The primary mission of Occupy Love Street is to facilitate the creation, distribution and networking of all media related to occupy movements all over the world understanding that the priority is to do so working from a place of love and compassion for all people, the earth and all things.  Although some of the people involved in Occupy Love Street Collective organizing team have been involved with local and regional Occupy Movements, Occupy Love Street, as a collective, is not affiliated with any particular General Assembly or Occupy Site and is not designed to circumvent the consensus decision making methods used in those local and regional occupy movements.  The Occupy Love Street networking site is a little different from some of the other websites that you may be used to because of the following reasons and benefits to getting involved.

1. Our desire is to network you with other Occupy movements, camps and people all over the world interested in supporting the Occupy Movement all over the world.  We offer over 17 different work group discussion areas that you can join and enable you to make any work group discussion area not found.   If you are unfamiliar with the Occupy Wall Street Movement please visit the wikipedia page on Occupy Wall Street  and on the Occupy Movement.

We are in solidarity with the Occupy Wall Street statement below:

"Occupy Wall Street is leaderless resistance movement with people of many colors, genders and political persuasions. The one thing we all have in common is that We Are The 99% that will no longer tolerate the greed and corruption of the 1%. We... ….encourage the use of nonviolence to maximize the safety of all participants.

This #ows movement empowers real people to create real change from the bottom up. We want to see a general assembly in every backyard, on every street corner because we don't need Wall Street and we don't need politicians to build a better society.”

Compassion for others and love is the priority.

Multinational Corporate media has gotten very rich from promoting fear and promoting the multinational corporate advertisers that influence their websites and payrolls. This website desires to promote all art, music, media and news directly or indirectly related to the Occupy Movement without the influence of corporate media.

2. Privacy and Customized Member Profiles

From the moments that you sign up you will see that many of the profile questions, all of which are optional, are specially designed to help you network with other people around the world.  Each person who joins the Occupy Love Street network becomes a member and has a fully customizable profile.  All public information on the profile is optional so members maintain their privacy.  In addition, Occupy Love Street has adopted the Computers, Freedom, and Privacy‘s Social Network Users’ Bill of Rights, which was drafted, debated, voted, and adopted during the 2010 annual conference held in San Jose, CA.  Learn more on our privacy policy page.  The Occupy Love Street member profiles optionally include basic occupy movement networking information, everything contributed to the Occupy Love Street (OLS) network and a profile space that enables members to promote other personal links as well as promote other occupy websites.

3. More than just “online” networking.

Many online groups and website provide information so that it is only available online. Our desire is to also have a Quarterly Newsletter with art, music, news and media that people can publish and download as a PDF from our website to share with others in print. In order for thehOccupy Movement to grow larger we must reach out to everyone including those without computers and Internet access.

4. Create Interest Groups, Regional Groups and Discussion Forums

Members can create groups inside this social network around hobbies, interests, affinities, geographical locations and more. Each member is able to create any type of group that they choose.

Get people talking. Start a discussion on any topic and watch your friends and new friends respond with posts, photos and attachments. We even have a discussion forum so that new members joining can introduce themselves if they choose. It is never required.

5. Event Listings

Schedule events, invite network members, and keep track of who’s attending.  Let people know around the world about great occupy events. The Events calendar is only for events directly or indirectly related to the Occupy Movement.

6. Photos, Slideshows & Custom Video Players

Post photos and organize them into albums. You and your members can share your photos in galleries or slideshows.  We have a slideshow of some pictures that were uploaded by people from all over the world playing right now in Occupy Love Street.  Upload original footage or share videos from popular video services like YouTube, Google Video and Vimeo.

7.  The  Library of Digital Archives for Your Resources of the Occupy Movement. (abbreviated as D.A.Y.R.O.O.M. or Dayroom for short).

The Dayroom welcomes, archive and share all materials that are directly or indirectly related to the Occupy Movement. The Dayroom is a potentially virtual project, that offers both physical collections and digital collections and comprehensively collects, manages and preserves for the long depth of time rich digital, multimedia content  and offers to people worldwide the ability to access that content free of charge 24 hours a day and 7 days a week via the Internet. Dayroom users are welcome to add resources of art, flyers, posters, photography, news articles, Do-It-Yourself materials, music, films and other materials as a Jpg, Gif, Mp3 (for audio), Mp4/Mov (for video), as a PDF attachment and a few other file types for all other resouces. Dayroom users are also welcome to use our Dayroom Wiki page to add pages to our dayroom wikipage located with the Freeschool Community wikiwebsite. Traditionally libraries are operated on a loan and borrow format but all materials available in the dayroom are given away as gifts.

To read a complete list of benefits to the digital library please click here.

8. Add Text & Widgets

Insert widgets from other websites or create an area for your weekly column, special promotions or community announcements.

9. Real-time Activity Stream

Keep up with your friends all over the world in Occupy Love Street.  Find out what your members are saying, how they’re interacting and what they’re sharing.

10. Viral Widgets

Occupy Love Street has a network badge that you can display with pride on social network, blog or website.

11. Facebook Integration

Members can share photos, videos and music from your social network on their Facebook profiles.  You don’t have to give up your Facebook, Diaspora page or other social network page to join Occupy Love Street.  You can have your cake and eat it too.

12. Update Your Ning page simultaneously with your Twitter

We realize that many of you don't have time to update your twitter, tumblr and other social networking websites as well as this website too. There is a free of charge service called Ping.fm that enables you to sign up, and update twitter, Tumblr and your profile status on Occupy Love Street all at the same time! If you want to use that service, just remember that Occupy Love Street is built on a 'Ning' platform so after you enter into your Ping.fm account, simply click the button that states 'Ning” and add your Occupy Love Street profile and username.

So what are ya' waiting for?  Solidarity!  Join Occupy Love Street.

Much like Betty Friedan said, its time to start "Pooling Our Experience!”

We love you all!

-Occupy Love Street organizers

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“The experts of psychology, sociology, economics, biology, even the new feminism experts, are still engaged in the old battles, of women versus men. The new questions that need to be asked - and with them, the new structures for the new struggle - can only come from pooling our experience…”

-Betty Friedan, from ‘The Second Stage.’ Betty Friedan was also the author of ‘The Feminine Mystique’ and the founder and first president of the National Organization for Women (NOW).