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# A Message To Occupy

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The 99% Declaration and National General Assembly are not the product of any one person. These two ideas were developed by thousands of people from all over the world and they are good ideas. Not “good” as in “clever” but good for the betterment of our people who are suffering terribly. According to the 2010 census, 150,000,000 people live in poverty or in low-income households in the wealthiest, most prosperous country in history.

Everything we are accomplishing is due to the opportunity, provided by #OWS and the 99% Movement. This chance for massive grassroots change may never come again. Citizens United, SOPA, NDAA, misuse of FISA and the Patriot Act have now changed the game and we must organize and act before corporations, who have now been deemed people, are permitted to consolidate their power to such a level that they will directly control the military. We already know they indirectly (if not directly) control the police. This not an alarmist or fantastic statement. Certain sections of the NDAA, signed into law by President Obama, permit the armed forces, historically barred from acting within the United States by the Posse Comitatus Act, to obtain military jurisdiction over American civilians. These new detention laws can deprive U.S. citizens of the protections guaranteed in the Bill of Rights, the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure and The Bail Reform Act which, until now, ensured that every citizen be timely brought before a neutral and detached magistrate to apprise the accused of the charges he or she is facing and immediately make a bail determination based on a list of objective factors. The NDAA denies access to counsel under the Sixth Amendment and effectively suspends the Writ of Habeas Corpus for Americans accused of being “belligerent” towards the United States. The supporters of this law claim it is necessary to maintain our national defense yet,“Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.” -British Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger.

The board members of this group cannot be delegates nor do we have any say about what goes into the final petition of grievances. This group’s ONLY functions are to hold an open and transparent election of 876 delegates to a National General Assembly and provide a venue in Philadelphia for the elected delegates to meet and ratify a Petition for a Redress of Grievances as authorized by the First Amendment to the Constitution. The board also acts as a “blind” trust, which receives donations that will not be disclosed to the delegates so they are not influenced in any way when proposing or voting for grievances. Delegates may not take money from anyone except to pay for their expenses to and from Philadelphia. It is this model of a blind trust funded by the taxpayers that we seek to replace the current corrupt funding of political campaigns by corporations and other concentrations of great wealth.

It is critical to mention that The 99% Declaration’s requirement of a transparent election was never intended to be a slap in the face to #OWS and their use of direct democracy. In our view, an election representing all of the geographic sections of the country is necessary for the courts to compel the government to redress the grievances voted on by the National General Assembly in July. In the history of the use of the Petition for a Redress of Grievances, the courts have rejected past petitions because they were not deemed sufficiently representative of the American people. Therefore, we have required an election for a very specific legal reason: to give full force and effect to an important section of our Bill of Rights, which allow the people to demand specific actions by their government. By using the very same geographic distributions the current corporate state uses to elect its representatives and keep them in power year after year, the government will be forced to redress the petition or suffer the electoral consequences.

When the petition is ratified in July, signed in front of Independence Hall and served on all three branches of government; all politicians who are running for office in 2012 will be asked their positions on the grievances and solutions listed in the petition. Should the politicians ignore the petition, Clause V of the declaration will be activated and the electoral revolution will begin. In 2014, candidates will be run in all 435 districts (and the 33 open senate seats) who will take a public pledge to immediately redress the grievances in the July 2012 National General Assembly petition.

We call upon all of the 3OWS Demands Working Groups to send us their ideas and suggestions for incorporation into the final petition. The delegates will be elected in March and then work from March through June to come up with proposed points to be in the final petition. Between 7-2 and 7-4, the 876 delegates will then vote on each proposal one by one and decide what should be in this FIRST petition for a redress of grievances at this FIRST National General Assembly. We are suggesting ten or twelve points in this petition but the delegates may include as many or as few as they so decide. There is no reason that this effort cannot continue parallel to and in synergy with #OWS’s continuing peaceful resistance to corporate state that has insidiously stolen our democracy. #OWS has reawakened the American consciousness and gotten us off the couch, out the door and into to streets.

