MoveOn and Occupy Wall Street

MoveOn members across the country have taken a variety of actions to stand with protesters, to join them, to defend their right to protest, and to get out the amazing stories about what they're doing.

Here are some ways MoveOn members have stood in solidarity with Occupy Wall Street:

• We joined with unions and others to organize a solidarity march from Foley Square down to Occupy Wall Street on October 5 and thousands of MoveOn members joined in.
  
  
• Tens of thousands of MoveOn members participated in a Virtual March on October 5, submitting statements of support that were projected onto a building across from Zuccotti Park.
  
  
• We asked our members near occupations in cities across the country to "contribute a few dollars, donate materials, or go down and participate," and sent them the link to their nearest occupation.
  
  
• When Mayor Bloomberg threatened to evict Occupy Wall Street from Zuccotti Park, more than 325,000 MoveOn members signed a petition to Bloomberg demanding he not evict them. The petition signatures were delivered to City Hall that night by a march from Occupy Wall Street. At the same time, thousands of MoveOn members called the city demanding they stop the eviction, and hundreds of New York MoveOn members headed to Zuccotti Park at 6 a.m. to stand in solidarity with the protesters and defend their right to peaceably assemble. When Bloomberg backed down, we sent around a video of the moment.
  
  
• Thousands of MoveOn members around the country participated in Occupy events on October 15.
  
  
• As occupiers in other cities have faced evictions, local MoveOn members have organized to defend their right to peaceably assemble.
  
  
• And throughout it all, we used our homepage and our email list to distribute videos, interviews, and other pieces of content of great content—some produced by MoveOn and some produced by others—documenting the Occupy Wall Street movement to make sure that people could get stories that weren't being told by the mainstream media.