On Monday we briefly reported on the confusion surrounding Occupy 38, or “Take Artists Space,” one of the most puzzling developments done in the name of Occupy Wall Street.
A brief recap of the event: According to the SoHo gallery Artists Space at 38 Greene Street, ten individuals forced their way into the gallery on Sunday and were soon asked to leave after they threatened staff and stole property. This morning Occupy Wall Street’s Arts and Culture working group released an official statement refuting any association with Occupy 38.
The statement below:
We of #OWS Arts and Culture working group are dedicated to the use of non-violent action to express our right to peaceably assemble for the redress of grievances. The individuals who intervened at Artist’s Space this weekend acted autonomously, with no connection to, support from, or consensus with #OWS. For more information on the core principles of #OWS or the Arts and Culture working group, please visit http://www.nycga.net.
Dear Human Being,
There is something going on. – I am going to be a part of it.
I have helped organize and promote protests in Bellevue, Olympia and
Seattle; another big one is coming. I feel it will be a “WTO” sized
protest in multiple cities. I will be helping to advertise and promote
it.
I was at the WTO protests in Seattle when a bunch of “anarchists”
started busting windows with crowbars. We surrounded them, and they got
in a circle with their crowbars. I tried to get the Seattle police to
come arrest these people that were thirty feet away and threatening
violence and breaking windows… The Seattle police would not budge from
their “police line”, making all of us the enemy. I am not the enemy, but
I will be in Seattle at 700 Stewart street at the Federal couthouse
January 20th, 2012!!!
The Corporate Occupation of the United States
Our corporate controlled government (through corporate lobbying and
election funding ) is out of the peoples control. People want government
control back. Makes sense to me… I feel US corporate capitalism
(corporatism) is a type of economic fascism: To have a corporate being
where the chain of command eventually muddles all responsibility to any
human being. These corporate beings are running your life, and
controlling your government. (Enough to really make an individual mad
and protest.) The corporate being does not exist, and when it comes to
face it’s corporate responsibility, it is a piece of paper. That is
plain and simply wrong. Restore capitalism to individual responsible
chains of command, or this struggle will be lost. (This also includes
corporate lobbying and corporate election funding, being outlawed; and a
new form closer to individual control is established.)
Please Sign the petition to amend the Constitution for revoking corporate personhood at:
movetoamend.org
(I feel this will be a bigger day in history than WTO in Seattle – The battle continues, rage against the machine is real.)
January 20, 2012 – Move to Amend Occupies the Courts!
Move To Amend is planning bold action to mark this date — Occupy the
Courts — a one day occupation on Friday January 20, 2012, of the Federal
Courts, including the Supreme Court of the United States and as many of
the 89 U.S. District Court Buildings as we can. Inspired by Dr. Cornell
West, who was arrested on the steps of the Supreme Court last month,
Move to Amend will lead the charge on the judiciary which created — and
continues to expand — corporate personhood rights.
http://open.salon.com/blog/kennspace/2011/10/28/corporate_occupation_of_the_united_states_1