for photos please check out the facebook page as well as please post pictures on twitter and use the hash tag #occupyfrederick or #ofc
General assembly at 6:30 please join us.
Encampment on Carol Creek.
15-20 members of Occupy Frederick have set up on Carol Creek, braving the harsh winter to bring attention to local housing crisis.
Please, come down and join us at the Creek and support your local Occupation movement.
Saturday February 4th, 2012
At the Hillcrest Community Center
1150 Orchard Terrace
in Frederick, MD
Guest speakers and legal experts
Stop by between 9am-7pm
Potluck event bring a dish!
Support your community.
Transfer to a local bank or credit union, such as:
- Woodsboro Bank
- Frederick County Bank
- Comstar Credit Union.
Divest from Wall Street Banks who caused the financial meltdown of 2008. American taxpayers paid $700 billion to bail out Wall Street abuses, while their profits now soar.
We must take reform into our own hands.
Look for more info on a rally later on that day.
But look for more info on a coming action.
Friends Meeting House — 723 North Market Street, from 6-9pm Sat evening. Sorry for the late notice, we had some space issues.
Plans for an Occupy Frederick movement are still under way as protesters prepare to camp out at an undisclosed location by the end of the year.
For now, Occupy supporters are not revealing a location for their encampment because they do not want law enforcement officials to stop them before protesting starts.
Working groups that were passed.
- Outreach
- Support
- Support for Unemployed march in DC
- Environmental Justice
- Protest at Bechtel
- Action Working group
Outreach: (Ryan) Other working groups should contact us if they’d like help outreaching or doing media at an action or event. We are going to outreach through press releases; the google group; social media; general media; and reaching out to community groups we are member of. Send an email to occupyfrederick@gmail.com (with the subject outreach).
Support Bigger Occupations: (Gary) In the event that there is no Frederick occupation, there will be support of other occupations in the area. (Tony) We will be bringing grilled cheese to Freedom Plaza to feed people. We will be going this upcoming Sunday and every Sunday after that. The cutoff for donating food / money or volunteering to go to DC and help is Friday. If you have donations or want to help contact Tony (240-674-5743)
Support for unemployed: (Vivian) “Unemployed Workers” Organization with petitions for unemployment insurance will be holding a protest on the day of Thursday, December, 8th in DC. Cars from frederick are going, and please contact Vivian (210-845-4173) if you are interested in attending.
Environmental Justice: (Jeannette) We’d like to plan actions beginning in mid january. We are interested in Nitrogen Runoff into the Chesapeake, the Incinerator, and Wind Energy. More information later.
- There was a discussion about economic injustice and
- environmentalism / fort deterick / and localism vs globalism.
Send an email to occupyfrederick@gmail.com (with the subject environmental justice)
Forclosures: (Ken) We want to look at other occupy groups working on this and see in what ways they were successful. Compile a list of foreclosures and reach out. Send an email to occupyfrederick@gmail.com (with the subject foreclosures)
Protest @ Bechtel: (Jim) Bechtel is the ‘poster child’ for corporate involvement in our government. We should educate the public about what corporations such as Bechtel are doing. Discussed a march to Bechtel. Send an email to occupyfrederick@gmail.com (with the subject outreach)
‘Action’ Group: (Dylan) There will be a meeting this Wednesday @ 8PM @ 4 East Church Street (Peace Resource Center) for anyone who is interested in physically camping out / occupying. If you or anyone you know are interested in occupying, please tell them about the meeting. There was a discussion about location, permits, and if there will be a rotating group of occupiers. Send an email to occupyfrederick@gmail.com (with the subject action) We still need legal, logistics, and medical worked out.
Next General Assembly will be sometime next weekend, preferably Friday or Saturday.
That will be an important meeting where people discuss where/when/how the occupation or other actions will begin, and what initiatives we will support. Bring your Friends!!
Thanks to Lillian for Facilitating, Jeannette for taking stack, and
Alexis for taking notes!
Video of the GA
Part 1: http://youtu.be/GLBi55PaA5c
Part 2: http://youtu.be/XtjPsIolEfo
Occupy Frederick Facebook Event
Join occupy Frederick for the second official General Assembly.
Join Occupy Frederick on the 4th of December 4:00pm at All Saint Episcopal Church in Down Town Frederick. We’ll be speaking out and collectively deciding how the local segment of this movement will shape. Join us as we decide how to fight for the 99%.
The fist event allowed us to collectively come together and speak our part, the first GA aloud us to bring proposals to the floor and discuss them and gave us a decision to occupy and four occupation spots, what will the second GA bring us?
Don’t forget to invite your friends
https://www.facebook.com/occupyfrederick
http://twitter.com/#!/occupyfrederick
http://occupyfrederick.wordpress.com/ for news and opinion about the movement
