Material Donations | Occupy Boston.
Material Needs
You can help Occupy Boston build a more just and democratic society! You can drop off donations on Atlantic Avenue, between Summer and Congress, on the left-hand side of the street. Just put your blinkers on. Boston PD have been accommodating and have not harassed anyone for pulling over here, so it should not be an issue and there are usually people right there if you need volunteers to carry things.
General needs are listed below. For updates, check the Logistics Working Group’s Twitter feed.
- Blankets
- Winter clothes (Hats, gloves, coats, warm socks etc.)
- Prepared food (see below)
Food
We only need prepared foods. Our food preperation area has no electricity, no heat source, and no running water, so we cannot cool, prepare, cook, or re-heat complex dishes. Please only donate prepared foods!
The following are always wonderful:
- Baked goods (no bread, please)
- Prepared and pre-wrapped sandwiches
- Premade vegetarian dishes (for example, chilli, pasta, dahl, beans and rice, and so on)
- Salads
- One-pot dishes
- Beans
- Soooooups!
- Warm meats
- Cooked rice
- Cooked pasta
- Cold cuts
- Cold fruits
- Cooked vegetables
- Serving utensils
- Packets of salt, pepper, ketchup, mustard, soy sauce, sugar, and other condiments
- PASTA (already cooked)
- Napkins
- Reusable bowls!!!
Please list the ingredients in dishes when possible and avoid common allergens (eggs, nuts, dairy)!
We love you!
I truly believe tomorrow’s leaders are today’s occupiers.
Those who are not “Sunshine Patroits” and stay the course will gain qualities of character beyond price; old fashioned qualities not taught in schools like fortitude, self discipline, compassion, a work ethic where nothing is taken for granted, a band of brothers and sisters to last a life time.
OPPOSITION
Grinding
the diamond of the soul
until
refraction is perfect.
cDeborah Sirotkin Butler
It seems they succeeded in raising awareness since the 1%/99% thing has made the news. Now to continue their occupation they are taking away resources that could be put to better use at a homeless shelter or something.
Awareness is nice and all, results are better. This movement is teetering on the ability to overturn the way things work in this country. We may not need so many homeless shelters if that happens.
MSNBC reports…
They will be cleaning up these camps for a little while and the life will evaporate from the groups. The cold weather coming early won’t help either.
Were yesterday’s occupiers today’s leaders? I don’t think so.
twirling his mustache with glee?
I don’t think cold weather is a problem there.
1. Denver police fire rubber bullets at 2000 peaceful marchers in Denver http://www.businessinsider.com/denver-police-fire-rubber-bullets-on-occupy-protesters-2011-10 Here is a link to some youtube video from Denver, today: http://www.businessinsider.com/denver-police-fire-rubber-bullets-on-occupy-protesters-2011-10 And yes – the World is watching and calls, faxes, and legal action are already underway. The Occupy Denver group has vowed to reform, regroup, and keep going. Don’t you love seeing one policeman hold someone while another stabs and hits the defenseless citizen with a baton in this bit of citizen journalist videotaping: http://youtu.be/IDTvdAYkKdg The photo above the article of a line of policeman with rifles poised is from Channel 9 in Denver – I am told that journalists were also arrested. For the “official” statement voted on by Occupy Denver itself, go to: http://occupydenver.org/ You can also read about police firing rubber bullets at kids in trees and see wounds and more citizen videotape. Occupy Denver continues to stand strong for economic justice and civil liberties, unlike Denver’s elected leadership. Is THIS what you were gloating about (you sounded like you were gloating, John!)
2. And then there is Nashville – Occupy Nashville is still standing tall, as well, defending first amendment rights and civil liberties better than their elected “leaders” – see: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-500188_162-20127440/denver-police-use-force-on-occupy-protesters/ According to CBS – yes, Occupy Nashville saw arrests and destruction again – and for the second time, a judge dismissed all charges as improper and released them. Occupy Nashville is vowing to stand strong for the 1st Amendment, and to continue to fight for economic justice. Here is what the Occupy Nashville website has to say: http://occupynashville.org/
Leadership is not taking the easy way out. It is facing real problems, over coming obstacles, and being able to work toward a sustainable future.
The official leadership, when wasting resources and a chance to engage in discussion by indulging in repression is NOT demonstrating leadership qualities at all.
Maybe it is for that reason I love the reality that Boston’s Veteran’s for Peace chapter is named after General Smeadley Butler. Remember him? In case you do not, he was the military man chosen by the plutocracy in the 1930s to stage a coup against FDR. General Smeadley Butler not only refused, he “outed” the conspirators. See “The Plot to Seize the White House” – http://www.eclectica.org/v1n1/reviews/wharton_plot.html
… as the cops continue to do their “clearing out” overnight OWS and others will keep coming back IN DAYLIGHT.
Why don’t you just admit you neither like nor approve of the protestors? It’s ok if you are more honest with us (and yourself). But your continued efforts to resort to even the merest scrap of evidence, however twisted, spun or viewed through chromatic distort, to try to paint the protests as either lesser than they are, or violent or corrupt or whatever… it’s just starting to seems sad.
Why can’t you just say you don’t approve of the protestors and tell us why?
…but as far as I know no “Tea Party” group camped out for even one overnight and they certainly were not ignored.
They believed the city when they were told it was illegal to violate city ordinances.
The fools!