{"id":714,"date":"2012-04-06T13:58:28","date_gmt":"2012-04-06T20:58:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nowforourturn.org\/CosmicReflections\/?p=714"},"modified":"2012-04-06T15:59:34","modified_gmt":"2012-04-06T22:59:34","slug":"why-i-occupy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nowforourturn.org\/CosmicReflections\/2012\/04\/06\/why-i-occupy\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I Occupy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As we come out of the introspective pause in Occupy activism and burst into the American Spring, the season of extraversion, here\u2019s what I\u2019ve come to realize about Why I Occupy. First, let me be absolutely clear that I am basically a raging introvert whose primary color is self-reflective blue\u2026the exact opposite on the color wheel from the blazing orange of that\u2019s come to symbolize the Occupy movement.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nowforourturn.org\/CosmicReflections\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/I-Occupy-Bumper-StickerOrange.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-722\" title=\"I-Occupy-Bumper-StickerOrange\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nowforourturn.org\/CosmicReflections\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/I-Occupy-Bumper-StickerOrange-300x75.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"75\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.nowforourturn.org\/CosmicReflections\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/I-Occupy-Bumper-StickerOrange-300x75.png 300w, http:\/\/www.nowforourturn.org\/CosmicReflections\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/I-Occupy-Bumper-StickerOrange.png 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nOkay, so I am a devotee of Thoreau, who may have spent a delicious two years at Walden Pond, but then had to come back into Concord and act on what he had learned\u2026i.e. go to jail for refusing to pay taxes for a war he adamantly opposed.<br \/>\nFor the inner knowing must become outer action, the private become the public, the personal become the political.<br \/>\nThe Occupy movement bridges this process for me. Beginning with the personal issue of my own underwater mortgage that has trapped me here since I retired from the job that brought me here in the first place. Thanks to Occupy, I get to stand back and look at the bigger picture, then connect the dots with what\u2019s been going on in the financial industry, in the corporate media, in the political arena, and on Wall Street itself.<br \/>\nFor me, Occupy is as a light being beamed into all the little nooks and crannies of power and deceit that have co-opted the common good for corporate greed. And once I began connecting the dots, I found that everything is interconnected.<br \/>\nSo now I am part of Occupy Las Vegas, Occupy Writers, Occupy Clergy, Occupy Earth, and Inter Occupy, for starters.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nowforourturn.org\/CosmicReflections\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/OccupyRedRock.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-723\" title=\"OccupyRedRock\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nowforourturn.org\/CosmicReflections\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/OccupyRedRock-300x227.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"227\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.nowforourturn.org\/CosmicReflections\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/OccupyRedRock-300x227.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.nowforourturn.org\/CosmicReflections\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/OccupyRedRock.jpg 582w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nFor while I am still predominantly introverted and using the internet to connect and ad my voice and energy, I also knit the Occupy Orange fundraising scarves sold at First Fridays&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we come out of the introspective pause in Occupy activism and burst into the American Spring, the season of extraversion, here\u2019s what I\u2019ve come to realize about Why I Occupy. First, let me be absolutely clear that I am basically a raging introvert whose primary color is self-reflective blue\u2026the exact opposite on the color [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-connecting-consciousness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nowforourturn.org\/CosmicReflections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nowforourturn.org\/CosmicReflections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nowforourturn.org\/CosmicReflections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nowforourturn.org\/CosmicReflections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nowforourturn.org\/CosmicReflections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=714"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.nowforourturn.org\/CosmicReflections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":719,"href":"http:\/\/www.nowforourturn.org\/CosmicReflections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714\/revisions\/719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nowforourturn.org\/CosmicReflections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nowforourturn.org\/CosmicReflections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nowforourturn.org\/CosmicReflections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}