Anti-Fed activists stage nationwide protests

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Activists to Occupy Financial District’s Liberty Park Until Demands Are Met – Operation Empire State Rebellion Begins

www.ampedstatus.org | June 13th, 2011

On June 14th at 1pm EST, a group of activists will begin occupation of Liberty Park (recently renamed Zuccotti Park) in lower Manhattan’s Financial District, a few blocks from Wall Street (14971 Broadway, 10007). A Google Map featuring the event states the following:

“This Flag Day, Tuesday June 14th, we will launch a non-violent movement with this list of demands:

* End the campaign finance and lobbying racket
* Break up the Fed & Too Big to Fail banks
* Enforce RICO laws against organized criminal class
* Order Ben Bernanke to step down”​


Gary Roland, an organizer of the action, says they will occupy the park “indefinitely, to express non-violent dissent to the further consolidation of wealth into the hands of international corporations by the corrupted two-party oligarchy. This is a non-violent action that seeks to express dissent and raise awareness of the failures of our current political discourse, until our demands are satisfied.”

This action is in solidarity with a decentralized movement that is rallying around the above list of demands. There are public protests taking place in at least 22 other cities on June 14th to help launch this movement. A call to action states the following:

Acts of Resistance: What Are You Going To Do On June 14th to Rebel Against Economic Tyranny?

The big banks have sold us out.
Democrats and Republicans have sold us out.
No one is defending our interests.

Our future is going up in flames.

It’s time for us to stand up and defend ourselves.

Trillions of dollars in fraudulent activity by the big banks on Wall Street caused our current economic crisis. Paid off politicians from both parties, along with secret deals made by the Federal Reserve, gave trillions of taxpayer dollars and subsidies to the very people who caused our crisis. After taking our tax dollars, they had the audacity to give themselves all-time recording-breaking bonuses and consolidate wealth in unprecedented fashion within the economic top 0.01% of the population.

While a record number of Americans are currently living in poverty and on food stamps; while millions of American families have been foreclosed upon; while health care, food and gas costs are skyrocketing; while over 200 million Americans are living paycheck to paycheck struggling to make ends meet, the super-wealthy have never had it better. We now have the most severe inequality of wealth in American history. The depravity of the Robber Barons has been outdone.

As their current policies prove, economic central planners have become so arrogant and tyrannical in their shortsighted greed. They think we are an ignorant and apathetic population that they can continue to exploit without fear of rebellion.

We are finally declaring that we have had enough. We will not remain passive while global banking interests destroy our future. We know the systemic causes of our current crisis and we are going to strike at the root.

On this Flag Day, June 14th, Operation Empire State Rebellion (#OpESR) will launch. #OpESR is a decentralized non-violent resistance movement to end the system of political bribery (campaign finance and lobbying) and break up the big banks centered at the Federal Reserve.

To coincide with the launch of this movement, people have begun organizing acts of resistance throughout the US. We are calling upon you to take an action of your own. Whether it’s taking part in a local public protest, withdrawing your money from one of the big six banks, starting a community group or passing out fliers. Anything you can do to rebel against the system of economic tyranny in a non-violent manner is welcome.

As a first step, please join the actions against the banks in one of the cities shown here, or use the ‘schedule an action’ tool to create your own.”​



Operation Empire State Rebellion Engaged: Ctrl+Alt+Bernanke

As one of the forces behind this movement, Anonymous has just released a new video announcing the launch of Operation Empire State Rebellion, which calls for the resignation of Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke. They have also called for public protests beginning on June 14th, continuing “until Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke steps down.” To make their case, they have presented a list of recent scandalous Federal Reserve actions. Here is the video (full video transcript can be found on Zero Hedge.)

