Document 1 Declaration of the Occupation of New York City

This document was accepted by the NYC General Assembly on September 29, 2011 Translations: French, Slovak, Spanish, German, Italian, Arabic, Portuguese [all translations »]

As we gather together in solidarity to express a feeling of mass injustice, we must not lose sight of what brought us together. We write so that all people who feel wronged by the corporate forces of the world can know that we are your allies.

As one people, united, we acknowledge the reality: that the future of the human race requires the cooperation of its members; that our system must protect our rights, and upon corruption of that system, it is up to the individuals to protect their own rights, and those of their neighbors; that a democratic government derives its just power from the people, but corporations do not seek consent to extract wealth from the people and the Earth; and that no true democracy is attainable when the process is determined by economic power. We come to you at a time when corporations, which place profit over people, self-interest over justice, and oppression over equality, run our governments. We have peaceably assembled here, as is our right, to let these facts be known.

. They have taken our houses through an illegal foreclosure process, despite not having the original mortgage. . They have taken bailouts from taxpayers with impunity, and continue to give Executives exorbitant bonuses. . They have perpetuated inequality and discrimination in the workplace based on age, the color of one’s skin, sex, gender identity and sexual orientation. . They have poisoned the food supply through negligence, and undermined the farming system through monopolization. . They have profited off of the torture, confinement, and cruel treatment of countless animals, and actively hide these practices. . They have continuously sought to strip employees of the right to negotiate for better pay and safer working conditions. . They have held students hostage with tens of thousands of dollars of debt on education, which is itself a human right. . They have consistently outsourced labor and used that outsourcing as leverage to cut workers’ healthcare and pay. . They have influenced the courts to achieve the same rights as people, with none of the culpability or responsibility. . They have spent millions of dollars on legal teams that look for ways to get them out of contracts in regards to health insurance. . They have sold our privacy as a commodity. . They have used the military and police force to prevent freedom of the press. . They have deliberately declined to recall faulty products endangering lives in pursuit of profit. . They determine economic policy, despite the catastrophic failures their policies have produced and continue to produce. . They have donated large sums of money to politicians, who are responsible for regulating them. . They continue to block alternate forms of energy to keep us dependent on oil. . They continue to block generic forms of medicine that could save people’s lives or provide relief in order to protect investments that have already turned a substantial profit. . They have purposely covered up oil spills, accidents, faulty bookkeeping, and inactive ingredients in pursuit of profit. . They purposefully keep people misinformed and fearful through their control of the media. . They have accepted private contracts to murder prisoners even when presented with serious doubts about their guilt. . They have perpetuated colonialism at home and abroad. . They have participated in the torture and murder of innocent civilians overseas. . They continue to create weapons of mass destruction in order to receive government contracts.*

To the people of the world,

We, the New York City General Assembly occupying Wall Street in Liberty Square, urge you to assert your power.

Exercise your right to peaceably assemble; occupy public space; create a process to address the problems we face, and generate solutions accessible to everyone.

To all communities that take action and form groups in the spirit of direct democracy, we offer support, documentation, and all of the resources at our disposal.

Join us and make your voices heard!

*These grievances are not all-inclusive.

Downloaded from http://www.nycga.net/resources/declaration/, accessed on 1/3/2012. Document 2 Principles of Solidarity

What follows is a living document that will be revised through democratic process of General Assembly

On September 17, 2011, people from all across the United States of America and the world came to protest the blatant injustices of our times perpetuated by the economic and political elites. On the 17th we as individuals rose up against political disenfranchisement and social and economic injustice. We spoke out, resisted, and successfully occupied Wall Street. Today, we proudly remain in Liberty Square constituting ourselves as autonomous political beings engaged in non-violent civil disobedience and building solidarity based on mutual respect, acceptance, and love. It is from these reclaimed grounds that we say to all Americans and to the world, Enough! How many crises does it take? We are the 99% and we have moved to reclaim our mortgaged future. Through a direct democratic process, we have come together as individuals and crafted these principles of solidarity, which are points of unity that include but are not limited to: . Engaging in direct and transparent participatory democracy; . Exercising personal and collective responsibility; . Recognizing individuals’ inherent privilege and the influence it has on all interactions; . Empowering one another against all forms of oppression; . Redefining how labor is valued; . The sanctity of individual privacy; . The belief that education is human right; and . Endeavoring to practice and support wide application of open source.

We are daring to imagine a new socio-political and economic alternative that offers greater possibility of equality. We are consolidating the other proposed principles of solidarity, after which demands will follow.

1 The Working Group on Principles of Consolidation continues to work through the other proposed principles to be incorporated as soon as possible into this living document. This is an official document crafted by the Working Group on Principles of Consolidation. The New York City General Assembly came to consensus on September 23rd to accept this working draft and post it online for public consumption

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Occupy Seattle, Resolutions of the General Assembly Passed on 11/26/2011

1. Solidarity with Occupy Oakland. Port Shutdown. Two actions: 11/30 and 12/12.

On Dec 12th, Occupy Seattle will join the rest of the West Coast Occupy movement in a mass march to the port with the intention of shutting it down. The march will begin at 1 PM at Westlake Park in downtown Seattle. If you come late, check the #occupyseattle twitter account for the march’s current location. Information about the Coast-wide day of action can be found here: http://www.westcoastportshutdown.org/. Similar actions are already planned in LA, San Diego, Oakland, and Portland.

