Occupy Hillside

Hillside and the Bill of Rights --

Mon, 06 Aug 2012 18:02:53 -0400

In that Hillside may be represented under it’s own country, we must be sure to post the documents that we believe in. The first ten amendments and the Constitution under a Republic must serve; accordingly:

1. Freedom of Speech, Press, Religion and Petition:Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

2. Right to keep and bear arms: A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.

3. Conditions for quarters of soldiers: No soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.

4. Right of search and seizure regulated: The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

5. Provisions concerning prosecution: No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the militia, when in actual service in time of war or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use without just compensation.

6. Right to a speedy trial, witnesses, etc.: In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the assistance of counsel for his defense.

7. Right to a trial by jury: In suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury shall be otherwise reexamined in any court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law.

8. Excessive bail, cruel punishment: Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.

9. Rule of construction of Constitution: The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.

10. Rights of the States under Constitution: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

Loving the Declaration of Independence

Thu, 02 Aug 2012 23:06:00 -0400

U.S. National Archives and Records Administration
www.archives.gov February 2, 2012 2/2/2012 Reposted August 6, 2012. :) smile

The Declaration of Independence: A Transcription

IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776.

The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.—That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just

powers from the consent of the governed, —That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.—Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.
He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.
He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences
For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:
For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.
He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.

In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.

Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our Brittish brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.

We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.

The 56 signatures on the Declaration appear in the positions indicated:

Column 1
Georgia:
   Button Gwinnett
   Lyman Hall
   George Walton

Column 2
North Carolina:
   William Hooper
   Joseph Hewes
   John Penn
South Carolina:
   Edward Rutledge
   Thomas Heyward, Jr.
   Thomas Lynch, Jr.
   Arthur Middleton

Column 3
Massachusetts:
John Hancock
Maryland:
Samuel Chase
William Paca
Thomas Stone
Charles Carroll of Carrollton
Virginia:
George Wythe
Richard Henry Lee
Thomas Jefferson
Benjamin Harrison
Thomas Nelson, Jr.
Francis Lightfoot Lee
Carter Braxton

Column 4
Pennsylvania:
   Robert Morris
   Benjamin Rush
   Benjamin Franklin
   John Morton
   George Clymer
   James Smith
   George Taylor
   James Wilson
   George Ross
Delaware:
   Caesar Rodney
   George Read
   Thomas McKean

Column 5
New York:
   William Floyd
   Philip Livingston
   Francis Lewis
   Lewis Morris
New Jersey:
   Richard Stockton
   John Witherspoon
   Francis Hopkinson
   John Hart
   Abraham Clark

Column 6
New Hampshire:
   Josiah Bartlett
   William Whipple
Massachusetts:
   Samuel Adams
   John Adams
   Robert Treat Paine
   Elbridge Gerry
Rhode Island:
   Stephen Hopkins
   William Ellery
Connecticut:
   Roger Sherman
   Samuel Huntington
   William Williams
   Oliver Wolcott
New Hampshire:
   Matthew Thornton

From the National Archives.
http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/declaration_transcript.html

Welcome to Cal

Tue, 31 Jul 2012 14:19:00 -0400

Along your time here, you will see:

Sheep: http://bit.ly/NiR8fk , http://bit.ly/NSyiyE

Bears: http://bit.ly/OjGXfc , http://bit.ly/M1vIrN

Lions: http://bit.ly/QX7egJ , http://bit.ly/OzVQYo

Owls: http://bit.ly/M9aoff , http://bit.ly/M1zQbl , http://bit.ly/OHhZWx

Occupy Cal: http://bit.ly/OHcTd3 , http://bit.ly/Plya8w

Anons: http://bit.ly/Ozc7jM , http://bit.ly/Pjpm2B

Pigs: http://bit.ly/MZB7xd , http://bit.ly/MXxn1d (copblock! http://bit.ly/QtCfyi , http://copblock.org/ )

Welcome to Campus!!! Let the next season begin!!!!!!

What is the People's Republic of? Founding Documents (Click here).

