OccupyQueens

Today’s March on the Big Banks. Singing & drumming in...

Sat, 09 Jun 2012 19:37:54 -0400

Today’s March on the Big Banks. Singing & drumming in front of Chase bank in Queens, 82nd st and Roosevelt Ave.

Today’s March on the Big Banks: BOA locks out its own...

Sat, 09 Jun 2012 19:22:01 -0400

Today’s March on the Big Banks: BOA locks out its own customers to keep @occupyqueens and @occupyastoriaLI out. Only the guy with the sign is part of the march. The other people were legit customers who were being turned away.

thepeoplesrecord: On Monday, over 500 lawyers, notaries and...

Tue, 29 May 2012 14:40:49 -0400

thepeoplesrecord:

On Monday, over 500 lawyers, notaries and other legal professionals, dressed in their courtroom gowns, walked in silence through the streets of Canada’s second-largest city.

Hundreds of lawyers have marched through Montreal in a subdued challenge to a new bill that harshly limits public protests. Canada’s province of Quebec has gone through 106 days of massive actions, which started as student outrage over tuition hikes.

The black-robed parade protested Bill 78, an emergency law that lays down strict government regulations for demonstrations numbering over 50 people. The lawyers were cheered by crowds; many onlookers shouting “Merci!”

Source

March On the Big Banks

Mon, 28 May 2012 19:31:16 -0400

June 9 • 1PM • 37Th Road Plaza • Jackson Heights

You are invited to join our March on the Big Banks on June 9 in Jackson Heights, a street theater performance of Occupy Queens’s Move Your Money Bank Action/Housing Working Groups. Some participants will dress up as houses made from cardboard.

Others will play drums, carry signs (e.g., Foreclose Banks, Not People’s Homes), sing, chant and hand out flyers.

March participants will assemble 1:00 pm at the pedestrian plaza in Jackson Heights at the corner of 37th Rd. and 74th St. and begin to march at about 1:30 pm to at least 4 of the Big Banks located nearby. (Subway is 1 block away; E, F, R and #7 trains to 74th St./Roosevelt Ave.)

The purpose of this action is to raise consciousness in the community about the predatory and fraudulent practices of the Big Banks, specifically relating to housing foreclosures. Further, we will encourage people in the community to ‘move their money’ to local banks or credit unions that do not engage in deceptive practices.

Move Your Money Bank Action Housepainting

Mon, 28 May 2012 19:21:40 -0400

When: Wednesday, May 30 • 5:30 - 6:30PM

Where: 37Th Road Plaza (btw. 73rd & 74th Sts.) • Jackson Heights

Directions: 1 Blk North of the Roosevelt Ave./74th St. Stop: E, F, M, R. #7

Join in the fun. Do some great outreach, and help make the finishing touches to our cardboard houses a.k.a. Bank Action props (foreclose the banks not people’s homes) for our upcoming action slated for Saturday, June 9th. These same houses will be previewed as we march the Queens Pride Parade on Sunday, June 3rd.

OccuPicnic at Astoria Park :: Sunday : 27MAY2012 : 2PM starts

Wed, 23 May 2012 09:59:30 -0400

Occupy Astoria Long Island City would like to invite everyone to an OccuPicnic at Astoria Park!

We’d like to celebrate the Occupy movement, catch up with all our friends throughout the five boroughs and make new friends.
We encourage everyone to please bring some food or drink, games, balls, frisbees to Astoria Park this coming Sunday, May 27th starting at 2pm.

We will be located on the main lawn at the end of 23rd avenue and 19th street. Take the N or Q to the last stop (Ditmars).When you go down the stairs, walk in the direction of the painted murals under the subway tracks. Make a right on 23rd Avenue and walk to 19th Street. Astoria Park will be in front of you.

Please forward this invitation to everyone!

Hope to see you all there!

Planning The Next Step :: Monday : 07MAY2012 : 7pm

Sun, 06 May 2012 14:42:00 -0400

Join Occupy Queens as we continue our collaboration with the Hollis Presbyterian 99% Club in answer to the greed and indifference of the 1%. Following the successful action of April 21 we will be meeting to begin planning the next steps in our ongoing campaign to turn the blight of Rita Stark’s abandoned apartment buildings in the heart of the Hollis community into housing for people and community space.

Hollis, like so many middle and working class People of Color communities has been targeted by predatory lenders. The equity of homeownership, the economic bedrock of the neighborhood, is now threatened by foreclosed houses on nearly every block – left vacant by the banks and snapped up by speculators. Adding insult to injury, Rita Stark leaves her row of apartment buildings, located on the main commercial strip across from a primary school and public library, abandoned. She believes she can leave blight on the streets of Hollis because she is wealthy and therefore has no responibility to the people of Hollis and particularly their children who must pass by it each day on their way to and from school. The people of Hollis are determined to prove her wrong.

