FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
August 8, 2012
CHALK WALK 2: OCCUPY LA OCCUPIES THE DOWNTOWN LA ART WALK WITH A TWIST
Members of Occupy LA Plan to Have a Peaceful Event in Pershing Square the Night of DTLA Art Walk
LOS ANGELES – Members of Occupy Los Angeles plan to peacefully occupy this week’s Downtown LA Art Walk from Pershing Square where they hope to create a “community space” with the theme: A Better World is Possible. Participants hope the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) can stay peaceful this month after last month’s near riot caused in part by excessive police force.
On July 12, 2012, Occupiers planned to have a peaceful event of public outreach and awareness called Chalk Walk at the DTLA Art Walk, after 12 LAPD arrests of Occupiers for water-soluble chalk on public sidewalks. These 12 arrests occurred the six weeks prior to the Chalk Walk event and began only after the group started to target the Central City Association, a local lobbying group.
This month Occupiers take a different approach by setting up an open community art and music space in Pershing Square with a community potluck and a “Really Really Free” Market.
Occupiers also plans to have a portion of the evening dedicated to the victims of LAPD violence at last month’s event including those arrested for chalking, those injured by police projectiles and other law enforcement weaponries, small businesses and artists who had to shut down early, and residents and patrons who the LAPD kept from entering or existing buildings until early the next morning.
This Thursday, Occupiers will also provide some legal training with lawyers and legal observers to help protect activists during public demonstrations. The group will also have people designated to help deescalate situations, should they arise.
“This is a non-violent, peaceful family event” states a Facebook event page for the action, “we plan on confining it to Pershing Square and we hope the city can allow us this day to celebrate art and community, unobstructed.”
The group even hopes to have a “Brooms and Buckets Brigade” to help clean up after the festivities.
On July 25, 2012, Occupy LA passed a proposal to Chalkupy the World. This proposal acts as an official statement, to other Occupy and non-occupy groups, to request they do community-organized solidarity actions around the world. So far, the International Council in London, the people from the Spanish Indignatos, and members of Occupy Oregon have offered to get the word out worldwide.
In LA, the police have literally crack down on chalking on sidewalks, however the Occupy group points out that the City allowed the DTLA Art Walk to do its own graffiti on the sidewalks just three months earlier.
Chalk Walk activists accuse Joe Moller, the Downtown Art Walk Executive Director, of allowing Street King, an energy drink company that sponsored the April 2012’s event, to spray paint their logo on the public sidewalk within and around the DTLA Art Walk area. When residents complained about the commercial abuse of public space, Moller said the logos were temporary. Yet the logos can still be seen on the sidewalks of Little Tokyo and on Winston Street.
“When Joe Moller spray painted the sidewalks there was no riot cops or rubber bullets,” said an organizer, “go figure.”
Occupiers have accused the LAPD of excessive show and use of force at last month’s DTLA Art Walk where at least 17 arrests occurred with at least half a dozen injuries. Participants say the LAPD beat some peaceful people and shot others with “less-lethal” projectiles. Some victims were hit in the face with “stinger balls”, one victim had 4 separate impact wounds from rubber bullets, and other participants were pepper sprayed and possibly pepper gassed.
On the very same day as the last DTLA Art Walk, the LA Times wrote an article about a July 11, 2012 Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals decision that said Police could be held liable for shooting projectiles into a crowd to disperse peaceful people.
After the last DTLA Art Walk, Occupiers attended a LAPD Board of Commissioners meeting to register their complaints.
The following week some Occupiers returned to City Council Chambers (after the council returned from a two week recession) and they asked why the council took no action when the group appeared before them weeks earlier (before the recess) to address the issue of political repression via chalking arrests by LAPD.
The Tuesday after the last DTLA Art Walk, a small group of Occupiers began doing outreach in the community. The group handed out a press release from the original Chalk Walk and a briefing statement that they had read before last month’s action.
Some of those organizers went on to organize a Downtown LA Community Town Hall, that was not an official Occupy LA event, to listen to the community’s concerns and hopes for the future. Over seventy participants discussed Free Expression at Art Walk, Occupies presence at Art Walk, and the police brutality from the month before.
In a letter dated June 4, 2012, Carol Sobel, a Civil Rights attorney with the National Lawyers Guild, explained to the Special Assistant of Constitutional Policing for the LAPD that the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously held that “no chalk would damage a sidewalk” in MacKinney v. Nielsen from 1995.
