPE

[CLICK IMAGE ABOVE FOR MORE INFO ON OCCUPY THE LANDSCAPE]

"People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take. - Emma Goldman

Twenty-One Days until OCCUPY THE LANDSCAPE

EVERY STEP WE TAKE TOGETHER COUNTS!

Register Today! [CLICK IMAGE BELOW]

"It takes some strength of soul—and not just individual strength, but collective understanding—to resist this void, this non-being, into which you are thrust, and to stand up, demanding to be seen and heard" - Adrienne Rich

arOCCUPY May Day

arOCCUPY May Day

Augmented Reality Occupation of Earth May Day 2012!!

The global community is invited to view the augmented reality [AR] occupation of the earth this May 1st.

OCCUPY this upcoming MAY DAY with Augmented Reality! [and plz be active in the real world May Day as well]

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All in for the 99%

[Project Link]

[Coverage at the Huffington Post and Wall Street Journal]

[From the video description]:

Hundreds of Angelenos unite to oppose "Citizens United vs FEC" - the 2010 Supreme Court decision that allowed corporations to make unlimited/undisclosed political contributions. Join our call for real campaign finance reform. Please share this video and Like "Stop Citizens United" on fb to help spread the word: http://facebook.com/StopCitizensUnited

Big thanks to Marisa Tomei and the hundreds of participants who came out on a Saturday morning (and stayed out in the rain for hours) to help make this video!

Produced by Interconnected
http://interconnected.is
http://facebook.com/interconnected.is
http://twitter.com/interconnectd
http://twitter.com/nirvan (director)

In collaboration with Air Evidence, GOOD, and Spectral Q
http://facebook.com/airevidence (octocopter wizards)
http://GOOD.is
http://SpectralQ.com (John Quigley - Aerial Artist)

Music: "Kopeika" from "The Agency of Missing Hearts" by et_
CC/NC/SA

SteadyCam: http://twitter.com/AmzaMoglan

99% Jelly Bean art by Mark Blackwell

Made at http://allinforthe99percent.org

http://StopCitizensUnited.org

NYC Guerrilla Drive-In with Illuminator

WHAT: a 99% Guerrilla Drive-In street party (with The Illuminator!)
WHY: GE is being a "tax hole"
WHEN: 8pm, Tuesday, April 17, Tax Day
WHERE: GE's most famous subsidiary, NBC
(meet up @ the rink @ Rockefeller Center)

GE is possibly the worst corporate tax-dodger in the country. The've made billions off the 99%. In New York alone, GE's tax dodging has cost us $297 million. Money that could go to educating our children, keeping our neighborhoods safe, providing healthcare for our seniors, or creating good jobs in our communities. Instead it's all disappeared into the GE Tax Hole.

While we pay our fair share and play by the rules, GE sends an army of tax lawyers and lobbyists to Washington to write its own rules.

Well... Not. Any. More.

On Tax Day, Tuesday April 17, the 99% is heading to GE's most famous subsidiary, NBC, located at 30 Rock, in the heart of Manhattan, with a little surprise for GE, and a little party for ourselves.

Our beautiful secret weapon, The Iluminator, will be there to shine a light on GE's misdeeds. And the Tax Dodgers will take the plaza in their high-styling baseball duds and "go to bat for the 1%."

Later this month thousands of 99%ers are planning to swarm GE's shareholder meeting in Detroit, and they're looking to us to set the tone. Let's not disappoint!

Come on out Tuesday night and lets close down GE's tax hole. Popcorn will be served.

Tax Dodgers Go to Bat for the 1% on Tax Day

Photo: Paul Talbot

Tax Day: The Tax Dodgers go to bat for the 1%

The best team corporate money can buy, knocks social services outta the park! 

WHO: The Tax Dodgers will be celebrating yet another record-breaking season at the headquarters of their sponsors, GE, Verizon, Wells Fargo, and Bank of America.  The team will be joined by their hula-hooping cheerleading squad, The Loopholes, and together, they will be personally thanking everyday New Yorkers for paying their taxes for them. The team will even pay a special visit to Trump Tower with their official mascot, ‘Mitt’ in order to  help Donald Trump throw a birthday party for Anne Romney, where Mitt himself is expected to show. The team’s house band, the Occuponics, will help them sing  joyous renditions of ‘Take Me Out To The Tax Game.’

Team owner Alec Dickman, explains the team’s victorious mood: “On Tax Day, most Americans feel like they are making a making a difficult sacrifice for the greater good.  Not us. For the richest corporations in America, Tax Day is Pay Day.”

SCHEDULE:  Tuesday, April 17 beginning at 12 noon and appearing around the city throughout the day.
12:30 pm - Tax Dodgers, Loopholes, Occuponics and Mitt will be outside 725 5th Ave.
1:15 pm - Bain Capital (57th and Madison).
2:00 pm - General Electric (50th and 5th).
2:45 pm - Paulson Group (50th and 6th)
3:30 pm - Wells Fargo (43rd and 6th)
4:00 pm - March from Bryant Park to Wells Fargo, 39th & 7th; Chase at 37th &7th; US Post Office 33d & 8th.
8:00 pm - GE Headquarers, 30 Rockefeller Plaza, joined by the mobile projection vehicle, The Illuminator.

