Women’s Caucus presents….
MONDAY’S COMMUNITY GATHERING!
A panel of fantastic women talking about the work that they do for the community
A fishbowl-format discussion of Occupy Boston women talking about their experiences and gender-based oppression
And time for the community discussion anti-oppression and gender equality
Meet us at St. Paul’s Church! 6-8:30pm
138 Tremont St. (Park St. T)
food is provided
6 Responses to “Women’s Caucus to Host Monday’s Community Gathering”
Where is OB’s condemnation of Anonymous? They performed a destructive act in your name. What would Ghandi say?
He might wonder where you learned to spell, for starters.
And why don’t you go to the meeting and put the idea forward, yourself?
Because submitting something like that to a GA is an exercise in futility. I’ve been there before.
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Besides, I already know the reason, I’m just trying to see if anybody has the honesty to admit it. OB is afraid of getting hacked itself, so despite all the lofty talk, you won’t do the stand up thing and criticize these bullies when a destructive act is done in your name.
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(Or am I wrong? Does OB encourage this kind of thing now?)
Fair enough. I haven’t been to a GA, as I’ve got way too little time on my hands.
I don’t know imagine OB is actively worried about getting hacked; what do they have of import on their website? It’s a news roundup and some announcements. I doubt that OB as an group encourages such hacks, but there are probably enough sympathetic to Anonymous, particularly in the targets selected by Anon, that condemnation isn’t a priority.
Of course, I don’t claim to speak for OB or Anon. Everybody’s motivations are their own and I have no way of knowing them.
I would very much like to attend a meeting,however, some of us live in shelters. The times of your meetings (working groups) are always at in-opportune time. Would someone representing OB and/or the Womens caucus
be willing to meet at the Boston Public Library.
Please try to be respectfull in writing back. Some of us arn’t as enlightened as youselves, but seeking serious involvement in the movement.
No one that I have spoken to at any of the occupy movements I have been to (in NY, LA & Oakland) have ever asked for a handout from the government. These are simply false assumptions being made. I think you see the movement as a left aligned movement and therefore believe that every far left agenda is automatically a part of the movement. This is not the case.
Furthermore, the vast majority of us do not believe that wealthy INDIVIDUALS are inherently bad (with the exception of the few wall street crooks who led us into this financial meltdown). Rather, it is the collective purchasing power of the few mega rich/corporations that are bad. The role they play in shaping policy in government through lobbying and unlimited/ undisclosed donations to campaign funding is bad.
As far as taxation, most are not angry that “Joe self-made millionaire” found his fortune. We believe that GE should not be able to make record profit and not pay a dime in taxes. People that accumulate their wealth through capital gains should be subject to the same taxes as the rest of us. NOT more taxes. the SAME taxes.
Finally, it is not our goal to come up with one demand to unite under simply because the problems that plague our nation are many. There is no silver bullet that will cure all. The problems are systemic and in order for us to devise fundamental change, discussion and collaboration must be had on a national scale. Not discussion between political ideologues in washington, but between citizen who, I believe, unanimously agree that our system is broken. Yes, we each possess different opinions on how to go about fixing things and it is precisely this reason that open and candid communication between citizens is essential for change. Ideas and solutions spring forth through creative collaboration.
Don’t you see. Our proposal has been to promote dialogue between all, and in that respect we have been successful since day one. Please. Open your mind to new ideas. I’m not saying you should agree. I simply encourage to have conversation as to why YOU believe the things that YOU do, rather than cut down and attempt to discredit the things that WE believe. There is nothing constructive about that.