To help fund the fight for economic civil rights #ows #occupy

Friend on Facebook Friend on Facebook Follow on Twitter Occupy Together Friend on Facebook Follow on Twitter Fund the Fight For Economic Civil Rights A year ago the world stood still in awe of what the people could do, and now we need your help to do it again. From tents to unprecedented actions uniting us all in the streets of our hometowns, Occupy Wall Street gives many hope that transformational change is in reach. Donating now, whatever you can, will go a long way to keeping OccupyWallSt.org online and filled with content. As the Occupy Movement grows, so does Occupy Media, and your voice with it. Please help us today with a gift, or by posting this funding campaign to your social media. We are in a fight for humanity. We stand in front a system that has been in place since the dawn of history. If we live in the era in which money equals speech, let those in power know that it doesn't take a millionaire or a billionaire to decide what we should consider in our media, it takes the people. Donations will be received by The Occupy Solidarity Network, Inc. 501c4 not-for-profit corporation registered in New York known as OccupyWallSt.org which is capable of both receiving and disbursing funds in a transparent manner to support communication efforts of the occupy movement, projects include: OccupyWallSt.org (number one result on google when “occupy wall street” is searched), The Occupied Wall Street Journal (called the “newspaper of record” for #occupy by The New Yorker), Occupy Together, @OccupyWallSt on Twitter, and the OccupyWallSt Facebook page. This campaign will expand these efforts as well as supporting direct action organizing. The people behind these crucial projects have been working on daily basis for nearly a year for little or no pay. Our goal is to help support them with living stipends so they can continue working without having to choose between going hungry or promoting social justice. We also believe that with modest compensation, these people will be able to focus and expand their efforts and help bring Occupy back into the public eye. We look forward to coordinating media and inspiring action for on the ground efforts of occupy. See you in the square on September 17th. Give what you can so we can continue to serve. Thank you.      Occupy Wall Street | Occupy Together