Wed, 09 May 2012 15:05:00 -0400

What is the People's Republic of? Founding Documents (Click here).:

In concern for all of humanity, “We the People” re-inhabited our lawful de jure (meaning “by right of legal establishment”) government on March 30, 2010, by serving notice on the de facto corporation, known as the “UNITED STATES”. (USC 28 Section 3002, No. 15(a) “United States” means a Federal Corporation.) The United States was incorporated February 21, 1871 (16 Stat. 419, Chap. 62, 41st Congress, 3rd Session), the purpose being “an Act to provide a Government for the District of Columbia, reorganized June 8th, 1878, (20 Stat. 102, Chapter 180, 45th Congress, 2nd Session) as “an Act providing a permanent form of government for the District of Columbia” aka US Inc. Uniform Commercial Code, UCC9-307 (h) states “Location of United States. The United States is located in the District of Columbia. A lawful grand jury in each of the fifty republics created a new Declaration of Independence that was lawfully served on the corporate UNITED STATES informing them that the original de jure government was restored. We have claimed our right to exist as a free and independent people on our land, thus exercising our God-given unalienable rights as defined in our Constitution and the Bill of Rights.

On July 21, 2010 “We the People” of the de jure government proclaimed worldwide and made our “Declaration of Sovereignty for the Republic for the united States of America” to The Hague (a.k.a. the International Court of Justice), the Universal Postal Union (UPU) and the United Nations (UN). On September 23, 2010, the first session of congress was convened by the united free Republics of the re-inhabited united States of America. The seating of the Executive, Legislative and Judicial branches of the Republic government were successfully established. This was completed by more than the required two-thirds majority vote of “We the People” on the land of the independent Republics. Delegates from more than 42 free Republics (States) attended, and officers for all three branches of our government have been officially sworn into office, lawfully electing interim President James Timothy Turner and interim Vice President Charles Eugene Wright, along with other established cabinet members with a presiding majority vote of 94% approval. Thus, the Republic government is officially re-inhabited and staffed for the first time since 1868 by the will of “We the People”.

The de facto UNITED STATES CORPORATION was unlawfully established by the forty-first congress in 1871 by deceptive means and without proper consent from “We the People”. The American people were placed under involuntary servitude by a “Legal” system of laws that have continually violated the “Constitution for the united States of America”, “Bill of Rights” and the “Declaration of Independence”. The corporate constitution was changed from the original form, wherein Amendments were unlawfully added and removed without the people’s consent. Since 1871, the abuses of this corporation upon both the international community as well as the American people are inestimable and unconscionable. De facto Congress has repeatedly violated their Oaths of Office, fiduciary responsibilities, and in many cases, committed treasonous acts against “We the People” of the united States of America and the world.

We humbly come forward apologizing for the numerous atrocities we have unknowingly allowed the U.S. CORPORATION to carry out upon the international community. It is our mission to establish the American image of truth, honesty, integrity and honor around the world. Our plan is to rebuild our economy and support other economies around the world, fulfilling humanitarian needs. We will allow our military to withdraw from unnecessary conflicts around the world and promote world peace and prosperity. We intend to follow God the Creator’s command to feed the hungry, clothe the naked, and care for the sick, irrespective of creed, religion or race. There is no law against these things.

We are calling on the support of all Nations around the world to help us end the tyranny that has been perpetrated by the unlawful actions of the UNITED STATES corporate government. We shall achieve this goal PEACEFULLY AND LAWFULLY, with boldness, integrity and truth, so help us God.
From http://www.republicoftheunitedstates.org/what-is-the-republic/

Platypus Housing Project -- abilities and charter

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 18:00:38 -0400

Platypus Housing Project

abilities and charter

— Farm interest?

siting at a EBMUD/Parks location with temporary “approval” to start plants — Eddie

— Woods interest

outdoor survival lessons not for the faint of heart — Marianna

— Shelter interest

some of the folks at the UC housing are able to find indoors housing in shelters for anyone from People’s park, occupy Berkeley, etc. — Cephas

— Political interest

we have a foundation — American Political Resistance — Eric

~ Need a gift for materials, medicine, art ~ nonprofit ready ~ Eddie Che “the Chepherd”~

Platypus Housing Project, Sustainable Agriculture, BU 2010.

