BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH CALSCALE:GREGORIAN PRODID:-//Events Manager//1.0//EN X-WR-CALNAME:#Occupy Wall Street - Calendar BEGIN:VEVENT UID:30fc453e-c7ba-4b8b-a060-de0a465cfd4d DTSTART:20130519T180000Z DTEND:20130519T190000Z DTSTAMP:19700101T000000Z SUMMARY:OWS Alternative Banking DQUOTEPre-meetingDQUOTE talk on Dark Pools DESCRIPTION:Leon Kautsky will discuss dark pools and other topics related to stock trading from 2-3 before the weekly Alternative Banking meeting.\n\n30% of stock trading occurs in what are called Dark Pools or other venues that are not open or visible to the public. What impact does this have? LOCATION:Columbia University International Affairs Building\, Room 409\, URL:http://www.nycga.net/events/pre-meeting-talk-on-dark-pools/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:6b97441f-f161-4947-be42-271a449be96b DTSTART:20130519T190000Z DTEND:20130519T210000Z DTSTAMP:19700101T000000Z SUMMARY:OWS Alternative Banking Weekly Meeting DESCRIPTION:As always\, we will be meeting to discuss what is wrong with the financial system and what to do about it (with occasional other topics for variety).\n\nPlease join us.\n\nRoom 409 in a little tricky to find but worth the effort. Well\, the room isn’t but the meeting is. When you enter the building from 118th street\, you are already on the fourth floor. Go straight\, past the elevators and up a short flight of stairs. Make a left. Room 409 is in the hallway to your left.\nLeave a Reply\n\n LOCATION:Columbia University International Affairs Building\, Room 409\, URL:http://www.nycga.net/events/ows-alternative-banking-weekly-meeting-23/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:25fc8ede-d305-47ee-a500-7dcae6cf29ac DTSTART:20130520T220000Z DTEND:20130520T230000Z DTSTAMP:19700101T000000Z SUMMARY:voters occupy DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:atrium\, URL:http://www.nycga.net/events/voters-occupy-4/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:816191a1-0551-44eb-8ecc-5a13ef893e4d DTSTART:20130522T000000Z DTEND:20130522T013000Z DTSTAMP:19700101T000000Z SUMMARY:Tuesday Night Discussion: How Can Occupy Wall Street Become a More Inclusive Movement? DESCRIPTION:The focus of this discussion\strategy meeting is to address the issue of diversity or lack thereof in the Occupy Movement and how it can truly represent the needs and interests of the 99% LOCATION:The Atrium\, The Atrium 60 Wall Street URL:http://www.nycga.net/events/occupy-2-0-where-does-occupy-wall-street-go-from-here-to-become-a-more-inclusive-movement-monday-night-discussions/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:0430cd4a-2f91-4df2-8144-c2cd6d499c20 DTSTART:20130522T210000Z DTEND:20130522T233000Z DTSTAMP:19700101T000000Z SUMMARY:Hands Off Assata! Uncle Sam Is The Real Terrorist! DESCRIPTION:[caption id=\"\" align=\"alignnone\" width=\"590\"]\"\" Assata Shakur[\caption]\n

On Thursday\, May 9\, 2013 at 5pm Eastern Standard Time\, the New York City Chapter of the Black is Back Coalition for Social Justice Peace and Reparations (BIBC) will hold a demonstration in front of the Harlem State Office Building to protest the U.S. government’s recent announcement of the increased bounty placed on the life of Assata Shakur from $1 million to $2 million and her addition to the FBI’s most wanted terrorist list.<\p>\n

The State claims that Assata Shakur is a U.S. domestic terrorist and is offering money to anyone who can take Assata from Cuba and bring her back\, dead or alive\, to the U.S. so that she can be forced to serve the rest of her “life sentence” for the alleged murder of a New Jersey state trooper in the early 1970s.<\p>\n

