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:6313c685-9af3-4d39-889a-2d108f42e81b DTSTART:20130522T210000Z DTEND:20130522T230000Z DTSTAMP:19700101T000000Z SUMMARY:June 1st Reoccupation Discussion DESCRIPTION:We are having a conversation about trying to build back up to having an active presence in Liberty Plaza as a means to interact with and educate the public once again just how the shit got fucked up and bullshit - to try to rebuild a sense of community that has waned in the intervening months\, and to revitalize the resistance efforts more broadly by making them accessible to the public by having a consistent\, predictable presence. We may not be able to lock down an encampment at Liberty Plaza but we can certainly reclaim the use of the space as a public forum\, and have an awesome late-spring day in the park together in a way we haven't in a long time.\n\nOnline conversations kind of suck\, especially at identifying who the stakeholders in a conversation are. They certainly aren't \"consensus\,\" and a decision of the sort that this conversation is replicating would need to be an open and horizontal conversation. This seems like the kind of conversation that should be had by the people who would be the ones doing it\, without any pressures or expectations about what would come out of that conversation. Some people had some of this conversation already - reportback below. We want MORE people to have MORE of the conversation\, and wholeheartedly invite everyone to 100 William Street at 5pm on Wednesday\, May 25th to continue this discussion.\n\nOccupy here in NYC is a lot of different groups\, all of whom are stakeholders. Please help reach out to them and invite them to this conversation\, so everyone who is invested in this can have a place to come together in community and be heard. The more of us there are\, the greater the change we can bring together in this world! LOCATION:100 Williams Street\, URL:http://www.nycga.net/events/june-1st-reoccupation-discussion/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ca63346e-0fde-45e3-bf65-7053ee6a55cb 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:30328699-a827-4507-9e3d-fcec5774ef9e DTSTART:20130522T230000Z DTEND:20130523T010000Z DTSTAMP:19700101T000000Z SUMMARY:NYC Wed. 5/22 discussion: Why Do Popular Movements Vanish? And Do They Have To? DESCRIPTION:Marxist-Humanist Initiative invites you to join the discussion\:<\strong>\n

Why Do Popular Movements Vanish?<\h2>\n

                                           And Do They Have To?<\h2>\n \;\n\nA two-part exploration of the recent history of failed revolts\, &\; the questions they raise for the future.<\strong>\n\nDiscussions will take place on two Wednesdays\:  May 22 &\; June 26 at 7\:00 p.m.<\strong>\n\nThe meetings will be in person in NYC\; people elsewhere can participate via telephone conference.<\strong>\n\n\"vanish_image\"<\a>\n\nWhy do popular movements fail and die? Is the problem as simple as their not having the “right ideas” or the “right form of organization\,” as many people\, among them both vanguardists and anarchists. say? We don’t think so. As Hegel said\, all beginnings are defective\; the problem is not that radical movements don’t immediately succeed\, but that the lack of immediate success causes them to vanish instead of reorganize. This stopping dead results from lack of a concept and process for collective review\, re-thinking\, and re-direction\, i.e.\, the lack of objective grounds from which new beginnings in thought and activity can arise.\n\nWe will look at the facts and implications of some high points and vanishings of mass movements in the 1960s (such as the near-revolution in France in 1968)\, the 1980s (the multi-million strong anti-nuke movement)\, and 2000s (the anti-war and Occupy movements). And we will face the questions raised by their trajectories. Eschewing romantic defeatism and programmatic solutions\, we will try to learn some lessons for the future.