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Present, protest and mindfulness
Slavoj Žižek spoke to the New York Occupiers at Zuccotti Park on October 9:
They tell you we are dreamers. The true dreamers are those who think things can go on
indefinitely the way they are. We are not dreamers. We are awakening from a dream
which is turning into a nightmare. We are not destroying anything. We are only
witnessing how the system is destroying itself. We all know the classic scenes from
cartoons. The cat reaches a precipice. But it goes on walking. Ignoring the fact that
there is nothing beneath. Only when it looks down and notices it, it falls down. This is
what we are doing here. We are telling the guys there on Wall Street – Hey, look down!

Eric and I helped start the New Orleans Common Ground Health Clinic after Hurricane Katrina. He just finished the OWS walk from New York City to Washington, DC.

Nurses United was one of the first national unions to actively support Occupy Wall Street.

+Why are the police protecting the banksters and arresting the 99%?
Empty Franklin School occupied and liberated, then shut down by the state. 11/19/11.
"The Franklin building is a public building that belongs to the people of DC and must be put to use for the benefit of the community to meet the greatest community need. It is not surplus, and the people of DC will not allow the government to give it away or sell it to private developers to turn it into a boutique hotel!"
Info: occupydc.org/call-to-action-support-the-liberation-and--public-use-of-franklin-school/

Empty Franklin School occupied and liberated, then shut down by the state. 11/19/11.
"The Franklin building is a public building that belongs to the people of DC and must be put to use for the benefit of the community to meet the greatest community need. It is not surplus, and the people of DC will not allow the government to give it away or sell it to private developers to turn it into a boutique hotel!"
Info: occupydc.org/call-to-action-support-the-liberation-and-public-use-of-franklin-school/
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