Nice Timing

[Eliana Horn]

http://carrollgardens.patch.com/articles/construction-workers-sue-atlantic-yards-developer-claiming-they-were-duped

Some sort of follow-up?

[Gmail]

The Atlantic Yards project has deep ties to Bloomberg, and needless to say, there are a lot of people in this movement and throughout the city who are pissed off at him.

How about another march? This time to evict Bloomberg?

Let's try to mobilize some more immediate actions, along with a bigger march or other actions further out so we have time to plan.

We need to involve OWS, and we need to mention our plans and ask for their participation at an OWS GA. 

We also need to involve as many organizations as possible, including those filing suit, FUREE and anyone else we can think of.

=RP=

[Dara Silbermann]

We absolutely have to give ourselves more time to promote the action and get the word out to Brooklynites who might want to join in. Occupy Your Block may have been a confusing and/or ambiguous message, but a march or action of this sort will likely be easier for folks to latch onto.

Totally different: I want to start compiling texts, letters, flyers, newspaper articles, etc. to make an Occupy Brooklyn Reader that will document our struggle against The Man. This is a longer term project, but if I collect items as they come along, it will make putting it together in the end much easier. If anyone has anything or comes across an article that could be included, please send it my way! Once we get a good amount of material, we can form a working group to put it together. 

--dara

[Gmail]

Thanks Dara, I was just looking at all of the flyers I have this morning and was hoping someone would do this!

Maybe you could send a request out to the main list?

Could it be an Archive working group? It would also be great if we maintain a chronological timeline of events for OBK.

=RP=

[Dara Silbermann]

Archive working group sounds good. I will most definitely make an announcement on the website, the main listserv and at GA tonight. I'll let the Internet Working Group know so they can create the group.

[Todd Brogan]

Great idea, Dara!  I've been wondering whether we had some historian/archivists in OBK.

I started a press mentions listing on OccupyBK.org the other day.  Far from comprehensive, but a place to start:
http://occupybk.org/press-mentions/

On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 2:56 PM, Gmail <robot...@gmail.com> wrote:

[Lucy Koteen]

Nothing would embarrass Bloomberg more than a recall Mayor Bloomberg protest like what happened in Wisconsin.
There have been people over the last 10 yrs who have had Bloomberg watch websites or blogs. He is hated by communities all over the city because of his give aways to developers, his excessive use of eminent domain, his privatizing of schools through charter schools, his absolute disdain and lack of understanding for poor people, his reliance on high priced consultants as he lays off workers, his closing of day cares, fired depts, senior centers, youth centers, his cruelty to the homeless and of course his arrogance in saying he was so indispensable to NYC because of his financial brilliance that he had to have a third term and overturn the NYC charter by means of arm twisting City Council members and owning the messaging of all the major press in the city. I'm sure we could put together a long list of what he has done.

Remember his big push for the Olympics which was largely a huge land grab opportunity for his friends, his efforts to have the Jets stadium built, his use of eminent domain in West Harlem so that Columbia could take over many blocks there for a classified biotech lab, the use eminent domain on 125th Street, rezoning throughout the city so big developers could build and create instant gentrification, the building of hotels and highrises on the lower east side and Chinatown, eminent domain in Willets Point,eminent domain of the Bronx Terminal Market?  There are many people throughout the City who have been fighting Bloomberg's destructive ways since he came in. Those  of us who fought Atlantic Yards made connections with many activists over the years. We went to each others demonstrations and City Hall hearings to support our local causes. Because he is perceived as relatively good on certain social issues he has gotten away with what has been a deliberate transference of wealth and a transference of public services into private management.

On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 1:20 PM, Gmail <robot...@gmail.com> wrote:

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