We’re still confirming details of how the logistics will work but Seattle Central has announced that its board will meet Wednesday to consider adopting an “emergency rule” drafted by the State Attorney General’s office allowing the removal of the Occupy Seattle camp from the school’s Broadway campus.
A SCCC representative tells us that the board will discuss the situation and “hear a variety of perspectives” before voting on whether to adopt the emergency rule.
MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT: Special Board Meeting Notification
Please be informed that a special Board of Trustees meeting is scheduled to be held on November 23, 2011, at 12 noon in the Seattle Community College District Office Boardroom, 1500 Harvard Avenue, Seattle, WA 98122.AGENDA:
I. CALL TO ORDER
II. ROLL CALL
III. INTRODUCTION OF VISITORS (please sign in)
IV. APPROVAL OF AGENDA/ACTION
V. PUBLIC COMMENTS
Fifteen minutes are regularly set aside for others to express their views on any matter except those restricted to Executive Session. Anyone wishing to speak to the items on this meeting Agenda will be recognized when the item is being discussed.
VI. RECOMMENDED BOARD ACTION
A. Proposed Emergency Rule on Camping
VII. ADJOURNMENT
The rule reportedly addresses unsafe conditions county health inspectors and school officials say are a growing problem on the campus as the Occupy camp approaches its first month at Broadway and Pine. Occupy Seattle organizers have said many of the complaints leveled against it are unfair and that the group is working to address many of the issues.
the 23rd is wednesday not thursday!
Of course. Thanks. Thanksgiving on the brain.
Let’s see how much destruction these peaceful protestors cause when they oust them. I am sure they will make a spectacle of it
I am expecting an all out spectacle. Should be fun to watch. I hope the school let’s us know when this will happen.
I want to see this but will sadly be out of town. I am sure there will be plenty of youtube video to watch. This gonna be fun!
They could be given portapotties and assisted! They are making a stand for all of us camping in the pouring rain, freezing temperatures, cold long dark winter nights. Support them, don’t destroy them. They are a committed moral presence for all of us.
I forsee an “occupy friends couch” movement very soon.
So Susan, have you figured where you can write a check to fund the toilets yourself? Some folks think this stuff is free. It’s not. The Occupy movement has solved nothing tangible, and cost hundred of thousands of dollars in support in the few months ope. I think that’s enough taking. But you can have at it all you want. Get your checkbook out!
Potty space paid for by labor, bigger check book than yours.
I sent New York money, not local, have they asked?
Do you have an address? Support this 100 per cent. Change only comes when a movment gets in the public eye and makes demands and gets militant … we would still be in a war in Viet Nam …. if ….
We also might see an “occupy foreclosed houses” movement…well, more of one, since that’s already started in the CD on Cherry. Occupy Minneapolis has a network to connect folks facing foreclosure with people willing to stay in the house to help keep the bank from taking it. With the homeowner’s permission, of course!
1) Drug paraphernalia was there BEFORE the protesters were.
2) Blight would be taking place elsewhere anyway since the protesters are feeding people in Winter who suffer from a variety of social problems—it would just be taking place elsewhere—this way, at least those suffering from social ills are getting some care from kind people feeding them and offering them shelter, which is part of ending income inequality.
3) Restaurants are always given lists of things they must improve before a certain date if a Health Department rules against them in any way, therefore, so should OWS at SCCC be given the same clear cut opportunity—and whatever health violations there are or are not should be spelled out directly and proven.
3)We are Occupying everywhere. There is already an Occupy Olympia. Seattle is a major City which needs it’s own Occupy Movement to express free speech around issues of income inequality and against the urban banks located here.
4) The Attorney General, Rob McKenna, is an anti-OWS Conservative Republican who is politically motivated to get rid of us and has taken a number of other actions to do various politically motivated things like participate in a lawsuit to wipe out Obamacare and so on whereas it is the job of the Attorney General to maintain neutrality and enforce existing laws rather than create new ones. He is in violation of various laws governing what an Attorney General can and cannot do.
