Tuesday, November 1, 2011

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

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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