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If one would have driven down East Walnut Street in Green Bay this afternoon, seeing a few young people with signs on the road by the Court House today may have seemed like no big deal. If one considers that a movement that started with a few young people has now spread to 4 Continents, that may seem like a big deal. In Green Bay, the biggest deal on a Sunday during football season is the game. As the Packers went on to another win today, to keep a perfect record, there were a few die hard members of the Occupy Movements local chapter, Occupy Green Bay, who were out on offense driving home a message. According to a report by Dave Gilson and Carolyn Perot of Mother Jones, “A huge share of the nation's economic growth over the past 30 years has gone to the top one-hundredth of one percent, who now make an average of $27 million per household. The average income for the bottom 90 percent of us? $31,244.”. With a strong wind blowing from the West, these Green Bay protesters were out spreading a message of dissatisfaction with those statistics. Out spreading a message of dissatisfaction with Corporate control of our political system. A message of dissatisfaction with high paid lobbyists with too much influence. A message of dissatisfaction with some who are too big to fail, and the rest of us who don’t seem to matter. A message of many issues that result in economic inequality. Not just in the United States, but now with the “Global Economy”, the entire world.
Logistics, Planning, and a Camper
The movement, which has grown from the original Occupy Wall Street demonstrations, has now begun to offer training online with it’s global revolution livestream channeland on occupytogether.wikispot.org. One of the most important aspects to a movement like this is logistics. Through the use of a Camper, Occupy Green Bay has been able to offer a little comfort and support to the local marchers. If you would like to offer your support, either by participating in the march or providing assistance in some other way, you can contact Occupy Green Bay by leaving a comment on their facebook page, or leave a comment here and I will forward.
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Now that here in North East Wisconsin the Occupy Wall Street movement has taken hold in the form of Occupy Green Bay, one can only speculate on the extent and effect of the protest movement. In New York, the movement that goes by several names started out quite humbly with a few hundred student protesters. Going by Occupy Together, We Are the 99 Percent, etc., the original Occupy Wall Street | NYC Protest for American Revolution movement has taken many names as well as many forms. One from a corporate marketing firm may say they have “convoluted” their “name-brand” with too many titles and themes. But so far diversity has been an asset for this leaderless movement.
As most local corporate media outlets are limited to the amount of time they can give to the marchers, or the entire Occupy Together movement that is all of the protests throughout the nation, I felt that using this media to do more detailed interviews with some of the marchers would help get a better understanding of the movement and it’s marchers. This is not to slam the local stations, as we do need them to cover all of the news and local stories. Not easy with the amount of time and personnel they have.
To listen to the “Man on the Street” who is taking his time to be part of a movement, is to better understand the core of the movement and the objectives and goals of those who make it up. As the OccupyWallStreet movement continues to grow, those in the 1 percent will become more defensive and actively try to oppress the movement. They will use the “class warfare” term to to describe the movement. But if one looks closely at the redistribution of wealth in the United State over the last 40 years, one can only deduce that class warfare, at least the economic kind, has been the order of business for the top 1 percent as well as stand operation procedure for those in business. Provide the lease, charge the most, and to hell with the people and the nation as a whole.
The Occupation of Green Bay, Wisconsin has begun. In solidarity and support with the Occupy Wall Street movement, the Occupy Green Bay group have started to march and protest in downtown Green Bay. Just as in cities throughout the United States, as well as several foreign counties, the marchers are protesting economic inequality and Wall Street’s recent exorbitant profits among and national economic crisis and just after tax payer bale outs.
We will have a detailed video report Saturday afternoon with several interviews with some of the marchers, or as some would call them, “Occupiers”. Under the video below, I included a few photos of today's march.
The Occupy Wall Street Movement set to begin in Green Bay
The organizers of the Occupy Green Bay movement, and off shoot of the Occupy Wall Street movement, are planning to start a weekend long or longer protest here in Green Bay this Friday, October 14th at 3pm. They have selected a location of the Front of City Hall, and/or the Brown County Court House. There is last meet at IQ’s Bar tonight at 6pm for last minute organizing. I am sure that they will be looking for supporters of the movement to come down and join them. One would wonder as well if a “base of operations” is in the works. If a downtown landowner would not mind having some protest “campers” on an empty lot, or someone offer an empty building to use as a warming and logistics base, they would be much appreciated for supporting their country and the cause through Occupy Green Bay .
A Former Green Bay Photographers view from a far, San Francisco.
Photographer Robert Schultze, formerly of Green Bay, now lives, works, and studies in San Francisco. He is a friend and he recently documented the the events there and did portraits of the 99% at the Federal Reserve Bank on 101 Market st in San Francisco on 10/08/11. In the video he simply shows some of the people who are the 99%. You can help by going their funding page.
Trying to organize and create that which has not been organized or created can be an interesting and fascinating affair. I am sure the young organizers of the Occupy movements throughout the country are fast learning this. Some have asked where the actual “occupation” is here in Green Bay. As of this Sunday, October 09, 2011, there is none. One should consider some of the other movements throughout the world of recent. Movements that were once thought of as absurd, now not only exist, but have or are on the verge of success. But success does not come easy. And success is relative. There was a relatively small turn our at the Occupy Green Bay meeting this Saturday at IQs Tavern to organize for the start of the protest/movement in Green Bay on October 14th. They did not announce a location yet. I did not see a “formal” meeting called to order, but as is in these types of events, formality is, well, just a formality. Those who showed were meeting to arrange basic logistics and get more ideas on location and the general make up of the event. The views expressed in the video by those who did attend were quite interesting and enlightening. I interviewed several of the participants of the meeting, as well as Craig Pansier, the general organizer of Occupy Green Bay and the creator of their Facebook page. From the humble beginning of the movement, to what has evolved into a national protest, one could expect the numbers of the local protesters to grow once it gets a start and location. As most of the demonstrations nationwide are permanent sit-ins, it remains to be seen if there will be adequate manpower to conduct a 24/7 protest.
