OCCUPY LA needs your help right now Eviction this weekend

[robinlynne]

Source: email from OccupyLA

We ask you, if able, to come to City Hall to stand with us when the park is closed, and that you come armed with love, courage, and a video recording device if possible.
> Please be aware that, while we are non-violent, we cannot predict what tactics may be used against us. We appreciate the support of all, but we also want to ensure the safety of the children and elderly among us. Please encourage their absence from the premesis.
>
> We ask you, if able, to provide a safe space for housing Occupiers who are unable to be arrested.
We ask you, if able, to provide a safe space for housing Occupiers who are unable to be arrested.
Please contact Claire Moss at [e-mail], or our Social Services Committee at [e-mail].
We ask you, if able, to contact our Bail Fund Affinity Group with donations to support Occupiers who are able to be arrested.
[e-mail]
818-645-1654

We ask you, if able, to call Mayor Villaraigosa’s office, the LAPD, and your City Council member to voice your support for Occupy Los Angeles.



No link yet.

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below is the text in full.

right now helicopters are circling and homeland security is driving around city hall.
there is another post on Du today if you want the background story:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x2375063


> To: [e-mail]
> Subject: Emailing for support
>
> Happy Day of Giving Thanks!
>
> I woke up this morning with a bee, which sounded suspiciously like the City of Los Angeles, in my proverbial bonnet, so I crafted the following email to send out to EVERYONE asking for support for Occupy LA in the coming days.
>
> Please feel free to offer suggestions and/or alter the language, and get this message out!
> Also, if you would like to help reach out to folks on our volunteer contact list, please let me know- many hands make light typing!
>
> <begin text>
> Happy Holidays!
>
> I hope this message finds you well, and that you are able to enjoy this time of year among family and friends. In this season of peace, charity, and heightened good will, the City of Los Angeles and Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa have presented the participants of Occupy LA with a very thoughtful gift:
> An ambiguous yet firm eviction notice.
>
> In a meeting yesterday, 11/23/11, and in a public announcement given shortly thereafter on the South Steps of City Hall, LA City Representatives informed us that they will be closing the park sometime next week. During that meeting, a representative from the LAPD backed the closing of the park, saying that once the park is closed, Occupiers will be in violation of the law, and that the use of force to remove Occupiers would be determined by the actions of the camp.
>
> No definite time was given, but we are considering this our notice.
>
> We are an open, participatory, democratic, horizontal, peaceful, and non-violent movement.
> And we are asking for your support in continuing to exercise our First Amendment right to peaceably assemble and petition our government for a redress of our grievances.
>
> We ask you, if able, to come to City Hall to stand with us when the park is closed, and that you come armed with love, courage, and a video recording device if possible.
> Please be aware that, while we are non-violent, we cannot predict what tactics may be used against us. We appreciate the support of all, but we also want to ensure the safety of the children and elderly among us. Please encourage their absence from the premesis.
>
> We ask you, if able, to provide a safe space for housing Occupiers who are unable to be arrested.
We ask you, if able, to provide a safe space for housing Occupiers who are unable to be arrested.
Please contact Claire Moss at [e-mail], or our Social Services Committee at [e-mail].

We ask you, if able, to contact our Bail Fund Affinity Group with donations to support Occupiers who are able to be arrested.
[e-mail]
818-645-1654

We ask you, if able, to call Mayor Villaraigosa’s office, the LAPD, and your City Council member to voice your support for Occupy Los Angeles.

And we ask you, if able, to help us spread the word.

We’re going to need all the support we can muster- let’s show the city, the country, and the world that
We Are the 99%.

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we are the 99%, and we are going to change the world.

added by me: Phone numbers to call:

Alarcon 213-473-7007

Garcetti- 213-473-7013

Rosendahl - 213-473-7011

Villaraigosa - 213-978-0600

To email you have to google them - for Rosendahl you have to google "contact Bill Rosendahl" They all have contact forms. I called. I said we don't need pepper spray, etc. on the streets of Los Angeles. I also said that people would be down there to support OLA. I hope that is not interpreted as a threat since I left my contact info. I also mentioned that I could not support Eric Garcetti for mayor if he does this. You might mention that also. This is the pits - that we all have to be on alert during a holiday weekend! Anyway, please call and leave your message so that when these guys get in on Monday they will think twice about invading OLA if they haven't done it already. Their offices are closed until Monday. If you do call please let me know. Thanks for all you do!!! The people united cannot be defeated!!!!

-e

[kestrel91316]

1. Evil fuckers. They are deliberately doing this on a holiday weekend when they

know folks are mostly at home with family and not paying attention or able to assist.

Villaraigosa is just ONE MORE MAYOR who has conspired to deny people their civil rights.

Time to end his career. He's a liar and a cheat and way too slick for his own good. Smarmy is the word that fits best.

[lob1]

6. You're right. The fact it's on a holiday weekend is no

accident. And smarmy is a very good description for the mayor.

Edited to add K&R.

[cherokeeprogressive]

10. Tony Villar is a piece of shit and needed to go away years ago. n/t

[lonestarnot]

2. K & R!

[Fire Walk With Me]

3. K&R!

[Earth_First]

4. k&r

Stay strong, be safe

[robinlynne]

5. Please sign this petition to the Mayor and CIty CounciL:

copy and paste and send:



PETITION:

To the Mayor and City Council Members:

I pledge my support for Occupy Los Angeles' right to encamp on the city hall lawn. Those participating in the encampment are exercising a fundamental form of expressive speech, protected by the First Amendment of the United States Constitution. The Occupation itself is a protected form of expression that effectively calls attention to our need for economic change, social justice and political accountability. The Occupation will carry on its mission on the city hall grounds, where it can be seen, heard and felt, until such wrongs are addressed.

Signed,

Name:
Zip Code:
Email:


Emails of the Mayor & Council Members:
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[2 Much Tribulation]

7. K&R nt

[WillyT]

8. K & R !!!

:kick:

[Wilms]

9. ^