#OccupyBrooklyn Coming this Weekend

By on November 11, 2011 7:08 pm in Events

We received this dispatch regarding Occupy Brooklyn this weekend:

On November 12th and 13th, Occupy Brooklyn is teaming up with community groups from across Brooklyn for a weekend of rallies, teach-ins, direct actions and arts events.

For the past month, Brooklynites have gathered together twice a week in communities all over Brooklyn to discuss the economic struggles facing the city’s largest borough. Those conversations took on commercial development, gentrification, foreclosures and evictions, and other pressing issues we face.

This weekend, Occupy Brooklyn will ally with organizations, community groups, and movements who’ve long fought for economic justice — and we’re challenging Brooklynites everywhere to unite to help evict corporate greed from our borough.

Come join us.

Brooklyn Occupy Your Block Weekend of Action

Saturday Nov. 12 and Sunday Nov. 13, 10a.m. – 9p.m.

Brooklyn Borough Hall, the Korean War Veterans Plaza at Cadman Plaza West/East between Tillary and Johnson Sts.

For more information contact ows.brooklyn@gmail.com

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  • AEB

    Why don’t the two of you do it? You seem highly…antagonistic to their message, which attempts to acquaint people with the way power operates in America.

    Fortunately, some of the formerly unenlightened have gotten the message. But keep shopping, Whatnot–and me, right above, perhaps a bit of introspection regarding your unmerited hostility?

  • Knight

    Not sure what you’re trying to say above, AEB. Keep shopping? Are you implying that the vendors at the farmers’ market are part of the elite 1%? Not any NYS farmers I’ve ever known!

  • Matthew Parker

    It appears Whatnot is more concerned with his/her own convenience and comfort than anything to do with the well being of the farmers’ market vendors.

  • TB

    Occupy Brooklyn folks have been very conscious of farmers markets across the borough and checked things out beforehand, and one of Sunday’s events is out at Bushwick Campus Farms.

  • AEB

    Matthew Parker expresses my point, Knight. (Thanks, Matthew.)

  • HeightsGuy

    Occupy Wall St and now Brooklyn deserves our support. Who else is standing up so strongly for Socialism in this country? Rather, I see most people are mainly concerned about their own well being. Their own careers. Their own apartments or homes. OWS is about establishing a Socialistic society in which you as an individual must subordinate your desires to the wishes of your neighbors and community. This is what America is all about. This is why our Founding Fathers fought King George. It was to establish a nation in which the individual is subordinate to the community as a whole.

  • HeightsGuy

    And this is why we had better hope that President Obama is re-elected.

  • HeightzGuy

    Occupy Wall St and now Brooklyn deserves our support. Who else is standing up so strongly for responsibility in this country? Rather, I see most people are mainly concerned about their own well being. Their own careers. Their own apartments or homes. OWS is about establishing a responsible society in which you as an individual are safe from the greed of a predatory elite. This is what America is all about. This is why our Founding Fathers fought King George. It was to establish a nation in which the communities can achieve a decent and sustainable standard of living without impoverishing and destabilizing society as a whole.

  • Master Of Middagh

    Well said, HeightzGuy!

  • Monty

    HeightzGuy > HeightsGuy

  • north heights res

    I think that those who Occupy Wall St. are about getting attention and indulging their own agendas with little regard for anyone/anything that doesn’t wholeheartedly agree with them. Their effect on the downtown neighborhood is horrific; what the people who live & work there have to put up with is beyond reasonable. I’m all for bringing attention to the gross inequities in our society, but I do not support the choices they’ve made and their lack of consideration.

  • David on Middagh

    The problem with not starting a social justice movement of your own is that you have to put up with the imperfectly implemented movement of someone else.

  • BH’er

    I recall pledging my allegiance to a flag and the Republic for which it stood…. not the tyranny of a democracy

  • AEB

    Here, here, David!

    It’s such a bummer when those protesting social injustice can’t accommodate the needs of all others 24-7!

  • eg

    These comments strike me as very strange. I believe you should start reading some history books about the founding fathers’ vision at the time and how it’s all evolved since then in somewhat different ways.

  • Livingston

    I am one of the 99% who does not feel that I am even remotely represented by the OWS freaks (I say this having seen the Zucatti encampment up close) and their childish extended tantrum.

    And if they try to “occupy” my neighborhood, I will be out their protesting their presence w/ gusto. One person’s “social justice movement” is another’s “ship of fools”. And I do not suffer fool’s gladly.

    One of the most wonderful things about this country is that we all have the right to our own opinions and can state them openly, as we do in this forum. But the line should be drawn at bullying and infringing on others’ rights to conduct their lives freely, which seems to be what OWS is intent on doing.

  • HeightsGuy

    Thank you Heightzguy for using other words to say the same thing that I originally wrote. We need a dominant government to protect us from the predatory elites, as you say. And others are correct to say that many of the 1% live in Brooklyn Heights. Why should they get the best real estate. Under Socialism, we could confiscate their homes and allow the 99% to share in the good views and the good location. Why should those who earn the most be able to consume the most? Heightzguy, I’m with you, my comrade in arms.

  • Master Of Middagh

    @Livingston- “But the line should be drawn at bullying and infringing on others’ rights to conduct their lives freely, which seems to be what OWS is intent on doing.”

    Then I’ve got good news for you- they’re totally not doing that. You can feel comfortable supporting them now.

  • HeightsGuy

    OWS tactics are not important. As, I believe, Stalin once said, to make an omelet, you have to crack a few eggs. Yes, OWS violates the rights of individuals, but so what? Who are those individuals to stand in the way of social progress? Get over your attachment to your little world of rights. It is the community that takes preference over you. As Heightzguy said, it is only OWS that is willing to stand up to people like you who seek special privileges, such as protection of your rights and property. What about the 99% that doesn’t have property?

