#OWS Updates for the Week of June 20
Posted 11 years ago on June 21, 2012, 1:47 a.m. EST by OccupyWallSt
Issue #3 of the Project List is out! The OWS Project list is a bi-monthly listing of NYC-wide Occupy projects. With descriptions of each project and contact info, this is the perfect place to start if you have yet to find your Occu-niche. View the new Project List online here.
And speaking of projects – this is the 14th issue of Your Inbox: Occupied and we are looking for some new people to join our team. Whether you are already entrenched in Occupy projects or are looking for a way in, we would love to meet you this Friday. The newsletter crew will be getting together June 22nd at 5PM: 33 Flatbush, Brooklyn, near the 2/3/4/5 trains, Nevins St. subway stop. If you can’t make it this time around, shoot us an email at: newsletter (at) occupywallstreet (dot) net.
Occupy These Upcoming Events
Thursday, June 21st, 12:45pm
Solidarity Event: Bank Error leads to Foreclosure of Minnesota activists’ home
340 Madison Avenue, PNC Bank NYC Headquarters
Alejandra and David Cruz are two Two DREAM Act activists in Minneapolis who have spent years fighting for educational equality. In 2011 a bank error pushed their family’s home into foreclosure. PNC Bank acknowledged its mistake, but instead of fixing the situation, it has ordered five costly raids on the house, resulting in 23 arrests of neighbors and supporters from Occupy Homes Minneapolis. On Thursday, people from around the country will gather in more than a dozen cities for a Solidarity Action to demand that the Cruz family gets their home back and that banks stop displacing families in need for Wall Street's greed.
Thursday, June 21st, 6:00pm
Occupy Catholics General Assembly on Freedoms
St. Patrick’s Cathedral, 460 Madison Ave, NYC
The US Catholic bishops have called a "Fortnight for Freedom" for the two weeks between June 21 and July 4. Occupy Catholics NYC has decided to answer that call by hosting an open-air General Assembly on Freedoms, on the steps of our cathedral, with the purpose of fostering an open community dialogue about what freedom means for us and for our faith.
Thursday, June 21st, 10:00pm
A Midsummer Night’s Dance Party
Big Snow Buffalo Lodge, 89 Varet St. Brooklyn, NY
The OWS Bike Coalition is hosting a dance party! Prepare to ride, eat, drink, dance, and have a great time with friends, comrades, and midsummer woodland bike fairies. This event will moonlight as a (by donation) fundraiser and bike/part drive for OWSBC, so bring a (spare) bike!
Friday, June 22nd, 7:30pm
Night of the Living Debt
Washington Square Park
Get ready for a zombie-walk for the the fourth weekly Casseroles event in NYC! This is the time for NYC students to rise from the DEBT, in a night of undead mischief. If they will not give us free education, we will be forced to eat brains. Bring your pots and pans and come zombified!
Saturday, June 23rd, 12:00pm
Summer Disobedience School
Columbus Circle
Week 5: this week we'll explore some fun and mischievous invisible theatre tactics at a target that has a lot to answer for in environmental and social justice. Come on time for plus training and tactics role play! We'll leave promptly at 1pm and we may go "civilian"-- don't miss us!
Saturday, June 23rd, 12:00pm
Occupy Long Island Unity Days
Occupy Storefront @ 59 Railroad Ave Ronkonkoma
We will be occupying the sidewalk in front of the storefront indefinitely, on Saturdays. Occupy Storefront is an idea to build a hub for us to meet, discuss occupy events, coordinate rallies and marches on Long Island.
Saturday, June 23, 3:00pm-8:00pm
June Assembly
Join the Occupy Wall Street Community as they pick up the tools of Direct Democracy in the place where it all began: Liberty Plaza. To join the conversation and help shape the agenda, join the OWS Facilitation working group Thursday and Saturday at 6PM in Union Square.
Saturday, June 23rd, 6:00pm
Community Discussion on the General Assembly
Liberty Plaza
Last week, we met to discuss where we felt things went wrong with the General Assembly and our consensus processes. This week, we're going to focus more on how to get there from here, moving from a large circle discussion about the problems we encountered and how the General Assembly and our other structures did not suit our needs or serve our purposes as we envisioned them, into breakout groups that will discuss individual aspects that need addressing in order to seek solutions to these problems and put meaningful changes into place.
Sunday, June 24th, 11:00am
OccuPride 2012 NYC
NYC Pride - Meet on 37th St between 5th and Madison by noon. March leaves at 1pm.
Join Occupy Wall Street as we take the streets with the LGBT Community of NYC in the Annual Pride Parade. "Share the Love" is the Pride theme, and this is a solidarity march, so all LGBTQ related messages are welcome!.
Wednesday, June 27th, 8:00am
Occupy The Citi
Citigroup Building - One Court Square- Long Island City
Occupy Astoria LIC invites everyone for a day of public outrage and education, with special guests, as we #OccupyTheCiti. Four years ago, Citigroup and the Wall Street banks crashed the world economy. We will gather, hold teach-ins, and speak truth to power.
