Sunday night, I got one of my amazingly wonderful friends to stay in a tent with me and see what it’s like to occupy. I couchsurfed at her house the night before and she thoroughly enjoyed spooning me in the tent at AT&T. Hahaha! >.<! It was pretty cold.

Whenever we woke up the next morning there was a press conference to announce that we would be packing up our encampment there and taking our resources and efforts to the next cause and location site. We did our job and saved jobs in the process. Like Mary Poppins, we showed up where we were needed and left no trace behind when our job was done. Here are some pictures from the site being packed and swept up as well as various links around the internet about this occupation. Enjoy!

Little Copper. :3

My awesome friend, Melanie Wallace.

http://afscatlanta.blogspot.com/2012/02/report-from-occupy-at-day-11.html

http://www.myfoxatlanta.com/dpp/news/local_news/Occupy-Atlanta-Protests-AT-and-T-Layoffs-20120221-pm-pk

Frankie Sinn.

http://occupywallst.org/article/save-jobs-occupy-t-atlanta/

http://www.wsbtv.com/news/news/local/occupy-protestors-arrested-t-building/nHb58/

http://www.wsbtv.com/news/news/local/occupy-atlanta-camps-outside-t-building-protest-la/nHc8b/

http://crooksandliars.com/kenneth-quinnell/occupy-atlanta-cwa-jobs-justice-s

http://www.occupymysoapbox.com/2012/02/occupy-atlanta-and-at.html

http://www.cbsatlanta.com/story/16935228/union-members-occuoy-atlanta-protesters-rally-against-att-layoffs

http://www.ajc.com/news/atlanta/12-occupy-atlanta-followers-1348372.html

Latron Price.

Mr. Joe Beasley.

http://www.peoplesworld.org/tents-return-as-occupy-atlanta-protests-at-t-layoffs/

http://www.plutocracyfiles.com/2012/02/from-occupy-at.html

http://www.local1101.org/v1/index.php/article-archive/79-attavaya-news/114-workers-occupy-atat-atlanta-headquarters-to-stop-layoffs

http://teamsternation.blogspot.com/2012/02/day-11-teamsters-cwa-friends-occupy-at.html

http://www.11alive.com/news/article/227536/40/MIDTOWN–Occupy-Atlanta-protesters-arrested-at-ATT-building

http://99videos.org/video/occupyattinatlanta/

http://nexusofchange.wordpress.com/2012/02/16/teamsters-and-occupy-atlanta-protest-to-save-att-jobs/

http://www.georgiagreenparty.org/GreenAction/occupy-att-save-740-jobs

http://atfirstsite.us/wordpress/2012/02/17/occupy-att-photos-feb-14-2012/

http://www.atlantajwj.org/2012/01/occupy-at-is-our-community.html

http://www.atlantaprogressivenews.com/interspire/news/2012/03/26/occupy-atlanta-claims-partial-victory-in-att-protest.html

http://wacptv.ning.com/video/wacptv-occupy-at-t-3-2-2012-atl-live?xg_source=activity

http://clatl.com/freshloaf/archives/2012/03/25/occupy-atlanta-claims-victory-in-atandt-standoff

Occupy the Night.

I’m so excited

I’m elated.

We’re so united.

We’re related.

There was so much bull shit

and we ate it.

I’m now too busy

to be jaded.

My heavy heart has

anticipated.

This moment in time

that won’t be faded

or dissipated.

Have you weighed it?

We can chill all night

and debate it.

We will stop being

degraded.

Misjudged and

hated.

I can clearly

state it.

The people are too big to fail.

There aren’t enough prisons or jails.

Arrest us again and we’ll bring you twice the hell.

I’d even be nice enough to let the bankers share my cell.

Well…

If only our system was that swell.

We wouldn’t have to turn the 1% so pale.

By taking the streets and giving a yell.

They try to stifle us to no avail.

We know they’re really quite so frail.

So, leave your bars and leave your ale,

and like I said, LET’S GIVE EM HELL!

😀

Civil Disobedience in a Facebook Comment.

Let me give you an idea of what civil disobedience is about.

The corrupt people on the top think they own and control us however they want, we the people stop being their ants and show them who they work for. Sometimes, you have to throw a wrench in the system to get them to even look. I linked arms and was arrested in the park with 51 others to prove that the rights we thought we had were bogus. I’m now going through a year-long court case against the city because they arrested us for something that we all should have been given tickets for. Not only should they not have arrested us for being there past the 11pm curfew, but the mayor gave us an executive order allowing us to stay there until November 7th. While the mayor has every right to create an executive order, he has no right to revoke one. Also, we were exercising our first amendments right freedom to assemble and to petition a redress of grievances. If this isn’t dismissed then it is proof that our constitution has become invalid. Our founding fathers wrote the United States Constitution knowing good and well that the whole system would be perverted by tyranny.

“I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around [the banks] will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs.”
Thomas Jefferson.

We’re doing patriotic work here. We work together and we work every day. We were feeding hundreds of homeless people in the park. Everything we do now is community service based like it should be. Love thy neighbor. You know, stuff Jesus would do. Hate on. ^_^!

