Occupy Washington

If Wall Street thought banning tents from Zuccotti Park was going to stop the 99%, then they're just as shortsighted now as when they wrecked our economy.
Because yesterday, the nation saw the biggest day of action since the Occupy movement began—with tens of thousands protesting in New York and at bridges, schools, and other examples of crumbling infrastructure around the country.
Meanwhile, a band of courageous protesters is marching from Wall Street to Washington to bring the 99% to where it's been missing—our government. Like the first protesters to lay down their tarps in Zuccotti Park, the marchers are matching their commitment to the moment across 230 long miles to our nation's capital. Marching 20 miles per day, through cold and wet November weather, with feet swollen and bloodied, they report the warmest reception from the neighborhoods hardest hit by the economic downturn.¹ As one protester said: "putting your body into something like this, I think it gives you the hope that there can be real change."²
The marchers are hurrying to D.C. to stop a terrible Super Committee deal that means more devastating cuts for the 99% instead of making the 1% pay their fair share.³ The risk is growing by the day. Democrats on the Super Committee have already offered huge cuts to Medicare benefits and Social Security, while Republicans demand even more—and if only one Democrat agrees, we're sunk.⁴ So let's make sure the Senate feels the energy of the 99% breathing down their necks.
The Super Committee's not likely to cut a deal the rest of the Senate won't support, so every senator—from true progressives to staunch conservatives—needs to be talking about how many people are calling them with the 99%'s message. Pick up the phone and call Senators Dick Durbin and Mark Kirk today and tell them: "We are the 99%. Don't cut our Social Security and Medicare benefits to protect tax breaks for the 1%."