[PAA-Discuss] Occupy Wall Street Declaration... Houston event

Sat Oct 1 16:09:56 EDT 2011

Thanks. That's more info than I've been able to get from the facebook page

> Please forward.
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> Hello everyone,
>
> I attended the gathering in the Market Square Park yesterday evening at
> 7:00
> pm in preparation of "Oct. 6th event, Occupy Houston". After a general
> talk,
> a few committees were formed so they could separately discuss their tasks
> and responsibilities. Dustin Phipps initially volunteered to form the
> Outreach Committee and  6 more people and myself joined this committee and
> had our first meeting right in the darkness of the park.
>
> We decided to make a list of all progressive organizations to seek their
> ACTIVE participations and sponsorship of this event. All participants in
> this truly grassroots and open activity and also those individuals who
> have
> accepted to be in charge for now, are undeniably seeking help from all
> activists and organizations in Houston. Therefore I'm asking you to please
> consider your full support of this action which is basically is open to
> everyone. The newly formed Oct 6th Occupy Houston outreach committee is
> asking all members of PAA group personally and their respective
> organizations to be directly involved and shed the light on the issues
> that
> this group has been discussing for years through a united front action on
> Oct. 6th (the details of the event will be announced soon).
>
> Please advise and reply to the e-mails above. Thanks.
>
> Massoud
> On behalf of Oct 6th - Occupy Houston Outreach Committee: Dustin, Raffi,
> Matt, Khris, Andy, Chris and Debbie
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: discuss-bounces at paa-tx.org [mailto:discuss-bounces at paa-tx.org] On
> Behalf Of Randy Scott
> Sent: Saturday, October 01, 2011 1:42 PM
> To: donald cook
> Cc: HCGP discussion; Code Pink; discuss paa
> Subject: Re: [PAA-Discuss] Occupy Wall Street Declaration
>
> The Occupy Houston group on Facebook is still discussing locations. Today
> noon is a sign painting party. Unfortunately, right now everything they
> are doing is in Market Square Park, a place where you cannot go if you're
> dependant on an automobile for transportation unless you can pay huge
> parking fees.
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>> Makes me want to break out my two corporate-logos-and-stripes flags and
>> wave 'em somewhere.  But I can't find any local places being occupied as
>> I
>> look through my e-mail.  Can somebody please advise?  I'll go there if
>> you
>> will.  Hell, I'll suggest some super places to occupy if nothin else's
>> happenin!  - Don
>>  From: zenblews at hotmail.com
>> To: zenblews at hotmail.com
>> Subject: Occupy Wall Street Declaration
>> Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2011 19:54:43 -0500
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>> Occupy Wall Street Now Has Formal Declaration with 22
>> GrievancesSubmitted
>> by Habit4ming on Fri, 09/30/2011 - 17:19in Daily Paul Liberty
>> ForumDeclarationFormalgrievancesoccupystreetwall
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>> There is a declaration from those at "Occupy Wall Street on Facebook" ,
>> of
>> whom are stating a Call to Action.
>> "As we gather together in solidarity to express a feeling of mass
>> injustice, we must not lose sight of what brought us together. We write
>> so
>> that all people who feel wronged by the corporate forces of the world
>> can
>> know that we are your allies.
>> As one people, formerly. divided by the color of our skin, gender,
>> sexual
>> orientation, religion, or lack thereof, political party and cultural
>> background, we acknowledge the reality: that there is only one race, the
>> human race, and our survival requires the cooperation of its members;
>> that
>> our system must protect our rights, and upon corruption of that system,
>> it
>> is up to the individuals to protect their own rights, and those of their
>> brethren; that a democratic government derives its just power from the
>> people, but corporations do not seek consent to extract wealth from the
>> people and the Earth; and that no true democracy is attainable when the
>> process is determined by economic power. We come to you at a time when
>> corporations, which place profit over people, self-interest over
>> justice,
>> and oppression over equality, run our governments. We have peaceably
>> assembled here, as is our right, to let these facts be known.
>> They have taken our houses through an illegal foreclosure process,
>> despite
>> not having the original mortgage.They have taken bailouts from taxpayers
>> with impunity, and continue to give CEO's exorbitant bonuses.They have
>> perpetuated gender inequality and discrimination in the workplace.They
>> have poisoned the food supply, and undermined the farming system through
>> monopolization.They have continuously sought to end the rights of
>> workers
>> to negotiate their pay and make complaints about the safety of their
>> workplace.They have held students hostage with tens of thousands of
>> dollars of debt on education, which is itself a human right.They have
>> consistently outsourced labor and used that outsourcing as leverage to
>> cut
>> workers' healthcare and pay.They have influenced the courts to achieve
>> the
>> same rights as people, with none of the culpability or
>> responsibility.They
>> have spent millions of dollars on legal teams that look for ways to get
>> them out of contracts in regards to health insurance.They have sold our
>> privacy as a commodity.They have used the military and police force to
>> prevent freedom of the press.They have deliberately declined to recall
>> faulty products endangering lives in pursuit of profit.They determine
>> economic policy, despite the catastrophic failures their policies have
>> produced and continue to produce.They have donated large sums of money
>> to
>> politicians supposed to be regulating them.They continue to block
>> alternate forms of energy to keep us dependent on oil.They continue to
>> block generic forms of medicine that could save people's lives in order
>> to
>> protect investments that have already turned a substantive profit.They
>> have purposely covered up oil spills, accidents, faulty book keeping,
>> and
>> inactive ingredients in pursuit of profit.They purposefully keep people
>> misinformed and fearful through their control of the media.They have
>> perpetuated colonialism at home and abroad.They have participated in the
>> torture and murder of innocent civilians overseas.They continue to
>> create
>> weapons of mass destruction in order to receive government
>> contracts.They
>> have participated in a directly racist action by accepting the contract
>> from the State of Georgia to murder Troy Davis.To the people of the
>> world:
>> We, the New York City General Assembly occupying Wall Street in Liberty
>> Square, urge you to assert your power. Exercise your right to peaceably
>> assemble; occupy public space; create a process to address the problems
>> we
>> face, and generate solutions accessible to everyone.
>> To all communities that take action and form groups in the spirit of
>> direct democracy: We offer support, documentation, and all of the
>> resources at our disposal.
>> Join us and make your voices heard!"
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