May First! General Strike! Spread the wordd…..

Wed, 04 Apr 2012 15:23:37 -0400

May First! General Strike! Spread the wordd…..

198 Methods of Nonviolent Action

Wed, 07 Mar 2012 21:56:00 -0500

THE METHODS OF NONVIOLENT PROTEST AND PERSUASION

Formal Statements
1. Public Speeches
2. Letters of opposition or support
3. Declarations by organizations and institutions
4. Signed public statements
5. Declarations of indictment and intention
6. Group or mass petitions

Communications with a Wider Audience
7. Slogans, caricatures, and symbols
8. Banners, posters, and displayed communications
9. Leaflets, pamphlets, and books
10. Newspapers and journals
11. Records, radio, and television
12. Skywriting and earthwriting

Group Representations
13. Deputations
14. Mock awards
15. Group lobbying
16. Picketing
17. Mock elections

Symbolic Public Acts
18. Displays of flags and symbolic colors
19. Wearing of symbols
20. Prayer and worship
21. Delivering symbolic objects
22. Protest disrobings
23. Destruction of own property
24. Symbolic lights
25. Displays of portraits
26. Paint as protest
27. New signs and names
28. Symbolic sounds
29. Symbolic reclamations
30. Rude gestures

Pressures on Individuals
31. “Haunting” officials
32. Taunting officials
33. Fraternization
34. Vigils

Drama and Music
35. Humorous skits and pranks
36. Performances of plays and music
37. Singing

Processions
38. Marches
39. Parades
40. Religious processions
41. Pilgrimages
42. Motorcades

Honoring the Dead
43. Political mourning
44. Mock funerals
45. Demonstrative funerals
46. Homage at burial places

Public Assemblies
47. Assemblies of protest or support
48. Protest meetings
49. Camouflaged meetings of protest
50. Teach-ins

Withdrawal and Renunciation
51. Walk-outs
52. Silence
53. Renouncing honors
54. Turning one’s back

THE METHODS OF SOCIAL NONCOOPERATION

Ostracism of Persons
55. Social boycott
56. Selective social boycott
57. Lysistratic nonaction
58. Excommunication
59. Interdict

Noncooperation with Social Events, Customs, and Institutions
60. Suspension of social and sports activities
61. Boycott of social affairs
62. Student strike
63. Social disobedience
64. Withdrawal from social institutions

Withdrawal from the Social System
65. Stay-at-home
66. Total personal noncooperation
67. “Flight” of workers
68. Sanctuary
69. Collective disappearance
70. Protest emigration (hijrat)

THE METHODS OF ECONOMIC NONCOOPERATION: (1) ECONOMIC BOYCOTTS

Actions by Consumers
71. Consumers’ boycott
72. Nonconsumption of boycotted goods
73. Policy of austerity
74. Rent withholding
75. Refusal to rent
76. National consumers’ boycott
77. International consumers’ boycott

Action by Workers and Producers
78. Workmen’s boycott
79. Producers’ boycott

Action by Middlemen
80. Suppliers’ and handlers’ boycott

Action by Owners and Management
81. Traders’ boycott
82. Refusal to let or sell property
83. Lockout
84. Refusal of industrial assistance
85. Merchants’ “general strike”

Action by Holders of Financial Resources
86. Withdrawal of bank deposits
87. Refusal to pay fees, dues, and assessments
88. Refusal to pay debts or interest
89. Severance of funds and credit
90. Revenue refusal
91. Refusal of a government’s money

Action by Governments
92. Domestic embargo
93. Blacklisting of traders
94. International sellers’ embargo
95. International buyers’ embargo
96. International trade embargo