\n\nSpeakers will include veterans of 50 years of movement struggles—those of us who want to work out what the 20th century philosopher Raya Dunayevskaya termed “new beginnings that determine the end.”\n\nIn person\: Pearl Studios\, 500 Eighth Avenue\, 4th floor (btwn 35 &\; 36th Streets)\, Manhattan\, Room 403<\strong>\n\nBy telephone\: write us for the conference call number\: mhi@marxisthumanistinitiative.org<\strong>\n\n———————————————————————————————————————-\n\n[Added May 15\, 2013]   Some suggested preparatory readings are here<\strong> LOCATION:Pearl Studios\, Pearl Studios\, 500 Eighth Avenue\, 4th floor (btwn 35 & 36th Streets)\, Manhattan\, Room 403 URL:http://www.nycga.net/events/nyc-wed-522-discussion-why-do-popular-movements-vanish-and-do-they-have-to/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1bc5f642-7ab2-4d6f-8073-f39516c404f0 DTSTART:20130523T170000Z DTEND:20130523T180000Z DTSTAMP:19700101T000000Z SUMMARY:“Opening the Doors to Hope” Caravan NYC DESCRIPTION: \;\n\nInternational Humanitarian Pro-Immigrant Coalition (CHIP)\n\nand New Sanctuary Movement NY present\:\n“Opening the Doors to Hope” Caravan\n\nThe Opening the Doors to Hope Caravan is a faith-based partnership of US and Mexican organizations led by Father Alejandro Solalinde. As director of the Brotherhood on the Road shelter\, Fr. Solalinde assists and provides spiritual support to Central and South American migrants crossing through Mexico\, one of the most dangerous migration paths in the world. Departing on April 29 from San Diego\, CA\, the Caravan\, including survivors of human rights violations\, will make its way across the country until it arrives in New York City on May 22.\n\nThe Caravan demands President Obama act to enforce stricter controls on assault weapons. More than 20 million illegal guns have entered Mexico from the United States\, 80% of which are military-style weapons now forming the arsenal of Mexico's drug cartels. Following La Ruta northward\, 22\,000 migrants have been kidnapped and an additional 70\,000 have disappeared. The War on Drugs has resulted in more than 50\,000 violent deaths in the last five years.\nThe New Sanctuary Movement NY cordially invites you to join us in supporting the Caravan led by Fr. Solalinde\, clergy and family members of victims. Our hope lies in appealing to our common humanity by opening the doors to hope and walking together to make the difference.\n\nHORARIO!!!!\nCaravana\: abriendo las puertas a la Esperanza\n\nDomingo 19 de Mayo\n1\:30pm Misa de intención—cómo lograr una reforma humanitaria y compasiva. San Pedro\Sion\n5\:00pm Comienzo del ayuno\nDesde el corazón del imperio llamamos a nuestros aliad@s y a tod@s de buen corazón a unirse para que la conciencia de los que nos sirven en puestos de autoridad escuchen el clamor de la justicia.\nEl Lunes\, 20 de Mayo\, y el Martes\, 21 de Mayo\, la Caravana “abriendo las Puertas a la Esperanza” va a estar cabildeando en Washington. Con nuestro ayuno y oración nos unimos a ellos.\n\n\nMiercoles Mayo 22\, 2013\n\n7\:00pm Misa\se rompe el ayuno\nBienvenida de la Caravana a NYC\nConcierto\: Jarana Beat 8-10pm\nComida\nLugar\: Gustavus A. Church\n155 E 22nd St. NY 10010\n\nJueves Mayo 23\, 2013\n\n9\:00am Desayuno\nIglesia de Santa Ana y la Santísima Trinidad\n157 Montague St. Brooklyn\, NY 11201\n\n10\:00am Caminata sobre el Puente de Brooklyn a Federal Plaza\n\n11\:00am Conferencia de Prensa\Federal Plaza\n\n11\:30am Caminata alrededor de FP-La Procesión Jerico\n\n12\:30pm Caminando a la zona financiera\n\n1\:00pm Almuerzo\: Zuccotti Park\n\n2\:00pm Las Torres\n\n5\:00pm Comida\encuentro con los consulados\nIglesia de St. Peter\Sion\nLexington y la esquina de la Calle 54\n\n7\:00pm Foro\nIglesia de St. Peter\Sion\n\n\nViernes Mayo 24\, 2013\n\n9\:00am Desayuno (en cada lugar de hospedaje).