Events: Week Of October 17

October 17, Monday
7:00 PM October NYC Web Design Meetup
770 Broadway

October 18, Tuesday
7:00 - 9:00 PM The Ecstasy of Defeat by the Editors of The Onion
powerHouse Arena, 37 Main Street, Brooklyn, NY

October 19, Wednesday
3:30 PM US Royalty
Puma Store, 33 Union Square West

6:30 - 8:30 PM Nightlife @Daylife Presents Khoi Vinh: What Comes After Reading on the iPad?
Daylife HQ, 444 Broadway

October 20, Thursday
6:00 PM - Midnight US Royalty
Brooklyn Bown, 61 Wythe Avenue, between N 11th and N 12th
L to Bedford Ave, G to Nassau

6:00 - 11:00 PM Obliterati: Do You VYou?
Sweet and Vicious, 5 Spring St

October 21, Friday
8:30 AM DUMBO Tech Breakfast Meetup
The Gallery, 108 Jay Street

October 22, Saturday
9:00 PM US Royalty
72 Orchart Street
F to Delancey

Occupy

Image via WikipediaCongregate. Do not disrupt. This is about getting together, peacefully, amicably, almost in a celebratory way.

This is not about disrupting traffic. This is not about preventing people from going to work. This is not about seeking confrontations with the police.

It has to stay completely nonviolent. It has to become super, duper organized. It has to be sophisticated.

Occupy one public space in each city, each town where people camp out around the clock. If the space's capacity is 1,000 people, stay at 1,000 people. Get people to participate in rotation. So one person might clock in for one 24 hour period to be replaced by another person who signed up to be there.

The occupation can not end until the fundamental fabric of the democracy has been impacted. The goal is one person, one vote democracy. The insane people running the banks on Wall Street threw the bus into the ditch and gave the world the Great Recession. Now they want to go back to their same old ways. That is not an option.

We want a new architecture for global finance. And so the occupation has to continue. It has to grow. It has to grow on all continents. It has to grow from one city to many cities. It has to go to every town, every city. Maybe you are a small town, and your public space will only hold 50 people, and that is okay.

The thing is, we are all connected. The occupation in one town is connected to the occupation in every other town. Each city is connected to every other. This is a global movement, a national movement.

It has to stay nonviolent. It has to stay intelligent. It has to be about the conversation. The mass, public action is about the conversation. For every person camped out at a park, there are 1,000 people and more participating online. That online "occupation" is as real as it gets. These are real people with real opinions, with real challenges, real political weight.

This movement is about roping in more and more people into the conversation.

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