Call for Saturday: Occupy Chicago! 6:30PM LaSalle & Jackson
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Shaun Harkin
Oct 21, 2011, 10:39:10 AM10/21/11
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Sisters and Brothers:
As many of you know, 175 people were arrested last Saturday night,
during an attempt to set up a 24 hour protest in Grant Park. Many who
were arrested were teachers, students, workers, union members, people
with and without work, young and old. At Occupy Chicago we understand
this as a gross violation of our First Amendment right to peacefully
assemble. Free speech and assembly is a 24 hour right. It does not
magically disappear at the park's Curfew. In a world that continues to
have its public space privatized, indeed that continues to have all
things public stolen from us, it is essential that we reclaim and
build a public space to bulwark ourselves against the oncoming tide of
corporate greed. We are trying erect a public space, one that is not
owned or sponsored, where ideas, democracy, and the resistance against
the ever increasing cuts that affect all us, can be fostered.
This is why, on Saturday, we will again march out and try to encamp at
a yet undisclosed location. This time we march with the full support
of the SEIU, CTU, National Nurses United, Stand Up Chicago, Jobs with
Justice, the United Electrical Workers, and more. We are joining
forces with the rank and file workers of this city who are caught in
the same struggle and willing to engage in the same fight. Let us
rally in the name of the workers; let us march against a system bent
on stealing our futures; and let us end with the construction of a new
public sphere: Occupy Chicago's new permanent home.
Come help us rebuild the public sphere, take back our right to free
speech, and demand that the charges against those arrested last week
be dropped. Come march with us. Come stand against austerity with your
brothers and sisters. Come help us rebuild and take back what has been
stolen from us.
Where: Jackson and LaSalle
When: 6:30
Please Forward Widely!
In Solidarity,
Andy Manos
Labor Outreach
Occupy Chicago
As many of you know, 175 people were arrested last Saturday night,
during an attempt to set up a 24 hour protest in Grant Park. Many who
were arrested were teachers, students, workers, union members, people
with and without work, young and old. At Occupy Chicago we understand
this as a gross violation of our First Amendment right to peacefully
assemble. Free speech and assembly is a 24 hour right. It does not
magically disappear at the park's Curfew. In a world that continues to
have its public space privatized, indeed that continues to have all
things public stolen from us, it is essential that we reclaim and
build a public space to bulwark ourselves against the oncoming tide of
corporate greed. We are trying erect a public space, one that is not
owned or sponsored, where ideas, democracy, and the resistance against
the ever increasing cuts that affect all us, can be fostered.
This is why, on Saturday, we will again march out and try to encamp at
a yet undisclosed location. This time we march with the full support
of the SEIU, CTU, National Nurses United, Stand Up Chicago, Jobs with
Justice, the United Electrical Workers, and more. We are joining
forces with the rank and file workers of this city who are caught in
the same struggle and willing to engage in the same fight. Let us
rally in the name of the workers; let us march against a system bent
on stealing our futures; and let us end with the construction of a new
public sphere: Occupy Chicago's new permanent home.
Come help us rebuild the public sphere, take back our right to free
speech, and demand that the charges against those arrested last week
be dropped. Come march with us. Come stand against austerity with your
brothers and sisters. Come help us rebuild and take back what has been
stolen from us.
Where: Jackson and LaSalle
When: 6:30
Please Forward Widely!
In Solidarity,
Andy Manos
Labor Outreach
Occupy Chicago
Shaun
917.755.7409
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