Why shut down the port? a) We will shut down the port to resist the budget cuts that target working class people.

The 1% are confident they can cut our health care, education, food aid, and social services because they think we won’t fight back. They are wrong. If they cut our society to pieces, we will cut their profits. We know the port is a major source of profits for the 1%, especially during the holiday season when they ship goods produced by Asian workers under horrible labor conditions to American malls where increasingly broke workers buy holiday presents on credit, worried about whether we lose our jobs, foodstamps, or health care. We are tired of worrying, so now we are fighting back. A port shutdown will hit the 1% directly in their wallets. Happy Holidays you scrooges. b) We will shut down the port to bypass the corporate-controlled politicians and to confront the 1% who really call the shots. Some members of Occupy Seattle will be occupying the Capitol against Gregoire’s budget cuts. The rest of us here in Seattle will Occupy capital - the port facilities of the big corporations - against the same cuts.

Capital means the machines, trucks, ships, stores, cafes, hospitals, etc. - all the things that the corporations own and we work on to make their profits. One of their biggest pieces of capital is the port of Seattle. We know the 1% controls the politicians who are cutting the working class’s standard of living. So instead of begging politicians to stop cutting us, we will do what our fellow occupiers did when they occupied Wall Street and we will go straight to the source of the problem: the big corporations, including the corporations who profit from Seattle’s port. If they cut our livelihoods, we will cut their profits. c) We will shut down the port to defend workers’ right to organize, and to assert that the Occupy Movement is part of organized labor

Everyone knows Goldman Sachs is the 1% of the 1%. They control Stevedore Services of America (SSA), a major player in the port of Seattle. SSA is repressing immigrant port truckers who are trying to organize in their workplace in the port of LA, which is why Occupy LA put out the call for solidarity picket lines at ports up and down the West Coast on Dec. 12th.

By honoring this call, Occupy Seattle will be showing that we also are the labor movement. Because the 1% uses repressive labor laws and union busting firms to disrupt organizing efforts, only 11% of US workers are organized into trade unions. On the 12th, Occupy Seattle will take a stand to defend our right to organize on the job. We also recognize that the U.S. working class is starting to get organized in the Occupy movement, which makes us part of organized labor. Many of us occupiers are trade unionists, and many of us are also the 89% of US workers who are not in unions, the large sections of the US working class who are unemployed, underemployed, students, houseless. Our picket lines might not have the same legal standing as official union picket lines, but when the unions first started picketing back in the day they were also considered illegitimate. Occupy Seattle’s picket lines are still picket lines organized by workers, in solidarity with fellow workers. Dec 12th is the first of many actions that Occupy will take as a new wing of the labor movement. d) We will shut down the port in response to the police violence and harassment the Occupy movement has faced nationwide.

The 1% uses union busting tactics to shut down our organizing on the job and their cops use pepper spray, batons, and handcuffs to repress our organizing in the streets and plazas. We know that if the 1% wanted to, they could tell the police to stop all this repression. But they are apparently not embarrassed when global media broadcasts images of veteran Scott Olson with his head smashed in, or 84 year old Dorli Rainey with her face full of pepper spray. They don’t care when their cops hit a member of Occupy Seattle, a pregnant woman, in the stomach, after which she miscarried. They didn’t care when their cops killed the late Oscar Grant or the late John T. Williams either. They don’t care as long as their goods get shipped and their profits flow. On Oct 2nd, Occupy Oakland shut down the port of Oakland in response to the police violence they faced. On Dec. 12th we will do the same in Seattle. Let’s show the forces of repression that when they stomp the flames of freedom they just spread the embers. e) We will send a warning to EGT, the multinational conglomerate that is trying to bust the International Longshore and Warehousemen’s Union. EGT is refusing to honor the ILWU’s contract in Longview, WA. Our action is completely independent from the ILWU. They are not organizing this action, and we are in no way attempting to co-opt or control their struggle. However, we are inspired by Longshore workers’ direct actions against EGT, we are angered by the repression they are facing by the cops and courts, and we know that if the 1% busts the ILWU they will try to drive down all of our wages and working conditions next. If ILWU members were to ask us to stand in solidarity with them at any time we would join them in a heartbeat. We hope our action on the 12th will show EGT that we are serious about this and that we are capable of disrupting business. They should honor the ILWU’s contract because next time it could be their business.

Because of their relationship to contracts-legally binding documents which enforce an agreement not to strike or engage in other direct actions-any trade union which publicly supports our picket line on Dec 12th could face fines and other retributions. The trade unions cannot take stances in support of this action, hence the ILWU leadership’s attempts to distance themselves from it. This does not prevent individual union members from supporting this action. We are organizing this action by speaking with and reaching out a hand in solidarity with the struggles of organized workers in the ports, but we will be careful not to act in their names unless we are explicitly asked to do so. Until then, we will talk to rank and file workers-unionized and non-unionized - and they will determine their relationship to our action for themselves.

