November 14, 2011

carnivaloftherandom:

cognitivedissonance:

This is a big deal. Dan Siegel, legal adviser to Oakland, Calif. Mayor Jean Quan, resigned over the brutalization of Occupy Oakland protesters and says he now supports the Occupy Wall Street movement. Approximately an hour ago, he wrote on Twitter, “No longer Mayor Quan’s legal advisor. Resigned at 2 am. Support Occupy Oakland, not the 1% and its government facilitators.”

This came after he encouraged people to mobilize to Occupy Oakland late last night, where another raid resulted in upwards of 32 arrests, according to Occupy Oakland leaders. Police declared the park a crime scene Monday and forced media to leave.

If more high-ranking municipal officials have an attack of conscience and do the right thing, what then? It appears city and state governments are already a titch frightened of the Occupy movement. If their own people refuse to obey or resign in protest, perhaps it will be time to take this a little more seriously. Change from the bottom on up, folks.

I think OWS is making it possible for people to be UN-captured by the system. Most of us know we have a line we won’t cross, most of us are never confronted with being part of a a system where it is demanded we cross that line. 

This is, I believe, what happens when we lose our fear of the machine and regain our humanity. That’s beautiful. 

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    Awesome. Cut off the limbs of the 1% one by one and soon they won’t have a leg to stand on. Without us, they have no one...
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    I’d elect this guy for just about anything, at this point. Integrity above self-interest is lamentably rare.
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