Occupy Australia

Australian 'Occupy' Websites. (Note: Members of 'Occupy Australia' cannot guarantee the authenticity of the following links and websites or that they contain factual information. Some of the following links and websites invite and encourage monetary donations. Please uses your discretion when accessing these sites.)

• Occupy Australia - Facebook www.facebook.com/occupyaustralia www.facebook.com/occupyaustralia In solidarity with our brothers and sisters in Egypt, Lybia, Greece, America and around the globe we stand together to occupy our streets with peace, love and respect. Show your support for Occupy Wall Street & Occupy Australia!!!

• Occupy Sydney www.occupysydney.org.au/ www.occupysydney.org.au/ Inspired by the Arab Spring revolutions and Occupy movements blossoming on Wall St, across the US and throughout Europe, activists in Sydney will be gathering this Saturday 15th October 2011 at Martin Place, Sydney, at 2.30pm to launch the Occupy Sydney movement.

• Occupy Adelaide www.occupyadelaide.org/ www.occupyadelaide.org/ The Occupy Adelaide group wants to Democratise the Economy. We value human and environmental needs over dollars. For every person who attends Occupy Adelaide there are many more that we are representing.

• Occupy Melbourne occupymelbourne.org/ occupymelbourne.org/ October 15 people in all corners of the world will unite in a global demonstration to claim our right to a true democracy and the power to determine our future.

• Occupy Brisbane www.occupybrisbane.net/ www.occupybrisbane.net/ We are peaceful citizens from all walks of life looking to occupy Brisbane until change occurs. Gaining our genesis from 'Occupy Wall St', we believe financial institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.

• Occupy Perth occupyperth.org/ occupyperth.org/ We stand for non-violent uprising against corporate control of government and the extent to which the wealthiest 1% own your life. We are the 99%.

• Occupy Canberra occupycanberra.wordpress.com/ occupycanberra.wordpress.com/ We face the same problems with our democracy here in Canberra and Australia as people face in most other developed nations. It is unwell. It???s not functioning how it???s supposed to be functioning.

• Occupy Wollongong www.facebook.com/occupywollongong www.facebook.com/occupywollongong With the Occupy movement in over 1000 cities around the world, Occupy Wollongong seeks to create an open, democratic space for people to participate in discussion about creating a classless society based on principles of peace, equality, freedom and justice.

• Occupy Gold Coast www.occupygoldcoast.net/ www.occupygoldcoast.net/ Founded on the 7th October, 2011, we at Occupy Gold Coast stand in solidarity with the Global Occupy Movement which started in Wall Street and has now spread across the globe. This is a movement devoted to bringing about change 'for the people and by the people' in a Directly Democratic fashion.

• Melbourne Free University melbournefreeuniversity.org/ melbournefreeuniversity.org/ The Melbourne Free University provides a platform for learning, discussion and debate which is open to everyone. The MFU was established in 2010 in response to Australia???s increasingly outcome oriented education system, and aims to offer space for independent engagement with important contemporary ideas and issues.

• The Occupy Melbourne Digest omdigest.org/ omdigest.org/ The people of Melbourne. Occupy Melbourne is not affiliated with any political party, Adbusters, Anonymous or any other organisation. We come from a wide range of beliefs, ideas, opinions, political ideologies and backgrounds, young and old. Occupy Melbourne was directly inspired by Occupy Wall Street and other movements inspiring us to Occupy Together, like Democracia Real Ya in Spain, though Occupy Melbourne exists independently from these movements.

• Occupy Gippsland occupygippsland.weebly.com/ occupygippsland.weebly.com/ Occupy Gippsland is an inclusive community movement, working together for change through non-violent action.

• Occupy T.P.P.A https://occupytppa.wordpress.com/ https://occupytppa.wordpress.com/ The Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) is a mega-treaty across nine or more countries. If the negotiations succeed they will put a straightjacket on the policies and laws our government can adopt for the next century. Corporations will gain massive new powers in Australia. Help us stop the TPPA!

• Workers Solidarity Network Melbourne www.workerssolidaritymelbourne.org/ www.workerssolidaritymelbourne.org/ There is a problem. Australia currently has the lowest rate of strikes and industrial action in history. ?Fair Work? and previously ?WorkChoices? have outlawed actions that are not approved by the complicated, legalistic process of ?protected? action. While Australian governments try to promote the country as democratic, the economy is without democracy; that the producers of our economy have no say in what we produce, how we produce and what we should be paid for it.

Global 'Occupy' Websites. (Note: Members of 'Occupy Australia' cannot guarantee the authenticity of the following links and websites or that they contain factual information. Some of the following links and websites invite and encourage monetary donations. Please uses your discretion when accessing these sites.)

• Occupy Oceania occupyoceania.org/ occupyoceania.org/ Oceania is a region that includes aproximately 36,711,190 people living in Australia, Papua New Guinea, New Zealand, Fiji, Solomon Islands, French Polynesia, New Caledonia, Vanuatu, Samoa, Guam, The Federated States of Micronesia, Tonga, Kiribati, Northern Mariana Islands, American Samoa, Marshall Islands, Palau, Cook Islands, Wallis and Futuna, Nauru, Tuvalu, Norfolk Island, Tokelau, Niue and Pitcairn Islands.