We are not calling on ILWU members to do a strike or job action. We know their contract does not allow them to honor our picket line by refusing to cross for political reasons. These are the limitations of union contracts and labor law which prevent cross- industry solidarity. Given these limitations, all we are asking from ILWU workers is intentional neutrality. The ILWU contract does say that workers can stand aside if they feel our picket line or the police response to it creates an unsafe situation for them, especially if it creates a situation where emergency vehicles wouldn't be able to get into the port in the case of an accident on the job. The arbiter will rule in their favor if our picket line actually appears to pose such a safety threat.

We want to emphasize to ILWU members that our ability to show the corporations our capacity to shut down the port could ultimately work to their advantage. It is worth noting that when the president of the Longview local of the ILWU came to Occupy Oakland's General Assembly last week to speak, he opened with these words about the Nov. 2nd Oakland port shutdown: “When Nov 2nd happened, and it was against EGT in respect to the ILWU and Local 21, you cannot believe what you people did for the inspiration of my union members who have been on the picket line for six months now!” For video footage of this, see: ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtdQCZSQ99I )

We aim to build trust and open communication between Occupiers and port workers leading up to this action. On Nov 30th, we will be marching from Westlake Park to the ILWU union hall to deliver a letter of solidarity to the union. The march begins at 2 PM and we will arrive at the hall at 4. At 6 PM, we will hold a mass community-labor meeting at Southwest Youth and Family Services, 4555 Delridge Way SW to discuss the struggle in Longview and the port action on the 12th. (Please note this event is not organized by or sponsored by Southwest Youth and Family Services, we are simply using the space to meet. ) f) We will shut down the port as part of the second phase of our movement

With this Dec. 12th action, the Occupy movement is undertaking a transformation. When we started occupying Seattle Central Community College, many people told us, “don’t disrupt life for the 99%, go disrupt it for the 1%.” They said the same thing when we joined labor unions to occupy a bridge on Nov 17th. These criticisms missed the fact that our camps have enhanced life for the 99% by providing educational opportunities, food, and shelter, and have stood as a visible reminder of the need for deeper social change. However, we hear your criticism - we should be disrupting the 1% more than we are. That’s why we’re occupying the port, as well as abandoned buildings owned by banks, wealthy developers, etc.

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Goals

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Occupy Seattle is currently in the process of working on both local proposals and collaborating with the national Occupy movement to create a clear and cohesive outline of the concerns, goals and solutions that are central to the movement.

Please click here to see the current Occupy Wall Street declaration (statement of purpose and list of grievances).

Feel free to join our forum, and contribute to the conversation in the Demands section: http://forum.occupyseattle.org/

Solidarity! The Occupy Seattle Goals Working Group

To vote for a goal, click the "up" button below the goal's title.

 Imminent potential police raid at 10th and union Please come support occupiers at the old union cultural center. Public space not private waste. 10th and union.

 Protect public transit

 Open primaries

 Enforce anti-trust laws

 No support for the Democratic or Republican parties, rely on people in the Occupy movement

 Protect the environment

 Oppose the two parties of big business

(This is more of a slogan, as it is mainly about ending corporate lobbying and 2 party system)

 Prosecute war criminals

 Tax micro-trading

 Support unions and workers rights

 End industrial prison complex

 Reform representative government

 Public works program to create jobs

 No austerity measures

 Reinstate Glass-Steagall Act

 Universal education

 Increase taxes on capital gains

 Nationalize the banks  No bank fees

 Attention to genocides and other international atrocities

 Enact a system of law that is money-proof

 Publicly-funded elections

 End corporate control of Supreme Court

 End the War on Drugs

 End the wars - redirect war funding to meet human needs

 End privatization of the commons (natural resources, education, healthcare, etc.)

 Allow 3rd parties to participate meaningfully in elections

 Defend and expand civil liberties

 End corporate lobbying

 Call a Constitutional Convention

 End corporate interactions with government

 Create a sustainable economy democratically run by society

 End all free trade agreements

 Universal healthcare

 Allow everyone to vote

 End corporate personhood

 Nationalize the Federal Reserve and create State banks  Fair and equitable tax system

 End the Federal Reserve

 Accessible health care and health products

 Corporate accountability

 Abolish the Drug Enforcement Administration

 Occupy Seattle's Demands to Mayor McGinn As Of Oct. 11, 2011

1. To the Mayor . First and foremost, we demand that Mayor McGinn meet with nominated representatives of Occupy Seattle in order to discuss our long term goals. 2. Practical Demands . Four large tents for Medical, Kitchen, Supply and Info/Tactical . Twenty-four hour parking at City Hall (One space for supply purposes) . Twenty-four hour occupancy shelters for health and safety of protesters . Twenty-four hour access to first floor of City Hall for access to restrooms, meetings & etc. . A written statement from Mayor McGinn regarding right to indefinite occupancy of City Hall site. This list of demands has been so resolved and passed by the General Assembly of Occupy Seattle this Tuesday, October 11, 2011.

 Tax the rich and big business