Occupy Denver - March 10th, Stop Suncor & Tar Sands “Occupy The Hot Zone”

[chatnoir]

http://occupydenver.org/occupythehotzone/

On Saturday, March 10th, families from the local communities that are
directly affected by the Commerce City Suncor refinery and several
organizations including Colorado American Indian Movement, Deep Green
Resistance (DGR) Colorado, Front Range Rising Tide, 350.org, Occupy
Denver and Boulder Food Rescue are coming together for a demonstration
against Suncor and the oil seep contaminating the Sand Creek and South
Platte River. We are asking everyone concerned about our water, air,
land and future to stand with us.

Over the last year, many people and various organizations have united
to oppose the Alberta tar sands and the Keystone XL Pipeline,
correctly recognizing these industrial projects as ecocidal insanity.
Here in Colorado, oil from the tar sands is refined by Suncor Energy.
By participating in the process of facilitating genocide against the
aboriginal people of Alberta, Suncor Energy has toxified our air, land
and water without end.

By bringing together active members of the Colorado community in
coalition, we will align together to force Suncor to stop destroying
and poisoning our world, both here in Colorado and in Canada.


On Saturday, March 10th, we will occupy the ‘hot zone’ on the shore of
Sand Creek, where carcinogenic benzene from Suncor’s refinery has been
seeping into the water. By occupying the hot zone, we hope to bring
public attention to the fact that Suncor is killing Colorado
communities, water and wildlife, and to force this industrial polluter
to confront the effects of its actions. It is also our hope to form
strong alliances with one another and begin to work in partnership so
we can effectively move forward against Suncor’s unethical and
irresponsible practices.

We will meet between 1:30 and 2:00pm at 5001 National Western Drive on
Saturday, March 10th. From there, we will carpool to 64th Avenue and
York Street, where we will park and walk to the site of the action at
the confluence of Sand Creek and South Platte River. Food will be
provided by Boulder Food Not Bombs, and representatives from various
groups will be speaking. Be aware that fumes from the oil and the
refinery can sometimes make the area uncomfortable for people with
compromised respiratory systems.

It is our hope to see as many of you as possible at this
demonstration. Suncor is actively destroying our Mother Earth, and
must be stopped. Suncor’s role in the tar sands is contributing to a
devastated climate and is harming indigenous communities in Canada as
well as people living in local communities in Colorado. Please join us
on March 10th to stand against these injustices and degradation of our
Earth.



The Stop Suncor and Tar Sands Coaltion
Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Stop-Suncor-and-Tar-Sands/120831774710827

[Lord Valve]

some useless leftwing punk which styles itself "chatnoir" again failed to address the real
issues:

>
> REPORTED OCCUPY PARTY TEA PARTY
>
> ARRESTS 4149+ 0
>
> DEATHS 7 0
>
> RAPES 12 0
>
> ARSON DAMAGE $10,000,000.00 $0
>
> PUBLIC DEFECATION YES NO
>
> ANTISEMITIC RANTS 12 0
>
> COST TO TAXPAYERS $19,327,487.00+ $0
> (AS OF 09/11)
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> PUBLIC MASTURBATION 3 0
>
> MOLOTOV COCKTAILS THROWN 10 0
>
> FIGHTS STARTED MANY NONE
>
> CHILDREN EXPLOITED YES NO
>
> POLICE CARS DAMAGED 2+ 0
>
> PUBLIC DRUNKENNESS YES NO
>
> DRUG POSSESSION ARRESTS YES NO
>
> CONCEALED WEAPON ARREST YES NO
>
> DRUG OVERDOSES YES NO
>
> THEFTS MANY NONE
>
> BURGLARIES YES NO
>
> VANDALISM ARRESTS YES NO
>
> TRESPASSING ARRESTS YES NO
>
> NON-FATAL SHOOTINGS 1 0
>
> PUBLIC URINATION YES NO
>
> URINATION ON OTHERS YES NO
>
> ISRAELI FLAGS BURNED 2 0
>
> AMERICAN FLAGS BURNED 1 0
>
> AMERICAN FLAGS PISSED ON 1 0
>
> AMERICAN FLAGS DESECRATED 25 0
>
> FELONY ASSAULT ON AN EMT 1 0
>
> HEAD/BODY LICE OUTBREAKS 1 0
>
> TUBERCULOSIS OUTBREAKS 1 0
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> MURDERS 1 0
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> SUICIDE 1 0
>
> SHOTS FIRED AT WHITE HOUSE 1 0
>
> SCABIES OUTBREAKS 1 0
>
> ENDORSED BY OBAMA YES NO
>
> ENDORSED BY PELOSI YES NO
>
> ENDORSED BY CAIR YES NO
>
> ENDORSED BY SOCIALISTS YES NO
>
> ENDORSED BY NAZI PARTY YES NO
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> --------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Got guns?
>
> Lord Valve
> American - so far

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[chatnoir]

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Hard to say. In the past many movements such as the woman's movement
has led to many arrests and problems socially!:

http://consortiumnews.com/2012/03/06/mother-of-the-sit-down-strike/

Mother of the Sit-Down Strike
March 6, 2012
Seventy years ago, the remarkable life story of Lucy Gonzales Parsons
came to an end in a fire that destroyed her Chicago home. Though
little remembered today, Parsons pioneered strategies to protest
poverty and injustice, including the sit-down strike, William Loren
Katz recalls.


