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<span id="internal-source-marker_0.43450689156070743" style="font-size:15px;font-family:Times New Roman;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">The American Spring is here, so ‘</span><a href="http://youtu.be/HIYMLR_DGWU"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Times New Roman;color:#1155cc;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;">Take a Chance</span></a><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Times New Roman;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">’ with us. Below you will find a Great Meeting, Kiss-in against Corporate Greed, Eviction Theater and many other chances to assemble, learn and celebrate. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Times New Roman;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">This Week in Occupy</span></p>
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<a href="http://university.nycga.net/events-2/events/event/discussion-is-education-an-asset/"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Times New Roman;color:#1155cc;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;">Is Education an “Asset”?</span></a><br />
<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Times New Roman;color:#333333;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Wednesday, April 4th 1230-2pm</span><br />
<a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Union+Square,+NYC,+NY&hl=en&oq=union+square+nyc&hnear=Union+Square,+New+York&t=m&z=15&iwloc=A"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Times New Roman;color:#1155cc;background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;">Union Square</span></a><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Times New Roman;color:#333333;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">, the Gandhi statue in the southwest corner of the park</span><br />
<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Times New Roman;color:#333333;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Join </span><a href="http://university.nycga.net/"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Times New Roman;color:#1155cc;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;">Occupy University</span></a><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Times New Roman;color:#333333;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"> and </span><a href="http://www.occupystudentdebtcampaign.org/"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Times New Roman;color:#1155cc;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;">Occupy Student Debt Campaign</span></a><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Times New Roman;color:#333333;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"> for a lunch-time discussion about education-as-asset. This discussion is part of a series of events leading up to the day that student debt reaches $1 Trillion, to be (mis)celebrated on 4/25. Meet at the Gandhi statue.</span><br />
<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Times New Roman;color:#333333;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">These discussions about the crisis of higher education are sponsored by Occupy University. It is also a lead up educational event for 1T day. http://www.1tday.org</span><br />
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<a href="http://www.nycga.net/events/event/union-square-great-meeting/"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Times New Roman;color:#1155cc;background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;">The Great Meeting</span></a><br />
<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Times New Roman;color:#333333;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Wednesday, April 4th 630-930pm</span><br />
<a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Union+Square,+NYC,+NY&hl=en&oq=union+square+nyc&hnear=Union+Square,+New+York&t=m&z=15&iwloc=A"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Times New Roman;color:#1155cc;background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;">Union Square</span></a><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Times New Roman;color:#333333;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">, the large assembly area at the northmost end at 17th street</span><br />
<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Times New Roman;color:#333333;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">After weeks of arrests and wounds, amazing actions and incredible solidarity, we want to come back together to discuss political questions surrounding anything ranging from economic equality to food and health care justice to upcoming actions to the Spanish general strike, to dream together of the new world that we think is possible enough that we’ve stuck it out for all of these months, and perhaps to discuss practical concerns about our shift toward Union Square as a reclamation of the Commons. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Times New Roman;color:#333333;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">NY State Public Campaign Financing Town Hall</span><br />
<a href="http://www.nycga.net/events/event/ny-state-public-campaign-financing-town-hall-brooklyn/"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Times New Roman;color:#1155cc;background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;">Brooklyn</span></a><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Times New Roman;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">: </span><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Times New Roman;color:#333333;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Wednesday, April 4th 530-8pm</span><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Times New Roman;color:#333333;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">. </span><a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Brooklyn+Borough+Hall,+209+Joralemon+St.&hl=en&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=53.167773,99.492188&hq=Brooklyn+Borough+Hall,+209+Joralemon+St.&t=m&z=15&iwloc=A"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Times New Roman;color:#1155cc;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;">Brooklyn Borough Hall, 209 Joralemon St.</span></a><br />
<a href="http://www.nycga.net/events/event/ny-state-public-campaign-financing-town-hall-manhattan/"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Times New Roman;color:#1155cc;background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;">Manhattan</span></a><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Times New Roman;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">: </span><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Times New Roman;color:#333333;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Thursday, April 5th 530-8pm.</span><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Times New Roman;color:#333333;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"> </span><a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Ny+Hotel+Trades+Council,+West+44th+Street,+New+York,+NY&hl=en&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=53.167773,99.492188&oq=NY+Hotel+Trades+Council,&hq=Ny+Hotel+Trades+Council,&hnear=W+44th+St,+New+York,+10036&t=m&z=17"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Times New Roman;color:#1155cc;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;">NY Hotel Trades Council,</span></a><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Times New Roman;color:#333333;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"> 707 8th Avenue </span><br />
