UCC Reviews Free Speech Policy

The Mainstream
Published October 19, 2011

We are unions, students, teachers, veterans, first responders, families, the unemployed and underemployed. We are all races, sexes and creeds. We are the majority. We are the 99 percent. And we will no longer be silent.

Occupy Wall Street is leaderless resistance movement with people of many colors, genders and political persuasions. The one thing we all have in common is that We Are The 99% that will no longer tolerate the greed and corruption of the 1%. We are using the revolutionary Arab Spring tactic to achieve our ends and encourage the use of nonviolence to maximize the safety of all participants.

Occupy Wall Street is an ongoing demonstration in New York City. The Canadian anti-consumerist group Adbusters initially called for the protest and was inspired by the Arab Spring movement, particularly the Tahrir Square protests in Cairo which initiated the 2011 Egyptian Revolution.

The aim of the demonstration is to begin a sustained occupation of Wall Street, the financial district of New York City, to protest perceived corporate greed and social inequality, including opposing corporate influence in U.S. politics, the influence of money and corporations on democracy and a lack of legal and political repercussions for the global financial crisis. Organizers intend for the occupation to last "as long as it takes to meet our demands." Specific demands are in the process of being developed.

By October 1, similar demonstrations were held in Washington, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Boston, Chicago, Albuquerque, Tampa, Charlotte, Seattle, Denver, and Portland, Maine.