Hollis is on the front lines as their struggle is our struggle. Join us as we unite with the people of Hollis in this fight.

07 MAY 7PM :: Hollis Presbyterian Church :: 100-50 196th St., Hollis, Queens, NYC
Directions: F to 169th St. Q2 bus to 104 Ave.

:हम मील रहे है May १ कौ शाम के ४:३० पर Andy Warhol Statue, जो Union Square के उत्तर पशछिम कोने के...

Sun, 29 Apr 2012 22:55:49 -0400

:हम मील रहे है May १ कौ शाम के ४:३० पर Andy Warhol Statue, जो Union Square के उत्तर पशछिम कोने के पास है। “Occupy Queens” के बैनर को ढूडै।

༄པྱི་ཟླ་༥ ཚེས་༡ ཉིན་དགོང་མོ་ཆག་ཚོད་༤:༣༠ ལ་ UNION SQUARE གྱི་བྱང་-ནུབ་གྱི་ཕྱོགས་སུ་ Andy Warhol...

Sun, 29 Apr 2012 22:53:26 -0400

༄པྱི་ཟླ་༥ ཚེས་༡ ཉིན་དགོང་མོ་ཆག་ཚོད་༤:༣༠ ལ་ UNION SQUARE གྱི་བྱང་-ནུབ་གྱི་ཕྱོགས་སུ་ Andy Warhol Statue འགྲམ་ལ་འཛོམས་རོགས་གནང་། “occupy queens” ཀྱི་ཚོགས་པ་ལ་གཟིགས་རོགས་།

Housing is a Human Right!

Fri, 13 Apr 2012 15:42:24 -0400

Saturday April 21. Forum at 11:00am, Action at 1:00pm
Hollis Presbyterian Church, 100-50 196th St., Hollis, Queens, NYC
Directions: F to 179th St. Q2 bus to 104 Ave.

Every day, thousands of individuals and families are forced from their
homes and tossed to the curb by bailed-out banks and their
multi-millionaire execs. In South East Queens, foreclosures have devastated
communities, displaced individuals, and uprooted families. At the same
time, banks and speculators sit on enough vacant property to house every
one of the 45,000 people, including 17,000 children, who sleep on the
streets and in city shelters each night. Something is terribly wrong!

Join us on April 21st for a Forum and Community Speak-Out as residents and
allies come together to say enough to values of Wall Street! Join us as we
share insights, stories, and struggles, and collectively lift our voices to
assert that Housing is a Human Right!

On Saturday, we will host a forum with speakers Rob Robinson (Take Back the
Land), Michael Premo (Housing is a Human Right, O4O), and Laboni Rahman
(O4O). They will discuss the persistent crises of homelessness, the lack of
affordable, safe and adequate housing, and the foreclosure crisis, through
the lens of the human right to housing. During the forum, community
residents, neighbors, and friends will be invited to speak out and give
witness to their experiences of foreclosure, displacement, and homelessness.

Following the Forum, those gathered will march and rally to demand that six
dilapidated apartment buildings on Hollis Boulevard, which have sat empty
for at least sixteen years, be taken from their deadbeat, absentee landlord
and put to productive, community use.

Come and share your story and your strength.

Housing is a Human Right! Community Speak Out and March. Saturday April 21. Forum at 11am, Action at 1pm

Thu, 12 Apr 2012 20:12:47 -0400

OQ Direct Action and Housing Group continues to tackle down on foreclosures, bailed out banks, greedy speculators, and lack of affordable safe homes

We are now in solidarity with the Hollis Presbyterian 99% Club, whom are taking on critical issues in their immediate community.

What: Forum and Community Speak Out followed by a March and Demo
When: Saturday April 21. Forum at 11:00am, Action at 1:pm
Where: Hollis Presbyterian Church, 100-50 196th St., Hollis, Queens, NYC

Every day, thousands of individuals and families are forced from their homes and tossed to the curb by bailed-out banks and their multi-millionaire execs. In South East Queens, foreclosures have devastated communities, displaced individuals, and uprooted families. At the same time, banks and speculators sit on enough vacant property to house every one of the 45,000 people, including 17,000 children, who sleep on the streets and in city shelters each night. Something is terribly wrong!

Join us on April 21st for a Forum and Community Speak-Out as residents and allies come together to to say enough to values of Wall Street! Join us as we share insights, stories, and struggles, and collectively lift our voices to assert that Housing is a Human Right!

On Saturday, we will host a forum with speakers Rob Robinson (Take Back the Land), Michael Premo (Housing is a Human Right), and Laboni Rahman (O4O – Organizing 4 Occupation). They will discuss the persistent crises of homelessness, the lack of affordable, safe and adequate housing, and the foreclosure crisis, showing how each of these issues are connected and the role of the banks and speculators in the process. During the forum, community residents, neighbors, and friends will be invited to speak out and give witness to their experiences of foreclosure, displacement, and homelessness.

