{"id":2137,"date":"2011-12-06T17:30:09","date_gmt":"2011-12-06T21:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/?p=2137"},"modified":"2011-12-06T17:30:09","modified_gmt":"2011-12-06T21:30:09","slug":"occupy-boston-building-alliances-encuentro-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/2011\/12\/06\/occupy-boston-building-alliances-encuentro-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Occupy Boston: Building Alliances; Encuentro 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Occupy Boston would not now exist if it were not for the support of a large number of <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/2011\/11\/11\/occupy-boston-the-woman-at-the-wheel\/\" target=\"_blank\">often unnamed benefactors<\/a>. \u00a0We also benefit from relationships with supporting institutions and supporting groups at rather unsupportive instituitons. I&#8217;l mention the latter <strong>after<\/strong>\u00a0discussing with them their <strong>exposure<\/strong>. Strong among the supporting institutions is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.encuentro5.org\/home\/\" target=\"_blank\">Encuentro 5<\/a>. They have given us a place to meet, get warm, dry off, and blog. So as not to over tax their resources, our media group has become a tenant. They have a desk.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m forming a relationship with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tecschange.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tecschange: Technology for Social Change<\/a>. People at Occupy Boston certainly know about it, but I don&#8217;t know if they know what TecsChange can actually provide. One occupier had her laptop stolen and asked TecsChange to get her a new one. TecsChange usually gets donations of used equipment and most of them are desktops. But at least one occupier has benefitted from having a relationship with them. I could have done a real repair on my laptop&#8217;s AC adaptor if I had been able to find their soldering iron. But my pliers<sup>1<\/sup> disappeared along with my SLR<sup>2<\/sup>. So with Charlie&#8217;s pliers I could improve greatly on the wire and tape repairs I&#8217;ve been making.<\/p>\n<p><sup>1<\/sup>It was actually a multipurpose tool &#8211; an imitation of the famous Leatherman. it cost $30 and has much lower resale price, but it was worth much more in allowing my to repair my sleep gear. Being homeless has put me into a strange relationship with property. I don&#8217;t have a TV and don&#8217;t miss it, but if someone nabs my sleep gear on a cold night, I could die.<\/p>\n<p><sup>2<\/sup>It was a Canon Digital Rebel XTi. I had some hope it would help me become homeful. I also lost 3 Sigma lenses. The f\/1.4 allowed me to do low light photography &#8211; i.e. police raids in the wee hours of the morning. It&#8217;s a thing, but I miss it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Occupy Boston would not now exist if it were not for the support of a large number of often unnamed benefactors. \u00a0We also benefit from relationships with supporting institutions and supporting groups at rather unsupportive instituitons. I&#8217;l mention the latter after\u00a0discussing with them their exposure. Strong among the supporting institutions is Encuentro 5. They have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":168,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/168"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2137"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2139,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2137\/revisions\/2139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}