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Whether Permit Is Approved Or Not, ‘Occupy Congress’ Will Still Happen On National Mall In January

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One of the biggest conservative criticisms of the Occupy Wall Street movement is that it has been too focused on protesting corporations and not focused enough on protesting Congress. Well, OWS protestors are now calling for a massive occupation of the National Mall when Congress returns from its winter recess on January 17th. The Occupy movement has been revitalized by recent outrages over the National Defense Authorization Act and the proposed Stop Online Piracy Act.

The group’s official Facebook page not only provides information about what they will be protesting, but transportation information for Occupiers all over the country to convene on the mall together. But this week, the Occupy Congress movement took another step towards organizing the protest by applying for a permit to camp out on the National Mall. The group posted a copy of the permit to the Facebook page. The permit states that the protest would be held from 7:00 AM to 11:00 PM, and the purpose of the protest would be to organize “peaceful 1st Amendment demonstrations including holding signs and group speaking.”

As of Wednesday, the National Park Service said they had not received the application, but an update to the group’s Facebook page on Thursday said the Interior Department had confirmed receiving it. However, if the permit is denied, it will not necessarily stop the protest from happening. From the Facebook page:

Submitted…approved or not we’re coming. This will just make it easier to provide some basic necessities and structure to this event.

The official website for the Occupy Congress movement explains the goal of the protest:

It’s time for the American people to send a message to Congress. Ordinary citizens are not being represented by their elected leaders. On Jan 17th 2012, thousands of Americans will arrive in Washington DC and Occupy Congress. We have no affiliation with any Political Party, Union or Political Organization. We are individuals organizing ourselves to send a strong message to our elected leaders…”We have had it with your inability to govern and we are coming to confront you in person!” Peacefully.

We are coming because of the corruption.

We are coming because of the bribery.

We are coming to remind congress that they work for the people.

The largest Occupy protest ever!

A press release issued by the group last week encourages individual protestors to “bring a Petition for Redress of Grievances.” Amusingly enough, the day after Occupy Congress submitted the permit to the National Park Service, an op-ed was published on EnidNews.com titled “Why isn’t there an Occupy Congress movement in U.S.?”

So when Congress convenes in January to ring in the new year, they should expect, at the very least, several thousand protestors nearby keeping them on their toes.

h/t Washington Post

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  • Anonymous

    The occupiers now turn their attention to DC – should be fun to watch.

  • Anonymous

    Will that old Teabag, Glenn Beck, show up for this one?

  • Anonymous

    I work and live in DC and I can tell you that these people get waaay too much publicity. Nobody pays any attention to them and all they do is cause traffic jams. The most recent, Union led, “Occupy the Mall” event was pathetic. There are much bigger and more important stories to report in the US/ world.

  • Anonymous

    This is where and who these morons should have directed their grievances toward in the first place.
    Backasswards as usual.

  • Mo Fokker

    Oh man. Heirs like the Koch brothers won’t like this affront to their values, especially those values related to multigenerational accumulation of wealth by families of such superior stock..

  • Anonymous

    Not likely, this is a meeting of the lazy and sloth-like, those that will not work…don’t look for over-achievers in the crowd.

  • Anonymous

    Occupy DC is the place to be.   

  • Anonymous

    “Shockingly” they won’t be protesting Nazi collaborator, George Soros and his billions.  I guess they too support the holocaust.

  • Anonymous

    Koch Industries was founded in 1940, that ain’t exactly “old money”, and OWS is an affront to anybody that actually works for  living.

  • Mo Fokker

    George Soros created his wealth through his investment firm, rather than through inheritance . And  a teenage Jewish boy living with a Christian family, operating in survival mode, is not a Nazi collaborator.

  • Mo Fokker

    FY AH.  People like you spend your entire day in comment sections blaming Obama for the high unemployment rate. But then when you see unemployed people protesting, you blame their personal circumstance on their laziness.

  • Anonymous

    They are lazy..I have two jobs…

  • Anonymous

    He gained his billions shorting the currency of the economies of the countries of hard working people you idiot.

  • Henry Wood

    The idea that you need to get permission from the government in order to protest against the government is completely preposterous.

