During the last week, Boston Occupiers have been taking truckloads of supplies to Sandy victims. Here’s one of the trucks, making a pickup in Guilford, CT.
If you want to help out, get in touch with the folks at
http://sandyrelief-boston.tumblr.com
Transparency: $900 from the tactical fund was given to Rita S. for Sandy relief efforts (truck rental, gas, etc)
UPDATE. Additional transparency on relief funding:
http://voices.occupyboston.org/forum/general-discussion/sandy-disbursement
On October 21st, the Massachusetts Pirate Party, ACLU of Massachsetts, Tor Project, and Occupy Boston IT organized a cryptoparty. The event was held at the Sprouts in Somerville, and several dozen people came during the day to learn about security, privacy, and the use of various security and privacy enhancing technologies.
Many of the presentations were recorded. Here’s one of the Tor Project’s Andrew Lewman, giving a talk called “Encrypt to Live”.
You can see more videos via the Tor project’s media server:
https://media.torproject.org/video/2012-10-21-cryptoparty.
Do you want to help people recover from hurricane Sandy? A group of local occupiers are putting together relief efforts:
http://sandyrelief-boston.tumblr.com
New York Occupiers are also organizing aid to Sandy victims:
http://interoccupy.net/occupysandy
Watch #Sandy and #OccupySandy on twitter, and please help if you can.
Occupy Boston’s Financial Accountability Working Group (FAWG) has drafted a proposal for long term management and stability of OB finances. We’ll start discussing this proposal during the Nov 4th General Assembly (the discussion will likely span several GAs).
FAWG’s proposal is posted here:
http://voices.occupyboston.org/forum/proposals/fawg-financial-stability
All are invited to leave feedback, comments, or suggestions.
After careful consideration, we have decided that the best course of action at this point is to end the Vigil for Climate Silence at noon today, Monday. This storm is predicted to cause dangerous winds, disruptive flooding and power outages and the public transit system may not remain open through the storm. We feel that safety of participants and making sure people don’t get stranded downtown without a way to get home is more important than sticking it out.
Thanks to everyone who came out this morning and those who planned to come in later. Thanks to the folks who made it through last night’s night shift. See this morning’s great story about the Vigil from WBUR!
We should all feel proud of what we have accomplished in the last week and move forward with resolve and energized for our next effort. Thank you to all who participated.
We have a ton of video footage and photos that we will be posting in the coming days. Please send any stories, photos and videos to photos@350ma.org.
This storm is further evidence of what we are facing as a result of climate change and why we need to make sure it is part of the public debate. Please take this opportunity to communicate this in the coming days. Onward!
(Republished from http://350ma.org/2012/10/vigil-gives-way-to-frankenstorm.)
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