i fear the development of a second location in another city park is going to hurt our local movement at large, most specifically in relation to the city council education meeting that will follow last week's assembly of the 99% at city hall.my fear is that during the sixty minutes of time alloted to the education/study session of city council, that the members will look at two things, our citations (which now stem from two separate sites), and the two public intoxication citations (which we took last night at armory park) ... since we have two allies of the movement who sit on council but they do not hold the majority, both developments can prove very damaging.
when i heard that there are now to parks being held, well... that made me wanna roll over and die. because i sense that this will seal the punch. "look, they can't control their own members, and further more, they have already moved into YET another site ... if we give them an inch, they will take a mile"
on the 15th of october, the first day of the formation of our occupy camp/us, i was somewhat taken aback by the fact that we had not approached city council in an attempt to be permitted for a long standing open-ended event at armory park. this caused me great consternation. that the legal team didn't advise us to go through this process, and THEN establish our right to convene if said permit was denied, or if they made the hurdles too impossibly high for us to be able to be permitted. this seemed the logical first step to me. for it would lay the foundation for our argument when and if conflict with the city arose. the council and mayor would already be well aware of our presence, and our objective, and there would be no question that we had made attempts to work within the system before asserting our constitutional rights.
on the matter of separating out into two camps, i understand that there are egos and power struggles and personality conflict, but it is important in this movement, for all of us to be unified ... as it is ONLY through this mechanism that we can retain the strength and the stamina as a movement to sustain the rebelution.
what we must recognize, is that we are dealing on a micro level (each individual's ego/mind) with what we are trying to resist at the macro level (power/control usurped by the will to power through economic greed). what happens on the micro level is a slow revelation as to how enculcated each of us is with the abstract paradigms that fuel our culture with notions of self worth and privilege. we are often blind to the manner in which we internalize our culture's values, how they are stitched into the fabric of our being. it is through living together and sorting through our differences by learning to listen to and accept each memeber's viewpoint as equally valid to our own that we will re-dress social and economic inequity in very real terms.
in this manner, each person reflects their own internalization of the power paradigm of our cultural background ... in these small (but large-in-life) infights and struggles for power or recognition and the fractious outcomes, we are all being presented with the need to reflect upon our own relationship to the paradigm within ourselves, and within the group.
every being is a valuable member of the community. through learning to live together collectively we are learning how to reframe reality in a grand social experiment. if we separate out economically, generationally, by creed or race, we face an epic fail. it is only if we learn together how to face each other and resolve our differences, that we will learn how to work together to synthesize our various views into a collective voice of change.
despite the pain, of the roller coaster ride. we all have to grow, and we will.
but, it is true, that united we stand, divided we fall.
in the spirit of commonweal to the rebelution
occupy y/our head!
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