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user-inactivated  ·  3884 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Lil's Book of Questions: When Have You Felt the Most Free?

Middle of the night, Occupy LA





lil  ·  3884 days ago  ·  link  ·  

the Occupy was an amazing time...when people get together like that, to share, discuss, create, protest, imagine alternatives, it seems as though anything is possible.

Owl  ·  3883 days ago  ·  link  ·  

It really was something amazing. It was a time when I think everyone was caught off guard and people felt like they could freely air out their long-held grievances with the way things were going. It had supporters the likes of Judith Butler, Lemony Snicket, and I personally will never forget this one by composer Philip Glass:

In those times you could really figure out who to look up to.