Across the country, our infrastructure is falling apart. Our bridges, our roads, and our public transit systems are in a state of disrepair. Enough! It’s time to revitalize our economy with the creation of local jobs that serve our country as a whole! At 4 pm, tens of thousands of people who are deeply engaged in the labor movement will join us in Dewey Square, march to our bridges, and demand that we get back to work.
The candlelight march will proceed from Dewey Square down Atlantic Avenue to the North Washington St. Bridge—a bridge that is desperately in need of repair—for a speak out against unemployment, austerity, and infrastructure cuts.
31 Responses to “Day of Action March Today, November 17, at 4 pm in Dewey Square”
on November 17th, 2011 at 2:11 am #
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I’m bringing with me a few dozen eggs when I go through there this evening.
Hope you idiots have a change of clothes in your tent.
You get in my way- I’m getting in yours.
Get a job you bums. Go the Fuck home. Fixing to set up a protest to run ya outta Boston
I have a job.
And full-time student.
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Good luck. Reading the comments on The Boston Herald’s Page along with Fox25 it doesn’t seem like the general public are backing this movement any longer. I hope they don’t clear out your tents while your at th bridge……
Fox25, not surprising.
As an Occupier, I request that all who march do NOT shut down traffic or bridges. Respect the public and they will respect us.
+1
You may have missed it while you were out in the rain: your General ( Van Jones) received dispersal orders from George Soros. Later on today your leaders will be braking the news and the reason will be because of police brutality or threats from 1% or some other sill slogan. When you get home, watcgh the daily show where even John Stewart is making a mockery of you. Great segment that shows divisions in camps; the elite rich people and the ghetto white trash people. I would like the individual thinkers that criticized me before, that when you are let down and sent home to just wonder how we could have predicted this whole thing. You have been brainwashed by a communist cult, but there is hope for you. I will pary for you.
Yeah, cause those are trustworthy unbiased sources.
Rain + Bruins game= bad timing
I have a test today, can’t go.
i wanna come out but i kind of don’t want to shut down a bridge…
Its ok, they’ve done it before.
Just not when it was raining and with a Bruins game going on.
You guys are going to occupy the same bridge that desperately needs repairs and the last time you were there you were told you were risking a bride collapse due to the weight?
this is when the general public starts hoping you all get run over. you are disrupting people, none of what you are doing is non-violent, its goading.
I supported this movement when it was about corporate influence in politics, but this has gone so far off of the reservation I am looking fw to the day this idiocy gets shut down for good. either that or you contract hypothermia.
How is messing up another rush hour and people trying to make their way home or to a Bruins game going to get their support for your cause? All you are doing is making your cause a commuting nightmare for everyone else. You could and should pick another time.
I understand you’re need to take a stand and make you’re cause known, but marching during rush hour through the city? Causing the city to basically shut down? Of course the general public isn’t behind you. What about the people who are working- leaving work and trying to get to work? These people are not the 1%. These people are the working man. All you’re doing is inconveniencing these people. Today’s action is not impacting the 1%. You need to find another way to make an impression.
As an Occupier who lives at Dewey Square most nights and mornings, I request that marchers do NOT block traffic, and do NOT shut down any bridges. People have their lives too. Please be visible but please be respectful! We will earn more respect and support that way!
I understand you’re need to take a stand and make you’re cause known, but marching during rush hour through the city? Causing the city to shut down? Of course the general public isn’t behind you. What about the people who are working- leaving work and trying to get to work? These people are not the 1%. These people are the working man. All you’re doing is inconveniencing these people. Today’s action is not impacting the 1%. You need to find another way to make an impression.
