Here is who's behind occupy wall street

Here's your "Revolution"

Domain Name:OCCUPYWALLSTREET.ORG
Created On:09-Jun-2011 18:25:48 UTC
Last Updated On:09-Aug-2011 03:50:12 UTC
Expiration Date:09-Jun-2012 18:25:48 UTC
Sponsoring Registrar:GoDaddy.com, Inc. (R91-LROR)
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Status:CLIENT RENEW PROHIBITED
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Registrant ID:CR85243141
Registrant Name:Kalle Lasn
Registrant Street1:1243 7th West
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Registrant City:Vancouver
Registrant State/Province:British Columbia
Registrant Postal Code:V6H 1B7
Registrant Country:CA


Estonian Socialists: Estonian Communists, Jaan Anvelt, Johannes Vares, Kalle Lasn, Idel Jakobson, Salme Dutt, Vladimir Hütt, Viktor Kingissepp



Kalle Lasn

Biography
Kalle Lasn is the driving intellectual force behind the anti-corporate Adbusters Media Foundation.

In his writings, Lasn rails against the modern world and the progress that has made everyone’s life better. “The aggregate level of American life fulfillment peaked in 1957, and with a couple of brief exceptions, it’s been downhill from there,” he writes in his book Culture Jam: How to Reverse America's Suicidal Consumer Binge -- and Why We Must. Lasn calls the car “arguably the most destructive product we humans have ever produced.”

Lasn’s utopia is far from that of most Americans. He recommends “Not just a carbon tax, but a global across-the-board pricing system.” An example of life in this brave new world? “Your private automobile will cost you, by some estimates, around $100,000. And a tankful of gas, $250.”



The Adbusters Media Foundation (AMF) is a not-for-profit, anti-consumerist organization founded in 1989 by author/activist Kalle Lasn and wilderness cinematographer Bill Schmalz in Vancouver, British Columbia. The Foundation describes itself as "a global network of artists, activists, writers, pranksters, students, educators and entrepreneurs who want to advance the new social activist movement of the information age.

According to journalist Aaron Klein, the September 17 New York City protests—which ultimately drew about 1,000 participants—apparently represented “the culmination” of a campaign by Wade Rathke, founder of ACORN and president of an SEIU local in New Orleans, who in March 2011 had issued a call for “days of rage in ten cities around JP Morgan Chase.” Rathke's efforts were supported by Stephen Lerner, an SEIU board member and radical-left organizer who candidly aims to “destabilize the folks that are in power and start to rebuild a movement”; “bring down the stock market”; “bring down [the] bonuses” of executives in the financial sector; and “interfere with their ability to ... be rich.”

Between 2001 and 2011, AMF received $176,500 in grants from the Glaser Progress Foundation, and $309,773 from the Tides Foundation.



Another huge mover behind the "revolution" and OWS...



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Domain Name: OCTOBER2011.ORG
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Registrant Name: David Swanson
Registrant Organization: David Swanson
Registrant Street1:707 Gillespie Ave
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Registrant City:Charlottesville
Registrant State/Province:Virginia
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David Swanson is the author of "War Is A Lie" and "Daybreak: Undoing the Imperial Presidency and Forming a More Perfect Union." He blogs at [link to davidswanson.org] and [link to warisacrime.org] and works for the online activist organization [link to rootsaction.org]


David Swanson is also the author of "The 35 Articles of Impeachment and the Case for Prosecuting George W. Bush," by Dennis Kucinich (2008).

Swanson wrote the foreword to "Another Life" by Karen Malpede, 2011, and contributed two chapters to Fix America, 2011.

Swanson holds a master's degree in philosophy from the University of Virginia. He has worked as a newspaper reporter and as a communications director, with jobs including press secretary for Dennis Kucinich's 2004 presidential campaign, media coordinator for the International Labor Communications Association, and three years as communications coordinator for ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now.

Swanson is Co-Founder of AfterDowningStreet.org, creator of ProsecuteBushCheney.org and Washington Director of Democrats.com, a board member of Progressive Democrats of America, the Backbone Campaign, Voters for Peace, and the Liberty Tree Foundation for the Democratic Revolution, and chair of the Robert Jackson Steering Committee.





source:glp

Source:GLP? lol.
Is there anyway this info can be verified?
Also, while I don't swing to the extreme these persons listed do...I don't have a problem with such persons being behind the movement. The corporate stranglehold on the world has got to be broken.

reply to post by Kali74


here you go

actual info

No origional URLs' so we can do our own WHOIS?

Your info from the WHOIS you posted is suspect without us being able to do our own.

A Canadian activist group named Adbusters.They organized the protests in Cairo which led to the 2011 Egyptian Revolution..
Source

Occupy Wall Street is an ongoing demonstration in New York City.[4] The protest was originally called for by the Canadian activist[5] group Adbusters; it took inspiration from the Arab Spring movement, particularly the Tahrir Square protests in Cairo, which initiated the 2011 Egyptian Revolution.[6]

reply to post by mileysubet


tell you what, go to google and search for "find who owns domains."

