#SolidaritySunday: Fight Back Against State Terrorism!
Posted 23 hours ago on May 20, 2012, 8:50 a.m. EST by OccupyWallSt
The scene late last night in Chicago
via Interoccupy:
While tens of thousands are in Chicago protesting NATO and many more are marching in the streets of Quebec, the action in your city must not stop! NOW IS THE TIME TO AMPLIFY!
Use the tag #SOLIDARITYSUNDAY to organize! Send your meet up locations to Info@interoccupy.org or post a comment here to be included in this list. We will update as soon as we can.
Occupy Boston: Action Assembly at 5:00 pm EST at Copley Square
OWS NYC: Emergency DA Meeting – Sun 2pm, Washington Sq Park, NYC
Occupy Denver: Gather at Lincoln Park, Rallying at 5PM and departing at 5:30
Occupy Portland: Meet up 2PM at Director Park, SW Yamhill + Park
Occupy Austin: Pease Park at 2 PM
Occupy Rochester: 3:30-6:30pm by the Liberty Pole
Occupy Los Angeles: Will be meeting at 1pm PST (MacArthur Park/Leavitt Pavilion) for a potluck picnic and community activities including a women’s self-defense class. Tonight, Join Occupy The Hood LA Action Assembly and LA CAN to reclaim public sidewalks in the “New Downtown” and make it clear that the business community is not the only voice in Downtown LA! We will be camping out at LA Live or in front of the Central City Association H.Q. Bring things to stay overnight. Where: Meet at LA CAN office, 530 S. Main Street (7pm) or corner of Figueroa and 11th street (8pm)
Occupy Orlando: Meeting at Senator Beth Johnson Park for all day/all night solidarity.
Occupy Salt Lake City: Be at the Library Square Occupation at 8PM.
Last week, Chicago police officers promised ¨billy clubs to the fucking skull¨ to a group of activists they’d pulled over without cause in the South Side neighborhood of Bridgeport. The activists recorded the encounter with a cell phone and the video spread virally across the internet. Now, three of them are locked up on charges of terrorism that witnesses, lawyers, and family say are ridiculous. Lawyers for the accused say CPD planted evidence.
CANG8 March & Mass Rally Against the NATO/G8 Summits
Posted 1 day ago on May 20, 2012, 7:32 a.m. EST by OccupyWallSt
CANG8 March & Mass rally against the NATO/G8 summits
Time: 10 a.m. – 3 p.m. CDT
Location: Petrillo Band Shell, Grant Park, downtown Chicago. Followed by protest march to McCormick Convention Center, sight of NATO summit
This is the official permitted protest rally against the NATO summit organized by the Coalition Against NATO/G8 War and Poverty Agenda (CANG8). CANG8 is a broad international coalition of organizations formed in August 2011 to organize protests against the NATO summit taking place in Chicago May 20-21, 2012.
For a more detailed schedule and list of events today, see NATOprotest.org.
Other Resources:
ChicagoSpring.org | OccupyChi.org | http://cang8.wordpress.com
@OccupyChicago @NATOINDYMEDIA
#NoNATO #OCHI
Chicago Bail Fund – PLEASE DONATE!
National Lawyers Guild Chicago number 1-312-913-0039
Text 23559 with @NATOaction in the body to get live updates.
Even more livestreams
#NoNATO So Far: Thousands Protest War and Austerity
An Open Letter to Our Comrades
Posted 1 day ago on May 20, 2012, 2:24 a.m. EST by OccupyWallSt
from 3 anonymous OWS Occupiers in Chicago:
COMMUNIQUÉ #246
On the eve of the feast of the cabal of hypocrites, otherwise referred to as the 2012 NATO Summit, the people of Chicago have undergone a grave injustice at the hands of the violent police state. The Chicago Police’s actions today, May 19th, were a brutally violent attack on our bodies and on our rights. An absurdly large police force was deployed in order to intimidate and provoke a peaceable assembly, and resulted in unbridled, militaristic attacks on activists demonstrating against NATO, inflicting several serious injuries – including broken noses, bloodied eyes, and a particularly sickening incident in which a dedicated comrade was belligerently run down by a police van.
We vociferously condemn these unacceptable and cowardly attacks, and know that the people are beginning to awaken from the falsified dream of liberty in a nation thats find itself in a newly authoritarian police state which crushes any dissent and defends the war machines of internatonal violence and global capitalism, instead of the human beings it feigns to represent. Yet we will not be so easily fooled by these tactics. The actions by the Chicago Police Department were carried out tonight with the calculated intent of provoking and generating fear within our collective into a reactionary state. This is a police tactic that is used to distract our focus and to spiral us into downwardness and negativity. We must resist these feelings, for we lose our autonomy in reacting to the script they have written for us, and without steadfast descipline in the face of the arm of state repression. We have to be serious and disciplined in order to not fall into this trap. It is EXACTLY what they want from us. We know that this is a panicked attempt to postemptively justify to the people the astronomical amount of our public resources that have been wasted on the exorbitant number of police on the streets, the unlawful and intrusive surveillance & unjustifiable home raids, and the Orwellian fear being propagated by the puppet corporate media. Our organization will not be provoked into a state of disorganized rage, for we are well aware that is exactly as they wish to manipulate us. It is no better, nay, it is worse to fall into their cheap and predictable trap than it is to subserviently subjugate ourselves to obeying the orders of authority.
This national convergence represents an incredible and unique opportunity to bring together a diverse spectrum of activists in a unified front of resistance unlike any other seen in over a decade. Tomorrow, we enter the stage with a righteous fire in our hearts at the injustice done to us and our comrades on these streets just a day before. Yet we will not be overriden with heightened emotions that cloud our judgement. We recognize this attempt at coercion as yet another manifestation of systemic oppression, and remain autonomous individuals who will not be ordered around, explictly or implicitly. Instead, we channel our anger, our pain, our compassion, our despair, and our passion for a better world without this oppression into our messaging and our actions.
Comrades. Let us take a deep, deep breath together. Let’s heal together, and then work together to make tactical decisions that are arrived at out of truly free and autonomous choice, not dictated by authority. Be safe, look out for one another, organize in small, accountable groups of affinity and trust, Stay calm, and remember why we traveled to Chicago – to stand in the face of a war machine that acts recklessly beyond transparency and accountability to the people it affects and claims to represent – and to say we want a world free of war and oppression.
Solidarity forever.
-Anonymous
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