Sign to Demand Permits for March on Wall St South!

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SIGN ONLINE TODAY TO DEMAND THAT CHARLOTTE, NC AND THE DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION GRANT PERMITS TO THE COALITION TO MARCH ON WALL ST SOUTH



On May 9, thousands from around the country took the streets in Charlotte, NC to confront the Wall Street of the South during the annual Bank of America Shareholders meeting. This powerful collective action was only the first act, now we must fully turn our sights on building an independent peoples voice at the Wall St South during the Democratic National Convention this September. We must turn thousands of voices in the street into tens of thousands. Sign this petition today and tell the power brokers in Charlotte to stop standing in the way of the People's right to raise their voice and speak their truth!

CLICK HERE WallStSouth.org/WallStSouthPetition to sign on and send the following petition text and to the Mayor and City Council of Charlotte, the Mecklenburg County Commissioners, President Obama, Attorney General Holder, the Democratic National Convention Committee, and members of the media

Text of Petition:

To City of Charlotte Mayor Anthony Foxx; Charlotte City Council; Mecklenburg County Commissioners

CC: Democratic National Committee Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz; President Barack Obama; CEO of Democratic National Convention Steve Kerrigan; the entire Democratic National Convention Committee; Secret Service; NC Governor Beverly Perdue; NC Attorney General Roy Cooper; US Attorney General Eric Holder

In September 2012, the Democratic National Convention will take place in Charlotte, N.C. Charlotte is home to the second largest concentration of finance capital in the United States, most prominently international headquarters of Bank of America and Wells Fargo’s eastern headquarters. Their role in the recent worldwide economic crisis is well known. During the September 2012 Convention, many people will want to exercise their constitutional right to protest and voice their opposition to the role of banks and corporations on our political process and to raise a real Peoples Agenda for jobs, justice and equality.

Yet our representatives in city and county government have stonewalled repeated attempts by community organizers to get a permit for a staging area and a march route the Sunday prior to the Democratic National Convention. Simultaneously, the city has moved forward on passing new ordinances that severely restrict free speech and expand the ability of police and security forces to target and profile protesters.

Our rights to assemble and speak are well established and legally guaranteed. Therefore the City of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County Commissioners should:
Commit to provide protest organizers with permits that meet the court-sanctioned standard for such protests -- that we be “within sight and sound” of the Convention sites and Bank of America Headquarters on Sunday, September 2, 2012; and
Immediately repeal any ordinances that will likely result in civil liberties violations, including but not limited to, authorizing police to search backpacks or coolers, a prohibition on public camping, expanded police power to profile or target any person who might be considered to be a protestor or “out of place,” giving them carte blanche to search, detain and/or arrest that person, and
Make public the permitting process for public parks and march routes the week before, and the week during the convention.

National nominating conventions have a disgraceful history of repression, mass incarceration, and police brutality against protesters, often fraught with a multitude of wrongful arrest lawsuits in the aftermath. The city should repudiate that reputation by upholding the people's legitimate right to gather and protest in September. We, the undersigned, therefore call upon you to stop these violations of our constitutional rights by June 1, 2012.

Initial signers:

George Friday, Chair, North Carolina Green Party
John Heuer, Chair of North Carolina Peace Action* and Vice President of the Eisenhower chapter of Veterans for Peace
Corine Mack, Southern Piedmont Central Labor Council and Charlotte NAACP branch Community Outreach organizer
Andy Koch, NC Defend Education Coalition
Minister Tyrone Logan, Lloyd Presbyterian Church, Winston Salem, NC
Donna Dewitt, President of South Carolina AFL-CIO
Genaro Lopez, Director, Southwest Workers Union, San Antonio, TX
Jaribu Hill, Director, Mississippi Workers Center, Southern Human Rights Organizers Network
Ramsey Clark, Human Rights attorney, former US Attorney General, awarded UN Peace Prize
Rev. CD Witherspoon, Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Baltimore
Efia Nwangaza, Malcolm X Center for Self-Determination, Greenville, SC
Armando Robles, President UE Local 1110, Chicago, IL
Leah Bolger, Veterans For Peace President and Mike Reid, VFP Executive Director
John Long, Amalgamated Transit Union, Norfolk, VA
Sara Flounders, International Action Center
Teresa Gutierrez, co-coordinator of the May 1 Coalition for Workers and Immigrants Rights*
Leslie Feinberg, co-founder, Rainbow Solidarity for the Cuban Five, Syracuse, NY
Dave Welsh, Delegate, San Francisco Labor Council
Jerry Goldberg, Attorney, Moratorium Now! Coalition, Detroit, MI
Bryan Pfeifer, Wisconsin Bail Out the People Movement
Pam Africa, International Concerned Friends and Family of Mumia Abu-Jamal, Philadelphia, PA
Medea Benjamin, CODEPINK
Peter Shell, Pittsburgh Thomas Merton Center Antiwar Committee and UNAC
Joe Iosbaker, Coalition Against NATO/G8 War and Poverty Agenda and UNAC
Ralph Poynter, Lynne Stewart Defense Committee and New Abolitionist Movement,* New York
Mark C. Johnson, Executive Director of Fellowship of Reconciliation
Minnie Bruce-Pratt, LGBT + activist and author
Nicholas Camerota, Professor of Philosophy, Springfield Technical Community College, Springfield, Massachusetts*
* = for identification only

