Hey everyone, please click on the link below to take a little tour of Occupy Toronto.
Click here for the link to the photo tour.
Occupy Toronto is located at St. James Park — King Street and Jarvis Street — in the shadow of St. James Cathedral as they have given us permission to land on their land.
I tried to grab these photos yesterday while everyone was at the General Assembly and then a march so you all could see the view sans people in the way.
So far, Occupation HQ has settled into the feel of a small town, with a main square, main street and then little neigbourhoods where you can find tents and other vital town essentials like the medic centre (medical tent) and the neighbourhood restaurant/café (the food tent). Other essentials include the welcome booth and the washrooms — very clean, actually, with running water to wash your hands.
Here, there is a real sense of people checking in on one another when it gets cold at night. There are more than 100 tents. As people gather in the morning for the noon General Assembly — these are held twice a day at noon and 6:00 p.m. — the townsfolk welcome the activists who have come down for the day to help.
There are meeting scheduled in the mornings for different committees, then the General Assembly at noon where the rest of the day is planned. Everyone is welcome and everyone has a voice (unless, obviously of course, you are spewing hatred like the fascists who wandered to the camp yesterday, who was asked to leave. This was the first time that has actually happened. We protect one another.)
After the general Assembly at noon, the activities and marches for the day are announced. The pattern seems to be a series of snake marches dispatch from the Occupy Toronto site and then return here when done to debrief.
I would love to share more, but I must run to the noon General Assembly.
Do feel free to come down and say hello. Or you can follow my coverage for rabble.ca on twitter @krystalline_k
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