THE METHODS OF ECONOMIC NONCOOPERATION: (2)THE STRIKE

Symbolic Strikes
97. Protest strike
98. Quickie walkout (lightning strike)

Agricultural Strikes
99. Peasant strike
100. Farm Workers’ strike

Strikes by Special Groups
101. Refusal of impressed labor
102. Prisoners’ strike
103. Craft strike
104. Professional strike

Ordinary Industrial Strikes
105. Establishment strike
106. Industry strike
107. Sympathetic strike

Restricted Strikes
108. Detailed strike
109. Bumper strike
110. Slowdown strike
111. Working-to-rule strike
112. Reporting “sick” (sick-in)
113. Strike by resignation
114. Limited strike
115. Selective strike

Multi-Industry Strikes
116. Generalized strike
117. General strike

Combination of Strikes and Economic Closures
118. Hartal
119. Economic shutdown

THE METHODS OF POLITICAL NONCOOPERATION

Rejection of Authority
120. Withholding or withdrawal of allegiance
121. Refusal of public support
122. Literature and speeches advocating resistance

Citizens’ Noncooperation with Government
123. Boycott of legislative bodies
124. Boycott of elections
125. Boycott of government employment and positions
126. Boycott of government depts., agencies, and other bodies
127. Withdrawal from government educational institutions
128. Boycott of government-supported organizations
129. Refusal of assistance to enforcement agents
130. Removal of own signs and placemarks
131. Refusal to accept appointed officials
132. Refusal to dissolve existing institutions

Citizens’ Alternatives to Obedience
133. Reluctant and slow compliance
134. Nonobedience in absence of direct supervision
135. Popular nonobedience
136. Disguised disobedience
137. Refusal of an assemblage or meeting to disperse
138. Sitdown
139. Noncooperation with conscription and deportation
140. Hiding, escape, and false identities
141. Civil disobedience of “illegitimate” laws

Action by Government Personnel
142. Selective refusal of assistance by government aides
143. Blocking of lines of command and information
144. Stalling and obstruction
145. General administrative noncooperation
146. Judicial noncooperation
147. Deliberate inefficiency and selective noncooperation by enforcement agents
148. Mutiny

Domestic Governmental Action
149. Quasi-legal evasions and delays
150. Noncooperation by constituent governmental units

International Governmental Action
151. Changes in diplomatic and other representations
152. Delay and cancellation of diplomatic events
153. Withholding of diplomatic recognition
154. Severance of diplomatic relations
155. Withdrawal from international organizations
156. Refusal of membership in international bodies
157. Expulsion from international organizations

THE METHODS OF NONVIOLENT INTERVENTION

Psychological Intervention
158. Self-exposure to the elements
159. The fast
a) Fast of moral pressure
b) Hunger strike
c) Satyagrahic fast
160. Reverse trial
161. Nonviolent harassment

Physical Intervention
162. Sit-in
163. Stand-in
164. Ride-in
165. Wade-in
166. Mill-in
167. Pray-in
168. Nonviolent raids
169. Nonviolent air raids
170. Nonviolent invasion
171. Nonviolent interjection
172. Nonviolent obstruction
173. Nonviolent occupation

Social Intervention
174. Establishing new social patterns
175. Overloading of facilities
176. Stall-in
177. Speak-in
178. Guerrilla theater
179. Alternative social institutions
180. Alternative communication system

Economic Intervention
181. Reverse strike
182. Stay-in strike
183. Nonviolent land seizure
184. Defiance of blockades
185. Politically motivated counterfeiting
186. Preclusive purchasing
187. Seizure of assets
188. Dumping
189. Selective patronage
190. Alternative markets
191. Alternative transportation systems
192. Alternative economic institutions

Political Intervention
193. Overloading of administrative systems
194. Disclosing identities of secret agents
195. Seeking imprisonment
196. Civil disobedience of “neutral” laws
197. Work-on without collaboration
198. Dual sovereignty and parallel government

From http://www.aeinstein.org/organizations103a.html. Download link: http://www.aeinstein.org/organizations/org/198_methods.pdf

Hey, vehicles got burglarized at Smythe Sunday night! Be careful who you provide cover for, intentionally or not, as correlations will be made. And do note that FAMILIES live in the complex; There are children there. Any harm to any of them will undoubtedly be held at your feet (read this as: the media will enjoy the story). FYI, might be a better idea to "occupy" when the last residents are forced out (June 26th). Be responsible with your protest. Know your target. Learn from history.

