Click on the headline to link to updates from the Occupy Boston website. Occupy Boston started at 6:00 PM, September 30, 2011. I will post important updates as they appear on that site.
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An Injury To One Is An Injury To All!-Defend All The Occupation Sites And All The Occupiers! Drop All Charges Against All Protesters Everywhere!
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Fight-Don’t Starve-We Created The Wealth, Let's Take It Back! Labor And The Oppressed Must Rule!
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A Five-Point Program As Talking Points
*Jobs For All Now!-“30 For 40”- A historic demand of the labor movement. Thirty hours work for forty hours pay to spread the available work around. Organize the unorganized- Organize the South- Organize Wal-mart- Defend the right for public and private workers to unionize.
* Defend the working classes! No union dues for Democratic (or the stray Republican) candidates. Spent the dough on organizing the unorganized and other labor-specific causes (example, the November, 2011 anti-union recall referendum in Ohio).
*End the endless wars!- Immediate, Unconditional Withdrawal Of All U.S./Allied Troops (And Mercenaries) From Afghanistan! Hands Off Pakistan! Hands Off Iran! Hands Off The World!
*Fight for a social agenda for working people!. Quality Healthcare For All! Nationalize the colleges and universities under student-teacher-campus worker control! Forgive student debt! Stop housing foreclosures!
*We created the wealth, let’s take it back. Take the struggle for our daily bread off the historic agenda. Build a workers party that fights for a workers government to unite all the oppressed. Labor and the oppressed must rule!
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Markin comment:
And as always-everybody, young or old, needs to stand by this slogan - An Injury To One Is An Injury To All!-Defend All The Occupation Sites And All The Occupiers Everywhere! Hands Off Occupy Boston!
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Markin comment December 8, 2011:
Those of us who have been around the left-wing political movements for a while know that you have to use every tactic, every principled tactic, including the use of their courts, their agencies, their Congress, and their, well, everything. But as Judge McIntyre’s ruling indicates, when the deal goes down it is still their courts, their police, and their damn park. So right now, right this minute, we are left to our resources, the power of our arguments and the power of our people. Defend Occupy Boston! Hands Off Occupy Boston!
Markin comment December 9, 2011:
Every hour past the midnight deadline proclaimed by Czar Menino in which his Cossacks are held at bay by the efforts of a mass movement is a victory for our side. Not a big victory like that new society we are fighting like hell for but a victory. For those of us who have spent some time in left-wing politics we know even those small victories are few and far between so let us savor it. Savor it in the knowledge that this particular struggle in this particular form will not be a physical victory. We fought, we have lit the spark and that is a start. The cry of the hour is still- Defend Occupy Boston! Hands Off Occupy Boston! Forward.
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In the interest of completeness of the historical record here is a pamphlet put out by the Boston Police at Dewey Square on the night of December 8, 2011.
NOTICE OF TRESPASS TO THE OCCUPANTS OF THE DEWEY SQUARE SECTION OF THE
ROSE KENNEDY GREENWAY
This flier will serve as notice that as of midnight (12:00 a.m.) on December 9, 2011, you may not:
1) Remain on the property known as the Dewey Square section of
the Rose Kennedy Greenway from the hours of 11:00 p.m. to 7:00
a.m. pursuant to the Rose Kennedy Greenway Park Use
Guidelines, and
2) Maintain tents, other building structures or personal belongings on
the property known as the Dewey Square section of the Rose
Kennedy Greenway without the proper permits as required by the
Rose Kennedy Greenway Park Use Guidelines.
If you fail to vacate the property by midnight (12:00 a.m.) on December 9, 2011, you may be subject to arrest and criminal prosecution under MGL Ch. 266, s. 120 for trespassing on the property. Additionally, should you fail to remove any and all personal belongings, tents, etc. from the property by midnight (12:00 a.m.) on December 9, 2011, such belongings, tents, etc. will be considered refuse, and will be removed and discarded by the City Of Boston Public Works Department.
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A Message of Public Safety from The Boston Police Department
The Boston Police Department would like to take this opportunity to inform you of the laws and expectations. We ask for your ongoing cooperation.
What the BPD expects from Occupy Boston Participants:
• Respect police instructions and, if asked to leave an area, please do so peacefully, takingyour belongings with you.
• Don't engage in negative behavior, such as fighting, throwing objects, or destroying property.
• If you are noticed by the BPD that you are unlawfully assembling, or trespassing, you will not be allowed to remain in the area. Please immediately leave the area with your belongings, or you will be subject to arrest.
What Occupy Boston Participants can expect from the BPD:
BPD will arrest those knowingly in violation of the law if necessary.
Police will employ the use of video-cameras in areas surrounding the Pose Kennedy Greenway. The video will be used to capture the images of individuals who are engagingin disorder. Those images will then be used to lodge criminal complaints in a follow-upinvestigation conducted by Boston Police detectives.
Officers will conduct themselves in a professional, respectful and proportional manner.
Know the Laws:
Unlawful Assembly
• In the event that 5 or more armed people or 10 or more people are unlawfully, riotously ortumultuously assembled, the police can demand that they immediately and peaceably disperse.
• Any person who unlawfully assembles and does not disperse after being ordered is subject toarrest and imprisoimnent of up to 1 year or a fine between $100 and $500.
Trespassing
• Remaining upon land of another after having been forbidden to do so by a person who haslawful control over the premises
• Any person who trespasses is subject to arrest and imprisonment of up to 30 days or a fine of
up to $100.
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