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The 99%: Official list of Occupy Wall Street’s supporters, sponsors and sympathizers

October 31, 2011 – 10:48 am – by Zombie

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The Occupy Wall Street movement has received so much media coverage in recent weeks that it’s nearly impossible to keep abreast of all the developments. So many endorsements and criticisms coming from all directions enter the news cycle in such rapid succession that even the most dedicated news junkies may have missed out on many of the pronouncements. Supporters and detractors of OWS both might find it useful to have a handy all-inclusive list of who has endorsed or embraced the protest.

To satisfy that demand, we hereby present a list of groups, organizations, individuals and entities that have expressed their support for, sponsorship of, or sympathy for the Occupy Wall Street movement.

Note: All entries on this list are real and verified. Below each entry you will find a series of source links documenting the support for OWS. We have striven in almost all cases to reference either first-hand statements by the groups or individuals themselves, hosted on their own Web sites; or videos of the people in question voicing their support for OWS at various Occupations; or news reports from reliable mainstream networks; or articles by publications or organizations sympathetic to the Occupy movement; or indisputable evidence, whatever the source. As a result, it cannot be claimed that these statements of support were made up or distorted by detractors of the Occupy movement.

As each new controversial endorsement has appeared over the last month, OWS supporters have dismissed them one by one as “isolated examples” that don’t reflect any overall trend toward extremism. But when viewed in aggregate like this, it becomes much more difficult to dismiss any individual endorsement as an aberration; instead, an undeniable pattern emerges.

This list is obviously incomplete; we hope to update it over the upcoming days and weeks.

If you think we’ve left out any well-known endorsers for which there is solid evidence, then please post suggestions and evidentiary links in the comments section; but please try to supply links that will stand up to any potential claims of misrepresentation.

If you disagree with the inclusion of any of the entries on this list, please post your reasoning and any contravening source links in the comments section, and we will take the evidence into account when updating the list.

Members of the media, bloggers, activists, OWS supporters and detractors as well are all free to repost this list, in whole or in part, without any restrictions. Do note, however, that it may be updated over time, so make sure to get the latest version.

And without further ado, here is…

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The 99%: Official list of Occupy Wall Street’s supporters, sponsors and sympathizers

	Communist Party USA  Sources: Communist Party USA, OWS speech, The Daily Caller
	American Nazi Party  Sources: Media Matters, American Nazi Party, White Honor, Sunshine State News
	Ayatollah Khamenei, Supreme Leader of Iran  Sources: The Guardian, Tehran Times, CBS News
	Barack Obama  Sources: ABC News, CBS News, ForexTV, NBC New York
	The government of North Korea  Sources: Korean Central News Agency (North Korean state-controlled news outlet), The Marxist-Leninist, Wall Street Journal, Times of India
	Louis Farrakhan, Nation of Islam  Sources: video statement (starting at 8:28), Black in America, Weasel Zippers, Philadelphia Weekly
	Revolutionary Communist Party  Sources: Revolutionary Communist Party, Revolution newspaper, in-person appearance
	David Duke  Sources: Talking Points Memo, video statement, davidduke.com
	Joe Biden  Sources: Talking Points Memo, video statement, Mother Jones
	Hugo Chavez  Sources: Mother Jones, Reuters, Examiner.com
	Revolutionary Guards of Iran  Sources: Associated Press, FARS News Agency, UPI
	Black Panthers (original)  Sources: in-person appearance, Occupy Oakland, Oakland Tribune
	Socialist Party USA  Sources: Socialist Party USA, IndyMedia, The Daily Caller
	US Border Guard  Sources: White Reference, www.usborderguard.com, Gateway Pundit, Just Another Day blog
	Industrial Workers of the World  Sources: IWW web site, iww.org, in-person appearances
	CAIR  Sources: in-person appearance, Washington Post, CAIR, CAIR New York
	Nancy Pelosi  Sources: Talking Points Memo, video statement, ABC News, The Weekly Standard
	Communist Party of China  Sources: People’s Daily (Communist Party organ), Reuters, chinataiwan.org, The Telegraph
	Hezbollah  Sources: almoqawama.org, almoqawama.org (2), almoqawama.org (3), wikipedia
	9/11Truth.org  Sources: 911truth.org (1), 911truth.org (2), 911truth.org (3)
	International Bolshevik Tendency  Sources: bolshevik.org, Wire Magazine
	Anonymous  Sources: Adbusters, The Guardian, video statement
	White Revolution  Source: whiterevolution.com
	International Socialist Organization  Sources: Socialist Worker, socialistworker.org, in-person appearance
	PressTV (Iranian government outlet)  Sources: PressTV, wikipedia
	Marxist Student Union  Sources: Marxist Student Union, Big Government, marxiststudentunion.blogspot.com
	Freedom Road Socialist Organization  Sources: FightBack News, fightbacknews.org
	ANSWER  Sources: ANSWER press release, ANSWER web site, Xinhua
	Party for Socialism and Liberation  Sources: Liberation News (1), pslweb.org, The Daily Free Press, Liberation News (2)