The Jamaica Plain Gazette took down an online article saying Occupy JP was planning to occupy the front lawn of the local Unitarian Church when it turned out the church - whose members support the general Occupy concept - said nope:
"The church is extremely supportive of the Occupy movement," Clardy said. But Occupy JP's claims of a Monument Square "symbolic occupation" as early as Saturday caused "a lot of surprise and consternation," she said. A craft fair is slated to run at the church that day, and vendors were upset to hear of a possible occupation, she said.
Robin, one of the more active participants in Occupy Boston downtown and herself a JP resident, could only shake her head on Twitter tonight:
Why, OccupyJP? Why are you occupying a progressive Unitarian church? Why?
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By anon
Tue, 11/29/2011 - 9:06pm
What is this Face-Book thing to which you have linked adamg, sir? Which requires a login to see?
As I am not a product for sale to the highest bidding data aggregator, I do not exist in this Face-Book place to which you point. Alas, all I can see is the UU reply.
I see no Facebook link here
By Ron Newman
Wed, 11/30/2011 - 9:09am
just OccupyJP, JP Gazette, and Twitter.
adamg has been at work
By anon of 11/29/1...
Wed, 11/30/2011 - 3:49pm
Ron Newman, twelve hours before your post the link in question went to the Face-Book login page for this non-product viewer.
Apparently adamg provided another link during that interval. For which we are grateful.
I only support protests that
By anon
Tue, 11/29/2011 - 10:22pm
I only support protests that no one notices and that don't inconvenience anyone.
It's not about
By anon
Wed, 11/30/2011 - 12:17am
It's not about "inconvenience" -- an after school program for little kids operates out of that church; they can't invite a bunch of people to camp out in the church yard where the kids play
It takes a village
By anon
Wed, 11/30/2011 - 8:58am
I'll be the one occupying the creepy treehouse.
Occupy Redundancy
By John-W
Wed, 11/30/2011 - 12:48am
Occupying anything in JP seems a bit redundant. Sort of preaching to the choir.
So Adam, is this what you're referencing?
That'll certainly do
By adamg
Wed, 11/30/2011 - 6:44am
But I was thinking more of his entire body of work, including the Pink Panther movies.
Chauncey Gardner?
By John-W
Wed, 11/30/2011 - 9:11am
It certainly is absurd enough to be slipped into Being There. Occupiers like to watch.
Once again -
By jitterbug
Wed, 11/30/2011 - 6:40am
Oh, ye misguided immature JP activists: please, please, if you can't go to Wall Street, do something USEFUL. Go ADVOCATE for affordable housing. Actually ADVOCATE for services to our elderly, disabled and under-served children. Organize against gang violence. Don't fight good food for your community, and don't go camping in your own neighborhood, "occupy" the Unitarians (the Unitarians?) to try to send a message to the already enlightened. If you want to occupy something - and I do get this - occupy something that calls attention to those that are causing harm - like the financial district, Wall Street, etc. Your mother gave you a head. Please use it.
$15-$20
By SwirlyGrrl
Wed, 11/30/2011 - 10:24am
That's all it costs to get to NYC from Boston. Plus a couple bucks in transit fares - unless you take Fung Wah, which drops near Occupy Wall Street.
Of course it only costs a couple bucks in T fare, or not a lot of wear and tear on a bike, to get to Occupy Boston.
Perhaps they should take a look at the Occupy Your Yard group on Facebook.
There's an actual Bank of America branch
By JP Gal
Wed, 11/30/2011 - 4:20pm
in Jackson Square. That would be a good thing to occupy. Or maybe the Rent-A-Center a few blocks away, although it doesn't have a parking lot like the Bank does. The only thing going for the Unitarian Church is that it's not in Hyde Square, where we're pretty tired of this nonsense.
OJP is now of Beck's chalkboard, thanks univeralHUB!
By anon
Thu, 12/01/2011 - 10:43am
criticisms should be based on knowing what differences you have with that your criticizing, not preconceived projections that are left overs from the right-wing tone of the owner of this wedsite.
JP doesnt plan of Occupying the Church. if you read the article without looking to find a reason to complain, it says the church was in discussions. it was only going to be an agreement to have a symbolic tent, put up by a member OF that church, in respect to a JP member who was killed in Iraq.
The disgusting disrespect right-wingers have for the conditions of working class youth who serve in the military, get exposed when they try to fear monger people into accepting the role America's big business plays in the world.
