Saturday, December 1, 2012

What the Heck Has #OCCUPY Done So Far?

If your wondering what Occupy Wallstreet has done, heres a website that provides the most straight forward answers to that one question.

The site is simple. It simply generates various sources of what occupy movement, whether it be in New York, California, or Florida, and posts the actual activity that occupy movement has done. It also includes the source to where you can find the information piece. To go to the next source, you simply click the boxed link which will usually have different responses like "I can do that in my sleep. what else?"

Here are some posts:

Occupy Our Homes, a national coalition of Occupy-affiliated groups, has stopped numerous illegal foreclosures across the country.

Protesters organized a Bank Transfer Day, which helped credit unions add over 650,000 new members in one month (as opposed to 80,000 in a regular month), resulting in more than $4.5 billion in new deposits.

Protesters have interrupted and stopped numerous foreclosure auctions by peacefully singing.

Occupy the Farm and Occupy Berkeley have created a farm from vacant land, allowing previously unused space to be accessible and beneficial to the local community.

Despite the fact that New York Governor Andrew Cuomo campaigned on the promise that he would not enact a “millionaire’s tax,” protesters hounded him at every single stop in NYC, and set up an encampment across from the capitol in Albany. New York State now has a millionaire’s tax. You’re welcome.

Occupy Buffalo successfully lobbied to have the City of Buffalo move $45 million out of an account with JP Morgan Chase, and to transfer the money to a smaller regional bank.

Here is the site- what the heck has occupy done so far?

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