Please spread the word anyway you can! Occupy Lincoln, Nebraska has been informed by the mayor’s office that the mayor would like to hear more positive support towards Occupy Lincoln, Nebraska. Let’s flood their office with positive support!
The Occupy Lincoln group was sent a letter from the city attorney that they must evacuate their campsite on Centennial Mall by March 1st, 2012. On February 14th, 2012, let’s show the Mayor’s office the love. Please call them and simply tell them that you support Occupy Lincoln and/OR their right to “Occupy” Centennial Mall. If they want positive support, let’s show them positive support!
If you want to drop them a line and say the same thing, that would be great too. In fact, buy a Valentine’s Card and send it to the Mayor with your “love” for Occupy Lincoln.
Mayor’s Phone Number: (402) 441-7511
Address: Office of the Mayor
Mayor Chris Beutler
555 S. 10th St. #301
Lincoln, NE 68508
Let’s Spread Some Occupy Love!
Trina Derickson
email: katrinad13@gmail.com
phone: (402)730-2988
1 comment
Lou says:
Feb 1, 2012
if I may add…….
Solidarity & Hello all fellow Occupiers,
First I would like to say thank you to all of you working hard @ each of your Occupations. This is the great movement of my generation, and I am proud to help in anyway that I can. I thank all of you for waking up and realizing that we do have a CHOICE, we do have a VOICE, we do have a CHANCE, that the government must listen to the peoples DEMANDS. Even with the basic media blackouts, the continued harassment of the press by police, and the continuous assaults by various police forces on the very people who pay for their protection…….WE’RE STILL HERE!!! Congratulations to all of you!! Let’s have a great and powerful 2012!!
Sadly I come to you with a story, a story of a midwestern Occupy in the town of Lincoln, NE. To keep it short I will portray the basics and if you have any questions please contact Occupy Lincoln either through it’s Facebook page or at http://www.occupylincoln.net .
So, OL has been Occupying since October 15th at which time we were told, along with all local media outlets, that what we were doing and where we were Occupying was LEGAL. We have a GREAT place right in front of the steps to our state capitol, just to let you know. OL was laughed at by city council members, proclaiming that we would leave as soon as winter hit. Yet we have continuously perservered thru snow, windstorms, an attempted tipi taking, 3am “safety checks”, and still we march on. And the city STILL said it was LEGAL.
We have arranged actions to coincide with the various Calls as they are nationally put out. We have members who have visited the Occupies of Denver, Omaha, various California, DC, and Iowa and keep in contact with as many as we can keep up with. OL then went to the next logical step……discussions with local government. Since December we have been using the “open mic time” at our city council meetings to encourage them to support and stand behind the statement that “Corporations are not people and their money is not considered free speech.” While some have been open to discussion, some of those councilpeople remain cynical. We worked with other organizations just this week to stop the consideration of a state Voter ID bill here in Nebraska, and have stood side by side with opponents of the Keystone XL Pipeline.
The first week of January we had a meeting in the mayor’s office, and it was not good. We were told that we must vacate our site by March 1, 2012. They have in form of letter stated that they have “allowed” us to exercise our rights. We have been told that we must now vacate the Centennial Mall due to “the City’s plans to renovate” the mall. They do not have the funding for this project which is why our “state Senator” is asking for funding from the state at the tune of 1.2 million dollars, still leaving a shortfall of their projections by 1.6 million dollars to do this project. We were told that the funding for this park would not be a problem to the city IF THEY REMOVE US!! That’s right, right here right now, we have been told that the city will kick us out ILLEGALLY so “a priviliged few” will donate to their park fund.
What we have here people is an ACTUAL, LEGAL REPRESENTATION OF WHAT WE ARE ALL FIGHTING FOR!! The 1% of Nebraska are now trying to BUY AWAY THE LEGAL RIGHTS OF OCCUPY LINCOLN!! The mayor’s office has questioned our support, have inferred that we are dying, and that we don’t have the backing of the general public. The mayor has said that if we can have a show of support, the city may be forced to reconsider. Fine, they want us to jump thru hoops well this one we can definitely soar thru. If they believe that the Occupy Movement is dead, let’s remind them how many of us there are. Let’s give them hundreds of letters to sift thru, thousands of emails to respond to, and hundreds of calls to their offices letting them know that to sell out the law IS NOT ACCEPTABLE. A brave woman here walked around with a sign that read,”Screw us and we multiply.” Well quite simply Occupy Lincoln is now being screwed.
Occupy Lincoln needs every Occupiers help, all we are asking for is five minutes of your time. Please contact the city council, attorney, and mayor of Lincoln, respectfully let them know that you support Occupy Lincoln’s right to public assembly. Let them know that you stand with us as brothers and sisters all over the world. Let them know that what they are doing is exactly the focus of Occupy. Let them know that as a group, we the 99%, are tired of being sold out to the highest bidders. Please.
You can contact city council members at (402)441-7515,
by mail to City Council Office 555 South 10th St Lincoln, NE 68508,
or email@
Jon Camp
Jonathan Cook
Doug Emery
Eugene Carroll
R.Adam Hornung
Carl Eskridge
Dianna Shimek
Lincoln City Attorney Rod Confer at (402)441-7281,
and by mail at 555 South 10th St Suite 300 Lincoln, NE 68508
and last but certainly not least…….
Mayor Chris Beutler (402)441-7511,
mail to 555 South 10th St. Suite 301 Lincoln, NE 68508,
and email to
I am sorry about this long post, trust me it could’ve been longer but I felt this info is needed to know the situation. Many thanks to anyone who can help Occupy Lincoln with this and thank ALL of you for your continued support and solidarity.