We the 99 Percent Need You to go to Liberty Plaza to SAVE OUR MOVEMENT

The movement to finally hold Wall Street accountable and to re-imagine the America we see dwindling away from our collective dreams has reached that critical moment.

Occupy Wall Street is at a critical moment. Mayor Bloomberg has decided he can’t stand the protestors in Liberty Plaza any longer. He is removing the protestors, taking away their freedom to assemble, illegally seizing their valuables and making it illegal to “lie down” in the park. Bloomberg, the mayor who made his money off our backs, who created a media empire to cater to that 1% is standing up for them.

Now more than ever we need anyone who is able to go down to New York or who lives in the area and thought about attending. Now is that time.

This movement will die, unless we successfully defy this unjust order.

When the Freedom Riders decided to go from Chicago down to New Orleans through Alabama and Mississippi defying Southern Jim Crow law and the unspoken rules of the day they were crazy radicals even Dr. King warned to think twice. Beaten and arrested for what was ultimately right but not yet law, it sparked something in our parents and grandparents to say, this has to end.

The Kennedy administration and the south hoped it would go away. But what started as an act of Northerners riding down agitating for equality gained momentum. It became a country wide effort that gained momentum and got larger as officials tried to squash it.

This is that moment. When NYPD comes into the square, making and beating protestors to clear the square. THERE HAS TO BE REINFORCEMENTS. THERE HAS TO BE NUMBERS SO LARGE that to defy the protesters request will feel a fool’s errand and against public will.

THAT CAN ONLY HAPPEN IF YOU GO TO DEFEND LIBERTY PLAZA nonviolently. 

THIS IS THE MOMENT.

What started out as a few lefty white kids who read Ad Busters to a worldwide phenomenon inspired by protests against Arab dictatorships and inspiring similar actions against the repressive hopelessness that has engulfed Westernize Democracies, has reached its first big moment.

Do you believe change is going to come? Or will you be a part of making it? We need you, WE the 99% need all of YOU who can do it to fill in the ranks, nonviolently defend Liberty Plaza as Gandhi, the Suffragists, Dr. King, Caesar Chavez and countless others have taught us to do.

Now is the time to make this fight clear, the political forces stand with the financial elite, we can only win if everyone else stands with the 99 Percent.