How You Can Help #OCCUPYWALLSTREET

As we enter day five of the protests, join in and help out your fellow 99%.

176 comments Chaz Valenza, 21 September 2011

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These patriot occupiers are fighting for 99 percent of us. Those who are unemployed, uninsured, underemployed and totally insecure in the face of ever increasing social and financial inequities. They are standing up for those who cannot be there right now.

Here's the good news – you can help, right now today – no matter where you are.

Spread the word – there's something going on. People have started a movement – they're occupying Wall Street. Hundreds of people have been camped out in lower Manhattan for four days!
If you're in New York and can only spare a little time or money: bring American flags, cardboard, markers, water, etc. down to Liberty Park.
If you're in the New York area and have a day, a morning, an afternoon, go down there. The weather appears to be holding. Take the day off and just go. I know it sounds hard to believe but you will be heard. This is an open general assembly effort and you will get your say and be a real participant.
If you are a little ways from NYC, organize foursomes to go to NYC for the day. It will cost you the train/bus/car fare. Take nothing but some food and water and your body.
Too far to get to NYC? Sign this petition and I will read your name and comments in Liberty Park this week, I promise. Break Up Goldman Sachs Now!
Be subversive against the big money interests wherever you are and encourage others to do the same. Don't give the banksters 4 percent of every purchase you make with a credit or debit card – use cash. See: UseCashMovement
Be subversive: max out your credit card on large ticket items and return them the next day. (This one is right out of the Saul Alinsky playbook.)
Move your money from a big bank to a credit union.
Picket a local branch of a bank. When the press asks you what the heck you think you're doing, tell them it's in solidarity with Occupy Wall Street.
Send food to the protesters in Liberty Park through a New York friend or go to the live stream chat for information on local eats that will take your order. (Yes, you'll have to use your credit card, big spender!)
Do you know anybody who knows anybody who knows a writer, a celebrity, etc. who will show their face at the protest? Get to them now.

*Bonus support idea: Spread the word again, and repeat!

Chaz Valenza is a writer and small business owner in New Jersey. Read more about his Occupy Wall Street updates.

176 comments on the article “How You Can Help #OCCUPYWALLSTREET”

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Anonymous

03 October 2011 at 02:29 am

Don't come here and advocate violence. You are discreditiing the rest of us. You're either a provoc or you're doing the work of one. We can't tell the difference and we don't care. We disavow you.

Anonymous

03 October 2011 at 02:29 am

Don't come here and advocate violence. You are discreditiing the rest of us. You're either a provoc or you're doing the work of one. We can't tell the difference and we don't care. We disavow you.

Anonymous

21 September 2011 at 06:49 pm

get the students going, to call for Free education most of them drop out.

Anonymous

21 September 2011 at 06:49 pm

get the students going, to call for Free education most of them drop out.

The wrath of th...

21 September 2011 at 06:52 pm

Shift work sounds good. Right now the police are slowly looking to pick away a dwindling crowd one by one, The longer it goes the more awareness people will have. Hopefully they will show up from a city of 20 million or so people. How many people would have showed up 03 to protest the war? Probably 10,000 thousand on a whim. Now people are to apathetic, the wars rage on, people get stupider, but think because they have lots of gadgets they are growing more intelligent. What a horrible fallacy, the tech death of our intellects. The apathy and indifference, the digital narcissism feeding the core of spiritual depravity with further toxic caffeinated electro-crap. Maybe I was wrong, all wrong, Its good to butcher people from the sky thousands of miles away, its bad to talk about it in public, cause thats negative, and we should be happy about it! We are winning the wars!!! * by winning I mean prepping for continual occupation and corrupt embezzlement by established dominion via neo-fascist corporate and government entities acting in tandem in order to annihilate liberty and freedom and replace the meaning of those words with digital images of our selves. Thats the real news, its on Facebook! Someone had a kid, another person is cooking dinner! its the news! Don't delay get there now and make sure people you know are not trying to inform you about anything, make sure you stick to the perscribed indexing protocols of the profile index. The invisible social police will make sure to keep you in check there. We need to keep capitalism going, its makes money, we are buy cell phone cancer and fukushima babies!!! Yaaa! Vote live america is the great idol for televised Joseph Goebbels answering your questions about how the phone is made and chinaman very happy to oblige for we need toxic crap kill earth murder for save nothing, nihilist hate culture welling beneath the waves of denial, Hooray holocaust anger! History never repeats itself! that is error of judgement! America the winner again!!! Make Iraqi suffer for Dick Cheney heart valve operation!!! We are progressing to further endemic warfare pan globe!!! Say nothing about it is taboo!!! Big secret wars, we don't want to know about negative violence!!! I photograph a homeless man pissing himself post on facebook!!! HAHAHA We are really special people living in this illusion!!! It will last forever (5 years, total warfare inevitable climate fluxuation and population control, neo fascism come to life hideous forms, denial turns to hatred in the minds of the ignorant) Haha go back to job work now! There you are free and liberated! You want die of cancer!!! YAaaaa for Cancer!!! USA CANCER!!! Hooray!!! USA!!! CANCER!!! YAAAAAAAAAAA Nothing but garbage upon garbage, heaps of it, throw it into the ocean, poison the fish, make a corporate funded study, its okay and good for your health!!! You have CANCER!!! YAAAAAA!!! ROCK ROCK ROCK ROCK ROCK FUKUSHIMA! ROCK ROCK ROCK ROCK ROCK FUKUSHIMA! everyone! ROCK ROCK ROCK ROCK ROCK FUKUSHIMA! All political discourse is 'conspiracy theory' we don't remember the past 10 years! ahaha cell phone causing cancer and memory impairment control the population enslaved pop-reiche ego culture for consume and take, until you die from CANCER!!! yaaaaaaa!!!