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This movement has inspired and united supporters from across a broad range of political opinion.
Here are a few links:



Additional Information

Partial list of June 14th public protest locations:

Chicago, Illinois
Cincinnati, Ohio
Cleveland, Ohio
Dallas, TX
Denver, CO
Detroit, Michigan
Eugene, OR
Flint, Michigan
Fort Worth, TX
Houston, TX
Jupiter, FL
Lake Forest, Orange County, CA
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
New York, NY
Oklahoma City, OK
Pasadena, MD
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Salt Lake City, UT
San Francisco, CA
Seattle, WA
Toronto, Ontario
Vancouver, British Columbia
Washington DC​

Note: For further information concerning actions in these cities visit: http://opesr.wordpress.com/


Social Media:

New Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/OpESR
Follow on Twitter: #OpESR
AmpedStatus Social Network Group: http://ampedstatus.org/network/groups/a99/
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Contacts:

OpESR.NYC@gmail.com
David@AmpedStatus.com​
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* End the campaign finance and lobbying racket
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I would need to know more about what they mean by this to know if I would support any of it.

* Break up the Fed & Too Big to Fail banks
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Even if you wanted to break up the banks how would abolishing the Fed be a part of it? To what end?

* Enforce RICO laws against organized criminal class
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Okay. Where does this "criminal class" live?

* Order Ben Bernanke to step down”
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Why?
 
This group is opposed to centralized banking as a general principle.

Speaking with some people involved with the protest, I asked who they would prefer to replace Bernanke after he resigns. I was told that the real objective of the protest is to dismantle the entire Federal Reserve System. The person explained to me that the call for Bernanke's resignation is symbolic, "like the figurehead they put in charge and call the president."

When I asked who are "they," one person replied, "Well now, you tell me."

Everybody seems to be railing against this "criminal banking class," but nobody can identify which person or persons is personally responsible for the charges in the AnonymoUS video ("crimes against Humanity," etc.).

When I asked what form of system would replace the centralized bank, the protester basically advocated for a system of smaller, independent banks which would all issue their own notes according to a gold standard for the dollar.


This group is opposed to centralized banking as a general principle.

Speaking with some people involved with the protest, I asked who they would prefer to replace Bernanke after he resigns. I was told that the real objective of the protest is to dismantle the entire Federal Reserve System. The person explained to me that the call for Bernanke's resignation is symbolic, "like the figurehead they put in charge and call the president."

When I asked who are "they," one person replied, "Well now, you tell me."

Everybody seems to be railing against this "criminal banking class," but nobody can identify which person or persons is personally responsible for the charges in the AnonymoUS video ("crimes against Humanity," etc.).

When I asked what form of system would replace the centralized bank, the protester basically advocated for a system of smaller, independent banks which would all issue their own notes according to a gold standard for the dollar.


Check out their Twitter feed. There have been a number of retweets of the quote, "I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies," falsely attributed to Thomas Jefferson.
 
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Ugh. I made a mistake when I last edited that post, and now I can't edit it again to fix it. I apologize for the redundancy.
 
Those fine folks might want to check what happened in North America and Europe when we had that situation they want to go back to, gold backed money and independent banks issuing currency......

John you have just 4 hours I think to edit stuff before it becomes a permanent record
 
Looks more like 3 hours to me. I hastily edited the post, went out shopping for about 3:15, and when I returned the post was uneditable.

Guess I need to learn to get my wording straight the first time!
 
It happens to the best of us. Don't worry about it.
 
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Everybody seems to be railing against this "criminal banking class," but nobody can identify which person or persons is personally responsible for the charges in the AnonymoUS video ("crimes against Humanity," etc.).
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This is the sort of thing that has me convinced that if conspiracy theorists ever got real political power they would make Stalin and Mao look like civil libertarians.
 
If they protested in Philadelphia, nobody noticed. We had people protesting a proposed city soda tax around City Hall getting the attention.
 
Yeah, misguided idiots are able to protest just as well as well-meaning intelligent people. But the bigger these actions become and the more media coverage and publicity they receive, the more people get drawn into these movements.

Also, AnonymoUS has pulled off some illegal and even destructive hacks in the course of their "political actions," so we might be seeing some interesting news with regard to information security in the coming weeks.
 
I love how they seem to think financial chaos is somehow preferable.
 
I personally am unsure whether this group is for real or just some astroturfing group. Astroturfing can be a powerful tool of political control -- when you find a group of people who are dissatisfied with the status quo, you create an astroturf group preemptively -- everybody rallies around the group allowing them to be easily controlled.
 
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