“Given that this decision is now 18 years old, there is no excuse for these arrests,” states Sobel in the letter.
Participants of Occupy LA say the LAPD told them they made chalking arrest under California Penal Code 594. Activists argue that the police would have to prove probable cause that the participants “maliciously” defaced with graffiti or other inscribed material, damaged, or destroyed real or personal property not belonging to the arrestee to qualify under that penal code.
“The police and prosecutors will have to prove that chalk on a side walk constitutes malice, evil, or immoral activity,” states one Chalk Walk organizer and Occupy participant, “The malicious nature of washable chalk will just have to be challenged in court.”
Furthermore, activists say that one common definition of “inscribed” includes permanent marking, not a washable coloration.
Occupiers point out that the City Attorney has thus far declined to prosecute any of the chalking arrest.
Members of Occupy LA allege that City Officials violate Title 42 Chapter 21, subsection 1, section 1983 of Federal law and California Civil Code 52.1. They say LAPD officers— under the color of law— interfere with the exercise and enjoyment of their Rights by threats, intimidation, and coercion and subject them to deprivation of their rights with these chalking arrests.
Video evidence of July’s DTLA Art Walk clearly shows participants reading California Civil Code 52.1 to LAPD officers.
To avoid prosecution, for other petty crimes including failure to disperse from City Hall Park, the City required dozens of Occupy LA arrestees to take a First-Amendment-Rights class administered through the City Attorney’s office. Now, members of Occupy LA says it is the City that needs a lesson in the Rights secured by First Amendment of the Constitution of the United States of America.
The City of Orlando recently spent $200,000 defending chalking arrests of an Occupier in Florida. The city lost that case and activists say that the City of Los Angeles could waste millions of dollars defending the 20 or so chalking arrests in the last two months.
Occupiers believe the LAPD selectively enforces the graffiti laws against them while the City’s own Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa handed out boxes of yellow chalk in 2009 when cyclist Lance Armstrong rode through Hollywood as part of a Nike Sponsored event. The boxes of chalk, the Mayor and others handed out, specifically encouraged the public to write statements of support on “sidewalks, driveways, and any blank canvas.” Photos from the event show people, in traffic, on Sunset Blvd drawing in the streets at night.
The Mayor told reporters after last month’s DTLA Art Walk that he considers the activities of the chalkers “criminal behavior” and not a form of Free Speech. Occupiers also say that the Mayor’s double standards extend beyond chalk. A week after the last Art Walk, City Hall Park reopened and Occupiers say the Mayor broke 3 of the new park rules during his opening ceremonies.
Some have said the Mayor got a permit for amplified sounds, a generator, and to be on the “landscaped” portion of the park but critics question if the Mayor really got a permit before the violations occurred.
In addition, chalk activists say LA Parking Enforcement officers use chalk on the tires of vehicles they wish to monitor for time restrictions and the LAPD might use chalk to outline the bodies of corpses in investigations.
The activists also say that the police did not arrest any participants at an anti-Walmart protest, in July, in Chinatown, organized by Labor unions and other community groups. From photos of the event, it clearly had plenty of chalk art written on the streets surrounding the activities. In addition, the bi-annual out-in-the-streets event, Ciclavia often has chalk drawings in the street as well.
Over six months after Envoys of the United Nations wrote a letter to the U.S. government, the government has yet to response to requests to answer questions regarding local repression by law enforcement of the Occupy movement. Members of Occupy LA plan to push the issue with local and federal governments after alleged increases of Rights violations by LAPD.
Occupiers feel LAPD has targeted them in attempt to silence their dissent and stop their actions. Courtroom witnesses have been threatened with arrest.
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*PLEASE NOTE: This was written by an individual participant in Occupy LA but it is not an official statement. All official statements have to have consensus from Occupy LA's General Assembly.
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How far we've come.
Submitted by Supersean on
I remember when this was about getting the money out of politics or social justice or foreclosure relief. Now it's about chalk. Feel free to review the first month's posts on this site to see how far we've come.
Its not about chalk
Submitted by Justice4all on
THIS EVENT ISNT ABOUT CHALK!!
