Feed The US

Every day at food pantries across the nation, volunteers empathize with the tears, embarrassment, guilt, and stories of people who had previously worked jobs their entire lives and given, never expecting to be asking for food and help. As we see in this video from channel 4 in Denver, the needs of families are great. Children are taking the brunt of the recession as this CBS Sunday Morning report, America’s New Poor shows, and this preview of ’60 Minutes’, Hard Times Generations, being aired this coming Sunday, November 27, 2011, 7:00 p.m. ET/PT.

Feeding America & Nielsen embarked on a two year project, mapping the hunger, poverty and many other interesting statistics of EVERY county in the United States, resulting in this Map the Meal Gap map. All data is now updated regularly to provide fresh data to elected leaders, organizations, etc.

Announcement of the Launch of #OccupyNorthPole:

To honor of all our impoverished children, youth, and families, we hereby launch #OccupyNorthPole, a call to action and movement to Occupy the hearts and minds of all, to participate in giving our special children, the 4 top requests of Santa in 2010:
1.    Socks
2.    Shoes/boots
3.    Jackets
4.    Food for their families

Additionally, we are endeavoring to provide the following:
5.    Underwear (PLEASE NOTE: From personal experience,
if these children are asking for socks, they also need underwear!)
6.    Toy or age appropriate/desirable gift
7.    Toothbrush & toothpaste
8.    A backpack or similar item to hold/distribute gifts/items
9.    Thin colorful fleece blanket for homeless children
10.  Subscription to Highlights or Scholastic magazine or age appropriate book

Our children need us. The are falling through the cracks of a severely cracked
foundation and they deserve a holiday. We have one month until Hanukkah,
Christmas, and Kwanzaa, to coordinate a nationally televised Telethon, donations,
transportation, assembly, volunteers, distribution, media, celebrity, etc. contacts,
and a lot more! WE CAN DO IT! We have achievable goals, the technology,
innovation, resources and a deadline. All we need do is engage our collective
moral compass, volunteer, request, donate, and convince those who have not paid
their fair share, to make a meaningful token payment, donation, contribution, etc.,
NOW. My friend John Haldane, was a Santa for 17 years and has beautifully written stories
of some of the underprivileged children, in his site.

Several tools, resources, etc. have been established as a base guideline for
people to understand the mission,organize their community, organization, etc. to
achieve the goals of Operation Joy Rising, (#OpJoyRising), the collective mission
of #OccupyNorthPole.

This video synopsis of the 4-video #OccupyNorthPole launch, complete with bad-elf behavior, call outs, announcement of National Days of Action, etc., will give you an overview of what this movement will endeavor to achieve. (My young friend Isaac Carlson did some great editing and my son, and his band, The Supreme Action League, provided their new song, ‘It’s Up To Us’.)
Four part video launch series:
Pt. 1: Launch of #OccupyNorthPole & Bad-Elf Rant
Pt. 2: #OccupyNorthPole Calling-Out Companies
Pt. 3: #OccupyNorthPole Call-Outs of Corporations & More
Pt. 4: #OccupyNorthPole National Days of Action & More

Organize an #OccupyNorthPole MeetUp in your community & invite your
friends:
http://www.meetup.com/Occupy-North-Pole/

Please ‘Like’ the Occupy North Pole Community page on Facebook.

Please read the Occupy North Pole Statement of Intent

Flow Chart of Actions, Proposed Work Groups, National Days of Action, etc.

OR download this PDF:  Work Groups.Flow Chart

#OccupyNorthPole National Days of Action

Preliminary list of who calling out for donations, contributions, etc.

Resources:
•    How to conduct peaceful assemblies
•    Resources for small town occupations
•    New York General Assembly Guide
•    The General Assembly Guide (hand gestures, etc.)
•    Declaration of Occupation: #OWS movement’s statement of purpose