<div><strong>As a practical matter, while it may well "feel" like Occupy is "aiming" at mayors, it is not the reality. It is true that Occupy is like a "thorn" in their side due to the very visibility that makes this movement <em>different.</em></strong></div>
<div><strong></strong> </div><div><strong><em>As the GAO audit of the Fed, reported that was just issued makes clear, mayors and everyone else was robbed of $16 trillion dollars (I have attached the report) for those interested).</em></strong></div>
<div><strong><em>So I strongly, strongly suggest a response be done, ASAP and provide a first draft & that this be done as an "open letter" that also is on the website, the facebook page, and possibly released with a brief PR. </em></strong></div>
<div><strong><em></em></strong> </div><div><strong><em>This should be done and go out TODAY as this SHNS story went to ALL newspapers across the state, all legislators, etc.</em></strong></div><div><strong><em></em></strong> </div>
<div><strong><em>Deb Sirotkin Butler</em></strong></div><div><strong><em></em></strong> </div><div><strong><font color="#3333ff">Open Letter to The Honorable Thomas M. Menino</font></strong></div><div><strong><font color="#3333ff">(address)</font></strong></div>
<div><strong><font color="#3333ff"></font></strong> </div><div><strong><font color="#3333ff">Dear Mayor Minino:</font></strong></div><div><strong><font color="#3333ff"></font></strong> </div><div><strong><font color="#3333ff">Occupy Boston appreciates the location, services and hospitality received to date at Dewey Square. The Dewey Square location in the financial district across from the Boston Federal Reserve is critical to our core message, which is the pillaging of the United States and its citizens by the banking industry, with the collusion of the Federal Reserve Bank. In fact, just recently in the first-ever audit of the Federal Reserve System, a $16 trillion transfer without over sight, no strings attached was uncovered from the Federal Reserve Bank to private banks, most of them overseas.</font></strong></div>
<div><strong><font color="#3333ff"></font></strong> </div><div><strong><font color="#3333ff">While it may feel as if as a mayor you are targeted, in fact, our survival as a country is at stake, our target is the preservation of American Democracy, and we ask for your cooperation in making Occupy Boston all it can be as part of this critical effort. That includes winterization, sanitation, and a good working relationship to those ends so that Occupy Boston can continue to fight for the liberty and financial security of not just Boston, not just Massachusetts, but the United States of America while keeping the light and media and citizenry focused on the depredations by the banking industry with the collusion of Congress.</font></strong></div>
<div><strong><font color="#3333ff"></font></strong> </div><div><strong><font color="#3333ff">Respectfully:</font></strong></div><div><strong><font color="#3333ff"></font></strong> </div><div><strong><font color="#3333ff">[signature bloc]</font></strong></div>
<div><strong><font color="#3333ff"></font></strong> </div><div><strong><font color="#cc0000">I am due in a hearing in Lowell at noon, so have to zoom off, so I apologize is this is rought, but I HAD to take time to give you all this heads up - PLEASE grab the ball and run with it!!!</font></strong></div>
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<font size="2" face="Arial">MENINO: OCCUPY SUPPORTERS ‘AIMING THEIR FIRE
AT THE WRONG PLACE’<br>
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By Kyle Cheney<br>
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE<br>
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STATE HOUSE, BSOTON, DEC. 6, 2011…..Boston Mayor Thomas Menino on Tuesday
chastised backers of the Occupy Wall Street movement for training their
anger at municipal leaders rather than Congress, and the accused the
group of a scattershot message that would benefit from taking on a single
issue.<br>
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“Mayors can’t do much about what they’re talking about. It’s the Congress
and the Senate but nobody’s talking to them at all. They come at mayors,”
Menino told reporters after speaking at a Greater Boston Chamber of
Commerce breakfast at the Fairmont Copley Hotel. “Mayors can’t make
decisions on banks’ regulations. Mayors can’t make decisions on
scholarships. Mayors can’t make decisions on housing. It’s all down in
Washington. They’re aiming their fire at the wrong place.<br>
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Menino’s remarks came as he awaits a judge’s decision that will clarify
whether he has the power to evict Occupy Boston protesters from their
long-held encampment in Dewey Square, at the heart of Boston’s financial
district.<br>
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Menino said he hasn’t assumed the outcome of the Suffolk Superior Court
Judge Frances McIntyre’s decision yet, but he questioned the Occupy
movement’s tactics.<br>
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“If they had one issue, I believe they could be a very powerful
operation. They don’t have one issue, they have several issues,” he said.
“Those several issues are issues that middle America cares about. Until
you focus on one … you’re not going to have many wins.”<br>
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Critics of the Occupy movement – which has branded itself as a voice to
protest economic inequality and a political and financial system rigged
to benefit the wealthiest, best-connected Americans – argue that
protesters haven’t offered a clear solution. Menino’s criticism echoes
similar remarks offered by former Republican presidential primary
contender Herman Cain, who suggested that protesters aim their anger at
government, rather than at the financial industry.<br>
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Menino’s comments also come as mayors in other cities are grappling with
how to handle Occupy protests of their own. The protesters have primarily
set up camp in major downtown areas, and critics argue they present a
public health and public safety hazard. Menino, whose police commissioner
Ed Davis attended the breakfast, said he shared those concerns.<br>
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Judge McIntyre said she would rule on Menino’s authority to remove
protesters. She has indicated her ruling would come by the end of next
week.<br>
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12/6/2011<br>
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