Montreal – August-13th to 17th Since February, students across Quebec have been on strike against a 75% tuition hikes. These students have maintained picket lines, disrupted classes, blocked bridges, and continually taken the streets in fierce resistance to the neoliberal agenda of the Charest Liberal government. The week of August 13-17 is a crucial moment [...]

Marking the one-year anniversary of the spark that fueled the Occupy movement, Occupy Wall Street invites you, the 99%, down to the Financial District for three days of education, celebration and resistance from September 15-17. The 1% have tried to use the tools of finance to control our fates; they have shackled us to unprecedented amounts of [...]

YOUR WEEKLY ROUNDUP OF OCCUPY MOVEMENT NEWS FROM THE OCCUPIED WALL STREET JOURNAL The 99 Mile March comes home. Photo: Yoni Jakob Brombacher Miller This week in Occupy, the 99 Mile March rocked its way across two states, the movement survived an NYPD smear campaign, Comic Con got #occupied, and banks continued their usual reprehensible [...]

Occupy the Hood has organized a national day of action—dubbed “Hood Week”—where OTH chapters from all over the country will come together for community building, positive networking, education, and empowerment. OTC chapters will converge in Atlanta for Hood Week over the July 20-22 weekend to promote peace and unity within neighborhoods. Occupy the Hood is an affinity [...]

Post originally appeared on Occupy.com Photo: Plaque outside the Bohemian Club’s San Francisco clubhouse. Occupy groups from Santa Rosa, San Francisco, Portland, Sebastopol and Petaluma are joining twenty other social justice activist organizations to protest the powerful 1% elites partying at the secretive Bohemian Grove in Monte Rio, California, from July 14 to 29. A few [...]

YOUR WEEKLY ROUNDUP OF OCCUPY MOVEMENT NEWS Photo: Aaron Black This week in Occupy, the National Gathering culminated in a gathering at Independence Mall, TPP was exposed as the latest NAFTA/SOPA nightmare, a Romney fundraiser hosted by David Koch was #occupied, and a homeowners bill of rights passed in California. #NatGat culminated in Washington, D.C., [...]

YOUR WEEKLY ROUNDUP OF OCCUPY MOVEMENT NEWS Thousands march through Los Angeles’s Chinatown to stop Wal-mart’s invasion of Los Angeles. Photo: Neil Jacobs, IATSE Local 600 This week in Occupy, the Occupy National Gathering is under way in Philadelphia, Los Angeles rejects Wal-mart, hundreds marched on California’s capitol to demand a foreclosure moratorium and two [...]

Chances are you’ve probably noticed the changes we’ve made in the last couple of months. On May 1, 2012, we pre-launched our new site with a single page placeholder while we were building out the new design. Today marks the beginning of the next chapter for Occupy Together and our refocused commitment in expanding the [...]

The Occupy Guitarmy is spearheading a #99MileMarch from Philadelphia to New York City from July 5 to July 11, 2012 in honor of Woody Guthrie’s 100th birthday on July 14, 2012 and in celebration of the National Gathering of the Occupy movement. They are actively seeking: daily, overnight, and long haul marchers, daily location event organizers, street medics, [...]

YOUR WEEKLY ROUNDUP OF OCCUPY MOVEMENT NEWS FROM THE OCCUPIED WALL STREET JOURNAL This week in Occupy, the Cruz family was rebuffed by PNC Bank, Rio + 20 was mic-checked and #occupied, Egyptians took to the streets to demand an election and occupiers nationwide saw convictions and dismissals stemming from last Fall’s raids and evictions. [...]

This Fourth of July #MicCheckWallSt, a Seattle based think tank, will declare independence from Citizens United—the Supreme Court ruling which declared money as speech, corporations as people, and effectively paved the way for unlimited corporate political influence through monetary contributions. How will #MicCheckWallSt make their message heard? By using the very tool that is silencing us all: money. On [...]

YOUR WEEKLY ROUNDUP OF OCCUPY MOVEMENT NEWS FROM THE OCCUPIED WALL STREET JOURNAL This week in Occupy, Egypt and Greece held watershed elections, Jamie Dimon was mic-checked at a Senate hearing, thousands marched in New York against stop and frisk, some key occupations had no choice but to close up shop and the Occupy National [...]