Tomorrow: We have a General Assembly planned for 10 a.m. (small session/daily preview) and an evening one for 6 p.m. (organizational issues and full group brainstorming).
The march to CollegeFest with the direct action group will leave the camp in the late afternoon to walk to Hynes Convention Center.
And… There’s a rumor that Noam Chomsky, noted academic and foreign policy expert might drop in to say hello. (Shhhh!)
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5zCqHnd_pY&w=560&h=315]
Electricity is tight; this was posted by iPhone.
8 Responses to “Updates for Tomorrow (10/1)”
The Occupy Wall Street protests have had me up late tonight thinking.
I’ve moved away from the East Coast in the last month, but I’ve been so proud to see brothers and sisters standing up back home for what we all know it right. I wish I could be there in New York and Boston with you. I know the movement will make it’s way out here soon.
I would like to offer one humble suggestion, however.
What people are saying right now is that the group lacks focus. The media says it, Wall Street is using it to discredit the movement, hell, our friends and family are saying it. You guys are on the street protesting Wall Street excess, but also Environmental deregulation, the stripping of the social safety net, the lack of jobs created domestically, and the overstepping of corporations into the sphere of democracy.
This last issue, I believe, is key to many of the others. And if there is one touchstone we can look at, the one that bumps the other dominoes, it’s CITIZEN’S UNITED, the Supreme Court decision that allowed corporations to inject money into our political process without having to disclose it to the public. This has skewed our public debate far away from where many of us believe the conversation should be. If you haven’t heard of this decision, go read about it. Our democracy was sold out from under us overnight.
We’re not going to get everyone to agree to topple the capitalist system any time soon. I’m sorry. But let’s not miss the achievable target in front of us. We can make our voices heard from the East Coast to the West Coast, and certainly from New York and Boston to Washington, D.C. We need to let the supreme court know that we will not countenance the wholesale auction of our democracy to earn a quarterly bonus for the investors.
Don’t get me wrong. I am not saying that the other issues represented in the street are not important. I just strongly believe that, contrary to the opinion of the mass media, these problems do not exist independently from one another. It’s true that the one percent is pulling a lot of the strings right now. CITIZEN’S UNITED handed them the marionette sticks. Let’s cut the cord.
Hi,
I am shocked to hear of this USA Supreme Court decision. The opposite has happened here in New Zealand! Here we have the ‘Electoral Finance Act’ which was voted in by parliament in 2007.
Heather Rogers
And hell, maybe we could throw in implementation of the Buffet Rule (that people making over $1 Million a year should pay the same tax rate as the middle income, as proposed by President Obama) while we’re at it.
How about we tar and feather Warren Buffet! He has made billions off of shipping American jobs to China and Vietnam. Warren Buffet is nothing more than another money changer gangster like the rest of them
You are an idiot.
here’s the above video in its natural habitat … ;>
http://www.openmediaboston.org/node/2019
what time are todays (Satruday’s) planned marches and at what time?
on October 19th, 2011 at 4:35 pm #
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