[chilefuturo] Fwd: October2011.org News: Occupy Phase 2 - A Growing Movement
- From: Patricio Chacón <pachamos@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: chilefuturo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, chile-h@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Radio U. de Chile" <pautauchile@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2012 12:55:54 -0300
Estimad@s:
Recibo semanalmente informes como el que reenvío ahora,
Me tinca que estos ñatos están trabajando harto y muy bien, y no puedo
estar más de acuerdo con ellos.
Ojalá aquí pueda formarse un movimiento como éste, aunque fuera un poquito
parecido, digo yo...
Patricio
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Date: 2012/1/5
Subject: October2011.org News: Occupy Phase 2 - A Growing Movement
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Because a sustainable future depends on the people willing to see the truth
for what it is, and for those to stand up in unison in order to make a
difference.
— Jake Edward Keli'i Eakin
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Dear Friend,
Occupy Washington, DC is pleased to announce the expansion of our efforts.
When we called for the occupation of Freedom
Plaza<http://october2011.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=33602bebba8fb7dd6e71fb413&id=b97a0b7cc0&e=d554d87e3a>
in
early June, we said this occupation would be “the
beginning.”<http://october2011.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=33602bebba8fb7dd6e71fb413&id=e6d9dca9d3&e=d554d87e3a>
We saw the occupation of Freedom Plaza as a tactic, much like a lunch
counter sit-in or Freedom Ride during the civil rights movement. The
Occupation was designed to educate and mobilize people for a much bigger
and longer effort to end a government dominated by money and militarism and
shift power to the American people. A few weeks before we began to occupy
Freedom Plaza, Occupy Wall Street erupted, and other occupations soon
followed. Occupation of public space was an idea whose historical time had
come.
More than 1,200 Occupy camps sprang up quickly across the nation and the
world. The first months of this new movement profoundly shook the
foundation of the 1% – almost instantly creating a new form of political
power. This TIME “Person of the Year” protest movement, truly grown from
the grass roots, handed the 99% some REAL political capital for the first
time in decades and installed the Occupy Movement as a force to be reckoned
with.
Shifting power to the American people requires much more than an
occupation. The Occupy Movement needs to build on four strong components –
(1) non-violent protest and civil resistance, (2) non-participation in the
existing corporate finance-dominated economy, (3) the development of
concrete plans and policies to transform the corporate economy into a
people's economy and (4) ending government dominated by money by shifting
political power to the American people. Occupy Washington, DC says: no
oligarchy, no plutocracy we want participatory democracy. As we
transitioned to winter we had many discussions on Freedom Plaza and among
the web-community of Occupy Washington, DC. We surveyed everyone on the
Plaza to understand what their interests were. These ideas and insights
determined our next steps, described here:
1. *Continue to hold Freedom Plaza*. We have achieved a great deal
through the occupation of Freedom Plaza. We’ve shown how persons from
different backgrounds, economic circumstances, races and political
interests can live and work together; and form a community. The encampment
on Pennsylvania Ave. between the Congress and the Treasury/White House
allowed us to reach thousands of people. Our signs, newspaper – the Occupied
Washington
Post<http://october2011.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=33602bebba8fb7dd6e71fb413&id=3fc150d9f6&e=d554d87e3a>
–
and conversations with many Americans have spread the Occupy message.
We’ve carried out multiple protest actions in Congress, as well as at
banks, the Chamber of Commerce and other locations. We’ve held our
own occupied
super committee
hearing<http://october2011.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=33602bebba8fb7dd6e71fb413&id=23d87b50b1&e=d554d87e3a>and
published a report to fix the economy, the “99%'s Deficit
Proposal<http://october2011.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=33602bebba8fb7dd6e71fb413&id=0c3297214e&e=d554d87e3a>.”
This
winter the number of people at the encampment will shrink but it will be
available to expand as needed for actions like Witness Against
Torture<http://october2011.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=33602bebba8fb7dd6e71fb413&id=d337478fed&e=d554d87e3a>
from
January 11 to 20, the Occupy The
Dream’s<http://october2011.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=33602bebba8fb7dd6e71fb413&id=a76d350ae4&e=d554d87e3a>
plans
for the Federal Reserve on January 16, MLK Day, Occupy
Congress<http://october2011.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=33602bebba8fb7dd6e71fb413&id=1a5dd702d9&e=d554d87e3a>
scheduled
for January 17 and Occupy the
Courts<http://october2011.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=33602bebba8fb7dd6e71fb413&id=76463e7d30&e=d554d87e3a>
protest
against the *Citizen’s United* decision on January 20. Freedom Plaza will
continue to be a flagship for the American people to see that the occupy
movement continues.