    Heightzguy, please chime in here and help out a fellow comrade in arms. We’re obviously dealing with a 1-percenter.

  • WillowtownCop

    I would like to thank the Flea Party for redistributing the wealth – straight into the pockets of the NYPD. The overtime has been great.

  • Master Of Middagh

    @HeightsGuy- I think the problem you’re having is that you prefer to deal in absolutes only- you quote Stalin but something tells me your bookshelf is full of Ayn Rand…

    “Yes, OWS violates the rights of individuals,”- Perhaps you should explain that remark, because a normal person wouldn’t understand how exercising their right peacefully assemble and protest in a public space is violating the rights of individuals. That really sounds like trying to prove that black is white and if you ARE an objectivist, such a philosophical contradiction will not do…

  • Master Of Middagh

    Oh, and by the way, please take note that the event this posting is about has ALREADY TAKEN PLACE. Anybody feel like they were bullied by the OWS while they were here? Harassed? Were your personal rights infringed upon? Please- DO SPEAK UP if that was the case. I’ll anticipate the sweet sounds of November crickets in response to THAT query…

  • Wrennie

    I’m pretty sure that our founding fathers never said anything about being a socialist or communist society. Get out the history books, kids. If you want to be a communist, move to China. America isn’t the place for it. I’m firmly entrenched in the 99% and I do think that the top 1% holds way too much of the nation’s wealth; however, I certainly don’t think that we need to do a complete about-face over to socialism.

  • Wrennie

    HeightsGuy–I assume you live in the Heights? Go live in Marcy, if you’re so sick of the 1% who take the nice views. They can have the nice views because they work for a living and earn the money to buy the places that have the nice views. Is it excessive, perhaps? Sure. But they earned it. Further, who’s to say they don’t give sizable donations to community organizations whose mission it is to help others less fortunate? Who’s to say they don’t volunteer their time? And oh yes–their tax money supports a lot of government programs that help society as a whole.

    America is all about equal opportunity for all. Equal opportunity means the chance to make something of yourself and to earn a living and to do whatever else you want so long as you’re not infringing on the rights of others. It doesn’t mean you get to do nothing while someone else does more and then you both get the same thing in return. That kills ambition and then society doesn’t progress at all because everyone gets lazy and stops caring.

  • Master Of Middagh

    @Wrennie- The funny thing is, most folks agree with you about socialism- including me. The problem is that you’ve bought somebody’s lie that OWS people are activists for socialism. I can assure you, they are not. Just because they have a faction that favors policies commonly found in socialist countries, does NOT make it a socialist movement and to characterize it as such if you know better (as you do now that I’ve explained it) would be disingenuous folly.

  • Master Of Middagh

    @Wrennie- Actually, I’m quite wealthy but, seeing as how I didn’t murder my family members that I inherited my fortune from, I can’t really say I “earned” the money. And how many of the 1% do you really think “earned” their money? I think you know as well as I do that most of them have inherited their wealth and used it to game the system to hoard even more wealth using any unethical means necessary. Since I think you like to appear big on principles- I’m sure you’ll agree with me on this and maybe rethink your position a little…

  • Wrennie

    MoM–I was responding to HeightsGuy’s “And others are correct to say that many of the 1% live in Brooklyn Heights. Why should they get the best real estate. Under Socialism, we could confiscate their homes and allow the 99% to share in the good views and the good location. Why should those who earn the most be able to consume the most?”

    Please do not mistake my above posts as illustrative of my take on OWS in general.

    As to your second post: again, did I mention anything about people who inherit things? I was speaking about top-earners–those who work across the bridge at banks and hedge funds and the like. So please do not assume you know what I think or how I like to appear. My posts were solely a reaction to HG’s mention of socialism.

    As to you, MoM, I’m not sure I understand your stance, as from your description of your situation, it seems as though you’re part of the 1% OWS is railing against.

  • Master Of Middagh

    @Wrennie- The reason my stance may be difficult to fathom is because it is nuanced. I’m not a hard-liner when it comes to my philosophy- and wouldn’t be so arrogant to presume I hold a monopoly on the truth. I may well-off enough at the moment, but certainly nowhere near the 1%. But, even if I was, I would STILL agree with the primary complaint of the OWS regarding the inequality in our financial systems which permits rules that favor the wealthy who have the resources to aggressively lobby for such unfair policies.

    However, I think your perception that the OWS is “railing” against the 1% is inaccurate. Protesting for more fair economic policies is a far cry from attacking the wealthy. Nobody is asking for a handout or a free ride either, just a fair shot at the American dream. Do you not wish me to assume you believe in the American dream?

    By the way, it was pretty clear to me that HeightsGuy was being entirely satirical in his support of socialism. Looks like you need to be equally more careful when imputing the beliefs of others. :)

  • Wrennie

    Well then I invite the invention of a sarcasm font (as plenty of people seem to actually feel the way HG describes), a more clear message coming from OWS, and a stipend from you, who have more opportunity than most.

    The American Dream, as I’m sure you’ll agree, has been bastardized over the years into flagrant entitlement by people from all walks of life. It still exists in its purest form, I’m sure, but it’s not all about hard work anymore.

  • Master Of Middagh

    “The American Dream, as I’m sure you’ll agree, has been bastardized over the years into flagrant entitlement by people from all walks of life.”- I’m actually not quite sure what you mean by that. Do you mean healthcare for public workers or unemployment insurance? The word “entitlement” means that something is due to you in exchange for a particular consideration. Getting something for nothing doesn’t strike me as fair, but most items listed as entitlements tend to be deserved by those who receive them- aren’t they? You seem to imply that this may not be the case. Perhaps they each need to be addressed in turn rather than lumped together…

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