OCCUPY BOSTON SUMMIT
Speak Up — Add Your Voice — Join The Conversation
SATURDAY NOVEMBER 19 @ 2-6 pm
Quincy School
885 Washington Street, Chinatown
A 15 minute walk from Dewey Square
or Orange Line to Tufts Medical Center
Planning to come? Need childcare or translation? Want to volunteer? Let us know! obsummit@gmail.com
http://tinyurl.com/obsummit
Tonight General Assembly ratified OB Legal’s proposal to send three Occupiers to the mediation ordered by the Court’s ruling on our Injunction some days ago. This mediation will take place before the Dec. 1 preliminary hearing on Occupy Boston’s right to remain in Dewey Square.
The three Occupiers “temporarily empowered” to represent Occupy Boston will be accompanied by lawyers from the National Lawyers Guild in a mediation with the City, Boston Police, Rose Kennedy Greenway Conservancy. NLG Lawyer Ben Wish read Legal’s proposal, “We recognize that it is impossible to have any small group of our community represent the interests of our entire community but it is necessary for the immediate and long-term survival of Occupy Boston that we as a GA temporarily empower a small group to engage in that mediation… Court-ordered mediation is a necessary step.”
The GA agreed to choose three of its dedicated members, Jennie Seidewand, Kristopher Eric Martin (known as Eric), Michael Alex Ingram (known as Alex) to mediate with the City, BPD, and RKG. These Occupiers reassured the GA that they will not make any binding decisions within the mediation without going to the GA first. NLG Lawyer Ben Wish told GA that either he or Howard Cooper will also be at the mediation, and will be able to find out more about the specific people representing each side at the table. Legal Working Group’s Proposal, read in its second-round, amended form by Eric Martin, included the stipulation that the OB mediators will be bound by consensus process in all decisions at the mediation. More details to come, on this historic moment for the Occupy Movement.
Occupy the Courts!
Many thanks to @caulkthewagon for live-tweeting and @profpoole for live transcription.
Supporters of Occupy Boston recently became aware of a letter from the Rose Kennedy Greenway Conservancy (RKGC) which calls on the police to “remove the occupiers” from Dewey Square. The patch of land that makes up the square is owned by the Massachusetts Department of Transportation, and the RKGC are the stewards of it.
The letter is dated November 8.
Volunteers from Occupy Boston, the National Lawyer’s Guild, and the American Civil Liberties Union sat down for a meeting to discuss health, safety, sanitation, the Dewey Square Farmer’s Market, winterization, and legal concerns with RKGC executives on November 9. In that meeting, the RKGC made no mention of its November 8 letter, even though the letter clearly calls on the police to “remove the occupiers.” Relations were amicable among all of the parties present at the meeting.
Mayors Menino and Bloomberg, who have been working together since 2006 on federal gun-control legislation.
Across the country, our infrastructure is falling apart. Our bridges, our roads, and our public transit systems are in a state of disrepair. Enough! It’s time to revitalize our economy with the creation of local jobs that serve our country as a whole! At 4 pm, tens of thousands of people who are deeply engaged in the labor movement will join us in Dewey Square, march to our bridges, and demand that we get back to work.
The candlelight march will proceed from Dewey Square down Atlantic Avenue to the North Washington St. Bridge—a bridge that is desperately in need of repair—for a speak out against unemployment, austerity, and infrastructure cuts.
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