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Thursday, October 13, 2011

Area Colleges Announce support of Occupy Hartford (@OccupyHartford)

Area Colleges Announce support of Occupy Hartford

"Posted on October 13, 2011

Great News: We have received a letter of solidarity from the faculty and staff of Trinity College, Central Connecticut State University, University of Connecticut and Wesleyan University:

“We faculty and staff members of Trinity College, Central Connecticut State University, University of Connecticut and Wesleyan University are in complete solidarity with the Occupy Wall Street and the Occupy Hartford protest. We support its demand for for social justice and real democracy. We recognize, too, the effects of the economic crisis on the conditions of life for millions of people in this country and around the world. We agree that actions to end this crisis cannot be based on the reduction of public spending and cuts to public services. Such discriminatory measures will further harm those who are suffering the most and prolong the economic crisis.”

Read the entire statement: Area Colleges in Support with OH"

Cited from: Area Colleges Announce support of Occupy Hartford

Monday, October 10, 2011

Link to @OccupyHartford's Regular Meeting Times and Actions

Click for Regular Meeting Times and Actions

Sunday, October 09, 2011

Tonight @OccupyHartford will be having a General Assembly...

Time: 6:30 PM

Place: Turning Point Park

*See http://occupyhartfordct.com/ for more details on location and parking.

Today's Meeting Times for @OccupyHartford Are...

11 AM and 5 PM

at Turning Point Park

Photo of rock located at Turning Point Park

*Please take into consideration that this could change. I will try to post if it does.

Hartford Courant.com's Dan Haar's Write-up on @OccupyHartford

"Dan Haar 12:24 p.m. EDT, October 4, 2011 I was pleased to see that Hartford has finally joined the Occupy Wall Street movement, with a gathering scheduled for this Wednesday morning in Bushnell Park.

It's not that I care deeply about the message of the protesters. They're off-base in many ways, though their overall point about wealth and finance in America is hard to refute.

No, what I care about is Hartford's opportunity to piggyback on this youthful national firestorm to create some local energy. The energy is building on all sides. By remarkable coincidence, at 8:30 a.m., the very moment when Occupy Hartford unfurls its first banners, an event a few hundred feet away will do more to reshape the profit-driven U.S. corporate structure than all the placard-waving, zombie-dressed protesters in the streets. And it's happening, of all places, at the capital city's historic bastion of corporate culture, The Hartford Club.

"Beyond Business as Usual" is a conference on social enterprise, organized by the local group reSET, the Social Enterprise Trust. This movement, in contrast to the bring-down-the-system energy happening in financial districts across America, is about creating something — a parallel way for firms to organize themselves based on the interests of employees and the community, as well as owners.

In the afternoon, reSET will name the winners of its first social entrepreneur awards, giving thousands of dollars for business plans and startups that advance the core ideas.

What are those core ideas? For now, social enterprise is broadly defined. What sets it apart from the plethora of excellent corporate community activities out there is that a social enterprise firm is organized — legally, in its charter, in many cases — for social good from the start. Many universities have institutes to prod the idea forward.

Some might argue that the best way to create social good is to help companies make money, so they can hire more people and pay higher wages. That question will come up Wednesday, I'm certain, because — full disclosure here — I'm moderating the first panel discussion, with some heavyweights of social enterprise.

Kate Emery, CEO of the IT consulting firm Walker Systems Support in Farmington, and founder of reSET, has a lot of respect for the Occupy Wall Street protests, which she likens to the marches of Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King. "They bring attention to situations in our society that might otherwise pass as acceptable," she said.

Social enterprise picks up on the dissatisfaction with a system that doesn't spread wealth very effectively, and offers "a positive, plausible alternative," Emery said.

"It doesn't need to replace the current way of doing business, it can live alongside and demonstrate through the free market that it works," she said. "And people can then choose which business model they want to support."

The back-and-forth brings a nice departure from the polarized political debate about free market vs. government control — a debate that misses the obvious point, we've always been a regulated market economy and always will be. With social enterprise, it's Market Type-A vs. Market Type B.

The keynote speaker Wednesday is Robert Egger, founder and president of the 22-year-old DC Central Kitchen, which uses food donated by hotels, restaurants and farms in a culinary arts job training program. It has fed thousands of people and helped hundreds get jobs in the business, and it has spun off other firms.

"Robert says it well, that rather than boycotts, let's have 'buycotts' - let's have people voting with their wallets, their business, their loyalty, on which model they think is best," Emery said in an email. "That's what the free market is all about!""

*Original Source: http://www.courant.com/business/hc-haar-1004-20111003,0,2404901.column

CTNow.com and FOX Video Coverage of @OccupyHartford March

Sir is in this video. Can you spot him? Where's Sir?

*Original Source: http://www.ctnow.com/videobeta/?watchId=ab362de3-c1ef-40c3-b854-715d82c00f18

News Channel 8 (WTNH.com) Coverage of @OccupyHartford (@missnikkiann was interviewed)

Protestors camp out on Hartford grounds: wtnh.com

"Protestors camp out on Hartford grounds

Updated: Friday, 07 Oct 2011, 10:21 PM EDT
Published : Friday, 07 Oct 2011, 5:13 PM EDT

Annie Rourke

HARTFORD, Conn. (WTNH) - A down sized version of what's happening on Wall Street came marching through the streets Hartford, because folks want to express their disappoints regarding America's financial situation.

The protestors want to occupy Hartford to show their solidarity and support for the movement.

"I've grown frustrated with the situation in America," says Missnikkiann Fulse of Hartford.

Frustration is at the heart of the protest. Folks said they are fed up with what they say is corporate greed and financial inequality. There were about 400 protestors, by their count, who came to camp out and occupy a park at Broad and Farmington in Hartford.

There is no chanting, but there is constant repeating of announcements.

"I've been to protests in the past, you get a little cynical about them cause you see the same people, that sort of thing, but you know, there's new people here," says Brendan Mahoney of Hartford.

East protestor had their own story, and reason for occupying Hartford. Fulse went to school, then graduated school, she got a job and paid for insurance, but when she got sick, her insurance dropped her.

"We get so comfortable with that illusion, and when it's shattered, and you get sick, and you no longer fit into the picture, it's crushing," says Fulse.

Folks agree that there's no longer an equal playing field.

"There's a very small minority of people who have far too much sway in power within the halls of government," says Mahoney.

They're hoping that small minority can't ignore what's growing larger by the day. The 99 percent who say they don't hold the power want to right the wrongs, because America deserves better.

"I love this country, I love, on a sense, our form of democracy, the fact that our constitution, you know, allows us to have meetings like this," says Mahoney.

A small group is camping out, and will be in the area all weekend. large crowds are expected for Saturday and Sunday."

*Original Source -- http://www.wtnh.com/dpp/news/hartford_cty/wall-street-protest-makes-way-to-hrtfd