  • http://mrfunn.myopenid.com/ mrfunn

    PC Occupy DC

  • http://mrfunn.myopenid.com/ mrfunn

    The POD

  • Mo Fokker

     Only a complete dumbsh*t hack who gets his talking points from DrudgeReport associates currency speculation with patriotism.

  • Anonymous

    They have to get a permit because they need permission from the rest of the citizens to use public property, it’s not preposterous at all. 

  • Anonymous

    I didn’t associate the two. Nice try. He made his money off of the backs of the peasants justy like you morons claim to abhor. You can’t have it both ways, though you all think you should. Slackers….

  • Anonymous

    A douche bag such as yourself would only need one job if they paid a living wage.Better get your dumb ass down to the protest.

  • Anonymous

    Only a complete lib cant understand when he is proven wrong and doesnt have a clue what he is talking about.

  • Anonymous

    I cant recall any time i have seen someones protest get them a job. They should spend their time actually working toward finding a job. The reason they are called lazy is because they are sitting around, singing songs,doing drugs, trashing up parks, and not doing anything to better themselves.

  • Anonymous

    You do realize the more that wages are raised the more things will cost dont you? Companies wont just raise someones pay and then take the hit of losing money. It will have to be made up. I guess then by your logic they will have to raise pay again.

  • Anonymous

     How much is SEIU paying you slackers to hang there?

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000572292487 Nancy Wade-Hull

    I’ve worked since I was 5 years old as I grew up on a farm & I still work @ 58.  I support the Occupy movement.  I want the rigged system cleaned up.

  • Anonymous

    They are both good paying obs, but I have kids in college. Unlike the OWS slackers, I am actually paying for their education.

  • Anonymous

    Then you should get some honest people elected instead of hanging out in the park all day smokin dope and shi**ing on sidewalks whining about how bad it is….

  • Anonymous

    Nevermind, you’re probably a union tool.

  • Henry Wood

    Read the first amendment.

    If the right to assemble and speak is only allowed when a government official who claims to speak for all the citizens gives it a stamp of approval, then it isn’t a right guaranteed by the constitution.

    None of the rights guaranteed in the BOR are contingent on the approval of the majority. The whole idea is to protect rights from the government and from the tyranny of the majority.

    But if we are talking about a vote by the citizens of DC, or the citizens of the US to approve this protest, I’m pretty sure you know how that would go. But we aren’t talking about that at all. We are talking about a member of the government giving his or her approval.

  • Anonymous

    Better late then never I guess. Can one of you occupiers poop on Barney Frank for me? Nevermind… he’d probably dig that.

  • Anonymous

    Make That 4 Jobs Between The Two Of Us !!!

    Count Mrs. Jester And It Makes 6 Jobs!!!

    Can’t Find A Job ?? BS !!

  • Anonymous

    Make That 4 Jobs Between The Two Of Us !!!

    Count Mrs. Jester And It Makes 6 Jobs!!!

    Can’t Find A Job ?? BS !!

  • Anonymous

    Some people like working 2 jobs regardless of pay.  You’re just lazy shitstormbrain.

  • Anonymous

    Occupy DC Is The Place To Be !!!

    If you’re a lazy, drug-using, public-pissing, woman-assaulting, cellphone-stealing, food-begging, no hygiene-practicing, lazy, can’t-take-care-of-myself bum.

    Oh, did I say lazy twice ??  Needed to.

  • Anonymous

    You are (sadly) retarded. A permit is required to ensure the safety and well being of all citizens, would you really (and be honest) NOT require the Tea Party to get a permit?

    The right to assemble is not infringed upon at all by requiring permits. Tool.

  • Anonymous

     You’re just jealous because the teabaggers fizzled out after the Koch brothers stopped funding them. 

  • us995

    gorge asssoros will take all left wing loons he can thanks to Obamas failed economy theres plenty

  • us995

    a douche bag such  as yourself must be overpaid you better hope they don’t figure it out

  • us995

    Obama will stop funding the pedefiles and drug addicts when he gets layed off in2012

  • Anonymous

    You’re so mislead it’s not even funny.  

  • us995

    I could say the same about you show me the hope and change?

  • Pablo

    KOCH! Booga booga.

  • Pablo

    When you’re protesting, you’re not looking for a job.

  • Anonymous

    Can’t sue the bastards without permission either. 

    The Ship of State is listing badly.