*Amendment I
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
The founding fathers, or as I’d like to call the “original occupiers”, had the freshness of oppression and tyranny on their minds and some may have had blood on their hands, when they thought this first amendment up. That fact that they put it first is the most important thing to notice. They looked at how the king controlled them and tried to isolate them to keep them under that control. So they first put in the fact that religion cannot be part of a free government because it allows for a leader to use the religion of choice to help control the populace. They put that we need free speech because we need to be able to discuss things like corrupt bankers and greedy politicians. They did not have that freedom because the British troops were all around their cities. Now a days we have our “skittles” thanks to the CCA Empire. This, freedom of speech, inherently involves the freedom of expression of that speech in any form. From a poster to a letter to congress or Simply Writing in chalk! We now move to the freedom of the press. These original occupiers wanted to release papers and pamphlets throughout the colonies calling for people to rise up and fight with them in this forthcoming battle, they said stuff like no taxation without representation or get out of your farms and hit the town centers. They realized along with free speech people need to be able to share ideas to get things done. Now adays our pamphlets say Banks got bailed out we got sold out and get off Facebook and hit the streets! And with this freedom of the press comes the live streamers! This revolution will not be televised it will be on live streams! Our press the peoples press is now the internet social media sites and Live streams. Thank you all for doing what u do to help without u a lot of people wouldn’t be able to get the truth. Then, the original occupiers knew that with all this speech and sharing of ideas there would come a moment when people would finally leave the safety of their homes and gather together to petition the government for a redress of grievances. For the original occupiers that day came on July 4th, 1776, and for our generation that day has passed on Sept. 17, 2011!! We have begun our occupation of our own country like our original occupiers gave us the rights to do so! We have met together spoke out and screamed rage fully. We have formed our lines of media and of press we have exercised all our free speech rights and freedom of expression rights. And how have we been met? With tear gas and rubber bullets! THIS isn’t about chalk! It is to show the world that America the land of the free and the home of the brave ceased to exist a while ago. When the original occupiers realized they needed to wake people up and Paul Ravere road threw the countryside screaming“Here comes the British!” it awakened a mass of people. Together with Thomas Paine’s' writings of how corrupt the system had become and a list of events it all led to Millions to wake up and begin the process of revolution! SO today we don’t ride through the country side, Monsanto already destroyed that shit, instead we come with chalk! We come to yell to the rest of America that the BRITISH ARE COMING, The CCA is coming the POLICE STATE IS HERE, monsantos and libors and banks and the Federal Reserve and the house and the senate and the executive branch and judicial branch and the city officials and the mainstream media ARE ALL COMING. We are here to yell all of that at the millions who have yet to wake up, and we are not here with horses WE ARE HERE WITH CHALK!!!
*Amendment 2
A well-regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a Free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
It should be no surprise that the second amendment they put was the right to bear arms for a militia to fight tyranny because after they finished talking and discussing and meeting together and after they got oppressed at every stage of their occupation they eventually took arms. Now we all send our prayers and condolences to the people being killed by maniacs for stupid reasons and we are saddened to see it all get politicized into a fight over the second amendment. But one thing to take form that is They have already destroyed the first amendment and are attacking it every day including rite now at this chalk walk, now they are working on getting the second one which they will undoubtedly succeed at, so when that day comes and they decided to send the military into our cities thanks to the NDAA and none of us have guns who do u think will defend us? Its going to be the very same people who stand opposing this chalk walk today, the police, it’s going to be the street gangs and all the people we so despise at this moment for making this world a horrible place. Those people will come to our defense when the time is granted. So for that purpose we must find love for everyone even the police who are so confused at this time. We must keep the peace and keep the world watching as they maliciously attack us…..The PEACEFUL.
Amendment X
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
The last part is the most important. Because we have granted them are grievances. It is a list well over 100 items but that should not be surprising because the declaration has 25 lines of grievances so at the rate of inflation and corruption over the past 200 years it should not be surprising when we see over 100 grievances! To all the nay Sayers who go Oh the occupy movement is too scattered and needs to be more focused! What the hell do they want us to do... focus on 1 thing and leave out the other 99!!!! I don’t think so. They shouldn’t say we are scared or confused they should say DAMN there’s actually that much shit wrong with OUR country!!! The powers not delegated to the government by the constitution shall fall to the states OR THE PEOPLE!!! I’d like to take the original occupiers up on that offer! Power lies with the PEOPLE with us!
