OccupyWall Street Protests Feeding Homeless

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/zuccotti_hell_kitchen_i5biNyYYhpa8MSYIL9xSDL

Occupy Wall Street kitchen staff protesting fixing food for freeloaders

By SELIM ALGAR and BOB FREDERICKS

October 27, 2011

The Occupy Wall Street volunteer kitchen staff launched a “counter” revolution yesterday -- because they’re angry about working 18-hour days to provide food for “professional homeless” people and ex-cons masquerading as protesters.

For three days beginning tomorrow, the cooks will serve only brown rice and other spartan grub instead of the usual menu of organic chicken and vegetables, spaghetti bolognese, and roasted beet and sheep’s-milk-cheese salad.

They will also provide directions to local soup kitchens for the vagrants, criminals and other freeloaders who have been descending on Zuccotti Park in increasing numbers every day.

To show they mean business, the kitchen staff refused to serve any food for two hours yesterday in order to meet with organizers to air their grievances, sources said.

As the kitchen workers met with the “General Assembly’’ last night, about 300 demonstrators stormed from the park to Reade Street and Broadway, where they violently clashed with cops.

Officers made at least 10 arrests when rowdy demonstrators refused to get out of the street and stop blocking traffic. A dozen cops on scooters tried to force them back to the sidewalk.

There were no reported injuries.

The demonstrators said they were angry over the violence in Oakland.

After making their way to Union Square, many of the protesters returned to Zuccotti.

The Assembly announced the three-day menu crackdown announced earlier in the day -- insisting everybody would be fed something during that period.

Some protesters threatened that the high-end meals could be cut off completely if the vagrants and criminals don’t disperse.

Unhappiness with their unwelcome guests was apparent throughout the day.

“We need to limit the amount of food we’re putting out” to curb the influx of derelicts, said Rafael Moreno, a kitchen volunteer.

A security volunteer added that the cooks felt “overworked and underappreciated.”

Many of those being fed “are professional homeless people. They know what they’re doing,” said the guard at the food-storage area.

Today, a limited menu of sandwiches, chips and some hot food will be doled out -- so legitimate protesters will have a day to make arrangements for more upscale weekend meals.

Protesters got their first taste of the revolt within the revolt yesterday when the kitchen staff served only peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and chips after their staff meeting.

Organizers took other steps to police the squatters, who they said were lured in from other parks with the promise of free meals.

A team of 10 security volunteers moved in to the trouble-prone southwest section of Zuccotti Park in a show of force to confront them.

“We’re not going to let some members of this community destroy the whole movement,” a volunteer said.

Some arguments broke out as the security team searched tents -- but no violence erupted.

Overall security at the park had deteriorated to the point where many frightened female protesters had abandoned the increasingly out-of-control occupation, security- team members said.

Rumors swirled that one homeless man had pulled a knife in a dispute the night before -- and that there had been yet another case of groping.

But protesters and a cop on duty told The Post that most of the crime goes unreported, because of a bizarre “stop snitching” rule.

“What’s happening in there is staying in there,” said the cop.

Loving Mother Leaves Family for OWS Protest

NY Post

STACEY HESSLER SELFISH WHORE

A married mother of four from Florida ditched her family to become part of the raggedy mob in Zuccotti Park -- keeping the park clean by day and keeping herself warm at night with the help of a young waiter from Brooklyn.

“I’m not planning on going home,” an unapologetic Stacey Hessler, 38, told The Post yesterday.

“I have no idea what the future holds, but I’m here indefinitely. Forever,” said Hessler, whose home in DeLand sits 911 miles from the tarp she’s been sleeping under.

Hessler -- who ironically is married to a banker -- arrived 12 days ago and planned to stay for a week, but changed her plans after cozying up to some like-minded radicals, including Rami Shamir, 30, a waiter at a French bistro in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn.

She swears she’s not romantically involved with her new friend.


Yesterday was a typical day for the pair, who woke up at 8 a.m. on their little patch of paving stone near the communal kitchen and dashed off to Trinity Church to wash up.

Hessler emerged an hour later, her brown hair in dreadlocks, wearing a T-shirt depicting Han Solo and Princess Leia kissing, and bearing the slogan “Make Love Not War.”

She got coffee and a granola bar from the protest kitchen before sorting laundry for two hours.

The unemployed Long Island native compared her decision to abandon her family to Americans serving in the armed forces.

“Military people leave their families all the time, so why should I feel bad?” a defiant Hessler said. “I’m fighting for a better world.”

She said she had been following the movement on Facebook, and the more she learned, the more obsessed she became with joining the demonstrators.

At around 11 a.m. yesterday, Hessler moved from laundry duty to park cleanup -- a four-hour detail from which she broke just once to give a troubled protester a hug at the “empathy table.” She also found time for a meditation session later in the day.

Hessler has spoken with her family -- husband Curtiss, 42; son Peyton, 17; and daughters Kennedy 15, Sullivan, 13, and Veda, 7 -- just three times since leaving them. “Friends are taking care of them,” she said.

Not everyone has supported her decision. “My mother told me I was being very selfish,” she admitted.

And her husband, a former Bank of America financial adviser who now works at a local Florida bank, is perplexed. “He says he’s working for ‘the Man,’ and I’m fighting against him,” she said.

After finishing her morning routine and afternoon chores yesterday, Hessler spent the evening attending organizer meetings and helping fellow protesters find sleeping spots.

Hessler herself bedded down on an air mattress at 12:28 a.m., ready to do it all over again today.

