The Occupation Party
To The Awake & Inspired,This Saturday at 5pm we take:
Times Square...with music, performance and a message that the people of this country - not the banks, not the corporations - hold the true power.
It's a rare moment that a grass roots protest movement takes over the national conversation. From the Occupation of Wall St., a thrilling national movement has emerged.
This Saturday, October 15th, hundreds of cities across the country will host demonstrations in support of the #Occupy movement. In New York City, dozens of community groups, unions, student organizations and lots and lots of regular folk are taking to the streets in a mass protest that will culminate in Times Square at 5pm, then moving (by train party!) downtown.
You are invited to be a part of it. Come join the Occupation Party and participate in a stunning moment expressing hope and a new vision for the future - and showing our solidarity with the people who have already been occupying Wall Street for weeks.
Meet at the TKTS kiosk in the north section. From our street carnival in Times Sq. we will take the protest party to the trains and head downtown.
Together we are the tipping point.
You know, this thing feels like, if it's fed well and nurtured, it will organize itself into an effective driver for change. Hopefully constant change. That's what will make society stable, is an ability to absorb and disperse the effects of the one inevitable thing in life, which is not death, but change.
Death is subjective. Do we die when our bodies cease to function, or when the mind that gives it balance or the spirit that animate it disperse back into nothingness and creative well of the Universe, or only when all three have happened? Do we all have to take our minds any further than this life, or do some just come here, live this life, 'die', and then really end, become the new (ancient, eternal) Source? Surely some remain cohesive beyond physical death, we've all had some encounter, and those who haven't just aren't meant to experience that. Lack of experience doesn't prove lack of existence, so anything trying to say anything is impossible or non-existent is a moot argument. And the argument of death is kind of like that, but in any case it's not necessarily inevitable, since if any one entity maintains mind and/or spirit beyond body, that entity has the capacity of being effectively eternal. But then even the entity that lives one life and dissolves back into the aether lives what is, to it, an eternity. It's own eternity, at least. If it's not aware of anything beyond that, then effectively for that entity what exists beyond it is also moot.
But change will happen, no matter what, and the more we're individually and collectively able to roll with it without having to conform to it, the better off we all are. I hope this movement becomes what it has the potential to be. For it to last this long and remain relatively civilized speaks pretty darn well to participants on all sides. Glad to see it. Thank you, to those of you who are making the effort to be heard without forcing your perspectives, to be examples for the kind of change we'd all like to see. I kinda wish we could be there too now, but I'm sure everyone who can't and who is rooting for you will do our best to hold down the fort in the rest of the country.
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