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    Occupy Boston Contributes Resources for General Strike Actions

    The following proposal was passed by the General Assembly of Occupy Boston on April 12, 2012:

    General Strike WG Funds Request for M1GS – 2012

    General Strike WG requests $1300 funds for the May 1, 2012 day of action.
    The full list of supplies needed will be on the OB website for crowd sourcing.
    Receipts will be provided for all expenditures.
    All unused funds will be returned to Occupy Boston.
    Donations boxes will be at OB May Day actions to raise funds for OB General Fund.
    The budget for food and water ($200) will be taken from the OB Food Budget.

    Food and water ($200)
    Medical Emergency ($200)
    3 portable PA systems ($350)
    Screen print supplies ($150)
    Fabric ($50)
    Spring clamps ($20)
    Duct tape ($5)
    Paint ($40)
    5 clamp lights ($50)
    face paint ($40)
    LED tea lights ($20)
    neon posterboard ($10)
    glow-in-the-dark paints ($40)
    6 blacklight bulbs ($25)
    Labels for stickers ($40)
    Sharpies/markers ($10)
    Parking ($50)

    Total = $1300

     

    General Assembly Tonight and Saturday at Camp Charlie

    The following proposal passed the General Assembly of Occupy Boston on April 7, 2012:

    Have GA at Camp Charlie on Thursday [April 12] and Saturday [April 14] at the usual time.

    Mutual Aid Continues in the Form of T Passes

    The General Assembly of Occupy Boston passed the following proposal on April 20, 2012:

    The Safety Working Group requests $300.00 for weekly T passes. We’re bringing this
    proposal because many of our most active activists who have made OB their main focus
    are living by the skin of their teeth and need to at least be able to get to actions and home
    again. It will be first-come, first-serve with the understanding that these are for familiar
    faces within our small community.

    Occupy Boston Endorses Tax Day Demonstration

    Occupy Boston’s General Assembly consented to endorse the following statement on April 10, 2012:

    OB endorses the Tax Day demonstration coordinated by Right to the City described at
    taxdayboston.org and on the attached flyers. OB understands that someone
    from Occupy JP will fill out the RTTC on-line endorsement form.

    Tax Day flyer 1

    Tax Day flyer 2

     

    People of Color, Anti-Oppression and Decolonize to Liberate Working Groups Receive Support for Education and Activism

    The following proposal passed at the General Assembly of Occupy Boston on April 10, 2012:

    The People of Color Working Group, Anti-Oppression Working Group and Decolonize
    to Liberate Working Group request $1,000.00 to purchase a projector, video camera, and
    screen to support educational and activism events.

    The People of Color Working Group needs to do further internal education on different
    issues to build solidarity, and they also want to be able to document their activism with a
    video camera for further education within and beyond the OB community.

    The Decolonize to Liberate Working Group is continuing to show films to deepen our
    understanding of both the global impact of colonialism and its unique impact in the U.S.
    context. We’re next planning to show “9500 Liberty”, a film which traces the impact of
    anti-immigration legislation on a community in Virginia, as well as a film on the Indian
    boarding school experience at a later date, etc.

    The Anti-Oppression Working Group has a series of films they would like to do examinig
    points of intersectionality among oppressions, particularly the systemic oppressions
    of racism, classism, and hetero-patriarchy. In particular we’d like to begin with the
    3-part series “Race: The Power of An Illusion”, especially parts two and three which
    demonstrate the historical underpinnings to the racialization of wealth in the U.S. context.
    We’d also like to sponsor another showing of “Inside Job” at some point, the best film to
    date explaining the economic crash of 2008.

    All three groups are finding that they have a shared analysis of the operation of white
    supremacy and the legacies of colonialism in our Occupy movement, in the U.S. context,
    and within the broader global context, hence we feel positioned to do this educational
    work within OB but need equipment to share to do so.

    The WGs have been borrowing equipment (most often one person’s personal projector)
    but have found it’s increasingly difficult to manage the logistics of this. We believe that
    dedicating equipment to these WGs will allow us to hold more events and educate more
    people more quickly if we don’t have to plan around borrowing equipment. We have
    overlap in membership between our groups which will make transitioning and being
    responsible for the equipment less challenging. If the equipment we purchase is less
    expensive than the $1,000.00 requested, we will only seek reimbursement for the amount
    purchased or return funds as appropriate.

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