Upcoming #Occupy events in New York City #nyc #ows

99 Pickets is an initiative of Occupy Wall Street that uses a range of tactics: pickets, rallies, write-in campaigns, calls to action from around NYC, like the ones listed below. We strive to connect the dots between seemingly isolated conflicts, using worker-driven, creative action to draw attention to the common struggles of people across the city. From Twitter storms to bike swarms, we're reinventing the way people gather to speak truth to power. Learn more about 99 Pickets on Twitter, ‘like’ us on Facebook, sign up for our newsletter and join the 99 Pickets text loop: Just text @pickets to 23559. Another world is possible. Let’s build it together! -- from the ‘Your Inbox: Occupied’ team S15-17 NYC: Three days of education, celebration and resistance No Matter What Your Issue, If You Follow the Money....All Roads Lead to Wall Street. This week’s action: Check out the #S17 Call to Action video and share with your communities! Occupy these Actions and Assemblies Wednesday, August 8th, 5:00pm Occupy Gracie Mansion Gracie Mansion, 1670 York Ave, New York The Occupy Wall Street Disability Caucus invites you to a non-violent protest action open to all who wish to publicly show their dissent regarding Mayor Bloomberg’s policies against all marginalized groups. Wednesday, August 8, 9:00pm 99 Pickets Justice for Jazz Artists March Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola, 10 Columbus Circle #5 Though an important part of NYC’s cultural heritage, even highly successful jazz musicians live precariously, often growing old in poverty. Musicians’ voices must be heard. See the Justice for Jazz Artists website for more information on the campaign. Thursday, August 9th, 6:00pm Wordpress Training for Activists 33 Flatbush Avenue, Brooklyn We will be discussing Wordpress: how to set up a site, configure it, and start using it. We will then take what we have learned and work on existing projects like s17nyc.org.  Please bring your questions, issues, and projects. RSVP on the Facebook page or by e-mailing tech@nycga.net. Thursday, August 9th, 7:30pm Occupy Open Spaces Zuccotti Park, Between Broadway & Liberty St. A conversational space for continuing discussions of the NYC General Assembly. Friday, August 10th, 2pm 99 Pickets Wheels 4 Workers Join 32BJ SEIU workers and their supporters for the RIDE FOR THE AMERICAN DREAM — a bike ride to protest real estate developers like T.F. Cornerstone who are denying their largely immigrant service workers the security, retirement, safety-training and advancement opportunities afforded to 55,000 building workers in NYC. For just $2/hour per worker more, Cornerstone could stop this destructive race to the bottom. Meet us at the starting line for the send off! Or get on your bike and make the ride! 2:00 – 3:30pm: Rally at Cornerstone’s HQ at 387 Park Ave South, Manhattan 3:30 – 4:30pm: Ride to Long Island City 4:30 – 6:00pm: Rally at Cornerstone: 4720 Center Blvd, Long Island City Friday, August 10th, 2pm Food for Thought Film Series La Casita, 414 45th Street, Brooklyn Occupy/Occupemos Sunset Park continues its series with two films on urban financial crises and how people fought back against them. "TIGHTEN YOUR BELTS, BITE THE BULLET," from 1981, and "PEOPLE'S FIREHOUSE #1" from 1979. Saturday, August 11th, 11:00am-7:00pm Occupy Town Square - Astoria/Long Island City Astoria Park, 21 Hoyt Avenue North, Queens Occupy Astoria LIC invites you to Occupy Town Square: a traveling celebration of free assembly. There will be a potluck picnic from 12-2pm, a swap-market, music, dance, teach-ins, storytelling and exchanging ideas about our neighborhood & our city Saturday, August 11th, 11:30am Broadcast of Occupy Brooklyn TV! On the web and on TV: all NYC, Verizon: Channel 43; In Brooklyn: Time Warner channel 35, Cablevision channel 68, RCN channel 83 Don’t miss Occupy Public Access TV’s first show! News and views from the international people’s resistance will be available both online and on TV. Sunday, August 12, 12:00pm-4:00pm S17 Work Session 33 Flatbush Avenue, Brooklyn Got some work to do for S17? Join teams from across OWS as we work on all the exciting stuff that needs doing for S17: websites, volunteer coordination, calendar updates, prep for the Monday Spokes meeting and anything else. Sunday, August 12, 4:00pm The People’s Puppets of OWS Present: Jack and the Corporate Beanstalk American Park in Greenpoint (Franklin St. between Milton St. & Noble St., Brooklyn) Jack goes to college for a better future but realizes after being saddled with debt that she’s still at the mercy of the Corporate Giant. In this puppet music spectacle the audience is encouraged to get involved and help Jack take back the Golden Goose for the 99%. Tuesday, August 14, 6:30 pm American Autumn Film Screening Church of the Redeemer, 30-14 Crescent Street at 30th Avenue Occupy Astoria LIC presents the Occu-Doc American Autumn as part of their ‘Documentaries for the 99%’ series. This Occupy movie is a powerfully unique one, as described by David Swanson: “We now have a film of our own. This is not amateur hour. This is a movie as well made, in technical terms, as any Hollywood blockbuster with Pentagon funding. But this is a movie with us in it." Friday, August 17th, Midnight Every Night until September 16th #YesWeCamp 2.0 #PACAttack Union Square Join for a month of tactical #SleepfulProtests starting August 16th and culminating on the eve of Occupy Wall Street’s one-year-anniversary on September 16th. Assemble at #OccupyUnionSq for Eviction Theater to connect with sleeping groups each night at Midnight. Saturday, August 18th, 2:00pm 4th Feminist General Assembly Harlem Meer, Central Park - 110th St. This will be a Feminist General Assembly focusing on the struggles of People of Color. We will work on actions to combat racial and economic injustice. Everyone is invited, allies welcome! For Text Message alerts on your cellphone about daily events, actions, and important information, sign up for the ComHub SMS blasts by texting @owscom to 23559.

In pictures: tribal Olympians, and more

Finally, some good news for the Earth's most threatened tribe, a thought from the Penan, and Anoushka Shankar supporting Survival.  Survival    Tribes    News    Act Now    Donate  Some good news for the Earth’s most threatened tribe A judge has ordered Brazil’s largest mining company to suspend plans to double a controversial railway track, which would have put the livelihoods of the Awá in jeopardy. Our campaign to remove the loggers and ranchers who also threaten the tribe continues. More » IN PICTURES: the tribal Olympians To celebrate the 2012 games, we reveal some of the astonishing skills of the world’s tribal peoples, from the Awá archers of the Amazon to the Bajau divers of Borneo and the Tarahumara long-distance runners of northwestern Mexico. To the gallery » The Olympic bell is inscribed, ‘The isle is full of noises’, from Shakespeare’s The Tempest. But here’s why the opening ceremony’s Caliban speech is a not-so-subtle own goal. — Survival’s Director Stephen Corry on Shakespeare, Nelson and noises ringing hollow. British Indian sitar player and composer Anoushka Shankar shows her support for Survival and tribal peoples by modelling an exclusive new limited edition T-shirt inspired by the Bushmen of the Kalahari and designed by fashion designer Savannah Miller. Shop now » In the next edition… Tribes from the air: the wonder and beauty of tribal peoples’ ancestral lands as you’ve never seen them before. Survival International USA, 2325 3rd Street, Suite 413, San Francisco, CA 94107, USA T +1 415 503 1254 Survival International, 6 Charterhouse Buildings, LONDON, UK, EC1M 7ET T +44(0)20 7687 8700 www.survivalinternational.org