Organizations:
Academi Watch
Al-Awda, Charlotte
Alliance for Global Justice
Anti-War Committee, Minnesota
Atlanta International Action Center
Bail Out People Movement
BAYAN USA
Center for Constitutional Rights
Charlotte Action Center for Justice
Citizens for Legitimate Government
CODEPINK
Committee to Stop FBI Repression
Defenders for Freedom, Justice & Equality, Richmond, VA
Farm Labor Organizing Committee, AFL-CIO
Freedom Road Socialist Organization
Freedom Socialist Party
[email protected] Orgullosos en Las Americas (HOLA), Asheville, NC
International Action Center
International Socialist Organization, Charlotte NC Branch
Jill Stein for President Campaign
Leonard Peltier Defense Offense Committee, North Dakota
Liberty Tree Foundation for the Democratic Revolution
May 1 Coalition for Workers and Immigrants Rights
Michigan Emergency Council Against War and Injustice
Minnesota Immigrant Rights Action Committee (MIRAc)
Moratorium Now! Coalition, Detroit
MortgageFraud in North Carolina
MOVE Organization, Philadelphia, PA
Movimento per la società di giustizia
NC Triad Jobs with Justice
Occupy 4 Jobs Network
Occupy Atlanta
Occupy Charlotte
Occupy Democratic Convention
Occupy Durham
Occupy NCSU
Occupy Winston-Salem
People of Faith CT
People Not Profit, Cincinnati, OH
People's Coalition of the Carolinas
Queer Liberation Front
Radical Women
Raleigh-Durham Fight Imperialism Stand Together (FIST)
Revolutionary Students Union, Utah
Socialists of Greater Tampa Bay
Southern Chrisitan Leadership Conference, Baltimore City Chapter
Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), UNC Asheville
Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), UNC Chapel Hill
Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), NCSU
United 4 the Dream
United for Peace and Justice
United National Antiwar Coalition
United Steel Workers Local 8751, Boston School Bus Union
Veterans for Peace
Wayside Center for Popular Education, Faber, VA
Winthrop Socialist Student Union, Winthrop State University, Rock Hill, SC
Workers World Party
Wisconsin Bail Out People Movement

CLICK HERE WallStSouth.org/WallStSouthPetition to sign on and send the above petition text and to the Mayor and City Council of Charlotte, the Mecklenburg County Commissioners, President Obama, Attorney General Holder, the Democratic National Convention Committee, and members of the media.

Go to WallStSouth.org to join the coalition, read the call to action, view endorsements, download flyers, sign up for updates, donate, and get involved!

WallStSouth.org
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You are asking the states permission to protest?

I suggest that y'all make plans for this march with or without a permit. The streets of course belong to you. Pretty sure.

I *hear* you....

It's just one of those organizational things, like for the upcoming protest against NATO in Chicago. The legality of the protest becomes a political issue in itself, one that can be put to the public for consideration and support. (This is entirely my own take on this matter.)

People are still interested in protesting?

Indeed, this is the sort of situation where taking the streets isn't just a fixation (as it unfortunately can be sometimes) but rather an assertion of denied "rights" (of course that kind of rhetoric is problematic).

