There will be a march from Dewey Square today at 6 pm in solidarity with Occupy Worcester and Occupy Atlanta, which were both raided by the police on Saturday night and early Sunday morning, resulting in several arrests. We are the 99%, and we stand united.
22 Responses to “March Today, November 7, at 6 pm”
From Dewey Square to…. where?
Hopefully you don’t jam up traffic and piss off all those 99%ers trying to get home to their families after a long day of slave labor for the benefit of the 1%ers.
Or:
Hopefully you don’t jam up traffic and piss off all those people trying to get home to their families after a long day of self-chosen employment that allows them to provide for their families while also adding value to the companies they work for.
You say po-tay-toe, I say po-tah-toe.
To Occupy Boston,
The march (in the middle of Summer Street) tonight was bad PR for Occupy Boston. To keep this movement going, you need to unite not divide. I just worked a long day & was stuck on my bus for 20 mins. Angering the working
class, is not the way to promote your cause. I believe in change, & this movement, but an image change is needed. Unkept people chanting down a major road, during rush hour, brings down the integrity of Ocuppy Boston.
I take MBTA buses all the time, and if you were *only* delayed 20 minutes that’s about 30 minutes less than usual.
Joshua – that seems like a horrible way to not address his comment/concern. I take and MBTA bus into/out of downtown Boston every single day, and rarely is mine delayed more than 5 minutes. In the past month, there have been only two times that my delay greatly exceeded 5 minutes, and both have been the direct result of pedestrians avoiding the sidewalk by marching in the street.
To reiterate his point, pissing off the 99% of the 99% so that the few hundred of you that have nothing better to do can “stand up and fight” in the middle of the road is not helping your “cause.”
not dissimilar to ‘critical mass’
We can’t become the Amsterdam of the US (in terms of bikes you heads out there) if the only ‘action’ is blocking traffice once a month- in the good months of the year.
I am an Occupier and I was not there on the march, but I pretty much agree with Working Class Person. I heard it was a sparse march of 25 to 50 people and blocked the whole street, which didn’t sound right to me…… let’s not piss of the public…. let’s not be overgrabbing and arrogant with who we are … nonviolence is powerful but requires finesse and judgement …. i hope to hear more about the march when i return to Occupy in an hour.
Raided by the police?
Occupy Atlanta protesters back in city park
ATLANTA – Dozens of people affiliated with Occupy Atlanta have been gathering in a downtown park and a spokeswoman says they plan to spend the night there, risking arrest.
La’Die (lay-dee) Mansfield said Saturday the group will stay overnight after rallying in Woodruff Park, which closes at 11 p.m. The mayor’s office and police have said anyone who stays in the park past closing time will be arrested.
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Noun:
A rapid surprise attack on an enemy by troops, aircraft, or other armed forces in warfare.
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Is it a raid If they tell you they are coming and why?
from now on, can you guy post up where your marches will be headed out in the city so the 99% of us heading home from a hard day’s work to see our families don’t have to be delayed by your protests.
Otherwise, I can’t really get on board with anything you stand for if you get in my way.
Hey i hear you — i am an Occupier and i was not on the march but i heard about it and i didn’t like what i heard. We need to use better judgement with actions.
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Accountability, don’t let the facts get in the way of their self important, self absorbed, and self righteous “movement.” Time to rally the 99ers – all 20 if them – and block traffic again. Their schtick is tired and will soon be a distant memory. Rapes, drugs, assaults, anti-semitism. The public has already soured on this little annoyance and the real 99 percent are back to business as usual – work, family, living life, and not blaming everyone else for their problems.
I don’t take such a hardline stance- The ‘bad’ within the occupier community doesn’t represent the whole- we know that right?
What I don’t like is portraying the police as having ‘raided’ the occupy sites. Words are words, but it paints a light that just, well, isn’t quite accurate.
I watched the video of Atlanta live on two separate livefeeds–one independent and one from CBS–and it sure looked like a raid to me. The APD brought out mounted police, police in full riot gear with riot truncheons drawn, motorcycle police, and a phalanx of officers marching in military-style formation, complete with shouted marching orders from their superiors. It was obviously a show of force meant to intimidate.
“Before police moved in, protesters were warned a couple times around midnight to vacate the park or risk arrest.”
‘Inside the park, the warnings were drowned out by drumbeats and chants of “Our park!”
‘Organizers had instructed participants to be peaceful if arrests came, and most were.’
You gotta know when to hold em, know when to fold em.
Please don’t misread me- Its overkill, and I don’t support the occupiers removal- but if you’re warned that you will be arrested- you were warned- not raided.
Accountability, i am an Occupier and I appreciate your point of view. We have to know when to hold and when to fold. I will strongly hold Dewey Square. I did not fully support the expansion to the neighboring square, nor the march yesterday. I don’t like the flavor of many actions. However, I feel highly inspired by the movement especially the seeds being planted in Dewey Square, and I will resist to the core of my being to hold that space and that space alone, which is symbolic as well as physically important as a space of assembly for the purpose of freedom of expression and to raise the level of public debate about the state of our democracy (so called) and how to fix it.
Bottom line is that rules are rules.
The National TV loves to sensationalize- i get it. It’s their job to pitch it as bigger than it was in reality.
I also get that the Police came prepared for the worst, and got a better than worse outcome interms of violent behavior (lets call it close to none).
BUT- just because CBS uses the term ‘raided’ doesn’t mean it needs to be echoed the way occupiers do at GA. It is what it is- a dispersed non violent protest.
sorry, I should also add that what happened in Oakland is a completely different ball of wax. That was horriffic, uncalled for and disgusting.
Massachusetts Government at its best. Get Angry!
http://www.thebostonchannel.com/money/29710754/detail.html?utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitterfeed
Free Michael Davitt!
I hope the brutal treatment of Davitt at the hands of the police are brought to light through this march.
No Justice, No Peace!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/07/michael-davitt-is-danglin_n_1080057.html
How can it be called a raid if the occupiers are in a public park. I sense this “movement” is losing momentum and sputtering out. There is zero coverage on Boston.com and everything written in the Herald is negative. Ah well, it was good while it lasted.