It’s that time of year again, where we make sure to take a break from the pervasive shuffle of organizing liberally to raise a glass and celebrate our collective accomplishments at the Drinking Liberally annual celebration!
This year bodes to be a particularly libatious occasion, as it is the 10th anniversary of the umbrella Living Liberally organization, which provides a crucial cultural underpinning to the ties that bind liberals across the country.
Before last year’s edition I opined on the importance of this cultural constituency through the prism of the powerful OWS Drinking Liberally events that occurred during the peak of the occupation of Zuccotti Park.
It was a perfect match. OWS is an idea, one whose time has come and which never could be evicted. And this is precisely why OWS is made manifest through so many cultural formats, which are so naturally able to express a central idea like this one.
Living Liberally is a platform to celebrate liberal culture, which finds direct alignment in the Occupy idea. Namely, that our political structures should serve us, the people — all of us.
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