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PORTLAND: 10,000 people turned out for the initial march on Oct 6th and 650 people camped the first night, including keeping access to literal Main Street downtown. Our infrastructure is strong and our will to create community is penetrating. Currently, we occupy three square blocks in downtown Portland with camping, infrastructure, and public meeting space. The first occupied weekend was also the Portland Marathon, which over 40,000 people attend. The marathon was routed to end right next to the occupation. We showed flexibility and camaraderie by negotiating directly with the marathon so that both events could use the public space. The marathon was nothing but supportive of Occupy Portland, releasing a statement saying as much. That interaction and negotiation has set the tone for Occupy Portland - we are here with the community, we all are the 99%, and we are working together to build a better way of existing. Portland Central American Solidarity Committee We are Organizing Together!

PORTLAND: 10,000 people turned out for the initial march on Oct 6th and 650 people camped the first night, including keeping access to literal Main Street downtown. Our infrastructure is strong and our will to create community is penetrating. Currently, we occupy three square blocks in downtown Portland with camping, infrastructure, and public meeting space. The first occupied weekend was also the Portland Marathon, which over 40,000 people attend. The marathon was routed to end right next to the occupation. We showed flexibility and camaraderie by negotiating directly with the marathon so that both events could use the public space. The marathon was nothing but supportive of Occupy Portland, releasing a statement saying as much. That interaction and negotiation has set the tone for Occupy Portland - we are here with the community, we all are the 99%, and we are working together to build a better way of existing.

Portland Central American Solidarity Committee

We are Organizing Together!

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On October 15 as part of the Global Day of Action for alternatives to Capitalism, in solidarity with the Occupy Movement, more than 1000 people marched all over Vermont.Over 500 people marched in Burlington. 300+ in Brattleboro. 250+ in Montpelier. 100+ in Rutland. This was mobilization with an organizing mission - we canvassed hundreds of doors beforehand and afterwards for the Put People First campaign to get Vermont lawmakers to make economic and social policies put people, not corporations first.Vermont Workers CenterWe Are Organizing Together! 

On October 15 as part of the Global Day of Action for alternatives to Capitalism, 
in solidarity with the Occupy Movement, more than 1000 people marched all over Vermont.
Over 500 people marched in Burlington. 300+ in Brattleboro. 250+ in Montpelier. 100+ in Rutland. 
This was mobilization with an organizing mission - we canvassed hundreds of doors beforehand and 
afterwards for the Put People First campaign to get Vermont lawmakers to make economic and social policies 
put people, not corporations first.

Vermont Workers Center
We Are Organizing Together!

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“Bowing under the high unemployment rate and a tsunami of foreclosures in California, communities of color, are demanding debt/mortgage relief, employment that pays a sustainable wage, an end to racist profiteering off foreclosures and private immigrant detention center schemes. These communities are bearing the brunt of the economic crisis with a ripple affect finally hitting those in the middle class who once held good jobs and nice homes but are now feeling the pain. Laurene Francois , of CJJC, was one of the 30 people who barricaded the entryways of Wells Fargo. “We came here today to demand a moratorium on all the foreclosures that are happening, and to demand that families be kept inside their houses. I am here as a queer woman of color, as an organizer, as an individual, and as a Haitian daughter of first generation Haitian immigrant parents. I am the 99%!.” Photo by Josh Warren-White Causa Justa Just Cause @causajusta1 We are Organizing Together!

“Bowing under the high unemployment rate and a tsunami of foreclosures in California, communities of color, are demanding debt/mortgage relief, employment that pays a sustainable wage, an end to racist profiteering off foreclosures and private immigrant detention center schemes. These communities are bearing the brunt of the economic crisis with a ripple affect finally hitting those in the middle class who once held good jobs and nice homes but are now feeling the pain.

Laurene Francois , of CJJC, was one of the 30 people who barricaded the entryways of Wells Fargo. “We came here today to demand a moratorium on all the foreclosures that are happening, and to demand that families be kept inside their houses. I am here as a queer woman of color, as an organizer, as an individual, and as a Haitian daughter of first generation Haitian immigrant parents. I am the 99%!.”

