Occupy Building a 1% Database

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http://www.thepierceprogressive.org/occupydatabase

When Don Pugnetti Park at the corner of Pacific Avenue and South 21st Street, owned by the Washington State Department of Transportation, was un-occupied at the end of February 2012 many thought the Occupy Movement was probably dead. Washington State Trooper Guy Gill indicated the state would "continue checking the area" as the campers complied with the eviction notice. Many in the press threw ink and wondered if Occupy is Dead. The idea of speaking truth to power lives on and Occupy isn’t dead. Occupy.com offers to undertake a huge project as they investigate and identify the powers that move the planet.

I mean it. The most influential in the highly complex and integrated network wielded by relatively few individuals that moves power on a national and transnational basis. "This is not a study of wealth, but a study of power." The Global Power Project starts with a huge fact: "The richest 1% own 40% of the world’s wealth." and expands to, "The richest 10% account for 85% of the planet’s total assets." And this is only Part One.

The background piece, where Occupy.Com sets the ground rules for the study, sets out, "examining the connections, affiliations and cross-memberships through which elites govern our dominant social, economic and political institutions." Very powerful goals when Singapore can’t breathe and the CEO of Nestle, Peter Brabeck-Letmathe, believes water should be privatized, so it can be sold at a profit and Monsanto wants to own the genome of the food supply.