Occupy Wall Street 11-17-11

Wear purple handed out purple to the occupiers on this important day of unity. We also pleaded our case for UStream

http://ustre.am/_1fVRb:UJM

Some News about New Glory Purple

Russell Simmons gets his piece of fabric. Picture from CBS News website

NY1 Did a story
Cliffside Park Man Makes A Purple Contribution To Occupy Wall Street Protests - NY1.com

A couple of blogs point out the astrological significance of purple

http://twilightstarsong.blogspot.com/

http://www.astrodispatch.com/2011/11/02/wear-light-purple-to-show-support-for-ows-also-update-re-sad-news-of-occupy-okc/

A couple of more news articles for OWS Purple

http://starkravingviking.blogspot.com/2011/10/color-purple-and-solidarity-with-occupy.html

http://consumerist.com/2011/10/video-meet-your-wall-street-occupiers.html

I'm horrified by the brutality that caused a critical injury in Oakland

To me the most tragic death in war is the last one. All deaths and injuries are tragic during war but the last one occurs even though everybody knows it's over. For the Occupiers and the 99% we've won. The 1% and the politicians know it, so stop the unnecessary brutality and the risk it brings. The alternative of living with the knowledge that you did the wrong thing is not worth it. 

For the rest of us, the simple act of wearing New Glory Purple works because it allows us to show and cast our vote for REAL change. When we wear New Glory Purple and our politicians see it, they’ll realize if they don’t listen to and address our concerns, it’s the end of the line for them and they’ll be voted out of office. We want action now! So we’ll do something now, wear New Glory Purple! The OWS movement is not anti-American it’s ultra-American. Let’s all work together to help Occupiers and democracy, so that they can come in from the cold to the warm embrace of a society that helps each other and wont tolerate a select few taking advantage of the rest of us. We are the 99% and we will be heard.

Oakland Police Critically Injure Iraq War Vet During Occupy March

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/26/iraq-vet-oakland-police-tear-gas_n_1033159.html

Here's another blog about New Glory Purple that even has a YouTube interveiw

A Color for Occupy Wall Street?
By Rob Kall

http://www.opednews.com/articles/A-Color-for-Occupy-Wall-St-by-Rob-Kall-111022-773.html

Wear Purple goes to Occupy LA

Spreading the idea of wear light purple I went to LA to see the Occupy LA site. It's an amazing place and the people are great and very motivated to be herd, very inspirational!

After my talk about purple I was overwhelmed by the occupiers and handed out about 800 armbands. I also met Lauren Holly who was very nice and put on her New Glory Purple armband and asked a lot of questions.