Occupy Wall Street -- A Photo Diary from 11.2.2011

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Sunday November 06, 2011 · 1:05 PM PST

2011/11/06 · 13:05

On Wednesday, I went to Zuccotti Park with some warm clothes and some Halloween candy. I'd wanted to post these that evening, but got a stomach thing and -- well, here I am five days later. Things change very quickly at each Occupy Together site, but some things don't change: the passion of the people there and of the people supporting them, and the important work they are doing. Every day I wear my "Support the Occupation of Wall Street" button, and every day people ask me whether I think it's doing anything. Inevitably, the talk turns to injustice and inequity, and I point out that these conversations are now taking place all over the world, and that it's clear that the Occupation movement is "doing something."

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Sunday October 16, 2011 · 11:11 AM PDT

2011/10/16 · 11:11

My husband, docbrooklyn, and I were at Times Square yesterday for the gathering. We were at the southern end of the rally, between 42nd and 43rd Streets. This is a brief recap of our time there.

The three trains that go to Times Square from our neighborhood in Brooklyn happened, coincidentally, to be shut down for track work, so we improvised a new route and got to 42nd Street at about 5:30. First we headed east toward the sound of people chanting on Sixth Avenue. We saw the marchers coming uptown from Zuccotti and then Washington Square Park, a total of about three miles. They were limited to the sidewalk, and blocked from the street by a barricade. Given what we knew about the cops and their recent behavior toward the protesters, we didn't join them. We don't do close crowds penned in by barricades.

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Thursday October 06, 2011 · 6:48 AM PDT

2011/10/06 · 06:48

Today was my first visit to Occupy Wall Street. I went to Costco yesterday to pick up some stuff they needed, like personal hygiene supplies, band-aids, batteries, pens, paper, a box of granola bars. I was amazed when I got there. This little city, this cooperative society, this constantly evolving, organic group has sprouted and is growing in the middle of the financial district. The occupiers are extremely well-organized. See?

edsbrooklyn

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Tuesday May 04, 2010 · 7:28 AM PDT

2010/05/04 · 07:28

Forty years ago today, Allison Krause, Jeff Miller, Sandy Scheuer and Bill Schroeder were murdered by the Ohio National Guard on the campus of Kent State University, where they were students. Just typing that gives me goosebumps, even now. In the midst of some very sad weeks in our country -- the environmental disaster unfolding along the Gulf Coast, sanctioned racism in Arizona, women's rights lost in Oklahoma, DADT still denying civil rights to LGBT people in the military, a car bomb attempt a few miles north of here -- it is important to remember who we are and where we come from.

This is a re-posting from three years ago with very slight editing; the story will always be timely, but I hope that the 40th anniversary of this terrible event in our history will get the attention it deserves and that the diary plays some small part in that.

After the jump, first go see what's happening today in Kent.

edsbrooklyn

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Friday September 11, 2009 · 4:41 AM PDT

2009/09/11 · 04:41

Eight years ago today, everything changed. What follows is an essay I wrote a few weeks afterward, with additions six months and a year later. I chose not to add more to it -- how much has happened since then! The names have been changed.

A long-ago dream

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Wednesday November 05, 2008 · 2:40 PM PST

2008/11/05 · 14:40

As you might be able to tell from my username, I live in Brooklyn, New York. I was a wholehearted John Edwards supporter until I had to choose someone else four days before Super Tuesday. After four days of talking to people, researching and agonizing over my decision, I voted for my Senator, Hillary Clinton. Several weeks later, as her campaign began to implode, I found myself moving quickly to Barack Obama. It didn’t take long.

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Monday July 28, 2008 · 6:24 AM PDT

2008/07/28 · 06:24

Not a real diary, but an important announcement. Are you in New York City? Do you want the DNC to include your ideas in the Democratic platform? Can you write quickly?

A friend just sent me this:

Obama 2008, the DNC and the New York Democratic Lawyers Council invite YOU to help write the Democratic Party's Platform

July 24, 2008

Join us and help write the next chapter in the history of the Democratic Party.

To develop this year's Democratic Platform, the Obama campaign together with the Democratic National Committee is reaching out to people all across the country to talk about which issues are most important to them and what should be at the heart of the Democratic platform for change.

Join us next week as we come together to focus on issues of human right, civil rights and governance.

Open Platform Meeting - Voting Rights, Human Rights, Civil Justice
July 29, 6:30-9:00PM (Tomorrow!)
1301 Avenue of the Americas

Open Platform Meeting - Regulatory Affairs, Separation of Powers & Rule of Law
July 30, 6:30-9:00PM (Wednesday!)
1285 Avenue of the Americas

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Thursday June 21, 2007 · 9:28 AM PDT

2007/06/21 · 09:28

Last evening I went to a memorial service for a friend -- a 44 year old woman with a loving husband and two small children, one of whom has type 1 diabetes. She died of a brain tumor just three months after diagnosis.

As I do every few weeks, yesterday morning I went with my son to his appointment at a children's cancer and hematology clinic, where we spent the day hanging out with kids with cancer, leukemia, sickle cell and other diseases, and their families.

Another young friend died of pancreatic cancer on May 24, leaving his wonderful wife and their lovely 12 year old daughter behind.

Carnacki did a wonderful but terrifying Cancer Roll Call diary back on March 28 and we learned that virtually everyone at Daily Kos has been touched by cancer personally, often intimately.

Can you guess where I'm going with this?

edsbrooklyn

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Friday May 04, 2007 · 5:11 AM PDT

2007/05/04 · 05:11

In light of the recent events at Virginia Tech, I hesitated for a bit before posting this diary, but the shootings at Kent State University were a defining moment, both in our history and in my life, and so they deserve to be remembered. I apologize if the diary brings additional pain to anyone.

update: kestrel9000's diary has an important historical and musical perspective on the events.

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