We demand you ensure our actions are as meaningless and as absorbed by spectacle as possible!

Well unpermitted marches don't necessarily have to be a spectacle (at least in the sense of confrontation with state authorities)

IT'S ON! March on Wall Street South Wins Permits - Help Make It Happen!



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IT'S ON! March on Wall Street South Wins Permits - Help Make It Happen!

On Tuesday, May 30, after 8 months, threats and preparation for legal action, over two dozen attempted contacts and applications, and over 1,500 emails, the City of Charlotte finally granted a march route for Sunday, September 2 to the Coalition to March on Wall Street South. This is huge victory! It's OUR victory!

Now we need your help to make this march something the banks and politicians will remember!


Lobbyists, the 1%, the Big Banks and PACS will be spending BILLIONS to push their agenda on the Democratic National Convention.

On September 2 thousands of people will march together to raise a people's agenda at the DNC, in front of Bank of America, at the doors of Wells Fargo.

FOR: jobs, healthcare, housing, education, workers rights, collective bargaining, women & LGBT rights, & environmental justice

AGAINST: raids and deportations, wars, mass incarceration, foreclosures & eviction, and environmental destruction

But we need your help to do it - please consider making a contribution today.

With less than 100 days to go, your donation is urgently needed to ensure our ability to organize a broad and successful week of action that raises a people's agenda directly to the banks and the Democratic Party.

No one is getting a salary to do this work. We don't have any major foundations or non-profits bank-rolling this effort. Your donation will go directly to support the many costs associated with organizing a demonstration of this scale, including:
court costs and other legal costs
making this the most accessible convention demonstration by providing translation, interpretation and the needed equipment, accommodations for families, single parents, the elderly, and people with disabilities
puppets, signs, banners, and other artistic expressions
outreach materials, staging, sound equipment and other costs

We need at least $10,000 to cover costs.

Our movements have always been supported by all of us coming together, digging deep, and giving what we can.

Celebrate our victory by making a meanginful donation today.

March on Wall Street South on Sunday, September 2 (RSVP on Facebook!)
See you in the streets!

Coalition to March on Wall Street South

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FBI harassing North Carolina activists

By Tom Burke

Asheville, NC - The FBI is harassing anti-war and international solidarity activists in North Carolina again, this time in Asheville. The last time was on Sept. 24, 2010 when the FBI visited a Durham anti-war activist at the same time they were raiding seven homes and the Anti-War Committee office in Minneapolis and Chicago. Back on that day the FBI delivered 14 subpoenas to a grand jury in Chicago, which all the activists refused to participate in.

This time the FBI knocked at an activist’s door in Asheville at 5:00 p.m. on May 30. Her boyfriend answered. He woke her up to tell her the FBI wanted to talk with her. The FBI agent asked to enter her home and she said, “No you cannot come in.”

The FBI agent had a number of print outs of Fight Back! news articles. The top one in the pile was Colombia: Eyewitness Report from Solidarity Delegation, from September 2009.

The FBI agent talked about the Democratic National Convention coming soon to Charlotte. The agent also talked about the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia - the most powerful left-wing rebel movement in Latin America - saying, “the FARC is getting a lot of press right now in Colombia.” He asked for a promise that she would let him know if something violent was going to happen. He gave her his card.

The FBI agent then asked about solidarity activists mentioned in the Fight Back! article. The agent also mentioned Freedom Road Socialist Organization.

“Do not let the FBI in your home. They are there to intimidate you,” said Jeremy Miller, a North Carolinian who has been told that the FBI wanted to ‘talk to him.’ “In this case they pretended to be concerned about the upcoming DNC protests, but they are really trying to gather information to put anti-war activists on trial, claiming ‘material support for terrorism’. They are lying to you. Their presence is intimidating and scary, but the best thing is to give them your lawyer’s phone number and not talk to them.”

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Stop making bourgeois demands, start taking the fucking streets. So tired of this "we need demands, we need to ask the state to walk on the streets", I thought we moved on from this bs?

Point well-taken, and please see post #4.

I just noticed that part of this plea is to the DNC of all things! Maybe you could ask some of the CPUSA comrades to put in a good word for y'all.

Heh! Funny!

Their price would be to support Obama's re-election campaign...(!)


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