tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7440694012258506432024-03-07T20:00:37.146-08:00Northeast & Mid-Atlantic Regional Occupy MeetingUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-744069401225850643.post-18409757101418844922011-12-26T12:37:00.000-08:002012-01-06T01:52:32.923-08:00January 13 and 14 Northeast & Mid-Atlantic Regional Occupy Meeting<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">In December, the Mid-Atlantic Regional Occupy Meeting came together with participants from a dozen different small town and city Occupations. Occupy Scranton volunteered to host the January meeting. The body decided not to be a decision-making body, but a collaboration body. Proposals can be fleshed out and then sent back to each Occupy to be ratified. To see examples of proposals, check out our <a href="http://scrantonregionaloccupy.blogspot.com/p/proposals.html">Proposals</a> page and feel free to submit your own.</span><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; line-height: 14px;">Sarah Yzkanin (</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; line-height: 14px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; line-height: 14px;"><a href="http://www.reverbnation.com/sarahyzkanin" rel="nofollow nofollow" style="color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span>http://</span><wbr></wbr><span class="word_break" style="display: inline-block;"></span><span>www.reverbnation.com/</span><wbr></wbr><span class="word_break" style="display: inline-block;"></span>sarahyzkanin</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; line-height: 14px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; line-height: 14px;">)</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; line-height: 14px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; line-height: 14px;">Misled Youth (</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; line-height: 14px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; line-height: 14px;"><a href="http://www.reverbnation.com/joshuakizer" rel="nofollow nofollow" style="color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span>http://</span><wbr></wbr><span class="word_break" style="display: inline-block;"></span><span>www.reverbnation.com/</span><wbr></wbr><span class="word_break" style="display: inline-block;"></span>joshuakizer</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; line-height: 14px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; line-height: 14px;">)</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; line-height: 14px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; line-height: 14px;"><span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline;">Alex Lotorto ( <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZP2AEWoMjU" rel="nofollow nofollow" style="color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span>http://www.youtube.com/</span><wbr></wbr><span class="word_break" style="display: inline-block;"></span>watch?v=UZP2AEWoMjU</a> )<br />
Richard Tucker (vocals/acoustic guitar)<br />
3 to Breathe ( <a href="http://www.3tobreathe.com/downloads.php" rel="nofollow nofollow" style="color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span>http://www.3tobreathe.com/</span><wbr></wbr><span class="word_break" style="display: inline-block;"></span>downloads.php</a> )<br />
*More Artists TBA*</span></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">WORKSHOPS AND GENERAL ASSEMBLY - Saturday, January 14th</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; line-height: 14px;">DIRECT ACTION TRAINING Part I, January 14 9am-Noon, Vintage Theater </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; line-height: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: black; line-height: normal;">http://www.scrantonsvintagetheater.com/</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; line-height: 14px;">Occupy Scranton and members of Marcellus Earth First! will be offering a direct action training on January 14 from 9am to Noon at the Vintage Theater. It will be tailored for anti-fracking activism and rural direct action, but will be useful for everyone.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; line-height: 14px;"><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; line-height: 14px;">GENERAL ASSEMBLY @ NOON, Steamtown Mall Food Court</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; line-height: 14px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; line-height: 14px;">At December's meeting, the body decided not to be a decision-making body, but a collaboration body. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; line-height: 14px;">Proposals can be fleshed out and then sent back to each Occupy to be ratified. To see examples of proposals, check out our Proposals page on</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; line-height: 14px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; line-height: 14px;"><a href="http://www.scrantonregionaloccupy.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow nofollow" style="color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span>www.scrantonregionaloccupy</span><wbr></wbr><span class="word_break" style="display: inline-block;"></span>.blogspot.com</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; line-height: 14px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; line-height: 14px;">and feel free to submit your own.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; line-height: 14px;"><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; line-height: 14px;">DIRECT ACTION TRAINING, Part II @ 1pm, Courthouse Square, Occupy Scranton camp on Linden St. (bundle up!)</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; line-height: 14px;"><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; line-height: 14px;">The group will gather outside the Vintage Theater and move to the Occupy Scranton camp on Linden St. to role play a direct action on the lawn.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; line-height: 14px;"><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; line-height: 14px;">COMMUNITY DISCUSSION, 8pm, The Bog</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; line-height: 14px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; line-height: 14px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; line-height: 14px;">*Finding Community and Humanity In The Midst Of a Social Crisis*</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; line-height: 14px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; line-height: 14px;">Do not forget about this will be a great intellectual event. Dr Dan is a great speaker and I hope to see everyone there. Invite everyone.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; line-height: 14px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 14px;"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/events/342935165718587/" rel="nofollow" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3b5998;">http://www.facebook.com/</span><wbr></wbr><span class="word_break" style="color: #3b5998; display: inline-block;"></span>events/342935165718587/</a></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">"</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;">Noted existential psychoanalyst Dr. Dan L. Edmunds will discuss about the impact of oppression in creating emotional distress, economic situations that have put persons in a feeling of survival mode, and issues of disparity and inequality. Dr. Edmunds will also discuss th</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;"><span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline;">e current medicalization of human experience leading to persons becoming numb and apathetic. Following, Dr. Edmunds invites an open dialogue about solutions and ways we can once again forge community and create a more just society."</span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0