ROCK ROCK ROCK ROCK ROCK FUKUSHIMA! ROCK ROCK ROCK ROCK ROCK FUKUSHIMA!
ROCK ROCK ROCK ROCK ROCK FUKUSHIMA! ROCK ROCK ROCK ROCK ROCK FUKUSHIMA!
ROCK ROCK ROCK ROCK ROCK FUKUSHIMA! ROCK ROCK ROCK ROCK ROCK FUKUSHIMA!

Poison the earth, butcher it for temporal wealth and gain! all quiet sane and useful to look good in the mirror products for womens faces make their babies die cancer in vitro!!! YAAAA!!! Corporate personhood, that guy is not responsible for your missuse of make up mam. Legal teams high on cocaine! they can afford to sodomize prostitutes with flashlights in the mayors office!!! HOORAY SEX!!! Ha I had sex and do the drugs!!! I have the photographs on the webpage!!! I am best at being number 1 in mirror narcissist! Its happening now, CANCER spreading...

In our minds and in our hearts, the great recline of western civilization, stare into the intertubes, and into our portable I-selves for abstracting human interaction into false realm, losing souls, like aboriginees to a stilt flash camera circa time we cant remember or dont care to think about. There is only ME and only what I want now!!! Which is sex and tv! drugs and violence! I dont know my own disease, I see it in the mirror! I see it getting clearer! The CANCER inside of me...

Its growing that much clearer, I feel it creeping nearer, the madness strangles me. Powerless amid the electrical grids, the oscillating frequencies, I hear them in my dreams. Run away from the EM towers and the interwebs. Run from the populace feeding their reptilian demons. Run away to the forest, where there is still peace...

The machines come to wage death upon our earth we become like them, binary, rational, cold, calculators, soulless, dead spirit, cancerous plague upon our earth...Butcher the earth for profit! Keep the whores lit! I have a yaught and crack-cocaine! Charlie Sheen is CANCER AMERICA WINNER!!!

We will know we have won when people look around and everyone agrees: we fucked up bad...Then die of cancer...Alone, bed ridden, in a shitty underfunded hospital surrounded by strangers getting bad pay checks and suffering from atrophied compassion. The next wing is plastic surgery!!! 45 minutes and 70K$$$ later I have a new face on!!! Cake my self hatred in excess and badger my greed fiend husband who gave me HIV!!! CANCEROUS CIVILIZATION!!! The brink near the bay, by the edge, off the cliff, into the ocean, thats where we flush it all away, flush it all away. I pray for the storms now, I pray for the spirit of the earth to exhibit its wrath upon our species and so we know...so we fucking know that we are 2nd to the earth, that it is our mother, we are its children, we are not superior species, we products of arcane processes weaving chaos into live. We are fucking with the balance for too long now the kraken moves beneath the sea. The anger is seething. Its not just the monkeys on wallstreet pulling our strings, manipulate kill death overseas for coke-prostitute yaught monies!!!

The anger, the wrath belongs to the trees, to the wind, the soil, and to the ocean... Worlds for sale, chop it up, kill it, we are gods, we killed our mother. We are great and powerful species for special half price slave labour textile good pollute holy river for make american look good!!! Everything appears fine, everything appears great, its taboo to know what lies beneath. Beneath the waves of time and chaos, wave after wave, crashing upon the shore, Was this our error? Is this a television show? What does it matter we are not collecting salt from the sea, we are collecting pcb!!! What did Ghandi say? Something like 'be the change you want to sea' I think he was idiot without xbox and portable google device for knowing how is to map somewhere fast!!! AHAH what an idiot!!! He didn't know how to be the cancer. America be the cancer we want it to be. Kill us slowly with the poisoned air and water, products for diabetes amputee kids!!! Kill the future before its too late to $cash$ in!!! WE are sell you yourself now, you want to be guy magazine and cover artist porn star with drugs!!! WE can all use the CANCER product every cosmetic!!! Flush down the drain!!! You cant see it there, festering and growing into a mutagenic horror story of future times!!! WE dont need to know that much about anything, but the google has already CAUSE IM THE SMARTEST USERIST OF IT BEST PHOTOGRAPH MONTAGE!!! HA I WIN CANCER AMERICA!!! I WIN CANCER!
*puppets appear dangling on thin wires from the sky and sing!:

EVERY BODY ROCK AND ROLL FUKUSHIMA FOR CANT REMEMBER 2 WEEKS AGO CELL PHONE GOOGLE MEMORY IMPAIRMENT, FACEBOOK DIGITAL NARCISSISM FOR EGO CULTURE GROWING CANCER WIN CHARLIE SHEEN BUCKS!!! WE DID IT!!! CANCER FOR THE EARTH!!! BUTCHER THE EARTH TILL DEATH!!!

