Canadian Version of Wall Street Occupation Planned

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Sun, 2011-10-02 20:57

NDPP

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/canadian-version-of-wall-st...

"In Toronto, activists say they plan to converge on the city's financial district on Saturday, Oct 15. A tentative schedule on a website called Occupy Toronto says the occupation will begin at 10 a.m. ET that day.

The group plans to use the weekend to organize itself and says it will wait to march on the streets until the Toronto Stock Exchange opens on Monday.

Canadian protests are also planned for Calgary, Vancouver, Victoria, Ottawa, Montreal, Nova Scotia and Newfoundland, according to a website called Occupy Together.

The Toronto organizers are using the same rallying cry as those in New York, saying they are part of the 99 per cent of people who are struggling while the wealthiest 1 per cent of the population prospers..."

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Sun, 2011-10-02 21:36

NDPP

Occupy Wall Street. The Game of Colonialism and the Left - by Jessica Yee

http://rabble.ca/columnists/2011/10/occupy-wall-street-game-colonialism-...

"I can't get on board with the nationalism of an 'American' (or now 'Canadian') revolution..

'I had hoped that you would acknowledge that, since you are settlers on indigenous land, you would need and want our indigenous consent to your building anything on our land -- never mind an entire society..."

Sun, 2011-10-02 22:18

Ken Burch

One suggestion...they shouldn't announce publicly where they'll be occupying until the last moments, or set up some sort of a code system. A lot of Wall Street was closed off to the NYC activists very early on, which probably cause a significant number of early possible supporters to drift away.

Sun, 2011-10-02 22:26

Ken Burch

As to Ms. Yee's critique...how about changing "Occupy" to "Liberate"? For a start. And acknowledging that all these events will be taking place on the territory of the First Nations in question is not really asking all that much.