“We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.”

Thomas Jefferson

Occupy In A Facebook Comment.

I’d like to inform you guys for a bit. Occupy is a social forum. It’s an idea. The idea that our Constitution is still relevant. We practiced our freedom to assemble. That is why we chose to stay in the park for days on end and discuss what’s gone wrong in our country as well as our world. Strangers in a community coming together and sharing ideas. Just like our founding fathers did when they drafted the Declaration of Independence. So we realized that our first amendment rights were a facade whenever they started to kick us out of our occupation sites one by one across the country. So we the people created our own media outlets since the majority of the news is owned by corporate media and there is no way that they want to help us shine a light on the injustices that they are participating in. We are not against anyone. We welcome all voices. Most of us are students and working people. If you take the time to watch a few documentaries you could see some of the reasons we’ve become collectively concerned. We are realizing that we’ve been trying to live off of finite resources as if they are infinite. That puts a strain on the environment and causes devastating effects. It’s different in every city, which by the way, Occupy is a Global Movement for a Global Paradigm Shift. We just want to shine a light on all the ridiculous stuff that is going on and wake people up from their disinterested comas. Being passive and continuing naivety does not help us change this world together. You can harp on occupiers all day and all night, but you are really mocking people you don’t know that are just trying anything and everything that they can to do as Gandhi says and “Be the change you wish to see in the world”. Call us hippies. Tell us to get a job. If you think that’s going to stop us, then you have clearly not heard of the NDAA, SOPA, ACTA, PIPA, HR. 347, or even locally our own SB. 469. Stop getting defensive because people everywhere are trying to change the world. Watch “Inside Job” and “The Corporation”. This is the Information Age. Get informed and join in the revolution. If you have a banking account. Switch over to a Credit Union or even a small local bank. Especially, if you bank with Bank of America. The banks pulled the biggest Ponzi Scheme ever and got the government to bail them out. Remember 2008?? Did you know that Bank of America can loan up to 100 magical dollars for every dollar you put in their bank? It’s absurd. You may think we are just some jobless, hippie, kids making a lot of noise and whining, but that’s because it’s what corporate media would like you to think. I had a conversation the other day with a news anchor from CBS who blatantly admitted it and said he wished he could report what he was really seeing every time he came out. These banks have consolidated our debts into CDOs and traded them in an unregulated derivatives market with complete abandon. They should have tanked and been left willowing in their own bullshit, but no. Our government bailed them out and now the debts they created have been placed on the backs of the middle class. Creating the greatest wealth disparity that this country has ever seen. That is why we are against the 1%. Which are about 400 people that are billionaires that control everything. Occupy Wall Street started out in New York mostly against the banks. But as so many diverse people united to discuss these problems, we’ve realized that there are so many more concerns that need to be addressed. In Occupy Atlanta for instance, we have about seven different occupation sites now. One at AT&T where we are working with the unions trying to stop them from laying off 740 workers to make way for lower paying jobs without benefits even though AT&T made record profits last year and the CEOs gave themselves millions in bonuses. We have 43 tents wrapped around their building to show that we mean business. This is how the people have decided to create jobs. By saving existing jobs. But this action was created by the unions that work at AT&T and we were called in for solidarity with the people. Another one of our occupation sites is at the Peachtree & Pine homeless shelter. It is in a prime location for big business and people are trying to close it down. Where would those hundred of homeless people go? Ever since we’ve been occupying there, there has been a free bike shop created, and a rooftop organic garden to work in. They were going to close it down months ago, but we are prepared to get dragged out of there and arrested if it comes to that. Atlanta ranks pretty high up in homelessness. Homelessness is a extension of the damage cause by our economic crisis caused by the banks. Especially, since there are so many fraudulent foreclosure cases. Did you know that there are about ten empty homes to every one homeless person in the united states?? So, two of our other occupation sites are homes being wrongfully foreclosed on. One on Glen Iris in Fulton, and one in Dekalb. We’ve set up tents in thei front yard so people can expect us. The tent has become the national or global symbol of the Occupy Movement. We’ve already saved a veteran’s home in Riverdale and we tried to save a police officer’s home, but the sheriff told us that if we did not leave they would ONLY arrest the family. We saved a historic black church in Vine City from foreclosure within HOURS of our occupation. Now we are welcomed there and are planning on beautifying Vine City with organic farming and community building. The busiest workers of our movement know that they have to spend most of their time at work or with their family, but they still bring their kids out to events and they bring us food and good company or donate their time and money on occupy. It’s like investing in something that you feel good about and you KNOW will change the world for the better. Rather than believing in just the voting system and going back to regular scheduled broadcasting. The banks thought they were too big to fail, but they underestimated the people. We are even bigger. Especially, when we make up 99% of the global population. If you’d like to know more, I can go on for days. I’ve given up the life I had for this and I wouldn’t have done that for just anything. In fact, a lot of people have given up a lot for this movement because they wanted something better for this world. Something to put their hopes and dreams into like a seed into fruition. If all you can do is mock these people, then I think you should reconsider how you spend your time helping the world grow into something beautiful for your children to enjoy and appreciate. I for one, hated becoming an adult and realizing that the mountains I’d read about and studied in Geography class were blown up with dynamite in strip mining, all because some people decided that finite fossil fuels were the only way, because corporations have all the say in these matters. Those maps will have to be re-drawn. Those animals that lived there will have to find another mountain. Not to mention the waste choking up all the nearby streams and polluting the water that the locals drink. Every cause has an effect. What’s yours?

