Skip to main content

#OccupySLC Update: 11/11/11

Image
By


A quick roundup of news summaries for today so far: KSL  here  , Fox 13  here  , KUTV  here  .

An itinerant man named Mike died last night at the #OccupySLC main camp in Pioneer Park. While an official cause of death hasn't been established yet (as far as I know), that hasn't stopped the Chief of the Salt Lake City Police Department from publicly speculating, or some local media sources from conjecturing about, drugs or an indoor propane heater.

This happened the day after a large nocturnal fight brought the SLPD to Pioneer Park, where one man was charged with aggravated assault and a few more received minor alcohol charges. "In response to these events," Chief Burbank has ordered all #OccupySLC camps vacated by tomorrow night. This includes the second #Occupy camp, which was not involved in the Pioneer Park incident(s) in any way.

Today at 2 PM, an emergency GA was held in Pioneer Park.




This was followed by a series of working groups, and a concise but informative presentation by representatives affiliated with the ACLU on what your rights are and are not with regards to la policia.




This was followed by another GA to adjust and unanimously approve a statement to the media from #OccupySLC, and a brief commemorative candlelight vigil at 5 PM MST.


The speakers included the Reverend Tom Goldsmith from the First Unitarian Church, a homeless man whose name I did not catch who knew Mike, and Dr. Rebecca Hall.


#OccupySLC's hub site is  here  . You can go there and read the press release for yourself. Here's an excerpt:

We at Occupy Salt Lake City are deeply saddened by the tragedy that has happened. Our neighbor who died was a volunteer in our kitchen and supported the Occupy Movement's concerns about the system. It is a tragedy that society allows so many incidents like this to happen every year. 
In 2010, 54 of our fellow Salt Lake City citizens died due to issues related to homelessness. In 2009, it was 58. 
We understand the city's concerns about this situation. Let's be clear: we have been providing food, shelter, and health care services. To react by shutting this down will lead to more people dying alone, cold, hungry and without shelter. A productive approach from the city would be to provide more resources to solve these problems: eliminating our assembly is combative and counterproductive.

I'll have more tomorrow from one or both camps as sundown approaches and the SLPD's deadline gets closer.

I don't think the SLPD is bluffing: a few hours after Burbank gave his ultimatum, the City came by and re-posted the "NO TRESPASSING" and "NO CAMPING" signs that have been absent since #OSLC was granted a permit to #Occupy the park:




Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Apparently, Liberals Are The Illuminati

By
posted 10/5/2012 by the Salt City Sinner Greetings, sheeple, from my stronghold high atop the Wells Fargo Building in downtown Salt City, where I type this before a massive, glowing bank of monitors that display the ongoing progress of my 23-point plan for complete social control. Whether you want to demonize me as a "liberal," or prefer the Glenn Beck update "progressive," we all know the truth, and it's time to pull the curtain aside: like all left-leaning persons, I am actually a member of the Illuminati. How else to explain how much power my side of the aisle wields in U.S. American politics? According to conservatives, liberals/the Illuminati control the media * , science * , academia in general * , public schools * , public radio * , pretty much anything "public," the courts * , and Hollywood * . Hell, we pretty much control everything except for scrappy, underdog operations like WND and Fox News, or quiet, marginalized voices like
126 comments
Read more

Cult Books: One Good, One Terrible

By
  I’ve finished writing a new novel (stay tuned for details) in which the massacre at Jonestown in November 1978 plays a pivotal role. Both to research it and because the phenomenon interests me, I’ve read more than a few books on cults and cultic ideology over the last year.
Post a Comment
Read more

The Garden Is Dead, Long Live The Garden

By
posted on 8/30/2015 by the Salt City Sinner  The last two times that I wrote about gardening, the tone was uncharacteristically less “playful whimsy” than “agonized demon howl.” This is with good reason. The cockroach-hearted fauxhemian Whole Foods crowd at Wasatch Community Gardens, you see, did a terrible thing to me and many other people – they decided that agreements are for suckers and that what the world really needs is another blighted patch of asphalt rather than a large and vibrant community garden, and so they killed my garden (and the gardens of many others) dead, dead, dead. Forgive my bitterness: there is something about loving a patch of actual soil, about nurturing life from tiny green shoots to a luxurious canopy of flowers and vegetables that brings out a protective streak in a human being, and also a ferocious loyalty. The destruction of Sugar House Community Garden did not, however, end my gardening career – heavens, no! Instead, I and a handful of
4 comments
Read more