This List of Grievances was passed by the Occupy Sacramento General Assembly on Saturday, November 26, 2011. It initially consists of the grievances described in Occupy Wall Street’s Declaration of the Occupation of New York City.
The GA shall establish an OLG for OS. Items added to the OLG shall be presented at the GA and adopted to the OLG by a super-majority (as defined by the body) vote of the occupiers at the GA. A person or group of persons may act on behalf of one or more official grievance established by OS through action(s) insofar as his/her/their actions are non-violent, peaceful, and comply with established bylaws and guidelines promulgated by the GA. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ymyg6nM0jZ845r4oCbZewjtvX1JkOZPWUFP2MiOtCHM/edit
They have taken our houses through an illegal foreclosure process, despite not having th original mortgage.
They have taken bailouts from taxpayers with impunity, and continue to give Executives exorbitant bonuses.
They have perpetuated inequality and discrimination in the workplace based on age, the color of one’s skin, sex, gender identity and sexual orientation.
They have poisoned the food supply through negligence, and undermined the farming system through monopolization.
They have profited off of the torture, confinement, and cruel treatment of countless nonhuman animals, and actively hide these practices.
They have continuously sought to strip employees of the right to negotiate for better pay and safer working conditions.
They have held students hostage with tens of thousands of dollars of debt on education, which is itself a human right.
They have consistently outsourced labor and used that outsourcing as leverage to cut workers’ healthcare and pay.
They have influenced the courts to achieve the same rights as people, with none of the culpability or responsibility.
They have spent millions of dollars on legal teams that look for ways to get them out of contracts in regards to health insurance.
They have sold our privacy as a commodity.
They have used the military and police force to prevent freedom of the press.
They have deliberately declined to recall faulty products endangering lives in pursuit of profit.
They determine economic policy, despite the catastrophic failures their policies have produced and continue to produce.
They have donated large sums of money to politicians supposed to be regulating them.
They continue to block alternate forms of energy to keep us dependent on oil.
They continue to block generic forms of medicine that could save people’s lives in order to protect investments that have already turned a substantive profit.
They have purposely covered up oil spills, accidents, faulty bookkeeping, and inactive ingredients in pursuit of profit.
They purposefully keep people misinformed and fearful through their control of the media.
They have accepted private contracts to murder prisoners even when presented with serious doubts about their guilt.
They have perpetuated colonialism at home and abroad.
They have participated in the torture and murder of innocent civilians overseas.
They continue to create weapons of mass destruction in order to receive government contracts. *
*These grievances are not all-inclusive.
January 14, 2024 at 6:35 pm
Our WAR machine must be stopped. The US military budget is 25 times larger than the next biggest nations budget. The US military budget it larger than all the rest of the world’s military budgets combined. Corporations lied GE, Lockheed, etc. make billions from military contracts each year. How many ordinary US citizens would put this country into war, especially an undeclaried and illegal war?
December 14, 2024 at 5:37 pm
What about identity, what about ownership, everytime a person buys a home it is still not theirs. Why is it that a sixth graders education is so much different in Del Paso as oppose to Loomis? Why is there a liquor store on every corner in a poor community. The plan of this government is to widen the gap between rich and poor, greedy politicians realistically couldn’t care less about anyone, save themselves.
December 13, 2024 at 11:55 pm
I find it interesting that all these great grievances are clearly listed, yet the mainstream media only reports on the single topic of financial inequality between the 99 and 1%. Perhaps as another area in which to provide the federal government with an action item, listing the need for the Federal Reserve to be abolished or whose
functions be taken on directly by the Treasury Department, as the
Constitution demands. There is an endless number of seemingly corrupt practices that have resulted in “financial repression,” with devastating consequences for the middle class.
December 29, 2023 at 11:36 pm
You would also need to fire almost every person at the Treasury from the top down (Geitner) and not allow any of the previous officials back in like (Paulson, Summers, Rubin), as they have all come through the revolving door from Goldman Sachs et al. In fact Bush hired 130 employees from the Pat Robertson School of Economics alone. Put in professors of economics who really know what is going on and who are sympathetic to everyday consumers, like Elizabeth Warren, Joseph Stiglitz, Robert Reich.
December 5, 2024 at 6:34 pm
I stand in solidarity.