99% POETRy links
A new art movement steps onto the world stage - The poetry of the Occupy Everything movement
| Poetry @Occupy Wall Street |
Poetry@OccupyWallStreet is a Facebook page for poets to collaborate, organize readings, and post poems to be read @OccupyWallStreet. We are also on-site at Liberty Plaza on the northeast corner of the park adjacent to the People's Library. You can add poems to our living Poetry Anthology by sending your work to OccupyPoetry@gmail.com. We hold Poetry Assembly--a reading at which readers are chosen... |
| We are the 99% |
Photographs of heartfelt prose explaining why 'We are the 99%'. |
| Occupy Wall Street Poetry Anthology |
Occupy Wall Street Library has created an Occupy Poetry Anthology - This is no astroturf this is the real deal: a grass roots poetry division of the occupy movement. |
| Misery is Real | Tube poem by Matt Panfil whose art encompasses the 99% Art movement. |
| Occupy Indy | Tube poem by Matt Panfil. Clever imaginative verse discloses a poets eye on social damage caused by the greed and excess power of the 1%. |
| Willie Nelson poem |
Tube poem by the singer Willie Nelson and his wife. |
| Egyptian freedom poem | >Famous Egyptian Freedom poem fresh from the 99% streets of Cairo to the streets of NY, recited by Stephan Said |
| Livin' in the Land Where the Whip Still Cracks | Occupy Denver 11-3-11: Poetry by Noah Gauthier |
| Occupy Wall Street Sign-Poetry | Poetry found by a camera lens at Occupy Wall Street Protest |
| About the 99% | Former San Francisco Poet laureate Jack Hirschman reading poem about the 99% at Occupy SF . |
| Tony Baloney | New lyrics set to a great Roy Orbison song about Tony Baloney a mean sheriff on Wall Street city. Poetry Portal Org disassociates itself from the harassment of any citizen. This link is present because it is a classic example of how 99% Art is used to construct unacceptable behaviour patterns through use of lyric poetry and the internet. |
| Mark Mcgowan Artist Taxi Driver 2 | Occupy Protesters What Do They Want? Powerful ironic performance poem delivered live from a London cab. |
| Mark Mcgowan Artist Taxi Driver |
Performance piece about the global Occupy protests by an irate London taxi driver. |
| Sir Toby Trumpton Smythe | The excellent poet laureate of Tofftown, Sir Toby Trumpton-Smythe offers the jolly people of Ireland his expert and simply marvellous advice on how to recover from a banker instigated economic collapse and how to prevent reoccurrence. |
| Costas on Tony Blair | 99% Quality performance poetry from Costas, poet laureate of Metaxa 3*** |
| 1 Wages War on the 99 |
Poem by Christopher Michael Coney. "Inspired by occupywallstreet as i am the 99 so i wrote about how i feel about the situation." |
| March On |
Occupy Wall Street tribute poem "March On" - A tribute to the Occupy Together Movement |
| Wall Street Poem . Com |
Site of the Wall Street poet Michael Silverstein. A senior editor with Bloomberg Financial News and its ‘Markets’ magazine. |
| Occupy Everywhere | OQPI EVERYWHERE is a kind of virtual collective for artists and social activists, a place to compile, share, and brainstorm about collaborative actions. we are based on the notion of SOCIAL SCULPTURE put forth by Joseph Beuys |
| The Occupy Poetry Project | The Occupy Poetry Project is a forum for poets and writers who stand in solidarity with the Occupy Wall Street / Occupy the Fed movements. Please share your voice. All levels of writing, all types of poems and styles--including visual, are welcome. |
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SOCIAL SCULPTURE put forth by joseph beuys - the idea that anyone, anywhere can assist in the positive transformation of society thru engaged creative participation. |
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Street poetry at Occupy Wall Street. Live recordings |
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99% poem written by a school teacher and delivered as performance art when New York citizens block the auctioning off of their possessions |
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New song rocking the protest lines in the USA and is one of the first to be created from poetry about the occupy movement. |
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| The Revolution Will Not Be Televised | A classic protest poem from Gil Scot Heron. Ahead of its time intelligent verse for those who wonder why one of the most historic protests of all time is not getting much air time in many countries whose media is under corporate control.. |
| Message to the Messengers | Gil Scot Heron at his poetic prophetic best. The revolution will not be televised but will be tweeted, facebooked and youtubed by messengers. |
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Dead Prez Rap Poetry - We Need A Revolution |
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| Crystal Bowersox! Rocks the USA Pop Idol competition by bursting into a political song on live TV. Song based upon a Martin Luther King speech made just before he died! | |
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The lyric poetry and music of Muse, THE song that has been a prime mover amongst the 'Arab Spring' and global awakening |
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When Men Become Truly Free - A Colin Ryan poem narrated by Des Brittain and set to video by SentientMind. . Please check out Des' channel |
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The Who and publishers have made this classic song freely available to youtubers to place in their occupy films. No lyrics displayed here, you will have to imbibe them from the song. |
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Des is an accomplished actor, performance poet and part of the 99% Art movement |
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Colin's poetry has gone global via his work 'When Men become Truly Free'. This is a link to him on youtube |
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This Charlie Chaplin poetic work is from his film The Great Dictator. This version is by the Peop1e Project a 99% art organisation based in Sacramento USA |
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A poetic message from Anonymous set to video on the truthSeekingElf youtube channel |
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| Wayseer Manifesto |
A global message to all artists of the world by the Wayseers |
| We Are The 99% |
Expect Us! Occupy Wall Street Poem by Bill Allyn |
| We Are The 99% |
Tube poem by young Sejin Divine |
| Occupy Writers . Com |
Links to new works by writers in support of the Occupy movement |
| OWS Poetry Anthology |
Huffington Post article about the OWS Poetry Anthology |
| Occupy Art World |
A Facebook and Twitter art group(@OccupyArtWorld) calling for a Democracy of Art. Site mostly relates to visual arts but occasionally showcase some original thought provoking poetry. |
| Occupy My Life |
Not quite an occupy WS poem, the verse is love blossoming on the protest lines when a man in love goes down on one knee to recite his marriage proposal. |