Photo by Josh Warren-White

Causa Justa Just Cause @causajusta1

We are Organizing Together!

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At least 1,000 of people on the frontlines of the economic crisis took to the streets in San Francisco on Indigenous Peoples’ Day, October 12, to meet up with some 30 people who blocked four entries to Wells Fargo Bank corporate headquarters at 420 Montgomery and shut it down. “When you have people gathered and surrounding the bank demanding to be recognized and respected, then for each individual inside that bank, they are forced to ask themselves: ‘What am I doing? What role am I playing in this?’ That’s how the policies change,” said Nell Myhand, Oakland Homeower Clinic Coordinator for CJJC and someone personally fighting a foreclosure. Photo by Josh Warren-White Causa Justa Just Cause @causajusta1 We are Organizing Together!

At least 1,000 of people on the frontlines of the economic crisis took to the streets in San Francisco on Indigenous Peoples’ Day, October 12, to meet up with some 30 people who blocked four entries to Wells Fargo Bank corporate headquarters at 420 Montgomery and shut it down.

“When you have people gathered and surrounding the bank demanding to be recognized and respected, then for each individual inside that bank, they are forced to ask themselves: ‘What am I doing? What role am I playing in this?’ That’s how the policies change,” said Nell Myhand, Oakland Homeower Clinic Coordinator for CJJC and someone personally fighting a foreclosure.

Photo by Josh Warren-White

Causa Justa Just Cause @causajusta1

We are Organizing Together!

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15 million families owe more on their mortgage than their home is worth. Take Manuel de Paz, for instance, who has owned his Oakland home for ten years. He is not in the grips of foreclosure but is typical of a lot of people struggling to pay on an inflated mortgage. He works 12 hours a day just to meet his mortgage payment based on a $325,000 home that is worth only about $150,000. “More than 70 percent of my personal income goes to the mortgage. I’m struggling to make my payments because I want to negotiate with the Bank of America. I called the bank and spent hours being passed from department to department. They aren’t helping me. They are taking advantage.” Since 2007, 2.5 million foreclosures have taken place across the nation.  6.9 million have started and a projected 5.7 million borrowers are at risk. Photo by Josh Warren-White Causa Justa Just Cause @causajusta1 We are Organizing Together!

15 million families owe more on their mortgage than their home is worth. Take Manuel de Paz, for instance, who has owned his Oakland home for ten years. He is not in the grips of foreclosure but is typical of a lot of people struggling to pay on an inflated mortgage. He works 12 hours a day just to meet his mortgage payment based on a $325,000 home that is worth only about $150,000.

“More than 70 percent of my personal income goes to the mortgage. I’m struggling to make my payments because I want to negotiate with the Bank of America. I called the bank and spent hours being passed from department to department. They aren’t helping me. They are taking advantage.”

Since 2007, 2.5 million foreclosures have taken place across the nation.  6.9 million have started and a projected 5.7 million borrowers are at risk.

Photo by Josh Warren-White

Causa Justa Just Cause @causajusta1

We are Organizing Together!

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“From the 18% unemployment in Black communities, rampant foreclosures and evictions and the profiteering from the detention of immigrants, Black and Latino families have been hardest hit by this economic crisis. Enough is enough. We are the 99%, the growing new majority. We will be heard., said Cinthya Munoz, Immigrant Rights Organizer with CJJC.   Photo by Josh Warren-White Cause Justa Just Cause @causajusta1 We are Organizing Together!

“From the 18% unemployment in Black communities, rampant foreclosures and evictions and the profiteering from the detention of immigrants, Black and Latino families have been hardest hit by this economic crisis. Enough is enough. We are the 99%, the growing new majority. We will be heard., said Cinthya Munoz, Immigrant Rights Organizer with CJJC.  

Photo by Josh Warren-White

Cause Justa Just Cause @causajusta1

We are Organizing Together!