2. *The Peace House and Organizing National Resistance*.
Approximately a dozen occupiers will move into the Peace House to work on
organizing NOW
DC<http://october2011.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=33602bebba8fb7dd6e71fb413&id=ec94eb9bc3&e=d554d87e3a>
(the
National Occupation of Washington, DC) that begins on March 30. They will
organize to bring occupiers from throughout the country to the nation’s
capitol to show the breadth and depth of the Occupy Movement. Peace House
occupiers will work with occupations and others from across the country to
build NOW DC. The creators of the Peace
House<http://october2011.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=33602bebba8fb7dd6e71fb413&id=9635f591e9&e=d554d87e3a>,
William Thomas and his wife Ellen Thomas, maintained and supported a 24
hour a day, 365 days a year 30 year protest of nuclear war on the north
side of the White House. The disarmament vigil, founded on June 3, 1981, is
courageously maintained by Concepcion
Picciotto<http://october2011.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=33602bebba8fb7dd6e71fb413&id=caee27b706&e=d554d87e3a>
who
joined Thomas a month after it began. Picciotto will continue to use the
Peace House when she takes breaks with Freedom Plaza occupiers filling in
to continue the vigil. Volunteers at the Peace House will also work on
local outreach and education in the greater DC community.
3. *Mt. Rainer House and Organizing Occupy the Economy and Occupy Media
*. Another dozen occupiers will move into the Mt. Rainer House. This
house will focus on building democratic economic structures as alternatives
to the corporate-economy. This year is the United Nation’s International
Year of
Co-operatives<http://october2011.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=33602bebba8fb7dd6e71fb413&id=6e72c74b99&e=d554d87e3a>
and
we will focus on creating worker-owned co-operatives that grow a
co-operative sub-economy. Business plans will be developed, start-up
capital sought and initial projects will be run out of the Mt. Rainer
House. We will open the development of democratized economic structures to
our web community as well. Already being examined are a political
messaging business involving bumper stickers, signs, buttons and tee
shirts, a food service providing occu-pie food and a housing redevelopment
business. These co-operatives will provide funding to the occupiers
working on them and revenues for the Occupy Movement. In addition, the Mt.
Rainer House will be developing an Occupy Television Show and other media
projects for public access, cable and web-outlets.
Both houses will be run as collectives that we intend to develop into
useful models for other Occupies around the country to emulate. Occupy
Washington, DC will be building on years of experience with collectives,
co-operatives and intentional communities to create Occupy Homes like these
that are productive and build the movement.
The fourth leg of our Occupy Washington, DC community is our web-based
community<http://october2011.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=33602bebba8fb7dd6e71fb413&id=8eba54583b&e=d554d87e3a>.
Some web-occupiers have joined the encampment at Freedom Plaza, others have
supported it financially, others have organized to bring people to
Washington, DC and still others have provided ideas for how we should shape
our future. We appreciate everything that each of you do.
With all of these new activities we are not leaving the old behind. The
non-violent civil resistance actions we have done against the 1% political
and economic elites will continue and escalate. We will also continue to
provide educational forums on a range of issues, invite noted speakers to
Occupy Washington, DC, organize protest actions in Congress and to expose
the monied interests that dominate the government. We are working on
curricula for outreach to youth from elementary school through college so
they can practice the principles of participatory democracy and learn the
General Assembly process.
The occupations are building a foundation for the long-term independent
movement needed to transform a greed-based government dominated by
concentrated wealth into a participatory democracy – a government of, by,
and for the American people – one that puts human necessities before the
profits of financial power brokers. This enormous transformation will be
achieved if we continue to stand in solidarity with persistence and
uncompromising confidence that the people can, and will, rule free
themselves from the mis-rule of the corporatists.
To help spread the word, please forward this email to your friends.
You will be able to visit the website for the National Occupation of
Washington, DC soon - look for NOWDC.org. You can start making plans to
join us starting March 30th now.
And your
donations<http://october2011.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=33602bebba8fb7dd6e71fb413&id=d639bf7999&e=d554d87e3a>are
always needed to keep the effort going. Thank you.
In peace and solidarity
Occupy Washington, DC/October2011
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