Occupy Houston has decided to move its base camp to Tranquility Park, on the corner of Bagby St. and Walker St. in downtown Houston.
The city of Houston is enforcing a permit belonging to the Energy Day festival being held this weekend at Hermann Square Plaza in front of City Hall. At 7:00am on Friday October 14, 2011 representatives from the Houston Police Department will evict those of us still occupying the plaza. We are moving our base camp to protect our supplies including our members’ personal property and all of the goods that have been generously contributed to us. Those of us who wish to stay at Hermann Square Plaza may do so as long as they are aware of the potential legal consequences. We’ll have staff on hand to assist you and more support available for you at our base camp across the street along the southwest corner of Tranquility Park should the need arise.
A reminder for those staying at Tranquility Park: if you’d rather save your energy, we have a silent protest planned for the Energy Day festival this coming Saturday. Be there, and lets show our numbers to Big Oil! The corner of Tranquility Park that we are occupying does not conflict with the clean energy portion of the festival. We believe in safe and responsible energy! Come find us at Tranquility Park and occupy in solidarity with us and the rest of the 99%!
12 Responses to “Occupy Houston now at Tranquility Park”
on October 14th, 2011 at 5:07 am #
[...] posts below the jump are from SITREP – Occupy Houston is at TRANQUILITY PARK, Getting to Tranquility Park, MetroRail not running Saturday or Sunday, and RALLY For Responsible [...]
A wise decision. Confronting the police is all fun and games until somebody gets cracked on the head. The weather is going to be great Saturday. Enjoy your silent protest.
Was amused by the Tweet about “a cop watching us”. Dude, you’ve already been infiltrated. There are undercover cops within your organization. Plus FBI surveillance. You are sounding like rookies at this protesting thing.
Why don’t you come down and elucidate on your experience?
Might be educational.
Things are turning violent in New York. Let’s not let that happen in Houston. Peace out man.
Protesting the Energy Day event will give the impression that the Occupy Houston, and by association, the OWS movement is about environmental issues, which it should not be. This move will alienate some people and distract others from the more pressing issues of the growing income disparity in the US and corporate influence in US politics.
I think I agree with this.
The appeal of #Occupy runs across all divides: political, ethnic, social. That appeal is: 1. Getting big donor and corporate money out of our politics so that leaders need many more small donations (and voters’ support) to win office, and 2. Focusing our leaders’ attention on the nation’s problems, and not their next election challenge.
This simple notion is the reason I met folks ranging from homeless to socialist to Ron Paul Libertarians at #OccupyHouston. It’s the one thing pretty much everyone agrees on.
KISS! (Keep It Simple, Stupid!)
One message, one goal, one people, one movement.
Other groups will glom onto #Occupy’s now-high profile, but they should not be supported by, or identified with, #Occupy.
IMHO.
SITREP – Had a turkey and cheese sandwich for lunch. Was going to have some Cheesits also, but was blocked during the consensus process. Opted for a pickle wedge instead, but had to split it among the Moderator and the Stacker.
STACKER????? I don’t even know her!
LIMPJIM: Sat at the computer all day today again, mom brought me mac n’ cheese, my fav. Saw dat first lady doing jumping jacks on utube, was diggin it. Homie stole my bag last night so I’m needs a puff bad. Almost gots me enuf dough fo mo tho, just needs to sit through a few mo plasma sessions and I be hittin it! Peace out hippy fleabaggers.
Jim and Jason S: thanks bros! Your insights into the consequences of corporate lobbying and deregulation are appreciated–especially when you consider the millions of pointless pissing matches you see so much of on the Net! You’re informed and involved. Don’t stop!
on October 15th, 2011 at 3:04 am #
[...] Holt Carle on October 14th, 2011 at 11:09 am # [...]
An unscripted reality show, Occupy America is a populist movement in the tradtion of the nineteenth century Cross of Gold. Speculation (George Soros; hedge funds), long or short, oil futures, de-regulation, neo-liberalism, benefits the 1 percent connected class with no social benefit. Banks once organized and allocated capital in order to produce wealth, economic expansion, that benefited the many rather than the few. Globalists know no national loyalty and are detached from their nations.
Get the $oney out of politics. Campaign contributions are the nexus of corruption in the capitol. Reduce the amount of money involved in re-election, which really is the name of the game, by promulgating free air time during elections. Keep the current system for primaries.
http://napoleonlive.info/what-i-think/occupy-wall-street-get-the-money-out-of-politics/