“A writer’s notebook is not a diary. Writers react. Writers need a place to record these reactions. That’s what a writer’s notebook is for. It gives you a place to write down what makes you angry or sad or amazed, to write down what you noticed and don’t want to forget. A writer’s notebook gives you a place to live like a writer.” - Ralph Fletcher
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
Mayor @JeanQuan ”She must resign” - @KeithOlbermann on the police brutality at #OccupyOakland
(Source: occupyoakland.org)
“Get a job hippies!” Erick Erickson added. #ows #occupy
My family has always been poor, but it just keeps getting worse. #quote
I am 14 years old.
my family has always been poor, but it just keeps getting worse. I can’t help but feel like a burden. I am too young to get an actual job, but i am babysitting on the weekends to pay the mortgage. Not to mention high school and the stress of being an openly pan-cis gendered girl with a girlfriend. I’m starting to loose my hair from the stress. We used my college fun to pay debt that is still not gone. It makes me wonder if i can ever go to college?
I am the 99% occupywallst.org
Attorneys representing Kaylee Dedrick & others from #OWS question #NYPD use of pepper spray.
(Source: occupywallst.org)
Over the last month alone over 100 people have been arrested while protesting foreclosures, while no one from Wells Fargo, Bank of America, Goldman Sachs or JPMorgan Chase has been fully held to account for their role in the foreclosure crisis.
George Goehl
(Source: thenation.com)
Our individual silence is a form of acquiescence, and we speak volumes not only through our action but also through our lack of it. Silence signals that we are okay with what’s happening, or that we have simply given up. While Occupy Wall Street has inspired a new level of consciousness in America, we have only just scratched the surface of what will be needed to shift the political economy of our country.
George Goehl
(Source: thenation.com)
#OccupyWallStreet is a tide of upheaval and alienation, much like the other crucial movements in our past that led to a more equal and fairer American society. The history of these movements in America began more than 200 years ago with a revolution against the tyranny of King George, who wanted to extract as much money from the colonies as possible. It includes the Civil War and Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation; Women’s Sufferage (remember that not too long ago, women were not allowed to vote); and the Civil Rights Movement, which recognized that the Emancipation Proclamation needed teeth.
E. HENRY SCHOENBERGER
(Source: The Huffington Post)
#OccupyWallStreet urges you to assert your power. #Occupy #ows
(Source: occupytogether.org)
As many as a dozen #OccupyWallStreet protestors and their allies were arrested Thursday afternoon as they tried to stop a foreclosure auction inside a courthouse in Brooklyn, N.Y.
As the auctioneer called the proceeding to order, the protestors, who had been sitting quietly in the courtroom, broke into song. “Mrs. Auctioneer, all the people here are asking you to hold all the sales right now,” they sang, in surprising harmony. “We’re hoping to survive, but we don’t know how.”
(Source: truth-out.org)
@BusterBNYC of #OccupyWallStreet on Charlie Rose!! #ows
(Source: occupywallst.org)
