Approximately 50 Northeastern University students came to Dewey Square today to show their support for Occupy Boston by demonstrating with the occupiers. The students—who marched from Northeastern’s Centennial Common—stood in the middle of Atlantic Avenue, right in front of Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, and obstructed traffic in a stand of solidarity with the nation-wide Occupy Movement after they voted to do so using a process of direct democracy.
Northeastern Students voted unanimously to occupy Atlantic Avenue in the Financial District following their march. (Photo by Tyler Pendleton, via Facebook.)
18 Responses to “Northeastern Students Stand in Solidarity”
Hi!
My name is Haylee and I’m a Northeastern Student. I was wondering who would be the best person/ representative from NEU to contact to get involved in this movement.
Haylee,
My name is Tori and my email is toriporell@gmail.com if you want to get in touch. I can make sure you are on our listserv : )
I would really, really, really like to see a call for a massive rally THIS saturday. Everyone in Boston wants this, and is completely ready for it.
Completely ready!
Haylee, I am the VP of the Northeastern University Progressive Student Alliance. Our email is neu.psa@gmail.com, if you contact us I can give you more information about movement and contacts 🙂
Joining in, Great! Blocking traffic, not so great… the annoyed motorists and the cops sorting it all out are part of the 99% too, and ticking them off keeps them from realizing this! Can you try more for solidarity than agitation? Unless by some chance you managed to block a bank CEO from getting by in their limo, which I doubt, blocking the road doesn’t help. (and statistically, even a bank CEO is probably still part of the 99% anyway.)
It’s a great point and shouldn’t be taken lightly. The tactics of rebellion shouldn’t alienate the very people whose support and solidarity we all need in order for this to grow.
This is all very true, but they’re young people realizing that they have political power, many of them for the first times in their lives. Cut them some slack.
Those of us who live in Boston have a never ending supply of young people realizing something for the first time. GH made a very good point very respectfully. I completely agree with him. Disrupting traffic just hurts us peons who have to work to feed our families and then need to get home to care for them.
GO HUSKIES!
My support goes out to you all.
no pictures of the traffic blocked up?
End corporate greed. I’m a Verizon worker and our CEO makes 50 grand a DAY. I STAND WITH U ALLLL
Join us! Stage another walk out and join us all!
on October 5th, 2011 at 11:24 pm #
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the NON-Federal, Federal Reserve is the real problem. good luck
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZmPWcLQ1Mk&feature=player_embedded
You made international news! Congrats from Geneva, Switzerland.
“In Boston, about 200 Northeastern University students protested against what they called corporate control of government and spiralling education costs.”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-15187257
A Focused Cause to Unite all the Occupy Groups Nation Wide.. The source of Corruption in Washington D.C. and the Federal Government Are the Lobbyists..
In the 1950’s and 1960’s Payola aka the Birth of Lobbyists..
Before Alan Freed’s indictment, payola was not illegal, however, but commercial bribery was. After the trial, the anti-payola statute was passed under which payola became a misdemeanor, penalty by up to $10,000 in fines and one year in prison.
Lobbyist OUT of Government is OUR BATTLE CRY FOR ALL OCCUPY NATIONAL GROUPS…
The news of the day is your Protest has no central platform… Use Lobbyists as the source of the current Economic woes..
Peter Frady
East Boston
on October 19th, 2011 at 4:34 pm #
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