[Street] Kids Activities with Kick--5/5 GA
Aria Littlhous
aria at littlhous.net
Tue May 1 11:16:00 EDT 2012
Here’s the run down on the issue-oriented art activities planned for the OB/OJP
Table at Wake Up the Earth on 5/5 (more on the GA/festival below)
*Immigrants Are Everywhere*: come help children make “boat-hats” out of
newspaper—including some old Occupiers! If appropriate we want people to
engage the children in a conversation about where their family came from
and to ask the children to label their hat “Immigrant” and “My Family is
From….": along with the other decorations. We’ll also ask them to wear the
hat that day and come to the Vigil to Keep Immigrant Families together the
next day.
*Tiny Green JP: *kids will help create a model on a float of what their
vision of JP looks like—tiny everything! At the end of the night the float
will float somewhere else, as will….
*Owner Occupied*—O! 0!—Children will be offered the opportunity to color on
a triple decker and say what they think a home should be. The giant
cardboard triple decker float will also float away at the end of the night.
See below for more information on the Native American Cenrter of Boston
issue.
HELLOW OCCUPY BOSTON!
It's time to have a really good time. Occupy Boston's General Assembly has
consented to hold the Saturday, May 5 General Assembly at the fabulous Wake
Up the Earth Festival in Jamaica Plain!!! WHOOHOOO!!
The Wake Up the Earth Festival is the best summer festival in Boston--it
not only commemorates a major victory of the 99%--it brings together one of
the most politicized and diverse neighborhoods in the city. Wake Up the
Earth---WUTE--is a great opportunity to meet, greet and galvanize thousands
of people while catching some rays and listening to live music. Please
peruse Native American Indian Center statement below.
The fun starts with marching in the parade! And then you get to hang out on
a blanket with frisbee and friends! Staff the table! Help with children's
activities! Everything will be in place when you get there--cut and paste
real-time! There are two parades that parade to the festival grounds. One
comes from the spectacular, Dominican, Somali, African-American, Latino
neighborhood of Egleston Square. The other one comes from somewhere else.
The general sense at both GA and SAA was that OB and OJB would join the
parade that starts in Egleston Square. To march in the parade meet on & at:
May 5, 2012
Peace Garden
10:30: Parade set up
11:30: Parade leaves
Peace Garden, corner of School St. and Washington.
Stony Brook T Stop, Orange line
Here's a map from the T to the Peace Garden: http://g.co/maps/4pcp8
12:00-4:30 Tabling and Kids Activities. What 1.5 hr shift do you want?
Email me:
5:00: General Assembly, Southwest Corridor Park--in front of the Stony
Brook T in the Sacred Circle--look for the OB banner.
6:00: festival ends. 9:00--after party at Spontaneous Celebrations.
The rain date for the festival is 5/6. If there is rain, then Special
Action Assembly will meet at WUTE instead of GA. In the case of rain, GA
will be cancelled on 5/5.
Sorry for any ommisions/errors,
A..
History Repeats Itself
While it may seem that the nabobs of the 1% are colluding to keep poor
families off of S. Huntingdon Ave., in reality it is only their economic
interests that collide. The proposed development of the former Native
American Indian Center of Boston into a housing development that will make
the filthy rich even richer continues a tradition hundreds of years old;
that is the concentration of land ownership in an ever small number of
hands. Whether gotten by outright war against people who did not recognize
the right to own Mother Earth or by using wealth won by rigging the
political system, controlling land has always been a steady route to power,
especially for colonists.
We cannot return the land (or children) of Native Americans stolen by white
settlers, but we can demand that this land not be the spoils of today’s
economic invaders. We call for both the developments proposed for S.
Huntingdon St. to be filled by owner-occupied triple-deckers, a home-grown
remedy to poverty with a proven record. Spread the wealth or find the
homeless, orphans, widows and others sleeping on your doorstep.
http://jamaicaplaingazette.com/2012/04/13/apartment-plan-draws-opposition/
http://jamaicaplaingazette.com/2012/04/27/community-wants-apartment-projects-reviewed-together/
Dolls say: we are here to visit our Native American friends and will wait
until they are free.
Occupy the Airwaves, May 1--call your favorite radio station and request
songs about peace, justice & revolution!
May 5--Wake Up the Earth! All Day outdoor festival, Stony Brook T, stop by
the Occupy JP table.
"Our goal is a society that prioritizes the needs of all before the profits
of the few." passed by Occupy Boston General Assembly 11/29/11
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