[Street] [Obgroups] Fwd: Occupy Boston: Happy Valentine's Day, We Heart YOU! - here's the email sent a short while ago, to all WePay donors

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      Occupy Boston "You Can't Evict An Idea"
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Even in winter, the spirit of non-violent direct action burns brightly!
After the December 10th encampment raid, we held freezing General
Assemblies on Boston Common, but soon found warm rental space in nearby
churches.  Our weekly meeting schedule has evolved to three General
Assemblies, a brainstorming Action Assembly and a Community Gathering for
food, socializing and presentations by working groups. People of Color’s
jam-packed Community Gathering for MLK
day<http://occupyboston.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f5f97fdc99ac599fdd0c94b25&id=c3d2d0c673&e=a0e9774996>featured
excerpts from King’s Vietnam speech, commentary
by activists Mel King and Kwami Somburu, live drumming, rap and slam poetry.

Occupy Boston now encompasses 86 working
groups<http://occupyboston.us4.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=f5f97fdc99ac599fdd0c94b25&id=001581dfba&e=a0e9774996>.
The Boston Occupier<http://occupyboston.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f5f97fdc99ac599fdd0c94b25&id=b4e9542db1&e=a0e9774996>newspaper
has been joined by Occupy
Boston Radio<http://occupyboston.us4.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=f5f97fdc99ac599fdd0c94b25&id=d3995d82b5&e=a0e9774996>and
Occupy
Boston TV<http://occupyboston.us4.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=f5f97fdc99ac599fdd0c94b25&id=777a256ff2&e=a0e9774996>.
 Others among the proliferation of new groups are the Screen Printers
Guild, Creative Action/Subversive Arts (founders of the Tiny Tent Task
Force<http://occupyboston.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f5f97fdc99ac599fdd0c94b25&id=f51b5f799b&e=a0e9774996>),
A-Z Library, Restorative Justice and Mad Pride. Occupy Boston Students now
hold Student General Assemblies and staged a 20-campus
summit<http://occupyboston.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f5f97fdc99ac599fdd0c94b25&id=23c1d15e80&e=a0e9774996>last
weekend.

Free School University has launched an OB Radio series, supplementing
talks, discussions and screenings on movement-building and the on-going
Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture Series. Non-Violence and Anti-Oppression
hosted an envisioning workshop by legendary North Carolina activist Linda
Stout; a Spokes Council is being developed; and Financial Accountability is
drafting a Strategic Planning and Participatory Budget Process that
promises to become a prototype for other Occupies, as we all face limited
resources in the face of loss of encampments and reduced media visibility.

Direct action is intense, wide-ranging and creative, as we link up with
3,000-plus local, national and global Occupies and dozens of community
groups for more rallies, marches, protests and movement-building activities
than we can list.

*We’re changing more than the conversation.  *

 Highlights of direct action supported by your contribution:

   - We Occupied First
Night<http://occupyboston.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f5f97fdc99ac599fdd0c94b25&id=35274a011d&e=a0e9774996>with
2 huge banners for the procession, mobile InfoTent canvassing,  Free
   School University's Roving Soap Box, a Women’s Caucus
spectacula<http://occupyboston.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f5f97fdc99ac599fdd0c94b25&id=efa2d7958d&e=a0e9774996>r
   and a meditation service by Faith and Spirituality.
   - We united with dozens of New England Occupies to Occupy the NH
   Primaries!  creating a life-sized live- streaming elephant for days of
   non-stop protest, debates, street theater, teach-ins and OB’s Love Police
   flash mob. And a strong OB contingent went down to DC to Occupy
Congress<http://occupyboston.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f5f97fdc99ac599fdd0c94b25&id=0049cf5ac2&e=a0e9774996>
   !
   - Spearheading campaign finance
reform<http://occupyboston.us4.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=f5f97fdc99ac599fdd0c94b25&id=93487a3c73&e=a0e9774996>,
   Citizens United working group hosted a packed public teach-in on corporate
   personhood, joined the 80-city national  RALLY AT THE COURTHOUSE! protest
   of the Supreme Court decision opening floodgates to unlimited corporate
   election spending;  followed up with a two-day summit/massive strategy
   session<http://occupyboston.us4.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=f5f97fdc99ac599fdd0c94b25&id=7ed5cef6fc&e=a0e9774996>to
create a game plan to get money out of politics on the local level;
and
   is laying the groundwork for passage of a municipal election finance reform
   resolution by Boston City Council.
   - We’ve joined City Life/Urbana Vida for anti-foreclosure actions
   ranging from canvassing, speak-outs and foreclosure auction protests in
   Everett, Revere, Dorchester and Malden, to an OCCUPY OUR HOMES rally
   protesting HUD eviction policies, an UNDERWATER MORTGAGE
RALLY<http://occupyboston.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f5f97fdc99ac599fdd0c94b25&id=dc6c445d42&e=a0e9774996>(with
swimsuits, snorkels and masks) and a Valentines Day MARCH FOR TENANTS
   (STOP BREAKING OUR HEARTS).
   - Occupy the
T<http://occupyboston.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f5f97fdc99ac599fdd0c94b25&id=2d1a2576a8&e=a0e9774996>is
working furiously to SAVE THE T! from MBTA fare hikes, service cuts
and
   layoffs, making a strong presence at MBTA public hearings  and holding
   major rally with the T Riders Union in Copley Square yesterday.  Protesters
   were decked out in Charlie masks.
   - OB is fighting the 3-Strikes bill in solidarity with Occupy the Hood,
   and joined Ocupemos El Barrio in demanding that Massachusetts cease
   cooperating with Homeland Security’s anti-immigrant "Secure
Communities"<http://occupyboston.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f5f97fdc99ac599fdd0c94b25&id=af310e87a2&e=a0e9774996>and
Expedited Removal Programs.
   - OB's Action for Peace holds weekly vigils and has demonstrated against
   impending war on
Iran<http://occupyboston.us4.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=f5f97fdc99ac599fdd0c94b25&id=4518d985ca&e=a0e9774996>;
   Climate Action staged a march of stripe-shirted referees to Scott Brown’s
   office to call “FOUL!”  for his support of the environmentally-catastrophic
   Keystone XL pipeline, and OB passed a resolution calling for an end fossil
   fuel and nuclear subsidies;  Media blacked out our website blackout in
   solidarity with the internet anti-censorship effort against the Stop
   Online Piracy Act
(SOPA)<http://occupyboston.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f5f97fdc99ac599fdd0c94b25&id=c871a45d03&e=a0e9774996>
   .

 *EVICT US AND WE ARE EVERYWHERE!  You can participate by visiting our
website with its overflowing daily calendar at
http://www.occupyboston.org<http://occupyboston.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f5f97fdc99ac599fdd0c94b25&id=1d03fb2d1c&e=a0e9774996>
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