[BwayDems] Fwd: Emergency: Don't Let Bloomberg Shut Down 'Occupy Wall Street'

[Larry Hirsch]

Friends,

Think this important so act if you can. Occupy Wall Street could be the start of a revitalized progressive movement and should not be shut down. Thanks. Larry

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> From: "John Gage, AFGE" <john.gage at afge.org>

> Date: October 13, 2011 5:35:48 PM EDT

> To: lhirsch02 at msn.com

> Subject: Emergency: Don't Let Bloomberg Shut Down 'Occupy Wall Street'

> Reply-To: john.gage at afge.org

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> Dear Laurence,

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> Our emergency petition to Mayor Bloomberg says:

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> “Mayor Bloomberg: Respect the protesters’ First Amendment rights. Don’t try to evict Occupy Wall Street.”

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> Click here to sign. We’ll deliver your signature tonight.

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> Urgent: Mayor Bloomberg is trying to shut down Occupy Wall Street. 

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> Mayor Michael Bloomberg is ordering Occupy Wall Street protesters out of Zuccotti Park for a cleanup at sunrise, and his new rules for their return effectively would shut down the occupation, now in its fourth week.

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> The new rules prohibit tarps, sleeping bags and “lying down”—even as temperatures plummet. They are nothing but a transparent ploy to stop the Occupy Wall Street protesters. 

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> So we’re launching an emergency petition. It says:

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> “Mayor Bloomberg: Respect the protesters’ First Amendment rights. Don’t try to evict Occupy Wall Street.”

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> Please add your name right now. Then, forward this message to all of your friends. 

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> Hurry. Sign now. We’ll join with our friends at MoveOn.org to deliver your signatures tonight, first to the occupation, and then to City Hall.

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> Sign our emergency petition to Mayor Bloomberg now.

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> These protesters have inspired an entire grassroots movement. More than 800 Occupy Wall Street protests have spread across the country. We can’t let Mayor Bloomberg strike at the heart of that movement by evicting demonstrators from New York.

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> Inspired by Occupy Wall Street, working people are turning out with their friends and neighbors in parks, congregations and union halls across America to express their frustration—and anger—about our country’s staggering wealth gap, the lack of work for people who want to work and the corrupting of our politics by business and financial elites. 

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> Sign the petition to Mayor Bloomberg—let him know it’s time for all of us—the 99 percent—to be heard. 

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> Thank you for standing with the 99 percent.

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> Sincerely,

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> John Gage

> AFGE National President

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