[Obupdates] Occupy Boston Daily Digest - Saturday November 12, 2011

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*Good Morning from Occupy Boston!*

Below please find your daily digest.
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*Fact of the Day:* Cumulative student loan debt is on fast-track to pass
the $1 trillion
mark<http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/campus-overload/post/one-trillion-dollars-student-loan-debt-builds-toward-yet-another-record/2011/10/19/gIQAbUoJyL_blog.html>by
the end of this year. With outstanding student loan debt doubling over
the past five years, it now exceeds total credit card debt in the United
States

*News from other Occupations:*  Check out The Guardian's interactive map of
Occupations<http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/interactive/2011/oct/18/occupy-protests-map-world?fb=native>across
the globe, underscoring this is a worldwide movement that has spread
wide in far in a very short amount of time
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*Occupy Boston - Saturday, November 12, 2011*

*Today's Weather and Events*: Mostly sunny with highs in the lower fifties.
Really nice occupying weather so you should come on down. Check out
our Calendar
of Events <http://www.occupyboston.org/calendar/> for today, also posted at
the bottom of this email.

*Highlights: *Join the March for Health Care Justice Speak Out at 12:00pm
and March at 1:00pm -- Come discuss Citizens United at an open form at
3:00pm, meeting at the OB Library. And don't forget the General Assembly at
7:00pm!

*Volunteer Opportunities:*



- Love talking about Occupy Boston? Want to bring more people in to build
the movement? Outreach needs all the volunteers it can get, especially
ahead of some big events coming up. E-mail
<%20katie.ob at occupyboston.org>if you are interested in more details


- The Safety Working Group needs more volunteers! We need people familiar
with the Occupy Boston community. Come today, 6:30pm in the library or
email InfoTent at OccupyBoston.org

- Free School University needs more volunteers in order to keep this
amazing feature of Occupy Boston up and running. Please see FSU's volunteer
page <http://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/Free_School_Volunteer_Page> for
more details.



*Other Working Groups* seeking volunteers include Media, Outreach, Info
Tent, Winterization, Logistics, Library and many, many more; *every group
is looking for volunteers *so find the group that appeals to you and don't
be shy about offering help. Click
here<http://www.occupyboston.org/working-groups/> for
a full list of Working Groups and their contact information. See where you
think your strengths lay and where you can be most effective. We are
looking for support both on and off-site, so even if you can't come down
there is something to do;  send an email the Info Tent
<infotent at occupyboston.org>for
further assistance

*Donate!*
If you are able to, we are still looking for both
material<http://www.occupyboston.org/get-involved/logistics/>
 and financial <http://www.occupyboston.org/get-involved/donations/> support.
Any help you can give is greatly appreciated. For information on how our
money is managed, please see our Financial Accountability Working
Group<http://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/Finance_Working_Group>
 page.

  *Saturday, November 12*

 Project No One Leaves: Anti-Foreclosure Conference

» 1:00am "Thrive" Movie Screening; Global release

9:30amFree Health Screening (organized by Health Justice Working Group)

10:00amGet Warm with Breath and Movement.

10:45am**Cost of War Series (FSU) - Gold Star Military Family, The
Arredondo's (Camp Alex)

11:00am Loving Kindness Meditation

12:00pm**Speakout: Health Care Justice

12:00pmFaith and Spirituality Working Group meeting

12:00pm Meeting of the Hippy Drum Circle Working Group

1:00pm March for Health Care Justice

1:00pm **Cost of War Series Listening Sessions: Sarah Fuhro, Military Family

1:30pm **Cost of War Series Listening Sessions: Vietnam Veterans

2:00pm Winterizing meeting

2:00pm **Concert- The Doctor's Fox

2:00pmCost of War Listening Session: Alice Copeland Brown

2:30p Cost of War Listening Session: Joyce and Kevin Lucey, Gold Star
Families Speak Out

3:00pmFSU: What is Violence? What is Nonviolence? (Roundtable Discussion)

3:00pmCost of War Listening Session: Military Family, Wayne Jaquith

3:30pm Open Discussion on Citizens United

3:30pm Women's Caucus

4:00pmFacilitation Working Group Meeting

4:00pm**Cost of War Listening Session, Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans

5:00pm Anti-Oppression Working Group meeting

5:00pm **FSU: The Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture Series, Noel Ignatiev

6:30p Safety meeting

7:00pmGeneral Assembly
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