Hi. At the writing, the OLA encampment is still intact, but likely with a short life. Consider this 'color' for ensuing events, but also pay attention to the proposed Communique.as coming from at least some of the occupiers and expressing many of the thoughts I've heard at my several visits there. Stay tuned. Ed From: John Johnson Sent: Monday, November 28, 2011 2:12 AM To: change-li...@yahoogroups.com Cc: actio...@lists.riseup.net Subject: [LAAMN] [change-links] [occupyla] Latest word
Occupiers have almost encircle City Hall with a human chain The LAPD said they won't make arrest tonight if everyone stays off the street But will make arrest in the next few days, at the will I guess. John Johnson Change-Links Progressive Newspaper <mailto:change-links%40change-links.org> change-li...@change-links.org <http://change-links.org/> http://change-links.org Subscribe to our list server. Email <mailto:change-links-subscribe%40yahoogroups.com> change-links-subscr...@yahoogroups.com (818) 782-1412 Cell (818) 681-7448. * * * Lila's show is on, this morning, at 7. I'm pretty sure she'll have phone reports from Occupy LA. unless eviction is going on. I was down there earlier and KPFK was broadcasting non-stop, as of 2 am. Ed Sent: Sun, November 27, 2011 4:30:28 PM Subject: Occupier update Sunday, November 27th, 2011 Friends: In response to your many Emails and calls, City Councilman Bill Rosendahl went down to City Hall and spoke to the Occupiers this morning at 11 o'clock. He and the new President of the City Council, Herb Wesson have pledged to form a City Council Committee specifically to address the goals of the Occupy movement. When those goals are not within the City's province, Rosendahl pledged to take them further.to the State and the Federal Government with the intention of following through. He reaffirmed his support of the movement and his determination to help fulfill its agenda. Specific items mentioned were: getting corporate money out of elections, ending the wars (that one got the greatest applause), developing affordable housing, fixing the infrastructure, and JOBS. (I was there without a laptop or notebook unfortunately so I'm working from memory here.) There were other items. .all good. But he didn't cover everything and it behooves all of us to add our list to his. In the letter Marcy Winograd and I send to Rosendahl and Garcetti we emphasized the following: Freezing foreclosures in Los Angeles. Divesting from toxic banks and instead investing in a city-run credit union. Suing the banks that illegally foreclosed on people's homes. I discussed the foreclosure freeze with him later, reminding him of the Springfield Massachusetts ordinance passed in Sept which does put in place the mechanics for freezing foreclosures, so the model is there. He was very receptive. We, and hopefully all of you, will not drop the subject. The Occupiers, whose intelligence, courtesy and strength brought tears to my eyes, expressed the hope that as many people as possible join them tonight at Kid Park (which is right there on the lawn of City Hall) at about 10:30 when their resistance to being moved out will begin. High profile people are particularly helpful in a situation like this, but numbers matter. I hesitate to ask you to do this since I won't be there myself, but frankly, my knees took as much as they could this morning.and now I'm busy icing them. Also there is no guarantee that there won't be some arrests, so be realistic when you consider this request. We thank Councilman Bill Rosendahl for continuing to be a person of principle and we thank the Occupiers for standing up for the rest of us. You are the true champions of our democracy. Lila Garrett (Host of CONNECT THE DOTS) KPFK 90.7 FM in LA; 98.7 Santa Barbara Airs Mondays from 7AM to 8AM. To pod cast or download the broadcast just use this link: http://archive.kpfk.org/parchive/index.php?shokey=ctd Each show is on line for three months. * * * From: Jan Goodman [mailto:janjer...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, November 27, 2011 1:33 PM This is an excellent statement. Keep your ears open -- maybe tuned to KPFK 90.7 fm to hear what is going on w Occupy LA & consider going down there tonight &/or tomorrow to protest the dismantling of OLA. Jan Goodman On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 6:25 AM, <dorothyr...@pdsmm.org> wrote: I am not sure if this as adopted officially but I think it is a good statement. I will be down at OLA at 11AM. I hope to see many of you there. Today is a stunningly gorgeous day up here on Saddle Peak but I will not be here. I will be at City Hall. Dorothy Reik PDSMM <tel:310-291-1300> 310-291-1300 Subject: Re: [occupyla] Emergency Communique Establishing our Right to Occupy, Proposal This is stunning, guys. With your permission, I'd like to send it out as an unofficial statement along with a call I'm blasting tonight to get people down here tomorrow. If that's OK, let me know, and let me know how you want to be credited. --Leslie _____ From: ron lipshultz < <mailto:jayron02...@yahoo.com> jayron02...@yahoo.com> Sender: <mailto:occupyla-ow...@lists.riseup.net> occupyla-ow...@lists.riseup.net Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2011 16:59:33 -0800 (PST) To: < <mailto:olafacilitat...@gmail.com> olafacilitat...@gmail.com>; occupy-la-facilitation-and-group-dynamics-assembly< <mailto:occupy-la-facilitation-and-group-dynamics-assem...@googlegroups.com> occupy-la-facilitation-and-group-dynamics-assem...@googlegroups.com>; \(OCLA\) Lists< <mailto:occup...@lists.riseup.net> occup...@lists.riseup.net>; Meghan von Gremp< <mailto:mvongr...@gmail.com> mvongr...@gmail.com>; A E< <mailto:red.blue.anso...@gmail.com> red.blue.anso...@gmail.com>; Jessica Rey< <mailto:artofexist...@gmail.com> artofexist...