Forum Post: News Article: Occupy LA receives offer to decamp
Posted 12 years ago on Nov. 22, 2011, 7:20 p.m. EST by johnjb32
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If there's an offer of land on which to farm and build towards sustainable community, take it! L.A. was home to a beautiful community garden in South Central back in 2005-2006. The experience is there. We cannot fight over encampment locations and ignore the fight on the real issues or an opportunity to demonstrate successful community. Los Angeles has behaved well over the last two months. I'm proud of LAPD's restraint, especially as compared to other cities. -- Michael C. Ruppert
http://www.collapsenet.com/affiliate/idevaffiliate.php?id=154&url=1475
The ability to hold territory (even a few square yards) against the wishes of the PTB was and is a major achievement and source of strength for the Occupy movement. HEading for the country to grow your own food may just exactly be what the enemy wants you to do.
The City is definitely trying to kill the movement. They have absolutely no incentive to do otherwise. Officials in LA are no more responsive to the needs of the people than they are any place else in the U.S. If they were, there would not be an Occupy LA to begin with.
The piece of land in the country idea is bizarre. Maybe the city is trying to offer a little bit of everything to get them all to agree to go.
1-a-year lease on a 10,000-square-foot office space near City Hall? That is not very big when one considers that Zuccotti Park is 33,000 square feet. And it is office space so no one could sleep there. That sounds like the city wants the movement to move from the camping into the corporate phase.
They want to kill the movement period. I don't have the answer because occupying any ground in defiance of the illegitimate authorities is easier for me to say than for you to do. I think it's a serious loss, but I have hope and confidence on the movment activists to find a creative solution.
I agree completely.
It was very, very important for Bloomberg to take that little 33,000 sf (.75 of an acre) park from OWS. It had been a big big coup when he had to stand down the first time and he was going to make sure it didn't happen again.
"the spirit of the people is greater than the man's tricknology"
http://www.definition-of.net/tricknology
Just move into SEIU's offices and get it over with. lol
Interesting. I wonder how it could work though. What if some refused to go, and if they did manage to clear the area, how they would stop protestors from coming back. Would the city fortify the area like they do at Zuccotti Park?