The Occupy SLC movement took a great step towards becoming more organized today at a meeting of the Free School organizers at Pioneer Park. At this meeting we decided to finally form a newsletter for our park. The idea of forming a movement newsletter has been floated around but no one had gotten concrete plans together to make one. So we decided to make one. Several of us have been organizers at the park since the beginning. Others have gotten involved more recently.
Our vision is to be a movement paper by, of, and for our occupation. Content will print will include reports of protests and other actions, important decisions made in General Assemblies, and letters, opinion, and stories about the lives of those currently occupying the Park.
Our first issue is scheduled to be released Friday, November 11th, which is coincidentally Armistice day, or "Veteran's Day". Commonly known as the day World War One ended, few today truly understand the history behind the Armistace. By November 11th, 1918, a popular revolution in Germany had finally toppled the Kaiser's government, and had replaced the politicians of that country with ones who realized that continued war was futile and no longer in the interests of the German people. It was this government who began the negotiations that ended the costliest war in human history up to that point. We are proud at pioneer park to include among our ranks numerous veterans of more recent wars who are proud to stand in this tradition of resistance to unaccountable governments.
We are in the beginning stages of organizing our submissions and review process. For the time being, if you have something you would like to write for our newsletter, you can send it to oslcnewsletterworking@gmail.com. If you don't have something written yet but you would like to write something, or you would like to help with distribution or printing, you can contact us at that account as well.
The deadline for submissions for our first issue is Tuesday, Nov 8th
-CW, Occupy SLC
Christian - Thank you for this. It was great speaking with you tonight. You are amazing and I wish you the best. I look forward to following your blog and hope you continue.
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