The BIBC is absolutely opposed to the U.S. governments labeling of Assata Shakur as a terrorist. Assata Shakur\, like the masses of African and other oppressed peoples around the world\, is a victim of terrorism inflicted by the U.S. government. It is the U.S. government that has the longest track record of terrorism on the face of the planet. Currently there are over 700 U.S. military installations in the world today. In each of those colonized territories suffering such occupation\, the people face outright terror. The Afghani people suffer civilian casualties on a regular basis due to trigger happy U.S. Marine maneuvers. The same can be said all over the planet.<\p>\n

In fact\, Cuba\, the country from which the U.S. aims to snatch Assata\, has been a decade’s long victim of that same U.S. terrorism that African people in this country have come to know all too well. The economic embargos and military restrictions that the U.S. has imposed on the Cuban government and people are not unlike the public policy of policy containment of the Black community here in the U.S.\, a policy which serves at best as a poor substitute for economic development. The U.S. occupation of Cuba (Guantanamo Bay) is not unlike the police occupation of the African community. The numerous assassination attempts by the U.S. on the life of Fidel Castro and other Cuban leaders is not unlike the U.S. COINTELPRO initiated assassinations of Malcolm X\, Fred Hampton and Martin Luther King.<\p>\n

Assata is being labeled a terrorist by the U.S. only because of her relationship to the Black Liberation Army\, which\, during the 1960’s and 70’s engaged in armed struggle against the U.S. government as a means of liberating Black people from its oppressive domination. The U.S. is intensifying its attack on all remnants and symbols of resistance from the last genuine period of revolutionary struggle in this country. This attack on Assata is an attack on the African Liberation Movement and African people in general that cannot go unchecked! This attack on the part of the U.S. is not a sign of strength. It is a sign of weakness and desperation that was necessary on the part of U.S. imperialism as a means of overturning the tides of history that are on course to wipe imperialism completely out of existence.<\p>\n

BIB also understands that the intensifying attack being made against Assata and the African Liberation Movement in general could only be made possible\, with minimal political consequence\, through a neo-colonial Black president Obama and U.S. attorney general Eric Holder.<\p>\n

While these government officials are Black\, it is clear that they do not represent the interests of Black people. It is Obama who has intensified a campaign of imperialist war against African and African people around the world. It is Obama who has ordered the dropping of drone bombs in various parts of the African continent. It is Obama who has given a green light to the police throughout the U.S. to shoot and kill African people at will\, an initiative that has resulted in the most recent finding that an African is murdered by the police in the U.S. every 28 hours. The fact is that while George Bush’s regime set the stage for the bounty on Assata\, it is Obama who has played the leading role in the play of U.S. imperialist repression waged around the world\, a play whose final act consists of such attempts to completely wipe out any remnant of African resistance within U.S. borders.<\p>\n

Assata Shakur on the other hand\, has represented the genuine interests of African people since she joined the movement for Black Power\, as she continues to do today—even as she lives in Cuba in exile because of her acts of righteous resistance during the 1960s. The Black is Back Coalition is calling on all lovers of genuine freedom and social justice to unite with us and attend this very important demonstration being held in defense of Assatta Shakur.<\p>\n

Free Assatta! Free Sundiata!\nFree Sekou Odinga!\nFree All BLA Prisoners of War!\nFree All Political Prisoners!<\p>\n

Where\: Harlem State Office Building - 163 West 125th Street\, New York\, New York 10027\nWhen\: Thur\, May 9 - 5PMEST\nContact\: info@blackisbackcoalition.org 917-830-533<\strong>8<\p>\n