Come and share your story and your strength. We are the 99%!

ངོ་དགོལ་བྱེས་རོགས་ Rep. Joseph Crowley's Town Hall Appearance!

Mon, 09 Apr 2012 19:42:45 -0400

Crowley ཀྱི་ Free Trade Agreements གསུམ་ལ་འོས་གཤོགས་ཀླུགས་པ་དེའི་༩༩%ཚོ་ཡི་ཨི་ཀོ་ནོ་མི་ལ་གནོས་ཆེན་པོ་བྱེད་ཀྱི་ཡོད་དམ།
Crowley ཀྱི་ National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) ལ་འོད་གཤོགས་ཀླུགས་པ་དེའི་གཞུང་ལ་མི་སུ་ཡང་ཡིན་པ་ན་ཁམས་ཅུ་མེད་པར་གཙོན་དུ་གཅུག་ཡས་ཐོབས་བཏང་ངན་པ་ཡྲེད་ཀྱི་ཡོད་དམ།
Crowley ཀྱི་ Federal Restricted Buildings and Grounds Improvement Act ལ་འོད་གཤོགས་ཀླུགས་པ་དེའི་གང་དྲེན་གང་བཤེས་ཀྱི་རང་དབང་ལའང་གནོས་ཆེན་པོ་བྱུང་ངམ།
ངོ་དགོལ་བྱེས་རོགས་ Rep. Joseph Crowley’s Town Hall Appearance!
April 10
6-7:30PM
Jackson Heights Jewish Center
37-06 77TH Street

िवरोध करे Rep. Joseph Crowley's Town Hall Appearance!

Mon, 09 Apr 2012 19:41:08 -0400

Crowley ने ३ Free Trade Agreements को वोट िदया जो ९९% लोग के इकौनमी को नुक़सान करेगा ।
Crowley ने National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) को भी वोट िदया जो Govt. को िभना िकसी चाृज य कैस के िकसी को भी डीटैन करने का हक देता है ।
Crowley ने Federal Restricted Buildings and Grounds Improvement Act को भी वोट िदया जो फ्ररि स्पीच को प्ितभंद करता है ।
िवरोध करे Rep. Joseph Crowley’s Town Hall Appearance!
April 10
6-7:30PM
Jackson Heights Jewish Center
37-06 77TH Street

Protest Rep. Joseph Crowley's Town Hall Appearance!

Mon, 09 Apr 2012 19:39:01 -0400

Date: April 10
Time: 6-7:30PM
Where: Jackson Heights Jewish Center • 37-06 77TH Street (1 block north of Roosevelt Ave. @ NW corner of 77TH St. & 37TH Ave.)
Directions: Roosevelt Ave./74TH St. stop: E, F, M, R, # 7 trains
Human rights groups warned Rep. Joseph Crowley that passing the US - Columbia Free Trade Agreement (FTA) without binding human rights commitments would guarantee that human rights atrocities against Colombian civilians would continue. Unfortunately, Crowley ignored these warnings and sold out to corporate interests by voting for the Colombia FTA, as well as the Panama and South Korea FTAs.
He also supported the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) which suspends the Constitutional protection of Habeas Corpus by authorizing the military to declare anyone, citizen and non-citizen alike, a terrorist or material supporter of a terrorist organization and indefinitely detain them without charge or trial. Not satisfied he voted for the Federal Restricted Buildings and Grounds Improvement Act - the most recent government assault on 1st Amendment liberties. See the Slate.com article You Can’t Occupy This by Dahlia Lithwick and Raymond Vasvari for an analysis of this latest attack.

ངོ་དགོལ་བྱེས་རོགས་ Rep. Joseph Crowley's Town Hall Appearance!

Fri, 06 Apr 2012 21:33:14 -0400

ངོ་དགོལ་བྱེས་རོགས་ Rep. Joseph Crowley’s Town Hall Appearance!

April 10
6-7:30PM
Jackson Heights Jewish Center
37-06 77TH Street

िवरोध करे Rep. Joseph Crowley's Town Hall Appearance!

