Occupy DC: Protest Of Koch Industries' Downtown Office Planned

WASHINGTON -- Occupy DC protesters are planning a protest of Koch Industries' downtown offices Tuesday evening. Jeffrey Light, an attorney involved with the protesters, told The Huffington Post that protesters will meet in McPherson Square at 5 p.m. before heading over to Koch's offices at 600 14th St NW.

"It might be closer to 5:30," Light said. "But we're telling people to be here at 5. We're going to march down there and protest outside their building for a little bit."

Light said the group is expecting 20 to 30 people to show up for the early-evening protest, which is inspired by Bloomberg Markets magazine's recent expose of Koch Industries and its owners. At 6 p.m., after the protest, Occupy DC will be holding a General Assembly meeting -- one of the twice-daily meetings during which consensus is sought about every detail of the group's existence and purpose, from food to philosophy -- when they'll talk about who and what to protest tomorrow. A protest of former Vice President Dick Cheney's planned appearance at the Newseum could be in the works, Light said.

They'll also be talking about whether to keep their camp going at all, given the complementary -- but separate -- Stop the Machine protest scheduled to begin on Oct. 6 in Freedom Plaza, six blocks away.

Light told The Huffington Post that Occupy DC is discussing the possibility of merging with Stop the Machine. He isn't yet sure if the merge will happen; it'll depend on what the General Assembly decides.

Flickr photo by Ashley Reese

CORRECTION: An earlier version of this post misstated the timing of the Koch Industries protest. It it Tuesday evening. Also, the Koch Industries expose was in Bloomberg Markets magazine, not Bloomberg News.

 

 

Comments

[Ms Liann]

03:51 PM on 10/12/2011

The Koch name is The "Killer Koch Brothers". Google it, while you are googling Santorum. Killer Koch Brothers Killed Danielle Dawn Smalley and Jason Stone -- google it, pass it on. The Koch Industries is ORGANIZED CRIME -- Google Koch Industries Organized Crime -- said Bill Koch on 60 Minutes CBS in 2000 (Y2K) expose. Google it. Koch Industries Organized Crime Bill OR William Koch.

Killer Koch Brothers
Koch Industries Organized Crime

Pass it on. Santorum them.

[ola3541]

01:30 AM on 10/05/2011

down with the traitors, it is unamerican to work with enemy like Iran.
Tea Party should return the tainted donations from Iranian corporations
shame on you Koch brothers..
Prescott Bush (w`s grndpa) lost his business because he was financing Nazis during WW2.

[Gucci LittlePiggy]

03:01 AM on 10/05/2011

Problem is, lots of companies have done business with Iran in recent years. General Electric, for one. GE CEO (which owns NBC and MSNBC) Jeff Immelt is Obama's jobs czar, yet a foreign subsidiary (just like Koch's French subsidiary) traded with the country. Coke, Pepsi, Caterpillar, Honeywell, 3M, Tyson Foods, Kraft...a lot of multinational countries have traded with Iran. Why is Koch the focal point?

Out of all of those big companies, Koch is the only one I'm aware of that even pays any sort of lip service towards eradicating corporatism. They fund many libertarian think tanks and intellectuals who routinely discuss the dangers of illiberal corporatism. Can the same be said of any other big companies or billionaires?

What has Buffett or Gates done on that front? All they do is rail for higher tax rates even while they pledge their billions to philanthropies i.e. not the government. Even those liberal billionaires don't trust the government to spend money wisely. Talk about hypocrisy.

[ola3541]

03:25 AM on 10/05/2011

I think the focal point should be on all of them.
if we want to have an embargo on mullahs for a reason ,why this kind of hypocrisy ?
I do not know about Gates and Buffett,but if they give money for good causes in America it`s all good.
what is the fruit of Koch think tanks ? what good product came out of it?
I apologize about my ignorance, but they(Koch) are an enigma for me.
p.s. I have Gucci little chihuahua :)

[yakovbok]

09:59 PM on 10/04/2011

The problem is that the Bloomberg article is a lie. See http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2011/10/bloomberg-whiffs-part-2.php.

But then again, when did the truth ever matter in reporting?

[PDS Tornado Watch]

08:44 PM on 10/04/2011

After the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), Americans for Prosperity, Neighborhood Schools...I think it's time these corporate financiers went down with their yacht. Time to rock their yacht...with a category-5 hurricane, fueled by the heat from the rage of working-class Americans. The friendliness of the names of such legislatures far belie the corporate agenda against democracy, as evidenced by their overwhelming support of the anti-labor/anti-taxpayer movement of Scott Walker and their funding of the voter-registration restrictions.

[Siara]

08:32 PM on 10/04/2011

Any word on how many folks showed up for the OccupyDC protest?

[working young buck]

06:26 PM on 10/04/2011

We are with you ITS OUR COUNTRY not theirs

[westphalen]

06:01 PM on 10/04/2011

OMG
They call themselves over educated?
America is doomed!

[satanlite]

07:07 PM on 10/04/2011

I bet they know the difference between "over educated" and "over-educated".

[westphalen]

10:07 PM on 10/04/2011

satan
As I said
America id doomed. Can't even rely on the smart ones any longer

[emma richmond]

04:46 PM on 10/04/2011

That Reporter Work for FOX, why wasn't he talking about the KOCH borthers, he was a Right Wing Morons, he was Anti-President Obama.

[Indep Votr]

05:53 PM on 10/04/2011

After the last three years, most of are now anti-Obama. Guess you haven't seen any polling data lately.

[Siara]

08:33 PM on 10/04/2011

We may not be thrilled with Obama but he certainly leaves your group of would-be candidates in the mud

[dobermanmacleod]

04:16 PM on 10/04/2011

Rather than protest the Koch brother's right wing anti-life BS that will only fall on deaf ears, I suggest spreading word of the following which can really change the world for the better:

There is a new clean energy technology that is 1/10th the cost of coal. Don’t believe me? Watch this video by a Nobel prize winner in physics: http://pesn.com/2011/06/23/9501856_Nobel_laureate_touts_E-Cat_cold_fusion/

Still don’t believe me? It convinced the Swedish Skeptics Society: http://www.nyteknik.se/nyheter/energi_miljo/energi/article3144827.ece

LENR using nickel. Incredibly: Ni+H+K2CO3(heated under pressure)=Cu+lots of heat. Here is a detailed description of the device and formula from a US government contract: www.lenr-canr.org/acrobat/GernertNnascenthyd.pdf

Still don’t believe me? A major US corporation has bought the rights to sell the 1 megawatt Rossi E-Cat, and it will be announced late October in the US, with the unit hitting the market in 2011. How can any fossil fuel compete with such cheap energy (and clean to boot!).

By the way, here is a current survey of all the companies that are bringing LENR to commercialization: http://www.cleantechblog.com/2011/08/the-new-breed-of-energy-catalyzers-ready-for-commercialization.html