Fwd: Occupy Pasadena
Esteban Gil
-Estie
From: Esteban Gil <esteb...@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 11:06 AM
Subject: Occupy Pasadena
To: sierramad...@gmail.com
Hello Sierra Madre Tattler!
My name is Esteban, I'm a participant in Occupy Pasadena. We have General Assembly every Sunday at 3pm at Memorial Park in Pasadena (NW corner, Raymond and Walnut). We invite all to come experience direct and participatory democracy to help us get organized as a group, define ourselves, and act in the Pasadena area in a way that helps to transform this backwards world we live in. We invite all all Tattler readers who stand in solidarity with the 99% of people in this world who are left behind by the political and economic elite of the 1% who make decisions affecting all of us. Thank you!
This is our website: occupypasadena.org
These are our Principles of Solidarity:
On September 17, 2011, people from all across the United States of America and the world came to protest the blatant injustices of our times perpetuated by the economic and political elites. On the 17th we as individuals rose up against political disenfranchisement and social and economic injustice. We spoke out, resisted, and successfully occupied Wall Street. Today, we proudly remain in Liberty Square constituting ourselves as autonomous political beings engaged in non-violent civil disobedience and building solidarity based on mutual respect, acceptance, and love. It is from these reclaimed grounds that we say to all Americans and to the world, Enough! How many crises does it take? We are the 99% and we have moved to reclaim our mortgaged future.Through a direct democratic process, we have come together as individuals and crafted these principles of solidarity, which are points of unity that include but are not limited to:
- Engaging in direct and transparent participatory democracy;
- Exercising personal and collective responsibility;
- Recognizing individuals’ inherent privilege and the influence it has on all interactions;
- Empowering one another against all forms of oppression;
- Redefining how labor is valued;
- The sanctity of individual privacy;
- The belief that education is human right; and
- Endeavoring to practice and support wide application of open source.
We are daring to imagine a new socio-political and economic alternative that offers greater possibility of equality. We are consolidating the other proposed principles of solidarity, after which demands will follow.