Occupy Wall Street (OWS) was the start of a progressive protest movement that began on September 17, 2011, in Zuccotti Park, located in New York City’s Wall Street financial district, receiving global attention and spawning a surge in the movement against economic inequality worldwide.
This video contains nearly five minutes of raw slow-motion clips that celebrate and document the faces and feelings of September 17th.
And it ain’t over yet!
Many thanks to embrown23 @ Youtube for the video below.
Even though ACT-UP’s (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power) rally, march and demonstration on Wall Street to demand an end to the global crisis of AIDS that began 30 years ago and decimated almost an entire generation of hay men in the 1980′s. wasn’t set to start until the late morning, 10 brave members of ACT UP chained themselves across Wall Street as the opening bell rang on New York Stock Exchange floor this morning demanding that a tax be added to all stock transactions in order to fund HIV/AIDS treatments worldwide.
Act Up Press Release
Activists kicking off action for ACT UP’s 25th Anniversary chained themselves to the entrance to Wall Street’s Stock Exchange just moments before the opening bell this morning. 10 were arrested. AIDS Activists demand a Financial Speculation Tax, a tiny tax on speculative financial transactions that would raise up to $350 billion in the United States annually to fund 15 million people on treatment by 2015 and lead to an eventual end to the AIDS pandemic. The activists had business suits, which allowed them to blend in downtown, but then donned bandit masks and Robin Hood hats. The international campaign for a Financial Speculation Tax has often been called the “Robin Hood Tax Campaign.” “The Financial Speculation Tax Wall Street can afford this extremely tiny tax on the ‘casino economy’ transactions that contributed to the recession. People with AIDS need that money to restore draconian budget cuts to put us on track to end the AIDS pandemic,” said activist Megan Mulholland
25 years ago ACT UP members demonstrated at Wall Street and Broadway to demand greater access to experimental AIDS drugs and for a coordinated national policy to fight the disease.
God Bless ACT UP. Without them there would be ZERO long term survival from HIV/AIDS you’d be surprised how few rights you’d have today, or how few friends still alive.
Tomorrow morning (4/25/2012) at 11 am ACT-UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power) will celebrate its 25th Anniversary by marching on Wall Street demanding an end to the global crisis that began 30 years ago and decimated almost an entire generation of hay men in the 1980’s.
Hundreds of AIDS activists will gather outside City Hall to hear brief speeches on current topics of concern on HIV/AIDS issues, with specific demands, including the need for a Financial Speculative Tax to be funneled to health care. The demonstration will leave City Hall and go down Broadway, with a couple of other stops at key locations, ending at Trinity Church with a personal commemoration of loved ones lost to AIDS. ACT-UP chapters and supporters are busing into New York from Philadelphia, Boston, Baltimore, Washington and other cities to participate with the New York groups. A number of supportive national and local organizations and individuals will join ACT-UP in the demonstration, including Housing Works, National Nurses United, and Occupy Wall Street, among many others.
25 years ago ACT UP members demonstrated at Wall Street and Broadway to demand greater access to experimental AIDS drugs and for a coordinated national policy to fight the disease.
Seventeen ACT UP members were arrested during this civil disobedience.[
The demonstration will start at 11am Wed., April 25th starting at City Hall at the corner of Murray and Broadway. An American Sign Language Interpreter will be provided.