Current list of demonstration endorsers and attendees include\:<\strong>\nPeoples Organization for Progress (New Jersey)\nGlen Ford (Black Agenda Report) International Peoples Democratic Uhuru Movement (InPDUM) – NYC\nDiop Olugbala – InPDUM President\nAfrican Peoples Socialist Party – Newark\, NJ\nNellie Bailey – Harlem Tenants Council\nRalph Poynter – Lynn Stewart Defense Committee\nStudents United for a Free CUNY\nOccupy Wall Street (Occu-Evolve) - Sumumba Sobukwe\nLisa Davis\, Chair of the Black is Back Healthcare Committee\nThe Peoples Survival Program (PSP)<\p> LOCATION:Harlem State Office Building\, URL:http://www.nycga.net/events/hands-off-assata-uncle-sam-is-the-real-terrorist/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:d2aac943-ca1f-4e51-990c-d41ee79f713e DTSTART:20130523T220000Z DTEND:20130524T010000Z DTSTAMP:19700101T000000Z SUMMARY:The Conversation DESCRIPTION:the conversation is an intentional gathering intended to be a social and safe space where activists from the nyc anarchist community\, occupy and other radical campaigns can come together to engage in dialogue and understanding and reinvigorate our sense of community\n\n)\:\:\nthis space will help create an environment where everybody will be encouraged to share their thoughts and feelings in small circles\n\n)\:\:\nwe encourage you to bring vegan food to share and hope to hold similar social sessions on a regular basis. let's help create a culture of care by acknowledging and negotiating conflict responsibly\n\nwith love and solidarity\n♥\n\nloc\: assembly hall @ judson\n\nFacebook Event\: https\:\\www.facebook.com\events\598205536858014\<\a> LOCATION:Judson Memorial Church Assembly Hall\, URL:http://www.nycga.net/events/the-conversation/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:d0659a50-2b3a-4e3f-ae0a-e9805ff5113e DTSTART:20130524T211500Z DTEND:20130524T221500Z DTSTAMP:19700101T000000Z SUMMARY:OWS -The Peoples Voice-Weekly Speakouts for Justice and Democracy DESCRIPTION:The year 2013 is a special year as it marks the 150th year of the Emancipation proclamation\, the 100 year Birthday of Rosa Park\, and the 50 year anniversary of Dr. King's Letter From A Birmingham Jail and The March on Washington. To commemorate all of these historic events we will assemble on the Steps of Federal Hall at 26 Wall Street and Read from a Letter From A Birmingham Jail\, The March On Washington and other documents from those times as well as have a speakout on issues of Justice and Democracy. If you want your voice heard-Join Us and come speak your mind. Every Friday at 5\:15pm LOCATION:Federal Hall Steps\, Federal Hall Steps on 26 Wall Street URL:http://www.nycga.net/events/the-peoples-voice-weekly-speakouts-for-justice-and-democracy/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:a4b6e8e4-95af-4972-9773-36c844d8df5f DTSTART:20130525T180000Z DTEND:20130525T210000Z DTSTAMP:19700101T000000Z SUMMARY:March Against Monsanto Union Square NYC DESCRIPTION:Greetings\, citizens of New York City. We are the voices of many\, and we are well beyond infuriated. Over the past months we have witnessed many atrocious acts committed by our very own government that accumulates in multitudes. Most recently\, while most of us were distracted by the Supreme Court case dealing with the Constitutionality of same-sex marriages within the state of California\, our ever so beloved leaders stealthily signed into law the Monsanto Protection Act\, or the Farmer Assurance Provision 2013. This bill states that the Secretary of Agriculture may grant temporary deregulation status so that genetically modified organism (GMO) farmers and growers may continue the cultivation of biotech crops that had previously been approved by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)\, even as legal challenges against the safety of those crops are underway\, and prevents courts from interceding the review process. What's even more hideous is the clear\, cold fact that lawmakers and lawyers from Monsanto collaborated in creating the provisions of this criminal act. Yes\, that is correct\; Sen. Roy Blunt\, Republican of Missouri\, worked in collusion with lawyers of Monsanto to create legislation that allowed the sale of GM products that were harmful to the country's citizens. Though it will only remain in effect for six months until the government finds another way to fund its operations\, the message it sends is that corporations can get around consumer safety protections if they get Congress on their side. Furthermore\, it sets a precedent that suggests that court challenges are a privilege\, not a right.\n\nThe people have spoken\, and the consensus is vibrating with outrage. Does your stomach churn at the mere mention of these sick-in-the-head individuals ruling our every moment? Then join us on May the 25th as we march through NYC and show Monsanto\, Congress\, the President\, and the World that We\, the people as a whole\, united as one\, have had enough. 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