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Michael Moore Donates $2.5 Million Dollars To #OccupyWallStreet

occupywallst.org/forum/michael-moore-to-donate-25-million-dollars-to-occu/
PRESS RELEASE
by OxUpie
Oct. 27, 2011

Filmmaker Michael Moore to donate 2.5 million dollars to Occupy Wall Street protesters Thursday at noon

New York City, NY - The most visible supporter of the Occupy Wall Street protesters, filmmaker Michael Moore, has vowed to donate one thousand dollars cash to 2500 different people who are occupying Zuccotti Park at noon on Thursday October 29th 2011.

“These people need this money more than I do. I have plenty and have benefited tremendously from the capitalist system in this country and I am so touched by this movement that I want to do something to help it,” insists Moore.

“I’ve been very fortunate financially because of my films, and instead of waiting for the government to redistribute my wealth, I have decided I would take that into my own hands since I can do a better job,” explains Moore, adding, “It’s my money, and I can do whatever I want with it.”

Of course, as news spreads of this giveaway, many people will flock to the Occupy Wall Street location Thursday looking for their money, and to ensure that the diehard protesters and actual occupiers will be sure to receive it, Moore insists that the first people to get their envelope will be the ones who have claimed a residence in Zuccotti park.

The cash giveaway will be highly organized by a joint effort between Michael Moore’s security team and the NYPD to ensure that the crowd does not get out of hand during the event. Once someone has received their gift, they will be marked with a semi-permanent marker on their right hand in order to prevent people from getting multiple gifts. The money will arrive in a Brinks Security truck just outside Zuccotti Park where it will be met by the NYPD, Michael Moore, and his security team.

Michael Moore is one of the most successful documentary film makers in history, whose films include Roger and Me, Sicko, and Fahrenheit 9/11. He was one of the first celebrities to voice support for the Occupy Movement, and has become an unofficial spokesperson of the protesters.

CONTACT

Don Epstein

Michael Moore’s agent

Greater Talent Network

Phone: 212-645-4200

Fax: 212 627 147

D2NWO Joins Forces With OWS Deception Blog

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Harry Link of Death To The New World Order (d2nwo.com, youtube.com/coverupus) talks to Louie Bee (CrotchShotRadioShow)And Glenn Z (WeAreChangeNewJersey) about building a coalition of internal affairs for this OccupyMovement Deception. This blog is here to help promote and connect various researchers who have pointed out and/or in the process of realizing that this new movement/paradigm is being created to usher in Global Government and a worldwide martial law police state.

Thomas C. Shope leader of Occupy Charlotte is a theif

**MEDIA STATEMENT**

We the people of Occupy Charlotte and the General Assembly thereof, wish it to be hereby known that Thomas C. Shope has been exiled from the Occupy Charlotte movement and is to no longer be used as a source for communication and/or donations. He has been separated from this organization due to his consistent and willful actions against the will of the people and the decisions of the General Assembly. Any and all communications to the media and any donations from the people that support us, are to be made and accepted by and from the members of the occupation at 600 E. Trade Street in Charlotte, NC.
**END OF MEDIA STATEMENT**

This was a long meeting, and this issue was talked about until consensus was reached. There are many more statements to come on this issue and many others. On this one alone there are too many concerns to not try to get them to the public as soon as possible. This is merely one of many videos to come.We invite everyone to come be part of our ongoing conversation, the process, a true forum of the people, just one of many across the world. We will not be meek, we will not be silent. Our true voices will be heard and we will fight against any distortions that are created to manipulate public opinion against us. We are the 99%...and so are you.

Occupy Charlotte: Where do the donations go?

http://www.wbtv.com/story/15874114/occupy-charlotte-where-do-the-donations-go

CHARLOTTE, NC (WBTV) - Occupy Charlotte protestors seem to be settling into their community outside the old city hall. Supporters are even sending them mail to Trade Street.

There's also a donation booth on the grounds, a few steps away from police headquarters.

"This is a book we started several days ago," said Don Faix, one of the occupiers. He's a retiree who believes in the movement, and he says, financial disclosure.

He showed WBTV how each donation is logged, with the initials of two protestors to account for it. The day of their most recent march, more than $200 dollars came in to support the cause.

"The public will know everything about our finances. That's one of our goals," he said.

Just not right away. Another voice of the movement, Luis Rodriguez, did not want to discuss total donations amounts.

"I'm afraid I can't really say. That number is being tallied by fundraising," said Rodriguez.

He said the fundraising committee is also working on project to allow people to make online donations. It's a signal the movement wants to grow.

But there's a problem. Occupy Charlotte doesn't have a bank account. Protestors say they are in the process of starting one.

There's also conflict over the name. Occupy Charlotte is registered with the city as a sole proprietorship under their former spokesperson, Thomas Shope. The group ousted him last week amid accusations coming from both parties.

While the group works to sort out legal obligations, the donations are building.

"When we have money come in, right now it's going into a general coffer," said Rodriguez. He said the donations pay for things like megaphones and fliers. He also said they hope to buy winter clothing and winterize their tents.

It sounds like a group not going anywhere soon.

Much like the business culture they rail against, as Occupy Charlotte grows, so will its financial accountability. 

The group says it will register as a non-profit, which means those dollars must be reported. The donors would get a tax write off.

1% Support And Finance The 99% At Occupy Wall Street

They may represent the "One Percent" decried by many of Occupy Wall Street, but some wealthy individuals have nevertheless made common cause with the downtown activists. AFPTV meets with the privileged few dedicated to social justice who are standing with the "other 99 percent".

TootsSweet Called Out OccupyWallStreet In May

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"We're being played by the Shadow Government of this progressive liberal End Game"