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The Fralib plant produces for Lipton internationally and under the label Elephant in France. Both are subsidiaries of Unilever Corporation. In 2010 Unilever netted 4.6 billion euros – over $6 billion worldwide. The Fralib plant was profitable. Despite this the company announced in September 2010 that it would close the plant and move it to Poland. The workers have been occupying the factory since March, demanding that the equipment be left in Geménos and turned over to the workers to be a worker fun factory. They want to keep the Elephant brand and produce for local distribution – the company can keep international distribution through Lipton. In the meantime the workers are calling for a boycott of Lipton products. From Michael Leon Guerrero via the Aubagne Social Forum Build Grassroots Internationalism! We are Organizing Together!

The Fralib plant produces for Lipton internationally and under the label Elephant in France. Both are subsidiaries of Unilever Corporation. In 2010 Unilever netted 4.6 billion euros – over $6 billion worldwide. The Fralib plant was profitable. Despite this the company announced in September 2010 that it would close the plant and move it to Poland. The workers have been occupying the factory since March, demanding that the equipment be left in Geménos and turned over to the workers to be a worker fun factory. They want to keep the Elephant brand and produce for local distribution – the company can keep international distribution through Lipton. In the meantime the workers are calling for a boycott of Lipton products.

From Michael Leon Guerrero via the Aubagne Social Forum

Build Grassroots Internationalism!

We are Organizing Together!

Community Rights Campaign of the Labor/Community Strategy Center, national week of action for Dignity in School. Community Rights Demands: Schools, Not Pre-Prisons! Decriminalize tardiness, truancy and all student behavior issues. Cut funding for Police and Sheriffs Cut funding for California’s bi-partisan prison state End to the ICE Raids, Amnesty Now! Stop “Broken Windows” Policies and the “Safer Cities” Initiative End the racist “War on Drugs” Defeat and overturn reactionary “tough on crime” laws We are part of the national Dignity in Schools Campaign, Grassroots Global Justice Alliance, and “We are organizing together!”

Community Rights Campaign of the Labor/Community Strategy Center, national week of action for Dignity in School. Community Rights Demands:

  • Schools, Not Pre-Prisons! Decriminalize tardiness, truancy and all student behavior issues.
  • Cut funding for Police and Sheriffs
  • Cut funding for California’s bi-partisan prison state
  • End to the ICE Raids, Amnesty Now!
  • Stop “Broken Windows” Policies and the “Safer Cities” Initiative
  • End the racist “War on Drugs”
  • Defeat and overturn reactionary “tough on crime” laws

We are part of the national Dignity in Schools Campaign, Grassroots Global Justice Alliance, and “We are organizing together!”

We are organizing to move the money from the military budget to local economic projects based on people’s needs. We are taking delegations to international high-level climate negotiations to stop false climate solutions, and fighting for access to clean air and water and land in indigenous and communities of color. Grassroots Global Justice Alliance We Are Organizing Together!#organizetogether 

We are organizing to move the money from the military budget to local economic projects based on people’s needs. We are taking delegations to international high-level climate negotiations to stop false climate solutions, and fighting for access to clean air and water and land in indigenous and communities of color.

Grassroots Global Justice Alliance

We Are Organizing Together!
#organizetogether 

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To shut down the Tar Sands and the Keystone XL pipeline in solidarity with the Indigenous Environmental Network! Respect indigenous land, respect the rights of mother earth, respect the rights of all human beings to live in healthy environments with healthy jobs.  Uplift the Cochabamba Accords and turn them into actionable policies for environmental, climate and economic justice! Grassroots Global Justice Alliance We Are Organizing Together! #organizetogether

To shut down the Tar Sands and the Keystone XL pipeline in solidarity with the Indigenous Environmental Network! Respect indigenous land, respect the rights of mother earth, respect the rights of all human beings to live in healthy environments with healthy jobs.  Uplift the Cochabamba Accords and turn them into actionable policies for environmental, climate and economic justice!

Grassroots Global Justice Alliance

We Are Organizing Together!

#organizetogether

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