Hi.
Had to share this.
Because we are the 99%.
We want to be the 100%
Humanity united, can never be divided.
Love you all
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October 15, 2011
A friend posted this quote to Facebook yesterday. I don’t know who it’s from (so I can’t properly attribute it) but I’ve heard a similar sentiment from other similarly inclined folks. She claims it was originally from anarchistnews.org:
Hello. I am dying, inside and out, and I need wildness. I need freedom. I need resolve to this life long battle for acceptance of myself. I need to know the feeling of an unlit night. I need to adventure. I need to return to the place where I was born. To be attached to life at every moment. I need to come alive! I cannot do it without you. So, put down your sign and raze the buildings to the earth with me…the whole world is waiting.
Here’s my response.
Hello. I hear you are dying and this is what I do. I bear witness to you and story for you. I am here to help take away the blindness you have carried for so long. Where you see buildings, I see gray cliffs. Where you see houses, I see short hills. Where you see roads, I see smooth paths. Where you see chains, I see sad decisions by people who are blinded by the decisions of others just as handicapped as them. To be wild, you must be willed. It is not a destination; it is a conversation. If you want this feeling back in your life, you must invite the others back in. Make your cliff into a place the birds want to roost and nest. Make your home a haven to the diverse species of the world. If you want an unlit night, invite your neighbors to turn off their lights and join you in celebration around a fire whether its in a grill or a single candle. Stop thinking that burning down the buildings is anything more than making rubble when the fire you truly need to burn is in your heart. Are you strong enough for that? If you are, then do it. If you are not, seek out others. Together, we are strong. I’m there for you, to bear witness to you and story for you. Hello.
This is, I feel, part of the heart of transitioning. See the world in different way. Take what is around you and make something beautiful. And you’re not alone. There’s always someone out there to help out. Often it’s not easy — or as regular as we’d like — but there’s help. You just have to ask.
Categories: Heart.
October 6, 2011
People are listening. Perhaps it’s time for all of us to speak a little louder and to more people. I’m just saying…
Keith Olbermann Reads the Statement from #OccupyWallStreet
Official Statement from Occupy Wall Street – this statement was voted on and approved by the general assembly of protesters at Liberty Square: Declaration of the Occupation of New York City
As we gather together in solidarity to express a feeling of mass injustice, we must not lose sight of what brought us together. We write so that all people who feel wronged by the corporate forces of the world can know that we are your allies.
As one people, united, we acknowledge the reality: that the future of the human race requires the cooperation of its members; that our system must protect our rights, and upon corruption of that system, it is up to the individuals to protect their own rights, and those of their neighbors; that a democratic government derives its just power from the people, but corporations do not seek consent to extract wealth from the people and the Earth; and that no true democracy is attainable when the process is determined by economic power. We come to you at a time when corporations, which place profit over people, self-interest over justice, and oppression over equality, run our governments. We have peaceably assembled here, as is our right, to let these facts be known.
They have taken our houses through an illegal foreclosure process, despite not having the original mortgage.
They have taken bailouts from taxpayers with impunity, and continue to give Executives exorbitant bonuses.
They have perpetuated inequality and discrimination in the workplace based on age, the color of one’s skin, sex, gender identity and sexual orientation.
They have poisoned the food supply through negligence, and undermined the farming system through monopolization.
They have profited off of the torture, confinement, and cruel treatment of countless nonhuman animals, and actively hide these practices.
They have continuously sought to strip employees of the right to negotiate for better pay and safer working conditions.
They have held students hostage with tens of thousands of dollars of debt on education, which is itself a human right.
They have consistently outsourced labor and used that outsourcing as leverage to cut workers’ healthcare and pay.
They have influenced the courts to achieve the same rights as people, with none of the culpability or responsibility.
They have spent millions of dollars on legal teams that look for ways to get them out of contracts in regards to health insurance.
They have sold our privacy as a commodity.
They have used the military and police force to prevent freedom of the press.
They have deliberately declined to recall faulty products endangering lives in pursuit of profit.
They determine economic policy, despite the catastrophic failures their policies have produced and continue to produce.
They have donated large sums of money to politicians supposed to be regulating them.
They continue to block alternate forms of energy to keep us dependent on oil.
They continue to block generic forms of medicine that could save people’s lives in order to protect investments that have already turned a substantive profit.
They have purposely covered up oil spills, accidents, faulty bookkeeping, and inactive ingredients in pursuit of profit.
They purposefully keep people misinformed and fearful through their control of the media.
They have accepted private contracts to murder prisoners even when presented with serious doubts about their guilt.
They have perpetuated colonialism at home and abroad.
They have participated in the torture and murder of innocent civilians overseas.
They continue to create weapons of mass destruction in order to receive government contracts.*
To the people of the world,
We, the New York City General Assembly occupying Wall Street in Liberty Square, urge you to assert your power.
Exercise your right to peaceably assemble; occupy public space; create a process to address the problems we face, and generate solutions accessible to everyone.
To all communities that take action and form groups in the spirit of direct democracy, we offer support, documentation, and all of the resources at our disposal.
Join us and make your voices heard!
Categories: 6th Degree Initiative, Head, Heart.
May 14, 2011
Those of you who are astute in the ways of blogging may have noticed that there hasn’t been a lot of updating here. Which is strange for a site monitored by a bunch of Hollywood-savvy folk who really enjoy getting in front of groups and pontificating for as long as they’ll let them (or so claims my wife!).
It comes down to the Fear Factor.
Categories: Heart.