Submitted by John on Wed, 05/02/2012 - 7:44pm
Submitted by oneadem on Wed, 04/18/2012 - 12:20pm
On Saturday, April 14, 2012, about thirty members of Rockford's Occupy movement converged on Beattie Park at 11:30 a.m. for a brief period of live music before marching to the actual day's destination: a publicly-owned vacant lot at the southeast corner of Church & State, across from the BMO Harris Bank Center.
Submitted by oneadem on Sun, 03/25/2012 - 6:53pm
Roughly 500 people turned out for today’s Hundred Hoodie March to honor Trayvon Benjamin Martin, the 17-year-old African-American youth who was gunned down this February by an armed, self-appointed neighborhood watch Captain in Sanford, Florida. Theyvon’s crime, the things that sentenced him to death: being black, wearing a hoodie, looking “suspicious” in the eyes of a man with a gun who enjoyed playing cop in his neighborhood.
Submitted by oneadem on Sat, 03/24/2012 - 6:07pm
Seventeen-year-old Trayvon Benjamin Martin is dead. He is dead because George Zimmernam, an over-zealous, self-appointed neighborhood watch captain, took it upon himself to play cop and pursued the unarmed Martin despite police admonitions not to pursue the boy who Zimmerman said was “behaving suspiciously.
Submitted by oneadem on Mon, 03/19/2012 - 11:03pm
As a non-partisan movement, the Occupy mission is to support political, social and economic justice in myriad ways, both locally and nationally. Part of the reason such changes are necessary is rampant voter apathy of the past that has led to poor representation in all levels of the political structure. So if we want schools supported, if we want libraries built and not closed, if we want access to healthcare, if we want corporations swept from the legislative process, we must all vote for candidates who will support what Occupy stands for, regardless of party.
Submitted by oneadem on Sun, 03/18/2012 - 11:36am
Thursday, March 15, 2012, roughly thirty folks, including Occupy Rockford and SEIU, joined the local Rockford Move On council in a rally in support of “underwater” homeowners. Underwater homes are homes whose current market value is lower than the outstanding balance on a mortgage. No one knows exactly how many Rockford area homes are currently underwater, but estimates range from a minimum of 30% to 50% or more.
Submitted by oneadem on Sun, 03/18/2012 - 11:18am
Wednesday, March 14, 2012, about a dozen Occupy Rockford members rallied in support of the SEIU action to save our libraries and to advocate for fair tax rates in the State of Illinois.
Submitted by oneadem on Sun, 03/18/2012 - 11:07am
Tuesday, March 13, 2012, 14-plus members of Occupy Rockford joined, REA, UAW, SEIU and others in a crowd of about 300-plus to support a fair contract for Rockford educators. The crowd was so thick that picketers had to maneuver around sign and light posts to march back and forth along 7th street in front of the new School Board Building.
Keep fighting the fight!
We are ALL the 99%!
Submitted by oneadem on Sun, 03/18/2012 - 10:59am
The March 10th Occupy Art event at 2500 N. Main was a great success!
Submitted by oneadem on Sat, 02/25/2012 - 6:43pm
Occupy Rockford's first attempt at answering that question came this afternoon.
Alrighty then... Now that my fingers have regained their feeling, I thought a brief recap of this afternoon's anti ALEC protest would be in order.
At noon today, about twelve members of Occupy Rockford occupied the corner of Riverside Drive and Forest Hills for the purpose of protesting the American Legislative Exchange Council, or ALEC. For those not familiar with ALEC, think voter suppression laws, laws like Wisconsin's and Ohio's anti collective bargaining legislation and any of a number of laws to deregulate various fossil fuel industries -- ALEC is the corporate-funded organization that actually writes this legislation in order to hand it over to mostly state legislators to present as if they had written it themselves. Those legislators, deeply beholding to their corporate and wealthy contributors are then obligated to fight to pass said legislation.
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