#occupytulsa

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Cop holding protestors head while pepper spraying at #OccupyTulsa November, 2, 2011

Tweet from Keith Olbermann - @KeithOlbermann: #ShowPlug 1: Worst police abuse yet as cop holds #OccupyTulsa protestor's head, pepper-sprays him in face.

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75-100 Tulsa police officers descended upon 9 volunteer-for-arrest protesters sitting in a park, arm-in-arm, and pepper spray them in order to carry out the arrests. Occupy protesters claim they had met with Tulsa PD and come to some agreements - on which the PD chief then seemingly backtracked.

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#OccupyTulsa 30 protester and 50 cop car, 4 swat vans, pepper spray, rubber bullets, & canisters tied on their side.

[anarcho-queer]

BREAKING: The city of Tulsa has shut off the electricity for OccupyTulsa!

When calling cite Michelle Allen, a spokeswoman for the city said the electricity of #OccupyTulsa was shut off in response to calls from "taxpayers who didn't want to pay for (the demonstrators) electricity" in an article in the Tulsa World.

Source

Call the Tulsa Police and tell them you are a taxpayer and you want them to stay on the property of the park and you don't mind paying for it because the city council can not remove the money allocated to the electricity of this park without notifying the public as per Tulsa Ordinance VIII Sec. 8.

Remind them that last year the Mayor who ordered the electricity be shut off cut 3.4M from their budget and fired 130 of the police.  Tell them that they are part of the 99% and that they should be supporting this movement and standing in solidarity.

Tulsa Police: 1-918-596-2100 Press 1 for Non-Emergency

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Conservative, independent, or liberal, christian, atheist, muslim, buddhist, hindu, and more,

We are all the 99%, and with the wool pulled from our eyes we're seeing the truth. Occupy together. #OccupyTulsa 10/15

[mollyfamous]

The original Occupy Wall Street protests originated with several groups such as AdBusters from Canada (an anti-consumerist magazine and group designed to wake people up to the lies corporations are feeding people through their Ad campaigns), and Anonymous, a group (if one could call them that) of individuals with common goals of bringing down exploitative corporations and institutions - such as the "church" of Scientology, Mastercard and other major credit card companies, etc who have been exploiting people - through denial of service attacks and site redirection. Their involvement in the Occupy movement has been to spread the word about the protests when the major news media refused to cover them, protect Occupy group sites from attacks and being pulled down by service providers, and helping arrange logistics and support to the men and women who have been camping out day and night outside wall street for 3 weeks. The majority of the other protesters have just been individuals who, inspired by the Arab Spring revolutions and the initial success of the peaceful revolution at Tahrir Square in Egypt, have risen up to demand that their voices be heard. The NYPD have responded in some cases with brutality, unlawfully arresting peaceful protesters, spraying them with mace, and beating them down as they cry out that they have done nothing wrong. But their brutality cannot stop us. In many cases, the police are individuals, scared, and trained to react with force when they are afraid. We are committed to reaching out to them as people exploited by the system - unwitting pawns who are also the 99% - being used to protect the corporations that exploit them. Since then, people have been tuning in to the protests, watching feed from Livestream.com, tweeting and texting, facebooking and youtubing, spreading the news person to person that change is coming. People are finally waking up from their apathy and determined to do something, to fight for their rights which have been trampled by the wealthiest 1%, and go out in nonviolent exercise of their first amendment rights. But it extends far beyond just the US. All over the world, Occupy groups are springing up. Worldwide we are saying enough to corporate greed and exploitation which has ruined lives and polluted the planet. Throughout the world, people are demanding true democracy, direct rule by the people. On October 15th, we will all stand together as people of earth in solidarity to say in one unified voice, we will not be silenced. This is what scares the pants off of those that pander to corporate greed. They see The People are waking up from their consumerist induced comas and are making their voices heard. Nationalism, Globalism, all of those things are just artificial constructs designed to blind us to our true potential. Either we all pull together and work for the common good, or we will destroy ourselves with war, famine, greed, exploitation, and pollution. Our Corporate overlords only care about profits and expanding markets, nothing else. they have bought their way into the highest places of power, but they cannot buy us off when we stand together. We are committed to peaceful nonviolent revolution. The institutions which have controlled society and exploited the people must hear our voices or be brought down. Gandhi achieved independence for India from the one of the world's most powerful countries which had occupied it for centuries. If he did it, so can we.

Daniel Lee of OccupyTulsa, regarding the Occupy Movement.

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#OCCUPYTULSA

All of my friends. If you're interested in #occupyTulsa on Saturday, October 8th, I'm planning on going there. Let me know what's up, and if you have any questions, please ask. 

We can make a change here, guys. We can revolutionize in our own back yards. So why aren't you getting up and causing change? 

This mission statement[1] is one I feel is very accurate and concise.

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.

This youtube channel (http://www.youtube.com/user/TheYoungTurks) has many useful videos talking about #occupywallstreet.

Come out and protest, friends!

[1]https://occupywallst.org/