  • Anonymous

    Nah.  I’ve never been to an OWS protest personally, but I know a few people who are into it and they are the super-politically-active-join-every-college-club-available types.  They might be a bit naive and idealistic, but they are also way harder working than most other people I know.

    Which isn’t to say that all of OWS is like that (as with any movement, it will attract all sorts of different people, some not so desirable), but the popular myth floated by the right that OWS is all slackers and layabouts who want a free meal ticket is bunk.

  • http://www.facebook.com/roncallari Ron Callari

    Songwriter bwaySteve’s song “99 Percenter” recently interviewed by CBS News combines the angst of the past with the present – a unique perspective thru the lens of a 60s protester… http://inventorspot.com/articles/portrait_60s_protester_adds_perspective_occupy_movement_song

  • Anonymous

    It’s not a myth, it’s on film. If you’re laying around the park shi**ti on the sidewalk, tweeting on your i-pad, demanding rich people give you their money you are by definition NOT hardworking you are a leech.

  • Anonymous

    Its only to make sure that the citizens (everyone) are protected. Without it , it just looks like a giant flashmob and who knows what could happen without police making sure things are civil and no one is getting hurt. There have been plenty of arrests of Occupy people. I think a permit is absolutely necessary to keep Occupy people from hurting other people and themselves.

  • Anonymous

    LOL!  Soros admits it himself…!!  He admits turning in his fellow Jews.

  • Anonymous

    To call a person working 2 jobs a “douche bag” shows your total lack of civility or reason.  That’s why you Libs won’t get anywhere…you have no clue what it takes to win an argument.

    And as for why it’s hard to make a living wage, we can certainly blame Obama and the Dems for that, since they won’t allow any bill that comes before them to create jobs to even be heard before the Senate, and the EPA and NLRB stand in the way of energy jobs and non-union expansion for a good company that wants to employ people.

  • Anonymous

    There was a time when if you were not actively looking for work, you could not collect unemployment benefits. If those rules still held, the OWSers could not afford the trip to DC or anywhere else.

  • Anonymous

    If you think the Tea Party has fizzled, you are very mistaken.  They are not protesting in the streets, (therefore no media coverage) but they are actively organizing and pulling in the money for the upcoming general elections.  I hope you Libs continue to underestimate them.

  • Anonymous

    You say, “Most Americans aren’t fascist swine who want to silence the speech of others. Most Americans, unlike teabaggers, have that much knowledge of the constitution.”  Your error here is using the term “teabaggers” rather than Liberals, who are really the ones trying to silence the voices of the right….and everyone knows it…it’s no secret.

    But as a Conservative American, I have to agree with your original premise that it makes no sense to require a permit from the very government you are protesting.  And I agree there is nothing in the Constitution that requires such a permit.

  • Anonymous

    That may indeed be the reason for the permit requirement of individual municipalities and states.  However, it is not a constitutional requirement.

  • Anonymous

    “Submitted…approved or not we’re coming. This will just make it easier to
    provide some basic necessities and structure to this event.”

    Would those “basic necessities” include:
    Cop cars to shit on?
    Tents to rape in?
    Poles to walk into?
    Falafel carts?
    Trash cans to ignore?

    Do you know what the garbage disposal companies do when OWS food banks fail to pay their bill?
    They stop delivery.

  • Anonymous

    Tea Partiers have jobs, they vote and they recruit candidates, (remember 2010?)  OWS’ers on the flip side, don’t want to work to make changes, they want to whine, piss & moan and steal and generally ask to be cared for. They want their neighbors money, they are leeches of the first order and losers in life.  

  • Anonymous

    It’s the LAW!!!
    Now….S….T….F….U

  • Anonymous

    Do you know what the garbage disposal companies do when OWS food banks fail to pay their bill?
    They stop delivery.

  • Anonymous

    OCCUPY CONGRESS AND UNIONS THUGS…Why aren’t you occupying the man who orchestrated you…..OBAMA IN THE WHITE HOUSE?  –
    You will not need a permit to be thrown in jail.   Watch Obama throw you under the bus.  How do you protesters like being USED?
    Delores Smith
    Delores109@cox.net

  • Anonymous

    The Teabaggers are not smart enough to realize their getting screwed by Wall Street and the Koch brothers.  Actually a higher percentage of OWS work compared to the Teabaggers. The Teabaggers love getting their Social Security and Medicare as long as their the only ones getting it.  The Teabaggers want to screw over their neighbors. 

