Meetings this week…
On Wednesday, February 15th, there will be canvassing training @ Gypsy Bean, beginning at 5pm. Gypsy Bean is located on the corner of 65th and Detroit. There is parking in the lot directly behind the building.
This is for a specific action. You must be willing to knock on doors and talk to people about their foreclosure. Canvassing will start on Saturday, February 18th and will continue all day Sunday. Please come if you can help us with canvassing next weekend.
Sunday night, February 19th, there will be a joint meeting of the Outreach and Foreclosure WAGs. This will be at Gypsy Bean, as well, at 6:30pm. Anyone interested in working with the Outreach and Foreclosure WAGs and helping us plan an action in March…please come.
If you need more information, feel free to email me via Outreach: occupyclevelandoutreach@gmail.com or Foreclosure WAG: occupyhomes216@gmail.com
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Occupy Cleveland models and promotes participatory democracy, allowing every person’s voice to be heard, and giving every powerful and just idea its chance to transform our community and change the world.
Occupy Cleveland is committed to truth, accountability, transparency and participation within all power structures. We are committed to social, environmental and economic justice for all. We operate within a culture of compassion, in which we support and uplift one another regardless of personal circumstances. We stand with all those who are suffering, or have loved ones suffering, under the current global and economic situation. We care about each other and we care about you. Join Us!
Get involved, share your skills and experience and help your community.
Activities, Marches, General Assemblies, Working Groups and more…
24/7 Public Square (Tom Johnson NW quadrant).
- General Assemblies (GAs): 6:00 pm on Monday Wednesday and Friday & 2:00 pm to 4:pm every other Sunday at Trinity Cathedral.
If you can not attend, check them out via our live streaming video and archives
or check out our GA Notes and our GA Wiki page.
- Events & Activities – Keep an eye on the events schedule,
call to help organizers, 
please try to attend and, help promote events.
FEATURED EVENT: Seminar:
Economic Inequality; The Basic Facts*
WHERE: Trinity Commons Meeting Room AB
WHEN: Sunday, February 5, 2-4 pm
WHO: John Holian, Ph.D., CCC Professor of Sociology (Emeritus)
- Get Involved – Donate time and resources by visting our
Donate and Needs pages and contacting us to sign-up for
one of the Occupy Cleveland Working Groups.
Print our general information flyer (PDF)
and share it with your friends, neighbors and co-workers:
- Stay In Touch by signing-up for informative email Digests and through our
social media sites and member’s Forum. Also, check out media coverage at our Media Wiki page.
Featured Events (See complete schedule
here)
:
Numbers and reasons to support the Occupy movement -
(download flyer here PDF)
- 66% of American make less than $40,000 a year.
- .05% of Americans make more than $1 million a year.
- The top 20% of Americans control 93% of total financial wealth; 1% controls 43%, and the next 19% controls 50%.
This leaves the bottom 80% controlling only 7% of total financial wealth.
- 25 million people in this country can’t find a full-time job.
- 50 million people in the U.S.A. live without health insurance.
- 47 million people in this country need government help in order to feed themselves.
- 15 million families owe more on their mortgage than the value of their home.
- More than 8 Million people lost their homes in the foreclosure crisis so far.
- The U.S. housing market has lost an estimated $4.9 trillion dollars, as 59 million homes have declined in value.
References:
U.S.A approximate numbers (U.S. Census): population, 312.7 million; work force population, 153.8 million; number of households, 117.5 million
Inequality and the Common Good, Institute for Policy Studies.
Wealth Income and Power, by G. William Domhoff, UC Santa Cruz.
The Rising Age Gap in Economic Well-Being; The Old Prosper Relative to the Young, By D’Vera Cohn, Gretchen Livingston, Paul Taylor, and Richard Fry.
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