Weekly Schedule
- Occupy Davis holds a "tent-in" in Central Park on Saturdays 9-5, with an information table during the Farmers Market from 9 am, and a General Assembly at 3:00 pm in the tent area. Come participate in freedom of assembly, speech, thought and solidarity.
- Eco-Occupy holds weekly teleconferences on restoring a sane, healthy relationship between humans and the earth, Sundays at 8 pm. Register for the call at: interoccupy.org/eco-occupy/
- Weekly "Solutions Forum" (formerly Sunday afternoons) is temporarily suspended to consider changes to process and venue. Watch this space for new meeting date and location.
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Occupation Confrontation
On the night of November 10, a group of unidentified individuals vandalized the Occupy Davis encampment and attempted to provoke the protesters.
At 12:30a.m. the intruders entered the encampment for the first time. “I heard noise,” said Sarena Grossjan, an Occupy Davis participant, “I came out of my tent and saw two men running towards the camp. I joined the group of startled campers, I looked right at the attackers, and got hit on the head with water balloon. They hit at least five people, including a sleeping old man.”
The intruders then proceeded to knock down the kitchen facilities and throw food on the ground. “They ran away slowly, remembered Grossjan, “as though they wanted us to chase them. We all kind of stood there as a group, confused and upset.”
Around 2a.m., a second group of intruders woke up the protesters loudly yelling racial and sexual obscenities. According to Chris Gomez Wong, another Occupy Davis participant, the intruders “were politely asked to leave. They retreated with threats to return, leaving the camp on edge for the entire night.” One camp peacekeeper later
saw several of the intruders throwing firecrackers.
The peacekeepers reacted in a nonviolent manner and managed to diffuse the tension and neutralize further threat.
Apart from this disturbance, the occupation of Davis has managed to stay remarkably peaceful and avert conflict with the community or the city police. “Here at Occupy Davis,” said Jessica Castorina “we are wholeheartedly invested in this global movement. These are isolated incidents in an otherwise supportive environment.”
Nevertheless, to prevent future provocations, Occupy Davis is looking to strengthen its camp security. Protesters take shifts protecting their sleeping companions, with at least two peacekeepers active at any given time during thenight. If you would like to volunteer for a few hours to help secure the camp and resolve conflicts in a nonviolent manner, please contact Occupy Davis at http://occupydavis.org/contact-us/ or talk to the protesters in person at Central Park. If you do not have previous peacekeeping experience, training will be provided.
Occupy Davis set up its encampment in Central Park on October 15 in solidarity with Occupy Wall Street. The Occupy movement uses nonviolent tactics to protest the subversion of democracy by the financial sector.
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‘People should stand up,’ say Occupy Davis protesters
For Skyler Blakeslee, joining an “Occupy” protest against corporate greed in Davis, rather than joining larger protests elsewhere, made perfect sense. “People should stand up everywhere,” he said, “and this is our home.” On Saturday morning, protesters marched to the Bank of America and JP Morgan Chase Bank branch offices downtown and took up residence Continue Reading
Here’s why we’re protesting
Many people have come by Occupy Davis and asked what “the demands of the protest” are, and what we hope to accomplish. We are not protesting in the classic sense, in the sense of going out on marches and shouting until we get our way. There are no demands, and there probably never will be. Continue Reading
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Occupy Wall Street Groups Continue Organizing
Occupy Wall Street groups continue organizing
Davis protesters assemble in Central Park
Written by James O’ Hara
News Writer
Published on Oct 20, 2011
Occupy Wall Street has gone global. From New York to Tokyo to Rome, what started as a small group camped in New York’s Zuccoti Park has blossomed into an international movement numbered in the thousands.
Davis, not to be left out, is no exception in what has rapidly transformed into worldwide effort. Protesters, from young and old, students and unemployed, conservatives and liberals, met on Oct. 12 in Davis’ Central Park to lend their voice to the Occupy protests.
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Student-Loan Debt and the Occupy Davis Movement
At the first Occupy Davis meeting last Friday (VIDEO), student debt and university issues came up several times. That’s not surprising, considering the high number of young people at the meeting and the college’s importance in this town.
The Huffington Post published a story this week pointing out that student-loan debt seems to be among the top concerns of Occupy Wall Street, and the subsequent global movement. From the article:
Student-loan debt has continued to grow despite a financial crisis that constrained credit elsewhere, and the increasing burden amid high unemployment is driving at least part of the protests.
Last year, Americans began to owe more on their student loans then their credit cards, with student debt reaching the $1 trillion mark. Many have flocked to higher education during the down economy, only to find themselves still unemployed or underemployed.
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