Then after they listed their list of grievances this was stated-
“In every stage of these Oppressions We have petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.”
The executive branch has failed us the congress has failed us the judges have failed us our city mayors have failed us. They all fit the definition of Tyrant. We must follow Iceland and our original occupiers and not simply vote in mass or get choose the lessor of two evils NO! We must fire the entire government. It is our right to do that. So it’s not about chalk!! It’s about us telling the government YOU’RE FIRED!
In the declaration of independence it’s also stated
“That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to affect their Safety and Happiness”
Our safety and happiness is at stake. If you doubt this idea watch how we occupiers are oppressed and wake up. The original occupiers had no idea how corrupted this country would become no idea what we’d be up against. No idea it would be us fighting our own government for freedom rather than the British. But they did know that it was all a real possibility and they would leave a few open lines of options just in case we eventually had to have a second occupation. A second American revolution. They knew sept. 17 was going to happen and left us a declaration and a constitution to help protect us and give us a path to begin on. This bill of rights is also a chance for us to not have to suffer the same violence as the original occupiers. These amendments give us a chance to not have to bear arms. So it’s not about CHALK, this is about showing the country this first amendment is our last stand before all our revolution. People listen to the movement and read through the chalk!
They ended the declaration of independence with this line and then only 56 people signed it-
“And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.”
56 people signed this and said I’ll put my life on the line for the guy next to me no matter who he is. I’ll put all the possessions I own on the line for the guys standing next to me. 56 people! They knew what they were up against they knew what they faced and they put their necks on the line because they saw the importance of stopping the tyrannical King who oppressed them. It didn’t take a million signatures on change.org or a million people to show up at the white house or 40 million people to go vote. It took 56 people to start it all. That is SOLIDARITY! That is what we need at our present moment. We all have our own reasons for being here, we all have ideologies and beliefs on what should be the outcome of all this, but those things are all our OWN. That is not solidarity. We need to face up to the fact that we are not here for all those Selfish things… NO we are here for each other! We are here for the next person in line, we are here for the people losing their homes, for the students in debt we are here for the soldiers who die uselessly, we are here for the cops who haven’t been awakened to the reality of their situation that one day an order will come to use Live ammo on us, we are here for the people watching the live streams and reading blogs and posting news articles and keeping track of our movement, we are here for the people blinded by the Olympics and tonight decided to stay home and watch badminton instead of showing up and showing support, we are here for all those people. NOT OURSELVES. So to all the people we are here for, the ones who have not awaken to the reality that has become of America,
WE STAND IN SOLIDARITY! WE WILL CONTINUE TO STAND UNTIL WE ARE NO LONGER NEEDED TO. This is not about chalk! This is about a last stand against a failing government and a group of oppressive Corporations who run that government!
We came with tents, they tore them down, we came with signs and marches and general strikes, they demonized us and shot at us with tear gas and rubber bullets, they pepper sprayed us, they locked us up and tried to silence us and turn the people against us by calling us hippies and anarchist. They tried every means to destroy us. But here,todayWEcome with chalk. We come here to say this is the last stand.
SOLIDARITY FOREVER, THANK YOU EVERYONE!
"IF you think in terms of a year, plant a seed, if in terms of ten years, plant trees, if in terms of 100 years, teach the people" -Confucius
WE MUST TEACH THE PEOPLE!
Its not about chalk
Submitted by Justice4all on
THIS EVENT ISNT ABOUT CHALK!!