5) The anti-camping law in Seattle Parks which now exists is in itself a violation of British Common law governing the use of commons which has been in place in since colonial times. The new laws, banning camping, are less than fifteen years old (17?) and were put in place to keep poor people from taking care of each other as they always have when they have no housing. Anti-camping laws are themselves unjust. Being able to sleep and take care of one’s basic needs is a human right which should not be stripped away—where are the people at OWS SCCC and all of the people who were thrown out of the fifteen homeless shelters during the days following its inception going to go—although most of them have jobs and homes, a number of them have jobs and no homes or neither and are just beginning to become politically aware through this experience? This way they are being politicized to make the World a better place and to take action which will end the systemic poverty from which they suffer, expressing themselves under the First Amendment.
6) To say that because a crime occurs or indeed only may have occurred in a specific location does not make the people against whom that crime was committed (especially if it was only an alleged crime) complicit. It makes them victims who should not of course be punished.
Institutions of higher education have from time immemorial been places of safe haven for those expressing free ideas and taking free actions—should we begin a precedent against this—thus shutting down Academic freedom simply because some people do not agree?
gm emanuel
Occupy Seattle and
Alumnus, Seattle Central Community College
“Alumnus, Seattle Central Community College”
Pastry arts?
Is the SCCC Board of Trustees meeting subject to the Washington State Open Public Meetings Act?
“Occupy Seattle declares its victory”
Why doesn’t it just go ahead and declare itself the owner of the moon too?
“Alumnus, Seattle Central Community College”
What else can be said but “LOL”
Go hire and ask a lawyer.
@leland
“I sent New York money, not local, have they asked? Do you have an address?”
yes, they have asked for money. their address is the corner of pine and broadway; you can’t miss ’em. i’m sure you can find it and deliver your contribution in person.
@ginamarie emanuel
from the washington branch of the aclu:
“The right of free expression is not an absolute right to express ourselves at any time, in any place, in any manner.”
@phil mocek
i would think so since this is on the agenda:
“V. PUBLIC COMMENTS
Fifteen minutes are regularly set aside for others to express their views on any matter except those restricted to Executive Session. Anyone wishing to speak to the items on this meeting Agenda will be recognized when the item is being discussed.“
however, the public should keep this section of the opm act regarding interruptions in mind should they decide to attend.
“Restaurants are always given lists of things they must improve before a certain date if a Health Department rules against them in any way, therefore, so should OWS at SCCC be given the same clear cut opportunity-“
Seriously? Those establishments are opperate with a business licence and contribute to the economy. You’re SQUATTING.
As for your comment about the AG being Anti-OWS… that may be true, but keep in mind that this bleeding-heart liberal lives just four blocks away and can’t wait for that camp to be torn down.
Hmmm so is NY money different that regular money? I am sure that wouldn’t make a difference to Occupy Seattle, but some cold hard NEW YORK cash would be put to good use by them for more drums and weed. The alley is good to use as a toilet if they run out of funds for the important stuff.
if it gets them down to Olympia and not here then by all means. Victory away.
It sure would be nice if the campers would just leave peacefully, on their own volition, before any dramatic eviction by the SPD is necessary. But I would be shocked…SHOCKED!…if this happens, as they thrive on drama and self-importance, and a forced eviction would be a great platform to show how “evil” (their words, not mine) the police are.
I really like the Occupy message and think it’s should have started up years ago, BUT, occupying the community college space has become counter productive and should be disbanded. All it does now is harm the cause.
It sure would be nice if when the police suspect people of violation of law on campus, the next step is arrest and prosecution instead of assault and battery.
I wish the Broadway Business Assoc & Seattle Times would leave off harrassing the Occupy movement – you don’t fool us, (the 99%) we aren’t in your class. I am NOT part of the encampment but I have been laid off & I DO know what that feels like. Screw CHS & its rich condo dwellers takign over MY Hill where I have lived for 20 years! Go back to Lynnwood evil rich!