Wednesday, June 27th, 6:30pm
OWS Labor Alliance Forum on Closing of Post Offices & Firing of Postal Workers
PSC Office at 61 Broadway, 16th Floor (you’ll need photo ID to get in)
Join us for a program about how it is not the internet, not the recession, not private competition, but Congress that is killing the US postal service. Hear from Chuck Zlatkin, the Legislative and Political Director of the New York Metro Area Postal Union, APWU, AFL-CIO, about how we can fight the union busting!
Sunday, July 8th, 11:00am
Occupy Town Square: Bushwick
Maria Hernandez Park
Occupy Bushwick & Occupy Town Square present a day of teach-ins, political discussion, food, music, and celebration! Come share your ideas and stories, learn about the movement, argue with us, collaborate with us.
Save the Date
Saturday, June 30th - Wednesday, July 4th
National Gathering in Philly
Independence Mall in Philadelphia
Occupy movement activists and supporters from across the country will gather in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania for the first Occupy National Gathering. This event is the culmination of months of organizing and consensus-building by countless activists. It has been endorsed by Occupy General Assemblies from Wall Street to Sacramento, and Austin to Kalamazoo, providing a clear example of the movement’s disparate chapters collaborating on a massive scale. The main goals of the event are to strengthen our internal bonds, join together in direct actions, and engage in a transparent democratic process reflecting the values of the movement. We convene by conference call through InterOccupy every Tuesday at 9PM EST/6 PM PST. http://interoccupy.org/natgatcall/
This Week’s Featured Occu-Project
The Occupy Wall Street Bike Coalition mission is to get occupiers and activists fitted on bikes to sustain both our lifestyle and communities.
Bike Solidarity Tuesday is held weekly from 2-7pm, and Critical Mass is every Friday at 7pm. Mobile Bike Repair meets daily to ride around with our Mobile Repair Kit, helping out and teaching people how to fix and maintain a safe ride. The #OWSBC also is engaging in a social media campaign to express #WhyIRide, where you can send your reasons for riding to their tumblr, OWSBC@OWSBC.ORG, or tweet [@OWSBC](.
The OWS Bike Coalition has also recently sent out an inaugural newsletter of their very own which you can read here, and sign up for here.
Connect. Collaborate. Contribute.
Daily #OccupyUnionSq Info Table
@OWSUnionSquare
Every day Occupy Union Square has an info table open and staffed, acting as a hub to promote the constant flurry of events and meetings occurring in the park and across OWS. Click here to find out how you can help out with immediate needs of the Union Square occupiers to keep it running and growing.
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we have a CHILD PROTECTION EMERGENCY in our community. telling children "jesus is the only way" or "mohammad is the last prophet" is BULLYING into submission to the control of the clergy. both these BS faith groups are here among us as CORPORATE ENTITIES; both bully the weak and vulnerable into conversion which means following their CORPORATE GROUP THINK of BS holy wars against each other, disobeying "THOU SHALT NOT KILL", both supporting the police and stop and frisk and the prohibition of marijuana including denial of medical marijuana. both the bible and the koran end with marijuana growing everywhere! we must NOT tolerate christians and muslims and their blatant agenda to recruit from our community. we must WAKE UP to the overt child abuse of christianity. putting an image of a man nailed to a cross into children's minds is CHILD ABUSE. telling children "jesus died for your sins" is MENTAL ABUSE. telling children their mothers and fathers are sinners is GROOMING. both these EVIL RELIGIONS condemn the rest of us to eternal health fire?!?! who are the DUMBASSES RUNNING OWS who are condoning their child abuse and encouraging their presence among us? we all know of their widespread child abuse COVERED UP BY THIS POPE yet here we have catholic AOs posting their activities as though their hearts and allegiance is to our movement and our community! OUT DEMONS OUT!
You may have a point, but I can't see it through all the hysteria.
wake up and wipe your glasses! it is simple! crucifixion, rising from the dead is a HORROR story to frighten the children. even the film censors get it! look at history! christianity was used by the evil empire to break up and destroy the native tribes! that is what the christians are doing to here! they look down on us as sinners! so they do not treat us as equals! they are here to "save" us or to recruit us to their damned "saved" community. they are clearly here to break up our GLORIOUS COMMUNITY. we are the way, the truth and the life! NOT JESUS! they preach that man is bad to stop us trusting each other. we all must get hysterical about child abuse. they condemn us to eternal hellfire for not believing their BS. virgin birth and resurrection are ridiculous lies. the INTENT of the virgin birth is to mask the barbaric human sacrifice. the INTENT of the resurrection is to jerk you off with " happy ending"! WE KNOW THEIR GAME! we must not tolerate their BS! we must not ignore their EVIL INTENT.
you are angry man. you gotta understand something. Church is on the government side =) it is your government wanted to stop you because you are brown. i never been stopped even if i had strongly smelling kush in my pocket. i dont even know if i have to be worry about it, or to be happy because i'm white. So think what you wish for. If you dont like your church, you gotta find something else for you and your brothers. a CLUB;)
we must be aware of corporate group think on our movement. this is about the open and free discussion of ideas we are building into our futures. the THOUGHTS WE LIKE TO KEEP the thoughts to share with our children! christianity must be challenged and removed. the gospel is a money shark scam. the crucified jew is a RACIST ABOMINATION.
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