<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Times New Roman;color:#333333;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">It’s time Albany finally returns to government of, by, and for the people – not government bought and paid for by CEO campaign contributors. But, as long as politicians are accountable to corporations and lobbyists who finance their campaigns, they’re never going to be accountable to us. </span><a href="http://www.ows.re-configure.org/"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Times New Roman;color:#1155cc;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;">Join us to learn more</span></a><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Times New Roman;color:#333333;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"> about this exciting campaign to win fair elections for New York in 2012 and to let our elected officials know that we support strong public campaign financing in NY State!</span><br />
<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Times New Roman;color:#333333;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Gather outside at 5:30pm for a pre-meeting mini rally to show support. Bring a mop or a broom if you can.</span><br />
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<a href="http://www.nycga.net/events/event/occupy-university-horizontal-pedagogy-workshop-2-2012-04-05/"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Times New Roman;color:#1155cc;background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;">Occupy University Horizontal Pedagogy Workshop</span></a><br />
<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Times New Roman;color:#333333;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Thursday, April 5th, 8pm-10pm</span><br />
<a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Public+Atrium+at+Trump+Tower+%2856th+St+%26+Madison+Ave%29&hq=Public+Atrium+at+Trump+Tower&radius=15000&t=m&z=16"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Times New Roman;color:#1155cc;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;">Public Atrium at Trump Tower (56th St & Madison Ave)</span></a><br />
<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Times New Roman;color:#333333;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Join the Empowerment & Education Working Group – Occupy University subgroup for a discussion experiment/pedagogy workshop for Occupy University. Open to all. Horizontal / facilitated / consensus-model learning with a dose of problematization. We promise the Trump Tower is not as scary as it sounds. It’s empowering to Occupy the Trump Tower, please join us! We’ve been doing it </span><a href="http://university.nycga.net/our-courses/blog/"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Times New Roman;color:#1155cc;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;">every Thursday evening </span></a><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Times New Roman;color:#333333;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">for weeks now.</span><br />
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/382646008433329/"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Times New Roman;color:#1155cc;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;">Stand for the poor at St. Patrick's on Good Friday</span></a><br />
<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Times New Roman;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Friday, April 6th, 1:00pm</span><br />
<a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?q=st+patrick+cathedral&ll=40.759172,-73.976526&spn=0.008566,0.018604&fb=1&gl=us&hq=st+patrick+cathedral&hnear=0x89c24fa5d33f083b:0xc80b8f06e177fe62,New+York,+NY&cid=0,0,9826911792922012251&t=m&z=16&iwloc=A"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Times New Roman;color:#1155cc;background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;">St. Patrick’s Cathedral</span></a><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Times New Roman;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">, </span><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Times New Roman;color:#222222;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">14 East 51st Street on 5th Avenue</span><br />
<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Times New Roman;color:#000000;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Join Catholics United and Occupy Catholics this Good Friday as we take a stand for the poor </span><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Times New Roman;color:#333333;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">among us at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City. Catholic Congressman Paul Ryan's 2013 budget proposal doesn't do it, and Cardinal Dolan won't do it either. As Catholics, at one of our country's most visible places of worship, we will prayerfully speak from the social justice tradition of our faith. We will deliver a petition asking Cardinal Dolan to use his influence as shepherd of the American church to oppose Ryan's proposal.</span><br />
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<a href="http://www.nycga.net/SpringTraining/"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Times New Roman;color:#1155cc;background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;">Spring Training</span></a><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Times New Roman;color:#1155cc;background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">: </span><a href="http://www.nycga.net/events/event/weekly-wall-street-marches"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Times New Roman;color:#1155cc;background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;">Weekly Wall Street Marches</span></a><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Times New Roman;color:#ff0000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Times New Roman;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Friday, April 6th, 2:00pm</span><br />
<a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Zuccotti+Park&hl=en&client=safari&oe=UTF-8&hq=Zuccotti+Park&t=m&z=14"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Times New Roman;color:#1155cc;background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;">Liberty Square </span></a><br />
