Saturday, December 17, 2011
More than 50 people from Birmingham and surrounding cities show up at Martha Baldwin Park on Saturday afternoon to protest income inequality, a corrupt federal government and more.
“I’m here because I think Martha Baldwin would expect me to be here.” There were dozens of reasons why more than 50 protesters came out to Martha Baldwin Park to participate in Occupy Birmingham, but for longtime Birmingham resident and park trustee Elaine Moore, she was there because of the legacy of one of Birmingham’s original activists. “She was active in almost everything in this town to improve civic life,” Moore said of the woman who helped found the Baldwin Public Library and whose name graces the park where the protest — an offshoot of the larger Occupy Wall Street movement — took place Saturday afternoon. “Martha lives in this event.” From improving civic discourse to speaking out against income equality and campaign finance laws…
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Monday, December 5, 2011
Organizer Gerald Doelle said he hopes the nonpartisan Occupy Birmingham protest is a respectful event.
The Occupy movement comes to Birmingham this month, as resident Gerald Doelle is organizing an Occupy Birmingham protest for Dec. 17 at Martha Baldwin Park. According to Doelle, the goal of the protest is to "make visible our dissatisfaction with a dysfunctional Congress, a political system corrupted by money and a failure of responsibility and leadership on Wall Street and in the U.S. banking sector." The protest is part of the larger Occupy Wall Street movement, an uprising against corporate greed which began Sept. 17 in New York and has since spread to cities across the country, including Detroit on Oct. 21 and nearby Ferndale on Oct. 28. Doelle said he hopes the movement will gain grassroots support. He has launched the Occupy …
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Site of Occupy Birmingham protest Dec. 17
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Friday, October 14, 2011
Group to meet at 4 p.m. at Spirit of Detroit statue in downtown Detroit.
Occupy Detroit, a grassroots group formed out of the national "Occupy Wall Street" movement, has planned a march in downtown Detroit today to coincide with other marches planned nationwide. Participants will gather at 4 p.m. today at the Spirit of Detroit statue at Jefferson and Woodward and will march together to Grand Circus Park at 6 p.m., according to the group's website. A forum post on the website says the group plans to occupy the area "indefinitely." The forum poster says it will be a peaceful demonstration. The "Occupy" movements seek political, social and economic change. Some of the Detroit-specific issues members of the group have mentioned on their website include, "housing foreclosures, basic lack of good food in Detroit (…
Alan Stamm
7:29 pm on Sunday, December 18, 2011
Really, Connie and 'Trees'? A peaceful, respectful demonstration of views about improving civic discourse, "corporate greed," insider trading, campaign finance and other public policy strikes you as a waste of time or hypocrisy because they may have nice homes? . . . Really? That suggests you'd have jeered the original "we, the people" patriots of 1776 as well. more ›