The Occupy Seattle folks will be descending on Wallingford on Thanksgiving, but you won’t be seeing any pepper spray, just pepper jelly:
Occupy Seattle is pleased to announce a community Thanksgiving potluck on Thursday 11/24/2011 at Gas Works Park at 2:00pm. We celebrate the community we have created, the kindness and support we have received, and the hope we are inspiring by our work to shine the light on economic injustice. We gather as a community in support of Occupy Seattle and Occupy Wall Street. There is room for everybody at this Thanksgiving table, all 99% of us!
More than 20 volunteers will be making food for over 100 people. Folks interested in joining the community meal are invited to sign up at: www.luckypotluck.com/potluck/OccupySeattleThanksgiving
Their listing on their web site also notes that “Ideas with accompanying implementers welcome! Would you like to organize transportation for the Occupiers? Connect us with musicians who would like to give their time and talents to this event? We will soon be posting a registry for people who would like to provide a cooked dish or hook up with supplies to prepare some food for this meal.”
If this pumpkin pie was the wealth of the United States, the wealthiest 1% would eat this much (munchmunchmuch) while the remaining 99% would be left with this munch (munchmunchmunch). Here, let me show you again with that plate of yams.
the website does no twork
Just need to cut and paste it. Quite a list of folks already!
well at least their smell will blend with the transfer station
Hope they leave quickly and don’t consider camping out at Gasworks after they get the boot from Seattle Central. Last thing we need is more bums around.
The meal sounds like a great idea.
(Also, I’m hoping the last two commenters don’t actually live in Wallingford.)
I am a resident of the Wallingford neighborhood.
I am as well. We are not all class-warfare supporting liberals here. Surprise DOUG!
Although I support the ideal of “OCCUPY”, after that silly ass stunt they pulled last week by grid locking rush hour traffic, I hope their turkey learns to swim!
Steve
I guess as long as we’re stereotyping and keeping score you can put me in the class-warfare supporting liberal category.
@ shibbyd – No, clearly you’re a class-warfare supporting aristocrat or a brainwashed right-wing stooge.
How hypocritical pretending to be above “class warfare,” while branding debt-ridden student activists and advocates for the working poor “bums.”
i am also a class warfare screaming liberal, but I do not go for holding up rush hour… thats juvenile and only hurts many who dotn have the luxury of leavign or not having jobs.. the RICH were not inconvenien ced at all. Many middle class were inconvenienced in a way which separates them more from Occupy and reduces the power an d potential of Occupy when they harm those for whom they ssuposedly act.
Methinks those complaining about the longer rush hour for one day were not very sympathetic to the movement in the first place.
It isn’t about sympathy. Most people can easily identify with the core complaints of the Occupy movement, but many of us are disgusted with how the movement quickly became tainted and started using pathetic tactics.
Pathetic tactics like marching for a cause… how dare they.
“Says you”, you know very well that marching for a cause is not what I’m referring to. But I’ll spell it out for you anyway: trespassing, goading the police and then feigning to be victims of police brutality, harassing people, and blocking traffic. All those tactics just make the movement lose credibility–and they have turned what could have been a positive instrument for change into a polarizing, destructive force.
“Feigning police brutality?” I could hyperlink quite a few youtube videos for you…
As far as trespassing and blocking traffic, perhaps you’re unfamiliar with a form of non-violent protest called civil disobedience, however I suspect you had already labeled occupiers as “trouble-makers” from the beginning.
So creating problems for people that support the cause “we” are fighting for is a good thing?! Where do you think the financial and material support is coming from that is being asked for (and given) on the Occupy Seattle website?! From people that are fortunate enough to have a job.
Last Thursday it took me 20 minutes to get from Meridian to I-5, and another 15 minutes to get past the Roanoke exit all because of the march. I was trying to get to a non-profit board meeting benifiting our community. I wish I could have planned better by leaving earlier, BUT I WAS WORKING.
Steve
Thanks for this. I support OWS and Occupy Seattle!
ONE day worth of traffic hold-up. Not even a whole day. Babies.
If any humane and just group wants a ghost of a chance to secure widespread attention for its cause, it must generate dynamic situations that media organizations can’t easily ignore. Hundreds of thousands of committed individuals came together in massive, peaceful, creative and *permitted* protests against U.S. aggression in Iraq. These protests were usually conducted on designated routes, cordoned off and weekended: completely segregated from the “public”. Without disruptions and without the public, they became virtually invisible events to all but the participants.
The 99% must use tactics that are peaceful but disruptive to business as usual, because business as usual is a disaster. Agitating without effect and agitating without discomfort is useless. In the short run, good people may be inconvenienced, but good people will think bigger than themselves. In the long run, good people will be salvaged and enhanced, and their communities made more whole by the efforts of groups like OWS.
Thank you, Jack!
Happy Thanksgiving everyone…
that helps me to understand, thank you walkinroun
I was on a bus that was re-routed by just one block to avoid the march on the University Bridge. The march was a peaceful protest with calm Seattle police escorts. The bus was not delayed at all. Traffic wasn’t even bad. But there is much more to talk about here than traffic on a single day. Glad to hear the movement is celebrating together today at Gas Works. If I weren’t otherwise committed during that time period today, I would gladly join them — rain and all.