FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, October 6, 2011
Lexington, Mass. native Amanda Palmer, of the band The Dresden Dolls, will play a concert at Dewey Square today at 4 p.m. in support of Occupy Boston.
Attendance is free and welcome to all. Please remember that Occupy Boston is an alcohol and drug-free zone. Violence of any kind will not be tolerated.
For more information, please email occupybostonmedia@gmail.com or tweet at @Occupy_Boston.
Word on the street (gravel, grass, tent) is that Amanda Palmer will be joining Occupy Boston at 4 pm today. Rock! (Update: Amanda is speaking now; 4pm confirmed.)
There will be a Socially Conscious Hip-Hop Showcase tonight at 5 pm.
Tentative, timing to be confirmed: At 1 pm Occupy Boston, led by the Labor Relations Working Group, will march to the Veterans Affairs (VA) clinic at 150 S Huntington Avenue.
Today noted author, activist, and Princeton University professor Cornel West addressed Occupy Boston and members of the National Nurses United union.
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Thank you, Brother West!
Approximately 50 Northeastern University students came to Dewey Square today to show their support for Occupy Boston by demonstrating with the occupiers. The students—who marched from Northeastern’s Centennial Common—stood in the middle of Atlantic Avenue, right in front of Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, and obstructed traffic in a stand of solidarity with the nation-wide Occupy Movement after they voted to do so using a process of direct democracy.
Northeastern Students voted unanimously to occupy Atlantic Avenue in the Financial District following their march. (Photo by Tyler Pendleton, via Facebook.)
Reposted from the Massachusetts Nurses Association site:
October 4, 2011
Nurses Call for Tax on Wall Street to Heal America
Nurses, who every day care for the casualties of the economic crisis driven by Wall Street greed, plan to hold a rally in Dewey Square at the site of the Occupy Boston Protest, to show their support for the movement and to highlight the Massachusetts Nurses Association/National Nurses United’s “Main Street Contract” campaign for a tax on Wall Street financial speculation to provide revenue for Main Street reforms, including jobs at living wages, quality education, guaranteed health care for all, and freedom from hunger, homelessness, and retirement insecurity.
The action is part of the opening day activities of the Massachusetts Nurses Association/National Nurses United 2011 Convention (October 5-7), being held at the Boston Marriott in Newton. Hundreds of nurses from all corners of the Commonwealth will board buses at the event and head to the rally at 3 pm
What: Nurses Rally to Support Occupy Boston
When: Wednesday, October 5, 2011 at 3 pm
Where: Site of Protest in Dewey Square, Outside South Station
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