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Dec.16.2011
While reading the Facebook roll for Occupy Bakersfield, I came across another group: Occupy Kern River Valley or Occupy KRV. Yippee! They're going to Occupy my hick little valley! I won't have to drive to Bakersfield or Los Angeles! After running some errands, I set...
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Dec.16.2011
Using my little smarty pants phone, I found Occupy Seattle. Being technically advanced, the Seattleites made their website quite clear. They, too, were marching. In fact, they were taking a bridge, too, but at the convenient time of 3PM. Again, not knowing the...
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Dec.13.2011
Unfortunately, I arrived in Portland around midnight heading into the second day after they'd been evacuated from the park. Using the Internet, I knew they were holding a meeting indoors the following night, but I didn't know where I was, exactly, to know where the assembly was,...
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Nov.06.2011
Occupy Bakersfield
After returning from my three hour trip to Occupy LA, I learned that my nearer city of Bakersfield planned their own Occupation. I found them on Facebook and attended their first General Assembly. The group consisted of mostly early twenty-somethings who...
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Nov.01.2011
Back in LA for an afternoon on business, we headed over to the Occupation before running more errands. Again, it was a weekday. Again, the mood was subdued. As we wandered around the hodge-podge of makeshift housing looking for the supplies tent, my husband remarked, "They...
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Oct.28.2011
I do not believe in Civil Disobedience. Civil Disobedience is a misnomer. It is our civic responsibility to act out when government no longer treats its citizens with civility. As a youngster I was drawn to movements demonstrated a true spirit of community such as the...
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