Ground Zero imam's wife to appear at Occupy event Sunday night Jan.15

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8/23/10, "Wife of Ground Zero mosque imam speaks out on US 'hate of Muslims'," UK Telegraph, Harnden

1/13/12, "Occupy Wall Street Touts “Year's Largest Action”," BuzzFeed

"Occupy Wall Street is hyping their rally planned for this weekend as "The Year's Largest Action," which is verifiably true since it's their first large-scale event of 2012.

Patti Smith and Yoko Ono are both slated to appear, per the press release:

At 6:30 p.m. hundreds of Occupy Wall Street activists will assemble on the steps of the Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine (1047 Amsterdam Avenue) and at 7:00 p.m. begin a massive candlelight march to nearby Riverside Church (490 Riverside Drive). [Reportedly to take place Sun., 1/15]. The group will join additional feeder marches and members of the community at Riverside Church for a candlelight vigil and celebration renewing King’s message of peace, justice, and equality for all, regardless of race or economic class. The action will culminate in an assembly featuring performances and speak-outs from artists, celebrities, religious leaders, and activists. Performances by Patti Smith, Steve Earle, Stephan Said, and Kozza Olantunji, as well as many more, will complement the inspirational words of Dr. Benjamin Chavis, Yoko Ono, Russell Simmons, Reverend Stephen H. Phelps, Daisey Kahn, Norman Siegel, Sumumba Sobukwe and Malik Rhasaan of Occupy The Hood."
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Daisy Kahn's views were noted as her husband was traveling in middle east countries courtesy of the US taxpayer and shortly before her own such trip via US taxpayers:

8/23/10, "Wife of Ground Zero mosque imam speaks out on US 'hate of Muslims'." UK Telegraph, Harnden

"The wife of the imam behind the proposed Islamic cultural centre near the Ground Zero site of the September 11th terrorist attacks has compared the treatment of Muslims in America to discrimination against Jews.""

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8/24/10, "Cashing In On Ground Zero," Claudia Rosett, Canada Free Press

"The State Department is also about to send Rauf’s wife and Cordoba Initiative fellow director, Daisy Khan, on her own taxpayer-funded “public diplomacy” trip to the United Arab Emirates. Khan is scheduled to visit the UAE from Aug. 29 to Sept. 2, overlapping there with Rauf, for whom it will be the final leg of a three-country trip including Bahrain and Qatar.

The U.S. Embassy in the UAE capital of Abu Dhabi has posted on its website an announcement of the impending visit by this husband-wife team. Rauf and Khan will be there, the announcement says, “to engage foreign audiences and build people-to-people ties” and to “discuss their experiences as Muslims living and working in the United States.”"...

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1/12/12, "Occupy Wall Street Plans New York Marches Over Weekend," Bloomberg

"Occupy Wall Street protesters in New York plan marches and a candlelight vigil over the coming weekend to honor Martin Luther King Jr.

Demonstrators plan to assemble on Jan. 15 on the steps of the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine in Manhattan’s Morningside Heights, organizers said today in a statement. From there, they’ll march to nearby Riverside Church for a candlelight vigil to “honor the spirit” of King, who was born on that day in 1929, according to the statement.

The vigil at Riverside Church, where King spoke in 1967, will feature performances by musicians Patti Smith and Steve Earle as well as speeches by Yoko Ono, the widow of Beatle John Lennon, and hip-hop entrepreneur Russell Simmons. The next morning, protesters plan a march in lower Manhattan from the African Burial Ground National Monument to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Federal and state offices will be closed to honor King’s birthday.

The marches were announced the day after metal barricades surrounding the protest’s original home in Zuccotti Park in lower Manhattan were removed following a request by the New York Civil Liberties Union, the Center for Constitutional Rights and the New York chapter of the National Lawyers Guild. The groups wrote Buildings Commissioner Robert LiMandri, urging him to ensure that the park is “open and accessible to all members of the public,” according to a statement from the NYCLU."

via Weasel Zippers