[Obupdates] Daily Digest Update: Come to Dewey

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Supporters of Occupy Boston,

Mayor Menino has asked Occupy Boston to shutdown and leave by 12:00am
tonight, or face action.

We are having a General Assembly, as scheduled, at 7:00pm tonight. We
encourage everyone to come.

We are also asking for people to come down to Dewey and stay after, to help
those who need to pack, to help those who need transportation, and to
otherwise show support for Occupy Boston.

Coming down does not mean you face arrest. The deadline is 12:00am tonight,
and supporters not wishing to risk arrest can stand on the sidewalk or
wherever police designate is ok. Those who are willing to risk arrest, you
know where to go.

All support is welcome. Many thanks to those who lent support over these
past few months to this stage of the movement. What may end tonight will be
the temporary physical presence we had at Dewey Square. What will continue
is our organizing, mobilizing, acting and building a movement that stands
up to the social and economic justice that dominates our society. This is
just the beginning.

Please see our statement on eviction below. We hope to see you at Dewey
tonight.

- Daily Digest




http://www.occupyboston.org/2011/12/08/threatening-eviction/


This morning, Mayor Menino issued a midnight deadline for Occupy Boston to
leave the Greenway. The articulated threat of eviction is a clear and
present danger to the community we have built over the past ten weeks. We
came to Dewey Square to practice true democracy and give visibility to
injustice; we came to see if we could not–in providing for basic
needs–maintain a standing indictment against their enforced deprivation
within our broader community. With this commitment came hard evidence of
economic suffering, evidence that we present at the doorstep of the Federal
Reserve along with our democracy, our songs and our chants that echo daily
through the financial canyon. Today, the city threatens that community. It
threatens the library, where we hold our classes and discuss ideas. It
threatens our food tent, which has served thousands of people many more
thousands of meals. It threatens our medical tent, which has provided
treatment and care to the sick and to the injured. Not only these, it
threatens the lives of those of us who have no place else to go. The city
has cited concern for our safety as the reason for forcing us back into the
streets. But make no mistake; the city’s concern for our safety will
disperse when we do.  We have therefore taken steps to ensure the safety of
the infrastructure we have built, and to protect the most vulnerable among
us in the event of the eviction. We are taking down the food tent, the
medical tent, packing up our logistics supplies for safe-keeping and
working with social service providers and other allies to secure shelter
for our brothers and sisters most likely to experience homelessness if and
when the city throws away their tents. We take action–today and always–in
the name of economic and political justice, freedom of expression and our
entire community.
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