I was down at Occupy Vancouver today with my daughter. We stopped by in the morning when things were quiet, chatting with some of the security people. It’s getting cold and stressful down there. People are short with each other, there are dangerous people coming and going and the security people, some of whom are trained body guards and bouncers, and doing their best to restrain themselves while they keep order. They were telling me that they need to but together a proposal for a General Assembly that is about people exercising collective resonsibility for safe and individual responsibility for …
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I was down at #occupyvancouver yesterday getting the lay of the land and looking around. Couldn’t help comparing it to New York and noticed a couple of key differences. First, lots of tents. Yesterday was pouring rain and most people were inside their tents, pitched on palettes to keep them off the wet ground. Thank you City of Vancouver for letting people have their tents. Also noticed not a single police officer anywhere. There were yellow vested security volunteers from the occupy camp, walking around and checking on people. But not a single police car in sight and not a …
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Location:Cambie St,Vancouver,Canada
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Well it’s not a revolution yet, but the #OccupyWallStreet movement is certainly generating a lot of interest. It was a surprise to me that the origins of the movement were actually in Vancouver, where Adbusters publisher Kalle Lasn and his friends brainstormed on the idea that occupying Wall Street could bring attention to the depth of resentment about wealth inequity in the world. Reading this article in The Tyee, it is clear that Lasn has both a clear thought about what the movement could demand (a one percent tax on financial transactions) and a sense that there never was a …
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Reading Paolo Coehlo’s fable The Alchemist: “When someone makes a decision, he is really diving into a strong current that will carry him to places he had never dreamed of when he first made the decision.”