Click on the headline to link to updates from the Occupy Boston website. Occupy Boston started at 6:00 PM, September 30, 2011. I will post important updates as they appear on that site.
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An Injury To One Is An Injury To All!-Defend All The Occupation Sites And All The Occupiers! Drop All Charges Against All Protesters Everywhere!
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Fight-Don’t Starve-We Created The Wealth, Let's Take It Back! Labor And The Oppressed Must Rule!
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A Five-Point Program As Talking Points
*Jobs For All Now!-“30 For 40”- A historic demand of the labor movement. Thirty hours work for forty hours pay to spread the available work around. Organize the unorganized- Organize the South- Organize Wal-mart- Defend the right for public and private workers to unionize.
* Defend the working classes! No union dues for Democratic (or the stray Republican) candidates. Spent the dough on organizing the unorganized and other labor-specific causes (example, the November, 2011 anti-union recall referendum in Ohio).
*End the endless wars!- Immediate, Unconditional Withdrawal Of All U.S./Allied Troops (And Mercenaries) From Afghanistan! Hands Off Pakistan! Hands Off Iran! Hands Off The World!
*Fight for a social agenda for working people!. Quality Healthcare For All! Nationalize the colleges and universities under student-teacher-campus worker control! Forgive student debt! Stop housing foreclosures!
*We created the wealth, let’s take it back. Take the struggle for our daily bread off the historic agenda. Build a workers party that fights for a workers government to unite all the oppressed. Labor and the oppressed must rule!
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Markin comment:
And as always-everybody, young or old, needs to stand by this slogan - An Injury To One Is An Injury To All!-Defend All The Occupation Sites And All The Occupiers Everywhere! Hands Off Occupy Boston!
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Markin comment December 8, 2011:
Those of us who have been around the left-wing political movements for a while know that you have to use every tactic, every principled tactic, including the use of their courts, their agencies, their Congress, and their, well, everything. But as Judge McIntyre’s ruling indicates, when the deal goes down it is still their courts, their police, and their damn park. So right now, right this minute, we are left to our resources, the power of our arguments and the power of our people. Defend Occupy Boston! Hands Off Occupy Boston!
Markin comment December 9, 2011:
Every hour past the midnight deadline proclaimed by Czar Menino in which his Cossacks are held at bay by the efforts of a mass movement is a victory for our side. Not a big victory like that new society we are fighting like hell for but a victory. For those of us who have spent some time in left-wing politics we know even those small victories are few and far between so let us savor it. Savor it in the knowledge that this particular struggle in this particular form will not be a physical victory. We fought, we have lit the spark and that is a start. The cry of the hour is still- Defend Occupy Boston! Hands Off Occupy Boston! Forward.
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Markin comment Decemeber 10, 2011:
We knew the other shoe was going to drop (first the lifting of the TRO and then a police raid) and now it has. The idea thought will live. And those who have struggled will continue to struggle. Right this minute that struggle means standing in solidarity with our arrested brothers and sisters. Free All Occupy Protesters! Drop All Charges!
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