On Saturday, a senior Shiite cleric in Karbala, Ayatollah Muhammad al-Mudarasi called on citizens in Karbala to hold a demonstration on Sunday to call for the occupation forces to leave.
In response to the city's raid on the Viger Square homeless encampment, Anonymous launched a call for an occupation of the site and threatened the city of Montreal with attacks on its cyber infrastructure.
After reading Adbusters call for an occupation of Wall Street on September 17, 2011, I felt compelled to document what at the time I thought would be a brief, but nonetheless credible, protest of big banks and corporate greed.
This was essentially a call for the armed occupation of every Muslim country whose government was repugnant to New York intellectuals - Iran, Syria, Saudi, Egypt and Libya were all mentioned as candidates for treatment after Iraq had been triumphantly occupied and converted to a democracy.
In London, for example, organizers have called for the occupation of the stock exchange.
(In New York, Adbusters, the magazine that first called for the occupation of Wall Street over the summer, is pushing an Occupy Party in Times Square for Saturday afternoon).
The members of Parliament from the Five Star Movement called for the occupation to demand permanent parliamentary committees, even though no party has yet produced a governing majority.
Hawkish members of the Israeli cabinet on Wednesday repeated calls for an occupation of the Palestinian coastal enclave, which Israel evacuated under Ariel Sharon's leadership in 2005.
A month later, the magazine sent an e-mail blitz to 90,000 readers and advocates calling for the occupation of Wall Street and setting the date for the first protesters to camp in downtown Manhattan.
Adbusters, a Canadian magazine, had called for an occupation of Wall Street on September 17th, which was six weeks away; that afternoon, in Bowling Green, a few dozen horizontals decided to see what they could do to respond.
