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Occupy Pittsburgh ready to hit the streets

Despite an occasionally contentious and chaotic organizing process, Occupy Pittsburgh is ready to take to the streets on Saturday.
 
Approximately 200 people attended the group's third general assembly meeting and resolved several undecided issues at the First Unitarian Universalist Church in Shadyside on Wednesday.
 

Draft Response from Occupy Pittsburgh to Office of Homeland Security misrepresentation

Draft to be submitted to the General Assembly. Unofficial until further notice. 

Response from the Occupy Pittsburgh Nonviolence Working Group to the Pittsburgh Office of Emergency Management and Homeland Security’s misrepresentations of Occupy Pittsburgh’s stance on nonviolence  

In their Threat Assessment “update” of 10/13/2011, the Office erroneously cited one individual’s post on the group’s Facebook page as being an official statement of policy on the part of Occupy Pittsburgh. This post had included the threat, “Anyone who begins a state of anarchy ... will be fed to the cops,”and was, in fact, very misleading in its pretense of speaking for the group.

Occupy Pittsburgh Protests UPMC

 
On Monday, October 24 at 12 p.m. protesters from the Occupy Pittsburgh encampment on
Mellon Green, in partnership with local groups Western Pennsylvania
Coalition for Single-payer Healthcare and Save Our Community Hospitals,
initiated a picketing action against UPMC in front of their downtown
headquarters at the U.S. Steel Tower.
 
With a rallying cry of "Healthcare, not wealthcare," the protest sought to
express outrage towards the behemoth medical organization for their decision

Video: #OccupyPGH confronts Halliburton on November 15th

Members of Occupy Pittsburgh and local environmental activists marched to confront a Halliburton Conference in downtown Pittsburgh. There was a marching band. There was cake. The cops came en masse with barking German Shepard dogs and snatched people from the crowds for holding banners like it was the Civil Rights era. Five people were arrested.

Occupy Pittsburgh Issues Statement on S. 1867

The general assembly of Occupy Pittsburgh approved the following statement about S. 1867:

NOTICE to BNY Mellon

notice to bny mellonOccupy Pittsburgh hereby makes it known that The Bank of New York Mel- lon Corporation (NYSE: BK, hereafter BNY Mellon), a Delaware Corporation, with headquarters at One Wall Street, New York City, New York, is currently occupying a premises at 500 Grant Street, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. We, the people of Pittsburgh, have so far tolerated the presence of this organization on this property, and as for the Occupy Pittsburgh encampment, we have enjoyed a friendly relationship with most of BNY Mellon’s staff, who are almost entirely part of the 99% of society who are not millionaires.