New Additions

There are some new additions to speak of today.

One great big, varied addition is support from different unions, labor groups and workers in general.  I've been hearing support from nurses unions, steel workers unions, pilots unions, transit workers unions, school employees, marines,  etc.  I heard a number somewhere around 135 from the Boston but I don't know if that means in Boston or all over.  There's a sizeable list here.  It's pretty impressive when the Transit Union Workers Union makes a stand  and tells NYPD they will not to drive busses that are taking protesters to jail.  This is so important!
Tomorrow there is also a nation wide student walk out.  They are walking out of classes and joining a march all in schools over the place.  Go students!
Another new addition is Occupy Worcester!  There's a group working on this and we're figuring out a time to have a first meeting! 
Occupy Wall Street has opened an art exhibit.  How awesome!

A set back, but also a positive thing, is that Occupy Boston at Dewey Square is at capacity.  So this is fantastic in that there are so many people there. It's a bummer in that my plan was to be there all weekend and I don't particularly want to spend the money to come back and forth on the T.  I guess we'll give it a go. 

Other good news is that Occupy Wall Street has created a document called Declaration of the Occupation of New York City.  It's basically an official statement that was accepted at the General Assembly stating their mission and (still) vague goals.  But it also addresses the reason for the vagueness and where they're going from there.  you can read it here.

Something discouraging I've been seeing are online comments.  Mostly people who agree with the basic gist of the movement that have gripes about tactics or specifics.  Just on quick glance people are saying we shouldn't be looking for support of the unions, that we should be occupying a government building area, you should be doing this, you shouldn't be doing that.  Democracy is messy and people are hard to please.  In a way I feel that is because we are a product of our environments.  It's just a a little overwhelming and chaotic.

Something to leave you with...
By Lupe Fiasco, the American rapper
Hey Moneyman the crowd is outside. The past, the future and the now is outside. The teachers and cooks and the drop-outs too. Word on the street is they looking for you…
Hey Moneyman they saying what’s the score? And how much blood have you spilled on the butcher shop floor? Those numbers keep running but what they running into? The crowd is outside and they asking of you…
Hey Moneyman Moneyman the mayor’s on the phone. He says he wants to know if all those people went home. Those momma’s and poppa’s and students and cooks. Those teachers and preachers, one second I’ll look…
Hey Moneyman Moneyman the tents are still up, the songs are still singing and the coffee’s in cups. The nights due to fall and the sun’s going down but its still a whole mess of good folks hanging ’round…
They eyes are wide and their voices are loud. Its white and black and colorless proud. The signs are big and the smiles are bright. By heaven I reckon its gone be one hell of a night!
Hey Moneyman poor Moneyman you should slip out the back. Cuz’ the forces of greed are under attack. No bombs or bullets or rocks or guns. Just hashtags and voices at the tops of their lungs!
And Moneyman Moneyman I wont need a ride. But if you need me…
You can find me outside.
By Wasalu “Lupe Fiasco” Jaco
#OccupyWallStreet