Occupy Springfield will serve a notice of eviction on the Illinois Capitol Building. It will be read during an "Occupy Your State Capital" rally, October 29, 1:00pm.
Notice of Eviction
The lobbyists for the 1%, and their cohabitating servants in elected office, are hereby notified that your occupation of the Illinois State Capitol Building is terminated. You are ordered to vacate for violation of your lease agreement with the people of Illinois. We, the 99%, demand that you return state government to the people due to your violations of the public trust:
• You have created barriers to direct democracy, concentrating power in the hands of a few Legislative Leaders and special interest lobbyists, who block most bills which serve the people from coming to a vote before the full legislature.
• You have maintained an unfair tax structure that does not require the super-wealthy 1% to pay their fair share.
• You have erected barriers to our right to receive an education by allowing the cost of tuition at state universities to skyrocket while also cutting financing opportunities.
• You have given millions of our tax dollars to fossil fuel interests that poison our air and water.
• You have betrayed the trust of public servants employed by the state by ignoring their right to collective bargaining and failing to pay your share of their pensions.
• You have enacted budget cuts which harm the most vulnerable among us rather than asking sacrifices from the wealthy few.
• You blocked legislation that would require banks to know the name, age and disability status of those being evicted, showing you have no regard for the fate of those you make homeless.
For these and other breaches of the public good you are hereby ordered on this day, October 29, 2011, National Occupy Your State Capital Day, to return this Capitol Building to its rightful owners, the people of Illinois.
Sincerely,
Occupy Springfield
This should help clear things up for the many reporters who have written that they don't know what the Occupy movement is about.
First posted at thereisaway.us