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Tutu backs Occupy's push for downtown home
7 hours ago United States / New York : Crain's New York Business
Daniel Massey - Archbishop Desmond Tutu is the latest clergy member to offer support for Occupy Wall Street's campaign to turn a lower Manhattan lot owned by Trinity Church into a new home for the movement. In a message posted at occupywallstnyc.org, the South African liberation movement icon recalled the church's opposition to apartheid and said it was “especially painful” to hear that Trinity was at an impasse with the protesters over their use of the site.
“I appeal to them to find a way to help you,” he wrote. “I appeal to them to embrace the higher calling of Our Lord Jesus Christ—which they live so well in all other ways—but now to do so in this instance ... can we not rearrange our affairs for justice['s] sake?”
The letter from Mr. Tutu arrived as the protesters have intensified their campaign against Trinity and are planning a day-long block party Saturday at the site to pressure the church to let them use the 37,000-square-foot, fenced-off area between Canal and Grand streets and Varick Street and Sixth Avenue.
Daniel Massey - Archbishop Desmond Tutu is the latest clergy member to offer support for Occupy Wall Street's campaign to turn a lower Manhattan lot owned by Trinity Church into a new home for the movement. In a message posted at occupywallstnyc.org, the South African liberation movement icon recalled the church's opposition to apartheid and said it was “especially painful” to hear that Trinity was at an impasse with the protesters over their use of the site.
“I appeal to them to find a way to help you,” he wrote. “I appeal to them to embrace the higher calling of Our Lord Jesus Christ—which they live so well in all other ways—but now to do so in this instance ... can we not rearrange our affairs for justice['s] sake?”
The letter from Mr. Tutu arrived as the protesters have intensified their campaign against Trinity and are planning a day-long block party Saturday at the site to pressure the church to let them use the 37,000-square-foot, fenced-off area between Canal and Grand streets and Varick Street and Sixth Avenue.
Visions, Strategies, Tactics: Where Do We Go From Here? A Movement Conversation
Sunday December 18, from 2:30pm to 7:00pm,
Pace University (1 Pace Plaza*)
Dear working groups and friends,
All across the movement people are discussing where we go from here. We believe it's time to create space for these conversations to come together. Where have we come? Where are we going? What potential do we have as a national and international movement? What are our strengths and weaknesses? How can we continue to grow?
We'd like to take advantage of the space available at Pace University (1 Pace Plaza*) on Sunday December 18th, from 2:30pm to 7:00pm, to hold the first installment of an ongoing process of collective reflection on the movement.
This will be a facilitated event, a space for sharing our visions and assessing where we are. We hope to have people from every working group and all across the movement. Please join us!!! Your voice is critical.
Pace requires that everyone register for access to the building, which we can do here http://www.occupyunconference.net/ or in person day of (you do not have to use your real name).
Thanks, everyone! Here's to a movement that grows stronger in 2012.
41 Park Row is at corner of Spruce St., just south of the Brooklyn Bridge ramp, & opposite City Hall; J (never M) to Chambers St. (south exit to Spruce); #4, 5, 6 to Brooklyn Bridge-City Hall; R (never N) to City Hall (at Broadway & Murray); #2, 3 to Park Pl. (east exit, nearest Brooklyn, to Broadway); A, C to Chambers; E to WTC; PATH to WTC; Broadway bus; Chambers St. bus; Trinity Pl./Church St. bus; buses via 7th Av. So./Varick St. or via 2nd Av. & Water St. or via 3rd Av./Bowery & Park Row or via Essex St., East Broadway & Park Row. Caution: Despite what the 8 years outdated PACE directions web page insists, there has been no N service to City Hall or to Financial D istrict stops before 10PM for years now, unless the bridge is closed. Similarly, no more M south of Delancey ever. The alleged "#2 Local" only runs sometimes. Some stations are confusingly named. They leave out the venerable #1 line, the E and the PATH, which 3 together serve millions. The bus directions are equally out of date. -t.]
Pace requires that everyone register for access to the building, which we can do here http://www.occupyunconference.net/ or in person day of (you do not have to use your real name).