*Amendment I
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
The founding fathers, or as I’d like to call the “original occupiers”, had the freshness of oppression and tyranny on their minds and some may have had blood on their hands, when they thought this first amendment up. That fact that they put it first is the most important thing to notice. They looked at how the king controlled them and tried to isolate them to keep them under that control. So they first put in the fact that religion cannot be part of a free government because it allows for a leader to use the religion of choice to help control the populace. They put that we need free speech because we need to be able to discuss things like corrupt bankers and greedy politicians. They did not have that freedom because the British troops were all around their cities. Now a days we have our “skittles” thanks to the CCA Empire. This, freedom of speech, inherently involves the freedom of expression of that speech in any form. From a poster to a letter to congress or Simply Writing in chalk! We now move to the freedom of the press. These original occupiers wanted to release papers and pamphlets throughout the colonies calling for people to rise up and fight with them in this forthcoming battle, they said stuff like no taxation without representation or get out of your farms and hit the town centers. They realized along with free speech people need to be able to share ideas to get things done. Now adays our pamphlets say Banks got bailed out we got sold out and get off Facebook and hit the streets! And with this freedom of the press comes the live streamers! This revolution will not be televised it will be on live streams! Our press the peoples press is now the internet social media sites and Live streams. Thank you all for doing what u do to help without u a lot of people wouldn’t be able to get the truth. Then, the original occupiers knew that with all this speech and sharing of ideas there would come a moment when people would finally leave the safety of their homes and gather together to petition the government for a redress of grievances. For the original occupiers that day came on July 4th, 1776, and for our generation that day has passed on Sept. 17, 2011!! We have begun our occupation of our own country like our original occupiers gave us the rights to do so! We have met together spoke out and screamed rage fully. We have formed our lines of media and of press we have exercised all our free speech rights and freedom of expression rights. And how have we been met? With tear gas and rubber bullets! THIS isn’t about chalk! It is to show the world that America the land of the free and the home of the brave ceased to exist a while ago. When the original occupiers realized they needed to wake people up and Paul Ravere road threw the countryside screaming“Here comes the British!” it awakened a mass of people. Together with Thomas Paine’s' writings of how corrupt the system had become and a list of events it all led to Millions to wake up and begin the process of revolution! SO today we don’t ride through the country side, Monsanto already destroyed that shit, instead we come with chalk! We come to yell to the rest of America that the BRITISH ARE COMING, The CCA is coming the POLICE STATE IS HERE, monsantos and libors and banks and the Federal Reserve and the house and the senate and the executive branch and judicial branch and the city officials and the mainstream media ARE ALL COMING. We are here to yell all of that at the millions who have yet to wake up, and we are not here with horses WE ARE HERE WITH CHALK!!!
*Amendment 2
A well-regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a Free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
It should be no surprise that the second amendment they put was the right to bear arms for a militia to fight tyranny because after they finished talking and discussing and meeting together and after they got oppressed at every stage of their occupation they eventually took arms. Now we all send our prayers and condolences to the people being killed by maniacs for stupid reasons and we are saddened to see it all get politicized into a fight over the second amendment. But one thing to take form that is They have already destroyed the first amendment and are attacking it every day including rite now at this chalk walk, now they are working on getting the second one which they will undoubtedly succeed at, so when that day comes and they decided to send the military into our cities thanks to the NDAA and none of us have guns who do u think will defend us? Its going to be the very same people who stand opposing this chalk walk today, the police, it’s going to be the street gangs and all the people we so despise at this moment for making this world a horrible place. Those people will come to our defense when the time is granted. So for that purpose we must find love for everyone even the police who are so confused at this time. We must keep the peace and keep the world watching as they maliciously attack us…..The PEACEFUL.
Amendment X
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
The last part is the most important. Because we have granted them are grievances. It is a list well over 100 items but that should not be surprising because the declaration has 25 lines of grievances so at the rate of inflation and corruption over the past 200 years it should not be surprising when we see over 100 grievances! To all the nay Sayers who go Oh the occupy movement is too scattered and needs to be more focused! What the hell do they want us to do... focus on 1 thing and leave out the other 99!!!! I don’t think so. They shouldn’t say we are scared or confused they should say DAMN there’s actually that much shit wrong with OUR country!!! The powers not delegated to the government by the constitution shall fall to the states OR THE PEOPLE!!! I’d like to take the original occupiers up on that offer! Power lies with the PEOPLE with us!
Then after they listed their list of grievances this was stated-
“In every stage of these Oppressions We have petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.”
The executive branch has failed us the congress has failed us the judges have failed us our city mayors have failed us. They all fit the definition of Tyrant. We must follow Iceland and our original occupiers and not simply vote in mass or get choose the lessor of two evils NO! We must fire the entire government. It is our right to do that. So it’s not about chalk!! It’s about us telling the government YOU’RE FIRED!
