The Occupy Wall Street movement has announced plans for a major west coast action next week. Calling itself Occupy Wall Street West, several organizations are planning a major event in the San Francisco Financial District on January 20.
The date chosen is the anniversary of last year's Citizens United Supreme Court ruling that corporations are people. Over 40 organizations are supporting the event, with initial meetings set for 6 AM near the ice skating rink at Bradley Manning/Justin Herman Plaza.
Announcing their intentions in a recent e-mail, the organizers stated that "In the same way that the world has been forced to recognize the practical and symbolic occupation of Wall St. in New York City, we will once again command the national narrative through mass occupation, mobilization, non-violent direct action and disobedience."
Citing concerns for how corporations are "...assaulting..." environmental matters as well as financial ones, the organizer's goals are:
- To end corporate person-hood! Corporations are NOT people; Money is NOT speech.
- To expose how Wall St. operates in our midst, attacking our communities, homes, livelihoods, education, environment, democracy, and health.
- To demand that banks stop foreclosing on our neighbors and evicting them from their homes for profit.
- To contribute toward ongoing community fights for social and economic justice against banks and corporations.
- To build and mobilize a broad-based, strategic mass movement asserting the people power of the 99% in San Francisco, the Bay Area, California, and the region.
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