Post by dudetyson on Oct 15, 2011 18:00:48 GMT -6
Hey, I haven't read the various goings-on of the forum, I've been hella-busy with apartment hunting, job hunting, and Occupy Philly, but I promise I'll get around to it.
I'm just hyper-stoked because I reached a new record today. Previously the largest crowd I had ever spoken in front of was 100 people. Today I broke that ceiling and I don't know the exact count but I know it was at least 3-400 people if not somewhere up near a thousand.
It was an antiwar rally, combined with a large contingent of marchers who came over from the tent city at Occupy Philly. In fact the Occupy people composed the overwhelming majority of the crowd.
It was a very brief speech, which is unusual for me. But it still got the point across. Most important, the location: IN FRONT OF THE BUILDING WHERE THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE WAS SIGNED. Why that matters, will make more sense when you read this excerpt of the speech:
"It feels, significant, to be here among the symbols of democracy’s beginnings. But more than two centuries after the American Revolution, we have to ask – where is that democracy? We still don't have it.
Where is our democracy, when wars that consistently do not have majority consent, as objectively revealed in polls, continue?
Down the street there is another movement: Occupy Wall Street. But I think the two movements, are one. Both have a common problem: the government of the 1%. The government of millionaires.
There is a bottom-line commonality between people being sent to die in wars, under someone else’s command and for someone else’s benefit, and an economy where people die a day at a time, in offices and factories, always falling behind, under someone else’s command and for someone else’s benefit. The system of the 1%.
What Wikileaks revealed, is that our government is so conscious of its own illegitimacy, that it feels the need to hide, everything. When all real decisions are made without public consent, everything, is a potential embarrassment."
So, that's how I spent my Saturday, how bout you? If some do-nothing troll critic wants to have a dick-measuring contest about "offline manifesting," just send them to me. }:-] [/color]
I'm just hyper-stoked because I reached a new record today. Previously the largest crowd I had ever spoken in front of was 100 people. Today I broke that ceiling and I don't know the exact count but I know it was at least 3-400 people if not somewhere up near a thousand.
It was an antiwar rally, combined with a large contingent of marchers who came over from the tent city at Occupy Philly. In fact the Occupy people composed the overwhelming majority of the crowd.
It was a very brief speech, which is unusual for me. But it still got the point across. Most important, the location: IN FRONT OF THE BUILDING WHERE THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE WAS SIGNED. Why that matters, will make more sense when you read this excerpt of the speech:
"It feels, significant, to be here among the symbols of democracy’s beginnings. But more than two centuries after the American Revolution, we have to ask – where is that democracy? We still don't have it.
Where is our democracy, when wars that consistently do not have majority consent, as objectively revealed in polls, continue?
Down the street there is another movement: Occupy Wall Street. But I think the two movements, are one. Both have a common problem: the government of the 1%. The government of millionaires.
There is a bottom-line commonality between people being sent to die in wars, under someone else’s command and for someone else’s benefit, and an economy where people die a day at a time, in offices and factories, always falling behind, under someone else’s command and for someone else’s benefit. The system of the 1%.
What Wikileaks revealed, is that our government is so conscious of its own illegitimacy, that it feels the need to hide, everything. When all real decisions are made without public consent, everything, is a potential embarrassment."
So, that's how I spent my Saturday, how bout you? If some do-nothing troll critic wants to have a dick-measuring contest about "offline manifesting," just send them to me. }:-] [/color]