Thousands will gather to speak out for good jobs and a fair economy.
Today at 1:30pm students from BC, BU, Harvard, MIT, Tufts and others will gather at the Band Stand on Boston Common for a march to Dewey Square. At 3:00pm they will join with members of Occupy Boston, MASSUniting, several labor unions and other community allies in a rally for good jobs and a fair economy.
For the day’s full agenda visit http://occupyboston.com/calendar/
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We’re making progress. I had a window of open time this morning before meeting my daughter and grandson at the Science Museum at noon, and wanted to see if anything was going on in Dewey Square. Aside from the drumming (too late for that), there wasn’t.
If the Occupation Movement achieves anything else, being able to change the name of “Columbus Day” to “Indigenous Peoples’ Day could make 2011 an historic event on the way to world peace.
We all need to step outside our narrow worlds of ethnocentricity and see ourselves in a wider context. In hoping for the opportunity to see if Rachel will be able to post this afternoon’s teach-in on Palestine on the web, I think that meeting this need will largely depend on how well we manage to preserve our diversity, the “pluribus,” without having to sacrfice our unity–the “unum” in “e pluribus, unum”–out of many, one.
We’re all human, which means that whle meant to reflect the image of whoever or whatever created us, none of us is perfect. Barbara Tuchman is my favorite historian and her Pulitzer winning work on the Zimmerman Telegram (which among other things revealed to me that the chiefs of staff of our armed forces were preparing for a Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor as early as 1917) should not deter us in the least when it comes to her passionate bias in favor of Zionism.
Descendants of Abraham and Ishmael are not the indigenous people of what is now called Israel. Melchizdek and his Jebusites had already supplanted the truly-original inhabitants of that time too far back in history for anyone to imagine. While there are plenty of opportunities to make DNA comparisons between Egyptians of Pharonic times, there seems to be no such attempt to do so with respect to those who make claims to a family tree dating back to the Israel of David and Solomon.
Happy IPD (that’s Indigenous Peoples and not Internet Provider) Day. (When I tried to chat this morning I ended up looking at link that was talking about something that happened six months ago in Gyöngyöspata).
We still have a long way to go.
http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2011/10/09/youth-pushed-edge/KNxu6jVZ31OHHjWFA2TcwI/story.xml
I am planning on joining the student rally today at 1:30, but I do not know exactly where the bandstand is. Could someone please explain where win the Boston Common it is.
If you walk from Park Street T stop toward the Boylston T stop along Tremont St. you will see the band stand on your right in the park. It’s hard to miss.
It’s on the common near the corner of Tremont St. and Boylston St.
Thank you!
Friendly reminder: Please include the public universities and colleges.
Missing from the list is UMass Boston, which I have heard has been organizing to send people today. The list in posting just lists private institutions.
THANKS
YES GET PUMPED!!!!!!! Don’t forget to bring water, sunscreen, and cough drops (to eat after the march to heal your sore raspy voices!!!!!!)
I think I will go down to check out the OccupyBoston rally. A chance to see democracy in action. I commend the effort but think that the target is a bit off.
The banks and financial industry have a very upfront mission, as all businesses do..to make money for their stockholders. And while they are at it they employ many people. There is no secret there. When I hear the cry “Banks got bailed out, we got sold out” I don’t disagree. But I think our issue is with the we got sold out part and the blame for that is on our elected officials and a system where allows money to corrupt the process. I’d like to see the groups message to at least include that we need to vote out imbumbents who have been boought and sold by special interests. And that isn’t just Wall Street. Remember GE pays no taxes and the huge military industrial complex thrives on our tax dollors. A very specific reform that I would like to see this group support is to eliminate all paid political ads. Require all media outlets to supplies free equal time. Nothing will change until we get the money out of the elective process.
The dirty little secret is that our elected officials and our political system, who pretend to exists to support greater societal goals that aren’t or can’t be met by private industry, are instead up for sale to the highest bidding contributor and of course that comes with a price to pay, which benefits the mission to mazimize stockholder profits and not the greater societal good.
It is our public elected officials who have the greater responsibility for fixing this mess we are in. THEY are responsible for placing the appropriate checks on businesses to make sure that they don’t maximize profits on the backs of the people. And to set policies that encourage businesses to play a role in that. Until we get eliminate the financial influence in our political system and that means voting out incumbents on both side of the aisle who put their office up for sale, we won’t see the reforms that we seek. And that won’t happen as long as we have individuals to tend bash governement on the one hand, except when it is providing individual with a benefit they value. Collectively, we want ours, but to heck with everyone else.
Lets put the heat were it really belongs!
FYI: While I don’t believe we have an organized group of people at SMFA. I am positive some students from the Museum School will be joining in today.
Heads up….WUMB is working to co-opt the 99%. They’re announcing the march as in “support of Obama’s jobs bill.” Please don’t let the media get away with playing political football with the uprising!
I love it, now you guys are even using the “Clenched Fist” symbol used primarily in Socialist movements!