Free School University Thank you and Community Outreach report back

THANK YOU for making the Occupy Boston Open House –IMMIGRATION – Community Gathering, 6/25/12 such a success!!!

Our evening began with great food brought from East Boston by David, who invited and coordinated our exceptional collective of community organizers and educators.

Lydia Edwards of BIC spoke started us off with a discussion focused on people who service our society: domestic workers: people, who clean, raise children. This sector also includes the people who create our food and electrical energy.

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.

Jimmy Carter Contributes to the New York Times, Op-Ed gets page A19.

Jimmy Carter Contributes to the New York Times, Op-Ed gets page A19. 

Former President James Earl "Jimmy" Carter contributed a stunning piece, criticizing the United States turn from a "global champion of human rights".  Citing specifics in the past ten years where the US government has chosen power or lucrative business over protecting humanity. 

"Jimmy Carter, the 39th president, is the founder of the Carter Center and the recipient of the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize."

"A version of this op-ed appeared in print on June 25, 2012, on page A19 of the New York edition with the headline: A Cruel and Unusual Record." - New York Times

I am willfully and knowingly quoting this entire article directly copying all links in context and citing New York Times copyright.  I have a minuscule readership in comparison to the NYT, and with Carters former presidency, this article is probably going to garner some attention anyway, even a tiny blog like mine can help with that. I understand that NYT cannot give preferential treatmemt to this article, especially considering it is an Op-Ed piece. The neato thing about the internet is, I can.

Dissent isn't limited to the "radical left" or the "privileged academic", across the board people are speaking out against these human rights atrocities.  You can click through to "A Cruel and Unusual Record" on the New York Times website and proceed no further if you have an issue with reading the exact same thing here.

Stop Anti-Immigration S.2061 Rally Monday 6/25/2012 11:00AM Statehouse Steps

Stop Anti-Immigrant S.2061 Rally Monday 6/25/2012 11:00AM Statehouse Steps

"Until today, the governor has not been held accountable for his lack of action on anti-immigrant initiatives- we've taken care of them. Now, the ownership is on him. Let's make sure we hold him accountable to the people he has sworn to protect." 

Facebook event: http://www.facebook.com/events/263282673779045/269447299829249/

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. 

Stroller Brigade for Safe Chemicals III, 7/31/2012

Stroller Brigade for Safe Chemicals III, 7/31/2012

 

Please join Clean Water Action and the Alliance for a Healthy Tomorrow at noon on June 28th in Boston for a "Stroller Brigade" for Safe Chemicals to ask Massachusetts Senators to be our heroes and protect our health from toxic chemicals. 

 

RSVP for the Stroller Brigade

WEEK OF 6/24 EVENT HIGHLIGHTS: LAST WEEK'S STATEHOUSE RUNDOWN

Event highlights and weekly rundown brought to you from the Statehouse News Service.  

Even if you cant afford the subscription, the weekly digest is pretty handy.

 

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Why Walkabout? Archive: V.1

#opwalkabout explained after a fashion...

Second Row from the front second in from the left.

"Dear Family and Friends and Folks,
I just wanted to let you know that everything is going well here in Boston. "

I moved from Eagle Point, OR to Boston, MA on August 27th 2002 (correct me if I'm wrong Mom).  My parents co-signed my student loans and off I went, although it's never as simple as that.

"Since I started working here, I've been given opportunities to learn about (and hopefully eventually work with) non-profit organizations that blockade foreclosed homes, rehabilitating disabled/ homeless veterans, and working with inner city children."