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Team, <br>
<br>
why don't we send Menino asking for his help in taking on the right
targets. how can he work with the citizens, whom he has a duty to
serve, to take on the abuses of power from congress, the fed and the
big banks? or at least join us for a town hall, where ALL of Boston
is invited, to discuss these issues. <br>
<br>
most likely he will ignore it or decline/refuse. best case scenario
he agrees and a city conversation is started. let's do this not as a
challenge but as an invitation given his own words that we should
aim at the right target. <br>
<br>
cheers <br>
<br>
martin<br>
<br>
<br>
On 12/6/11 11:20 AM, Deborah Sirotkin Butler wrote:
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<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></strong> </div>
<div><strong><font color="#3333ff">Dear Mayor Minino:</font></strong></div>
<div><strong></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></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></strong> </div>
<div><strong><font color="#3333ff">Respectfully:</font></strong></div>
<div><strong></strong> </div>
<div><strong><font color="#3333ff">[signature bloc]</font></strong></div>
<div><strong></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>
<div> </div>
<div><br>
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Date: Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 10:32 AM<br>
Subject: MENINO: OCCUPY SUPPORTERS ‘AIMING THEIR FIRE AT THE
WRONG PLACE’<br>
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<font face="Arial" size="2">MENINO: OCCUPY SUPPORTERS ‘AIMING
THEIR FIRE
AT THE WRONG PLACE’<br>
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By Kyle Cheney<br>
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE<br>
<br>
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>
<br>
“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>
<br>
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>
<br>
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>
<br>
“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>
<br>
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>
<br>
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>
<br>
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>
<br>
-END-<br>
12/6/2011<br>
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