Occupy Bronx invites you to XMAS Caroling, Music and Festivities for the 99%

To Interested Musicians and Artists:

Join Occupy the Bronx as we close out the year with a day of song and joy. Get into the holiday spirit, and come carol with us! We will be singing, making music, handing candy out to children, rocking our awesome costumes, and so much more! Everyone is welcome. Bring a friend, or two, or five!

We are inviting musicans and artists to join us for Parrandas. We are looking for drummers, (especially non-stationary drums), singers and carolers. We need more maracas, bells, and panderos (tambourines), and guitars (cuatro), guiro (instrument gourd). They are really easy to follow along. I am sending some youtube clips so everyone can get the general idea.

When: XMAS EVE: SAT, DECEMBER 24th.

Where: Fordham Plaza (bronx, ny) Across from Metro North

Time: 11am-2pm

How to get there: Take D or # 4 Train Uptown to Fordham Road. Then either walk to Fordham plaza or take 12 bus there

Here’s an example of a Parranda:

If you would like to help us out or have any questions please contact Zhana: zh.kurti@gmail.com

[Aaron Burr Society] Winter Solstice bar crawl & occupation of the Commons with light & sound

Pilgrims,

The Aaron Burr Society will occupy the Winter Solstice by marching through the Oak, Maple and Sycamore tress of our Commons at McCarren Park in Williamsburg.

At 9pm on Thursday, December 22, we will meet at the Matchless bar on the corner of Manhattan and Driggs, just one block from McCarren. Then from 9 till dawn of the new celestial year [1], we will march back and forth over the roots of these old trees to celebrate our Common ground, this planet, our earth. There will be no agenda, just communing with our fellow travelers and the spirits of change, which will be in perfect balance, suspended by the solstice. Please join us to commune with these transgendered spirits and together we will tip the balance to the 99%; to save this misshaped sphere, our planet, Mother Earth.

Celebrate with us by making noise, smoking cigars and placing luminaries along the pathways of our Commons. For the uninitiated, luminaries are paper bags with lit candles inside. Of course the Society's luminaries will be stamped with "Free Money" and "Slave of Wall Street" just as our Federal Reserve Notes [dollars]. And we will write #OWS on the bag in anticipation of our newly ordered stamp.

Our march will be accompanied by the French bugle, the chrome plated baritone bugle/tuba, and symbols which are the cymbals that we have played from Madison WI to the Summer of Change and throughout the occupation. Please bring bells plus pots and pan to bang. Of course it goes without saying that additional musical instruments are always welcome.

and yes, yes, I said yes, the Society will bring a bottle of our home distilled, 2nd Whiskey Rebellion spirits to warm our collective soul.

p.s. attached is a foto of the New York Stock Exchange’s xmas decorations. Please note the predominance of Red without Green, the traditional holiday colors. The monochromatic light emanating from the NYSE is indicative of the fires of hell, though I regret besmirching the devil’s reputation by aligning the prince of darkness with Wall Street Bankers.

Our Winter Solstice luminaries will feature white candles in brown, working class lunch bag.

p.p.s. it goes without say that all Pilgrims are welcome to our Solstice celebration whether or not you are a member of the Society or haven’t been occupying. Please pass this along.

[1] Please do not confuse the dawn of a new celestial year with the dawn of the next day. The new celestial year is 12am, not the rising of the sun. We would assume that members will be continue celebrate well past midnight but no consensus has been reached about last call.



Launch Party for Occupy!

Occupy!: Scenes from Occupied America

Edited by Keith Gessen, Astra Taylor, Eli Schmitt, Nikil Saval, Sarah Resnick, Sarah Leonard, Mark Greif, and Carla Blumenkranz

In the fall of 2011, a small protest camp in downtown Manhattan exploded into a global uprising, sparked in part by the violent overreactions of the police. An unofficial record of this movement, Occupy! combines adrenalin-fueled first-hand accounts of the early days and weeks of Occupy Wall Street with contentious debates and thoughtful reflections, featuring the editors and writers of the celebrated n+1, as well as some of the world’s leading radical thinkers, such as Slavoj Žižek, Angela Davis, and Rebecca Solnit.

The book conveys the intense excitement of those present at the birth of a counterculture, while providing the movement with a serious platform for debating goals, demands, and tactics. Articles address the history of the “horizontalist” structure at OWS; how to keep a live-in going when there is a giant mountain of laundry building up; how very rich the very rich have become; the messages and meaning of the “We are the 99%” tumblr website; occupations in Oakland, Boston, Atlanta, and elsewhere; what happens next; and much more.