While the Occupy Santa Cruz General Assembly does not necessarily support the unconsensed and unannounced autonomous action of reclaiming 75 River Street, Occupy Santa Cruz does support the need for community space.
Individuals are encouraged to participate in any and all direct actions their conscience compels them to support.
Because some Occupy Santa Cruz individuals do support the reclaiming of 75 River Street, Occupy Santa Cruz invites the entire community including 75River, busines owners, city officials and unions to discuss the issue of reclaiming public and unused spaces at Occupy Santa Cruz’s Sunday General Assembly at the Courthouse at 2:30 PM for the next four weeks.
More info regarding 75River can be found at their website: 75River.tumblr.com
This statement was approved by the General Assembly of Occupy Santa Cruz on December 2nd, 2011.
14 Responses to “Occupy Santa Cruz and the 75River group”
Very good. A lot better that I was hearing other night from some people
Ya’ll need to be taken around the corner by some good ol’ boys and have the shit knocked out of you. It seems none of you were disciplined as children, about time you all learned.
I went down there to take some photos of the Occupy movement and was accosted and assaulted by about 6 Occupy protesters this afternoon for doing nothing more than taking photos. One of them brandished a knife at me. I reported this to the police and not one of the OSC people there stood up for me and the OSC people tried to explain away the actions of those involved. They even accused me of working with the police. Well, I will be working with the police NOW. I have photos of those involved and will be turning them over to the police.
These people are criminals and enablers of criminal activity. I think that the police should get rid of the camp now as it seems obvious to me that the people down there a just a bunch of drug addled losers.
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Hi ‘Karl’… Does anyone know this putz: http://i.imgur.com/S1hWk.jpg
BTW… The people who accused you of being a cop were some local speedfreaks and crackheads who would have been in the park whether or not the encampment was there, and had been there long before #Occupy was ever thought of.
They say that “Cop” thing to anyone and everyone. Some other guy said the same thing to me an hour or so later, and he KNOWS I’m not.
Your skin is much too thin and your manner too rude to be a photojournalist… What do you do for a real living? PR work in the “Perception Management” department at Take Back Santa Cruz?
Your level of paranoia is typical of those who were in the park. I haven’t posted any of the pictures I took online and yet you take one of me and post it calling me a ‘putz’. Why does it matter what I do? I’m unemployed right now and I wanted some photos of the encampment because I was curious. I did the same thing when the earthquake happened. I wanted to document it. I should be able to take photos in a public park. If I was thin skinned I would’ve been annoyed with the person in that photo who was taking my picture 2 feet from my face. I didn’t say a thing to him as he took my photo nor did I with any of the other people there who rushed up to take my photo. I was taking photos from the walkway above the camp when the druggies rushed up and eventually attacked me. The OSC people said I should’ve got permission before taking photos. This is the height of hypocrisy when they aren’t asking permission to occupy the park. They condone the behavior of the homeless just to have numbers there and make it look like there is a movement.
You have totally lost me on the Occupy movement. The people “in charge” down there aren’t and they are herding cats when it comes to the homeless. It can’t be done.
I can’t wait until the cops sweep you out.
Good riddance!
I take pictures all over the encampment and no one’s ever attacked me. SOME PEOPLE don’t like their photo taken, even incidentally, and despite the fact that the encampment make the subject a ‘public person’ whom I have the right to photograph, I DO NOT EVEN MENTION THAT. I just simply show them how I erase a digital picture if I’ve accidentally taken a snap of someone who doesn’t want to be photographed.
You didn’t do anything remotely like that… Did you Karl?
The person facing the camera in http://i.imgur.com/S1hWk.jpg looks a little bit like the person holding the camera (without the riot gear) in http://www.indybay.org/uploads/2011/12/04/sheriffs-raid-occupy-santa-cruz.jpg but that must be a coincidence, the uniformed officer appears to be fully employed, maybe even collecting overtime pay.
Perhaps Facebook facial recognition knows…
Not enough resolution in that 640px wide pic to tell when enlarged and sharpened with the software I have. Maybe the DHS or Infraguard knows.
Any way you look at it I had a chance to observe his behavior after-the-fact for about 5 minutes, and he reeked of provocateur.
Bunch of punks. They show the true face of the Occupy movement – the sense of entitlement to the point where they are willing to take over the property of others for their own uses.
Steal your face.
Dear OSC Folks;
It is with heavy heart and sense of betrayal that I write this letter.
I attended Saturday’s 12/3 General Assembly with one condition: that the minutes would be posted on occupysantacruz.org. I had several reasons for my condition.
Like it or hate it: the 75River Action was widely seen as co-opting the OSC. Several members key to the Media Committee were also involved, and refused to hand over passwords to the site. And so my request was a litmus test…would the GA where we would hear a “new Compromise,” bringing us back into the fold, be published?
Would Occupy Santa Cruz distance itself from Autonomous Anonymous, or at least explain how AA is NOT OSC…or even, how “autonomous, and yet acting in solidarity with,” does NOT mean a cynical ploy to “nudge, nudge, wink, wink;” a smoke-screen to cover the actions of a few?
The “new compromise” on 12/3 was a proposed news conference with OC and AA members, appearing before the media and explaining the differences. Sounded good to me.
Imagine my sorrow, when the minutes remain unposted: there apparently IS no news conference and OSC has yet to issue a definitive statement separating themselves from this act. The only significant post ON the website regarding 75River St Action sounds somewhat supportive.
I sat there in tonight’s GA hoping to hear some sort of report, or feedback: on the latest in how we’re clearly distancing ourselves from last week’s action that involved deceiving me, and others: into thinking that we were marching to a foreclosed home. As I sat there in the dark, shivering and wondering if we were going to be arrested: I started to realize with dawning disappointment that no such distancing will be forthcoming.
Did we even get the passwords from the Auto. Anon/Media Committee-folks? You know, at this point…I really don’t care. It was all I could do not to stand up in the midst of the GA and be disruptive.
I cannot work within an organization so porous that it can be so easily subjected to such co-option, and yet so entrenched in a siege-fortress mentality that they view even alternative suggestions to leave San Lorenzo Park with suspicion and suppress it with political pressure.
Occupy Santa Cruz: you’ve lost your way. As an organization compromised: I want nothing more to do with you.
Thanks to some individuals within OSC for the wonderful, life-affirming experiences I have shared. Truly, it was positive and transformative: and I hope that I was able to give a measure of the inspiration and commitment to social change, that I received from some of you.
Even as I leave this group: several members of it inspire me, still. I hope to see some of you at meetings with OCHAT, in future. All the best of luck.
Sorry Neil, I think OSC started off with good intentions but like you said, they lost their way….
Yup, too many RazerRay’s in the movement now…..
With these kinds of postings:
RazerRay on December 5th, 2011 at 12:50 pm #
All hippies are ‘scary’. Whatever a ‘hippie’ is.
That’s why people hate them… Because it’s easy to hate something amorphous, that only exists in the individual’s mind.
That mind is unlikely to cause the need for an emergency tracheotomy because an errant punch from someone you’ve never met, and have no idea of their personal background or penchant for violence, collapsed your windpipe.
(and [snigger] while you’re in the hospital we’ll come for your daughters!)
Too many trolls named “Johnny” too.
What’s your point?
You said “With these kinds of postings:”
Vut never clarified what your feeble troll brain is thinking of in regard to it.