MEDIA ROOTS- The First
Amendment prohibits Congress from making any law “abridging the freedom of
speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and
to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.” A redress is a
means to set right, to remedy or rectify; or a satisfaction for wrong done.
On Sept 17, the US Day of Rage has planned peaceable assemblies for people in New York,
Los Angeles,
San Francisco,
and Seattle.
We call on the rest of the nation to join us to Occupy Wall Street.
Why?
Wall Street is a huge
contributor to the political machine, which in turns enables the corporate plundering of our nation. Both the Democratic and Republican parties set
the bankster agenda because of the MONEY they are given. When we at US Day of Rage
speak of ‘taking the money out of politics’, we have no choice but to focus on
the sources of where the money comes from. Because politicians are bought by bribes, greedy and wasteful interests have usurped our nation’s civil and
military power which has spawned a host of threats to the liberty and national security of this country. We
demand satisfaction for the wrongs done to our nation and its people.
The Plan
US Day of Rage has a
plan that will overcome even the most totalitarian attempts to suppress the
First Amendment. We are taking the high ground on the public sidewalks.
Citizens have been prevented from exercising their right to peaceable assembly
in New York City because the force established to ‘serve and protect’ civil
society, the NYPD, has turned into a Counter-Intel paramilitary force.
CIA training
has turned their operations into one of the “most aggressive domestic intelligence
agencies”. Recently, the New York’s police commissioner confirmed
that a CIA officer is even working out of police headquarters. We do not need
the NYPD to protect us from the First Amendment. We need First Amendment
protection from the NYPD.
The Tactics
1. Find space on a PUBLIC SIDEWALK in NYC on
Wall Street (or in your respective city) or as close to Wall Street as possible. If the street is occupied
or blocked, move to the next possible
block. According to a 2000 federal court ruling, the use of “public
sleeping as a means of symbolic expression” is allowed on public sidewalks
in New York City as long as you do not block pedestrians. See METROPOLITAN
COUNCIL, INC., Plaintiff, -against-HOWARD SAFIR, Commissioner of the New York
City Police Department, et al., June 12, 2000 [99 F. Supp. 2d 438; 2000 U.S.
Dist.]
2. Camping, however, is prohibited. DO NOT SET UP A TENT.
3. Keep in mind that permits are legally required for assemblies
of more than 20 or more people within the confines of NYC public parks, which
close at 10pm. YOU DO NOT NEED A PERMIT TO OCCUPY OR PEACEABLY ASSEMBLE ON
PUBLIC SIDEWALKS.
4. Once you have found a available space on a public sidewalk, form or join a block assembly. An assembly is a group of two or more people on
a public sidewalk in NYC.
5. Establish rules of order and rotating roles for each block’s
assembly. Roles like facilitator, secretary, and time-keeper should rotate
regularly. See suggested rules of order for assemblies.
6. First order of business, decide on a back up block location
should the assembly be illegally disbanded by the NYPD police or other
government agents.
7. Once assemblies are formed, we suggest that they establish
specific demands for the block occupation by consensus, for instance: ‘One
citizen. One dollar. One vote’.
8. Send the block location in the subject line of an email and
your groups’ demands to
[email protected], or post your location and demands on a block assembly’s
twitter profile using twit longer with the hash-tag
#usdor, a Facebook Page
established for the assembly, or on meetup.com.
9. If your assembly is dispersed or disbanded, reform at the
backup location or join another available one.
10. The assemblies are a way to empower ordinary citizens to have
their voices heard. US Day of Rage will collate each assemblies’ demands and
publish them on our web site to foster wider discussion across the nation.
This Land is OUR Land
New
York City is the financial capital of the world. We consider the entire island
of Manhattan and even the Citicorp building in Long Island City, Queens to be ‘Wall Street‘. The NYPD may kettle or blockade
Wall Street, but they cannot kettle or blockade all of Manhattan.
If they shut us
down, we will re-establish our assemblies at the nearest possible block up,
down, east, or west. If the NYPD kettle or blockades every public street in
Manhattan, Queens, Brooklyn, or the Bronx, they will only reveal what we at US Day of
Rage already know: our government is corrupt, and its power is in the hands of
treasonous and tyrannical forces. We the people, together, will prevail.
The American Revolution is alive and well: it’s a group of
non-violent citizens who believe in the radical notion that Americans
have a right to freedom of speech and the right to peaceable assembly, the right to engage in politics through free and fair elections unsullied by
disloyal special interests that are destroying our
democratic republic and preying upon the resources and spirits of its citizens.
Conclusions
Together
we can build assemblies of people along every street of lower Manhattan from
Wall Street to Washington Heights; and on every street in every town in every
state. US Day of Rage is fighting a war for the soul of our nation and its people.
Stand and be counted at 2:00 PM EST on any public sidewalk across America. Post
your pictures on Twitter or YouTube with the
hashtag #usdor or tag US Day of Rage on Facebook.
In a
democracy: progressives; unions; conservatives; tea party members; and unaffiliated
Americans can govern and work things out with each other. In a kleptocracy, controlled by the
banksters, we cannot. We must stop the bankers’ influence, motives, and their
tricks from continuing to destroy our republic.
US Day of Rage demands that money be removed from the
buying of politicians who feed the Wall Street beast. We demand that the
resources of our nation no longer be used to benefit the interests of bankers and
their minions. We demand that the US Government diligently reign in the parasitic
destruction wreaked by the Wall Street. We demand that our nation no longer be held
hostage to ‘too big to fail’ banks. We demand that solutions be found that stop
the Federal Reserve from stealing our future.
More on local actions and the main event in NYC go to http://usdayofrage.org/
The above is a press release from US Day of Rage.
MEDIA ROOTS- The First
Amendment prohibits Congress from making any law “abridging the freedom of
speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and
to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.” A redress is a
means to set right, to remedy or rectify; or a satisfaction for wrong done.