Fri, 02 Mar 2012 05:30:32 -0500

Thanks! We know the safety rules, and they are posted on the site and were up there before they got stolen by the cops, like all the other infrastructure and essential materials. We are occupying peacefully, but they play rough… ~Lexi

Good idea. Note: The University is forcing families out of the last affordable housing available at Cal on June 26th. If you announce, complete with press releases to the media, an occupying camp to coincide with that date, it will better dramatize what you are doing and make what the public will interpret as a logical argument: the university is being greedy, abusing families, and underuses resources. Move too soon, and you may lose this advantage. Note why nonviolence historically worked!

Fri, 02 Mar 2012 05:29:41 -0500

Thanks! I need a real-life lexi and a few other supporters. Check out the Human Rights watch, up today! http://occupyhillside.tumblr.com/ also blow up http://occupysouthsanfrancisco.com/ EddieMill has a good press release on Facebook!

A Conversation with Lexi Washington

Fri, 02 Mar 2012 05:28:38 -0500

UN Human Rights @UNrightswire

#Indigenous peoples continue to lose their lands. Religious minorities are increasingly targeted in violence - #Pillay #HRC19

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- Lexi Washington ‎@AP can we get some press out here? South San Francisco Building Owner Under Attack Calls The Occupiers indybay.org/newsitems/2012… che yeah occupy
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  A human rights-based approach to development is fundamental to address economic, social & political challenges- #Pillay #HRC19
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  We advocate that all #HumanRights are central to the post-2015 development agenda - #Pillay #HRC19 #thefuturewewant
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- Lexi Washington Yep, right on topic. http://t.co/SCzDNR1I

SECOND Open Letter to the Chancellor, Chief of Police and Captain Steve Rodrick

Thu, 23 Feb 2012 19:18:00 -0500

Robert J. Birgeneau, Chancellor

cc: mjc@berkeley.edu, Mitchell J. CelayaIII, Chief of Police
cc: kimia.haghighi@yahoo.com, Student, University of California Berkeley
eveweissman@berkeley.edu, Boalt NLG Legal Observer and UC Police Review Board

To whom it may concern,

I’d recommend spreading this news that there are a few people up there, and to just have officers let us know if there’s anything unreasonable.
I’m looking for an acknowledgement of the political, social, and ecological innovation around Berkeley and in the Bay.

Again (seventh email, phone calls, mail delivered, and fax), I am meeting today via email with you guys in order to secure acceptance that we might find temporary shelter in the park(s).

Mayor Quan has proven very unreasonable to deal with; I am hoping for acceptance in this case that we might find temporary shelter in the square at Smythe Kramer. These campers are the committed who might climb, which will keep out the problems.

For transparancy, I’ve included all of the email attempts to reach the chancellor. So far, his office phone recommended I email and then these emails with no response. So, I figure from the police chief or a general department email (feel free to forward this!) would be best to raise awareness of who occupy hillside support committees are can be best to deal with this situation.

The soul of this protest should speak to 99% cops. Let’s make a beautiful world for our children (just don’t mess with us) ^^ we have had continued police intervention, which cannot continue this way.

————- Forwarded message —————
From: Eddie Miller <eddiemill@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 4:47 PM Subject: For UCPD regarding the Occupy at 0 Dwight To: mjc@berkeley.edu

Hello,

It was good talking to you on the phone earlier.

I , Edward Miller, am trying this to negotiate the long-term peaceful camp spot above Berkeley, at 0-Dwight Way. It’s regent property, but practically has been shown to be a great space that’s near-deserted (only 30% of the housing above is now occupied) and we’ve had no community complaints (the heroin? one was because of a peace band, and officers clearly knew it not to be true, being us heh) but we have had continued police intervention, which cannot continue this way.

