A Message to the White House from Occupy Harrisonburg #1
Posted: July 16, 2012 Filed under: Actions, Cash Mob, Connection, Framing, Take Responsibility, This is What Democracy Looks Like | Tags: banksters, citizens united, corporate personhood, libor, occupy harrisonburg, occupy wall street, virginia, wells fargo banks 6 Comments »This is a message sent to the White House Deputy Assistant to the President and Director of the Office of Public Engagement after White House staff members met with Virginia community leaders through Virginia Organizing on Friday, June 13 2012.
Dear Jon,
April Move-Your-Money and Cash Mob
Posted: April 7, 2012 Filed under: Actions, Bank Transfer, Cash Mob, Celebrate What Works, Connection, Create Action, Ustream, Videos | Tags: american spring, bank transfer, cash mob, friendly city food coop, move your money, shenandoah valley, worker owned business 5 Comments »We had a small, but mighty gathering today at our monthly move-your-money and cash mob action.
Paulette
Vote! What Was Your Favorite Moment from Our 2.28 OHB General Assembly?
Posted: February 29, 2012 Filed under: Cash Mob, Celebrate What Works, General Assembly Notes, Vote! | Tags: 99 percent, general assembly, occupy harrisonburg, occupy harrisonburg virginia, occupy wall street, ohb, shenandoah valley, virginia Leave a comment »Occupy Main Street. Resources.
Posted: February 21, 2012 Filed under: Bank Transfer, Cash Mob, Celebrate What Works, Connection, Create Action, Framing, Occupy Harrisonburg Outreach, Recognize What's Broken | Tags: 99 percent, banks, corporate personhood, occupy harrisonburg, occupy wall street, occupyharrisonburg, shenandoah valley, virginia 1 Comment »Cornell West on How Intellectuals Betrayed the Poor.
We’ve been talking a lot lately about how our most powerful actions are now, and will continue to be, about how we connect locally and become interdependent in our own communities.
Here is a collection of resources that helps define the terms and shape the way we envision the future beginning very close to home.
An Introduction to Live Streaming/Ustream
Posted: February 6, 2012 Filed under: Actions, Bank Transfer, Cash Mob, Take Responsibility, Ustream, Videos | Tags: 99 percent, citizen journalists, geoffery shively, live stream, occupy harrisonburg, occupy oakland, occupy wall street, ohb, ows, shenandoah valley, syria, tim pool, ustream, virginia, william gagan 8 Comments »UPDATE 3.05: The U.K.’s Guardian blog profiles William Gagan and Geoffery Shively, two citizen journalists who honed their live streaming and reporting skills at Occupy and went onto Syria, one of the most dangerous places in the world for reporters of any skill level.
This week we premiered Occupy Harrionsburg’s Ustream Channel at our first Cash Mob. While live streaming video might seem a bit underwhelming from OHB’S first action with it – the technology is posing a huge challenge to mainstream news gathering by propelling the Occupy Wall Street movement directly to interested viewers. Live streaming holds both police and protesters accountable for their actions with instantly accessible images. It also allows viewers to interact live with the broadcaster through direct messages to the broadcaster’s screen while she or he is recording.
Click here for a Mashable article and video and here for a Time piece about well-known livestreamer Tim Pool on the impact of live streaming.
This is an informative Reuters piece on Pool’s equipment, and drone technology for crowd estimates as he readies for May Day and the G8 Summit.
Twitter: @Timcast
Other notable Occupy live streamers:
A list of other Occupy live streams
Occupy Harrisonburg’s First Cash Mob!
Posted: February 5, 2012 Filed under: Bank Transfer, Books, Cash Mob, Celebrate What Works, Connection, Create Action, Move Your Money, Occupy Harrisonburg Outreach, Ustream, Videos | Tags: 99 percent, bank transfer day, banks, harrisonburg, James Madison University, move your money, occupy harrisonburg, occupy together, occupy wall street, occupyharrisonburg, occupyhburg, ohb, ows, shenandoah valley, virginia 7 Comments »This week after we enacted our monthly Move-Your-Money Action we saw Occupy Harrisonburg’s first Cash Mob (A group gathers a pre-determined location at a pre-determined time and spends money there). In OHB’s case we mobbed Downtown Books and Shenk’s Bakery to honor and invest in local business versus corporate stores.
We also premiered our Ustream channel, called The Occupy Harrisonburg Channel which is explained a bit further here.
And here is Bob Bersson’s Action Report:
February 4th Action Day: Move Your Money and The First Cash Mob!
A nice turnout of button-wearing Occupy Harrisonburg members–Tim Wiggins, Levi Mason, Paulette Moore, Jim Van Orden, Michael Feikema, Ray Gingerich, Heather Banks, Linda Royster, Doug Hendren, Nancy Beall, and Bob Bersson—on a grey, chilly day.
Bob and Levi organize Move-Your-Money and Cash Mobs
