inclusive exclusive

oh the discussion continues.
may we learn to listen.
may we learn to listen.
may we learn to listen.

a fellow occupier says: "we shall join the march of the tea party and swell their ranks"
i say: NO!!!! that is NOT what occupy does.
fellow occupier says: "then you contradict yourself, with what you have said in that paragraph for the mayor"

i tried to give an analogy: the occupy movement accepts everyone, from every creed, but the colors we fly get left at home. i suggested that it is quite one thing if the hells angels and outlaws showed up with their colors flying, versus joining up with the occupation as occupiers ... then i mentioned the WONDERFUL group occupy the hood, where gangsters and others have joined together and dropped their colors, to become occupiers.
still my fellow occupier asserted that my position of we do not join the tea party, and the tea party flies no flag with us (other than the american flag) as hypocritical and misdirected.

this same fellow occupier spoke of our movement as a protest ... which it IS NOT!!!!!!!
we are a movement and we engage in protest and marches, that is a part of public outreach and education. until we learn to differentiate this small but important part as occupiers, we are not completely empowered as to what we are trying to accomplish.

no more stalins, no more lenins ...
no more burning bushes,
a palimpsest is best ...

first amendment and occupy encampments

intentional community and the occupy movement:
one aspect of the occupy movement and its first amendment practices which is never addressed is why we gather and live in tents as a community...

this aspect of the movement is the intentional community, or camp/us, as i like to call it ... this is the social experimental and the educational basis of our occupy community, wherein a broad spectrum (or to use a cliche), a 'diverse' group of citizens gather across generational, socio-economic, religious, cultural, and political backgrounds in the camp, and learn to communicate, assimilate and operate together, collectively enacting the changes necessary to control their own embodiment of resources.

it is important to keep this aspect in mind... and to be very vociferous about it. how to be vociferous and not construed as subversive is the challenge. we are not so much raising an army, as civic leaders, each and every one.