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Nedan följer det första officiella, kollektiva uttalandet från demonstranterna i Zuccotti Park där Occupy Wallstreet-protesterna är inne på sin andra vecka.

As we gather together in solidarity to express a feeling 

of mass injustice, we must not lose sight of what brought 

us together. We write so that all people who feel wronged 

by the corporate forces of the world can know that we are 

your allies.

As one people, united, we acknowledge the reality: that the

future of the human race requires the cooperation of its 

members; that our system must protect our rights, and 

upon corruption of that system, it is up to the individuals 

to protect their own rights, and those of their neighbors; 

that a democratic government derives its just power from 

the people, but corporations do not seek consent to 

extract wealth from the people and the Earth; and that 

no true democracy is attainable when the process is 

determined by economic power. We come to you at a 

time when corporations, which place profit over people, 

self-interest over justice, and oppression over equality,

run our governments. We have peaceably assembled 

here, as is our right, to let these facts be known.

• They have taken our houses through an illegal foreclosure process, despite not having the original mortgage.




• They have taken bailouts from taxpayers with impunity, and continue to give Executives exorbitant bonuses.
• They have perpetuated inequality and discrimination in the
  workplace based on age, the color of one’s skin, sex, gender identity
  and sexual orientation.
• They have poisoned the food supply through negligence, and undermined the farming system through monopolization.
• They have profited off of the torture, confinement, and cruel treatment of countless animals, and actively hide these practices.
• They have continuously sought to strip employees of the right to negotiate for better pay and safer working conditions.
• They have held students hostage with tens of thousands of dollars of debt on education, which is itself a human right.
• They have consistently outsourced labor and used that outsourcing as leverage to cut workers’ healthcare and pay.
• They have influenced the courts to achieve the same rights as people, with none of the culpability or responsibility.
• They have spent millions of dollars on legal teams that look for
  ways to get them out of contracts in regards to health insurance.
• They have sold our privacy as a commodity.
• They have used the military and police force to prevent freedom of the press.
• They have deliberately declined to recall faulty products endangering lives in pursuit of profit.
• They determine economic policy, despite the catastrophic failures their policies have produced and continue to produce.
• They have donated large sums of money to politicians, who are responsible for regulating them.
• They continue to block alternate forms of energy to keep us dependent on oil.
• They continue to block generic forms of medicine that could save
  people’s lives or provide relief in order to protect investments that
  have already turned a substantial profit.
• They have purposely covered up oil spills, accidents, faulty bookkeeping, and inactive ingredients in pursuit of profit.
• They purposefully keep people misinformed and fearful through their control of the media.
• They have accepted private contracts to murder prisoners even when presented with serious doubts about their guilt.
• They have perpetuated colonialism at home and abroad.
• They have participated in the torture and murder of innocent civilians overseas.
• They continue to create weapons of mass destruction in order to receive government contracts.*

To the people of the
world, We, the New York City General Assembly occupying Wall Street in
Liberty Square, urge you to assert your power.

Exercise
your right to peaceably assemble; occupy public space; create a
process to address the problems we face, and generate solutions
accessible to everyone.

To
all communities that take action and form groups in the spirit of
direct democracy, we offer support, documentation, and all of the
resources at our disposal.

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