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Tobin gets truly Terrible in this episode as he takes to the parking lots of Athens for impromptu Q&A with unsuspecting Creditland citizens! It's truly terrible what virtual situations these good people find themselves in and truly fascinating how they see themselves getting out...of the Creditland Radio House of Economic HORRORS!!!
Posted in Creditland Radio, Music and Words, Occupied Creditland, Occupy Wall Street, Personal Economies by creditland on October 26th, 2011 After working 7 years in a gas station, "It's like the American Dream is just that...a dream. People are being prevented in many manners...from making that dream a reality."
Posted in Creditland Radio, Music and Words, Occupied Creditland, Occupy Wall Street by creditland on October 26th, 2011 Interview, early AM Monday, October 24 with "Royalty," who splits time as a full time gas station manager, part time worker at another job, and online student to come down to Occupy Athens. Future post will include Royalty's cover of an Usher song.
Posted in Creditland Radio, Music and Words, Occupied Creditland, Occupy Wall Street by creditland on October 26th, 2011 Nightshift: 12a - 7a Monday morning. The 24 hour occupation is in its third week. Not my hour, but that's what makes for interesting reports.
Building towards Occupy Athens Unity March and Rally November 11.
Posted in Creditland Radio, Music and Words, Occupied Creditland, Occupy Wall Street by creditland on October 23rd, 2011 Oct. 22: Composed by a friend of Royalty. Just after General Assembly by the food - spontaneous protest jingles...
Posted in Creditland Radio, Occupied Creditland, Occupy Wall Street by creditland on October 23rd, 2011 Oct. 22: Thanks Jesse for the great meeting close and the shout out. Below is the rough draft of the speech I gave at tonight's General Assembly:
I have heard serious concerns from many of the people I have known since the Wednesday, October 4 planning meeting at Chase Street Warehouse. These are the people I have witnessed put forth the greatest effort and create a structure for Occupy Athens to hang its shingle from, something to build upon. What exists here now: These meetings, our information table, food, a 24 hour presence. These have been amazing achievements over a period of 14 days for sure. However these amazing gains come at a price.
It is these people who are here overnight and at every meeting who are growing weary. They need a break, and we need to organize according to our abilities and within our means. I believe this means we must transform the Occupation into a non-24 hour entity. I also think this gives Occupy Athens a chance to find for itself a new kind of Occupation.
Athens, Georgia sits in a unique place in the land of the United States of America. We are an urban area with many of the riches and tragedies that exist in major U.S. cities, but we are closest to the rural and suburban realities most Americans inhabit in their day to day lives.
We are smart, but we are realistic. We are not under the illusion that neighbors with very difficult politics are tucked away in some far away corner of America: They are our neighbors. They are our family, our co-workers, our mechanic, our flooring contractor, our truck drivers, our bartenders, our musicians. They are the essence of what living here is about. And most importantly, they are us. They accept Us: wacky Athens, Georgia.
This relationship is unique. There are few places I have been in the United States where these elements coexist so closely. I believe this gives our Occupy movement a unique purpose: To turn this message mainstream. To make it absolutely 100% NORMAL to consider oneself a supporter of the Occupy movement.
I envision small stickers of all kinds, bumper stickers, one of our volunteers, AJ said he’d take out to truck stops that say “We transport for the 99%” to hand out to Truckers, students in parking lots with flyers, windows in quads with each individual letter of We are the 99% spelled out, “Build Your Own Occupation in 5 Minutes” kits to hand out to people . We can build occupations in our dorm rooms, out in our stables, and at our pottery store.
I envision walking down the streets of Athens and seeing We are the 99% posters in every single residential window - we can print them up on card stock and students can be dispatched to hand them out for free by neighborhood. There is nothing stopping us from these goals.
Except for one important thing: Ourselves. If we are stretched TOO thin. If our personal lives are in CHAOS. If we are pursuing goals because we think we ‘should’ instead of because we believe it is the best use of our energy and our time - these are what will bring us down.
But more than that, we will topple every beautiful piece of what we have built here when we decide it is more important to turn the discussion inward towards individuals and values our group has never discussed in General Assembly. The rules are clear: We have agreed upon our Values and Conduct and Proceedures by which any member of the movement may change them. You must bring your issues personally to General Assembly. Only in person can we build trust. Only in person are we truly accountable to what we say. That is why we rely upon General Assembly and the Record’s Created from Them to be our Guides forward: Because we know they are the words of trustworthy human beings. All other words hold the weight of the media.
That is why I am making a proposal tonight. I propose that for every Comment members of Occupy Athens leave on Facebook they speak to one person personally in their lives about the Occupy movement and see if they won’t put a sign on their door.
I propose that for every Status and or New Topic of Discussion posted to a Group 853 People are seeing, you go out and PERSONALLY speak to 3 people in your life about this movement.
And to the 853 people on our Facebook Group: Come and pick up your Mini-Occupation Kits, they’ll be ready next week - especially if you help make them.
Inward discussion is destructive and vain. The beauty of the Occupation is that it isn’t about you or me - it’s about the person who is waiting for you to find them, to reach out to them, to validate them and to show them: It’s 100 percent normal to support the Occupy movement.
I love Occupy Athens and I believe Occupy Athens should love its host Athens, Georgia back by going out, in organized groups, with LOTS of printed materials, and giving Athens, Georgia the biggest collective HUG it ever got.
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