<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Times New Roman;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Every Friday at 2PM, Occupy Wall Street will converge in the streets once again and launch the first in a series of spring training marches from Liberty Square to Wall Street in </span><a href="http://occupywallst.org/article/6-ways-to-get-ready-may-1st-general-strike/"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Times New Roman;color:#1155cc;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">preparation for May Day, a day of massive economic non-compliance and strike</span></a><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Times New Roman;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">. These marches will occur weekly and will allow occupiers to practice various street tactics and theatrics. </span><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Times New Roman;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">The schedule is as follows:</span><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Times New Roman;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"> Meet at 2 PM in Liberty Square for sign making and a short march tactics training. At 3 PM occupiers will march to Wall Street and descend on the New York Stock Exchange to counter the closing bell with “The People’s Gong.” Following the march there will be a potluck dinner at 60 Wall Street.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Times New Roman;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">OWS Open Space</span><br />
<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Times New Roman;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Friday April 6, 2012, 6pm to 10pm</span><br />
<a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?q=235+West+23rd+Street&hnear=235+W+23rd+St,+New+York,+10011&gl=us&t=m&z=16"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Times New Roman;color:#1155cc;background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;">Unity Hall</span></a><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Times New Roman;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">, 235 West 23rd Street between 7th Avenue and 8th Avenue</span><br />
<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Times New Roman;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">What's the conversation that you want to have? Come start a new conversation, or continue an ongoing one, at the OWS Open Space. (Check out pics from past Open Spaces </span><a href="http://ows-open-space-feb-10-2012.posterous.com/"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Times New Roman;color:#1155cc;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;">here</span></a><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Times New Roman;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"> and </span><a href="http://ows-open-space-march-9-2012.posterous.com/"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Times New Roman;color:#1155cc;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;">here</span></a><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Times New Roman;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">.) In the Open Space format, all participants are welcomed to host conversations on whatever topics interest them. Participants only take part in the conversations that awaken their passion and interest. You are free to leave a conversation at any time, and join another one or start your own. </span><br />
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/116924738431140/"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Times New Roman;color:#1155cc;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;">NYC Kiss-in Against Student Debt and Corporate Greed</span></a><br />
<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Times New Roman;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Saturday, April 7th, 10am-12pm</span><br />
<a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Union+Square,+NYC,+NY&hl=en&oq=union+square+nyc&hnear=Union+Square,+New+York&t=m&z=15&iwloc=A"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Times New Roman;color:#1155cc;background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;">Union Square</span></a><br />
<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Times New Roman;color:#333333;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">If the banks can make out like bandits, so can we. On April 7th at 1pm, students and folks with student debt in groups around the country will kiss in public spaces to protest the out of control tuition hikes and education cuts that are plaguing the country. This is a creative and effective way that we as students can bring awareness to this issue that is so often ignored.</span><br />
<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Times New Roman;color:#333333;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Spread the word, invite your friends, let's get on the news and get the country talking! Find out more at </span><a href="http://occupystudentdebtcampaign.org/"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Times New Roman;color:#1155cc;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;">occupystudentdebtcampaign.org</span></a><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Times New Roman;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"> and</span><a href="http://1tday.org/"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Times New Roman;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"> </span><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Times New Roman;color:#1155cc;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;">1tday.org</span></a><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Times New Roman;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Times New Roman;color:#333333;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Train the Trainers, Educate the Educators, Facilitate the Facilitators w/Jason Ahmadi </span><br />
<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Times New Roman;color:#333333;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Sunday April 8th</span><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Times New Roman;color:#000000;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">, 5pm-8pm</span><br />
<a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?q=220+E+23rd+St.&hnear=220+E+23rd+St,+New+York,+10010&gl=us&t=m&z=16"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Times New Roman;color:#1155cc;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;">220 E 23rd St.</span></a><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Times New Roman;color:#333333;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"> 7th Floor</span><br />
<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Times New Roman;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">This Easter Sunday, member sof Direct Action will be hosting a workshop to share skills in giving what is known in the activist scene as Non-Violent Direct Action trainings. The workshop will cover issues of popular education, non-hierarchical learning, radical pedagogy and direct action. We will teach each other skills and practice exercises and role plays in the theme of direct action as well as develop tips and tools for facilitation. The goal is giving away our skills so folks can return to their affinity groups to explore new ways of knowledge creation and practice direct action. </span><br />
