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GLOBAL CONTEXT: May 15th is a global day of action for the Occupy movement. The Indignados from Spain are celebrating their one year anniversary and hundreds of thousands of people have re-occupied squares all over Spain and continue to hold the space. Occupy Wall Street and a broad affiliation of organizations will join together for a sit-down strike and mass assembly in Times Squares at 6 PM.This action will focus on the Banks and their role in the Global Economic Crisis. Occupy NL stands in solidarity with the global movement against austerity and seeks to move towards economic justice worldwide during this day of global action.
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We will be evicted from Harbourside Park today, May 15th. Despite all odds, Occupy NL has lasted through the winter, but now that Spring is here the City of St. John's is preparing for tourist season. Read another important blogpost on the subject.
GLOBAL CONTEXT: May 15th is a global day of action for the Occupy movement. The Indignados from Spain are celebrating their one year anniversary and hundreds of thousands of people have re-occupied squares all over Spain and continue to hold the space. Occupy Wall Street and a broad affiliation of organizations will join together for a sit-down strike and mass assembly in Times Squares at 6 PM.This action will focus on the Banks and their role in the Global Economic Crisis. Occupy NL stands in solidarity with the global movement against austerity and seeks to move towards economic justice worldwide during this day of global action.
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We will be evicted from Harbourside Park today, May 15th. Despite all odds, Occupy NL has lasted through the winter, but now that Spring is here the City of St. John's is preparing for tourist season. Read another important blogpost on the subject.
The city has been undeniably accommodating this whole time. However, the
underlying issues of affordable housing, homelessness, and income inequality,
which are only getting worse all the time, will not go away when we no longer occupy the park; these systematic issues can only be
addressed by a fullscale re-imagining of our way of life – a spiritual
insurrection. Only then can we start rebuilding local communities.
We have been occupying a public space (Harbourside Park for
its historical connection to colonialism and protest) to show that we are not
happy with the current state of affairs: municipally, provincially, federally,
globally. The central
issue of inequality recreates itself at all levels.
Show your support for the Occupy movement on May
15th. Bring your energy to the social momentum that will be sweeping the
globe this year. Occupy is not merely about camping in public spaces (although the
tent is a powerful symbol); we will evolve in whatever way will allow us to empower
people to reclaim power. An eviction will not stop what has been set in motion
on October 15th, 2011 – Occupy NL will find new and creative ways to express what is so fundamental to this movement: that another world is
possible.
No demand is big enough! Occupy has and will continue in
different ways to carve out autonomous spaces for people to come together as
equals and feel the power of horizontal, direct democracy. You can't evict an
idea whose time has come!
UPDATES:
Video from the festive day:
UPDATES:
Video from the festive day:
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