Sunday Nov 13th, we’re hosting our  General Assembly Meeting at 2PM. 

Meadow will also be working together with a few folks to “Beautify the Commons“. There have been lots of changes down at the square and with the threat of eviction, less ‘occupiers’ to keep things orderly and clean. Let’s all come out and support the campers to Beautify the Commons!  See the facebook event page for more details. This is the same Meadow who sang beautifuly at our Thursday General Assembly meeting during the positive presentation section. Thank you Meadow for all your continuing inspiring contributions!

Meadow performs her original song: The Whole World’s Watching
“Be strong, be fierce, be wise, be brave, be beautiful, we can’t lose this fight. The world’s watching, the whole world’s watching, we’ve got to shine our light….Occupy the streets, and decolonize your minds, and take back the power you never knew you had. Get up off your knees, come on take my hand, I’ve got your back and you’ve got mine. Oh, it’s not too late, but it’s getting pretty close. We’ve got to act now to put things right.”

 

  SAT Nov 12th, the PAOV held its Rally for the Environment

We’re also having discussions about future events such as Flash Occupations (one of many facebook event page) currently targetted for December 11th, 2011. What is a Flash Occupation? ” [It's] A fluid approach to freedom of assembly and movement building through the regular creation of temporary zones in which to educate and connect, to decolonize our minds together and to form new relationships to power, to health, to each other and ourselves in the transformative setting of the overnight camp. Flexible, responsive, fun, contagious. Includes general assembly, positive presentations, creative camp set up, talking, holding workshops, livestreaming, media, stargazing, sign making, planning actions, sleeping over night, sharing breakfast, meeting, cleaning up and then go…until next time”.

Flash Occupations Across Canada: This is not strictly a Victoria initiative but rather Canada-wide! Occupy Movement 2.0 is being architected as we speak! Indeed, as the various cities across Canada start being threatened with eviction, the movement will morph and continue to expand in even more unexpected ways.  Keep an eye on our upcoming Declaration for Remobilization (a current work in progress document), to understand the near future of People’s Assembly of Victoria.

Also come join us in our upcoming Nov 19th,2011. Rally for Political Reform.

Solidarity. We’re here for you. Please be there for us.

Today the City of Victoria applied for a court order to remove OccupyVictoria protestor tents from Centennial Square.  Several kilograms of legal paperwork were thus distributed by officials  to on-site protesters. Each copy of the legal document contains some 150+ pages, which; in order to spare a few trees, we’ve decided to convert  all the paperwork into 21st century digital PDF files that you may download for free. Unfortunately, the document was so lengthy, it wouldn’t fit into our scanners in one go, so you will need to download two separate files that make-up the entire document.

What do you think about this application for court injuction by the City to effectively attempt to shut down the OccupyVictoria movement?
Come join the conversation in our free online public discussion forum!

Please click on BOTH images (one at a time) to view the entire PDF document.
Document#1             Document#2
           
If you wish to download a copy for yourself, once you are in GoogleDocs after clicking the image, simply select File/Download Original.

[Please click the first page of our response letter below to download the entire multi-page PDF document]

A great lineup of local and regional musicians awaits you at Centennial Square on Sunday November 6th! Come out for the music and the movement, dance hard, bring some food, a lawn chair if you like… maybe even a tent!

CHECK OUT OUR
FACEBOOK EVENT PAGE
FOR SUNDAY NOV 6th MUSIC FESTIVAL

Performances by…

Vic Soundsystem: collective of Victoria musicians from Rocky Mountain Rebel Music, Brave New Waves, the Klaxon, Hillside Hooligans…
www.rmrm.ca
www.thebravenewwaves.com
www.myspace.com/theklaxonspace
www.myspace.com/thehillsidehooligans

Marley Daemon: http://marleydaemon.ca/
Oliver Swain’s Big Machine: www.oliverswainmusic.com/
Claire Mortifee: http://soundcloud.com/claire_mortifee

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Come, help make the case for a better society!

Saturday, Nov. 5th, 12:00 at Centennial Square

Featured presentations:

• “A Canada that Works for all Generations” by Dr. Paul Kershaw, one of Canada’s leading thinkers on family policy. UBC.
• “Know Your Rights, All Three of Them: Capitalism and Social Justice” by Dr. William Carroll, Director of Social Justice Studies program, UVic.
• “The Injustice of the Punishment Agenda” by Jared Giesbrecht, PhD candidate in law, UVic.
• Brian Hill, President of Community Social Planning Council, speaking on “The Living Wage Campaign”.
• Heather Botting, Department of Anthropology, UVic.

Also Nov 5th, 1:20pm – March to Occupy the Banks.

 More upcoming rallies:
Saturday, Nov. 12, Rally for the Environment, 12:00 Cent. Square;
Saturday, Nov. 19, Rally for Political Reform, 12:00 Cent. Square.

For more details please read our official press release here: http://paov.ca/announcements/occupy-victoria-launches-major-rally-campaign/

The People’s Assembly of Victoria (Occupy Victoria) is preparing to launch the next wave of major rallies in November. The rally campaign, called “Making the Case for a Better Society,” will consist of three rallies, covering the issues of social and economic justice, environmental protection, and political reform. The rallies will feature invited speakers–including academics, activists, and public figures–with expertise in these three subject areas.

These rallies are being held to raise public awareness of some of the central concerns of the Occupy movement and to demonstrate the strong support the movement already enjoys in our community. Members of the PAOV want to use this as an opportunity to reach out and engage with the public, to work towards a better understanding of the current situation facing the 99%, and to look at how changes can be made now. The intention of those organizing the rally is to communicate and connect with communities, families, and individuals in a positive environment, with a constructive creative process, towards finding solutions that will benefit us all now and in the future. The rallies will also help answer critics who sometimes allege that the Occupy movement lacks a coherent set of concerns. These skeptics are invited to come out and hear these speakers make the case for a better society.

All rallies will take place on Saturdays at noon, at Centennial Square.

Nov. 5th       Social and Economic Justice.
Nov. 12th     The Environment.
Nov. 19th    Reforming the Political System.

The Nov. 5th rally will feature Vancouver Sun columnist and UBC Professor, Paul Kershaw, and William Carroll, Director of UVic’s Social Justice Studies program, among others. More information about speakers and topics will be posted on at paov.ca in the near future.

 Know your rights, all three of them: Capitalism and social justice–Dr. William Carroll
Director of University of Victoria’s Social Justice Studies Program will talk about the troubled relationship between capitalism and social justice and the contribution that People’s Assemblies and Occupations are making toward democratic alternatives. 

A Canada that Works for All Generations–Dr. Paul Kershaw
One of Canada’s leading thinkers about family policy and the Human Early Learning Partnership (HELP) Scholar of Social Care, Citizenship and the Determinants of Health at UBC’s College for Interdisciplinary Studies will speak about how the growing gap between the rich and the rest in Canada is partly an intergenerational story. Canadians must come to terms with the fact it is now harder to raise a family, but easier to retire.

The decision to launch the public engagement campaign was adopted by consensus at PAOV’s Oct. 30th general assembly. These rallies will follow up on the very successful rally on Oct. 15th that marked the official start of the Occupy Victoria movement, and drew over 1,500 people — more than many large cities in Canada or the U.S.  Members of PAOV continue to Occupy Centennial Square, to hold People’s Assemblies, and to engage locally and internationally around a growing number of inter-related issues.