Wednesday, November 02, 2011

The 99%: Official list of Occupy Wall Street’s supporters, sponsors and sympathizers

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The Occupy Wall Street movement has received so much media coverage in recent weeks that it’s nearly impossible to keep abreast of all the developments. So many endorsements and criticisms coming from all directions enter the news cycle in such rapid succession that even the most dedicated news junkies may have missed out on many of the pronouncements. Supporters and detractors of OWS both might find it useful to have a handy all-inclusive list of who has endorsed or embraced the protest. To satisfy that demand, we hereby present a list of groups, organizations, individuals and entities that have expressed their support for, sponsorship of, or sympathy for the Occupy Wall Street movement.

Note: All entries on this list are real and verified. Below each entry you will find a series of source links documenting the support for OWS. We have striven in almost all cases to reference either first-hand statements by the groups or individuals themselves, hosted on their own Web sites; or videos of the people in question voicing their support for OWS at various Occupations; or news reports from reliable mainstream networks; or articles by publications or organizations sympathetic to the Occupy movement; or indisputable evidence, whatever the source. As a result, it cannot be claimed that these statements of support were made up or distorted by detractors of the Occupy movement.

As each new controversial endorsement has appeared over the last month, OWS supporters have dismissed them one by one as “isolated examples” that don’t reflect any overall trend toward extremism. But when viewed in aggregate like this, it becomes much more difficult to dismiss any individual endorsement as an aberration; instead, an undeniable pattern emerges.

This list is obviously incomplete; we hope to update it over the upcoming days and weeks.

If you think we’ve left out any well-known endorsers for which there is solid evidence, then please post suggestions and evidentiary links in the comments section; but please try to supply links that will stand up to any potential claims of misrepresentation.

If you disagree with the inclusion of any of the entries on this list, please post your reasoning and any contravening source links in the comments section, and we will take the evidence into account when updating the list.

Members of the media, bloggers, activists, OWS supporters and detractors as well are all free to repost this list, in whole or in part, without any restrictions. Do note, however, that it may be updated over time, so make sure to get the latest version.

And without further ado, here is…

The 99%: Official list of Occupy Wall Street’s supporters, sponsors and sympathizers

Communist Party USA

Sources:

Communist Party USA, OWS speech, The Daily Caller

American Nazi Party

Sources:

Media Matters, American Nazi Party, White Honor, Sunshine State News

Ayatollah Khamenei, Supreme Leader of Iran

Sources:

The Guardian, Tehran Times, CBS News

Barack Obama

Sources:

ABC News, CBS News, ForexTV, NBC New York

The government of North Korea

Sources:

Korean Central News Agency (North Korean state-controlled news outlet), The Marxist-Leninist, Wall Street Journal, Times of India

Louis Farrakhan, Nation of Islam

Sources:

video statement (starting at 8:28), Black in America, Weasel Zippers, Philadelphia Weekly

Revolutionary Communist Party

Sources:

Revolutionary Communist Party, Revolution newspaper, in-person appearance

David Duke

Sources:

Talking Points Memo, video statement, davidduke.com

Joe Biden

Sources:

Talking Points Memo, video statement, Mother Jones

Hugo Chavez

Sources:

Mother Jones, Reuters, Examiner.com

Revolutionary Guards of Iran

Sources:

Associated Press, FARS News Agency, UPI

Black Panthers (original)

Sources:

in-person appearance, Occupy Oakland, Oakland Tribune

Socialist Party USA

Sources:

Socialist Party USA, IndyMedia, The Daily Caller

US Border Guard

Sources:

White Reference, www.usborderguard.com, Gateway Pundit, Just Another Day blog

Industrial Workers of the World

Sources:

IWW web site, iww.org, in-person appearances

CAIR

Sources:

in-person appearance, Washington Post, CAIR, CAIR New York

Nancy Pelosi

Sources:

Talking Points Memo, video statement, ABC News, The Weekly Standard

Communist Party of China

Sources:

People’s Daily (Communist Party organ), Reuters, chinataiwan.org, The Telegraph

Hezbollah

Sources:

almoqawama.org, almoqawama.org (2), almoqawama.org (3), wikipedia

9/11Truth.org

Sources:

911truth.org (1), 911truth.org (2), 911truth.org (3)

International Bolshevik Tendency

Sources:

bolshevik.org, Wire Magazine

Anonymous

Sources:

Adbusters, The Guardian, video statement

White Revolution

Source:

whiterevolution.com

International Socialist Organization

Sources:

Socialist Worker, socialistworker.org, in-person appearance

PressTV (Iranian government outlet)

Sources:

PressTV, wikipedia

Marxist Student Union

Sources:

Marxist Student Union, Big Government, marxiststudentunion.blogspot.com

Freedom Road Socialist Organization

Sources:

FightBack News, fightbacknews.org

ANSWER

Sources:

ANSWER press release, ANSWER web site, Xinhua

Party for Socialism and Liberation

Sources:

Liberation News (1), pslweb.org, The Daily Free Press, Liberation News (2)

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