Our mission is to create a democratic society, run for the needs of all and not for the profits of the 1% who control the political system.

Background:

Income and wealth inequality have reached unconscionable levels.  A recent Congressional Budget Office report noted that the richest 400 people in the U.S. now control more wealth than the bottom 50% of households and that in the last two decades incomes for the top 1% have tripled while the incomes for everyone else have flatlined.  Tax rates for the rich have fallen dramatically while attacks on social programs such as Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid continue.  Wall Street has been continually bailed out while foreclosures continue unabated.

Occupy JP is a group from JP and surrounding neighborhoods working on issues of fairness and social justice.  Members of the group share the conviction that the economic system should be transformed so that wealth, income, and power are more fairly distributed, that programs promoting education, health, and retirement for the 99% and especially for the poor and disadvantaged should be preserved and expanded, and that the tax system should be reformed so that everyone, including the rich, pay their fair share.