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Occupy Onwards Sunday Dec 18
http://nplusonemag.com/d18conference
Dear Friends,
Sorry for the short notice: the Occupy! Gazette has put together a conference on some of the main issues around the current crisis and what Occupy Wall Street and the rest of us can do about it. The conference this Sunday, the 18th, from noon to six at the New School (55 W. 13th Street). It will consist of four lightning-fast panels with some of the most interesting thinkers and activists in the field and then ``report-backs`` from several of the most active OWS working groups, including labor, legal, and facilitation. It`s everything you always wanted to know about OWS but were afraid to ask. Schedule below. The conference is free but space in the auditorium is limited, so please let us know if you`re coming (at our Facebook event page or at editors [at] nplusonemag.com) and please come on time.
Yours,
The Occupy Gazette Team
PS Gazette #3 will be on hand.
Occupy Onwards
Presented by Occupy! Gazette, Verso, and n+1
Schedule
12:00 to 1:00
The Banks: What Can Be Done? Julia Ott, New School
Doug Henwood, Left Business Observer
Carne Ross, OWS Alternative Banking Group
Moderator: Astra Taylor, Occupy! Gazette
1:15 to 2:15
Lessons from the Past/Possible Futures Ann Snitow, New School
L. A. Kauffman, Global Justice Movement
Yotam Marom, OWS Direct Action WG
Moderator: Asher Dupuy-Spencer, CUNY Grad Center, OWS Labor WG
Lunch Break
Reports from:
Zephyr Teachout, Fordham Law, OWS Legal WG
Leo Eisenstein, OWS Facilitation WG
Nick Mirzoeff, OWS Education and Empowerment WG
Micah Landau, OWS Labor WG
and others
Also: Screening printing with OWS screenprinters guild!
4:00 to 5:00
Foreclosures and Resistance Mark Naison, Fordham
Sarah Ludwig, NEDAP
Alyssa Katz, New York World
Eliot Tarver, Organizing for Occupation/OWS
Moderator: Mark Winston Griffith
5:15 to 6:15
Debt: Student, Housing, Historical David Graeber, Debt, The First 5,000 Years
Mike Konczal, Roosevelt Institute
Brian Kalkbrenner, Occupy Student Debt
Moderator: Sarah Jaffe, Alternet
Dear Friends,
Sorry for the short notice: the Occupy! Gazette has put together a conference on some of the main issues around the current crisis and what Occupy Wall Street and the rest of us can do about it. The conference this Sunday, the 18th, from noon to six at the New School (55 W. 13th Street). It will consist of four lightning-fast panels with some of the most interesting thinkers and activists in the field and then ``report-backs`` from several of the most active OWS working groups, including labor, legal, and facilitation. It`s everything you always wanted to know about OWS but were afraid to ask. Schedule below. The conference is free but space in the auditorium is limited, so please let us know if you`re coming (at our Facebook event page or at editors [at] nplusonemag.com) and please come on time.
Yours,
The Occupy Gazette Team
PS Gazette #3 will be on hand.
Occupy Onwards
Presented by Occupy! Gazette, Verso, and n+1
Schedule
12:00 to 1:00
The Banks: What Can Be Done? Julia Ott, New School
Doug Henwood, Left Business Observer
Carne Ross, OWS Alternative Banking Group
Moderator: Astra Taylor, Occupy! Gazette
1:15 to 2:15
Lessons from the Past/Possible Futures Ann Snitow, New School
L. A. Kauffman, Global Justice Movement
Yotam Marom, OWS Direct Action WG
Moderator: Asher Dupuy-Spencer, CUNY Grad Center, OWS Labor WG
Lunch Break
Reports from:
Zephyr Teachout, Fordham Law, OWS Legal WG
Leo Eisenstein, OWS Facilitation WG
Nick Mirzoeff, OWS Education and Empowerment WG
Micah Landau, OWS Labor WG
and others
Also: Screening printing with OWS screenprinters guild!
4:00 to 5:00
Foreclosures and Resistance Mark Naison, Fordham
Sarah Ludwig, NEDAP
Alyssa Katz, New York World
Eliot Tarver, Organizing for Occupation/OWS
Moderator: Mark Winston Griffith
5:15 to 6:15
Debt: Student, Housing, Historical David Graeber, Debt, The First 5,000 Years
Mike Konczal, Roosevelt Institute
Brian Kalkbrenner, Occupy Student Debt
Moderator: Sarah Jaffe, Alternet
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