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1/23/12 OCCUPY YOUR BODY: Awaken Your Heart: Global Dance Wave
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Calling all Believers in MOVEMENT! You are invited to participate in OCCUPY YOUR BODY: Awaken Your Heart, A Global Dance Wave on January 22, 2012 at 12 noon.
We as Conscious Dancers would like to add our wisdom to the collective vision emerging from the Occupy Movement. Here in Eugene, we will be hosting an additional Occupy Your Body dance from noon until 2 p.m.
OCCUPY has a message of transformation, a message about the need for change. We as dancers and spiritual seekers know the pathway of personal transformation. It is time for us to apply our wisdom to help bring about state, national and global transformations. We as dancers know the power of Embodiment. We know that when we are connected to our bodies, true transformation is possible. We know that when we connect the mind and the body and awaken the heart, we will be able to make the changes necessary. We offer OCCUPY YOUR BODY as a prayer for this awakening and our global transformation. On Sunday, January 22, 2012 at 12 noon, Conscious Dancers will dance a wave of movement that will circle the globe. Together, we are ONE WAVE. ONE BODY. ONE HEART.On January 22 (as close to 12 noon as possible), dancing communities including Rhythms, Ecstatic, Conscious Dance, Soul Motion, Nia and any other kinds of conscious movement, will gather and dance, holding this prayer of EMBODIMENT, each with our own particular flavor, all with the same intention to allow the power of embodiment to be part of the global conversation in whatever way it can serve.Movement is needed. LET’S MOVE. For more information and to post your participation, go to the FACEBOOK PAGE OCCUPY YOUR BODY: A Global Dance Wave or you can contact Amara directly at amara@amarapagano.com A film being edited now by Jeff Wayman will be available next week introducing OCCUPY YOUR BODY and inviting people to participate. There will also be a video made with footage submitted from the various participants. Please post on Facebook your participation and make sure to send a photo or any film you can take of your OCCUPY YOUR BODY prayer. |
Press Release: January 20th “Occupy the Courts”
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: press@occupyeugenemedia.org
occupyeugenemedia.org, @OccupyEugene
Join Occupy Eugene at 11:00am for a rally at the Wayne Morse Free Speech Plaza, 8th & Oak St. From there, we will march to the new Federal Court house and join up with the Eugene chapter of “We the People.”
The rally at the Federal Courthouse kicks off at noon with labor activist Gordon Lafer of the UO Labor Education and Research Center.
Paul Cienfuegos, and political scientists John Davidson and Stan Taylor will join Occupy speakers at an open mike during the rally. There will also be live performances featuring guitarist David Rogers, the Occupy Street Theatre, Choirs, and Mr. Big. Hot chocolate and cookies will be served! This is a chance for everyone to celebrate, be informed, network and to let your voice be heard.
We call on the Eugene City Council to take action to get corporate money out of politics by passing a resolution like those passed recently in New York and Los Angeles opposing corporate personhood. Help us Occupy the Courts Friday January 20 from noon ‘til 5. It’s time to get together, get active, and get corporate money out of politics!
This press release is from the Communications Committee of Occupy Eugene that has been empowered to speak on behalf of the larger Occupy Eugene body.
1/4/12 Health Care for All Oregon Meeting
Wed. Jan 4, 7-8:30 pm
EWEB Community Room, 500 E 4th, Eugene (near river and fountain).
Mad as Hell Doctors from Corvallis will give us Single Payer health care information and speaker training! We will be focusing on a new organizing strategy, goals for the coming year, and orientation for new volunteers, particularly from the Vermont Workers’ Center event. It’s the perfect time to get involved–make universal health care your New Year’s resolution!
1/11/12 Another Victory Against The Banks!!!
Due to pressure from an ongoing campaign by SEIU 503 and ESSN, as well as timely collaboration with multiple Occupy groups throughout Oregon, State Treasurer Ted Wheeler announced yesterday, several key changes to the State’s Reliacard program that is contracted through US Bank. Many people had complained about excessive user fees instituted by US Bank against Reliacard users and our collective efforts to reign in these excessive bank fees have paid off! We CAN change things when we work together!
Among the new changes:
Continue to make point-of-sale purchases and receive cash
back with no charge, like any debit card, at any merchant that accepts
VISA-branded debit cards.
Be able to visit bank tellers for free and an unlimited
number of times at any bank that accepts VISA-branded credit cards.
That’s a significant improvement from the current contract, which
allows cardholders only two free teller visits a month.
Have free and unlimited withdrawals from US Bank-branded
ATMs. That is a significant improvement from the current contract,
which allows cardholders only two free ATM visits a month.
Continue to have two withdrawals a month from non-US
Bank-branded ATMs, without US Bank charges. That is a unique benefit
in Oregon’s contract that was negotiated because of the understanding
that not all Oregonians live near a US Bank branch.
No longer be exposed to overdraft fees. As a result of
congressional action, the new contact will eliminate an opt-in
overdraft protection option, which had allowed cardholders to exceed
their balances.
Continue to make point-of-sale purchases and receive cash
back with no charge, like any debit card, at any merchant that accepts
VISA-branded debit cards.
Celebrate this victory!!!