@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [occupyla] Emergency Communique Establishing our Right to Occupy, Proposal Jessica and Alex, Well written...powerful and thorough... You want this blasted out widely to the press tomorrow for Monday publication... Assuming the raid happens tomorrow night, there will be numerous articles appearing on Monday and Tuesday, and some of the content of the public statement will surly be included. Ron --- On Sat, 11/26/11, Jessica Rey <artofexist...@gmail.com> wrote: If we can at least announce this tonight, or maybe try to pass it because tomorrow will be hectic. Any thoughts? I know we have a 24 hour window so I will stand by that but would at least like to initiate discussion. Please bring any friendly amendments, language changes tonight and we can discuss after GA. Written by Alex and Jessica. What: A public statement, call and communique by OccupyLA for activists, everyday individuals, occupiers, and all those across the world engaged in the struggle for social justice, to stand for the right of the people to assemble and exercise free speech. How (Statement): We recognize, and urge city officials to recognize, the entrenched interests pressuring for the evacuation of Solidarity Park on behalf of "local" but most certainly multinational corporations, just as they have collectively lobbied as the Central City Association, pushing for an anti-encampment ordinance. We assert, in light of our action on Nov. 17th in which a private citizen on behalf of BofA placed 46 protesters under private persons arrest with the help of hundreds of the LAPD as well as a militarized 4-block radius, that the city is not being transparent in their reasoning for eviction and is in fact moving at the behest of the 1%. OLA rejects municipal health, safety or aesthetic concerns as invalid reasoning to displace our encampment, a political space for unhindered peaceful assembly and the expression of free speech. We remind you that as taxpayers, for decades we have paid into paving these streets and funding the operations of governmental buildings without asking for anything other than representation of our interests. This social contract has been broken, and rather than wait for utter economic collapse, the people have taken encampment upon themselves as a tool of sustaining and amplifying free speech. Our presence as OccupyLA, in its current form, actively asserts our right to free assembly through the chosen method of occupation. We do not occupy to sleep here, we sleep here because we occupy. We do not *have* to occupy, we elect to occupy to symbolize that as a people, our presence and vigilance is absolutely required to engage a political process that leaves no room for the organic and legitimate voice of the people. We remind you that though you speak of the sustainability of our encampment, we are here to address the sustainability of corruption and greed in our social, economic and governmental processes. The issues affecting our encampment and exploited in the media, in terms of non-participation via drug or alcohol use, or the appearance of increased petty crime in and around the immediate encampment area, are a result of the same lack of resources/poverty that disproportionately effects many of our communities on a consistent and predatory basis. We reject the criminalization of these behaviors and instead demand their prompt consideration as symptoms of a diseased public policy process insufficient in addressing the needs of the people. We do not consider the grass, unsustainable in this climate, to be a suitable reason to displace an encampment of people intent on exercising their right to free speech. Instead we urge the city to look to Long Beach, which has initiated a rebate process to encourage residents to pull up their lawns and replace them with more native landscaping. The Occupation of Los Angeles, in assembling peacefully at Solidarity Park, has created a microcosm of the society we live in and unabashedly thrusts it from the periphery right onto the doorstep of City Hall. We stand behind our de-gentrification of the downtown space as a direct response to the relationship between government and private corporations and the assault on public space. When faced with the unjust relationship of government officials with the private sphere and the corrupting influence of money in the political process, it is important to measure the reaction of law enforcement against the message put out by the people in the streets. It is important to point out the comparatively harsh and organized violence that has characterized the police response to OWS in cities across the US and how our message about economic inequality has something to do with that. It is important to highlight the concerted efforts of 19 cities, under the umbrella of the Dept. of Homeland Security, to suppress the occupation movement in one fell swoop. Going further, we call upon all sisters and brothers of the occupy movement, sympathizers, supporters and critics to join us as we defend and reestablish our individual and collective rights to free speech and assembly (date and time of determined meeting point at that time). And we call upon all individuals to speak out against the use of intimidation, force, politics and power to break up peaceful occupations and repress or criminalize the exercise of our first amendment rights. Why: So we have a statement to release at the time of the raid to the press, the world, and other occupations. So we make clear their misuse of power to repress our movement. _______________________________________________ PDSMM mailing list <mailto:pd...@svpal.org> pd...@svpal.org <http://mailman.svpal.org/mailman/listinfo/pdsmm> http://mailman.svpal.org/mailman/listinfo/pdsmm No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - <http://www.avg.com/> www.avg.com Version: 2012.0.1873 / Virus Database: 2101/4643 - Release Date: 11/27/11 No virus found in this message. 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