9/17 New York City: Occupied Part 3

9/17/2012 12:00PM - End of Day
Huzzah! I'd heard from my friend from the station and made my way to the back of the park. We were to meet at the Statue of Liberty Cruise terminal, which as it turns out I'd wandered past earlier and completely ignored.

By the time we'd met up the Occupy folks had cleared out for the second half of the days actions. I gave my buddy a heads up about how to keep track of the days events and we settled on posting up somewhere in the financial district so he could keep a weather eye out.

9/16 New York, NY: Please Don't Go...

My eyes popped open to a choir of snores. Every third or fourth breath they would sync in harmony. The exhaustion of the past couple days hit me like a bag of hammers. Five hours of sleep on a cement floor did fuck all to do anything other than make me want to sleep more. Walking from Stamford, CT to New Rochelle, NY while wandering around points in between had done me in. I knew if I didn't get some kind of quality rest between now and when I left New York, I'd be destroyed by Philadelphia.

9/15 Brooklyn, NY - Sunset Park #opwalkabout

I woke Saturday morning with a start to three snoring Slovenians. 

I wasn't sure where the fourth had gone, I was assuming he was asleep on the porch or on whatever floor space he could nab in the mad rush to pass out the evening before. Hoping to keep from waking them I tiptoed around the tiny apartment, I'd been brusque at best the evening before and I wanted to make a clean getaway. I packed the top third of my bag putting things away quietly and stepped onto the porch for the mornings first cigarette.  Taking in the early morning air from the 9th floor, the suburb of New York I was staying in had just started to wake up.

The GA Remodel

Circumventing derp and top-heavy logistics process in GA.

This is an open discussion on how to circumvent the top heavy logistics process in GA. While the working group model and affinity group model has gone some ways to alleviating the pressure, little outreach and action has taken place.  Please feel free to add to the discussion in the comments section, here's the first sally from Not Me.

There are comments at the bottom of this initial proposal post. Please read through the comments and ring in where you feel it is appropriate. Several other posts will be generated out of this and linked back to this GA remodel post. If necessary, I will generate a page for this conversation.

Avi Chomsky June 25th, 2012, 6:00PM-9:00PM Community Church of Boston

Avi Chomsky June 25th, 2012, 6:00PM-9:00PM Community Church of Boston

Occupy Boston's Community Gathering,
Community Church of Boston - 565 Boylston Street, Copley Square.

Topics: immigration rights, citizenship, secure communities and more...
From 6:00PM-6:30PM come and meet your Boston area neighbors, share light refreshments, then, Avi and others will speak followed by a community discussion.

Avi Chomsky, author of They Take Our Jobs! And Twenty Other Myths about Immigration, Beacon Press, (2007) among many other books. 

Technology and Direct Democracy

TONIGHT: Technology & Direct Democracy

Posted: June 15th, 2012 · Steve R · Events from www.occupyboston.org

Friday June 22 7pm-9pm at E5 (5th floor, 33 Harrison Ave, Boston, MA)
Facilitated by OBIT and Jeremy Stark

OBIT is proud to present a consensus building tool focused on accessing direct democracy and using technology to influence political outcomes at the state and federal levels.

INDIGENOUS JUSTICE - RESTORATIVE JUSTICE Monday 6/18/2012

INDIGENOUS JUSTICE:  THE NAVAJO NATION SITUATION

"RESTORATIVE JUSTICE - COMMUNITY JUSTICE"

Monday 6/18/2012: 6:000PM - 9:00PM  
Community Church of Boston, 565 Boylston St, Boston, MA

Black Bloc

Black bloc contextualized in political action

An attempt at placing Black Bloc in the greater theater of protest and political action.

A continuing goal of this blog is to take a look at all sides of political discourse from legislation to protest action.  In this article I hope to explore the use of black bloc as a tactic. As well as (hopefully) provide context for where it sits in the greater scheme of protest and political action.