occupy | occupy
Mar.31.2013
Once again we saw a trend that indicates the Occupy movement is correct.
Once again, must people remain oblivious.
The Occupy Wall Street and collateral grass roots organizations occupy to protest greed. They're also protesting double standards, expressing frustration about how the system is...
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Oct.02.2012
Another good day. I'm in that writing - working - living zone where all goes well and I enjoy everything.
Now -
Down in my brain's city is a little man walking around and grumbling. A sour fellow, he predicts, "This won't last. It's going to end. It always does. Life is going to slap you ignorant,...
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Sep.18.2012
The Occupy Wall Street movement began in New York last September and quickly spread around the country -- then, inevitably, in the age of instant information, the world. But just as quickly, it petered out.
Here in San Francisco, the protest began the same week the iPhone 4S came out and...
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Jun.01.2012
Son Jason arrived promptly at 10 a.m. to find me in bed. He was going to Occupy activities and to pay up to our benefactors at the corner for all their good will toward us recently.
Soon I was up, turning on my newly recorded iTune library and starting to sort through a formidable...
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May.29.2012
What principle do you hold dearest? What sense of American identity matters most to you? If I put a question— say, What do you stand for?—what answer resounds with total conviction?
My friend and I were at lunch, discussing our usual topic: The Impasse, aka the gulf between what we know...
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Feb.09.2012
Mind occupies itself,
no matter how much it protests itself.
Self tries to evict itself,
in vain.
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Feb.05.2012
More than once upon a time, mass protest movements have arisen in this country. In some of these, I have been privileged to witness and take part. If you believe there might be something to learn from experience, read on and judge for yourself. In three sections, I describe my personal...
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Dec.31.2011
There’s a little New Year’s ritual I do. Before midnight, I write on two pieces of paper: one lists all I wish to leave behind in the old year, the other all that I hope will manifest in the new year. Before the old year ends, I burn the first paper down to ash and discard it. After the clock...
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Dec.22.2011
When Bay Area poets Robert Hass, Brenda Hillman, and Geoffery G. O'Brien were beaten by police during a peaceful protest at Occupy Berkeley, the answer to the question the headline poses was answered in dramatic fashion.
The news spread quickly in the poetry community. We were astonished, horrified...
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Dec.20.2011
On the way to my first March on Wall Street in San Francisco, I ask a cop for directions. “Excuse me, do you know the way to the Federal Reserve?” With all the ruckus over Occupy Oakland across the bay, I wonder if he might arrest me preemptively. Instead, he gives me directions, although I end up...
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