Unknown; Occupy Wall Street Archives Working Group
Object Type
Statements
Description
Authored just six days into the encampment, on September 23, 2011, the Principles of Solidarity—later coupled with the Declaration of the Occupation of New York City—served as a kind of manifesto for the movement. The Principles were created by the Working Group on Principles of Consolidation and were circulated online after the New York City General Assembly came to consensus on their language and shape. Here, an early draft shows the Principles in their nascent state: a rough outline and handwritten markings.
Image Description
This early draft of the principles of solidarity is typescript in black ink on a white page. The statement is structured into three parts: a preamble, a section called "we believe" with a list of principles, and a conclusion. There are proposed edits in red ink, with words and phrases like "respect" and "wall street culture" circled, and "redistributed" underlined. The phrase "confronting our addictions" is edited to read "confronting our consumerism," and principle number 2 is edited from "We believe in personal responsibility and accountability" to "mutual responsibility."
Citation
Draft Principles of Solidarity, 2011; TAM.630 Occupy Wall Street Archives Working Group Records; box 36, folder 11; Tamiment Library/Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, New York University