Big news! The Massachusetts Teachers Associations (MTA) has a wonderful new post on their website expressing their solidarity with Occupy Boston and similar protests. Laura Barrett of the MTA’s Division of Communications visited Dewey Square on Tuesday afternoon to share the news. Solidarity!
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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Approximately 50 Northeastern University students came to Dewey Square today to show their support for Occupy Boston by demonstrating with the occupiers. The students—who marched from Northeastern’s Centennial Common—stood in the middle of Atlantic Avenue, right in front of Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, and obstructed traffic in a stand of solidarity with the nation-wide Occupy Movement after they voted to do so using a process of direct democracy.
Northeastern Students voted unanimously to occupy Atlantic Avenue in the Financial District following their march. (Photo by Tyler Pendleton, via Facebook.)
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
Occupiers Acacia Brewer and Jason Potteiger spoke on NECN earlier about Occupy Boston and clarified some misconceptions. Check it out here.
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