Guys…seriously…i get the symbolism of the Charlestown bridge, but not a fantastic statement and the police are right…it won’t hold everyone. Plus, who is there to actually see the event? When the news is there, you’re going to see people arrested for a bridge??? How about protesting the people who are actually doing the harm…bankers and politicians!!! its a bad idea with lots of risk of agitation by police with little upside. BNY Mellon, JP Morgan, Bank of America, State Street, Fidelity…are all within blocks of the camp!!!! Look up their operations and private banking offices online and protest outside those buildings! Target the T stops around the area and the routes from the offices…without breaking up the groups to get picked off by the cops! Make sure base camp is not attacked! FOX News is in the Common…how about them???
There are literally TRILLIONS of dollars in those buildings under management. Isn’t it better to send the message of the movement to them?? Please don’t block the bridge…the idea is embarrassing.
So as the march goes by my office on Atlantic and everyone takes a break from their cubicles, it’s interesting to hear what everyone had to say. I work in a relatively large age mix, but the people in my cubicle area are mostly in their 20s to early 30s.
NONE of it was supportive of OccupyBoston. Here’s what I heard – annoyance the lack of message (“they’re just bitching to bitch”), the lack of respect for commuters and the harassment as they come and go from South Station, the annoyance about trashing the Greenway and disbelief that anything will be done once OccupyBoston finally leaves, and the incredulousness that a supposed protest movement can’t even get their butts out of bed before the morning commute (“no one’s up at 9… they’re just lazy”).
And tonight’s march just solidified annoyance.
It’s a shame – I wanted to support you, but I have to agree with my coworkers. You don’t represent me, and I know I’m part of the 99%. You’ve been more obsessed with standing in solidarity with other Occupy sites than actually expressing something and trying for change.
Grrrrr. Angry and generic dissenting comment! Insert obscenely selfish, tragically ignorant, anonymous personal insult that unfortunately makes me feel no less alive nor satisfied than when I started typing this useless rant. Perhaps I should get paid for this grotesquely biased remark instead of wasting either my free time or my employer’s time. I love the status quo, my ass has been numb for years. “Occupy” is stupid word. Blah!
You know what else needs work? The Charles River. How about you all go occupy that
Tens of thousands? Come on, folks… this hyperbole is getting ridiculous. Don’t you guys realize the more havoc that radiates from Dewey Square, the sooner you’ll be cleared out? I’m not suggesting you withdraw into silence, but that you consider your tactics.
Great job taking the Charlestown Bridge. Not!
So are there demands yet? Is there a plan? Is there a spokesperson? A representative? Something?
No, Yo. There is a message (the original message regarding corporate greed and Wall Street’s influence in politics)but the movement is being hampered by it’s very nature.
I worked 10 hours on Thursday. All I was looking forward to was relaxing at home for the evening. Unfortunately my MBTA bus sat in traffic caused by your march. I heard a lot of one percenters ride the city bus…. I used to support you guys but have become increasingly pissed off. I was hoping you would pack it up before the cops inevitably cleared you out but now I don’t care.
Since my message has been “stuck for moderation” since last night (ah censorship… gotta love it)…
So as the march goes by my office on Atlantic and everyone takes a break from their cubicles, it’s interesting to hear what everyone had to say. I work in a relatively large age mix, but the people in my cubicle area are mostly in their 20s to early 30s.
NONE of it was supportive of OccupyBoston. Here’s what I heard – annoyance the lack of message (“they’re just bitching to bitch”), the lack of respect for commuters and the harassment as they come and go from South Station, the annoyance about trashing the Greenway and disbelief that anything will be done once OccupyBoston finally leaves, and the incredulousness that a supposed protest movement can’t even get their butts out of bed before the morning commute (“no one’s up at 9… they’re just lazy”).
And tonight’s march just solidified annoyance.
It’s a shame – I wanted to support you, but I have to agree with my coworkers. You don’t represent me, and I know I’m part of the 99%. You’ve been more obsessed with standing in solidarity with other Occupy sites than actually expressing something and trying for change.
Your not helping the 99% of people who commute home everyday by blocking traffic and public transportation. If you want to change things, and be taken seriously…this is not the way.