This is what Democracy looks like.

If There Ever Were A Bill To Unite Us. Thank you, SB. 469.

Occupy Atlanta Arts & Literature Committee BottomLiner, Morgan Marcum.

http://www.ajc.com/news/georgia-politics-elections/hundreds-gather-for-capitol-1388853.html

Occupy Atlanta Livestreamer, James Woods.

A dapper looking, George Chidi.

Occupy Atlanta member, Oliver Beinlich

http://teamsternation.blogspot.com/2012/03/ga-rally-lesson-in-building-power-to.html?m=1

Ron Allen and radio host, Rob Redding.

Teamsters member, Ben Speight & I. :3

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opBdDRa-xIo

Occupy Atlanta member, Robert Derenthal.

http://romenews-tribune.com/bookmark/17872667/articleEDITORIAL:+It’s+time+to+protest#.T2fh4CSXuPg.facebook

Take Back The Block.

My dear friend, Vincent Fort.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7GJ32xFF9w

A Beautiful Occupy Atlanta protester, Shabnam Bashiri.

John Lewis speaking.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMmcGhKjBzE

http://www.thegavoice.com/blog/politics/4331-rally-at-gold-dome-on-saturday-to-protest-anti-protest-senate-bill

I finally got to speak to John Lewis. :3

http://www.cbsatlanta.com/story/17183195/hundreds-gather-at-state-capitol-to-protest-legislation

La’Die Mansfield chatting with Senator Vincent Fort.

Occupy Atlanta writer, Sara Amis.

Patriots.

Occupy member, Scott Brown keeping the rhythm.

More picture here. ^_^!

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10100740019641775.2677097.27405021&type=1

And here.

http://occupyatlanta.org/2012/03/18/photos-we-are-georgia-rally-march-17-sb-469/#.T2fxu8V8Cp0

At least 2,000 people from various organizations were present in front of the Georgia State Capitol Saturday. It was St. Patrick’s Day. It was the 6th month anniversary of OWS. It was a National day against Monsanto. It was Georgia’s Mass Rally against SB. 469. What a day! ^_^!

Occupy Atlanta prepares for the American Spring!!!!!

This is the view from the roof of my new homespace in Atlanta. Thanks to fellow occupiers, I can once again occupy full-time and be as committed as I was before we were evicted from the park last October. ^_^!

Happy birthday Robert!!!!!

Last night I stayed at our encampment at the AT&T building. There were plenty of friendly faces to go around and a lot that I haven’t seen since the beginning of Occupy Atlanta.

We now have 43 tents wrapping around the front of the AT&T building. And a couple of the workers spent the night out there with us! ;D

Hehehe!

I woke up to the Sun beating down on my tent and lots of police presence. This is my view of them, peeking my head out of my tent. They were super serious about everything today. >.<! Especially, making sure that we did not sit on, lean against, or touch AT&T’s wall.

Super Serious Business.

Here comes the news. 🙂

My signature behind the scenes cameraman shot. xD

Christopher King is a pretty rad dude.

Our tents go allllll the way down. :]

News Van!

http://afscatlanta.blogspot.com/2012/03/at-workers-speak-out.html

Grandmothers For Peace came out to feed us. ❤ They’re so awesome!

Johnny Money rocks!

Crime scene tape! Credit to SB. 469. >.<!

Shabaka 2012!

Oh! You should check out this PSA we recorded for our event this Saturday.

Here… http://soundcloud.com/scott-brown-9/sets/3-17-12-mass-rally-psa

If you could share that far and wide, I would highly appreciate it! ^_^!

Consider this event, the beginning of our American Spring in Georgia/Atlanta.

There will be hundreds of people, including awesome senators like Vincent Fort and Rev. Dr. Joseph Lowery.

We’ve also made some changes to our livestream.

It is ready for Saturday and you can check it out here…

http://www.livestream.com/occupyatlanta ^_^! ❤

I really don’t think they are expecting us. Hahaha!

And here is a quick picture from my signmaking sweatshop that we had tonight. I’m so glad that people came out to help me. We’re going to have plenty of signs for Saturday! :3

Peace. Love. Solidarity! ❤

~Kimlee

Occupy Atlanta General Assembly at Georgia State Capitol.

There was a quick GA at the Capitol yesterday with a proposal to SUPPORT the recent bill SB. 469.

Senator Vincent Fort voiced his concerns about the bill.

Eventually, the proposal was overwhelmingly blocked after some discussion about SB. 469.

It was decided that we the People would like to keep our 1st Amendment rights and have a Massive Historic Rally of Hundreds this Saturday, March 17th, 2012 at the Georgia State Capitol, instead!

They’d better Expect Us! ;D