Live Coverage: Occupy Worldwide, July 8

• The seed planted on September 17th in New York City has grown into a national and international movement. Occupy Wall Street has branched out with hundreds of groups organizing Occupy protests in their own communities. Reader Supported News highlights some of the more significant actions from around the country here. Share this page with your friends and associates and check back often for the latest developments.
• 8 new items including:
  • Occupy National Gathering Brings Together Occupiers From Far and Wide
  • July 2-10, San Diego: Stop the Trans-Pacific Partnership
  • Support Activists Facing Trial for Free Franklin Occupation!
  • Twitter Forced to Release Occupy Protester's Tweets to New York Court
  • The Philadelphia National Gathering Reveals Occupy's Law of Entropy
  • American Autumn: an Occudoc
  • Save Our Post Offices
  • Howard Zinn | Are We Politicians or Citizens?

Reader Supported News

At a time when corporations are buying up elections – not to mention the 24-hour-news cycle – help ensure that a source for truly independent journalism lives on. Support Evergreene Digest today by using the donation button in the above right-hand corner.

Highlights Week of July 8

Occupy National Gathering Brings Together Occupiers From Far and Wide, Jake Blumgart, AlterNet
The five-day Occupy National Gathering, which drew to a close on July 4, gave participants a venue to network, prioritize issues and vent their grievances with the movement. The event gave those who felt marginalized the chance to make themselves heard, with many expressing frustration at the preponderance of white males in positions of influence.

July 2-10, San Diego: Stop the Trans-Pacific Partnership, OccupyWallSt.org

• We are waking up. The fog is lifting. We are sweeping away the lies and secrecy.
• From July 2 to July 10, the political leaders of the Pacific Rim nations are meeting in San Diego to turn the Pacific Ocean and its peoples into a giant privatized corporate lake characterized by non-union workers, Wal-Mart supply chain feeders, poisoned, landless agricultural laborers, a dying biodiversity, and rising, drowning sea levels. We cannot and will not let this happen.

Support Activists Facing Trial for Free Franklin Occupation! OccupyWallSt.org

• On November 19, 2011, a group of DC community members going by the name "Free Franklin" entered and occupied the former Franklin Shelter building at 13th and K St NW. Protesting the lack of homeless shelters in DC and the city government's ongoing attempts to dispose of publicly owned property, the occupation was intended to put public resources to use to meet community needs.
• Trial starts Monday, July 9th at 9:30 am - supporters will gather outside starting at 8:30 am DC Superior Court: 500 Indiana Ave NW Washington, DC

Malcolm Harris is accused of disorderly conduct in relation to an Occupy protest on the Brooklyn Bridge in October. Photograph: Jessica Rinaldi/Reuters

Twitter Forced to Release Occupy Protester's Tweets to New York Court, Matt Williams, Guardian UK
Twitter has been ordered to hand over almost three months worth of messages from an Occupy Wall Street protester after losing a legal challenge to prosecutors' demands for the tweets.

The Philadelphia National Gathering Reveals Occupy's Law of Entropy, Arun Gupta, Guardian UK
Judging by the Occupy national gathering in Philadelphia this week, the Middle Ages is making a comeback. In the shadow of Independence Hall, America's secular Bethlehem, hundreds of pilgrims gathered here for a five-day festival of democracy culminating in night-time procession around the manors of power on the nation's high holy day, 4 July.

American Autumn: an Occudoc, OccupyWallSt.org
Shot on the front lines and meeting spaces of the Occupy movement in NYC, Boston, and Washington, DC from the earliest days through the end of January 2012, American Autumn: an Occudoc is an inside looking out view of the occupy movement. With interviews and insight from key organizers, thinkers and activists including Medea Benjamin, David Degraw, Dr. Margaret Flowers, Lee Camp, Naomi Klein, Nathan Schneider, Ashley Sanders, Vlad Teichberg, Sgt. Shamar Thomas, Dr. Cornel West, Kevin Zeese and many more, writer/ director Dennis Trainor Jr weaves commentary and a fearless style that often puts the viewer right between police and protesters.

Save Our Post Offices, Patricia Jackson, Indybay
Wednesday, June 27, held a rally, march, and occupy of the Civic Center Post Office which serves many of the city's homeless. We gathered in solidarity to support the national June 25-28 Hunger Strike by postal workers in Washington DC. This movement is growing across the country to stop threats of eliminating 220,000 living-wage jobs and closing 3,700 post offices including four in S.F. The majority of post offices threatened are in poor neighborhoods and rural areas.

Full story...

Related:

Howard Zinn | Are We Politicians or Citizens? Howard Zinn, the Progressive<>

• It is not easy, in the corrupting atmosphere of Washington, D.C., to hold on firmly to the truth, to resist the temptation of capitulation that presents itself as compromise.
• Except for the rare few, like Barbara Lee, Maxine Waters, Lynn Woolsey, and John Lewis, our (movement) representatives are politicians, and will surrender their integrity, claiming to be “realistic.”