CREDO: If people know this, we beat Tea Party extremists

If we want to defeat Tea Party extremists in November, there's only one thing we have to do: make sure constituents know the truth about their representative's extremist record. But here's the thing: A lot of folks still don't know the facts. Check out these poll results1 that just came out in New Hampshire's first district, represented by Tea Party Ten extremist Frank Guinta: On Guinta's favorability, it's an even split. 42% favorable, 42% unfavorable, 15% undecided. Yet a whopping 70% of people say they wouldn't want to vote for a candidate who has worked to restrict access to birth control — that's Frank Guinta, too. A lot of folks just don't realize it. We have to make sure voters are putting two and two together. If we do, it'll add up to the end of these Tea Party extremists' time in Congress. Chip in $5 to help build our grassroots campaign to get the truth out about Tea Party extremists. It's not just Frank Guinta's district. This is the case in congressional districts all over the country. We've already made great progress bringing attention to Chip Cravaack's attacks on seniors, Sean Duffy's attack's on women, Dan Lungren's attacks on equality, even Steve King's attacks on animals! If people know this stuff, we win. But we've got a lot of work to do, and less than 100 days to do it. We're up against a lot of money being spent on deceiving ads, and the little time most people put into thinking about who they'll vote for Congress. We know that face-to-face, and person-to-person outreach is the most effective way to get the message to stick. We need your support to make sure we can reach enough voters. Chip in $5 now. Thanks for everything you're doing. Mudcat Arnold, Campaign Manager CREDO SuperPAC 1. New Hampshire 1st Congressional District Survey Results CREDO SuperPAC is working to defeat ten of the most extreme Tea Party Republicans in Congress: Allen West (FL-18), Dan Lungren (CA-07), Joe Walsh (IL-08), Chip Cravaack (MN-08), Sean Duffy (WI-07), Mike Fitzpatrick (PA-08), Frank Guinta (NH-01), and Steve King (IA-4). Learn more at www.credosuperpac.com. Paid for by CREDO SuperPAC, www.credosuperpac.com, not authorized by any candidate or candidate's committee.

Quebec government concedes to the Algonquins of Barriere lake

Intercontinental Cry Now, on Intercontinental Cry Quebec government concedes to the Algonquins of Barriere lake August 1, 2012 The Algonquins of Barriere Lake have gained an unexpected victory in their decades-long struggle to secure their land rights and protect areas of cultural, spiritual and biological importance. After carrying out a series of successful actions against Resolute Forest Products, the Quebec government and forestry company agreed to respect a key portion of the 1991 Trilateral agreement, a landmark sustainable development, conservation, and resource co-management plan for some 10,000 square kilometers of the Algonquin’s traditional territory. Both Canada and Quebec have continuously refused to adhere to agreement, which they co-signed with Barriere Lake 21 years ago. The Algonquin community, in turn, has continuously protested and demanded that both governments honor their word. Those protests have been routinely confronted with the heavy hand of Quebec's police forces. Now it appears the Quebec government is starting to change its tune; though it's perhaps a little too early to be giving them any kind of standing ovation. After all, the government was in the wrong and they knew it. Even without the Trilateral agreement, the Province had a constitutional obligation to work with First Nations in any decision that could effect them - and it does not get to choose when and under what circumstances it will do so. That's the whole reason Barriere Lake started speaking out in early July. Resolute Forest Products, the logging company formerly known as AbitibiBowater Inc., had begun an illegal logging operation near Poigan Bay, Quebec, in an area that holds sacred sites and an important moose habitat. The Ministry of Natural Resources issued permits to Resolute Forest Products without consulting or seeking the free, prior and informed consent of Barriere Lake. After the First Nation's initial response, a number of protests and other actions were carried out, including several successful stoppages of the company's operations, a letter writing campaign, and powerful demonstration outside the offices of Resolute Forest Products and Premier Jean Charest in Montreal. Media coverage of the situation was also quite strong throughout the month--a welcomed shift from the black hole that Barriere Lake has been routinely trapped in for the past few years. All of this came to a head with the Quebec Ministry of Natural Resources agreeing to sit down with community representatives for negotiations. The outcome of those negotiations was "a precarious but important step in the community’s long struggle to pressure the Quebec and Canadian governments to honour their landmark Trilateral Agreement, says Barriere Lake Solidarity. Both the Quebec government and the forestry company agreed to comply with the Trilateral Agreement's "measures to harmonize". In these measures, it is understood that logging companies who wish to operate on Barriere Lake's land must not compromise the way that the Algonquins use the land. In other words, "logging is not allowed to happen where the community has hunting cabins, in areas of moose and bear habitat, sacred areas, medicinal sites and many other areas of concern to the community," adds Barriere Lake Solidarity. It's an important step forward to say the least, but the journey is far from over. Barriere Lake Solidarity goes on to say, "Barriere Lake needs its supporters to remain vigilant to ensure Resolute Forest Products respects the 'measures to harmonize.'" "Even more importantly, we need to continue building pressure on the Quebec and Canadian governments to finally implement the Trilateral and Bilateral Agreements. The Charest government has been so brazen in its disregard for the law and its contempt for Barriere Lake that it has refused to honour the binding outcomes of negotiations conducted by two former Liberal Cabinet Ministers! In 2006, a negotiator for the Quebec, John Ciaccia, and a negotiator for Barriere Lake, Clifford Lincoln, issued the recommendation that the agreement be implemented," Barriere Lake Solidarity continues. "Quebec does not want to implement this agreement because it sets precedents in giving Indigenous peoples control over developments on their territories. It's safe to say that Canada takes the same moral low ground. Indeed, it would much rather turn First Nations into specialized work farms for mining, logging and other industries. Sufficed to say, Barriere Lake is far from alone in their struggle for permanence. Read this online: http://intercontinentalcry.org/win-resistance-by-barriere-lake-and-supporters-results-in-quebec-concession-over-logging/ Intercontinental Cry E: info@intercontinentalcry.org W: intercontinentalcry.org Intercontinental Cry - Reporting on the World's Indigenous Peoples.