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### 5 Responses to “A Message To Occupy”

1. monarosedaniels says:
   2012/01/06 at 5:52 pm

   Last of current Sources list:
   http://firebrandmag.com/?p=2135
   http://meetilluminatimembers.com/Tag/bilderburg/
   Eustace Mullins came to the same conclusions in his book The Secrets of the Federal Reserve, in which he displays charts connecting the Fed and its member banks to the families of Rothschild, Warburg, Rockefeller and the others. [4]
   http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=25080
   http://unitedrepublic.org/amendments-guide/
   http://www.getmoneyout.com/
   http://politicalfinancereform.org/
   http://www.citizen.org/congress/campaign/index.cfm
   http://signon.org/
   http://action.democraticgovernors.org/
   http://www.occupytheboardroom.org/
   Occupy Wall Street
   http://occupywallst.org/
   Rebuild the Dream
   http://rebuildthedream.com/
   MoveOn.org
   http://pol.moveon.org/.
   http://civ.moveon.org/
   http://www.bushin30seconds.org/150/
   http://unitedrepublic.org/city-resolution/
   adbusters.org
   http://www.seiu.org/
   http://www.aflcio.org/
   http://thisisourdc.org/
   http://www.seiu.org/
   http://afgj.org/

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2. monarosedaniels says:
   2012/01/06 at 5:28 pm

   Some more:
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_on_Foreign_Relations
   http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2b/CFR-Interlocks-2004.jpg
   http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=25080
   http://www.sfenergycooperative.com/
   http://www.chomsky.info/articles/20110824.htm
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_on_Foreign_Relations
   http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2b/CFR-Interlocks-2004.jpg
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_on_Foreign_Relations
   http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2b/CFR-Interlocks-2004.jpg
   http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=25080
   http://www.voxeu.org/index.php?q=node/6241
   Nick Turse on the website Tomdispatch
   http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/22/no-one-is-above-the-law/?ref=economy
   http://www.federalreserve.gov/aboutthefed/bios/board/default.htm
   http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/22/no-one-is-above-the-law/?ref=economy
   http://bud-meyers.blogspot.com/2011/12/central-banks-rule-world-not.html
   a) http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/category/economics/ ;
   b) http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/ ;
   c) http://rt.com/programs/keiser-report/ ;
   d) http://www.veteransforpeace.org/ ;
   e) http://www.wanttoknow.info/ ;
   f.) http://michael-hudson.com/ ;
   g) http://www.nomiprins.com/ ;
   h) http://www.newint.org/ ;
   i.) http://maxkeiser.com/ ;
   j.) http://ni4d.us/ !!!
   http://www.hidden-knowledge.net/
   http://www.projectcamelot.org – Live video interviews with deep insiders revealing powerful information
   http://www.whatreallyhappened.com – Excellent website for news the media doesn’t report
   http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk – Various conspiracy experts report valuable news
   http://www.rense.com – Rense.com, listed on the U.S. State Department’s conspiracy webpage
   http://educate-yourself.org – Wealth of information on key topics not covered by media
   http://nexusmagazine.com – Nexus Magazine, an excellent alternative news magazine
   http://www.WantToKnow.info/resources – Resource list filled with excellent websites, books, other materials

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3. monarosedaniels says:
   2012/01/06 at 5:22 pm

   Reading & more sources
   http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/fisk/robert-fisk-bankers-are-the-dictators-of-the-west-6275084.html
   http://www.saveoureconomy.com
   http://www.thestreet.com/story/11224917/a-huge-housing-bargain–but-not-for-you.html
   tulip bubble
   http://WWW.the-99-declaration.org
   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zotYU21qcU
   http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/why_the_elites_are_in_trouble_20111009/
   http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/national-affairs/lawrence-lessig-on-how-we-lost-our-democracy-20111005#ixzz1ictWwi5p”
   http://articles.businessinsider.com/2012-01-03/home/30583284_1_middle-class-jobs-americans#ixzz1ihn0JmZR
   http://www.the-99-declaration.org/a-message-to-our-brothers-and-sisters-with-occupy-wall-street-from-co-facilitator-michael-pollok/
   http://q.gs/1267418/occupy
   http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/protest_2.html#ixzz1ihgiGNUl
   NDAA
   http://www.chomsky.info/articles/20100124.htm
   http://www.the99percent.org
   http://www.occupyyourcongress.info
   http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/warning/view/
   documentary of the year for 2010, “Inside Job”.
   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HTkEBIoxBA
   http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/04/citizens-united-montana-supreme-court-corporate-spending_n_1182168.html
   http://elections.nytimes.com/2008/results/president/map.html
   http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/warning/view/
   https://sites.google.com/site/the99percentdeclaration/
   http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/how-i-stopped-worrying-and-learned-to-love-the-ows-protests-20111110#ixzz1ihUqxQFx
   http://www.theatlanticwire.com/national/2012/01/occupy-livestream-operators-will-be-homeless-after-they-get-out-jail/46989/
   http://www.meetup.com/occupytogether/
   https://sites.google.com/site/the99percentdeclaration/
   http://www.facebook.com/groups/the99declaration/?notif_t=group_activity
   3rd Continental Congress
   July 4, 2012
   Philadelphia, PA
   http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-ten-most-popular-politics-stories-of-2011-20120103
   http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/how-the-gop-became-the-party-of-the-rich-20111109
   http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/why-isnt-wall-street-in-jail-20110216
   http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/owss-beef-wall-street-isnt-winning-its-cheating-20111025
   http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-people-vs-goldman-sachs-20110511
   http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/is-the-sec-covering-up-wall-street-crimes-20110817

