The biotechnology industry is having a convention June 18-21 at the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center.

To register for the conference costs thousands of dollars. Since we don’t want to give another dime to the biotech industry, Occupy Monsanto, Millions Against Monsanto, and other food democracy groups will be staging our own “Sidewalk Session” on the first day of the convention outside of the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center. We hope you can join us.

WHO: Occupy Monsanto, Millions Against Monsanto, & food democracy activists
WHAT: A Sidewalk Session – An open mic for activists to share & expose the dangers of the biotech industry
WHERE: Sidewalk in front of the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center, 415 Summer Street, Boston, MA 02210
WHEN: Monday, June 18th, at 8am until 10am
WHY: The biotechnology industry is conspiring to unleash more GMOs into the environment along with more toxic pesticides.

For more info go here.

Every Saturday beginning June 9, Occupiers will be doing a day camp from Noon to 5 PM on the Boston Common.

Join us near the Park Street fountain on the patch of grass leading to the State House.

There will be the really really free market, so bring things to drop off.
There will be silk screening, bring things to silk screen.
There will materials to make signs.
There will be wi-fi.
There will be information on why we Occupy, why the banks and the 1% create the majority of the problems we face in our lives.
There will be literature on what has changed towards reforming/regulating the banks since 2008.
There will be food and also water.
There will be games and street theater.

So bring a blanket and whatever else and come join us on today on the Boston Common!

After finalizing plans for several other direct actions targeting lawless banking entities in the months ahead, the Banking Actions working group voted tonight to endorse the Saturday, June 16th anti-austerity march that will begin from Dewey Square starting at 12:30 pm. Some working group members participating in the march will emphasize the roll of banks in waging a war of austerity against the 99 percent throughout America and across the world. For more about the march, go here.

The Banking Actions Working Group meets every Wednesday at 6:30 pm in Copley Square on the grass and is a great group to join if you’ve been looking for opportunities to get more involved with Occupy to take action to support real change in the Boston area and throughout Massachusetts.

Tonight at 7 pm, www.obr.fm

The Occupy movement has always been much about economic inequality and economic injustice, but the racialization of inequality has not always been emphasized.  The mainstream media loves to highlight stories of middle class families losing their jobs or their homes, but people in racial minority or immigrant communities bear a disproportional burden: first fired, last hired, hugely targeted by predatory mortgage lenders in good times, their communities decimated by foreclosures during the crisis.  How can we educate ourselves about the racialized aspects of economic inequality?  How are working class people of color organizing themselves to fight injustice?  And how can we learn from them, and work with them to build a truly global, multi-racial movement for economic justice?  Community organizer Camilo Vivieros will help us explore and answer these questions.

Camilo Viveiros has worked on immigrant worker issues and multi-ethnic/multi-racial economic and environmental justice organizing with students, youth and seniors in New England. He has worked for the Massachusetts Alliance of HUD Tenants, and the Massachusetts Senior Action Council.  For two years, he was Executive Director of Rhode Island Jobs with Justice.  He is currently lead organizer for the George Wiley Center in Rhode Island along with providing direct action, organizing and campaign development trainings for diverse grassroots groups around the country.  Born to immigrant parents, Camilo was raised in the working class immigrant community of Fall River. He has been involved in work for social justice for virtually his whole life. Over the years he has organized for unions of the homeless, welfare rights unions, against the prison industrial complex and many different issues. He has a backgroundin tenant, youth and congregation-based organizing and gained national mediaexposure in 2000 when he was arrested during demonstrations at the Republican National Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Four years later, after a national campaign, www.friendsofcamilo.org, he was acquitted of all charges.

Occupy Boston Radio is currently available by internet only.  You can reach us at https://www.occupyboston.org/radio/ or http://obr.fm, or by going to https://www.occupyboston.org and choosing “Radio” from the red menu bar at the top of the page.  Once on the page, click the “play” arrow on the radio player control app to begin listening.   Listener participation is possible via call-in or IRC chat – see phone number and link on the radio page.