Occupy Together - the Spiritual Dimension

by Sheila Musaji

I have been blogging about the Occupy Together (Occupy Wall Street/99 percent) movement since it began a month ago.  My regularly updated blog with extensive article collection is here.

One of the sections in that blog was titled Where are the clergy and the leaders of religious and interfaith organizations 

This question is one of importance to me, and although initially there was not a great deal of visibility from this group, that appears to be changing, and that is a very hopeful sign.  Here is all of the information that I have collected on the discussion of this topic up to the present time:

Early in the process of the formation of this Occupy movement, Sarah Posner asked the question - where are the clergy.  On 10/6 she wrote more on this topic and posited that The Occupy movement is starting to get religious support; at yesterday’s march in New York, local faith leaders joined, as did a contingent of students from Union Theological Seminary. In DC, though, where the symbolic power of “holding space for the 99% to come and gather” on K Street is undeniable, there’s yet to be a groundswell of religious leaders or clergy showing up at the protests or even speaking about them. “I’m still optimistic that the further it goes, the less they’re able to ignore it,” the Rev. Brian Merritt told me at McPherson Square yesterday. “Especially in a place like DC with a huge young adult population. I mean, these are going to start being your members.”

Tim King, the communications director at Sojourners, joined the protests. He slept in the park and blogged about his experiences. He said one of his goals is to look for God’s presence amidst the event.  “I believe it’s often easier to find God on the streets than in a sanctuary.  We serve a God who shows up for those in need, and for those who stand with them.”

Rabbi Jeff Ronald is one of the organizers of the Florence, South Carolina protest.  On Erev Yom Kippur, a Kol Nidre service was held in Zuccotti Park, site of the Occupy Wall Street protests. Sarah Posner spoke with Daniel Sieradski, the organizer of the service, who has been described as “a major figure of the Jewish Internet world and a cultural trailblazer” by the Jewish Daily Forward.  Jaweed Kaleem wrote about the Yom Kippur Service Taking Place At Occupy Wall Street and includes photographs that are touching.

I have seen some clerical collars in some photographs, and also some women wearing hijab.  But, official statements by religious leadership (whether Catholic, Jewish, Muslim, Protestant, etc.) are conspicuous by their absence.  During the civil rights protests of the 60’s, the clergy was highly visible and out front, this is not true of this movement.  Why?  Where are the Imams, Priests, Ministers, Rabbis, etc.?  This makes no sense at all.  This movement represents a moral, and ethical demand for justice and equality. 

At the bottom of this article is a collection of articles by members of different faith communities discussing this Occupy movement and issues of faith.  In the first few weeks of the movement the number of these articles was very limited, but it now seems that a real discussion is taking place and more and more articles are appearing.

It would seem that mainstream religious organizations (of all denominations) are becoming increasingly irrelevant, as are our elected government representatives and the media.  This question of where are the clergy and religious leadership only speaks to the question of the relevance of the clergy and religious leadership.  Certainly, many of those present at these protests are deeply religious individuals.  Certainly, some are acting out of Muslim/Christian/Jewish/Buddhist/etc. principles.  Certainly, their concerns have a deeply spiritual dimension, and that is not lessened whether or not the clergy are present.  Whether or not the clergy or leadership participates or even discusses the issues does not diminish the importance of the protests, but it does say a lot about their ethical and moral leadership.  It is difficult to understand how they are not speaking out about the spiritual and religious teachings on economic justice.
 
As Abrahim Appel noted regarding our American Muslim Community

Perhaps now we need to talk about how our Muslim community carries some guilt in being greedy and not caring about the poor. Not just the really poor, but even the poor who work for you. And lets talk about the poor who visit your Masjid, the one you donated to help build. The one you pay hundreds of dollars to send your kids to. Now you may not want to hear it. You may now be looking to find the article blasting Mubarak and his corruption. But this is our corruption. We are making our American Muslim identity now. And how we relate to ethics, society and the poor will create more of our identity than will almost anything else we do as a community.

