Greetings and salutations!
#OCCUPYWALLST
is hitting the road for a 5 week tour of occupation sites all around
the Northeast region to strengthen the OWS network by deepening
relationships between occupiers everywhere, to increase OWS’s capacity
through mutual transfer of skills and knowledge, and also to
clarify OWS’s narrative by deepening its commitment to listening.
#OCCUPY ITHACA is honored to host a bus load of occupiers from the front
lines of Wall Street to the city of Ithaca for a 3 day movement
building and solidarity intensive. We've crafted a program itinerary
that we hope you'll find most worthy and ask you and your constituents
to JOIN US in welcoming our comrades to show them the best of what we
all know that Ithaca has to offer as a progressive, active, and engaged
community! Please forward this to other parties who may find it of
interest.
Thanks so much. We
look forward to seeing you this week!
In Solidarity Forever!
Relay comments, questions, concerns to:
Phillip Price / Ithaca General Assembly
WEDNESDAY 2/8:-Occupiers
arrive late evening, 9pm.
THURSDAY 2/9: -2pm meet and greet at Occupation (First Baptist Church), gather around the camp at Dewitt Park! Bring food, hot drinks, and stories!
Get to know our visitors and members of
the FBC congregation who have been kind enough to host our occupation
site since this past December.
-5:30pm DINNER@
Loaves & Fishes, 210 North Cayuga Street www.loaves.org
-6pm "Social Inequality and the Destruction of American Democracy": public meeting from International Students for Social Equality
29 East Ave (Cornell University)
Goldwin Smith Hall 142
http://intsse.com/cornell
-7-9pm "Experiencing The Egyptian Revolution: Lessons Learned"
@ TC Workers' Center/ Autumn Leaves Bookstore (2nd Floor) 115 MLK St (the Commons) Ithaca, NY
Marion Dixon welcomes you to attend her talk on her experience living in Egypt during a revolutionary time. Marion W Dixon is a doctoral student in the Department of Development Sociology at Cornell University. She lived in Egypt from 2008 through 2011. She has been studying food systems in Egypt from the 19th century until the present day. In her talk she will focus on the events leading to the end of the Mubarak era, but also will address what has been taking place since then. http://www.facebook.com/
-6pm "Social Inequality and the Destruction of American Democracy": public meeting from International Students for Social Equality
29 East Ave (Cornell University)
Goldwin Smith Hall 142
http://intsse.com/cornell
-7-9pm "Experiencing The Egyptian Revolution: Lessons Learned"
@ TC Workers' Center/ Autumn Leaves Bookstore (2nd Floor) 115 MLK St (the Commons) Ithaca, NY
Marion Dixon welcomes you to attend her talk on her experience living in Egypt during a revolutionary time. Marion W Dixon is a doctoral student in the Department of Development Sociology at Cornell University. She lived in Egypt from 2008 through 2011. She has been studying food systems in Egypt from the 19th century until the present day. In her talk she will focus on the events leading to the end of the Mubarak era, but also will address what has been taking place since then. http://www.facebook.com/
FRIDAY 2/10: -12pm
LUNCH
@Loaves & Fishes, 210 North Cayuga Street
www.loaves.org
-3pm DIRECT ACTION meeting @ Owl Cafe (Autumn Leaves)
-4pm FACILITATION meeting (all active Occupy facilitators and those interested are encouraged to attend! WE ALWAYS NEED MORE!)
@ TC Workers' Center/ Autumn Leaves Bookstore (2nd Floor)
115 MLK St (the Commons) Ithaca, NY
-5PM CITY WIDE PEOPLE'S ASSEMBLY on the Ithaca Commons, near the Bernie Milton Pavilion.
General Assemblies are an open, participatory and horizontally organized process through which we are building the capacity to constitute ourselves in public as autonomous collective forces within and against the constant crises of our times. Please submit proposal items to ithacagafacilitation@
www.ithacaga.org
ithacaga@gmail.com
ithacagafacilitation@
@Loaves & Fishes, 210 North Cayuga Street
www.loaves.org
-3pm DIRECT ACTION meeting @ Owl Cafe (Autumn Leaves)
-4pm FACILITATION meeting (all active Occupy facilitators and those interested are encouraged to attend! WE ALWAYS NEED MORE!)
