FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

PIRATE PARTY TO SUPPORT OCCUPY BOSTON

Protesters have been Occupying Wall Street for three weeks. Thousands are

protesting and hundreds are camping out at Liberty Plaza in New York city.

Police there have already arrested hundreds for the constitutionally

protected act of peacefully assembling.

The Occupy Wall Street movement has spread to Boston and dozens of other

cities. Protesters are speaking out against corporate influence in our

political process, political and economic structures that have led to

the decades-long decline in the financial security of the middle class

and the poor, and particularly the failed financial policies that permit

Wall Street to gamble with our economy and make us all pay when they

gamble recklessly.

We at the Massachusetts Pirate Party support their cause and their goal

of making America a democracy again.

“We are part of the 99 percent and we stand with our brothers and sisters

in Boston and around the world,” said First Officer J. P. Hollembaek,

referring to Occupy Wall Street’s motto, “We are the 99 percent.”

Captain James O’Keefe, 2002 & 2006 candidate for Treasurer and

Receiver General of Massachusetts, remarked that “the increasing power

large corporations have over every aspect of our lives serves to enrich

the 1% of the US population who earn over $1.1 million a year.”

The Massachusetts Pirate Party was formed in 2010 and became a political

designation on February 26th, 2011. It focuses on promoting laws that

support personal privacy, increase government transparency, rein in

corporate power, reduce the power of the copyright monopolies and

eliminate patents.

The Massachusetts Pirate Party can be contacted at:

Phone: (617) 863-6277 (MAPP)

Email: info@masspirates.org

Web: https://masspirates.org

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