Occupy Albany

Albany's solidarity rally with the Occupy Wall Street movement is beginning on October 21.

From their event page:

Occupy Albany will commence an ongoing occupation of Lafayette Park. The gathering will begin at Noon on Friday, October 21. The first General Assembly of the occupation will convene at 5pm.

Lafayette Park is located directly adjacent to both the Capitol Building and City Hall, enabling us to simultaneously address the corporate influence in both state and city politics.

We are strategically located to facilitate a multitude of breakaway actions.

The location is large enough to house a sustainable occupation.

The topography of the park provides benefits for easy camping. Further it would be difficult to barricade and for large police formations to be maintained.

There are multiple access points, including lots of crosswalks. There is suitable transit support to this location. Parking is not ideal for long-term.

The Humane Resources Working Group has requested volunteers to contribute to multiple projects to help provide services to this occupation.

The Financial Working Group needs to raise money. Outreach will be in high gear this week, and will need help.

The Legal Working Group is prepared and ready to go.

The Public Relations Working Group can be reached directly at: OccupyAlbanyPR@gmail.com

We have a back up location that is on state property and nearby in the event that the Legal WG suggests moving from city land for legal and strategic reasons and the GA concurs.

Thank you to the others in the Occupation WG for their hard work and presentation of the report. Thanks to the Facilitation WG for their amazing job tonight. Much love to the several hundred people in attendance. This was an amazing success at building consensus on a difficult and complex proposal.

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