those who come and go

whether you physically occupy a camp, or no, it is irrelevant!!

those who come and go, are VITAL members of the collective "we" of the occupy movement!!!

you are the foot "soldiers" (hate that the most descriptive language i can employ is militaristic).

you are the ones who whisper over fences to your neighbors, in community groups to your friends, in households over meals.

you are the ones who sway minds and hearts of family and community members.

you are the ones who open the door for those who don't yet know or understand our movement.

in short, you are we.

we are a diverse body of beings, beginning a conversation to build new systems that exist outside of the broken ones that have kept marching the 99% along!!

i have heard too often, "i support occupy, but i am not an occupier!"

to be an occupier does not mean you must become a member of the symbolic people's square or space.

it does not mean you need to go through the grueling aspect of living in the intentional community "camp/us" ... while that work is oh so important and vital to our movement, the other aspect of participating in the movement by visiting camp/us attending workshops, giving workshops and registering your voice in the general assembly is ESSENTIAL ... it is important for as many chuk shonen's (tucsonans) to learn the process of horizontal or direct democracy ... it takes a while, it's difficult because it's slow ... and we aren't used to taking our time in this culture of the united states.

in fact, the media and our government banks on this flaw in our inculcated minds ... they rest assured that we have an attention span of about six weeks!! if you can remember the iran-contra hearings from the late 80"s, and the subsequent election of bush as president within eight weeks of those hearings, this should help to drive the point home.

we must take our time, we must learn to listen.

once we have learned to listen, and learned the process of how to practice horizontal democracy in action, we will be a powerhouse community!!!!!!!!!

i am excited for us.
let's suspend the need for instant gratification, and let's all work together to re-build a world that is functional instead of dysfunctional!!!

we value yer work.

you are our hero.

we are all heros!!