Sunday, January 15, 2012

Occupy MLK: #RealityNotWhitewashing

While we can’t know exactly how Dr. King would feel about the endless parade of US military interventions, his thoughts on another brutal intercession are also on the record. The Vietnamese, he said, “must see Americans as strange liberators ... For it occurs to me that what we are submitting them to in Vietnam is not simply the brutalizing process that goes on in any war where armies face each other and seek to destroy.”

King then sagely and prophetically added: “We are adding cynicism to the process of death, for they must know after a short period there that none of the things we claim to be fighting for are really involved ... What do they think as we test our latest weapons on them, just as the Germans tested out new medicine and new tortures in the concentration camps of Europe?”

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One of my recent OWS photos:

imagine a heart
an atomic heart so warm
it melts barricades


Posted on 01/15 at 07:33 AM
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Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Occupy Your Heart: #FeelMoreThinkLess

My mother passed away four years ago on January 12, 2008. This experience is still teaching me previously unimaginable lessons about grief, sorrow, and loss because even in her death, my mother gave me one last, loving gift: My heart became broken open.

I fight it. Deny it. Defy it. Try to think it away but so many events in my life since January 12, 2008 keep bringing me back to the accepting that my heart is broken open—perhaps for a reason.

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One of my recent photos:

Choose sides

Posted on 01/11 at 09:16 PM
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Sunday, January 08, 2012

Occupy No Demands: #ChooseUtopiaOverReform

For nearly four months, we’ve heard some version of this simplistic gripe about Occupy Wall Street (OWS): But what are their demands?

To ask such a question is to willingly succumb to the craven compliance that conscientiously cloaks a commodity culture. If only OWS would just put itself in a damn box—with a familiar, easily identifiable label, of course—it would make life so much easier for those who’ve long surrendered the capacity for critical thought.

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One of my recent OWS photos:

#MicCheck

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Courtesy of Rick the Cartoonist:

(More cartoons here)

Posted on 01/08 at 09:09 PM
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