Aaron Murray's List: OccupyX

• Just 37 percent of Americans say they support the Occupy Wall Street movement exploding across the country, a new poll Friday shows.

• the Occupy Wall Street movement is rapidly becoming more organized and many believe that "The People's Party" is going to be to the Democrats what the Tea Party is to the Republicans.
• there are an increasing number of signs that Occupy Wall Street is becoming very organized and that it plans to be a major political force for years to come.
• If the federal government does not address the demands of the Occupy Wall Street movement adequately, they would then "organize a third independent political party to run candidates in the 2014 mid-term elections".
• The demands include getting all corporate money out of elections, forcing the wealthy to pay their "fair share" of taxes, Medicare for all American citizens, giving the EPA the power to totally shut down corporations, caps on carbon emissions, reduction of the national debt, student loan debt relief, passage of the Dream Act and reenactment of the Glass-Steagall Act.  In essence, what they want are all of the things that the far left thought that Barack Obama would do for them but that he never actually did.
• It would be a mistake to underestimate this movement.  They have raised nearly $300,000 already, and they are getting millions of dollars worth of free publicity every day.  A recent survey conducted by Time Magazine discovered that 54 percent of all Americans have a favorable impression of the Occupy Wall Street protests.
• That same poll found that 81 percent of the American people believe that this country is headed in the wrong direction.
• Oddly, the American Nazi Party and Communist Party USA have both endorsed the Occupy Wall Street protests.  It appears that these protests have stuck a chord with a lot of diverse groups.
• the answer is not to go from one collectivist system ("corporatism") to another collectivist system.
• Rather, the answer is to go back to a much more pure capitalist system.  This is what our founders intended.  In such a system, the power of the federal government and the power of large corporations would be greatly limited.

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• A public relations firm closely partnered with the George Soros-funded Tides Foundation represented last week's anti-Wall Street march past millionaires' homes in New York, WND has learned.
• Fenton Communications has been behind the public relations strategy of a who's who of far-left causes, organizations and activists, from Soros himself to Health Care for America Now to crafting strategies for MoveOn.org and a litany of anti-war groups.
• Fenton, which works closely with Tides, first made its name representing communist dictatorships in the 1980s.
• Fenton's founder is tied to President Obama and to a slew of Saul Alinsky-style community organizing groups directly involved in recent U.S. street protests, including in Wisconsin and New York.
• Fenton's fingerprints on promoting and organizing the march bring further evidence suggesting the anti-Wall Street movement is a well-planned campaign and not the spontaneous uprising its leaders claim.

• Last week's Occupy Wall Street march past millionaires' homes was first announced in a press release entitled, "Community Groups and Progressive Organizations Join Together to Plan 'Millionaires March' with Occupy Wall Street Protestors."  

  The release detailed how a group calling itself 99 New York was joining the Occupy Wall Street movement as a partner. The 99 organization is purportedly a coalition of unions and community organizations, such as UnitedNY, Strong Economy for All Coalition, NY Communities for Change, and the Working Families Party.
• It was the 99 New York group, which claims to represent the will of 99 percent of the U.S. population, that led last week's Occupy Wall Street march down the streets of New York.
• Fenton Communications works in conjunction with the Soros-funded Tides Center that funded Adbusters, which was reported to have started the concept of Occupy Wall Street.
• David Fenton serves on the board of numerous Tides-funded groups
• Also represented by Fenton is the Win Without War group, which was funded by Soros and Tides.
• While David Fenton first photographed Ayers in the 1960s, he later served alongside both Ayers and Obama on the board of the Woods Fund, a Chicago nonprofit which channeled money to a slew of progressive groups, including the Tides Center and the Alinsky-style Midwest Academy training outfit. Obama served as a paid director on the Woods Fund board from 1999 to 2002.

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• NEW YORK, Oct. 15 (UPI) -- The month-old protest over wealth disparity that began in New York went global Saturday, organizers said.
• An online group calling itself the central site for the protest, United for Global Change, said more than 950 cities in 82 countries had rallies under way Saturday to protest the widening gap between rich and poor, CNN said.
• Radio France International said protests were ongoing in Italy, Japan, Australia, Spain, Canada, South Korea, New Zealand, Greece, Germany, Britain and South Africa.
• Outside of the United States, the protests have taken on various other themes. In Tokyo, protesters carried banners saying including "No More Nukes" and "Free Tibet," CNN said.

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• Violence broke out in Rome as tens of thousands nicknamed "the indignant" marched in European cities in protest against capitalism and austerity measures.
• As the "Occupy Wall Street" protests went global on Saturday, some protesters in Rome smashed shop windows, torched cars and attacked news crews.
• Black smoke billowed into the air in downtown Rome as a small group of violent protesters broke away from the main demonstration. They smashed car windows, set vehicles on fire and assaulted two news crews of Sky Italia, the TV reported. Others burned Italian and EU flags.
• Witnesses said the violence was caused by several dozen hooded radicals known as "black blocs," who infiltrated the demonstration.
• The protests that began in Canada and spread to cities across the US has now moved to Asia and Europe, linking up with anti-austerity demonstrations that have raged across the debt-ridden continent for months.
• Dozens of cities across the world - from Tokyo to Alaska via London, Frankfurt and Washington - are holding demonstrations in a show of solidarity with the rallies that began last month in downtown New York.
• Greek protesters aligned with Spain's "Indignant" movement called an anti-austerity rally in Athens' Syntagma square, the focal point of many demonstrations during Greece's financial meltdown.

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• Echoing the sentiments of the Occupy Wall Street protesters in the United States, around 300 activists yesterday tried to surround Taipei 101 in an “Occupy Taipei” protest to draw attention to the inequitable distribution of wealth in Taiwan.
• The protest ended in early evening without causing any major disruptions.
• A spokesman for Taipei 101 said the management of the building could have asked the police to disperse the protesters because businesses were affected by them. However, the police said they would not consider dispersing the crowd unless the business owners complained.

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• For an October revolution, dress warm. That's the word going out - politely - on the Web to rally street protests on Saturday around the globe from New Zealand to Alaska via London, Frankfurt, Washington and, of course, New York

• Wall Street protests swelled in cities nation-wide Friday, as municipal police forces around the country struggled to either corral or remove demonstrators from downtown parks and plazas in the latest development of the month-long movement.
• Dozens were arrested in Denver, San Diego and New York, while similar demonstrations were scheduled to take place in Washington, Atlanta and Detroit.
• The demonstrations have been mostly peaceful
• Organizers have taken inspiration from this year's Arab Spring protests that swept through North Africa ad the Middle East. Crowds have taken up residence in the park in New York's financial district, and organizers have called for 20,000 people to flood the area for a "few months."

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