there is a contingent, and that contingent is one of "control"

PLEASE JOIN US.

please! please! please!

this movement has an URGENT need for people who work with the community, who work with youth at risk, who work with the indigent, the homeless, and the prisons. this movement also has a need for every citizen who is a member of any of these groups!!! you are a part of the 99%!

PLEASE STAY!!!

all of you who feel disempowered, small and voiceless ... do not leave the ranks. rather plant yourself more firmly ... resist the urge to fold your hand and leave the table. without your tenacity and your input on camp/us or the ringing of your voice in general assembly, we are lost. we have failed to grow.

it's a chaotic process; if the silent ones do not stay to find and exercise their voice. if we do not learn to participate together as the once powerless who rise ... if we do not band togehter to resist and help those with a will to power who are not aligned to the true calling of this movement to rise for the collective good, to learn to listen, to displace their desire for their 15 minutes and give instead unto 7 generations, it will be a loss for this rising.

i say to everyone: trust the chaos!

there is a certain fractious contingent, in every occupation and that contingent is one of "control" or self-designated leader.

in this movement, this issue, this issue of control and power, is being reflected and focused from the micro to the macro ...

the one's who have bought hook-line-and-sinker into our cultural paradigm of power and control, who have internalized it, so to speak. they show themselves. they rise from within our camp/us communities. they try to dictate, usurp, and manipulate, &etc.

it is no worry ... we must ALL rise!!!!!!!

these people who show themselves, who employ these methods, are simply the ones who will receive the first rite of passage: the KNOCK down ... the ego bump. you are on a level playing ground. you must learn that your while your skill sets are appreciated, when you attempt to use them for self glorification, they are useless to the whole, because wielding them as a means to broker power, bankrupts the collective. we are to give wholly, for the common good. so park your ego outside the camp/us. if you can't shed it before attending general assemblies and working groups, it will be wrested from you, and if you do not relinquish it, you will ultimately leave the movement. we do not want the self-serving here.

if you're reading this, please know that your community needs you ... come to the camp/us pitch a tent and learn to live, and resolve, and sythesize for the collective. if you don't camp attend as many general assemblies as you can and learn to register your voice ... so we MAY GROW TOGETHER.