General Assembly at 7:45 at Dewey Sq.

6 Responses to “General Assembly at 7:45 at Dewey Sq.”

1. CP on September 30th, 2011 at 8:46 pm #

   I’ve been following these developments with keen interest. I couldn’t make it there tonight, but wish you the best.

   I have a few suggestions for those of you with the inclination/proclivity/access—-Try to garner as much support from as diverse a cross section of people as possible, most importantly unions. They got the transit workers local in NYC, and wouldn’t it be a coup if we could get union backing up here too. I’m sure nurses, teachers, hotel workers, etc. would be sympathetic.

   Image is very important, as has been mentioned on here. I saw in NYC a group Yoga session. Not the right image to project, unfortunately. Your average potential sympathetic viewer will get weirded out by it, that’s just reality.

   And are people there to do Yoga, or protest unjust conditions?

   Joe Iron Worker will think twice about joining up if there are a bunch of Yoga-types chanting “Om”……

   I’ll be following, and eventually come down there.

   Best of luck!
2. CP on September 30th, 2011 at 8:54 pm #

   Also, with wet weather approaching, soon to be followed by freezing weather, is a camped out sit-in type protest truly viable? If this kicked off in April, it’d be a different story, but the weather is going to play a big role, and one that will probably keep people home.

   I wonder if in a few weeks, we could shift the effort to a huge weekly rally every Saturday, rain or shine, sleet, ice, wind or snow….

   That’d allow the protest to live through the winter and then go full blast in April.
3. Byron Jordan on October 1st, 2011 at 6:33 am #

   CP, you sound like more of a leader, than a follower! Stop following us and start leading with those great ideas of yours like organizing that weekly rally. We can’t let a little thing like weather worry us, we have bigger fish to fry, but with your forward looking wisdom and your weekly rally as an adjunct for those who can’t be in the damp, cold weather and as an emergency fall back position for the really nasty winter we are anticipating – that would be most appreciated. By building a weekly rally you will be expanding our numbers and helping lead a leaderless revolution into the leaderless future.
   • CP on October 1st, 2011 at 2:13 pm #

     I just emailed the Mass Nurses Association, we’ll see what kind of response I get.
4. Lloyd Hart on October 1st, 2011 at 6:43 am #

   Occupy Demands And Civil Disobedience Guidelines

   Proposed By Lloyd Hart

   Demand one: Restoration of the living wage. This demand can only be met by ending “Freetrade” by re-imposing trade tariffs on all imported goods entering the American market to level the playing field for domestic family farming and domestic manufacturing as most nations that are dumping cheap products onto the American market have radical wage and environmental regulation advantages. Another policy that must be instituted is raise the minimum wage to twenty dollars an hr.

   Demand two: Institute a universal single payer healthcare system. To do this all private insurers must be banned from the healthcare market as their only effect on the health of patients is to take money away from doctors, nurses and hospitals preventing them from doing their jobs and hand that money to wall st. investors.

   Demand three: Guaranteed living wage income regardless of employment.

   Demand four: Free college education.

   Demand five: Begin a fast track process to bring the fossil fuel economy to an end while at the same bringing the alternative energy economy up to energy demand.

   Demand six: One trillion dollars in infrastructure (Water, Sewer, Rail, Roads and Bridges and Electrical Grid) spending now.

   Demand seven: One trillion dollars in ecological restoration planting forests, reestablishing wetlands and the natural flow of river systems and decommissioning of all of America’s nuclear power plants.

   Demand eight: Racial and gender equal rights amendment.

   Demand nine: Open borders migration. anyone can travel anywhere to work and live.

   Demand ten: Bring American elections up to international standards of a paper ballot precinct counted and recounted in front of an independent and party observers system.

   Demand eleven: Immediate across the board debt forgiveness for all. Debt forgiveness of sovereign debt, commercial loans, home mortgages, home equity loans, credit card debt, student loans and personal loans now! All debt must be stricken from the “Books.” World Bank Loans to all Nations, Bank to Bank Debt and all Bonds and Margin Call Debt in the stock market including all Derivatives or Credit Default Swaps, all 65 trillion dollars of them must also be stricken from the “Books.” And I don’t mean debt that is in default, I mean all debt on the entire planet period.

   Demand twelve: Outlaw all credit reporting agencies.

   These demands will create so many jobs it will be completely impossible to fill them without an open borders policy.

   Lloyd J Hart 508-687-9153

   Some Guidelines For Non-violent Civil Disobedient Traffic Blocking.

   Never plan where and at what time you will do an action. Create groups of ten to twenty or more activists and have each group elect a coordinator who will pick a time and location for an action and only announce the action moments before it occurs. While waiting for the coordinator to declare an action the group can choose a flash mob approach and receive a text of the time and location allowing the group to disperse locally before the action or the group can just picket on the side walk with the coordinator before the action is called. This approach prevents undercover police from knowing exactly where and when the action will take place. Once the action begins it will also take time for the police to arrive and get organized for the arrests allowing for the greatest impact on the traffic. The more time your are sitting on the pavement the more the traffic will be snarled.

   Do not lock arms or go limp when the police begin the arrests. When police reach down to make the physical arrest give them your arms and let them help you up and walk with them to the paddy wagon. This approach allows less injuries to occur to the activists and the police. It is also important that the coordinator does not participate in the action so that he or she can let the police commander on the scene of the action know how the activists are physically prepared to be arrested. This will put the police at ease knowing they will not have risk injury in the arrests.

   When doing an action do not step out into speeding traffic. Wait for a lull in the flow of traffic in the street and then walkout remaining in a standing position until the most immediate cars are halted by your action. Once the traffic has clearly stopped because of your blockage then and only the will the coordinator give the ok to sit down. Safety is of the utmost importance in all these type of actions.

   Only activists that know and understand that they may be brought up on actual charges and may have to spend some time in jail should take part in these actions. Always give your name to the police so the legal team that will represent you can find you in the system after the arrest

   When doing these actions always keep a smile on your face and good cheer in your heart so the police can see your not angry at them. Your traffic blocking is the general symbol of our collective anger but that does not have to translate to anger between you and the police.
5. Rae on October 1st, 2011 at 8:56 am #

   Thanks for all the work you do to keep the protests peaceful and meaningful. My gf is a Boston officer, and I always get a little worried when she gets dispatched to protests. But I heard you all were a great crowd and were very inspiring. Thank you again, and keep up the good work.