Check out my post on Occupy Burners today: 5 Lessons for Occupy Wall Street from Burning Man. Burning Man and other countercultural movements such as…
Category: Journalism
Gratitude
Posted in Life, and Occupy Wall Street
Arlo Guthrie, the great folk singer and composer of “Alice’s Restaurant,” says a lot of what I want to say better than I can: I…
Feline Occupation
Posted in Life, and Occupy Wall Street
My cat, the frumious bandersnatch, has been an indoor cat for much of her life. Often due to circumstances she had limited living space. At…
Occupy Burners
Posted in Life, and Occupy Wall Street
Hey everyone — a lot has happened since the last time I wrote here. Two days after posting my call to Burners to Occupy I attended…
3 Reasons Burners Should Join Occupy Wall Street
Posted in Austin, Burning Man, Life, and Occupy Wall Street
Around 1:00am on Tuesday, Nov 15th, the NYPD moved in to clear Zuccotti Park of all protestors and equipment. Over the next 12 hours, both independent and mainstream journalists were prevented from covering the story, and 8 credentialed journalists (including AP, NPR, NY Daily News) were arrested.
When I wrote about my first visit to Occupy Austin, I mentioned in passing that I have the chronic illness fibromyalgia. My post in support…