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Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Peaceful sit-in at Harbourside Park May 16th, 8 AM

Tonight's General Assembly reached total consensus on what to do about the looming eviction deadline of May 15th midnight. We all agreed to take down our last remaining symbolic tent and leave the park cleaner than when we arrived on October 15th, 2011, as part of the global Occupy revolution making its way to Canada.

Join us at 8 AM tomorrow morning, May 16th, at Harbourside Park for a peaceful sit-in on the space where our tents used to be. Our camp is now gone, but sit with us tomorrow in a show of solidarity, in recognition that the loss of our physical encampment does not signal the end of our movement. This is just the end of a beautiful and inspiring prelude. Join us for phase two and beyond.

Read more about the media coverage of OccupyNL's eviction here.

Monday, May 14, 2012

Occupy NL Eviction in the news...

Prior to May 16th:

Adam Walsh interviewed three occupiers on May 14 down at Harbourside Park about the looming eviction on May 15th. Have a listen here.

Also, check out these articles:
CBC: Eviction day for Occupy NLers
CBC's Here and Now (video): Eviction tonight?
CBC News: Here and Now - May 15 (video) (2:22 - 3:14) and (11:17:30 -  11:19:20)
Telegram: Occupy NL eviction looms
National Post: Occupy stalwart St. John’s, NL, to be kicked out by midnight
Globe and Mail (video): After Eight Months, St. John's Occupy Protestors Pack Up
Calgary Herald: After long winter, Newfoundland Occupy diehards told to pack it in
NTV: OccupyNL packs up its tents

May 16th:

Occupy NL's resolution to have a peaceful sit-in.
CBC: Occupy NL removes camp before St. John's deadline
CBC's Here and Now (video): Occupy NL Moves
The Telegram: City thanks Occupy NL members for removing camp
The Vancouver Sun: All-winter Occupy N.L. campers leave St. John's park cleanly, quietly




Monday, April 30, 2012

Confrontations

At what point does power restrict freedom? My area of research has to do with mental health care and the law. I look at what points people who are considered to have lost their grip on consensual reality have their rights and autonomy taken away by the state.
Here with an impending eviction of Harbourside Park we have a conceptually similar situation. A group of people who are perceived as not adhering to a normal way of living are going to be soon faced with a decision. Leave the park, ie normalize, or be confronted with the law and the restrictions that follow from that. 

The decision to restrict freedom seems easier to make when a group has been categorized as other; different or abnormal in some way. I think there is something abnormal about what is happening with the Occupy movement. I also think we are at the point where it might be time to consider the virtues of abnormality.

I understand not wanting to participate in Occupy, or ignoring it altogether. We are free to choose. My question is, what is there about the movement to not support? Here as elsewhere, (and I have been to the encampments at Dewey Square in Boston and the womb at Zuccotti Park in Manhattan), I have seen a lot of things. I have seen people motivated to contribute their time and energy to provide food, shelter, and camaraderie in a virtually judgement free setting. I read from Joel Hynes' Straight Razor Days at the Zuccotti Park library. I was violently chased through Manhattan by the riot police for my efforts. Hynes does have a gift for antagonism. 

Friday, January 6, 2012

OccupyNL on The Current

Listen to Thomas Jordan speaking on CBC's The Current.

Die Hard Occupants

OccupyNL in Adbusters!

Wednesday, January 4, 2012

OccupyNL reported as last camp in Canada

Check out the coverage by the CBC. We are reported as the last occupy camp in Canada. If anyone knows of any other camps left in Canada, please post in comments.

Thanks to everyone involved with and supporting OccupyNL since its beginning on October 15th as part of the global occupy movement. Everyone is welcome to participate in our General Assemblies, which continue to happen three times a week:

Tuesdays at 8 PM (location to be announced, but likely at MUN for workshops);
Thursdays at 8 PM at Harbourside Park (for action reports); and
Sundays at 8 PM (at the Anglican Cathedral)

Click here to view the OccupyNL code of customs.
Also, to catch up on what we've been discussing, view the minutes of our meetings.

There's lots on the horizon!

Wednesday, October 26, 2011

#occupy Newfoundland and Labrador in solidarity with #occupy Oakland

Seems like the mayor of Oakland didn't get the memo.
The use of force won't make this movement go away.





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