I Occupied Wall Street, and All I Got Was This T-Shirt

Notes at Occupy Wall Street:

dirty hippies and hardhats mad at capitalism

misunderstood drum circle pot smoke

cops – horses – rifles

small area – lots of cops

wide range of people – old young black white blue collar no collar

wall street closed off

not co-opted – no endorsements

the 99% - my idea

t-shirt screen printing – my idea

they stole so many of my ideas.

well organized: sanitary station, food line, recycle, compost, speeches, a charging station

growing worldwide – under/over reported in corpora media

speak back circles - the logistics of an occupation

little grungy revolution kids cuddling under a tarp

why am I scared, intimidated, and bored by protest?

so beautiful I felt like crying

Occupy Wall Street is bad ass - the coolest spot on earth

but

besides getting a t-shirt and taking a few pictures, most of us don’t know how to participate

including me