\n\n11\:00am Acción en los centros de detención NJ\construyendo el movimiento más allá de NY\n\nSábado Mayo 25\, 2013\n\nEdificando un movimiento transnacional\: conociendo a tu vecino y construyendo amistades.\n\nDiferentes organizaciones locales le dan la bienvenida a los diferentes miembros de la caravana\, se los llevan por el día y les enseñan el trabajo que estan haciendo y cómo se puede colaborar y forjar los vínculos más allá de la frontera\n\n6\:00pm reflexión\ San Pedro.\nComida\: St. Jacobi’s\n\n7\:00pm Concierto para la recaudación de fondos\nChicha Libre\nSt. Peter\Sion\: Lexington y la calle 53\n\nDomingo Mayo 26\, 2013\n\nBrunch\n1\:30pm Misa\: por la dignidad y la libertad de todos los pueblos\nSan Pedro\Sion\n\n2\:30pm Actividad cultural\: comida\, música\nComida\: Iglesia de Sión.\n5\:00pm Cierre de actividades y evaluación.\n\n\nContact\: sanctuary07@yahoo.com 347.369.1959\nFB Coalicion Humanitaria Internacional Promigrante (CHIP) Like us on FaceBook<\em> LOCATION:Liberty Plaza\, Liberty Plaza(Formerly Zuccatti Park) URL:http://www.nycga.net/events/opening-the-doors-to-hope-caravan-nyc/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:5e2bb44e-9206-4bbf-9279-4d29b054e108 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:9b9e0fdc-b5e1-4650-ae3e-861d370eea4f DTSTART:20130524T223000Z DTEND:20130525T013000Z DTSTAMP:19700101T000000Z SUMMARY:99% OWS City-Wide Coordination and Movement Building Assembly DESCRIPTION:Please join the Occupy May Day\, Labor Outreach Committee\, Voters Occupy\, Environmental Solidarity\, Occupy The Pipeline\, Money out of Politics AG\, The People's Puppets\, and Occu-Evolve of Occupy Wall Street as well as community based Occupy Movements and various 99% movements and struggles  for a city-wide movement building and strategy sessions to build upon the mobilizations around May Day and to keep the connection of local struggles and focus on Wall Street as the source of problems the 99% face on a daily basis.\n\nOur assemblies are set up to coordinate local community based and larger struggles around the city to national and international ones and to re-build the Occupy Movement to become a mass movement to lead the fight for social and economic justice. LOCATION:60 Wall Street Atrium\, 60 Wall Street The Atrium URL:http://www.nycga.net/events/99ows-city-wide-movement-building-assembly/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:4586b621-3b23-4511-96fd-4e4e9019a257 DTSTART:20130524T211500Z DTEND:20130524T221500Z DTSTAMP:19700101T000000Z SUMMARY:99% 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:402ce987-ed85-4dc8-acbf-98c38af8cc94 DTSTART:20130525T180000Z DTEND:20130525T210000Z DTSTAMP:19700101T000000Z SUMMARY:March Against Monsanto 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. Stand beside your fellow brothers and sisters as we stand up against those who wish to do us harm so that they may rake in cash at the cost of our health\, lives\, and family.\n\nMISSION STATEMENT\:\nhttps\:\\www.facebook.com\notes\march-against-monsanto\mission-statement\579359972082527<\a>\n\nMEETING SPACE\:\nA\: CONFERENCE CALLS\: REGISTER NOW\: register now for the MAMNYC planning conference calls at\: http\:\\myaccount.maestroconference.com\conference\register\S5R27PV0PAZ75DFA<\a>\n\nB\: ON GROUND PLANNING MEETING\: coming soon \:)\n\nGOOGLE DOC\: https\:\\docs.google.com\document\d\1JMY-AYyladBMuOMMR3BhwZ30XKrt-RPZXzzDhoxiEWA\edit<\a>\n\nCOMMUNICATION TOOL\: To get further update to what is coming up next leading to MAMNYC. 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