Occupy Town Square III: Tompkins Square Park
February 24, 2012
We will be tabling awesome Free Zines / Literature all day this Sunday, February 26th in Tompkins Square Park as part of Occupy Town Square. #OWS Occupy Wall Street!
Check out the Free Literature Table Today at Astor Place
February 22, 2012
Free zines for all!
New York City Anarchist Open Forum
February 21, 2012
The next monthly New York City Anarchist Open Forum is Tonight (Tuesday 2/21,)
from 7 to 9 PM at the 6th St. Community Center, 638 East 6th St.
Manhattan.
The New York City Anarchist Open Forum is organized to facilitate
in-person discussion forums for topics of interest to the NYC anarchist
community. Gathering monthly, in spaces conductive to discussion,
we plan to give members of the community a space to hold discussions
on topics of mutual interest, announce or promote projects they are
organizing and, generally, to socialize with other anarchists.
The Format
The forum is open. The discussion agenda will be determined by
community members. Those who wish to sponsor a topic may identify
themselves to the group during introductions and will be allotted a
brief post-introduction time slot to introduce their proposed topic or
project. After all proposals have been made the meeting will
reorganize into breakout groups around the several topics proposed,
attendees joining that breakout which interests them most. Breakouts
are imagined to meet for 45 minuets to an hour.
Refreshments will be served after the breakout meetings giving all
participants an opportunity to socialize and share ideas discussed.
There will be no time scheduled for report backs, it is our intension
that summaries of the several breakout’s discussions can be posted to
a web page for all to read afterwards.
Time and Place
The next meeting of the open forum will be Tuesday February 21st from
7 PM to 9 PM at the 6th Street Community Center, 638 East 6th St.
Manhattan.
National Occupy Day in Support of Prisoners
February 20, 2012
The Prisoner Solidarity Subcommittee of Occupy Wall Street answers Occupy Oakland’s call to action and march in solidarity with the Pelican Bay hunger strike, with brothers and sisters who are dispossessed by the criminal INJUSTICE system, and with political prisoners everywhere.
Look for the big new anarchy heart banner!
Lincoln Correctional Facility
31 West 110th Street
Subway: B/C/2/3 to 110th St. Bus: M1/M2/M3/M4/M10
Join us for Grub: a free and open community dinner held on the first and third Sundays of every month.
There will be plates for vegans and vegetarians alike. About 99% of the food we share is freegan, which means it is excess, ripe, nearly ripe or slightly damaged food that has been recovered from the waste of grocery stores.
Most importantly Grub is about building a stronger and more supportive community, so feel free to come early and hang out. We need help gathering, cooking and preparing food for Grub (culinary skill not necessarily required). Volunteers are welcome to bring vegetarian (freegan and vegan is preferred) food and make their own dishes or help out with the preparation in general. We plan to be able to serve approximately 50 people, so it’s first come first serve.
And as we’re sure you always already do, please go out of your way to talk to strangers and to welcome new people. That’s why we’re here.
Watch First the Dishes Then the Revolution by Jeff Stark and get an idea about what Grub is.
Please come as early as 3:30pm if you would like to help us prepare the meal!
All are asked to make a contribution.
Grub is at 136 Lawrence St. between Fulton and Willoughby , Brooklyn, NY (map)
Check in with us on Facebook for to RSVP.
Look for us at Occupy St. Valentine’s Day!
February 14, 2012
Valentine from the 99%
BANK OF AMERICA – WHERE IS THE LOVE????
FEB 14 – 12pm to 6pm – NYC – Washington Square Park!!!
Date/Time
Date(s) – Tue. Feb 14 2012
12:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Location
Washington Square Park
57 Washington Square S
New York, NY 10012
Broken Hearts Mended!
Contact: oikos
Category:
Have you had your Dreams crushed? Heart broken? Want to love again, but maybe feel the need to end a bad experience once and for all?
To heal ourselves as a community, to reclaim our capacity to Love and Trust, we are joining together to celebrate one another– and to make our voices heard clearly: we want a system that respects people, plants, animals and the planet itself!
Creative opportunities, music and Gift-Making-Giving will be on site throughout the day. Do you want to express your need to change your relationship with banks, money or want to close an account? Feel free to bring a Valentine or make one on site. There will be food, art-making, performances, music, drums, dancing, presentations and opportunities to reclaim and empower your capacity to Know yourself and to Love yourself (and others!).
Be sure to come at 4pm, where we will complete the offerings and teachings and hear from our sponsors Mountain Justice, Organization for Occupation, Reverend Billy and the Stop Shopping Choir. Then we will march to the nearest Bank and deliver our Blue Valentine’s and finally return to the park to clean up and share dinner.
It sure seems as though Bank of America loves profits more than people. We want out of this abusive relationship. Bank of America has foreclosed on more homes than any other bank in the United States. They are also foreclosing on the planet through their investments in coal and mountaintop removal and the underwriting of loans to the US coal industry.
The watchdog group Public Citizen filed a petition with the Federal Reserve and the Treasury Department this week calling for the break up of Bank of America, warning its too-big-to-fail status poses “a grave threat to US financial stability.”
On February 14th, Valentine’s Day, we will break up with Bank of America. Come on down to Washington Square Park and join us!
And any other relationships you need to end– bring bank statements, etc you no longer need or want.
We keep giving and giving and get nothing in return. This is a toxic relationship. And we want out. Anyone who shares our views or wants to know more is welcome to come by and join us.