We as a community have ignored the growing sections of Muslim greed. I have heard more Muslims talk about kicking out black people from their homes in Detroit, then serving the poor. We often forgive, or look the other way. Maybe we are seduced by the beautiful masjid that these same rich donors helped build. We think “anything for Dawah.” But I feel Islam is being corrupted by the “bling”. We praise the Saudis more than we praise Abdul Sattar Edhi who devotes his whole life to the poor, and without any support from an “Islamic state.” We have lost track of what is really Islamicly important: being a source of comfort to the oppressed. Not just in Palestine, but the orphans, homeless and the poor nearest you.

Let me pray Jummah in a shack if it means we have more resources for the poor, the sick, the hurt the unemployed, the addict. Let us stop building beautiful walls and start building a more beautiful Ummah.

We speak of the Sunnah, but follow only what makes us powerful and comfortable. What ever happened to the part of the sunnah where prophet Muhammad gave away everything. Ate little so others could eat? Is it more convenient to have beards on men and cloth on females heads then to follow a life’s passion of improvement and service? But the poverty and service is the sunnah.

Let us instead work to be a humble and one with those ignored and devoured by their own economy. That would be sunnah.

There is now a group called Protest Chaplains based in Boston who say they are a “specifically Christian witness against corporate greed and excess and the exploitation of the poor.”  Their “about” page says that they have ties to Harvard Divinity School, the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts, and many other local churches and faith groups.  They also say that they are open to adding protest Chaplains from other faith groups We welcome practitioners from all traditions to come lead a workshop or worship in our space, too! Email .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) to get on the schedule, or come find us when we get to New York!  And if you’ve read this and would like to be a Protest Chaplain, let us know!

There is also a group called Interfaith Worker Justice that has come out in support of the protests.  They have Jewish and Christian congregational study guides available on their site.

On 10/7, the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC) issued a statement in support of the protestors.  This is the first such statement by any national American Muslim organization.  The statement said in part While tactics or strategies on how best to effectively communicate grievances are being disputed by media pundits, the Muslim Public Affairs Council fully supports Americans’ civic engagement.  ... In a time when President Obama was elected on the platform of “Yes we can!” the American people are taking it to the streets where they can impose on themselves the task and responsibility of saying and doing just that. It is a difficult task to call out the big giants when it seems everyone, including your own government, is against you. Only time will tell if this movement will go anywhere; or if it will fall on deaf ears while the corporate giants laugh all the way to the banks.

An interfaith coalition of Muslims, Jews and Christians carried a golden reproduction of the “Wall Street” bull, symbolizing greed and the biblical “golden calf” that was idolized as a false god on 10/9.  Story with video

Dr. Hatem Bazian held Friday Prayers and Khutbah in Solidarity with Occupy Wall Street Movement San Francisco at the United Nations Plaza on 10/14.  The Facebook page for this says Join the Muslim community at Friday prayers and Sermon (Khutbah) in solidarity with the Occupy Wall Street Movement and for raising our collective voices for a more just society.  Bring prayer mats to use and share with others at the event. All people are welcome and after the prayers we will march down to join the movement at the Federal Reserve Building in San Francisco.  Also, on Friday the 14th, Imam Zaid Shakir of Zaytuna Institute came to Occupy Oakland and spoke for a few minutes.  video.

On 10/16 Jewish clergy and activists joined Occupy Los Angeles and held a demonstration in a sukkah outside City Hall at the site of the demonstrations, where people have been camping out and protesting for several weeks. Rabbi Jonathan Klein of Clergy and Laity United for Economic Justice (CLUE-LA) — along with representatives of Progressive Jewish Alliance and Jewish Funds for Justice — is among those planning to participate.

In London on 10/16, scores of anti-corporate demonstrators entered London’s historic St. Paul’s Cathedral, and police who tried to stop them were told to leave by church officials. The protesters—who were targeting the global financial system as part of worldwide demonstrations against corporate greed—were welcomed into the 17th-century cathedral, and services went on uninterrupted.

Jim Wallis of Sojourners has also posted a statement of support for the protestors.

In an interesting development, as the Occupy movement has gone International, Louis Ruprecht reports that in Greece

But something new and unprecedented is in the works in Greece itself: for the first time, the Orthodox Church has been identified as the corporation it is, and the suggestion is that it should pay its fair share as well. The Greek Orthodox Church pays very low taxes on its vast real estate holdings and its clerics are paid by the state. That hand-in-glove relationship may be about to change.