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4. monarosedaniels says:
   2012/01/06 at 4:57 pm

   I want to see National Strikes before insurrection and civil war. We can start by not working and not purchasing the first Monday of the first month. On the Second month if there are no changes; then we strike from work and purchases the first Monday and Tuesday of the second month…There is a tax incentive with the backbone of the 99% middle class. I want to see OWS focus on ECONOMICS not all the 1001 dalmation fringe “feeling” issues. The 1% morticians and the 8 family grim reapers that rule global economics are not going to stop. There is no “incentive” for the 1% and the 8 families to stop. I do not want to see the 99% wait any longer…until they turn into corpses with:
   1. no jobs
   2. no homes
   3. no 401 K or savings
   4. no medical coverage or support
   5. not enough food; clothing or shelter
   First the 1% and the 8 families invest in prisons.
   Then the 1% and the 8 families invest in mortuary businesses.
   The 1% and the 8 families are driving the global economic bus into mass pandemics.
   Then the mortician grim reapers will try to make money off the mass deaths and corpses.

   1.
   getmoneyout.com
   THE ROOT OF ALL OUR PROBLEMS:
   petitions for a 28th Amendment; Stop Corporatism Amendment;
   to overturn Buckley v. Valeo and eliminate all private finance
   from the electoral process and lobby. traceable paper ballots & campaign finance reform
   See: Republic Lost written by Harvard law professor Lawrence Lessig.
   http://republic.lessig.org/
   2
   renewal & new free energy IS THE FIRST MOST IMPORTANT.
   The main topic of discussion needs to be America’s Industrial backbone grid without oil.
   http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=25080
   http://www.thrivemovement.com/actions
   3
   movement to audit & end federal reserve
   Please cosponsor HR 459, The Federal Reserve Transparency Act of 2011,
   and do everything in your power to see this bill through to a passing vote.
   http://www.auditthefed.com/
   http://www.auditthefed.com/view-the-coalition/
   4
   informed with diverse news sources especially public radio & stay connected & speak up
   5
   bank locally at small banks or credit unions
   http://www.occupywallst.org
   6
   Spend local and speak your vote with each dollar sends your message
   make conscious consumer choices
   the 1% need the 99%
   the 99% do not need the 1%
   http://www.thestreet.com/story/11328764/1/cyber-monday-2011
   7
   movement to keep internet fair and open
   savetheinternet.com
   8
   speak for diverse sources of news independent news
   break up corporate owned media for diverse free information
   savethenews.org; http://www.freepress.net
   9
   organic non gmo farming & foods
   http://opensourceecology.org/

   How can you trust the poor stewardship that Corporations
   have shown to their own country and society?
   1. De-Regulation
   2. Low taxes for the wealthy and the corporations
   3. Offshore and outsourcing of America’s jobs
   4. CEO pay and bonuses
   5. repeal of Glass Steagall
   6. Wall Street fraud
   7. FR and BIG bank fraud
   8. National Debt; hyper-inflation; and foreign wars
   9. Bailouts for crimes against humanity
   10. Austerity; jobless-ness; foreclosures; bankruptcies; and arrests for civil disobedience
   11. Building private prisons to fill up with the 99% protestors
   12. Building mortuaries to make money off the resulting mass corpses of the 99% once middle class

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5. bort says:
   2012/01/05 at 3:34 am

   what about the native americans– there should be an enforced law to keep the US government from continuously chasing them off of their established reservations everytime oil or coal or any other interst is discovered, and chased onto toxic former weapon testing sites. Leave em the hell alone!!– also it should be priority #2 to help all of the poverty sticken, depressed and mentally depraved individuals, who are caught in their seemingly hopless dispositions. We need to find an end to the ghetto situation by helping broken families with not only finacial needs but also keeping their children in schools (especially college). Ghettos rise when hope is lost….

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