From comrades at Occupy Hampshire:
Resist Austerity. Rebuild the Economy. Reclaim our Democracy.
This Thursday, Nov. 17th, Occupy Wall Street protesters will attempt to shut down the New York Stock Exchange! They are occupying the subways in solidarity with this INTERNATIONAL movement!
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Occupy Hampshire is organizing a day of action, (in conjunction with the 5-colleges), to show our solidarity with OWS!
The preliminary schedule is as follows:
11:00am – STUDENT WALK OUT.
- consider your classes, CANCELLED.
- invite your classes to take part in this walk out, and encourage your PROFESSORS to join us and speak out about the global financial crisis!
11:00am – 12:30pm – TEACH IN ON STUDENT DEBT and the GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS.
- professors and students from the 5-college community will be giving talks on student debt, the global financial crisis, and the prison industrial complex!
12:30pm – 1:20pm – SPEAK OUT/SOAP BOX/PEOPLE’S MIC.
- share your stories! we want to hear about your experiences with financial aid, your hardships since the recession hit, and most importantly YOUR DREAMS AND IDEAS FOR A BETTER TOMORROW!
1:20pm – 1:30pm – BUS TO AMHERST CENTER.
- we will occupy the PVTA bus and travel to Amherst Center, complete with signs and wondrous chanting!
- we will meet up with our comrades from Occupy UMASS Amherst, Students Against Mass Incarceration, Smith College Occupies Wall Street, and Decolonize/Occupy Amherst College for a demonstration in the Amherst Common!
This day of action will conclude with a march to UMASS Amherst, where the legendary Judith Butler will be giving a talk at 4:30pm! It is important to note that Judith Butler has been extremely supportive of the Occupy Movement!
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EVERYONE who is interested in building a powerful movement and a force for change IS WELCOME. Can’t wait to see you there to start building this movement!
For more information contact Idalia Buddington iib09@hampshire.edu or Madeline Burrows at mrb09@hampshire.edu
Today i was a customer at TD Bank. A very large group of people came in and we protesting inside the building. While i am all for protesting and believe its a perfect way to get the message accross, i thought it was wrong, cruel and unjust to the workers inside. They politely asked everyone to move the protest outside of the bank, and no one would respond to them. i would like to know how exactly protesting inside the bank was productive? All the workers there probably make as much as any other low paying job. And i am more then sure that all the nice people there who always help me with my banking, and try to make the experience great for me, are not to blame for the bank charging me fees. It seemed as if the protestors were purposely attacking the workers inside, not the bank that they work for. Up until now i have been in full support of the protest, but today, the protest has lost all support of mine. The people protesting today took everything too far when they went inside.
Ok, so where at 11:00AM is the teach-in????