WHY OCCUPY?

Occupy Wall Street (OWS) is a non-violent people's movement for change, centered around Wall Street and the culture of greed that is running our country, and the world, into the ground.

OWS is credited with coining the terms "1%" and "99%".  The 1% of the world's wealthiest, that live on the backs of the rest of us, the 99%.

I started the Occupy Public Transportation in St. Louis action because I saw that NOTHING was going to change without someone standing up and demanding it.

There are a lot of things I want to change, but Public Transit is an immediate need for many people.  And few public entities are as entwined with the 1% and the politicians they manipulate as public transit.

The whole world needs change.  There are more of us than there of them -- and we don't have to resort to violence to get the changes we need.

WE JUST HAVE TO START OCCUPYING OUR OWN LIVES!

For some of us that may mean camping out in Zuccotti Park and protesting Wall Street greed.  But for a lot more of us, what it means is investigating the structure of society that we take for granted.

Changes can be made, but WE will have to do the changing!

Join the WORLDWIDE WAVE OF ACTION, THE MOVEMENT OF MOVEMENTS, NOW! APRIL 4TH THROUGH JULY 4TH, BE THE CHANGE YOU WANT TO SEE IN THE WORLD!

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How to change the world: http://optinstl.blogspot.com/2014/04/how-anyone-can-change-world-outlined-in.html

From the Worldwide Wave of Action website: 


Here’s a basic list of tactics… 

> Mass gatherings, demonstrations;
> Marches, parades;
> Flash mobs, swarms;

> Shutdown harmful corporate and governmental operations;

> Worker Strikes;

> Hunger strikes;

> Sit-ins;

> Strategic defaults, debt strikes;

> Foreclosure prevention;

> Boycotting corrupt corporations;

> Move your money out of the big banks and the stock market;

> Use alternative currencies and economic systems;

> Cancel your cable television and support independent media;

> Use independent online tools that don’t sell your info / protect privacy;

> Online civil disobedience, Anonymous operations;

> Leak information on corruption;

> Use alternative energy;

> Build urban and hydroponic farms, or get your food from them;

> Support local businesses;

> Join local community organizations;

> Take part in food banks and help develop community support systems;
> Start or join intentional and autonomous communities;

> Experiment with new governing systems, Liquid Democracy;

> Host teach-ins;

> Organize socially conscious events;

> Make conscious media;
> Guerrilla postering, messages on money;

> Help inspiring groups and organizations spread their message;

> Random acts of kindness and compassion;

> Mass meditations, prayer sessions and spiritual actions.

You know what you can do to play a part. Do whatever you feel inspired to do. Amplify what you are already doing. Think about what you are willing to do to be the change we urgently need to see in the world, and then do it.