User:OneKarma/Tent City

Tent City Town Hall

Info Tent

"Occupy Boston’s Info Tent serves to greet visitors to the Occupation and provide useful information to both newcomers and occupiers alike. If it is your first time to Occupy Boston, please feel free to come stop by the Info Tent for a list of daily events (like speakers, workshops, marches, etc.) overview on our many Working Groups, background on Occupy Boston in general or just to voice your viewpoint on how we can or should move forward."

Library

"Want to inform your activism? Want to learn more about histories of resistance, investigating corporations, or anti-racism? Radical Reference and the Audre Lorde to Howard Zinn Library can help!"

Faith and Spirituality

"The Occupy Boston Faith and Spirituality Group seeks to establish an atmosphere of inclusiveness and peace in the environment of Occupy Boston. Its members are committed to welcoming all individuals, while promoting and cultivating the diversity that exists between various religious, faith, and spiritual traditions. Through the establishment of the Sacred Space tent, the group provides participants with a place to decompress in the midst of a chaotic and sometimes stressful atmosphere. Its members are here to serve participants in roles such as facilitators, spiritual guides and mediators. Through the scheduling of workshops, ceremonies, spiritual practices and religious services, the group not only seeks to provide participants with vital opportunities for spiritual growth but it also hopes to cultivate increased awareness and participation in Occupy Boston on the part of the local spiritual community. All are welcome in the group and encouraged to join in the community that we've established at Dewey Square!"

Community Wellness

Safety

"There are situations and incidents where no one has control over. There are no ways to diffuse a situation where those who use the process use it for their own agenda. The knowledge of a violent situation without action is in direct conflict with our mission statement of a peaceful assembly. The condoning of any violence is unacceptable. The enforcement of any violation for one but not another is inexcusable. [...] We must be united, and we must enforce this unity so that this unity is not broken by our own doing. There is no other way."

Medical

"The Occupy Boston Health Team (formerly known as the "Medic Team") brings together a diversity of skillsets and services to provide care to Occupiers at by our Health Tent in Dewey Square and on Occupy Boston marches and rallies. We embrace and are composed of volunteers with training in first aid, EMS, hospital and clinic medicine, complementary therapies (massage, reiki, acupuncture, etc), mental healthcare, social work, and public health."

Food

"The Food Working Group runs the Food Tent at Occupy Boston. We are the primary source for collecting, preparing, and serving food and drink to the protestors and guests at Occupy Boston. We serve free food and drink every day and can take-away groceries as our capacity allows. We usually close the tent down in the late hours of the night (around midnight or 1am) until the early morning, but drinks are available 24/7."