Heads up gamers! Week of actions coming up.

Hey radical gamers, as a heads up there is a week of actions coming up soon. Below is the framework. Feel free to plug in. We definitely need some play all over this thing. The final day we take times square so definitely a good opportunity to make some awesome shit happen.

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#J11: NDAA, 10 Years of Gitmo, and Solidarity with the Nigerian National Strike

[From Imani]:

Hi All,

A cluster of folks from many working groups has come together to take a stand against the NDAA. 

We need help from painters tonight to paint a banner at 20 Jay Street from 6-10pm and performers to help work through a bit of street theatre to occur in conjunction with leafletting at Wednesday's action:

Wednesday, January 11th

• 3pm-4pm leafletting at 43rd St and 7th Ave
• 4pm March to the Niegerian Consulate at 44th St and 2nd Ave
• 5pm Rally at the Nigerian Consulate

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Occupy Museums & Occupy 477 Stand against Foreclosures - Dec 6, 2011

477 W. 142nd Street is a landmark building on Alexander Hamilton's former estate. The building has served for decades as a residence for low-income families and been a key site of the black community in New York City. The house is currently facing foreclosure by Madison Park Investors LLC and E.R. Holding. Brutal tactics have been used to try and force residents out, including the sabotage of the building's boiler as the winter months approach.

December 6th marks the international day of action for Occupy Wall Street against the foreclosures led by the 1%. On this historic day Occupy 477 and Occupy Museums join forces to stand against gentrification and stand up for the right to housing for all!

It just so happens that The Museum of Finance on Wall Street is housed in the former headquarters of the Bank of New York, founded by Alexander Hamilton—America's first Secretary of the Treasury. Hamilton created the country's financial system. On December 6th, we will march a replica of 477 W. 142nd Street to the Museum of American Finance, and offer it as an exhibit of the damaging effects of Wall Street’s financial system on American’s everyday lives.

December 6th
12:00 PM ----Meet at 477 West 142nd st. HDFC
3:00 PM----Arrive at Museum of American Finance, 48 Wall Street, New York

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Barricade the Barricade, or Occupy Red Cube

To all performers, artists, merry-makers, interested parties, and any seeking justice for the 99%…

Start your day bright and early to greet the Wall Streeters on their way to work with a dose of rebellious performance

Any performers willing to support this action would be greatly appreciated.

Thursday, November 17
8:00am meet up at Red Cube
8:30am Performance

Barricade the Barricade, or Occupy Red Cube
Help Us Free Public Art

In support of Occupy Wall Street and the Day of Global Action, please join us as we build a living sculpture to surround the Red Cube at Broadway and Liberty, across from Liberty Square. By linking our bodies in the creation of our own public art form, we can render useless the barricades that tarnish the art work displayed on our city streets. Isamu Noguchi, the sculptor of Red Cube, is quoted as saying, “the sculptor is not merely a decorator of buildings but a serious collaborator with the architect in the creation of significant space and of significant shapes which define this space.” (blueofsky.com). Let’s form a living sculpture around the entire Cube and show the world how powerful our bodies can be in defining our space! We will occupy public art and take back what is intentioned for public access! The group, intertwined in various and intricate ways, will remain still and strong throughout the 30 minute performance. Only when participants hear the sound of a helicopter (sure to be there) will they shift their poses to face the Cube. When participants hear the sound of a siren, they will shift to face away from the Cube. These interactions with environment, along with our intertwined bodies, remind us how interconnected we really are.

Any and all are welcome to join our living sculpture. No prior experience necessary.
Wear read in solidarity with the Cube.

There will be a sign detailing 5 simple rules for this action, so any passersby may join:

1. Observe the human barricade/sculpture.
2. Join human sculpture/barricade whenever a traffic light turns green. Link to someone else and find a comfortable pose you can sustain. Please respect self and others when connecting to other bodies.
3. When you hear a helicopter, shift your pose to face inward toward the Cube.
4. When you hear a siren, shift your pose to face outward away from the Cube.
5. Come and go as you please, when a traffic light turns green.

 

We also welcome musicians, puppeters, and any others who wish to share their talents in this inspiring action. Come support the sculpture with your creativity!!

See you there!!

Peace together,

Amy



Occupy Sotheby's!

Rally at Sotheby’s Thursday, Oct. 20 @ 1:30pm 1334 York Ave (b/w 71st & 72nd)
6 train to 68th St.-Hunter College
Leave directly from #OccupyWallSt!
Buses depart from Liberty Pl b/w Trinity and Broadway at 1 PM!

Things are peachy for the 1%. Sotheby’s made $680 million in 2010 and gave their CEO a 125% raise—he makes $60,000 a day. 

Not so for the 99%. Sotheby’s demanded concessions from their workers and then locked them out of work. The workers have been locked out for 11 weeks.

Come support the locked-out workers.
Tell the 1%: STOP CORPORATE GREED
Keep in touch with our campaign. Text 917-657-7890 with your email to get added to our mailing list and receive updates on where the campaign is going. 
Sponsored by OWS Labor Committee: owsnyclabor@gmail.com



From "A Curator"

Sotheby's has locked out workers in the context of immense corporate profits. Details can be gleaned elsewhere.

I find myself working with Sothebys in my job, and am disturbed to know I am doing business with an anti-labor organization.

I would respond favorably to a challenge to propgressive sellers of art (collectors, museums and galleries) to insist that a portion of the premiums Sotheby's collects in auctions be redirected to the Teamsters or AFL/CIO. This can be insisted upon in giving consignments. If an entity usually pays 5% sellers premium, they can now insist that 2% of the 5% goes to AFLCIO. Or they can negotiate a lower premium and send the difference themselves. Given that Christies will usually match Sotheby's negotiated terms  in order to get
consignments, Sotheby's will lose consignments, or lose cash.

I am not in a position to PROPOSE this idea, but I am in a position to RESPOND to it if some individual or group can begin it.

Contacting high-level collectors might result in a much better response than you imagine. Many of them are real progressives....