The second newspaper representing the Occupy D.C. movement has arrived. Volume 1, Issue 1 of The Occupied Washington Times appeared on Tuesday, November 8, following the trend of several Occupy movements across the nation.
Protesters on Freedom Plaza published a newspaper last week called The Occupied Washington Post, Occupy Wall Street has printed two issues of The Occupied Wall Street Journal, (http://bit.ly/nT0CqI ) and Occupy Oakland distributed its Occupied Oakland Tribune on November 2 to publicize the movement’s general strike. (http://bit.ly/vz0aEj)
Now the McPherson’s Square protesters have launched their own newspaper, which will run a joint column with the editors at Freedom Plaza.
The website for The Occupied Washington Times (http://owt.occupydc.org/ ) states that the mission of the newspaper is “to document the social and economic injustices of our time and news of the occupation itself,” but offers the disclaimer, “In no way do we speak for Occupy DC or the Occupy movement.”
The first issue listed five members of a “rotating editorial board,” and 12 contributors.
Sam Jewler writes in “Waking up from the American dream” that wealth increase among the top one percent has outrun the wealth increase of the 99 percent. “The tax cuts started by Bush and extended by Obama return over $100,000 per year to those making a million dollars per year – a tax break greater than three times the average annual American income, according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.”
The opinion piece by members of the editorial boards of Occupied Washington Post and Occupied Washington Times, “Occupy DC and Stop the Machine share common ground” explains the collaboration between the two sets of protesters. “We fight for the same vision,” the article says.
If you want to help out at Occupy D.C., Occupied Washington Times gives “Five things you can do.”
2. Participate – “Attend a General Assembly….”
3. Spread the word – “”Visit our website at www.occupydc.org…follow us onTwitter: @OccupyKSt…”
4. Educate yourself – “”Visit the ever-growing People’s Library…talk to friends about the Occupy movement….”
5. Donate
Legba Carrefour told The Washington Examiner on behalf of the publication, “This is not a bunch of editorials…our attempt is to create a legitimate publication with actual journalistic credentials.”
