OWS D18 Round Up
Posted 34 minutes ago on Dec. 18, 2011, 10:24 a.m. EST by OccupyWallSt
 (1) D18: CHARAS COMES HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYSFacebook Event (2) D18: IMMIGRANTS OCCUPY Facebook event (3) D18: OWS-WIDE VISIONING SESSION Facebook Event Read More...
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Posted 15 hours ago on Dec. 17, 2011, 7:50 p.m. EST by OccupyWallSt
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OWS D18 Round Up
[image: Walmart] *(1) D18: CHARAS COMES HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS* Facebook Event *(2) D18: IMMIGRANTS OCCUPY* Facebook event *(3) D18: OWS-WIDE VISIONING SESSION* Facebook Event CHARAS COMES HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS For over 20 years, CHARAS (aka El Bohio Community Center) served as the hub of a thriving movement of low-income, activist, and artist communities on the Lower East Side. Ten years ago this Saturday, the community center was evicted, robbing New York's left of one of it's beating hearts. OWS will mark the ten year anniversary of the eviction with music, food, friends, and... more »
Mumia Abu-Jamal: "To My Friends of OWS"
[image: Walmart] *Message to OWS dictated while in Administrative Custody at SCI Mahanoy in Frackville, PA.* *Thursday, December 15, 2011* My Friends of OWS, My message will have to be brief. But let not this brevity take from it, its strength. You are the central movement of the hour. You're raising questions that are in the hearts of millions. Your motto, "We are the 99%," has been heard, heeded, and responded to by millions. You can be certain that the 1% have heard you clearest of all. Your work, however, is just beginning. You must deepen, strengthen, and further your wor... more »
Letter from Council of Elders to Trinity Church
December 16, 2011 Dear Rev. Dr. James Cooper, We are veterans of the Civil Rights, Women’s, Peace, Environmental, LGBTQ, Immigrant Justice, labor rights and other movements of the last 60 years. Many of us have been or continue to be leaders of religious congregations and organizations, so we are deeply understanding of the need to protect the spaces and buildings that generations of the faithful have transmitted to us. We are also deeply committed to using the share of God’s abundance that has been entrusted to us for the help and healing of those “least of these” – the poor, t... more »
D17 ReOccupy Schedule
*What:* Block Party and Re-Occupation *Where:* Sixth Avenue and Canal St. *When:* Saturday Dec. 17, 12 pm—on On-site we’ll be introducing the People’s Amp: a guerilla sound system that gives voice and rhythm to a people’s movement. A lineup of artists, musicians and speakers will be performing at 99.5 FM/WBAI broadcasted live on-site through a chorus of boom boxes, headphones, guitar amps and car radios. So bring a boom box, or a radio, or an iPod. Or bring your car by real slow and crank the stereo. If you're listening off-site tune in and turn up. From the airwaves to the sub... more »
Hunger Strikers Arrested At Occupy DC Rally for DC Autonomy
[image: occupy the vote dc] In Washington, DC, protesters at Occupy DC-K Street are on Day 9 of a hunger strike for DC voting rights. As Occupy the Vote DC has written, “Despite paying taxes to the federal government and sending our citizens to fight and die in every war, Washingtonians have had no voting representation in Congress and have had to seek approval from people they did not elect on all legislative and budgetary matters.” Over 600,000 people live in the District, the majority of whom are people of color, immigrants, in poverty, or from other marginalized groups. Toda... more »
Immigrants Occupy!
Sunday, December 18th - 1:30pm until 5:00pm Foley Square Immigrants are part of the 99% and on December 18th we will march with the Occupy Wall Street movement to demand immigrant justice including putting an end to wage theft, and stopping detentions and deportations of our beloved community members. As the Occupy Wall Street movement highlights corporate profiteering we would like to shed light on those that profit off our labor, exploit workers and refuse to pay dignified wages. We also march against the corporations who support anti-immigrant legislation so they can make bil... more »
OWS Health Action Assembly Tomorrow
A protest by the OWS Health Action General Assembly will take place at St. Vincent’s hospital this Saturday to demonstrate the growing frustration with a system that values luxury condominiums over care for the sick. The OWS Health Action General Assembly is composed of patients, nurses, social workers, physicians, and regular citizens coming together to seek alternatives to the present healthcare system. We realize that the present healthcare, housing, and food crisis can no longer be solved by the ‘experts’ and ‘professionals’ only. It requires a much broader participation of c... more »
A Message Of Solidarity From Archbishop Desmond Tutu
[image: Archbishop Tutu] Sisters and Brothers, I greet you in the Name of Our Lord and in the bonds of common friendship and struggle from my homeland of South Africa. I know of your own challenges and of this appeal to Trinity Church for the shelter of a new home and I am with you! May God bless this appeal of yours and may the good people of that noble parish heed your plea, if not for ease of access, then at least for a stay on any violence or arrests. Yours is a voice for the world not just the neighborhood of Duarte Park. Injustice, unfairness, and the strangle hold of greed ... more »
Solidarity Hunger Strike
Thursday, December 15, join the OWS Hunger Strikers for a national 24-hour fast to protest the violent evictions across the country that have robbed the Occupy Movement of our right to free speech and assembly. Thursday will be the thirteenth day of the hunger strike for space. "For us, space is not a mere necessity- a place to lay our head, to eat our meals, to congregate and assemble- it is also a symbol and a direct action," said Diego Ibanez, one of the hunger strikers. "Literally, vacant lots are voids that we fill with physical representations of our concerns, hopes, fears ... more »
CHARAS Holiday Party and Community Potluck
[image: Walmart] CHARAS served the low-income, activist, and artist communities of lower east side for over 20 years, providing artist's space, performance and gallery space, after school programs, workshops, English classes and meeting space for countless neighborhood organizations. In 1999, despite a community use restriction & widespread opposition, the building that housed CHARAS was auctioned off to private developer Gregg Singer, who immediately moved to evict them. After a hard fought battle, CHARAS was evicted on December 27, 2001. The building, still zoned for community u... more »
Defend the Bill of Rights for All of Us.
On Bill of Rights Day, Thursday, Dec 15 there will be a Press Conference on Federal Court Steps, 40 Centre St., Manhattan, 11am. A coffin of the Bill of Rights will be brought to Federal Court Foley Square, NY, NY The Bill of rights was ratified 220 years ago, on December 15, 1791. It is shameful that today, in the United States, we are forced to come together in defense of the Bill of Rights and our civil liberties, as the representatives of the 1% who rule this country continue to take our rights away. *Congress is attempting to bury the Bill of Rights.* The National Defense A... more »