[Street] Post on Actions and Trainings this weekend -- please read and respond!
Katie Gradowski
katie.gradowski at gmail.com
Wed Dec 14 14:39:27 EST 2011
Hey everyone!
Outreach is putting together a list of actions and events that are
happening *this weekend* to post and circulate, in response to the question
"what are your next steps?" Some of these have been planned well in
advance; some have been organized specifically post-eviction. *If you
have anything scheduled that can be widely publicized, please email me so I
can add it to this list! *
We are hoping to circulate and post to the website so that the wider OB
community has a sense of what is going on and can participate, even in the
wider radio silence. *These are tentative descriptions -- please wait on
forwarding until we have a complete list. *Thanks so much everyone for
your hard work! There are some amazing things coming up this weekend,
looking forward to the next few weeks and beyond.
Katie
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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 16
*
Home for the Holidays: City Life Press Conference and Tenant Speak-out*
*12 p.m., 40 Fowler Street in Dorchester
*This Friday at noon, City Life / Vida Urbana and the Bank Tenants
Association, with support from Occupy Boston, will be holding a press
conference for families who have won their homes back through a combination
of public pressure, legal defense, and alternative financing. *On October
1, members occupied a vacant building and hung a giant banner on the front
of the building with the word "Occupy." * After taking over the space,
they discovered that the Deutsche Bank foreclosure had been faulty. CL/ VU
found the old owner, who has agreed to rent to a foreclosed property owner
who earlier this year was evicted by Aurora Bank in Hyde Park.
The press conference will introduce the St. Simon family who will move into
40 Fowler, as well as testimonials from members who have successfully
gotten their homes back about foreclosure. As part of the event, City
Life will be decorating their annual justice tree, and has invited members
from Occupy Boston hang tiny tents and speak about next steps and plans for
the future. * Join us as we honor these families, celebrate the power of
collective organizing, and outline next steps in our ongoing work with City
Life**.
Community Forum for Occupy Boston
6-8:30 p.m., St. Paul's Cathedral (on the Boston Common)*
A meeting for occupiers and working groups to address immediate
post-eviction issues, including future locations for GA space, long-term
arrangements for our houseless occupiers, working group reassessment, and
other issues of immediate importance (*NOTE: This will be a logistical
meeting. Please come with concrete proposals in hand)*
*OTHER EVENTS:
*
- *- tiny tent-making party?*
*
*
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SARURDAY, DECEMBER 17
*PLANNED ACTIONS: (need details!! please forward for anything that can
be widely publicized)*
- *#D17 - Three Month Anniversary of Occupy Wall Street
*
- *Boston Tea Party (pelase send details!!!)*
- *Funeral for the First amendemnt (still happening?)
*
*Non-violent Direct Action Training*
*10-4 p.m. Community Church, 565 Boylston Street*
*In order to make history, we need to learn a little bit about our own. *
Join us for a full-day training on Non-Violent Direct Action, covering
history, street tactics, planning, strategy, legal, and affinity groups, to
be followed by a screening of "This is What Democracy Looks Like" on the
mass demonstrations and coordinated direct actions in Seattle 1999 that
launched the US anti-globalization movement. Inspired by the Occupy
movement these trainings are part of a community capacity building effort
in the Boston area, the trainings will be facilitated by members of the New
England Trainers Network, Alliance of Community Trainers and the Health
Justice Working Group of Occupy Boston. The aim is to build the skill sets
and confidence of community groups and activists in doing NVDA.
Please sign up ahead of time for the trainings to help the trainers plan.
Email: bostonactiontrainings at riseup.net
Phone: (617) 971-8753
Web: www.tinyurl.com/NVDAtraining
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SUNDAY, DECEMBER 18
*
Direct Action Strategy and Action Planning.
**11- 4 p.m. **Spontaneous Celebrations 45 Danforth Street Jamaica Plain,
MA** *
Digging a little deeper into actions and strategy. Inspired by the Occupy
movement these trainings are part of a community capacity building effort
in the Boston area, the trainings will be facilitated by members of the New
England Trainers Network, Alliance of Community Trainers and the Health
Justice Working Group of Occupy Boston. The aim is to build the skill sets
and confidence of community groups and activists in doing NVDA.
Please sign up ahead of time for the trainings to help the trainers plan.
Email: bostonactiontrainings at riseup.net
Phone: (617) 971-8753
Web: www.tinyurl.com/NVDAtraining
*
Occupy Boston Action Summit
**1:30 p.m. **Encuentro 5 (33 Harrison St, 5th floor)*
In the wake of the clearing of Dewey, we have become a movement that is
defined by our actions. * This Sunday at 1:30, join members from Direct
Action, Media, Outreach, Street, and others to discuss vision and strategy
for the next two months.* The purpose of this event is twofold: 1)
discuss strategy and tactics around actions, and 2) build the Occupy Boston
actions community. The first half of the summit will be a conversation
around high-level strategy and goals, and the second half will focus on
reflecting on past actions (including presentations on our most innovative
actions so far), brainstorming new ones, and creating checklists and
procedures for properly publicizing and executing actions, with an emphasis
on coordination across working groups.
If you have any questions about the event, email street at occupyboston.org.
MONDAY, DECEMBER 19
*Occupy our Homes: Rally and March against HUD eviction requirements*
*Noon, 10 Causeway St. *
Occupy Boston will join City Life / Vida Urbana for a rally 10 Causeway
St., to oppose HUD requirements that commercial banks evict foreclosure
victims who have FHA-insured mortgagers before the property is transferred
to HUD. Some context: When FHA has insured a bank loan, the lender will
get fully reimbursed even if the loan is twice the real value of the home.
In response, HUD assumes control of the property. However HUD has been
demanding “vacant conveyance”. This policy forces the foreclosing lender to
evict in order to get their insurance, even when they could otherwise
afford to stay in the property.
We're going to protest this policy with numbers and voices. Please help
spread the word! City Life will bring a giant vampire puppet -- we'll
bring an army of Jedi knights. Join us as we try to realign HUD to the
right side of the Force.
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