Media Contacts:  
Gan Golan  gangolan@gmail.com  (510 )290-3334  
Ben Master (917) 657-2610 bmaster@unitedny.org

http://www.taxdodgers.net      http://www.facebook.com/TheTaxDodgers   #taxdodgers 

Update on Wednesday, April 18, 2012 at 03:50PM by admin

On Tax Day, the best team that corporate money can buy went to bat for the 1%, helping Donald Trump celebrate Anne Romney's birthday at Trump Tower. The winning team also spent the day touring around New York congratulating the year's most valuable players, GE, Verizon, Bank of America, for another record breaking tax season. Here's what happened....

• Huffington Post [slideshow]: Tax Dodgers And Occupy Wall Street Protest Bank Tax Evaders Outside Trump Tower
• The Gaurdian: US protesters mark tax day with protest at Ann Romney's birthday party
• Gothamist [slideshow]: Tax Dodgers Visit Donald Trump's Trump Tower
• CNN : The Tax Dodgers Thank You For Paying Their Taxes
• Alternet: Romney Celebrates with Trump as Working New Yorkers Rally Against Rich Tax Dodgers
• Democratic Underground: Women leaving a lunch hosted by Ann Romney are confronted by protesters in Tax Dodgers uniforms
• WBAI: Tax Day (starts at 2:00)
• The Nation: Hundreds Protest America's Crooked Tax System
• The Epoch TImes: Low Tax Rates for Corporations, Wealthy Protested
• YouTube: "Take Me Out To The Tax Game"

STOP THE PRIVATIZATION OF CHELSEA COVE!

[From the Aaron Burr Society]:

Diana Taylor is back. The girlfriend of Mayor Bloomberg sits on the board of directors of Sothey’s Auction House [1], Brookfield Properties’ Zuccotti Park [2] and the Hudson River Park Trust [3]. This trifecta of interlocking boards will be partying at the annual meeting of the Hudson River Park Trust. Please join Occupy Museums and Sotheby’s Teamsters Professional Art Handlers who will be protesting this event.

• THURSDAY, APRIL 12TH, 6 P.M.
• ST. PAUL’s CHURCH
• 315 WEST 22nd STREET (near 8th avenue)

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WS2MS: Week 4

Tonight [#f22] at Living Theatre!

Very Special Events happening tonight at The Living Theatre!

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"Political Origins of The Living Theatre"

Today, Wednesday February 22nd: come see Paul Goodman Changed My Life by Jonathan Lee, about the man who made anarchists out of Judith Malina and Julian Beck.  9:45pm start time after the play, and talkback featuring Judith and Paul McLean from Occupy With Art. Learn more at http://www.paulgoodmanfilm.com/

LIVING THEATRE: [LINK]

MORE THIS WEEK AT LIVING THEATRE: [LINK]

Protest History: Underground Press Syndicate

[NOTE: Occupy with Art supports the OWS [People's] Library. "Protest History" is the second installment of a fantastic essay by Lisa Charnigo, "Occupy the OccuPAST: Echoes of Dissidence in the UPS Underground Newspaper Collection," serialized on the OWSL site. Part 1 (of 4) is HERE. Part 2 is HERE.]

“Modern civilization is a dangerous, insane process– destructive of man’s natural potential, murderous to other species of life, symbol addicted, anti-life. Drop out of the social game.”

[EXCERPT]

 

While the underground newspapers of the sixties and early seventies were united in their opposition to the Vietnam War, their content and purpose was by no means uniform. Some of the papers focused on hippie “drop out” culture, such as the short-lived but beautifully- illustrated San Francisco Oracle published from 1966 to 1968. The Oracle captured the pinnacle of the “Summer of Love” in Haight-Ashbury, covering such subjects as expanding consciousness, experimentation with Eastern spirituality, and human be-ins. Contributors to the Oracle included writers, poets, thinkers, and artists such as Timothy Leary, Gary Snyder, Ken Kesey, Alan Watts, Allen Ginsberg, Michael Bowen, and Allen Cohen. Revolution, as espoused in the Oracle, is an expansion and change of consciousness which occurs within an individual. As Timothy Leary proclaimed in the first issue of the Oracle, “Drop out! Modern civilization is a dangerous, insane process– destructive of man’s natural potential, murderous to other species of life, symbol addicted, anti-life. Drop out of the social game.” Perhaps no other paper in the underground newspaper collection achieved the Oracle’s sophistication in artistic expression. The paper is just as interesting to look at, with its beautiful psychedelic imagery, as it is to read. Allen Cohen, the paper’s editor, wrote that the idea for the Oracle came to him in a “rainbow newspaper” dream. The Oracle, however, only represented one spectrum of the rainbow of underground papers. On the other end of the spectrum were papers which were opposed to flowers, peace, and mind expansion as a central means to obtain social and political justice.

InterOccupy Arts Call |#F22 |: 10pm Eastern/7pm Pacific

InterOccupy Arts Call | Wed Feb 22 | 10pm Eastern/7pm Pacific 

Artists as Bridges: How are artists connecting Occupy and other movements for economic and social justice?

As Occupy and 'The 99%' movement expands, it continues to deepen its connections with communities and issues of all kinds. On this call, we will hear from artists who are doing powerful, innovative work of 'bridging', using the unique power of art, music, performance and spectacle, to connect Occupy to new issues and communities, and vice versa.   

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Occupy the SEC

Check out Paul Talbot's photos from the SEC march in NYC in the OwA Photo Section.

New Photos by Paul Talbot!

From: [CPAC 2012 Tax Dodgers socialize with the 1%, Walmart run for President!]

See more in the OwA Photos section!