My group has great things we need to do, a mission much larger than protesting the police or the chancellor. We can build peaceful political, economic, social, and ecological solutions to world problems if given a few days of peace. You guys also have great things to do with your time, and we understand that it’s good to have the UC officers around on call, perhaps by blue button phone in case of emergency, but I understand that responding to calls is more important than a raid encounter every night. So I’d recommend spreading this news that there are a few people up there, and to just have officers not approach way up there on the hill. Maybe next week with Captain Steve Rodrick will be a good chance to test it out.

Sincerely!

-Eddie Miller

eddiemill@gmail.com

more of my ideas at http:// eddiemill.wordpress.com/

date: Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 9:31 AM subject: Re: REQUESTING A MEETING Re: “articulate, clean and well-intentioned” mailed-by: gmail.com

In the spirit of the police review commission yesterday, I’d like to extend a welcome to the Chancellor to come to a meeting on Wednesday
Also copied are a student, community member, and staff who served on the board yesterday. These are hopefully enough caucus to get some respect and basic human dignity from this office.

I’d like to extend a welcome to the Chancellor to come to a meeting on Wednesday, in the creation of a peaceful protest mission statement.

Please come for a wonderful peacekeeping meeting at the Question Mark Cafe, with the interfaith and support committees of Occupy Hillside and Occupy Cal.

? Cafe

1700 Le Roy St.

Berkeley, CA

Eddie Miller

Feb 8 (9 days ago)

to chancellor

Hello,

Now the fifth copy, and the fourth email the office has been sent. The police of Cal are not listening to department emails or being reasonable, so I’d like to talk with the Chancellor.

On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 12:50 PM, Eddie Miller <eddiemill@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi there, hello.

The plan for this area is to build the tools to solve poverty in this country. At a time where 1 in two Americans is below the poverty line, it is clear that we need solutions that work for everybody. Giving occupations to kids my age (other than defending themselves..) is a surefire way to generate inventions for electricity and agriculture and housing, learn mechanics or medicine, generate new culture art and innovation, restore a culture of dialogue, etc… With this email effort and outreach I hope to establish a peace so that the right materials, art supplies, and support can be productive and not wasted.

Furthermore, my campers (especially if one friend without a phone comes back) would be happy to revitalize the University housing effort if that is your interest, and hope to run a housing project of our own with a nonprofit pending. The community housing building has a mission and resources that are perfect for the street kids of Berkeley, so having this camp here is a surefire way to outreach to Berkeley’s most at need. Community resources like Cephas knows of and the University has can provide maximum utility this way.

Let’s show the world a positive story here in Berkeley. I’ve started with living there, asking the building there and then Cephas and then the Chancellor’s… so we can start with the neighbors soon.

-Eddie Miller
Boston University ‘10
February 1st, 2012.

The Smythe Kramer site has proven more than appropriate to appropriate to a small camp:
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 12:55 PM, Eddie Miller <eddiemill@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello,
I’d like to celebrate so far the occupy project at Smythe Kramer being a great success all around— totally clean, quiet, neat, and undisturbed. Furthermore, there is a lot of nice infrastructure there for a spot outside. I wanted to re-email this from two weeks ago because it deserves a response; it would be great to have something written from the chancellor that just lets us know he knows it’s there and okays on it.

So far, I’ve been up above the treeline, to the immediate south of the smythe building. It’s been three or four each night. No complaints.

From Cephas: “Okay”.
—-

From: Eddie Miller <eddiemill@gmail.com>

Date: Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 10:41 AM
Subject: Fwd: “articulate, clean and well-intentioned”
To: chancellor@berkeley.edu

Hi sir and office so,

Cephas forwarded this email to relevant UCPD contacts and also some folks at the housing building here and, no responses or amendments yet so, I’ll go ahead and forward this on through you with his last words to me this morning.. “okay”

————— Forwarded message —————
From: Eddie Miller <eddiemill@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 12:33 PM
Subject: “articulate, clean and well-intentioned”
To: cephas@berkeley.edu

[1/25 notes: smaller than anticipated :) ]

Hi Cephas, can you forward this to the Chancellor (chancellor@berkeley.edu) and the housing representative to UCPD?