In an amazing development, the Greek Prime Minister, George Papandreiou, went to Mount Athos two days ago to meet with the Ecumenical Patriarch, Bartholomaios, to discuss the decidedly un-spiritual matter of the Orthodox Church’s responsibilities in this time of Greek crisis.

Even more interesting is that the Church seems to be moving toward a deal. It has already signaled its willingness to use its vast real estate holdings to help finance the government’s debt, though it insists on doing anything on its own timetable and in its own way.

This is remarkable, and we shall see what comes of it. Depending on what we see, it might signal a radical new strategy for recovering money from corporations that do not pay their fair share, and a radical new view of churches as corporations.

While the situations are very different, to be sure, what if Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi were to meet with Pope Benedict XVI as Italy careens further into its own Greek-style fiscal tragedy? What if a cash-strapped Congress were to take a hard look at the books of churches here in the US?

There will be a service celebrating Simchat Torah, followed by hakafot (dancing with the Torah) around the site of the Occupy Wall Street protest. Service led by Joey Weisenberg (Kane St. Synagogue) and Yosef Goldman (JTS) on 10/20.

On 10/21 there wasFriday Prayer (Jumah) at Occupy Wall Street at which a sermon will be delivered on social justice in Islam by Imam Aiyub Abdul Baki of the Islamic Leadership Council.  There will also be Jumah prayers at Occupy DC . 

Here is a VIDEO of a group of Muslims at the OWS Jumah gathering.  Here is a local news video on the Jumah prayer and a VIDEO of the sermon on social justice by Imam Aiyub Abdul Baqi.  Here is another VIDEO of a heated conversation between a Christian and a Muslim which shows how this sort of a gathering can actually cause people to discuss issues with each other and perhaps understand each other better. 

A group of interfaith clergy will be marching with Occupy San Francisco on Monday 10/24

Buddhist Monks, monastic students of Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh visited Occupy Boston Friday afternoon to lead a walking meditation group to Copley Square, where the group met with the rest of the monastics for a meditation and sit-in.

On 10/25 it was widely reported that the Vatican has come out in suport of OWS.  Flavia Rotundi reports from Rome

A SENIOR Vatican official has said the Occupy Wall Street protests are justified, as the Holy See has called for overhauling global financial rules and establishing an international market regulator.

‘‘Do people at a certain time have a right to say: ‘Do business differently, look at the way you are doing business because this is not leading to our welfare, to our good?’ ‘’ Cardinal Peter Kodwo Appiah Turkson asked.

‘‘Can people demand this of the people of Wall Street? I think people can and should be able to.’’  ...  ‘‘The time has come to conceive of institutions with universal competence, now that vital goods shared by the entire human family are at stake, goods which the individual states cannot promote and protect by themselves,’’ Cardinal Turkson said.

Economic injustices, including ‘‘the hoarding of goods on a great scale’‘, may create ‘‘a climate of growing hostility and even violence, and ultimately undermine the very foundations of democratic institutions’‘, according to the text.

The Vatican called for a global authority with ‘‘universal jurisdiction’’ over financial policy, including a ‘‘central world bank’‘. Such sweeping changes would have to be gradual, the document said.

‘‘Everybody knows about globalisation, everybody feels its impact,’’ Cardinal Turkson said. ‘‘But single individual countries don’t have the competence to deal with it.’‘

Thomas Reese reports further that

The Vatican released a document on the world economy on Monday that will cause heartburn in the Tea Party, but will be cheered by the folks occupying Wall Street.

...  Those who read the pope’s 2009 encyclical “Caritas in Veritate (Charity in Truth)” will not be surprised by this new document. In that encyclical, the pope decried “corruption and illegality” among economic and political elites in both rich and poor countries. He told financiers they must rediscover the ethical foundation of their activity and stop abusing savers. He wants a radical rethinking of economics so that it is guided not simply by profits but by “an ethics which is people-centered.”

Benedict notes that economic “inequalities are on the increase” across the globe. He does not accept the trickle-down theory, which says that all boats will rise with the economic tide. Benedict condemns the “scandal of glaring inequalities” and sees a role for government in the redistribution of wealth.  ...  The pope also disagrees with those who believe that the economy should be free of government regulation. An unregulated economy “shielded from ‘influences’ of a moral character has led man to abuse the economic process in a thoroughly destructive way,” he writes. This has “led to economic, social and political systems that trample upon personal and social freedom, and are therefore unable to deliver the justice that they promise.”

