OCCUPY BOSTON SAYS RACISTS, HOMOPHOBES, AND THE LIKE ARE NOT WELCOME FOR DINNER

THIS IS REFRESHING.  HOORAY!

From OCCUPY BOSTON


Internal Solidarity Statement

This is a living document. As the Occupy Boston community, we have the right and responsibility to edit this document on an ongoing basis. We welcome feedback and new ideas.

We are the 99%, and our task is to unify the 99%. Unfortunately, we live in a society that is racist, sexist, classist, homophobic, and ridden with various other forms of oppression.

As the Occupy Boston community, we will consciously and urgently work on dismantling these systems of oppression in our movement. We are working on creating a community where everyone’s rights are respected, protected, and treated equally. We all have different levels of privilege that we strive to acknowledge and educate ourselves about in order to ensure that these privileges are not used to oppress others. We want to have an inclusive atmosphere of ideas in which we do not police each other’s thoughts, but we have absolutely no tolerance for oppressive or intimidating words or actions. If a conflict arises it should, if possible, be settled through democratic discussion or debate; otherwise, it should be settled with the help of the Conflict Resolution Team, the Support Team, or both, if necessary.

We do not welcome any of the following in our community:

White supremacy (racism against people of all colors)
Patriarchy (sexism)
Ageism
Discrimination based on ability
Homophobia or heteronormativity
Transphobia
Anti-Arab sentiment
Anti-Jewish sentiment
Religious intolerance or intolerance of nonreligious people
Islamaphobia
Class oppression (classism)
Cultural intolerance
Discrimination based on immigration status
Discrimination based on experiences with the justice system
Disregard for indigenous rights
Weight-based discrimination