Our campaign calling upon the City of Evaston to divest its holdings in Chase Bank continues. We will be behind the Civic Center weekdays at noon (except for Jack on Wednesdays), and next Saturday, February 25 at noon at Church and Sherman by Barnes & Noble and Panera. General Assembly at 1 PM in Panera.
We are also planning on demonstrating on Friday, March 2 outside the mayor’s State of the City Address at the Hilton Orrington starting at 11 AM. Be sure to try and join us then!
Our campaign to have the City of Evanston divest its holdings in Chase Bank continues. We will again be behind the Community Center at the noon hour during the week (Jack cannot come Wednesdays, but others are welcome). On Saturday February 18 we will again be at Church & Sherman (Pinera/Barnes & Noble/Radio Shack/Pret a Manger) leafleting about the City and Chase. The General Assembly will be in Pinera at 1 PM.
Be sure to call the City at 311, ask for the City Manager, and say you support Occupy Evanston’s call for the City to divest its holdings in Chase and shift the money to a community bank.
We continue our presence behind the Civic Center each weekday at noon, leafletting the public about having the City divest its holdings in Chase Bank. Next Saturday we will again convene at noon at Church and Sherman (Panera, Barnes & Noble, Radio Shack, Pret a Manger) with the General Assembly to follow at Panera at 1:00.
Remember to call the City Manager or Treasurer at 311 or 847-866-2936, say you support Occupy Evanston’s call for the City to divest its holdings in Chase bank.
This coming week we will again be out behind the Civic Center each weekday for the noon hour. Our focus continues to be calling upon the City of Evanston to divest its holdings in Chase Bank and shift them to a community bank. Be sure to call the City at 311, ask for the Treasurer and tell him you support this divestment campaign.
To accommodate those who requested that we also be out Friday evenings, the last two Fridays we were at the Century Cinema from 7:00 to 8:00, but no one else showed up. So we have decided for the time being to just continue with the weekdays at noon plus Saturdays.
This Saturday, February 4, we will be in downtown Evanston, on the four corners by Panera, Barnes & Noble, Radio Shack, and Pret a Manger from 12:00 till 1:00. We will then adjourn to Panera for the General Assembly starting at 1:00.
Feb 8th at 6PM: Movie followed by discussion
BooCoo Café at Church and Dodge (Parking free across the street in lot)
This 60-minute film is an interview on Democracy Now (Oct 31st, 2011) with Harriet Washington: an eloquent and articulate interviewee, medical ethicist, and author of two books: Deadly Monopolies and Medical Apartheid.
One of the major themes raised by the Occupy movement is the increasing power of large corporations over more and more aspects of our lives. We spend the hour looking into the issue of the corporate control of life itself. Harriet Washington, is a medical ethicist and has just published a book that examines the extent to which what she calls the medical-industrial complex has come to control human life. In the past 30 years, more than 40,000 patents have been granted on genes alone—many more patents are pending. Washington argues that the biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies patenting these genes are more concerned with profit than with the health or medical needs of patients. Her new book is called “Deadly Monopolies: The Shocking Corporate Takeover of Life Itself—
And the Consequences for Your Health and Our Medical Future.
This week of January 23 we will again be out in back of the Civic Center at the noon hour most days. We continue our campaign to get the City of Evanston to divest its holdings in Chase Bank. Be sure to call the City at 847-866-2936 and tell them you support Occupy Evanston’s call for divestment in Chase.
Friday night we will again be outside the Century Cinema at Maple and Church from 7:00 till 8:00. Those of you who have not been able to join us on Saturdays, please come Friday evening.
Saturday January 28 we will again be at the Farmers Market at McCormick and Bridge, but from 10:00 till 11:00. The General Assembly will then be at Boo Coo starting at 11:15.
Tomorrow, Friday the 20th, we’ll be trying having a rally at Maple and Church from 7:00 - 8:00 p.m again. We are looking to gauge both the interest from members to participate on Friday nights as well as what kind of traffic we get this time of year at that time and place.
We will still be at the farmer’s market (2024 McCormick Blvd. Ecology Center) Saturday, the 21st, but at noon. Followed by our GA at BooCoo (1823 Church Street) at 1:15.
We also have the second Wednesday of every month booked at BooCoo to show a movie. So our next showing will be February 8th! More info on that later.
OccupyEvanston – Evanston Farmers Market
Every Saturday thru April 28th
11AM: Evanston Ecology Center at 2024 McCormick Blvd. Ecology Center is located in the Ladd Arboretum with convenient free parking just across Bridge Street. Distribution of fliers pertaining to current topics
Noon: BooCoo 1823 Church Street for General Assembly
Daily weekday noon – 1:00 p.m. meetups and demonstrations outside Chase at Fountain Square
Correction. The movie showing is January 11th.
Join Occupy Evanston for a screening of the film, “The People Speak,” by Howard Zinn. Hear the voices of the American people throughout our history. Wednesday, January 11, 6:30 p.m., Boo Coo, 1823 Church St. on the corner of Church and Dodge. Parking available in the lot across the street.