Most Muslims are aware that Islamic banking and finance may offer some good ideas for financial reform, and this most recent statement by the Pope along with his previous statements encouraging bankers and governments to look at Islamic finance seriously as a possible solution to the crisis may encourage Muslim scholars to speak out about this important way that Muslims might offer some positive solutions.

On October 28th,  Shaykh Faraz Rabbani offered Jumah prayer at Occupy Toronto.  See video of his sermon here.  Rashid Patch reported that At Occupy Oakland Friday afternoon 10/28, Muslim Jummu’ah congregational prayers gathered about 150 believers, with 2-300 others observing. Dr. Hatem Bazian acted as imam, and in his sermon mentioned that earlier after Friday prayers in Cairo, people had marched to Tahrir Square carrying signs saying, “Solidarity with Oakland”. People carried similar signs in demonstrations in Tunisia, Yemen, and Syria.  And, a circle for Zikrullah will be held on Saturday 10/29 after Zuhr Prayer - about 1:45 - at Occupy Oakland. Murids of all tariqats (Sufi Orders) are invited to participate, especially semazens. Members of all faiths - or no faith - are welcome to attend.  Video of Hatem Bazian’s sermon at Juma here

SOME RELEVANT QUOTES

O you who believe! Stand out firmly for God, as witnesses to fair dealing, and let not the hatred of others to you make you swerve to wrong and depart from justice.  Be just; that is next to piety; and fear God.  For God is well acquainted with all that ye do. Qur’an 5:9

O you who believe! Stand firmly for justice, as witnesses to God, even as against yourselves, or your parents, or your kin, and whether it be (against) rich or poor; for God can best protect both.  Follow not the lust (of your hearts), lest ye swerve, and if ye distort (justice) or decline to do justice, verily God is well acquainted with all that ye do.  Qur’an 4:135

Give just measure, and cause no loss (to others by fraud).  And weigh with scales true and upright.  And withhold not things justly due to men, nor do evil in the land, working mischief.  And fear Him Who created you and (Who created) the generations before (you).  Qur’an 26:181-184

O ye who believe! Devour not usury, doubling and quadrupling (the sum lent). Observe your duty to God, that you may be successful.  Qur’an 3:130

Those who charge usury are in the same position as those controlled by the devil’s influence. This is because they claim that usury is the same as commerce. However, God permits commerce, and prohibits usury. Thus, whoever heeds this commandment from his Lord, and refrains from usury, he may keep his past earnings, and his judgment rests with God. As for those who persist in usury, they incur Hell, wherein they abide forever.  Qur’an 2:275)

Have you seen him who denies the religion? He is the one who harshly rebuffs the orphan and does not urge the feeding of the poor. So woe to those who do prayer, and are forgetful of their prayer, those who show off and deny help to others. Qur’an 107 1-7)

And do not become like the woman who, after having painstakingly spun her yarn, caused it to disintegrate into pieces. You resort to oaths as instruments of mutual deceit so that one people might take greater advantage than another although Allah puts you to the test through this. Surely on the Day of Resurrection He will make clear the truth concerning the matters over which you differed. Qur’an 16:92

If thou lend money to any of my people that is poor by thee, thou shalt not be to him as an usurer, neither shalt thou lay upon him usury.  Exodus 22:25

“If among you, one of your brothers should become poor, in any of your towns within your land that the Lord your God is giving you, you shall not harden your heart or shut your hand against your poor brother, but you shall open your hand to him and lend him sufficient for his need, whatever it may be…Therefore I command you, ‘You shall open wide your hand to your brother, to the needy and to the poor, in your land.’ Deuteronomy 15:7-11

“Pure and genuine religion in the sight of God the Father means caring for orphans and widows in their distress and refusing to let the world corrupt you”. James 1:27

SEE ALSO:

