(Un)Occupy Movement

also see Musoy’s musings 4 essays

“Easy,” she said. “You got to have patience. Why, Tom—
us people will go on livin’ when all them people is gone.
Why, Tom, we’re the people that live. They ain’t gonna
wipe us out. Why, we’re the people—we go on . . .

“. . . we keep a-comin’. Don’t you fret none, Tom.
A different time’s comin’. ”

   - Ma Joad to her son Tom,
   from The Grapes of Wrath
   by John Steinbeck

“If you have come to help me, you are wasting your time.
But if you have come because your liberation is bound up
with mine, then let us work together.”

   - attributed to Lilla Watson,
   yet probably from a collective process of Aboriginal
   activists’ groups, Queensland, Australia, 1970s

Contents page
Introduction 10
Popular Uprisings . . . . . Mankh 13
Extreme Heat . . . . . Austin Aoyagi 16
(Un) Occupy Movement Consciousness . . . . . Onan Musoy 19
what do i say to a crowd like this . . . . . Tiokasin Ghosthorse 22
An Indigenous Platform Proposal for “Occupy Denver” 23 . . . . . Glenn T. Morris
Awake . . . . . Ghada Chehade 27
An Open Letter to ‘Occupy Wall Street’: A Lenape Perspective - 29
12 October 2011 . . . . . Steven Newcomb
A New Day . . . . . A. Molotkov 33Occupy(s) . . . . . Mankh 34
Thoughts on the Occupations . . . . . Tiokasin Ghosthorse 37
Ode to a Dying System . . . . . Ghada Chehade 38
Waziyatawin at Occupy Oakland - November 12, 2011 . . . . . 40 Waziyatawin
the battle of Wounded Soul . . . . . . . . . Stacey Gunnard 46
Today a sadness lies in the fears of Americans . . . 48 . . . . . Tiokasin Ghosthorse
In All Countries He Is Listening . . . . . Mankh 53
Two Poems for the Occupy Revolution . . . . . Arya F. Jenkins 55
Learn How to Win from Movements of the Past . . . . . Aric McBay 57
Red, White & Blue, and Other Colors . . . . . Ruth Sabath Rosenthal 64
Return the Black Hills . . . . . Tiokasin Ghosthorse 65
First delivered by megaphone at Occupy Oakland - 67 November 12, 2011 . . . . . Lierre Keith
snail moving steadily . . . . . . . . Mankh 72
Natural Peregrinations . . . . . Buffalo (tou tovxa) 73
Homegrown . . . . . Jordan Krais 76
A Revolution On Its Way 77 & “Zuccotti Park, The Revolution of an Idea” . . . . . Arya F. Jenkins
The Impending Election . . . . . David B. Axelrod 82
The Role of Social Media in the Movement . . . . . Onan Musoy83
When all Heaven breaks loose . . . . . Mankh 85
Whom Are You Serving? - Oakland Talk - November 12, 2011 87
. . . . . Derrick Jensen
Occupy Movement . . . . . . . . Maria Manobianco 100
Outside in the Cold . . . . . Robert Savino 101
How . . . . . A. Molotkov 102
In order for Mother Earth to continue to live . . . . . 103 . . . . . Tiokasin Ghosthorse
The Shifting of the World Occupation Center 105
& Shapes Whose Time Have Come . . . . . Mankh
Kindness . . . . . Kaveri Patel 116
Investitude . . . . . J R Turek 117
Some Choices and Implications for a Popular Movement 118 . . . . . Onan Musoy
We Are the Ones . . . . . Ghada Chehade 123
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Notes and Acknowledgments 126
About the Authors 133
Thanks 139
Suggested Reading, Viewing, and Listening140