Wednesday, April 18, 2012
Welcome
The purpose of this blog is for members of Occupy Huntington to express their thoughts in a more extensive way than normally permitted elsewhere (Facebook, etc). I invite you to join this blog and begin sharing. Contact me (John Dornheim) via email or mobile if you are having problems accessing the blog.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
I look forward to sharing a space where one cane explore what the experience of the Occupy movement has been like, and also thinking about the particular considerations that arise in the socio-economic conditions in which we live. That is, to consider whether it is possible to advance a leftist, Occupy agenda in the suburbs. Is it possible to Occupy a complacent community in any meaningful sense? If not, what is one to do? Concentrate one's energies on work in NYC? Turn to cultural activities, or perhaps to sorts of things that people in the suburbs do enjoy--gardening, boating, and so on--but from an Occupy perspective? Some people a position of marginality in the suburbs--their neighborhood is not well off, the neighborhoods they frequent are poor, etc., so they don't really live in the suburbs in the usual sense... and therefore they claim a privileged position as the oppressed within the movement. To which I say, hmmm...
ReplyDeleteDay 1 of Barn Raising is tomorrow. Rain, lots of it, is predicted. We'll begin cleaning, sorting through stuff, and organizing the space. This, plus the Occupy Film Festival planned for Cinema Arts Center in Huntington, plus an Occupy art exhibit in town, could establish a template for other cultural occupations around the country.
ReplyDeleteWhere is the Barn? Debbee and I would like to come help.
ReplyDeleteLooks like you found it!
ReplyDeleteThis blog is a total mess. Google expects you to be a mindreader to figure things out. Just like the clowns at Facebook. Technology sucks.
ReplyDelete