In the declaration of independence it’s also stated
“That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to affect their Safety and Happiness”
Our safety and happiness is at stake. If you doubt this idea watch how we occupiers are oppressed and wake up. The original occupiers had no idea how corrupted this country would become no idea what we’d be up against. No idea it would be us fighting our own government for freedom rather than the British. But they did know that it was all a real possibility and they would leave a few open lines of options just in case we eventually had to have a second occupation. A second American revolution. They knew sept. 17 was going to happen and left us a declaration and a constitution to help protect us and give us a path to begin on. This bill of rights is also a chance for us to not have to suffer the same violence as the original occupiers. These amendments give us a chance to not have to bear arms. So it’s not about CHALK, this is about showing the country this first amendment is our last stand before all our revolution. People listen to the movement and read through the chalk!
They ended the declaration of independence with this line and then only 56 people signed it-
“And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.”
56 people signed this and said I’ll put my life on the line for the guy next to me no matter who he is. I’ll put all the possessions I own on the line for the guys standing next to me. 56 people! They knew what they were up against they knew what they faced and they put their necks on the line because they saw the importance of stopping the tyrannical King who oppressed them. It didn’t take a million signatures on change.org or a million people to show up at the white house or 40 million people to go vote. It took 56 people to start it all. That is SOLIDARITY! That is what we need at our present moment. We all have our own reasons for being here, we all have ideologies and beliefs on what should be the outcome of all this, but those things are all our OWN. That is not solidarity. We need to face up to the fact that we are not here for all those Selfish things… NO we are here for each other! We are here for the next person in line, we are here for the people losing their homes, for the students in debt we are here for the soldiers who die uselessly, we are here for the cops who haven’t been awakened to the reality of their situation that one day an order will come to use Live ammo on us, we are here for the people watching the live streams and reading blogs and posting news articles and keeping track of our movement, we are here for the people blinded by the Olympics and tonight decided to stay home and watch badminton instead of showing up and showing support, we are here for all those people. NOT OURSELVES. So to all the people we are here for, the ones who have not awaken to the reality that has become of America,
WE STAND IN SOLIDARITY! WE WILL CONTINUE TO STAND UNTIL WE ARE NO LONGER NEEDED TO. This is not about chalk! This is about a last stand against a failing government and a group of oppressive Corporations who run that government!
We came with tents, they tore them down, we came with signs and marches and general strikes, they demonized us and shot at us with tear gas and rubber bullets, they pepper sprayed us, they locked us up and tried to silence us and turn the people against us by calling us hippies and anarchist. They tried every means to destroy us. But here,todayWEcome with chalk. We come here to say this is the last stand.
SOLIDARITY FOREVER, THANK YOU EVERYONE!
"IF you think in terms of a year, plant a seed, if in terms of ten years, plant trees, if in terms of 100 years, teach the people" -Confucius
WE MUST TEACH THE PEOPLE!
Thanks for the response. I
Submitted by Supersean on
Thanks for the response. I wasn't clear and was being a bit facetious. I know it's not about chalk. It just seems that OccupyLA's biggest issue is now...OccupyLA, and that's a far cry from where we started when we had actually had the public's attention. Do you think there might be a connection there?
no occupyla is not about occupyla
Submitted by Justice4all on
I felt that u were being facetious i just felt i wanted to share this with you to read. ive followed alot of ur post here on the website and i really like ur content. I believe Occupy Foreclosures which started as a working group during the encampment has stopped numerous evictions and illegal forclosures in the los angeles and whittier area. if it were not for OLA then i doubt this would have ever happend. i do feel alot of occupy sites are going through this tranisition into the 2.0 version where we realize OK we got the awarness raised but now WHAT? most sites u will see are beignning to focus on their own communities they are forming communiques and going around and helping small buisnesses stay afloat. So occupy la is at this same point, but with the recent encampents at the CCA and the Fort bradley actions this "Occupy LA is about OccupyLA" statment is kinda false. We are still fighting all kinds of corruption all across the board. plus dont u think theres a difference between "Full time occupiers" (people who camp and go to every GA) and "outside occupiers" (people like me who use the movements energy to begin outreach into my own local community and family and friends)?
"IF you think in terms of a year, plant a seed, if in terms of ten years, plant trees, if in terms of 100 years, teach the people" -Confucius
WE MUST TEACH THE PEOPLE!
Cool
Submitted by Supersean on
Thanks for the response.
It's just my sense of things. I feel like the content I'm seeing here is too much about how LAPD treats Occupiers rather than the issues those Occupiers were advocating. I think it's important for me to share as I think the Occupy Movement is about to get a lot more media coverage with 1 year anny. and R and D conventions coming up.
Last chance folks.
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