By William Loren Katz

On March 7, 1942, fire engulfed the simple home of 89-year-old Lucy
Gonzales Parsons on Chicago’s North Troy Street, and ended a life
dedicated to liberating working women and men of the world from
capitalism and racial oppression.

A dynamic, militant, self-educated public speaker and writer, she
became the first American woman of color to carry her crusade for
socialism across the country and overseas. In 1905, she was credited
with the idea of striking workers sitting down at their work place
rather than going outside, a concept that has resonated through time
with the lunch counter sit-ins for civil rights and today’s Occupy
movement.


Lucy Gonzales Parsons
Lucy Gonzales started life in Texas. She was of Mexican-American,
African-American, and Native-American descent and born into slavery.
The path she chose after emancipation led to conflict with the Ku Klux
Klan, hard work, painful personal losses, and many nights in jail.

In Albert Parsons, a white man who’s Waco Spectator fought the Klan
and demanded social and political equality for African-Americans, she
found a handsome, committed soul mate. The white supremacy forces in
Texas considered the couple dangerous and their marriage illegal, and
soon drove them from the state.

Lucy and Albert reached Chicago, where they began a family and threw
themselves into two new militant movements, one to build strong
industrial unions and the other to agitate for socialism. Lucy
concentrated on organizing working women and Albert became a famous
radical organizer and speaker, one of the few important union leaders
in Chicago who was not an immigrant.

In 1886, the couple and their two children stepped onto Michigan
Avenue to lead 80,000 working people in the world’s first May Day
parade and a demand for the eight-hour day. A new international
holiday was born as more than 100,000 also marched in other U.S.
cities.

By then, Chicago’s wealthy industrial and banking elite had targeted
Albert and other radical figures for elimination — to decapitate the
growing union movement. A protest rally called by Albert a few days
after May Day became known as the Haymarket Riot when seven Chicago
policemen died in a bomb blast. No evidence has ever been found
pointing to those who made or detonated the bomb, but Parsons and
seven immigrant union leaders were arrested.

As the corporate media whipped up patriotic and law-and-order fervor,
a rigged legal system rushed the eight to convictions and death
sentences. When Lucy led the campaign to win a new trial, one Chicago
official called her “more dangerous than a thousand rioters.” When
Albert and three other comrades were executed, and four others were
sentenced to prison, the movement for industrial unions and the eight-
hour day was beheaded.

Lucy, far from discouraged, accelerated her actions. Though she had
lost Albert — and two years later lost her young daughter to illness —
Lucy continued her crusade against capitalism and war, and to
exonerate “the Haymarket Martyrs.” She led poor women into rich
neighborhoods “to confront the rich on their doorsteps,” challenged
politicians at public meetings, marched on picket lines, and continued
to address and write political tracts for workers’ groups far beyond
Chicago.

Though Lucy had justified direct action against those who used
violence against workers, in 1905 she suggested a very different
strategy. She was one of only two women delegates (the other was
Mother Jones) among the 200 men at the founding convention of the
militant Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) and the only woman to
speak.

First she advocated a measure close to her heart when she called women
“the slaves of slaves” and urged IWW delegates to fight for equality
and assess underpaid women lower union fees. In a longer speech, she
called for the use of nonviolence that would have broad meaning for
the world’s protest movements.

She told delegates that workers shouldn’t “strike and go out and
starve, but to strike and remain in and take possession of the
necessary property of production.”

A year later Mahatma Gandhi, speaking to fellow Indians at the
Johannesburg Empire Theater, advocated nonviolence to fight
colonialism, but he was still 25 years away from leading fellow
Indians in nonviolent marches against India’s British rulers.

Eventually Lucy Parsons’s principle traveled to the U.S. sit-down
strikers of the 1930s, Dr. King and the Civil Rights Movement of the
1950s and 1960s, the antiwar movements that followed, and finally to
today’s Arab Spring and the Occupy movements.

Lucy was an unrelenting agitator, leading picket lines and speaking to
workers’ audiences in the United States, and then before trade union
meetings in England. In February 1941, poor and living on a pension
for the blind, the Farm Equipment Workers Union asked Lucy Parsons to
give an inspirational speech to its workers, and a few months later
she rode as the guest of honor on its May Day parade float.

After the fire that took her life, federal and local lawmen arrived at
the gutted Parsons home to make sure her legacy died with her. They
poked through the wreckage, confiscated her vast library and personal
writings, and never returned them.

Lucy Parsons’s determined effort to elevate and inspire the oppressed
to take command remained alive among those who knew, heard, and loved
her. But few today are aware of her insights, courage and tenacity.
Despite her fertile mind, writing and oratorical skills, and striking
beauty, Lucy Parsons has not found a place in school texts, social
studies curricula, or Hollywood movies.

Yet she has earned a prominent place in the long fight for a better
life for working people, for women, for people of color, for her
country, and for her world.

[Lord Valve]

Nothing could be easier.

> Seventy years ago

> On March 7, 1942,
> 1905
> socialism
> radical organizer
> May Day
> bomb blast
> crusade against capitalism

> militant Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)

> take possession of the necessary property of production

You're no different than the lame-ass communist fucktards of the past.

You want communism? Move to fucking China, son.
It ain't gonna happen here - *our* populace is *armed*.

BTW - if you shit on the sidewalk in China, you'll be
lucky if they don't execute you for it. And good
riddance.

Your usual cut-and-paste commie propaganda,
of course, answers nothing. Your "movement"
is composed of criminals and losers. <shrug>