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27 November 2011 OccupyLA Statements
A sends: Today Sunday, November 27, 2011 come to "A Day in Solidarity Park" __________ OccupyPressConference -- L.A. Mayor and Police Chief mic-checked re: OccupyLA eviction (11/25/11) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQmvMPBnyQ0
inside the building @ OccupyLA (aka Los Angeles City Hall) November
25, 2011 The statements quoted during the mic-checks were contributed to and unanimously consented to by over a hundred members of the General Assembly of OccupyLA over the course of a few days this last week. They are pasted in below or can be found here: http://losangelesga.net/2011/11/public-statement-for-transparent-communication/ http://losangelesga.net/2011/11/assembly-authored-city-response/ =========================== From the OccupyLA General Assembly/Unanimously consented to on 11/22/11 1) Our means of communication is inclusive. Anyone seeking to learn about these decisions is invited to attend the open General Assembly process of We the People. All individuals or groups involved in OccupyLA are free within their inherent rights to speak and act as they so choose. We honor diversity of thought and autonomous action as a point of great strength. Our Occupation and the General Assembly, with its deliberative and participatory principles, is a legitimate and constitutionally recognized proceeding. Those seeking to inform, influence or negotiate with the OccupyLA movement must understand that the dignified way to do so is the open General Assembly process. The global Occupy movement continues to be spoken to in the language of violence. We assert that no one has the right, especially a public servant, to imply, initiate or participate in a use of violence or unlawful force in response to an assembly of peaceful people. For our public servants who desire a way out of the high corruption that we have allowed our governments to become. This includes public servants acting in good faith under difficult pressures, as well as those deeply disloyal to the spirit of their oaths and to the lives, liberties and general welfare. Though some of our words may sound confrontational, we are humbled by the words of Martin Luther King Junior, “Non-violent resistance does not seek to humiliate or defeat the opponent but to win his friendship and understanding.” Together we can cooperate to peacefully arrest the ongoing corruption and criminality, and give ourselves a possibility to re-imagine and rebuild our homes, communities, nations and world. As a collective, Occupy Los Angeles would like to express their rejection of the City of Los Angeles’ alleged proposal that we leave City Hall by November 28, 2011, in exchange for an apparently now rescinded offer of a 10,000 square foot building, farmland and 100 SRO beds for the homeless. Occupy Los Angeles believes that as part of a global movement advocating direct, participatory democracy, and challenging economic and social injustices, our position is such that we cannot, in all good faith, accept further material benefit from City Hall at the taxpayer’s expense without seriously compromising our beliefs, our desire for global change, and our commitment to our inherent human rights to free speech and assembly protected in this country by First Amendment Rights. The 1 percent should be paying for any services used by the Occupy Movement, not taxpayers.In the spirit of inclusivity and transparency which is so dear to our movement, Occupy Los Angeles extends an invitation to Mayor Villaraigosa and the City Council to attend our General Assemblies at the City Hall Occupation if he wishes to discuss these and other matters in a direct, democratic and horizontal way. Mayor Villaraigosa must speak out against the violent actions towards our brothers and sisters, declare the actions of other cities to be unjust, and stand before us equally at a General Assembly. Occupy Los Angeles believes that until this happens, we should have no more closed-door discussions regarding our continuing occupation of City Hall.st
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