The Massachusetts Nurses Association—part of National Nurses United—has come to show their solidarity and march with Occupy Boston through the Financial District. They came in five separate, full-sized buses! It’s a great day!
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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
A nation-wide student walk out is planned for today, October 5, at noon. Students from across the country, from New York to Los Angeles, will march in solidarity with the Occupy Movement.
In Boston, students from universities and colleges across the city will join together in solidarity with Occupy Boston by taking part in the walk out. Boston University, Boston College, Northeastern, Tufts, Brandeis, and others—including Harvard, MIT, UMass Boston, Berklee, Simmons, and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts—will leave class and march with us. They have organized on the site studentsoccupyboston.com—which is “a central communication point for organizing Boston area college students to help Occupy Boston“—and on Twitter, at @studentsoccupy.
On Facebook, students are circulating an invitation to their friends that includes the following description of Occupy Boston:
What I can tell you is that attending an #OccupyBoston event is the only way you will ever have a shot at understanding what the movement is really about. I can tell you that the individuals involved with #OccupyBoston and #OccupyWallStreet are unbelievably passionate, organized, determined people of every age, race, ethnicity, nationality, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, class, and spiritual affiliation who are working unwaveringly in the spirit of democracy. I can tell you that members of the #Occupy movement’s General Assemblies are effectively drawing the nation’s attention to a number of alarming economic, political, and social issues that negatively impact each and every one of us. Finally, I can assure you that this movement will be what its participants make of it, and for that reason, I implore you to visit Dewey Square for a General Assembly and to have a say in what #OccupyBoston becomes. I cannot contain my excitement when I think of the potential a movement like this has to change the United States and the world for the better, and I know that the participation and support of every single student and recent graduate in the Greater Boston area will help it achieve its incredible promise.
We are so proud of our students! Boston is America’s college town—one third of people who live in the greater Boston area are under 30, and 60% of those are students.
For more information on how your school can get involved, please email studentsoccupyboston@gmail.com or follow @studentsoccupy on Twitter.
So many people have been so generous toward Occupy Boston, and we’d like to pay that generosity forward. Our brothers and sisters occupying Monument Square in Portland, Maine could use a few things. If you have any of the following items, please bring them to Dewey Square by this Thursday, when members of Occupy Boston will deliver them to Maine in person:
- Easy ups
- Screen tents
- Medical gloves
- Rescue inhalers
- Epinephrin pens
- Blankets
- Care packages
Most importantly, please send Occupy Maine words of encouragement and solidarity on their Facebook page or their Twitter feed, then check out their live stream.
This release was given to the Occupy Boston media team at Dewey Square.
The Greater Boston Labor Council applauds the efforts of Occupy Boston to place a spotlight on the imbalance of power in our nation and the role that Wall Street has played in devastating our economy.
Faced with the worst economy since the great depression and saddled with college tuition debt young people are saying what labor has been saying for a long time. Shared sacrifice is a one-way street in our nation.
Occupy Boston and similar organizations in New York and across the nation are using valid tactics to expose the reality that there are two economies in America. One for real people and another for financial elites, the same people that created the economic crisis and have been untouched by its consequences, while millions of Americans have lost their jobs and their homes.
Richard M. Rogers.