Occupy Wall St.
Okay, so things are happening quickly, we’re excited and if you haven’t gone to your local Occupy Wall St, you should get off the computer and GET. THERE. NOW.
I’m assuming the people who are still here are tired from getting back from their local Occupy Wall St, are still there and accessing the internet from some sort of smart device, or are lazy liars.
This has been an interesting one: there’s been a telling split on the advice giving front as soon as this started blowing up. People who we tend to like and listen to (not that we always agree with anyone), like Naomi Klein and Michael Moore and some of the people over at Kasama (amid the about fifteen hundred other sources we pay attention to), chose not to emphasize criticism and guidance and instead stress support and encouragement as well as observation (i.e., lefties shouldn’t regurgitate dogma, they should see what is happening and respond to that). People who we tend to ignore and hate cough cough Nicholas Kristoff cough were all ready with plans and programs, suggestions aplenty to turn this new thing into something safe and classifiable or aseptic and dead.
Guess which camp we want to be in?
That said, we couldn’t help but notice that we were featured in the Occupied Wall Street Journal as the Get Educated activity: Historyisaweapon.com. Holy smokes. So we’d suggest people read our entire site, top to bottom. Not that there aren’t some readings one might find particularly interesting in this moment.
Anyway, we’re like a lot of you: excited and interested, curious where this thing is headed, and trying to figure out how we can help. As everyone loves to point out: democracy is not a spectator sport, so we’re out participating, maybe we’ll see you out there. Spread the word.