NRA in Court to Stop Protections to Condors, Eagles

The NRA just attacked protections for bald eagles and other wildlife. Help us fight back. Just moments ago the National Rifle Association took legal action to block the EPA from protecting wildlife and people from being poisoned by lead hunting ammunition left in the wild. Today's legal action challenges the Center for Biological Diversity's suit, filed last month with allies, to get the EPA to finally regulate toxic lead in hunting ammunition. These outrageous attacks need to stop. Please make an emergency gift today and help us stand up to the NRA's assault on wildlife. As I've written to you over the past two weeks, millions of birds are needlessly poisoned every year by toxic lead ammo left in the wild, including bald eagles, swans and endangered California condors. Under the federal Toxic Substances Control Act, the EPA has the authority to stop this lead-poisoning epidemic with common-sense solutions -- but the NRA is using its muscle to throw up roadblocks to any new safeguards. The NRA is bound and determined to keep the EPA from doing its job in protecting the millions of birds who die every year after being painfully poisoned by lead bullet fragments. That's why we need your urgent support now with a gift to our Condor Defense Fund. Help defend the EPA's ability to regulate this deadly toxin and ensure not one more condor, swan or bald eagle is poisoned by lead bullets. The Center has been working since 2004 to end the preventable lead poisoning of birds and reduce health risks for people eating lead-shot game. Lead poisoning is the leading cause of death for America's ancient, critically endangered condors. Please make your gift today to stand up to the NRA and protect these extraordinary birds, along with other wildlife, threatened by lead poisoning. We've faced this challenge before and know the NRA will stop at nothing to keep us from protecting endangered wildlife -- so we're in for a bare-knuckle fight. Thank you for standing with us, Kierán Suckling Executive Director Center for Biological Diversity P.S. The best way to protect millions of birds and animals from lead poisoning is to stop the NRA's attack in the courts and continue our work to end the needless deaths of condors and other wildlife once and for all by getting lead out of our environment. I hope you'll consider a generous gift today. P.P.S. If you have trouble clicking the links above, insert this URL into your browser: https://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/2167/p/salsa/donation/common/public/?donate_page_KEY=8870&track=E1204C1 Photo of bald eagle courtesy USFWS. All donations to the Center for Biological Diversity are tax deductible to the fullest extent of the law. Our tax ID number is 27-3943866. When donating online to the Center for Biological Diversity, always confirm that the donation page is located at DemocracyinAction.org or BiologicalDiversity.org. Center for Biological Diversity P.O. Box 710 Tucson, AZ 85702 1-866-357-3349 www.BiologicalDiversity.org