You choose the site and see what it says

Are these people being financed by banks and private corps? This is what I want to know about the OWS organizers.

I'm quick to raise an eyebrow when ATSers start to throw the communist label around...it reeks of ignorance.

Anonymous has no leader, and no one is behind it, except everyone.

reply to post by illuminatislave


no need to stereotype ignorance with facts vs opinions

The website you are basing your post on does not seem to be an "official" web site for the Occupy Wall street movement. There does not seem to be an officail web site for the movement at this time. If I do a google search I can come up with many different sites claiming to be about the movement.

Let me google that for you


Some of these seem to be or look to be more credible than your original site that you are using to discredit the issue. Oh and notice if you do a WHOIS only a few come back with questionable ownership of the hosting server....



I can pick and choose the information to support my claims, but I am more honest than that so I will let you make the call...

reply to post by Daedal

A Canadian activist group named Adbusters.They organized the protests in Cairo which led to the 2011 Egyptian Revolution..

Your excerpt doesn't say that the "Adbusters" organized the protests in Cairo! It says, quite clearly, that they "took inspiration from the Arab Spring movement, particularly the Tahrir Square protests in Cairo".

Why did you not understand what it said?

See ya,
Milt

This is hardly a secret. Occupy Wall Street started as a mere suggestion on the adbusters blog and actually came to fruition. Having worked with adbusters and being very familiar with Kalle Lasn I can tell you that you have nothing to fear. On top of that Kalle is not running this movement.. merely helping foster it at this point. After the #occupy movement started to spread the media here in Vancouver interviewed Kalle Lasn regarding the #occupyvancouver starting up.

Occupy Wall Street began with a call to action on the blog of Vancouver-based advocacy magazine, Adbusters, in July. On Sept. 17, protesters began occupying a park near the New York Stock Exchange. “We’re the people who catalyzed this thing, but we’re not the people who are running it,” said Adbusters co-founder Kalle Lasn. “The people on the streets who have the guts to sleep out there night after night, those are the people who are really driving it.”

Here it is for you to observe in a paranoid fashion and make insane conclusions from.
www.canada.com...

Vancouver has a long and proud history of activism. It is a very green city with a very ethically oriented population. Greenpeace was also born here for example.
Relax. Kalle Lasn, of all people, is not working for a NWO and, despite previous comments, isn't stupid enough to have some agenda to spawn a socialist dictatorship and take your car away. I promise you that.

reply to post by mileysubet


occupywallstreet.org ; domain registered Jun 9, 2011

occupytogether.org ; domain registered Sept 23, 2011
occupywallst.org ; domain registered July 14, 2011

reply to post by mileysubet

I don't know why you used "Google Search", the domains are shown in the OP. October2011.org and OccupyWallSt.org look "official" to me!

I'm glad I could help.

See ya,
Milt

Originally posted by stereotype
reply to post by mileysubet

 

occupywallstreet.org ; domain registered Jun 9, 2011

occupytogether.org ; domain registered Sept 23, 2011
occupywallst.org ; domain registered July 14, 2011

I've been following a journalist @shoq on twitter who after a bit of a debate with Glen Greenwald, decided to get involved. It's my understanding, according to @shoq, that occupywallstreet.org is the "unofficial" official site. Take it for what it's worth. Considering it's the oldest site, that would make sense I suppose.

Which is very odd since Adbusters didn't suggest the wall street occupation until July. Hmmmmm

Occupy Wall Street began with a call to action on the blog of Vancouver-based advocacy magazine, Adbusters, in July. On Sept. 17, protesters began occupying a park near the New York Stock Exchange.

reply to post by NoAngel2u


Oh my god it's almost like they had the idea before they wrote about it. Um.. oh wait that sounds totally normal.

Originally posted by BenReclused
reply to post by mileysubet

 

I don't know why you used "Google Search", the domains are shown in the OP. October2011.org and OccupyWallSt.org look "official" to me!

I'm glad I could help.

See ya,
Milt

The sites you you listed are. But they are not the only ones available, that is the point. Any one can pick and choose the evidence they whant so that they can support their argument.


This sight is about denying ignorance, not blind belief of what one person types, try it out.

reply to post by mileysubet


yet you still wont accept the facts when they are so blatant. weird.

Take it easy friends.. nothing wrong with a little due diligence.
To get back on track.. I think the real potential for concern isn't who started ths movement but who might try to influence it or take it over. Already we have Tea Partiers and Dennis Kucinich offering advice.. no doubt CIA/FBI will infiltrate and either try to destroy it though violence or discrediting the movement.. or worse, you have the potential for a leader to rise up from the midst and start steering it in dubious directions.