• Occupy New Zealand www.occupynewzealand.org.nz/ www.occupynewzealand.org.nz/ This is the Occupy New Zealand page, the New Zealand extension of the global movement that started with Occupy Wall St. We want a return to real democracy, a government by the people for the people and an economic system that works for 100% of the people in the country, not just the 1%.

• Occupy Auckland occupyauckland.org// occupyauckland.org// To the People of Auckland and New Zealand; we the Citizens and Residents in Occupation in Aotea Square wish to communicate a few of our grievances, space being limited, so that you may judge for yourselves whether we are right in our cause.

• Occupy Dunedin occupydunedin.freeforums.org/ occupydunedin.freeforums.org/ Creating change together in ??tepoti Dunedin, Aotearoa New Zealand http://occupy-dunedin.org/

• Occupy Wellington occupywellington.wordpress.com/ occupywellington.wordpress.com/ We face similar problems with our democracy here in New Zealand as people face around the world. Many of our elected representatives no longer represent their constituents â?? instead, their ears are turned by wealthy lobby groups, whilst the common interests of the people they were elected to represent are ignored.

• Occupy Together www.occupytogether.org/ www.occupytogether.org/ An unofficial hub for all of the events springing up across America in solidarity with Occupy Wall St.

Non - Occupy Websites. (Note: Members of 'Occupy Australia' cannot guarantee the authenticity of the following links and websites or that they contain factual information. Some of the following links and websites invite and encourage monetary donations. Please uses your discretion when accessing these sites.)

• Occupy Cafe www.occupycafe.org/ www.occupycafe.org/ An open space for the global conversation being ignited by protests around the world. Everyone is welcome.

• #HOW TO OCCUPY howtooccupy.org/ howtooccupy.org/ HowToCamp/HowToOccupy is conceived to promote and spread the methods, techniques and knowledge about peaceful occupation of public spaces while developing sustainable ways of living based on participatory democracy.

• InterOccupy www.interoccupy.org www.interoccupy.org InterOccupy.org provides channels of communication between occupations of the Occupy movement. We are currently hosting weekly conference calls that connect Occupiers, Working Groups and General Assemblies to each other across occupations.

• Walk 4 Change walk-4change.org walk-4change.org Walking to Change the World

• Take the Square takethesquare.net/ takethesquare.net/ Take The Square was born from the demonstration on May 15, 2011 in Madrid. The demonstration called from the association Democracia Real Ya (Real Democracy Now), was the prelude of a new movement that was about to emerge. Once the demonstration was finished, some of those attending decided spontaneously and independently of the organizers, that a demonstration was not enough, so they decided to camp in the main square of Madrid (Puerta del Sol), thus starting a new project in the history of mankind.

• People's Assemblies www.peoplesassemblies.org/ www.peoplesassemblies.org/ The People???s Assemblies Network is an informative and resource platform to support the ongoing democracy protests and open, democratic assemblies in the UK, Europe and throughout the world.

• We are the 99 Percent wearethe99percent.tumblr.com/ wearethe99percent.tumblr.com/ We are the 99 percent. We are getting kicked out of our homes. We are forced to choose between groceries and rent. We are denied quality medical care. We are suffering from environmental pollution. We are working long hours for little pay and no rights, if we're working at all. We are getting nothing while the other 1 percent is getting everything. We are the 99 percent.

• Public Eye Awards www.publiceye.ch/en/ www.publiceye.ch/en/ The Public Eye Awards mark a critical counterpoint to the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos. Organized since 2000 by Berne Declaration and Friends of the Earth (in 2009 replaced by Greenpeace), Public Eye reminds the corporate world that social and environmental misdeeds have consequences - for the affected people and territory, but also for the reputation of the offender.

• ADBUSTERS www.adbusters.org/campaigns/occupywallstreet www.adbusters.org/campaigns/occupywallstreet #OCCUPYWALLSTREET is a leaderless people powered movement for democracy that began in America on September 17 with an encampment in the financial district of New York City. Inspired by the Egyptian Tahrir Square uprising and the Spanish acampadas, we vow to end the monied corruption of our democracy ??? join your local #OCCUPY!

• Visionaries. visionaries.co/about/ visionaries.co/about/ Visionaries.co is a project that came together through connections made at the coaching table at Occupy Wall Street. The contributors to this blog all recognized that a part of the OWS story was not being told in the mainstream media. That is the story of the individuals who are becoming inspired by the Occupy movement to make real change in the world and speak their voices.

• Gina Price www.ginaprice.com.au/ www.ginaprice.com.au/ Organising ourselves with the benefits of top down or bottom up leadership, the wisdom of every individual, and a structure and process which brings efficiency, clarity and integrity to the whole organization, is achieved using a governance model which goes under the name of Sociocracy.

• Seeds for Change www.seedsforchange.org.uk/ www.seedsforchange.org.uk/ Seeds for Change - activists providing support and training to activists, campaigners, community groups and co-operatives.

• BetterMeans bettermeans.com/front/why.html bettermeans.com/front/why.html To change our world, we need a new agreement of how we work together. How we make decisions. How we decide on who gets to work on what. And who gets paid what.