If you are one of those that don’t know how or what to do to help the occupy movement, perhaps you may want to try what I just did. -What about writing about your thoughts and or experiences and sharing them with your friends. Well, you could try by writing on your Facebook wall, yes, write to you FB “friends” at least. So here I am sharing (pasting) mine: FB Friends: I just wanted to share with you, that for the about last two months, I have witnessed several Oakland … Continued
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This video from OWS inspires me to continue supporting the movement: We are the 99% 14655
<b>Click on the headline to link to updates from the <i>Occupy Boston</i> website. <i>OccupyBoston</i> started at 6:00 PM, September 30, 2011. I will post important updates as they appear on that site. </b> ******* <b>An Injury To One Is An Injury To All!-Defend The Occupation Movement And All The Occupiers! Drop All Charges Against All Occupy Protesters Everywhere! </b> ******* <b>Fight-Don’t Starve-We Created The Wealth, Let’s Take It Back! Labor And The Oppressed Must Rule!</b> ******* Peter Paul Markin comment: I had never seen my old friend Josh Breslin … Continued
…which had fallen into disuse for a year. Please consider giving it a look. http://pickledbologna.blogspot.com/ 14367
What’s next for the Occupy movement? That’s the question on everyone’s lips, which is a huge accomplishment in itself. But it’s also a huge question with huge import. Of course the only possible answer is that there isn’t one thing that’s next for the entire movement. In fact, it’s not even one movement. The movement in Des Moines or Walnut Creek looks very different, as the media love to point out, from Occupy Oakland, which I’m told is is very different from Occupy Wall Street. It’s a movement of movements; … Continued
On November 14th the commune was raided once again and someone with a megaphone insisted that we take 14th and Broadway. I screamed “No! We need to stay to defend the commune!” and tried to hold a vote that was again derailed by this same man with the megaphone… If we are going to make any major tactical decision we should not do so without consensus! As a result the 800-1000 people that were there that morning went to 14th and Broadway and abandoned 33 people including a homeless man … Continued
GAs should be in a totally accessible location – if attending a GA means breaking the law, then it is not accessible for those who cannot risk arrest due to parole status, past conviction, immigration status, health concerns, or other responsibilities such as having children. Not to mention that this leaves people who do not wish to break the law out of the voting process, making OO a much smaller and more radicalized group. Civil disobedience should always be a CHOICE, and not a REQUIREMENT, in this case, of voting. Also, the proposal … Continued
What’s the sense in publishing the proposals if no one can read them until just before the meeting? I want to do some research. But I can’t. What are we voting on? For all the information we are given, we should just hold up pictures that represent each action and people can vote for the picture they like the best. Have three proposals a meeting. ‘Emergency Proposals’ who ever’s emergency they may be, should have a separate time. Barring not having quorum, and lately even quorum seems to mean less than 100, attendees would … Continued
I’ve been doing some reading about the repeal of the 1950 Emergency Detention Act…. this is part of what Nixon said when he signed the bill to repeal that act: “the mere continued existence of these legal provisions has aroused concern among many Americans that the act might someday be used to apprehend and detain citizens who hold unpopular views. Some have feared that it might someday be used to permit a situation comparable to the detention of Americans of Japanese ancestry during World War II. I have supported and … Continued