federal reserve.

1. The Daily Show-Occupy Wall
Street-Parks and
demonstration
America cannot expect a bunch of disenfranchised park-dwellers
to come up with a solution to its economic woes — they have a
political ruling class to do that.
Occupy Wall Street General
Assembly declaration
The general assembly process has produced the following
declaration from the Occupy Wall Street movement that is
spreading across the country.
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

2. 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

3. 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!
Keith Olbermann reads the declaration on Countdown

4. Occupy Wall Street campaigner
talks down Fox News
Whoever this guy is he did a great job of pointing out the
hypocrisy of some of our media. Back at ya’ Fox.
Occupy Wall Street, LA, DC,
Portland and Eugene
The #occupywallstreet campaign continues and is spreading
throughout the country and Oregon. Nobel prize winning
economist Joseph Stiglitz and Jeff Madrick stopped by Zuccotti
Park to provide encouragement and lessons in economics. The
United Steel Workers and the SEIU have joined with the Pilots
Union and the Transit Workers Union with the latter now
refusing to provide bus service to the NYPD in the event of
further arrests of the protesters. Retired and active duty
military personnel are showing up at occupation locations to
stand as the first line of defense between the protesters and
over zealous police action.
“We are the 99%” and the movement is alive here in Oregon in
Portland and Eugene.
Olbermann dedicated the bulk of his program tonight to the
campaign and plans on visiting the occupation soon.

5. Occupy Wall Street protest
may have ratcheted up a notch
As a Marine mom I am especially proud to hear these reports
that those same men and women who swore an oath to protect
this country and defend its constitution against enemies
foreign and domestic will stand to protect peaceful
campaigners for Wall Street reform.
The Occupy Wall Street movement may have just received an
unexpected surprise – United States Army and Marine troops
are reportedly on their way to various protest locations to
support the movement and to protect the protesters.
Army serviceman Ward Reilly posted the following on Facebook:
“I’m heading up there tonight in my dress blues. So far, 15
of my fellow marine buddies are meeting me there, also in
Uniform.
I want to send the following message to Wall St and
Congress:
I didn’t fight for Wall St. I fought for America. Now it’s
Congress’ turn.
My true hope, though, is that we Veterans can act as first
line of defense between the police and the protester. If they
want to get to some protesters so they can mace them, they
will have to get through the Fucking Marine Corps first.
Let’s see a cop mace a bunch of decorated war vets.
I apologize now for typos and errors. Typing this on iPhone
whilst heading to NYC. We can organize once we’re there.

6. That’s what we do best.If you see someone in uniform, gather
together.
We all took an oath to uphold, protect and defend the
constitution of this country. That’s what we will be doing.
Hope to see you there!!”
Reilly added, “Please note…this is from another veteran, NOT
ME. (I was Army, he’s a Marine)…and I am on my way to DC, not
NYC. :>) ….but this is fantastic, and he’s not a VFP
guy….just a soldier that is outraged by what we have become
in this country, as it should be.
Occupy Washington, DC link
“A LOT of veterans get it,” Reilly stated. “Only one third of
one percent of our citizens serve in the military, and we are
the ones who sacrifice MUCH, and all we ask in return is that
civilians control the people they elect. (miserable failure
so far) But …the image of police, or anyone else, pepper
spraying veterans or even confronting them, is “priceless” as
they say, and will help slap this country into seeing what we
have become.(totally insane, politically and police-state-
wise). And EXACTLY what I have requested from my brother and
sister veterans in DC Oct.6.”
Reilly added an edited statement: “I’m no longer in active
duty or in any way contractually indebted to the military.
Nor are any of my friends that are joining me.
To the officers’ of this thread: I’m aware of the potential,
maybe inevitable trouble I can get in. So too are my friends.
I don’t really care about the debate here, the upvotes, the
downvotes or anything in here really. Mental masturbation is
awesome and all. But fucking hell people get off reddit and
do something about it. The decision is made. I just figured
reddit to be a useful tool to get the attention of a good