  • Anonymous

    It’s about time they got around to addressing the real people responsible for the economic morass, but they will probably go easy on their Democratic sponsors.

  • http://www.google.com Doodaddio

    No, it is not in the Bill of Rights, but local governments do have the right to pass ordinances to exercise control of public assets. That is why there is the the tenth Amendment, which reads, “The powers
    not delegated to the United
    States by the Constitution, nor prohibited
    by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”

    Why do so many of you Occupy people ignore the tenth amendment? Perhaps it is because it means you have to recognize local authority against your wishes.

    I would have thought that even though there was great restraint on the part of local authorities regarding your encampments, when they acted you would have been able to understand that restraint only goes so far. When your actions cause enough problems for enough people, and you fail to act when the local authorities tell you it is over, and permission has been withdrawn, that some of you would understand it is over.

    Apparently, you don’t like being told that. That is not a violation of your First Amendment rights, it is a failure of your recognizing the Tenth Amendment.

  • http://www.google.com Doodaddio

    Occupy DC is the place to be,
    If you want to wade through someone’s pee,
    Occupy DC is the place to be,
    If you want to give a home to fleas,
    Then come on down ’cause it’s free,
    Join the rest and freeze,
    Then you can all shiver, shuffle and sneeze,
    And you can all share  -  a disease.

    Occupy DC is the place to be.
    (As far away from as possible that is.)

    If Occupy DC is the place to be, and that is your cause, good luck.
    But don’t worry if things get furry, in the end you’re still getting ducked.

  • http://www.google.com Doodaddio

    Soros caused and profited from destruction of the Pound Sterling, and was convicted of illegal speculation on stocks he had insider information on in France. He’s proud of his efforts at destroying the economies of several nations; he’s bragged about it in several interviews.

    Turning on your own people is not survival mode, it is being a traitor. The man is no hero or shining example of a great humanitarian. He’s a 1%er and he laughs at useful idiots like you who work as hard as you can to achieve your own destruction.

  • barbara clemen

    Should have been submitted at T.F.C.,Dood.

    Smiles

  • Ryan Frederick

    that is the greatist!

  • barbara clemen

    I thought so too!

  • Anonymous

    A month ago you were comparing how much OWS and the tea party were alike.
    Make up your f*cking mind…assrag

  • http://www.google.com Doodaddio

    A day late – oh well…

  • http://www.google.com Doodaddio

    Thanks! It’s almost “There was a young girl from Nantucket…” …
    %^)

  • Anonymous

    OWS ! 
    Gotta love these guys and gals.  They are coming to your rescue, despite your approval or disapproval..

  • Anonymous

    Sounds like most of you graduated from the university of ayn rand.Tell us how one becomes such a narcissistic peice of shit?

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/6R5FZYVTPEJRHJEGIDKYZL4SWU richard

    I haven’t heard anything so moronic since I stopped off to grab a beer after my construction job 40 years ago and someone yelled “Get a job, you dirty hippy.” Apparently he didn’t know that some people get dirty at their jobs.
    You people must be running scared.

  • Anonymous

    *LOL* I love how these losers want free stuff and they think the way to do it is to stomp all over anyone else’s liberty like the little children that they are. If their permit isn’t approve, they better get arrested like they’d deserve to be.

    And if it does get approved? Well good, that’s more wasted SEUI and AFL-CIO dues money. And there will probably be arrests anyway since they’re violent children who rape women. But the other losers who decide to waste their day there, well actually they’ll almost certainly be paid, will be doing it lawfully.

  • http://twitter.com/VVVPR Veritas V V

    Obama has filed his NDAA Signing Statement.  Here is mine:

    Americans must not be distracted by Corporate Fascist Puppet Barack Obama saying “my Administration will not authorize the indefinite military detention without trial of American citizens” in his signing statement for the National Defense Authorization Act of 2012 (H.R.1540).  Presidential “signing statements” are political propaganda with no Constitutional basis.  A President who breaches a signing statement covenant faces no more consequences than any other corrupt politician who renegs on a promise.  By signing NDAA and attempting to give its unconstitutional provisions the force of law, Barack Hussein Obama became complicit with all of the bought-and-paid-for U.S. Senators and Representatives who voted for this bill, and along with them should be charged with Seditious Conspiracy under U.S. Code Title 18 Part I Chapter 115 Section 2384.  Unless and until these vermin are arrested, charged and removed from office, I will no longer consider the government they infest to be legitimate.  Nor will I respect any ruling to the contrary from a judicial system that grants rights of citizenship to corporate entities that treat settlements and penalties for criminal conduct as costs of doing business with no concerns about incarceration or execution to deter their illegal, immoral or unethical conduct.