SPIRITUALITY, RELIGION & THE OWS MOVEMENT
- A Shining City: The Occupy Movement and the American Soul, Elizabeth Drescher http://www.religiondispatches.org/archive/culture/5239/a_shining_city%3A_the_occupy_movement_and_the_american_soul
- An Open Letter to the Occupiers from a Veteran Troublemaker, Jim Wallis http://blog.sojo.net/2011/10/13/an-open-letter-to-the-occupiers-from-a-veteran-troublemaker/
- Bowing Down to the God of Economic Liberty, Larry Greenfield http://ethicsdaily.com/bowing-down-to-the-god-of-economic-liberty-cms-18680
- Faith Diary: Banking on Sharia http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/uk/2009/religion/7924673.stm
- Faith Groups Lend Diverse Voices to the Occupy Movement http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2011/10/occupy_faith_groups.html
- Faith groups target ‘Super Committee’ on poverty http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/on-faith/faith-groups-target-super-committee-on-poverty/2011/10/26/gIQAj4CUJM_story.html
- Faith leaders join call of Occupy Wall Street protesters, find link between religion and movement, Albor Ruiz http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/occupy_wall_street/2011/10/12/2011-10-12_faith_leaders_join_call_of_wall_st_protesters.html
- God Dissolves into the Occupy Movement, Anthea Butler, Elizabeth Drescher, Peter Laarman, Sarah Posner and Nathan Schneider http://www.religiondispatches.org/archive/politics/5268/god_dissolves_into_the_occupy_movement
- How Christian Fundamentalism Helped Empower the Top 1% to Exploit the 99%, Frank Schaeffer http://www.alternet.org/occupywallst/152724/how_christian_fundamentalism_helped_empower_the_top_1_to_exploit_the_99
- In Praise of Capital, Amy Levin http://therevealer.org/archives/9599
- Interfaith forum examines what it means to be a paycheck away from poverty http://www.mpac.org/programs/government-relations/forum-examines-reality-of-being-a-paycheck-away-from-poverty.php
- Is #OccupyWallStreet a Spiritual Movement?, Eric Allen Bell http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/10/12/1025489/-Is-OccupyWallStreet-a-Spiritual-Movement
- Islamic Banking http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_banking
- Steve Jobs, #occupywallst, and Usury, Jay Michaelson http://www.religiondispatches.org/dispatches/jaymichaelson/5226/steve_jobs%2C_#occupywallst%2C_and_usury
- “Just Camp Here and Stay:” Dr. King and the Occupy Wall Street Movement, Be Scofield http://www.tikkun.org/tikkundaily/2011/10/18/just-camp-here-and-stay-dr-king-and-the-occupy-wall-street-movement/
- Less mosques, more charity, Abrahim Appel http://www.altmuslim.com/a/a/a/4478
- Major Faith Organizations Join to Kick Off National Food Stamp Challenge http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/major-faith-organizations-join-to-kick-off-national-food-stamp-challenge-132641143.html
- The Message and Strategy That Is Needed by Occupy Wall Street, Rabbi Michael Lerner http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rabbi-michael-lerner/post_2544_b_1016513.html
- My Take: Occupy Wall Street looks like church to me, Marisa Egerstrom http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2011/10/07/my-take-occupy-wall-street-looks-like-church-to-me/
- “Occupy”: A Taste like Pickled Herring?, Rabbi Arthur Waskow http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/occupy-a-taste-like-pickled-herring/0018825 
- Occupy Together - the Spiritual Dimension, Sheila Musaji http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/occupy-together-where-are-the-clergy/0018828
- Occupy Interfaith: Why Millennials, Including the Irreligious, Need to Care About Religion, Chris Stedman http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/2011/10/occupy-interfaith.html
- Occupy Wall Street is a church of dissent not a protest, Mat Stoller http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2011/09/matt-stoller-occupywallstreet-is-a-church-of-dissent-not-a-protest.html
Occupy the Greek Orthodox Church, Louis A. Ruprecht http://www.religiondispatches.org/dispatches/guest_bloggers/5263/occupy_the_greek_orthodox_church
- The Occupy movement and its religious connections, Bill Haley http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/guest-voices/post/the-occupy-movement-and-its-religious-connections/2011/10/17/gIQAfeXluL_blog.html
