Fwd: **EMERGENCY ACTION ALERT: NATIONAL CALL-IN TO CHARLOTTE MONDAY JAN 30th!!!**

[Josh Kadrich]

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From: Occupy Winston-Salem <occupy...@gmail.com>

Subject: **EMERGENCY ACTION ALERT: NATIONAL CALL-IN TO CHARLOTTE MONDAY JAN 30th!!!**

Date: January 28, 2012 8:31:38 PM EST

To: occupy...@googlegroups.com

Bcc: occupyrichm...@gmail.com

**EMERGENCY ACTION ALERT: NATIONAL CALL-IN TO CHARLOTTE ON MONDAY JAN 30^th!!!**

This is an Emergency Action Alert regarding the extraordinarily repressive and anti-democratic ordinances passed by the Charlotte City council which institute:

#1 Some of the most restrictive and open-ended anti-assembly and anti-free speech laws ever passed in North America

#2 Laws that have impending eviction of the Occupy Charlotte encampment this Monday Jan. 30^th.

WE ARE CALLING FOR A NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL EMERGENCY CALL-IN ON MONDAY  JANUARY 30 BETWEEN 8AM AND 6PM EST (SCROLL DOWN TO CONTACT INFO BELOW)

(link to EST http://www.timeanddate.com/library/abbreviations/timezones/na/est.html )

WE ARE URGING YOU TO PASS ON THIS EMERGENCY ACTION REQUEST TO NOT ONLY TO YOUR OCCUPY CONSTITUENTS EVERY SUPPORTIVE ORGANIZATION IN YOUR AREA! PLEASE KEEP ALL PHONE CALLS AND EMAILS CIVIL, NON-VIOLENT, FOCUSED, AND CONSIDERATE OF OCCUPY CHARLOTTE AND ACTIVISM IN GENERAL!

The protest ordinances passed include the following restrictions supposedly in anticipation of the 2012 Democratic Party National Convention, however the vast majority of them do not have an expiration date:

·         Outlawing the following items (thereby giving he police the power to arrest and search protestors with) backpacks, water bottles, scarves, low-powered sound amplification devices, markers (seriously!), coolers, gas masks, etc.

·         Limiting the number of organizations who can protest at the DNC and instituting a Protest Lottery where winners pulled are still subject to permit denial by the City Manager. Also limiting the area of protest to designated "Free Speech Zones"

·         Giving the Charlotte City Manager broad reaching powers to declare an “extraordinary event” and request national assistance.

Here is a link to the ordinances: http://charmeck.org/city/charlotte/CityClerk/CouncilRelated/Documents/Agenda%20Attachments/2012/01_23_2012%20mtg/2.pdf

Here are a few articles:

http://clclt.com/theclog/archives/2012/01/18/occupy-charlotte-and-community-relations-committee-share-concerns-about-dnc-ordinances

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/01/how_the_2012_conventions_will_leave_a_surveillance_and_security_footprint_in_host_cities.php

http://www.examiner.com/public-policy-in-charlotte/clt-s-camping-ordinance-affects-the-whole-community

These laws don’t just affect Occupy. They don’t only affect Charlotte or North Carolina. The laws passed on Jan, 23 will be viewed by the powers that be as a precedent for ALL FUTURE POLITICAL ACTIVITY  and will be watched very closely by every major metropolitan area. They will be used against the homeless, they will be used against striking workers, they will be used against YOU. We must not allow them to think that the world is not watching Charlotte, Homeland Security, and the upcoming Democratic National Convention!

CONTACT INFORMATION FOR CHARLOTTE CITY GOVERNMENT:

Charlotte City Government Main Line 

(704) 336-7600

http://charmeck.org/city/charlotte/Pages/default.aspx

Office of the City Manager (Curt Walton)

704-336-2244 (Phone)

704-336-2241
704-336-6644 (Fax)

cwa...@ci.charlotte.nc.us

Office of the Mayor (Anthony Foxx):

E-mail:	ma...@charlottenc.gov
Phone:	704-336-2241

City Council Members:

District 1
Contact Patsy Kinsey, pki...@charlottenc.gov

District 2
Contact James Mitchell Jr., JamesDi...@aol.com

District 3
Contact LaWana Mayfield, lmay...@charlottenc.gov

District 4
Contact Michael D. Barnes, barnesd...@aol.com

District 6
Contact Andy Dulin, adu...@charlottenc.gov

District 7
Contact Warren Cooksey, war...@warrencooksey.com

[jennifers...@gmail.com]

Thanks for the info, Josh!

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