    IronBoltBruce via VVV PR

  • Anonymous

    Noxious infantile disorder, go read some Lafcadio!

  • Anonymous

    “greatist”(sic)? Greatest 4th grade level doggeral at bestist.

  • Anonymous

    July 4th in Philadelphia, chump. You’re gonna love it.

  • Anonymous

    The actual “Nazi collaborators” were Prescott Bush, bankers who were prosecuted and found guilty in WW II..

  • Anonymous

    Big story loke  Romney’s Bain Capital Looting operation. skimming hundreds of millions in unearned parastic accumulation by destroying and exporting American workers jobs? There’s a story you surely look forward to, right?

  • Anonymous

    Got to get your lazy-ass head away for FauxFox. You demonstrate an utter, total lack of information, (obviously your intellectual comfort zone!), many comments reflect the dreary Know Nothingism of your cohort. Crawl out of your cave, vistit an Occupy GA, (you know what a GA is, smartass, right?), read the papers and published articles, OccupyWall Street.org, call a grownup, and think…Write something, surprise and delight with some actual knowledge, see how it feels to think critically, write beyond that low threshold you display so consistently…Come on, maybe, just maybe you can do it, show and tell, you know…

  • Ryan Frederick

    was i even talking to you?

  • Anonymous

    Curious. You do realize that the folks drawing SS now paid cash for it every working day of their lives.  We didn’t “earn”
    or “need” or “deserve” the monthly check: It’s actually our money, fuckhead. 

    Are all you posters no-nothing kids?

  • http://www.google.com Doodaddio

    Now that you have diagnosed your self and prescribed treatment, by all means proceed.

  • Anonymous

    You do not disappoint, compounding your stupidities with yet a further glaring, albeit mercifully brief, illustration of childish inanities…Jesus, what now, flinging feces….

  • http://www.google.com Doodaddio

    I would never challenge you in your one field of expertise.

    Nice combination of Christ and your stock in trade. You are a real prize package, I am surprised the women aren’t beating the door in to get at you.

    Oh wait, there is someone at your door now – you better go answer it Romeo.

  • steinsvold2

    An Alternative to Capitalism (if the people knew about it, they would demand it)
     
    Several decades ago, Margaret Thatcher claimed: “There is no alternative”.
    She was referring to capitalism. Today, this negative attitude still persists.
     
    I would like to offer an alternative to capitalism for
    the American people to consider. Please click on the following link. It will
    take you to an essay titled: “Home of the Brave?” which was published by the
    Athenaeum Library of Philosophy:

    http://evans-experientialism.freewebspace.com/steinsvold.htm  

    John Steinsvold

    “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.”
    ~ Albert Einstein

  • Anonymous

    Shut the hell up you dick head TROLL.  People telling Congress to do their job for the people is not Right?!!  Your just an instigator.

  • Anonymous

    I am not a hippie. I am a 48 year old stroke survivor. Someone who chose to return to work instead of receiving disability, then was laid off in April and become homeless since I cold no longer afford to pay for my home.

    I spend 12 hours a day looking for work and I find comments such as the one above yours very offensive. Lets hope this individual never has to go through what happened to me and my family.

    It is not just a matter of being an out of touch idiot. These people are selfish, heartless and ill intentioned.  They are the ones who keep voting for the GOP and defend tax cuts for Wall Street when 37 million Americans starve.  They are responsible for what happened to the economy. They profited from it. It was their idea of deregulation that created the house market crash. They are the  ones who say we must protect the job creators when the only jobs these selfish bastards create are in China and India. They are not morons, they are just plain evil.

    But yes, they are scared to death. The revolution is coming and guess who is shittin’ (not on the sidewalk, but in his pants)?

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