As for advocating affordable housing, you should come to the OJP GAs, where we have talked about this, and will be marching this weekend for expansion of affordable housing. We dont think this movement should be isolated to dewey sqaure, or wall street. Thats not where the cuts from Wall Street's government are being implemented to pay for the bank bail out.
Instead of trashing something from the internet, why isnt the conversation around why are the self-loathing middle class complainers on this website thread defending the policies of the patrick and menino's administration of making working families, the poor and youth pay for the crisis of wall street. instead everyone is seeing who be more arrogant and attempting to accuse OJP as being a Whose Food conspiracy. Either move to area 51 with the other cracks, or base your comments on the facts, and stop sounding as hysterical as glen beck.
Feel better now?
By adamg
Thu, 12/01/2011 - 12:16pm
Yes, the article that is now online at the Gazette site mentions a symbolic tent and discussions and all that good stuff. But if you go back to the top of this page, you'll notice I wrote that that's a replacement article for the one the Gazette pulled down, the one I still have a copy of in my RSS reader, the one that begins:
Seems like Michael Russell needs to learn to double check things before talking to a reporter. It's unfashionable and too bougie, I know, but it's good PR practice. If nothing else, it keeps you from pissing off reporters who begin to think they can't trust anything you tell them.
I'd say more, but I'm off to my lunch engagement with Glenn.
Thanks Adam!
By HenryAlan
Thu, 12/01/2011 - 12:37pm
You continue to work with available facts, evidence, and demonstrate why this site is a trustworthy source. And of course, we all come for the snark, as much as the news.
You've probably interacted with this sort more than I have, but is there a school of writing, or perhaps a style guide used by both trolls and self-styled activists? Lines like "JP doesnt plan of Occupying the Church," and a jumble of run-on sentences seem to be prominent and consistent.
Please
By NaranjaLine
Thu, 12/01/2011 - 1:27pm
There are Occupiers from JP who put it on the line every day, who make the trudge down to Dewey during early morning hours when you're still catching zzzs, who actually attended the hearing today instead of playing comments field activist.
OJP? They keep referring to it as LOL. But go ahead: Have your "information march" in a community of progressives that already side with OWS and OccupyBoston and down a street filled with independent businesses. What do you think these people don't know?
Maybe they're unaware that you and your pals are too chickenshit to join a movement that's actually speaking truth within earshot of power. Maybe they don't know that real occupiers have given weeks of their lives to this cause and have gone back and forth with the press, the cops, the city and local businesses to make it work.
"OJP" is a bunch of wannabe play actors who don't occupy much more than an armchair or occasional barstool. While OccupyBoston sits in the corners of James's Gate and other places quietly planning the next step, the "OJP" jesters are still striking their pose in Hyde Square and talking a big game at the Behan without actually doing anything.
If those morons are going to be clogging up Centre/South on Saturday, that should be as good a day as any to do some good downtown.
P.S. Loved it when you guys tried to speak for me this spring. Latinos love nothing more than paternalist grad students patronizing both them and their language. Learn to speak it before putting up a banner.
Oh Snap
By anon²
Mon, 12/05/2011 - 1:17am
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Feel the same. The pathetic attempt of the Whosfoodies to win back attention by co-opting the OWS movement is both transparent and testament to their character.
Which leaves us with:
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Is it too inconvenient for
By anon
Wed, 11/30/2011 - 9:10am
Is it too inconvenient for these JP'ers to trek to Dewey Sq.? LAZY!
Not lazy, whos tantrum...
By anon²
Wed, 11/30/2011 - 1:07pm
Whosfood failed, so they re-branded themselves Occupy JP to leech of of OWS and are now up to their old, ineffectual, kicking and screaming for attention tactics. Civic minded, environmentally conscious, local business oriented JP isn't exactly high on the list of things wrong caused by the collective, but unorganized, self interest of the 1%.
As pointed out above, if this was an organic movement they'd be either in Dewey square, out in NYC, or finding another way to engage civilly in getting some progress on their issues done. But they're not, so a name change and old tactics are what we get to witness.
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So no one else finds it funny
By NotWhitey
Wed, 11/30/2011 - 1:03pm
So no one else finds it funny that the vendors at the Universalist church fair don't want the inconvenience of the Occupiers? Not even a little? Didn't think so.
Occupy Boston
By anon²
Wed, 11/30/2011 - 3:31pm
is camped outside of the FED. OWS is camped out right next to wallstreet. Other OWS factions are camped out in front of state houses and government buildings.
Question is why is Occupy JP trying to camp out at a progressive church? Can they even explain it? I'm perplexed.