Forum Post: Please Call/Email Board Members of Rose Kennedy Conservancy, Evicting Occupy Boston from Dewey Sq.

Occupy Boston has a court date on Dec. 1 with the Rose Kennedy Greenway Conservancy, the private non-profit which maintains Dewey Square. The land is still owned by the City of Boston. Putting aside for a moment the question of whether the non-profit has the standing to ask the Mayor to clear the square, we are approaching the members of the Board of the Conservancy and asking them to follow the example of the Oakland Deputy Mayor and the Oakland Legal Advisor, and to resign from the board in support of Occupy Boston. Please send them a copy of your favorite explanation of what Occupy Wall Street is and wants (since there is no single statement yet). Below is one suggestion:

David DeGraw (one of the founders of OWS,): "The Economic Elite vs. the People of the United States" http://ampedstatus.org/full-report-the-economic-elite-vs-the-people-of-the-united-states-of-america/

AP article:

"BOSTON — The nonprofit organization that oversees the site of the Occupy Boston encampment wants the protesters out.

The chairwoman of the Rose Kennedy Greenway Conservancy’s board said in a Tuesday letter to Mayor Thomas Menino that demonstrators have prevented the general public from enjoying Dewey Square Park and forced the cancelation of other events scheduled for the site, including an Oct. 15 food festival." http://www.wbur.org/2011/11/18/occupy-boston-greenway

Note on above article: Dewey Square is an exhaust-fume-filled patch of land between two major Boston thoroughfares. No one takes their families there. It's a nice piece of urban greening-up but largely unused.

SUGGESTED APPEAL:

Appeal to Rose Kennedy Greenway Board members: ""In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility-I welcome it." - President John F. Kennedy.

Board members, Occupy Boston embodies the true spirit of President Kennedy's words. Please let them stay. The Deputy Mayor of Oakland as well as Oakland Mayor Quan's Legal Advisor have both resigned in support of Occupy Oakland, and in protest of the city's attempts to evict. Please consider taking such a step in support of Occupy Boston, which could well change the political dynamic."

"Oakland Deputy Mayor Resigns" http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/blogpost/post/occupy-oakland-deputy-mayor-resigns-after-camp-eviction/2011/11/15/gIQAJgzUON_blog.html

SEND THIS MESSAGE THROUGH THE CONTACT FORM TO EACH BOARD MEMBER!

Rose Kennedy Conservancy contact form: http://www.rosekennedygreenway.org/the-conservancy/about-us/contact-us/

Phone number: 617-292-0020.

Snail mail: Rose Kennedy Greenway Conservancy 185 Kneeland Street, 7th Floor, Boston, MA 02111

Rose Kennedy Conservancy Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/rosekennedygreenway

Board Members http://www.rosekennedygreenway.org/the-conservancy/about-us/board/

Michael Cantalupa, Senior Vice President - Development Boston Properties

Cheryl Cronin, Cronin and Leonard

Christopher J. B. Fincham, President Fincham Associates

Robert C. Gore, Retired Managing Partner Towers Perrin’s Boston Office

Maggie Fellner Hunt, President StockShop, LLC

Gloria Cordes Larson, President Bentley University

Susanne Lavoie, President and Owner Identity Marketing, Inc.

Martin (Woody) Lynn, Senior Partner Moody, Lynn & Company

Christine Manfredi, Former Partner Wellington Management Co., LLP

Georgia Murray, Managing Partner MMI LLC Chair of the Conservancy Board

Young K. Park, President Berkeley Investments

Helen Chin Schlichte, Kwong Kow School Board

Edwin Schlossberg, President ESI Design

Maryann Gilligan Suydam, Vice Chair of the Conservancy Board