In my travels outside of NYC over the holidays, people have asked me if OWS is still going on now that Liberty Square (Zuccotti Park) has been evicted. The answer is YES! YES! YES! While no tents are allowed in the park and people can be arrested for sleeping there (people are at risk of arrest for even reclining in the park), Occupy events are indeed still happening all over New York City, and elsewhere.
If you visit NYC and want to check out the current movement, working groups are meeting every day at 60 Wall Street, in the atrium. People are still regularly gathering and rallying in Liberty Square. If you go there, expect some moderate-heavy police presence.
UPCOMING STUFF!
Occupiers around the world are calling for candlelight vigils on the JANUARY 15TH HOLIDAY IN HONOR OF MARTIN LUTHER KING. These vigils will take place at 7:00 p.m. in each respective time zone. To quote the event listing: "Wherever we may be, whether in our homes, in city squares, online, Occupies, or at work, we lift a beautiful message high above the political dialogue. We light the dream of a more equitable world in our hearts. We can overcome!" It doesn't seem like much of a coincidence that this candlelit event is coming up so close to Imbolc/Candlemas? We as Pagans know the power of light, of flame, and of gathering in spirit. Look for your local event and try to join other brothers and sisters in the spirit of solidarity. If no events are listed in your area, start one! J15 Worldwide Candlelight Vigil for Unity
JANUARY 17TH will mark the four month anniversary of Occupy. Demonstrations will be happening all over. Now with this NDAA nonsense in the mix, normally icy January has the potential to be very heated, indeed.
Protests specific to NDAA are being called for on February 3rd.
As always, occupywallstreet.org has a listing of events in all areas.
If you go to protest.
remember that violence is NOT in the interest of this movement. Peaceful resistance IS. Raise your voices loudly, make your presence known, but be careful in the crowds and act with peace and compassion.
Many blessings and well wishes to our brothers and sisters in Hurly, WI who are Occupying to retain their basic human rights of clean water. We are with you-in NYC and everywhere!
In love, light and solidarity,
Courtney
PROTECTIONS FOR CONSERVATIVES WERE "INSUFFICIENT"
November 21, 2012
By Tom Sutcliffe
voted for women priests in 1992 and I am in principle keen that we should have women bishops in the Church of England. But I voted against the Measure being proposed for final approval yesterday. I had two main reasons for voting no.
The Provision is not sufficient
It simply is not true that it made appropriate provisions for the two minorities of less than a third of Church members who cannot accept the ordination or consecration of women as being consistent with their understanding of scripture and tradition. It may well be that traditionalist Anglo-Catholics could have lived awkwardly with the Measure as proposed had it got through. But conservative evangelicals would have been severely affected and in an impossible position. THE REST
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CHURCH OF ENGLAND IN CRISIS: ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY ATTACKS MEMBERS FOR VOTING AGAINST WOMEN BISHOPS
The Archbishop of Canterbury has launched a scathing attack on those within his own church who voted down legislation to approve women bishops accusing them of being "unrealistic".
In an impassioned speech at the General Synod this morning that vividly illustrates the depth of the current crisis facing his organisation, Dr Rowan Williams admitted that the Church of England loses credibility every day it fails to approve women bishops.
GETRELIGION: ON WOMEN BISHOPS: WHO VOTED "NO" AND WHY?
To the shock of legions of mainstream reporters, the Church of England fell just short of approving the long-debated step of raising women to the Anglican episcopate.
The issue that seems to have some reporters stumped, a bit, is why the laypeople who cast these votes didn't go along with this latest evolution in Anglican orders. Take, for example, the PRETTY SOLID REPORT FROM REUTERS, as offered by "The Huffington Post". Here are two summary passages that contain the key material...
ALBERT MOHLER: THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND VOTES AGAINST WOMEN BISHOPS - WHAT DOES THIS MEAN?
"This is a train crash," said one frustrated priest. Yesterday was a decisive day in the history of the Church of England, but it was also a deeply divisive day. After 37 years of controversy and turmoil, the church's General Synod turned down a proposal to consecrate women as bishops. The proposal required a two-thirds majority in all three houses of the General Synod in order to pass, and it failed to receive that vote among the laity...
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