7. amount of veterans.”
This tipping point could be the defining moment that sends
the Occupy Wall Street movement into perpetual motion.
In this writer’s opinion, these servicemen, and any other
troops who join in, are heroes, just like the everyday heroes
who have been there from day 1 along with those who are now
joining in.
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This report was filed on Democracy Now yesterday
This report was filed on Democracy Now yesterday
Occupy Wall Street movement
growing more mainstream
Major union organizations are joining the #OccupyWallStreet
protests now entering day 13 of the occupation of Zuccotti
Park in NY.
he “Occupy Wall Street” protests, now entering their third
week, are poised to get a whole lot bigger than its core of
200 to 300 people, potentially even exceeding the protesters
original goals of 20,000 demonstrators, thanks to recent
pledges of support from some of New York City’s largest labor
unions and community groups.
On Tuesday, over 700 uniformed pilots, members of the Air
Line Pilots Association, took to the streets outside of Wall

10. Street demanding better pay.
On Wednesday night, the executive board of the New York
Transit Workers Union (TWU Local 100), which represents the
city’s all-important train and bus workers, voted unanimously
to support Occupy Wall Street. TWU Local 100 counts 38,000
active members and covers 26,000 retirees, according to its
website.
The Union on Thursday used Twitter to urge members to take
part in a massive march and rally on Wednesday, Oct. 5. That
effort is being co-sponsored by another eight labor and
community outreach organizations.
Wall Street, a blunder or a
crime?
We are entering the tenth day of the peaceful occupation of
Wall Street by as many as two thousand protesters yet few of
us even know it is going on. Keith Olbermann has covered it on
Countdown at Current TV and Democracy Now has covered it but
the mainstream media have been silent. Media silence in the
past has been deemed complicity and so is the charge regarding
the high crimes committed by Wall Street bankers leading up to
2008.
The media failed us on the most crucial story of our era. Our
newspapers and TV sources contributed to an economic disaster
so cynically engineered even billionaire investor Jim Chanos
was prompted to ask, “So where are the perp walks? How long
does it take before we see any investigations? It boggles the

11. mind that $150 billion is vaporised… there haven’t been any
arrests, any indictments, nor any convictions at any major
bank or at any of the government-owned financial institutions
Fannie, Freddie and AIG.”
Matt Taibbi asked in Rolling Stone, “Why Isn’t Wall Street in
Jail?”
Nobody goes to jail. This is the mantra of the financial-
crisis era, one that saw virtually every major bank and
financial company on Wall Street embroiled in obscene
criminal scandals that impoverished millions and collectively
destroyed hundreds of billions, in fact, trillions of dollars
of the world’s wealth — and nobody went to jail. Nobody, that
is, except Bernie Madoff, a flamboyant and pathological
celebrity con artist, whose victims happened to be other rich
and famous people.
The rest of them, all of them, got off. Not a single
executive who ran the companies that cooked up and cashed
in on the phony financial boom — an industrywide scam that
involved the mass sale of mismarked, fraudulent mortgage-
backed securities — has ever been convicted. Their names by
now are familiar to even the most casual Middle American news
consumer: companies like AIG, Goldman Sachs, Lehman Brothers,
JP Morgan Chase, Bank of America and Morgan Stanley. Most of
these firms were directly involved in elaborate fraud and
theft. Lehman Brothers hid billions in loans from its
investors. Bank of America lied about billions in bonuses.
Goldman Sachs failed to tell clients how it put together the
born-to-lose toxic mortgage deals it was selling. What’s
more, many of these companies had corporate chieftains whose
actions cost investors billions — from AIG derivatives chief
Joe Cassano, who assured investors they would not lose even
“one dollar” just months before his unit imploded, to the
$263 million in compensation that former Lehman chief Dick
“The Gorilla” Fuld conveniently failed to disclose. Yet not

12. one of them has faced time behind bars.
Showing Wall Street what Democracy looks like
Eighty protesters were arrested this weekend and there are
claims of physical force being used by the NYPD including
using pepper spray at close range. Police retirement funds
have also been decimated by Wall Street bankers but that
hasn’t changed the perception that young college graduates
unable to get a job and pay their student loans and attending
the protest are not somehow criminals for exercising their
civil liberties.
The protesters are camping out, night after night, in an
effort to launch our own Tahrir Square in the heart of the US
financial district. Similar protests are organizing in Los
Angeles, Chicago and Denver. You can track the protest on
Twitter with the hashtag #OccupyWallStreet