FIERCE Interview with Democracy Now! (full version)

On Wednesday, October 5, 2011, FIERCE joined forces with hundreds of community and labor groups to march against corporate greed and big banks. We marched to show solidarity between grassroots organizations working in NYC communities and the Occupy Wall Street protesters. What resulted was the largest mobilization to Wall Street since Occupy Wall Street started.

As LGBTQ youth of color organizing in NYC for access to safe space and for services and programs that provide a lifeline to many homeless and low-income LGBTQ youth, we have felt first-hand the impacts of corporate greed and the financial crisis.

On Wednesday, we showed the power of all our communities and gave voice and visibility to the long history of our fight for social justice and liberation. We showed our people power and the strength of community organizing that happens everyday!

FIERCE sends our thanks to CAAAV: Organizing Asian Communities, Picture the Homeless, Queers For Economic Justice, Sylvia Rivera Law Project, People's Justice, and all the fierce organizations at the Community/Labor March.
Check out the voices, music and power of our communities and FIERCE representing on Democracy Now!

View the full Democracy Now segment at: http://www.democracynow.org/2011/10/6/we_are_the_99_voices_from

We Are the 99%": Voices From the Occupy Wall Street March (find FIERCE at 37:07)

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Those who say we are weaker because of our diversity of issues and demands:

1. Probably have never been to a protest or demonstration.

2. Are dead wrong. There is nothing more empowering than hearing from brother and sisters you've never met "I got your back. Your fight is my fight. I can not be free if you are not free." That's what the 1% fears the most: a straight white redneck in Texas standing alongside a Puerto Rican drag queen from New York against a line of riot cops.

[thenewmiLONNIEum]

Occupy Gay Inc! We are the 99% of the 10%!

[SkyelarPuberty]

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