If you want our love Bank of America you’ll have clean up your act: quit kicking working class, poor and elderly people out of their homes and divest from coal and all forms of fossil fuel.
Bank of America, its over. That’s why we’re meeting in Public, please: don’t make a scene.
Find out more for yourself, sign a petition and get informed:
http://bankruptingamerica.tumblr.com/
http://www.ran.org
http://www.banksterusa.org
Bank of America received a public $54 billion dollar TARP bailout, additional loans of nearly a trillion dollars. They received a tax refund of $1.9 billion in 2009, and $1 billion in 2010 after paying $0 in taxes. The excess of their Board of Directors is well-known, and we will highlight these sundry details. The Federal Reserve wants to approve of Bank of America’s transfer of $22 trillion of questionable assets to a publicly-insured FDIC account, against the wishes of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), an independent agency created by the U.S. Congress to maintain stability and public confidence in the financial system.
Bank of America executives have not been as generous to America as we have been to them. The bank has continued to foreclose on homes at an alarming rate. Meanwhile, they have pumped $4.3 billion into the US coal industry over the last 2 years—more than any other bank. Yet their website celebrates $45 million in loans for “Energy Efficiency” and has still not moved ahead with a cooperative alternative energy program SolarStrong yet they have invested in greenhouse-gas-emitting companies, including Arch Coal, Patriot Coal, Consol, Peabody Energy and Edison International.
Others have also called to break up with specific companies unless they change their ways, such as the CIW who has highlighted Trader Joe’s as a company that could do better in honoring the Coalition of Immokalee Workers. http://www.ciw-online.org
Taking part in the break up: members of the Occupy Wall Street Environmentalist Solidarity Working Group, which focuses on ecological aspects of the Occupy Movement, Mountain Justice, fighting coal and mountaintop removal in Appalachia and worldwide, NYU4OWS, students and others in the NYU community in Solidarity with OWS, and Organize for Occupation, which organizes communities in New York City to halt foreclosures and moves homeless families into disused bank possessed homes. Song and Sermon will be provided by Reverend Billy and the Stop Shopping Choir.
Movie & Potluck tonight!
February 13, 2012
The Green Beautiful screening and visioning potluck
Monday February 13th, 7-10pm at Brooklyn Urban Sanctuary – 778 Bergen St at Grand
What kind of world do we want for our children, and their children many generations from now?
The Green Beautiful is a fantastically inspiring movie about a planet of people that have evolved to live in perfect harmony with their environment. They send one of their women to Paris, where she “disconnects” several people to advance their evolution hundreds of years. The movie was banned in Europe for addressing such subjects as abolishing money and the idea that modern marriage is legal prostitution.
Let’s watch together and have a potluck dinner, then discuss the movie and let it inspire us to action to accelerate our own evolution for our children to inherit a more idealistic world!
If you can’t join us, please watch on your own here:
http://www.foodmatters.tv/_
Crafting followed by an open potluck / meeting
February 12, 2012
In Our Hearts Craft Day followed by an Open Meeting / Potluck!
Sunday February 12th 1pm / 6pm
We will be making anarchist flags, banners etc. starting at 1pm. All are encouraged to bring materials such as fabrics, paint, snacks, etc. There will be a sewing machine available.
At 6pm join us for a Potluck brunch and learn about what In Our Hearts is doing and how you can get involved. We will be discussing what our organization does and different ways for people to plug in. It will also be a great opportunity to meet other community-minded people.
Get involved with In Our Hearts! Do you have an idea you think we’d be interested in that you’d like help with, or do you want to join an existing project? Come break bread with us and perhaps we can support each other. We are always looking for new friends to work with gathering and cooking food for Grub community dinners and tabling and distributing radical literature, and more.
This event will be part a social dinner party, part a presentation and part structured meeting where participants can propose new ideas and volunteer to help with ongoing projects!
Flushnik
698 Flushing Ave (btwn Throop & Tompkins Ave) #1B
Brooklyn, NY (map)
JM or G train to Flushing
Super Bowl (Football-Free) Grub Dinner!
February 4, 2012
This will be our annual not watching the super bowl (football-free) Sunday. If you abstain from sports culture we offer you refuge on this day.
All are asked to make a contribution.
Check in with us on Facebook for to RSVP.
Check out and support this important and rad new zine!
February 4, 2012
Mindful Occupation: Rising Up Without Burning Out
There is an urgent need to talk publicly about the relationship between social injustice and our mental health. We need to start redefining what it actually means to be mentally healthy, not just on an individual level, but on collective, communal, and global levels.
A group of us who have years of experience practicing peer-based community mental health support, got together to compile a manual for organizers and participants in the occupy movement.
Its aim is to stimulate discussion, raise awareness, provide support, contribute to maintaining a more sustainable movement, and lay the foundation for the next stage of the movement.
We’re hoping to distribute this guide far and wide.
Mindful Occupation: Rising Up w/out Burning Out will be released under a Creative Commons license and distributed digitally. But we need your help to create an initial print run, since print remains an important channel of distribution within the Occupy movement.
We’re asking you to spread the word far and wide and support us with a financial donation for this most visionary and much needed project.
We believe that the materials we have assembled in this guide have a long shelf-life beyond #occupy and are desperately needed by protesters from Cairo to Poland and beyond.
The funds raised will be applied to environmentally conscious printing and shipping costs. We hope to print over 1k copies of the zine, and will apply all overage to additional copies. They will be distributed free of charge, where needed. Contact us if you need to coordinate a printing.
Check out our website to see a draft of the text: http://mindfuloccupation.org/