
{"id":23463,"date":"2012-02-04T16:47:49","date_gmt":"2012-02-04T21:47:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=23463"},"modified":"2012-02-04T16:47:49","modified_gmt":"2012-02-04T21:47:49","slug":"text-of-press-release-from-carrboro-commune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2012\/02\/04\/text-of-press-release-from-carrboro-commune\/","title":{"rendered":"Text of press release from &#8220;Carrboro Commune&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The following is the text of a news release received at 4:38 pm Saturday discussing the occupation of the CVS-owned building at 201 N. Greensboro St. in Carrboro:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;\u00e2\u20ac\u0153CARRBORO COMMUNE\u00e2\u20ac\u009d OCCUPIES DOWNTOWN BUILDING<\/p>\n<p>CARRBORO: Today, local residents have occupied a building at 201 North<br \/>\nGreensboro Street.  The occupiers, who are separate from the group Occupy<br \/>\nChapel Hill, say the action is \u00e2\u20ac\u0153not a temporary protest, but a permanent<br \/>\noccupation intended to establish a social center in the heart of<br \/>\nCarrboro.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>The retail giant CVS, which recently purchased the building from Weaver<br \/>\nStreet Market, has faced near-unanimous opposition from neighbors to their<br \/>\nattempts to build a 24-hour drug store on the site.  According to a<br \/>\npamphlet distributed at the Greensboro Street site today, the occupiers<br \/>\nbelieve that Carrboro residents \u00e2\u20ac\u0153should have direct decision-making power<br \/>\nover the resources of our neighborhoods and workplaces, rather than live<br \/>\nat the mercy of speculating absentee landlords, out-of-state drug<br \/>\ncorporations, or town bureaucrats and politicians.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>The occupiers plan to remain indefinitely, and have invited local<br \/>\nresidents to participate in an open assembly on Sunday, February 5th to<br \/>\ndiscuss future plans for the building.  Other activities scheduled for the<br \/>\noccupied building and grounds include free meals, planting community<br \/>\ngardens, and workshops to share skills on a variety of topics.<\/p>\n<p>Carrboro and Chapel Hill neighbors are invited to come participate in<br \/>\nreclaiming community resources for the benefit of all, not simply<br \/>\ncorporate profit.<\/p>\n<p>More information and ongoing updates can be found on Twitter at<br \/>\n@carrborocommune or at www.trianarchy.wordpress.com.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following is the text of a news release received at 4:38 pm Saturday discussing the occupation of the CVS-owned building at 201 N. Greensboro St. in Carrboro: &#8220;\u00e2\u20ac\u0153CARRBORO COMMUNE\u00e2\u20ac\u009d OCCUPIES DOWNTOWN BUILDING CARRBORO: Today, local residents have occupied a building at 201 North Greensboro Street. The occupiers, who are separate from the group Occupy&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23463"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23464,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23463\/revisions\/23464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}