- Occupy Religion: Religion for the Rest of Us (a divine nobodies revolution), http://www.divinenobodies.com/blog/2011/10/occupy-religion-a-divine-nobodies-revolution/
- Occupy Wall Street: ‘Protest Chaplains’ Shepherd Movement’s Spiritual Side, Jack Jenkins http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/10/occupy-wall-street-protest-chaplains_n_1004112.html
- Occupy Wall Street looks like church to me, Marisa Egerstrom http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2011/10/07/my-take-occupy-wall-street-looks-like-church-to-me/
- Occupy Wall Street protests have a spiritual side, Cathy Lynn Grossman http://content.usatoday.com/communities/Religion/post/2011/10/occupy-wall-street-protests-catholic-god/1
- #OccupyWallSt, spirituality, and faith, John D. Boy http://blogs.ssrc.org/tif/2011/10/12/occupywallst-spirituality-and-faith/
- Occupy Wall Street’s Most Unlikely Ally: The Pope, Thomas J. Reese http://www.npr.org/2011/10/24/141659992/occupy-wall-streets-most-unlikely-ally-the-pope
- Parameters of the Islamic Economic System , Mehmet Can http://www.scribd.com/doc/38145880/The-Vatican-Islamic-Banking
- Prophets Against Profits? What Occupy Wall Street Misses, Bruce Wydick http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2011/octoberweb-only/occupy-wall-st.html
- Religion at OWS, Kim Lawton http://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/episodes/october-28-2011/religion-at-occupy-wall-street/9828/
- Religion claims its place in Occupy Wall Street, Jay Lindsay http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5g94hEKVdDTDRWlf5DUYh12CdZWiA?docId=d8f8676e9f4a4c52a9f300c0565bc671
- Risky Business: The Pitfalls at the Corner of Church & Wall Street: What Role Should Churches Play in Economic Change?, Elizabeth Drescher http://www.religiondispatches.org/archive/atheologies/5141/risky_business%3A_the_pitfalls_at_the_corner_of_church_%26_wall_street_/
- Should Muslims Occupy Wall Street Too?, Dr. David Liepert http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/should-muslims-occupy-wall-street-too/0018829
- Spirituality and the “Occupy Wall Street” Movement, Courtney Bender http://uscmediareligion.org/theScoop/453/Preoccupations-Spirituality-and-Occupy-Wall-Street-Movement
- The Spirituality of #Occupy, Jack Varnell http://goodmenproject.com/ethics-values/the-spirituality-of-occupy/
- SPIRITUALITY AND THE OWS MOVEMENT, with article collection http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/occupy-together-where-are-the-clergy
Talking Religion At #OccupyWallStreet, Timothy King http://www.huffingtonpost.com/timothy-king/occupywallstreet-bruce-ca_b_1003785.html
- Unitarian Universalists and the Occupy Movement http://uugrowth.com/uu-occupy-movement/
- Vatican Calls For Economic Equality, Sweeping Reform Of Global Financial System, Travis Waldron http://thinkprogress.org/special/2011/10/24/351277/the-vatican-calls-for-economic-equality-reform-of-world-financial-system/
- Vatican Paper Supports Islamic Finance. France Wants Its Share of Sharia Banking http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/3819
- Vatican Says Islamic Finance May Help Western Banks in Crisis, Lorenzo Totaro http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aOsOLE8uiNOg
- Vatican urges major economic reform, Victor L. Simpson http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iAhjVj2Uh-wzWQQx9YZrodvKmVkQ?docId=14b9f8e16b19419f8c06d0cea6971dec
- The Vatican’s Breathtakingly Good Statement on Economics, Steve Schneck http://catholicsinalliance.org/cgf102611schneck.php
- Wall Street protests gain Vatican support, Flavia Rotundi http://www.smh.com.au/world/wall-street-protests-gain-vatican-support-20111025-1mi3a.html
- What If “Occupy Wall Street” Could Be Attempted in the Catholic Church?, Tom Beaudoin http://www.americamagazine.org/blog/entry.cfm?blog_id=2&entry_id=4642
- When the Good Samaritan Came to Wall Street, Rev. Osagyefo Uhuru Sekou http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rev-osagyefo-uhuru-sekou/occupy-wall-street-religion_b_1011791.html
- Where Are the Clergy? A Report from Occupy DC , Sarah Posner http://www.religiondispatches.org/archive/politics/5217/where_are_the_clergy_a_report_from_occupy_dc