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Occupy Atlanta yard signs are now available.

If you want a sign, please email outreach@occupyatlanta.org.

We hope to have one or more in every neighborhood in the city. Tell your friends! If you have the means to give a donation, that will be helpful for keeping the sign making factory up and running.

Corporations are not people
Stand with us; reclaim democracy

We are the 99%
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They are two sided with two colors (green and black)

Grandmothers for peace came out to 675 West Peachtree Street today to serve food to the 20+ occupiers holding down the fort at the AT&T building.  The delectible homemade dishes from the grandmothers included teriyaki glazed baked chicken legs, vegetarian lasagna, bread, and greens. There was also a delicious sweet tea to wash it all down. The general response from the occupiers was, ‘MMMmMMMmmmMMMmmmMMMM!!!! Good!!!’.

Once the grandmothers had fed the mass at AT&T, they took the remaining food to the home occupation at 404 Glen Iris.  The grandmothers stayed and talked there for a while, the occupiers enjoyed their company and conversation, and then the ladies went about their days.

They brought tasty food, huge smiles, and some more positive energy to an already beautiful day.

Thank you grandmothers.

Love,

Occupy Atlanta

The occupiers at AT&T are protesting 740 layoffs of land line workers by AT&T in the southeast. Many of these union workers are being offered to be rehired at half the pay and no benefits; meanwhile AT&T remains the worse telecommunications company in customer service across the board.  They also had record profits and record CEO pay last year.  Make the right call AT&T, Rescind the Layoffs!

Minnie Ruffin, Little Copper, Dot Shaw, and Gloria Tatum

Minnie, Gloria, and Dot

Immediate Attention: Occupiers at Troy Davis park are soaked! They need help getting their blankets and coats dry before nightfall! If you have a washer and dryer and two hours to spare, please swing by Troy Davis (Woodruff Park) tonight and adopt a load of laundry.

Phone number for contact info will be posted in the comments below.

Occupy Atlanta passed the following statement of purpose at general assembly on Saturday (12/10) with 100% consensus:

We are Occupy Atlanta. We stand in solidarity with Occupy movements around the world to oppose a system that has disenfranchised the people and has sacrificed the well-being of the many to satisfy the interests of the few. We come together in a nonviolent movement to engage in genuine democracy; to shine a light on the sources of social and economic injustice; to reclaim liberty; and to create a just system that serves the needs of all. We invite you to join us.

Occupy!

Occupy Atlanta stands in absolute solidarity.

We are the 99%! This is only the beginning.

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NYC General Assembly
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“They (who) seek to establish systems of government based on the regimentation of all human beings by a handful of individual rulers… call this a new order. It is not new and it is not order.” – FDR

“We shall overcome because the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice” – MLK

“Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. It is a weapon unique in history, which cuts without wounding, and ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals” - Martin Luther King, Jr.

The MLK center is organizing this nonviolence training event.

World renowned leaders of Kingian nonviolence training, Dr. Bernard LaFayette and Captain Charles Alphin, Sr., will be leading a workshop on these nonviolent methods on the 4th floor of Peachtree and Pine homeless shelter, Saturday 
morning (11/5) at 10AM.

Nonviolence is our weapon, nonviolence is our path forward; we must become masters of this art.

Please come to the shelter and learn the path of nonviolent civil disobedience. Everyone is invited; please tell your friends.

contact: outreach@occupyatlanta.org for additional information
Click Here for Event Page