Fri, 06 Apr 2012 21:27:56 -0400

िवरोध करे Rep. Joseph Crowley’s Town Hall Appearance!
April 10
6-7:30PM
Jackson Heights Jewish Center
37-06 77TH Street

Housing Forum, March & Protest in Hollis

Mon, 02 Apr 2012 18:03:00 -0400

Housing Forum, March & Protest in Hollis
Date: April 21
Time: Forum starts @ 11:30AM followed by a March & Protest Rally @ 1PM
Where: The forum will be held at the Hollis Presbyterian Church * 100-50 196TH St. The March will start at the church and end in a Protest Rally at the abandoned buildings (btw. 202ND and 204TH Sts. on Hollis Ave).
Directions: Take the F train to 169TH St. From Hillside Ave. & 169TH St. take the BELMONT PK 225 ST bound Q2 Bus. Get off at Hollis Ave. & 109TH Ave. Walk 0.17 miles (4 minutes) North to the church. [If you arrive too late for the Forum the Bus will take you past the site of the abandoned buildings. They will be on the South side of Hollis Ave.] Map
Occupy Queens’ Housing and Direct Action Working Groups are working in solidarity with the Hollis Presbyterian 99% Group and CBOs have organized a forum on housing issues to be followed by a March and Protest Rally at the site of six dilapidated (5 are abandoned for over 16 years).
For background information on the situation in Hollis see “Hollis Held Hostage by Slumlord.”

Spring Awakening: 2012: Occupy New York City People’s Assembly

Mon, 02 Apr 2012 18:01:44 -0400

Spring Awakening: 2012: Occupy New York City People’s Assembly
Occupy Queens will be joining with other Occupy Assemblies and Community Based Organizations from across the city to celebrate our victories, strengthen existing networks, create new ones, and re-energize for what lies ahead - with a lot of fun, food, music and more thrown into the mix.
WHEN: APRIL 14TH, 2012 (#A14) • BEGINNING @ 1PM
WHERE: CENTRAL PARK SOUTH, 6TH AVE ENTRANCE, ON THE WEST SIDE OF WOLLMAN RINK
For more information go to Occupy New York City People’s Assembly.

Protest Rep. Joseph Crowley's Town Hall Appearance!

Mon, 02 Apr 2012 17:59:29 -0400

Protest Rep. Joseph Crowley’s Town Hall Appearance!
Date: April 10
Time: 6-7:30PM
Where: Jackson Heights Jewish Center • 37-06 77TH Street (1 block north of Roosevelt Ave. @ NW corner of 77TH St. & 37TH Ave.)
Directions: Roosevelt Ave./74TH St. stop: E, F, M, R, # 7 trains
Human rights groups warned Rep. Joseph Crowley that passing the US - Columbia Free Trade Agreement (FTA) without binding human rights commitments would guarantee that human rights atrocities against Colombian civilians would continue. Unfortunately, Crowley ignored these warnings and sold out to corporate interests by voting for the Colombia FTA, as well as the Panama and South Korea FTAs.
He also supported the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) which suspends the Constitutional protection of Habeas Corpus by authorizing the military to declare anyone, citizen and non-citizen alike, a terrorist or material supporter of a terrorist organization and indefinitely detain them without charge or trial. Not satisfied he voted for the Federal Restricted Buildings and Grounds Improvement Act - the most recent government assault on 1st Amendment liberties. See the Slate.com article You Can’t Occupy This by Dahlia Lithwick and Raymond Vasvari for an analysis of this latest attack.

OccupyQueens

Today’s March on the Big Banks. Singing & drumming in...

Today’s March on the Big Banks: BOA locks out its own...

thepeoplesrecord: ­On Monday, over 500 lawyers, notaries and...

March On the Big Banks

Move Your Money Bank Action Housepainting

OccuPicnic at Astoria Park :: Sunday : 27MAY2012 : 2PM starts

Planning The Next Step :: Monday : 07MAY2012 : 7pm

:हम मील रहे है May १ कौ शाम के ४:३० पर Andy Warhol Statue, जो Union Square के उत्तर पशछिम कोने के...

༄པྱི་ཟླ་༥ ཚེས་༡ ཉིན་དགོང་མོ་ཆག་ཚོད་༤:༣༠ ལ་ UNION SQUARE གྱི་བྱང་-ནུབ་གྱི་ཕྱོགས་སུ་ Andy Warhol...

Housing is a Human Right!

Housing is a Human Right! Community Speak Out and March. Saturday April 21. Forum at 11am, Action at 1pm

ངོ་དགོལ་བྱེས་རོགས་ Rep. Joseph Crowley's Town Hall Appearance!

िवरोध करे Rep. Joseph Crowley's Town Hall Appearance!

Protest Rep. Joseph Crowley's Town Hall Appearance!

ངོ་དགོལ་བྱེས་རོགས་ Rep. Joseph Crowley's Town Hall Appearance!

िवरोध करे Rep. Joseph Crowley's Town Hall Appearance!

Housing Forum, March & Protest in Hollis

Spring Awakening: 2012: Occupy New York City People’s Assembly

Protest Rep. Joseph Crowley's Town Hall Appearance!

thepeoplesrecord: On Monday, over 500 lawyers, notaries and...