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<a href="http://www.nycga.net/events/event/kundalini-movement-meditation-class-2-2012-04-04/"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Times New Roman;color:#1155cc;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;">Occupy Yoga Meditation Class </span></a><br />
<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Times New Roman;color:#333333;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Every Monday-Friday, 630pm.</span><br />
<a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Union+Square,+NYC,+NY&hl=en&oq=union+square+nyc&hnear=Union+Square,+New+York&t=m&z=15&iwloc=A"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Times New Roman;color:#1155cc;background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;">Union Square</span></a><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Times New Roman;color:#333333;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">, on the steps of the south end</span><br />
<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Times New Roman;color:#333333;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">A new age of change is upon us. We all sense it universally in the movement. It is a new time to lead with new values, compassion, perseverance, integrity, and kindness. We all want to overcome oppression and change the world, but what practice can we teach to improve our personal awareness and strength to keep up with the changes? Join this seated movement & meditation class for Occupiers and experience how yoga, meditation, and these specific Aquarian Age teachings can take humanity through this time of change with strength, intuition, courage, and open hearts.</span><br />
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<a href="http://www.nycga.net/events/event/eviction-theatre-2012-04-04/"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Times New Roman;color:#1155cc;background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;">Eviction Theatre</span></a><br />
<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Times New Roman;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Every evening we are at Union Square Park, 1130pm - 1230am</span><br />
<a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Union+Square,+NYC,+NY&hl=en&oq=union+square+nyc&hnear=Union+Square,+New+York&t=m&z=15&iwloc=A"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Times New Roman;color:#1155cc;background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;">Union Square</span></a><br />
<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Times New Roman;color:#333333;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Join the NYC Community as they bear witness to a nightly mini-raid eviction that begins at the stroke of midnight. Witness comedic feats of strength as NYPD & The Occupy Movement say goodnight to one another in a theatrical setting. This week’s themes are:</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Times New Roman;color:#333333;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">WEDNESDAY: We Hide and Seek While Cops Pick up Goofy Stuff</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Times New Roman;color:#333333;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">THURSDAY: The Runaround (aka Modified Portland Lap)</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Times New Roman;color:#333333;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">FRIDAY: Rap Battle III (with special Pre-Battle Maneuvers)</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Times New Roman;color:#333333;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">SATURDAY: Banker Pirates v. Anti-bank Ninjas</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Times New Roman;color:#333333;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">SUNDAY: Who Can Occupy More Parks? Contest </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Times New Roman;color:#333333;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Check out </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/202911633156255/"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Times New Roman;color:#1155cc;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;">our Facebook page </span></a><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Times New Roman;color:#333333;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">for more updates!</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Times New Roman;color:#444444;background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Save the Date</span></p>
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<a href="http://www.nycga.net/events/event/spring-awakening-2012-occupy-new-york-city-peoples-assembly/"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Times New Roman;color:#1155cc;background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;">Spring Awakening 2012: Occupy NYC People's Assembly</span></a><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Times New Roman;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">: April 14, 2012</span><br />
<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Times New Roman;color:#333333;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Join Occupy Wall Street on #A14 to kick off exciting spring and summer events. On April 14th, New York City will converge on Central Park to unite with organizations and activists to create a transformative, citywide, mass movement. The day will give individuals an opportunity to connect with organizations and foster ongoing collaboration of groups working on common issues.</span><br />
<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Times New Roman;color:#333333;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Join us at our </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/121463714644788/"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Times New Roman;color:#1155cc;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;">Facebook event</span></a><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Times New Roman;color:#333333;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"> for updates!</span><br />
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<a href="http://www.maydaynyc.org/"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Times New Roman;color:#1155cc;background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;">A Day Without the 99%</span><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Times New Roman;color:#1155cc;background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">: </span><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Times New Roman;color:#1155cc;background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;">May Day 2012</span></a><br />
