TIMELINE OVERVIEW OF OCCUPY WINSTON-SALEM’S MAJOR ACTIONS
October 2011
- Bank of America Protest (Stratford Rd.)
- Wells Fargo Protest (Downtown)
- Speak-Out at Duke Energy Hearing (High-Point)
- ‘Move Your Money’ & Bank Bailout Protest (Five Points/Stratford)
November 2011
- Solidarity Protest with Charlotte (Downtown Charlotte)
- Veterans Day March
- Occupy Wall St. 2 month Anniversary/ Oakland Solidarity (off Hwy 52)
- City Council & Safety Review Meetings
- Wells Fargo CEO Demonstration (Benton Center)
December 2011
- Homeless Children’s March (part of Christmas Parade Downtown)
- March & Rally or sustainable Employment w/ Occupy GSO (Greensboro)
- Open Air Meetings – City Hall Lawn (met with police repression)
- City Council member proposes making City Hall grounds private
- Walkupy visits- March from Bethesda Homeless Shelter to City Hall
- New Years Resolution: “Keep Public Property Public!’
January 2012
- Speak out for Free Speech & Assembly at City Council & Safety Committee
- Occupy Winston wins a First Amendment victory: allowed to meet on City Hall grounds 24/7
- MLK March with Minster’s Conference
- MLK Celebration – Civic Plaza
- Occupy Congress: Winston makes national press (Washington D.C.)
- Solidarity with Occupy Charlotte – protest anti-assembly laws passed by City/ Civil Disobedience
February 2012
- Historic Thousands on Jones for Economic & Racial Justice March: RALEIGH NATIONAL DAY OF PROTEST
- LEAP INTO ACTION AGAINST ALEC & CORPORATE GREED! Wells-Fargo & Reynolds
- Teach-In on Corporate Influence:Specific Laws Which Legalize Tax Evasion
- Statewide Occupy General Assembly – Raleigh
March 2012
- Potluck & Open Forum at Green Street Church
- #M17 Celebrate 6 months of Occupy Wall St. Event Day Civic Park
- Amendment One Teach-In at Forsyth Central Library Auditorium
April 2012
- A.L.E.C. Teach-In and Forum @ WSSU Rally to Save the Post Office @ 5 Points with AFLCIO NC
- SR 1789 Protest with Postal Workers @ 5 Points
- 99% Spring Civil Disobedience Training @ WFU with MoveOn.Org
- Tax Day Post Office Closing Protest at Waughtown PO
May 2012
- May Day - An Injury to One is an Injury to All – Greensboro 5/1/2012
- March on Reynolds Shareholder’s Meeting with Farm Labor Organizing Committee – 5/3/2012
- Voter Registration Drive with Masjid Al-Muminun 5/5/2012
- Bank of America Shareholder’s Meeting – Charlotte NC 5/9/2012
- ALEC protest Sunday 5/13/2012
- KKK Protest, Harmony, NC 5/26/12
- Love Not Hate Rally – “Rev” Worley’s Hate-Speech protest 5/27/12 Newton NC
June 2012
- Citizens United Petition Drive – Next 99 Days Summer Kickoff at Civic Plaza 6/1/2012
- Conflict and Peace Studies of UNCG – Noam Chomsky - Israel/Palestine: Concrete Solutions Towards Peace 6/2/2012
- Citizens United Petition Drive – Food Lion at Hawthorne & Miller 6/4/2012
- FRACK-Free NC Lobby Day – Raleigh, NC 6/5/2012
- Novant Layoff Protest – Silas Creek & Miller St, 6/6/2012
- Novant Layoff Protest #2 Silas Creek & Miller St, 6/27/2012
- Rally Against Amendment One Halifax Mall, Raleigh 6/30/2012
- Above it All Rally for Jonathan Walls, Moore Square, Raleigh 6/30/2012
July 2012
- Citizens United Petition Drive and Movie Night 4th and Trade July 6 Teach In/Petition Drive/ Street Art
- Big Business Health Care Making Us Sick? United Church of Christ, Health Care for ALL NC Teach In 7/12/2012
- Corporations Are People? Teach-In Central Library, 7/18/2012
- Music as a Form of Protest Teach-In Wake Forest School of Music 7/24/2012
Sept 2012
- FestivalLiberacion, Charlotte NC 9/1/12
- March on Wall Street South, Charlotte NC 9/2/12
- Labor Day Parade/Southern Worker’s Assembly, Charlotte 9/3/12
- March for Bradley Manning, Charlotte, 9/4/12
- #S17 – OWS Anniversary, New York, NY 9/15 – 9/18
October 2012
- Anthony’s Plot Festival of Shelters, 5th Street, W.S 9/30 – 10/7
- They Come to America – The True Cost of Illegal Immigration, Rockingham Community College, Wentworth, NC 10/8/12
- Black Panther Party Memorial Dedication, MLK Drive & 5th Street, Winston Salem 10/14
November 2012
- Walmart Hanes Mall Blvd Protest 11/17 *date might be off, but we did protest this weekend
- Walmart Hanes Mill Rd Protest 11/25