Occupy New Hampshire is under imminent threat of eviction and possible arrest tonight. The Manchester Police Department (MPD) has told them that they have until 11 pm tonight to vacate Veterans Park in Manchester or face ticketing. Anyone who does not leave the park after receiving a ticket will be forcibly removed by MPD.
Members of Occupy Boston are en route to Manchester now to support Occupy New Hampshire. You can support them by calling Mayor Ted Gatsas at 603-624-6500; Chief of Parks Peter Capano at 603-624-6565; and Chief of Police David Mara at 603-668-8711 and respectfully asking them not to evict the protestors. (Again, please be respectful!) Finally, keep an eye on Occupy New Hampshire’s livefeed.
Occupy Boston stands in solidarity with our sisters and brothers in New Hampshire in this time of need. We are the 99%, and we will not be silenced.
[Update: Fifteen citations were given out and five people were arrested, all peacefully. All of the arrested occupiers are free now. Camp has been completely cleared and no one is currently occupying the park. Occupy New Hampshire is regrouping with a General Assembly planned for Saturday at noon in Veterans Park.]
14 Responses to “Occupy New Hampshire Under Threat of Eviction”
Update from the Occupy NH Facebook page a half hour ago:
Update, agreement reached. ONH has decided at GA to eventually accept the offer of St. Augustine and St. Anne Church as a good site for the occupation to move to. The move will happen tonight. Details still unfolding and more will be posted as it develops!
Good for NH – I also like that although a young movement they have posted a ‘Who We Are’ on their Home Page. I wish Occupy Boston would do the same.
There are so many discussions on the blogs and wikis of OcucupyBoston on ‘Statements of Purpose’ (SOP) and lengthy ‘Declarations of Occupation’ (DOP), but we have not posted a simple ‘Who We Are’ – at least not that I can see.
Here is the one from NH –
http://occupynh.org/who-we-are/
As for the SOP and the DOP, it is very unfortunate that Occupy Wall Street does not take this one very basic leadership stance to just develop a brief and very broad statement of purpose, and disseminate to ALL Occupy Movements since we are in this together and are all asking for the same thing – to end the influence of money and special interests in Washington. Occupy Boston should simply state that we are a movement that stands in solidarity with OWS and all the other movements around the country.
A general statement of purpose would go a long way towards nipping in the bud this growing pushback by some politicians who are demanding specific policy reccomendations. (You know, the same ones who were mocking the Occupy movements last week.)
That seems to me an attempt to paint Occupy into a corner. Any one specific policy demand can be picked apart and destroyed.
I’d like to see something like, “Wasington, Wall Street and corporate America have cooperated in driving the United States into a ditch. Corporate control of government has led to the greatest seperation of wealth that this country has ever seen. We aren’t going to stand for it any longer. Don’t try to pin us down to specific policy reccomendations. You broke it, you fix it. We are watching closely.”
These people need to go home and live a life of productivity, instead of trying to tear down other people’s productivity.
NH has always been a beacon of shining corporatacracy and banksterglomerations what with their zero taxes and all. I am happy that an occupation has taken place.
New Hampsherites thirst for normalcy and a decent standard of living by way of avoiding govt is in the right spirit, though misses by way of process. They must embrace the government as a belief system, something upon which they can rely, trust, and utilize towards the end of social and class standardization.
They are almost there. There are very few 1%ers in that state. It is clear that New Hampshire desires a populace where each man is equal in respect, community, and property.
Barack Obama is getting us there, though, yes, he has failed in some respects. We need socialistic communism now, in order to right the wrongs of capitalism and feed the hunger for standardization and basic property rights, for which we all crave.
Socialistic Communism for me and you.
Socialistic Communism for all.
Occupy Everything.
The 99% will soon be the 100%.
Let’s get it done, comrades.
As the anti globilization crowd pushed for globalization, kisses and hugs democrat politicians and openly greets one of the architects of the downfall, the most ardent protesters are leaving in droves. yes they were fooled by the leaders and are now angry that it is nothing more then Campaign Obama 2012 and have been pushed aside by the unions and other community organizers. Is it ironic that this whole thing mirrored Obama’s class warfare campaign? People are also wondering why we are sending troops( special forces0 to Uganda for another war. People are also wondering why the jobs bill is 100% union jobs. you never fooled me, but at least everyone is aware now that they were duped by this large scale soros and Van Jones operation.
Yeah. I don’t think so.
watching the film medium cool. surprisingly relevant.
The right wing is grasping at straws to try to marginalize the Occupy movements. They’re saying now that the movement is anti-Semitic.
http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/opinion/2011/10/2011101510466829989.html
There’s nothing that those who are desperate to keep consolidating wealth and power won’t say or do to discredit Occupy.
I get it, you claim democracy but use tyranical tactics of not allowing opposition. No problem, it just asserts what everyone is thinking anyways. Yes there is anti semitism, npr leading osw, she was fired. watching c-span this morning saw live coverage and the interviews with the crowd on why Bernake should be in jail, but you guys will will welcome him saturday since he is part of campaign obama. Funny to watch this collapse. remember, socialism only works with an iron hand of a tyrant, but you guys have that covered
Seems you have not been to a GA. Everyone is allowed their say. Diversity is our strenght. And, I would opine that this is not an Obama supporting group, maybe back in 2008, but his “change” was more of the same. If anything, some of the momentum of our movement could be attributed to Obama, well, sucking and us getting together, having a dialogue, and working on evolving the system ourselves.
What can can dialogue do you might say? Check out “On Dialogue” by David Bohm, a well written, concise book on the power of group dialogue. For a quick review, wikipedia Bohmian dialogue.
I would not label occupy boston as a pro-obama movement.
Paul, Marko and all others who have been expressing an URGENT need for a broad message to be broadcast to all supporters — please let me know what you think. I posted this on the Wikis as a DRAFT.
STATEMENT OF PURPOSE
OWS/OB & ALL Movements around the USA
“This is a non-partisan movement. We want to end corporate and financial influence on our government. Corporations should not have more of a voice and more rights than the American people. We demand greater accountability on Wall Street and greater responsiveness in Washington. We demand REAL change. We stand in solidarity with all the movements around the world protesting against corporate greed.
Let the voice of the 99% be heard!”
The new site looks AMAZING. You folks haven’t ceased to amaze me. The power and the intellect behind this movement refuse to be stopped, and every bit of progress (even things like the aesthetics, in this case) should be recognized. As I knew you would, you have begun to fully prove wrong all the skeptics and critics who pointed at disorganization. Thank you, and see you all this weekend!!