<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Times New Roman;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">The 1% needs us</span><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Times New Roman;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"> to continue reaping their profits, but </span><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Times New Roman;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">WE DON'T NEED THE 1%.</span><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Times New Roman;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Times New Roman;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">This May Day, Occupy Wall Street, in coalition with numerous other organizations and occupations, calls for a Day Without The 99%: No Work, No School, No Shopping, No Housework, No Compliance. Let's take the streets, reclaim our communities, and support each other. NOT the 1%. On May 1st, let us stand together to reclaim our jobs, our communities, our lives. Withdraw your consent and strike!</span><br />
<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Times New Roman;color:#444444;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">If you’d like to be added to the announcement and/or discussion listserv or have any questions regarding meeting time, location, structure, please contact </span><a href="mailto:[email protected]"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Times New Roman;color:#1155cc;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;">[email protected]</span></a><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Times New Roman;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"> or learn more at </span><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Times New Roman;color:#1155cc;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;">www.maydaynyc.org</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Times New Roman;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Occupy Everything</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Times New Roman;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Don</span><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Times New Roman;color:#000000;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">’t know where to begin? </span><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Times New Roman;color:#000000;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Want help connecting to specific groups and projects? Join us at the next OWS Orientation every Saturday at 2pm at the Gandhi statue in the southwest corner of Union Square</span><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Times New Roman;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">. Can’t make it? Email Tascha and the rest of the crew at </span><a href="mailto:[email protected]"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Times New Roman;color:#1155cc;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;">[email protected]</span></a><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Times New Roman;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"> and we’ll do our best to get you sorted out!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Times New Roman;color:#222222;background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">This week’s featured Occu-Project:</span><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Times New Roman;color:#222222;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"> </span><a href="http://www.nycga.net/groups/occupy-your-workplace"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Times New Roman;color:#1155cc;background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;">Occupy Your Workplace</span></a><br />
<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Times New Roman;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">The Occupy Your Workplace group believes that building democratic workers' organizations is critically important for social and economic change. </span><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Times New Roman;color:#222222;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Working for someone else doesn't mean you have to stop Occupying - in fact, we think that building democratic assemblies at work is vitally important to building a just society based on equality. We work in solidarity with everyone who is interested in organizing on the job to improve wages, benefits, and working conditions.</span><br />
<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Times New Roman;color:#222222;background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Please fill out our confidential </span><a href="http://www.esurveyspro.com/Survey.aspx?id=b5732fd5-5630-46c6-a47e-b85e47641ade"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Times New Roman;color:#1155cc;background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;">survey</span><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Times New Roman;color:#1155cc;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;"> about Occupiers in the larger economy</span></a><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Times New Roman;color:#222222;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"> so we can brainstorm together about ways to spread the Occupy message in the workplace.</span><br />
<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Times New Roman;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Contact us by email</span><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Times New Roman;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"> </span><a href="mailto:[email protected]"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Times New Roman;color:#1155cc;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;">[email protected]</span></a><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Times New Roman;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"> or visit us on </span><a href="http://facebook.com/groups/304746022910503"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Times New Roman;color:#1155cc;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;">Facebook</span></a><br />
<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Times New Roman;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Join us</span><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Times New Roman;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"> every Sunday from 5-7pm, location posted on our email group and NYCGA site.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Times New Roman;color:#222222;background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">The Occupy Wall Street Project List </span><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Times New Roman;color:#222222;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">is a monthly periodical that informs people about your projects and provides the necessary contact information to help them reach you and get involved. The first issue can be </span><a href="http://www.nycga.net/files/2012/02/Projects_episode1.pdf"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Times New Roman;color:#1155cc;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;">viewed here</span></a><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Times New Roman;color:#222222;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"> and the second issue is currently in production!</span></p>