As the American people’s discontent gradually grows with the economy, while simultaneously a small elite grows wealthy by biblical proportions, a movement has been borne. With support growing among a large variety of groups and organizations increasing as quickly as the numbers of protesters present throughout the country, the Occupy Wall Street movement is still growing in numbers and strength.
With the recent protests against the Walker Administration and their policies and methods in Madison and throughout Wisconsin fresh in memory, established continuous protests are being established in Milwaukee and of course Madison. Here in Green Bay, the movement slowly, but steadily grows. With a friend count on their Facebook page steadily increasing, Occupy Green Bay does not seam to have a specific organizer or leader. I have however had individuals familiar with Wall street, financial and monetary policies express an interest to speak at any rally or events. Primarily to express their ideas on specifics and propose positions as well as possible solutions Occupy Green Bay plans to begin organized protests on Friday, October 14 and 15. As of now no specific location has been selected.
A movement without a cause
One must be forced to ask, just what are you protesting and what changes are you demanding? One may assume from it’s originating location the protest is strictly financial. A matter of the disproportional distribution of wealth that is present in this country. But is that really the source issue? Just what exactly is the root cause of that disproportional distribution of wealth? As one watches the protests, their message to seem very general. Reminiscent of the protests of the 60s and their counter culture message, but in a more modern, high tech, up to date present culture. A message the money men were obviously out of range to receive. A message that seems to say that “present” American culture is counter culture. A message that seems to say ”Hey, I’m not rich, so I’m not “it”, I am just the other 99 percent”.
Social Media as a weapon of empowerment of the people?
Throughout the world, especially in the Middle East, social media has recently been used as a tool of empowerment by the people in those locations and countries. Effecting great change, and empowering themselves with a form of democracy that serves them … at least for now. While this was happening, many of the powers that be in the west, especially the United States, expressed praise for the democratic movements, and their causes. They also quietly waited to see what kind of economic benefits they would acquire. Now these same local powers may be taking a second look at social media. As is already the case in New York, some of the methods applied by our “security” and “Police” may seem more draconian than what we Americans witnessed with the Egyptian movement, where the military basically joined with the movement and forced rapid change (although to what extent the Egyptian movement will achieve full democracy remains to be seen). It also remains unclear to what extent Americans will go to protect their rights to express their views compared to some of the other cases of social media driven movements of recent.
Another notable change to the movement of recent is the increased coverage it is receiving in the National Media, At first just a mention on the back page, the movement now commands the attention of the world media. As the movement grows, it is also receiving attention of the local media outlets as well. This blog will definitely be closely following the progress of the movements, especially locally.
An Electronic Ghost Army
The group Anonymous has been in the background from the start of the movement. Some may say there were the original callers to march. They will surely be a sort of electronic sentry protecting the movement from being hacked themselves by their enemies. But the movement has definitely become more and is continuing to evolve, in New York, the US, and here in Wisconsin and Green Bay. As the numbers grow, organized with simple online tools and an growing army of support, they as Anonymous likes to say may just become Legion.
As the Occupy Wall Street movement spreads with the help of social media and finally gets attention from the American Media, the movement has arrived here in Wisconsin. With movements starting in Milwaukee, Madison, Green Bay and a few smaller cities throughout Wisconsin, the movement is slowly beginning to take root throughout the United States.
At a recent public forum on Monetary Policy, one of the main issues is the control of money by the federal reserve, a private entity. Joseph Cheslock is a local educator who has been stressing the issue and trying to bring it’s importance to the attention of the people.
In this video below I start our talking about my Raspberry bush, but soon switch to discussing the forum and show some footage and views expressed by those who attended the forum.
As one studies this issue, and the Occupy Wall Street movement, like myself, I believe that many people will see that the movement is closely connected to Monetary Policy.
There is a protest being organized by Occupy Green Bay for October 14 if there is enough interest.
If one considers that a movement that started with a few young people has now spread to 4 Continents, that may seem like a big deal. In Green Bay, the biggest deal on a Sunday during football season is the game. As the Packers went on to another win today, to keep a perfect record, there were a few die hard members of the Occupy Movements local chapter, Occupy Green Bay, who were out on offense driving home a message. According to a report by Dave Gilson and Carolyn Perot of Mother Jones, “A huge share of the nation's economic growth over the past 30 years has gone to the top one-hundredth of one percent, who now make an average of $27 million per household. The average income for the bottom 90 percent of us? $31,244.”. With a strong wind blowing 
from the West, these Green Bay protesters were out spreading a message of dissatisfaction with those statistics. Out spreading a message of dissatisfaction with Corporate control of our political system. A message of dissatisfaction with high paid lobbyists with too much influence. A message of dissatisfaction with some who are too big to fail, and the rest of us who don’t seem to matter. A message of many issues that result in economic inequality. Not just in the United States, but now with the “Global Economy”, the entire world. 
Camper 
and on occupytogether.wikispot.org. One of the most important aspects to a movement like this is logistics. Through the use of a Camper, Occupy Green Bay has been able to offer a little comfort and support to the local marchers. If you would like to offer your support, either by participating in the march or providing assistance in some other way, you can contact Occupy Green Bay by leaving a comment on their facebook page, or leave a comment here and I will forward. 
I am sure that they will be looking for supporters of the movement to come down and join them. One would wonder as well if a “base of operations” is in the works. If a downtown landowner would not mind having some protest “campers” on an empty lot, or someone offer an empty building to use as a warming and logistics base, they would be much appreciated for supporting their country and the cause through 
