For a children’s BOOK idea, see below, or click to our recommendation: here.
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The video below is a wonderful way to explain Occupy Wall Street, and all of the occupations around the country, to children. A parent asked some of the occupiers to describe Occupy Wall Street to their six-year-old daughter.
More about the video: Continue reading Video: Explaining Occupy Wall Street to children
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Occupy Wall Street, and the occupy movement, are an attempt to solve the problem of disparity of wealth and political influence between the 99% of people, and the 1%. A lot of the focus is on making corporations accountable, and on keeping mega-banks in their place.
This week, there is a way for you to directly put a crimp in the power of the mega-banks. You can join with the 99% to make a shift from big banks, to smaller, locally-based credit unions. You can celebrate “International Credit Union Day“, an annual event sponsored by the Credit Union National Association [CUNA].
On October 20, 2011, consider closing (or starting the process of closing) any bank accounts you have with big banks, and moving your money to a credit union (or small, local bank.) That is all you have to do to make a big difference, and send a huge message to the mega-banks and to our government.
As CUNA notes:
Credit unions are unique because they
are not-for-profit, democratically controlled,
member-owned cooperatives. Continue reading Oct 20th: Occupy Wall Street with your bank account [PLUS Bank Transfer Day on Nov 5th]
“Commonwealth of Toil” by Ralph Chaplin is the Peace Song of the Day for Thursday, October 13th. The tune is to the traditional song, “Nellie Bly”. You can find this song on page 181 of the Rise Up Singing songbook, which you can purchase through Peace Couple: here.
The Duke and Duchess are dedicating this song to the folks on the ground at Occupy Wall Street. Tomorrow morning, the Occupy Wall Street demonstrators are facing eviction from their park. If you can support them with your presence or a phonecall, please take action before tomorrow morning at 6am. You can find more information at www.occupywallst.org
More about this song, and its connection to Occupy Wall Street below Continue reading When the earth is owned by labor: Peace Song for 10/13/2011
Occupy Wall Street is going into its fourth week. Kimberly and Ian Wilder of Peace Couple went to support the occupation today. They brought donations and their handheld camera. Hope you enjoy seeing some of the energy and spirit of this people’s movement to create more peace and justice in the world.
There is a link to our Peace Couple Occupy Wall Street photo album: here.
Some individual photos below, including another “peace couple”, who are occupying Wall Street:
“This Land is Your Land” is the Peace Song of the Day for Monday, September 26th. The song was written by Woody Guthrie.
This song has also become a favorite of the Occupy Movement. It’s been sung a lot at Occupy Wall Street in NYC (see story: here) They also sang it at Occupy Albany (see the video: here), at Occupy Burlington (see the video: here), and many other occupations.
“This Land is Your Land” has become a true folk song, with many verses. You can find extensive lyrics in the Rise Up Singing songbook, on page 5. Though, don’t hesitate to make up your own words. In the video below, Father Bill Brisotti adds one verse about unjustly pushing Native Americans on to reservations, and another verse that asserts, “This land is your land. This land is my land. It’s not the bank’s land…”
More about this choice: Continue reading This Land is Your Land: Peace Song for 9/26/2011
The Peace Song of the Day, as chosen by Duke Augustus and Duchess Susanna, The Duke and Duchess of Peace, is “Occupy Wall Street (We Are The 99%)”. “Occupy Wall Street” was written by Long Island singer/songwriter Jeremy Gilchrist, who used to play music at our favorite Cafe (now a victim of the economic downturn.) You can see the lyrics to the song in text at the bottom of this post.
For more information about Occupy Wall Street, please visit the website where they first called for the demonstration: Adbusters.org
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