Occupy Sydney Respond to Illegal Police Actions

 The Occupiers at Martin Place believe that NSW Police attempts to destabilise Occupy Sydney & supporters over the last two days has a twofold purpose. Police want to minimise Occupy Sydney 's ability to articulate our anti-Corporate Greed message to the patrons of The Sydney Festival .NSW Police also would like to shut Occupy Sydney down fearing that a Court case in 4 days time could clearly define legal issues,as sought by Occupy Sydney participants, and prevent Police abuse of law .

What Police have done:

• Seized Personal items without issuing receipts. 
• Seized A custom built kitchen trolley.We understand its been destroyed.
• Arbitrarily deemed seized property to be rubbish & destroyed it, despite being given owners details.
• Seized computers , banners, pamphlets & posters-most probably destroyed.
• Seized all supplies for making banners placards & protest information.
• Harassed and Threatened Occupy Sydney participants & supporters.
• Attempted to and enforced orders while refusing to identify which laws are being breached.
• Wilfully misinterpreted a clear Regulation to include actions clearly outside that legal framework. (Court case 10/1/12 seeks definitions.
• Refused to expedite return of property and in fact manufactured a series of convoluted series of obstructions to securing return.
• Threatened a new fellow Occupier Group ,Occupy Sydney International, compelling occupiers to close occupation due to fear of police violence.
• Sought to dictate how Occupy Sydney should protest .No legal framework specified.If we consent and the only means they leave are demonstrably ineffective then we should not consent.
• Taken essential Free School Protest equipment
• Taken essential library books.
• Seized all Occupy Sydney tarps used for protecting protest equipment from inclement weather.

  All Occupiers should know that there is a very real and clear danger of violence from Police & violation of personal or protest rights at any time at Occupy Sydney. NSW Police may steal your property. They may give orders which have no basis in law. Where the aims of police are not supported by law or the people ,the people should NOT support police.

 WHAT CAN YOU DO?

• Call Rocks Police. Order them to cease & desist from attacking the #OccupySydney peaceful protest.
• Bring all unwanted furniture to Occupy Sydney.
• Bring all books,fiction and non fiction to #Occupysydney
• Bring Big Tarps to #OccupySydney
• Make updated pamphlets about Occupy Sydney & NSW Police harassment.
• Bring unwanted doors to #OccupySydney for use as tables.
• Bring FOOD for the occupiers & supporters.

Thank you for your continued support without which we would not be

   

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Occupy Sydney Placard Workshops & Activities

From the occupiers at 

Occupiers : ph 0416366126  ph 0410722000

Placard Making Workshops

nightly from 8pm if fine at Occupy Sydney, Martin Place & Macquarie

not happening on rainy nights 

• Bring your artistic talents  & join our Placard Making Crew
• Bring Paints Textas & Art Materials
• Bring Your ideas & join us putting Unity back into community.

Chess

Wet or fine there's always time for a game of chess with the occupiers at Occupy Sydney in Martin Place. So come on down, day or night. Game on.

Meetings, Workshops and Experiences

• occupy the love : Meditation 7am 2pm & 9pm daily at Martin Place
• General Assembly : 6-30pm Saturdays Mondays Wednesdays
• Informal discussion on Fridays at 6:30
• Amazing political discussions all day and all night, strike up a conversation with the lovely occupiers.
• Dinner Parties from 9pm 'til 6am every night of the week :]
• Public Library; read donated books under the shade of the trees.
• Barrett's stand up comedy whenever Barrett happens to be around.
• Plenty of Vitamin D provided by the beautiful sun!
• Various working groups: check the calendar at occupysydney.org.au
• Opportunity to speak to passers-by about why you are part of this movement.

Occupy Sydney Occupiers Update

from the Occupiers @ Martin Pl

Police & the Occupiers;

Two of Occupy Sydney s stalwart Occupiers

  Sunday 20th Nov 2011: Occupy Sydney is just over a month old and a small group of occupiers cling tenaciously to our right to occupy Martin Place peacefully and respectfully in  the face of open police management hostility. That hostility is not at all a reflection of the public attitude to occupiers and the occupation generally as a broad swathe of the Australian public from left to right stop by to urge our occupiers to keep doing what we are doing. Heartening stuff. Even individual police officers are now openly stating that they would rather not be harassing us -and we understand that orders are orders. Current police orders seem to come from the same Assistant Commissioner who ordered the infamous Oct 23 attack on our previous occupation.
 NSW Police spent must have spent a Macquarie Bankers annual bonus & salary combined on intimidation and harassment of peaceful occupiers at Martin Pl. We will not be intimidated and we will not resile from our duty to ensure that the Occupy Sydney conversation continues 24 hours a day 7 days a week in Martin Place.. as well as online.
 The last forty eight hours have seen NSW Police resolve to destabilise the occupation weaken drastically as truth and commonsense push aside the dogma subscribed to by NSW Police that the law is what they make it. It may be a lull in what some describe as psychological warfare by Police or the beginning of a better understanding. The only relationship Occupy Sydney occupiers seek with police is that they revert to being servants of, not dictators to, the people.