Hi to whom it may concern,

I come to you today as an individual, with a small group of friends in solidarity as a support group. We are refugees of a Berkeley tent city, where some of us were camped before eviction. Some of us have day jobs, wilderness experience, sustainability degrees, art degrees, medicine interests, and feelings. Today, we face the problem of many young individuals raised in a system which we are protesting directly with democratic and peaceful assembly. Today, the request is approval of a small camp at Smythe Fernwald property. We come to you today with a most basic of needs and requests; we are learning what those basic needs and requests are.

1. Assurance of safety.

a. We know about health. Good medicine and keeping things decent is the reason I am writing this email. There is no better medicine then peace and; let those who are the most in need of healing in society come to “Che camp” where we are established at the base of Claremont Canyon and a whole regional parks system that can support them. I have already talked with folks from the regional parks, and they seem quite reasonable. It’s good exercise and exploration to explore parks and live with nature and eat healthy food. Native Americans know further about how to provide the opportunity of health to a common group. Community is healthy, too. For those genuinely concerned in the health and human services of the camp, we would request access to use a restroom that can be recommended in response to this email.

b. We know about security. From experience, a system of mostly peacekeepers and an order to ”dogs” (at the independent UC police) to stand down WILL work best for security. If anything occurs, having an infrastructure for emergencies will be essential to maintaining this camp. I simply ask today that after the chancellor’s support, University police tasked with maintenence of that area can simply respond to calls from the blue button phones for now. We do not need lights in our eyes, in fact a basic understanding of civil liberties and the people you are hired TO PROTECT from those amongst you who would cause problems is sufficient. If these basic rights arguments are not sufficient for a reasonable dialogue with “the police,” support from the city of Berkeley and internal affairs lawsuits in your own office may speak to the most hard-headed. Please, respect our first amendment right to assemble.. I need assurance that Berkeley Cal police will not be an interference with land that is a housing project.

2. Houseless youth and helping the most needy

Again, I am meeting today via email with you guys in order to secure acceptance that we might find temporary shelter in the park(s).

We are a small group of peace-loving assembly-people, with nonprofit and legal support, hoping to start a long-term peaceful occupy spot within the East Bay. We’re starting a housing project that’s bottom-up and is soon a 501c3 and foundation. If some would like housing, this would be great to organize with health and human services at Berkeley City Hall, and the Smythe Fernwald (not the physical center, but the services) in order to find a place for some. Ideal in my mind would be a farm because, what industry is left for (us) here in the US? Farming, and community and urban gardening, is a future for America’s youth. More about my ideas, and about the tenants of ecology can be found at http://eddiemill.wordpress.com/

I’m interested in having a few structures there, on a temporary basis, and interested in talking with the Chancellor if this doesn’t go through.

Communications relations amongst the four of us will be a start to “this” new future… right?

I hope this email gets through. We live by the heart here, and the requests labelled in this email are not the center of it. The heart is.

—
Eddie Miller, BU ‘10
eddiemill@gmail.com | 440-935-5434
Facebook.com/eddiemill | Twitter.com/eddiemill

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Eddie Miller, BU ‘10
eddiemill@gmail.com | 440-935-5434
Facebook.com/eddiemill | Twitter.com/eddiemill

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Eddie Miller, BU ‘10
eddiemill@gmail.com | 440-935-5434
Facebook.com/eddiemill | Twitter.com/eddiemill

—
Eddie Miller, BU ‘10
eddiemill@gmail.com | 440-935-5434
Facebook.com/eddiemill | Twitter.com/eddiemill

—
Eddie Miller, BU ‘10
eddiemill@gmail.com | 440-935-5434
Facebook.com/eddiemill | Twitter.com/eddiemill

—
Eddie Miller, BU ‘10
eddiemill@gmail.com | 440-935-5434
Facebook.com/eddiemill | Twitter.com/eddiemill

—
Eddie Miller, BU ‘10
eddiemill@gmail.com | 440-935-5434
Facebook.com/eddiemill | Twitter.com/eddiemill

Why are we doing this?

