SUPPORTERS AND ENDORSERS OF THE OCCUPY WALL STREET MOVEMENT

Noteworthy individuals who have expressed support for the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement include convicted cop-killer Mumia Abu Jamal, actor Alec Baldwin, entertainer Roseanne Barr, black nationalist Charles Barron, actress Kathy Bates, Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez, public speaker Deepak Chopra, former President Bill Clinton, congressman Keith Ellison, former U.S. senator Russ Feingold, longtime activist Lisa Fithian, film star Jane Fonda, congressman Barney Frank, former Vice President Al Gore, congressman Raul Grijalva, folk singer Arlo Guthrie, General Electric CEO and President Obama's "jobs czar" Jeffery Immelt, civil-rights agitator Jesse Jackson, revolutionary communist Van Jones, Iran’s Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, anti-consumerism activist Kalle Lasn, congressman Dennis Kucinich, New York Times reporter Natasha Lennard, labor leader Stephen Lerner, congressman John Lewis, political commentator Rachel Maddow, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee director Robby Mook, filmmaker Michael Moore, President Barack Obama, TV personality Keith Olbermann, activist Yoko Ono, congresswoman Nancy Pelosi, radical academic Frances Fox Piven, congressman Charles Rangel, ACORN founder Wade Rathke, actor Tim Robbins, actress Susan Sarandon, congresswoman Jan Schakowsky, folk singer Pete Seeger, hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons, billionaire financier George Soros, labor leader Richard Trumka, preacher Jim Wallis, Marxist professor Cornel West, hip-hop star Kanye West.

OWS's mission is supported also by a host of activist organizations and leftwing labor unions, including 350.org, ACORN, the AdBusters Media Foundation, the AFL-CIO, AFSCME, the Alliance For Global Justice, the American Nazi Party, Citizen Action, Common Cause, the Communist Party USA, the Council on American-Islamic Relations, the Democratic Socialists of America, the International Socialist Organization, MoveOn.org, National People's Action, the Peace and Freedom Party, the Service Employees International Union, the Socialist Party USA, Take The Square, Think Progress, USDayOfRage, the Workers World Party, and the Working Families Party.

On October 18, 2011, the Communist government of North Korea released a statement praising OWS for facilitating "the working masses’ struggle against capitalism." Added the North Koreans:

"The Occupy Wall St[reet] movement was an eruption of the exploited classes’ pent-up wrath at the exploiters. It was also an expression of the will to remove the stronghold of capitalism as a whole which brings only exploitation, oppression, unemployment and poverty to the popular masses ... [in a] corrupt society where the rich get ever richer and the poor get ever poorer.