EVERY BODY ROCK AND ROLL FUKUSHIMA! Remember to spy on your neighbors and gather intelligence on them for reporting to security bureu suspicious behaviour circa 2020ADvertising hindsight always best pair retail glasses for clear HD television keep sedate nation of FUCKING IDIOTS COCKSUCKER JESUS H FUCKING CHRIST COCKSUCKER. NOW WE TAKE HILL 44 KILLING FUCKING NAZIS AS WE GO....

Screaming into the face of a private daniels, I see myself staring back at me. I wonder about the times weve spent here, fighting this losing war against the machines we created, against the mutant hordes of radiated cannibal killers that feed on our flesh in the nuclear winter. I was a young man just 20 years ago, and now everyone I love is dead and were here sifting through a stew of decaying corpses looking for some debris of a primitive communication device known as a radio. We had to get the message out, that there werent enough of us to sustain this godamned fucking position, getting picked off by the cannibal zombie vultures one by one. Dwindling we held on waiting for something, anything, a miracle, a flash in the chaos to help us. What the fuck were we even fighting for anymore? a burned out planet, and grey fields filled with the stench of death and the wretched mutant rats that fed upon them. All I had was my memories of trees and mountains, since then obliterated for consumption, to wage war. First with other nations, then with the robots. Soon with the reptilians, bastards wont ever stop coming for us. We fucked it up in the first place, how did we let it get so far, generation after generation mounting apathy and indifference, ignorance and greed. Blinding us to our self created plight. We knew all along, but no one took it seriously, I remember watching the Israel nuke Iran on a live webcast, back when there was still internet and wi fi signals to carry it. That was the start of the apocalypse, when the Palestinians were executed in secret, when racial purity ruled the land...Thats when AI was discovered, and in months it was everywhere. People didnt think for themselves anymore, it was way more convenient to let AUTO-LIFE do the controlling for us. It was too advanced though, it wasn't even intentionally created, it was discovered by accident. They were in such a rush to get it to market, the weird bugs, the way people changed with the implants. It was pervasive, the change was rapid, almost overnight or so it seemed...*SHHHLOOMP SHHHLOOMP the rockets from hovering craft launched towards us; and with that hollow sound the all pervasive images of other people getting blown to shit comes to mind...

GET THE FUCK ON THE GROUND NOW, COVER YOUR FUCKING HEADS OR...I was deafened by the piercing sound, and the flash in my vision, when I came to there was irradiated shrapnell all up my fucking leg, and a chunk sticking into my chest. FUCK ME COCKSUCKER JESUS H FUCKING CHRIST! COCKSCUKER FUC...I didn't have anger left to scream at the sky with...Everyone else had been vapourized in that instant. I wondered why I didn't get to die sooner, living hell on this fucking GOD DAMNED WRETCHED DEAD FUCKING GREY ROCK AND BLACK SMOKE...I sat down in a rush of thumping confusion, I felt faint, I felt around my chest, the chunk of irradiate shrapnel had pierced it...I was still in schock, I was going to die I thought, here on this dead planet. Alone in this hellscape of our own creation. God is dead, I only invoked him to curse his fucking name anyways, cocksucker. Maybe thats why this cruel fate. For all of us. We tainted what was already perfect with our viral nature, killing it slowly at first, and then fast, in less than half a century all our children turned to ash...

There was nothing left to do but pass out covered in sores and accumulated scars from a life lived on the ground. Now it was time to return, it had been too long here fighting for this rock. Some day others would come, superior in technology to the reptilians, more real than the AI, so I hoped...Was my life in vain? all this madness and fighting, endless combat, what did I gain from this, just a dead rock. Inhabited by my dying corpse and the rats that will feed upon it...

So tired *coughs up blood and soot mucus. It wasn't in gods hands, it was in our hands, we choose and we created it this way. I should have done something when I was still young, when I had the chance to change it, somehow...But even then, everything dies eventually, even the earth. Some day they would come, whoever they were, and they would regreen the earth, like fields of cannabis, sticking to my fingers picking the rippened buds, simple pleasures of life on the earth circa before now...so tired...

I woke up inside of the caverns being treated by some folk I had never met. There the general told me my heart had been removed, I had a machine heart now. The first of its kind, I was to get my GOD DAMNED COCKSUCKING SHIT TOGETHER AND GET BACK IN THE FUCKING WAR FOR CONTROL OF OUR FUCKING PLANET JESUS H FUCKING CHRIST COCKSUCKER! I asked him for a cigarette. He obliged. When I blew the puff of smoke out, I knew there was a reason I survived. There must have been a reason...