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 13:31:00 -0500

eddiemill:

We have the right to self-determination. Excerpts from the treaty law: ICCPR — Article 1

1. All peoples have the right of self-determination. By virtue of that right they freely determine their political status and freely pursue their economic, social, and cultural development.

From the Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (CCPR) You can read the treaties at www2.ohchr.org/English/law/ index.com US Senate in 1992 and 1994 under the U.S. constitution a treaty is the supreme law of the land.

Tumblr - Occupy Hillside: Shopping List

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 13:30:50 -0500

Tumblr - Occupy Hillside: Shopping List:

eddiemill:

bamboo (002 and 002442 have 6-10),

pallets (002),

paint (have plenty of good art supplies),

metal (jeff and eddie),

rope. . lots of it (002442)

for OGP and hillside.

3. OGP they said they are moving back in to occupy on the 25th. Not confirmed, I would go to the occupy…

Ecological Internet

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 20:21:35 -0500

eddiemill:

Capitalism is the crazy expectation infinite growth will continue forever without destroying the planet and will make us all rich one day

via @occupyhillside @EcoInternet

“A Global Organic Mindset” http://eddiemill.wordpress.com/

On an Armband Key - Oakland

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 20:21:21 -0500

nice job eddiemill:

Hillside research think tank Berkeley APR believes you could implement this on an autonomous scale…:

In the 60s during the main of the protests they used a color key for distinguishing your own nonviolence beliefs. Bandanas are $1.50.

Green = for amnesty for protesting students.

Red = militant protesting students.

Baby Blue = against protest, but ostensibly for avoidance of violence to solve our problems.

White = peacekeepers

Black = blackblock?

Dark Blue= medic?

http://eddiemill.tumblr.com/

Open Letter to the Chancellor, UC Berkeley

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 12:32:00 -0500

Hello,

In the spirit of the police review commission yesterday, I’d like to extend a welcome to the Chancellor to come to a meeting on Wednesday, in the creation of a peaceful protest mission statement. This is now the sixth copy, and the fifth email the office has been sent. Also copied are a student, community member, and staff who served on the board yesterday. These are hopefully enough caucus to get some respect and basic human dignity from this office.

The police of Cal are not listening to department emails or being reasonable, so we’d like to talk with the Chancellor.

We’re looking for an acknowledgement of the political, social, and ecological innovation around Berkeley and in the Bay.

Again, we are meeting today via email with you guys in order to secure acceptance that we might find temporary shelter in the park(s).

Please come for a wonderful peacekeeping meeting at the Question Mark Cafe, with the interfaith and support committees of Occupy Hillside and Occupy Cal.

? Cafe

1700 Le Roy St.

Berkeley, CA

Wednesday, 11:30 - 2.

Agenda includes peaceful protest intentions (not to protest against your University), recommendations (not to infringe), and better dialog with the Chancellor or top administrator. Lunch is included, with good friends and discussion in a non-threating way.

-Eddie Miller

eddiemill@gmail.com

http://occupyhillside.tumblr.com/

He considered it a home — by his own definition, he said, a home is “a place to put your stuff down”...

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 04:34:38 -0500

He considered it a home — by his own definition, he said, a home is “a place to put your stuff down” among friends.

Reading now http://dailycollegian.com/

and http://www.fogcityjournal.com/wordpress/3366/occupy-dc-a-warm-place-for-protest-in-the-heart-of-wintertime-washington/ on health in warmth of family at Occupies. :)

McPherson Square

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 04:30:15 -0500

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All good things to have on your human rights watch and learn good justice for those involved.

Also, solidarity with Oakland. Just straight up.

-Che

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