@ TC Workers' Center/ Autumn Leaves Bookstore (2nd Floor)
115 MLK St (the Commons) Ithaca, NY
-5PM CITY WIDE PEOPLE'S ASSEMBLY on the Ithaca Commons, near the Bernie Milton Pavilion.
General Assemblies are an open, participatory and horizontally organized process through which we are building the capacity to constitute ourselves in public as autonomous collective forces within and against the constant crises of our times. Please submit proposal items to ithacagafacilitation@
www.ithacaga.org
ithacaga@gmail.com
ithacagafacilitation@
-6:30pm EGYPT SOLIDARITY RALLY on
the Ithaca Commons, after the GA open forum.
Join us on the Ithaca Commons to celebrate the one year anniversary of the fall of the Hosnai Mubarak regime in Egypt.
Join us on the Ithaca Commons to celebrate the one year anniversary of the fall of the Hosnai Mubarak regime in Egypt.
The revolution that swept through the
Middle East and Northern Africa one year ago sparked a wave of
inspiration that resulted in a populist global movement for social
justice.
BRING INSTRUMENTS, PROTEST SIGNS, YOUR VOICES, AND TESTIFY!
WE WILL ENGAGE IN THE PEOPLE'S MIC TO STAND IN SOLIDARITY WITH THE
BRING INSTRUMENTS, PROTEST SIGNS, YOUR VOICES, AND TESTIFY!
WE WILL ENGAGE IN THE PEOPLE'S MIC TO STAND IN SOLIDARITY WITH THE
OCCUPIERS OF TAHRIR
SQUARE IN CAIRO WHO HAVE MOVED US ALL TO INSPIRATION TOWARDS ACTION!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/
We also heard about a great rock show
afterwards at Culture Shock featuring the fantastic SUMMER
PEOPLE (Binghamton), PORCHES (Brooklyn), &
UNDERGROUND RIVER starting around 8pm - www.tasteliveculture.com http:
10pm - word also has it that there's a
MJ vs. PRINCE dance party at the new Lot 10 Kitchen & Lounge (formerly
Lost Dog, Wildfire, Delilah's respectively)
hosted by more friends of #NO RADIO variety. http://www.facebook.com/
SATURDAY 2/11
-10am Anti War Protest:
Local Veterans for Peace activists have asked that
people join them at the intersection of Clinton and Meadow Streets for
their weekly Anti-War Protest.
-11am
Ithaca Farmer's Market - http://www.ithacamarket.com/
The Ithaca Farmer’s Market is a cooperative with 150
vendors who live within 30 miles of Ithaca, New York. Agricultural
vendors grow and offer high quality fruits, vegetables, meats, eggs,
poultry and dairy products. Food vendors bring a wide variety of freshly
baked goods, jellies, honey, and sauces as well as delicious meals to
eat at the market. Many talented artists and craftspeople sell their
exceptional, locally made items.
-1pm
Education Working Group #OCCUPY literature release party @Tompkins
County Workers Center 115 MLK ST.
Occupy
Ithaca EDU WG has been steadily preparing a 60 page booklet for months
now, finally ready to release in honor of the OWS visitors.
-3pm Shawn Greenwood Working Group
Workshop: - same location as above.
"A Racial Analysis of #Occupy Wall Street": this workshop will delve into how can a racial analysis, and its consequent agenda, be woven into the fabric of the movement? We need to interrogate not just the symptoms of inequality—the disproportionate loss of jobs, housing, health care and more—but, more fundamentally, the systems of inequality, considering how and why corporations create and exploit hierarchies of race, gender and national status to enrich themselves and consolidate their power. We ask that members of the OWS-POC group help us facilitate this discussion and that community people of color who have been hesitant to support the #Occupy movement also attend to engage in this discussion in a safe space that allows for marginalized voices to testify on their individual behalf about their experience within or without the movement.
"A Racial Analysis of #Occupy Wall Street": this workshop will delve into how can a racial analysis, and its consequent agenda, be woven into the fabric of the movement? We need to interrogate not just the symptoms of inequality—the disproportionate loss of jobs, housing, health care and more—but, more fundamentally, the systems of inequality, considering how and why corporations create and exploit hierarchies of race, gender and national status to enrich themselves and consolidate their power. We ask that members of the OWS-POC group help us facilitate this discussion and that community people of color who have been hesitant to support the #Occupy movement also attend to engage in this discussion in a safe space that allows for marginalized voices to testify on their individual behalf about their experience within or without the movement.
-6pm Community potluck dinner, farewell
party!
