This is our first test of Cover It Live. We’re hoping to make it easier to participate remotely in general assemblies. Let us know what you think!
Watch live streaming video from occupyboston at livestream.com
Occupy Boston TV is proud to announce new episodes of Occupy Boston Live, produced by and featuring Occupy Boston activists! Check out some of the new episodes below.
Representative Corey Atkins and Suffolk Law Professor Donna Palermino give a teach-in on the implications of corporate person-hood:
Betsy Boggia of Occupy Natick talks to Occupy Boston Live about the work of Occupy the Burbs:
Occupy Boston TV is a working group of Occupy Boston that produces live talk shows on a variety of topics related to Occupy Boston. They are also in the process of making documentaries related to the Occupy movement and is writing short street theater/action-related videos that they plan to produce this winter. Occupy Boston TV can be contacted through either the Occupy Boston wiki or their Occupy Boston groups site. If you are interested in being a guest or have an event that you’d like coverage on, please email them.
Anyone is welcome to join Occupy Boston TV. No previous television experience is necessary, and training and resources are provided. Occupy Boston TV will be live again on February 4 from 3 to 5 pm at Brookline Access TV. To see the show live, visit Occupy Boston TV’s livestream site. For more info on participating in the Feb 4 show, please email them.
To see an archive of shows and more videos visit Occupy Boston’s Youtube channel.
Audio content of our past shows also airs on Occupy Boston radio.
We can also be found on Facebook and Twitter.
All Occupy Boston TV talk-shows, documentaries, and interviews, as well as Occupy news segments from around the world, can be downloaded from Occupy Boston at www.pegmedia.org for airing on local cable stations.
The below proposal reached consensus at OB’s General Assembly, on 1/17/12
Proposal to Rent Church Space for General Assembly
Identified Need – secure, dependable indoor meeting space to hold OB General Assemblies
Prelude
Post Dewey Square, Occupy Boston has been leaning on the kindness of local spiritual institutions to hold General Assembly (and now, Action Assemblies.) These churches incur an expense to house our meetings, including personnel and utility costs. To date, one church has been levying a rental fee, $20 per hour for use of the Community Church of Boston. Emmanuel Church is now asking OB for $80 per night.
Proposal
Financial Accountability Working Group (FAWG) propose that Occupy Boston pay these churches specific fees for use of their space, for these specific days and times:
Arlington Street Church – $80 for Tuesdays, 7:00 to 11:00 PM
Emmanuel Church – $80 for Thursdays, 7:00 to 11:00 PM
Community Church of Boston – $80 for Saturdays – 5:00 to 9:00 PM
Community Church of Boston – $80 for Sunday – 5:00 to 9:00 PM
Also, if another space is used for GA, instead of one of these churches, FAWG proposes that Occupy Boston will offer the owners of that space up to $80 for its use. (Note: this does not preclude any Occupy Boston member from finding and soliciting a free space, for GA use.)
Also, FAWG proposes that Tuesday and Thursday General Assemblies end at 10:30 PM, and that Saturday and Sunday General Assemblies end at 8:30 PM.
Also FAWG proposes that the proceeds from the GA donation box be allocated to help pay this rental expense, in the hopes that the General Assembly becomes self sustaining.
If consented to by the General Assembly, this arrangement stands until other accommodations are secured, or until Occupy Boston decides to hold General Assemblies, outside.
The Boston fishing party and Australians’ rights online
An Australian activist is fighting an attempt by Boston authorities to subpoena information about her from Twitter in relation to the #occupy movement.
Asher Wolf, a transparency and information activist, is based in Melbourne and over the past 18 months has quietly become one of the key people on Twitter for following news about transparency issues, WikiLeaks, net surveillance and the Occupy movement, via her extensive and systematic retweeting of information from around the world.
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Australian lawyers Doogue & O’Brien, acting for Wolf and another, have told Goldberger and Twitter that they will resist the subpoena, given its broad scope and the “fishing expedition” nature of the request. “The ultimate effect of your subpoena is to pose a direct challenge to our client’s right to free speech. This is particularly concerning in light of the fact that one of our clients is a journalist who uses Twitter, amongst other media, to report on current affairs. Twitter encourages the free flow of information and reportage. The course which you have taken will inevitably stifle this important function.”
Actor: ‘Paul Robeson would have supported the Occupy movement if he was around today’
On Tuesday, Tayo Aluko – performing as Paul Robeson in his one-man play “Call Mr. Robeson: A Life, with Songs” – took to the Hopkins Center’s Warner Bentley Theater stage carrying a chair on his back, accompanied by soft pangs of a reverberating piano that supported his deep baritone vocals. The performance, which mixed Aluko’s singing with a more traditional spoken one-man show, was a part of Dartmouth’s celebration of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.
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In the program notes was a message from Aluko that documented his recent stay with a member of the Occupy Boston movement while on tour. The Occupy protester had recently been arrested for partaking in a sit-down in the lobby of a Boston bank.
“Robeson would have supported the [Occupy movement] if he were around today, and it’s great to see the movement is literally worldwide,” Aluko said.
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Globe regrets story
A story in Monday’s paper about relationships that began during Occupy Boston featured a man, Robert Stitham, who is a registered sex offender. Had his status been discovered during reporting, the story would not have been published.
Continue reading “The OB Media Rundown for 1/19/12” »
On the January 20–21, the anniversary of the Citizens United decision, Occupy Boston will stand with a wide coalition of groups for GETTING MONEY OUT OF POLITICS, two days of events and rallies.
On Friday, January 20th
- 12:30-2:00 PM – Move to Amend’s “Occupy the Courts” rally and Operation Woof at the Federal Courthouse at 1 Court House Way in Boston, MA. Operation Woof encourages dog owners to bring their dogs to protest and international superstar Snoopy has endorsed Dogs Against Corporate Personhood’s participation in Move to Amend’s “Occupy The Courts” rally.
- 4:00PM-8:00PM Citizens United Working Group of Occupy Boston on will host “Rally and Summit to Unite Citizens for Democracy” at St. Paul’s Cathedral, 138 Tremont Street in Boston
On Saturday, January 21st
- 10:00AM-4:00PM – day two of “Rally and Summit to Unite Citizens for Democracy” at Suffolk University in Donahue Hall, 41 Temple Street in Boston.
These events are designed to educate participants on the complex issues of money in politics and explore and engage in solutions to this problem.
“Whether you identify with Occupy because of housing, jobs, health care, the environment or because of any of the other myriad of problems facing this country,” said Heleni Thayre, an organizer of the event and a member of the Citizens United Working Group, “They are all just a symptom of a greater problem—the excessive influence of money on public policy, elections and the law.”
Speakers for Friday and Saturday include: Senator Jamie Eldridge and Representative Cory Atkins, both sponsors of a resolution in the State House to overturn Citizens United; John Bonifaz, co-founder of Free Speech for People; Julius Levine, BU Law Professor Emeritus and Clean Elections activist; Donna Palermino, a Civil Liberties professor at Suffolk University and writer for Fire Dog Lake; Pam Wilmot, MA State Director for Common Cause; Grace Ross, former gubernatorial candidate and founder of Massachusetts Alliance Against Predatory Lending; Melia Lazu, MIT professor and co-founder of MassVote.
Speakers will examine the complex issue of corporate personhood and how special interest money negatively impacts democracy. Some of the solutions that will be presented and discussed are; state and local resolutions calling for a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United, consumer strategies to target the worst offenders, clean elections, running citizen candidates and citizens lobbying training.
All events are free and all are welcome to attend. For more information about this event, please email citizensunited@occupyboston.
