Re: [occupytosustain] 10th Anniversary of Occupy Boston

[Richard Kerver]

Head on over to the https://www.occupyboston.org/ media site for all the information you need to participate in this series of events.

Occupy Boston Calendar

• August 15 – September 30, 2021 Sunday’s – 12PM – Mic Check! Occupy Boston Picnic/DayCamp @ Dewey Square
• September 17-19, 2021  – S17 – Occupy Boston – @FANEUIL HALL – CHANGE THE NAME/ OWS 10yr Anniversary
• September 30, 2021 – 2PM – 10th Occuversary March
• September 30. 2021 – 3PM – Occupy Boston 10th Anniversary/ General Assembly

Posted by Richard Kerver, Occupier, Deep Green Resistance tent at Dewey,

[Denise Ward]

Hey Richard,

Great to hear from you - that you're still "hangin' in there"! 

I see protesting as a useless pursuit. It's kind of doing things on the peripherals and not striking at the root of the problem.

Not only that, it actually reinforces our slavehood because it's begging the masters. 

We need strategies that strike at the root otherwise all will be for naught.

It is proven that all the things we did in the past were for naught because - look where we are!

Nothing has helped, neither science, constitutions, protests - nothing.

Therefore we need a new perspective.

We need to talk about reality and move out of the delusions.

Protesting is a feel-good delusion - it feels like we're doing something when in actuality, we're not.

That is because we often don't want to face the reality of our situation, of how trapped we actually are.

However if we face our reality head-on, we can get untrapped. 

I don't know if you're interested, probably not, most people are not and I'm kind of tired of pissing in the wind.

However if you are, then hit me up for some explanations. 

By-the-way, my partner and I have started the Mamalution Dialogues, every Friday 8pm eastern time.

Everyone and anyone is welcome. These are not moderated!

Below is a promo link and a link to one of the dialogues so you can get the flavor of them.

So if anyone has something to say, there is now a place to say it. 

I look forward to making actual change and go our own way.

It's great that Occupy is still together - that's important - to get together!

Cheers to all!

~ denise

https://worldtruthvideos.website/watch/mamalution-dialogues-advert_k1em88VOxubsOiI.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOuSiTk6JCE

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[Richard Kerver]

Hear what you're saying and agree that "protest" alone is inadequate.  Excepting to bring attention and threshold numbers of people to an issue or issue-set.  But the Occupy Movement was a gathering of people face-to-face in locals all around the world to discuss solutions to the broad set of issues facing our still nascent, still unfinished experiment with "Democracy". 

Here's an article for ya':  https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/sep/15/occupy-wall-street-10-year-anniversary-lessons.  It spoke to me of how the Occupy Movement was seminal for the Millenial Generation is waking them up and moving them in different directions than the Boomers.  Our generation failed, for the 70 years of my life to undertake what is required.

Please expect more from me over the next 6 months in the way of open all-inclusive dialogue to see what we might do going forward, for the salvation of the biosphere and human civilization rebalanced with Nature at its core and preservation of all of Live as the core value.

Here are the things that being participant to the Occupy Movement inspired and motivated me to do:

• To talk face-to-face with real people unmediated by social media, to listen, and respond
  
• To practice engaged Buddhism in the traditions of Thích Nhất Hạnh
• To be more compassionate and to exercise the Heart at all time in relationship with all beings
• To not sale my 2 acre property in Clinton and proceed to develop housing here; to move here, camped out, until completion
• To live Glamping style, in tents, even in the winter, because it forms an extraordinary lifestyle, un-walled from raw nature, the elements, sky & stars
• To plant a pollinator garden, giving over the conventional yard to the most important creatures inhabiting our Eaarth
• To build small - am currently finishing my <120 sq.ft. Zen Tea House
• ... which has been an educational process, to learn to build
• ... and acquire all the tools needed
• ... so when completed, I can help others realize "housing as if Nature Mattered"
• ... and make Home Inc the Bank of Richard, keeping all monies out of the banking system and invested in Place
• To continue in the Tradition of Deep Green Resistance a process of continuing education on what it means to resist Capitalism practically day-by-day, transforming human life for long-term sustainability of the Planet
• ... and join with, engage with the https://xrmass.org/ folks to bring attention to the 6th Mass Extinction and say no to business-as-usual
• To learn to build and maintain an awesome 48 volt 2000 watt eBike as alternative transportation, my preferred mode, so as to reduce my personal carbon footprint
  
• And so much more

So I and a lot of people were greatly inspired by the Occupy Movement, and feel it worth celebrating its 10 year anniversary.  Let me know if you plan on going to any of the events and will attempt a meetup.  All the best.  Richard.

Head on over to the https://www.occupyboston.org/ media site for all the information you need to participate in this series of events.

[Denise Ward]

To talk face-to-face with real people unmediated by social media, to listen, and respond

That's great. I agree. It's not enough to simply be active online.

To practice engaged Buddhism in the traditions of Thích Nhất Hạnh

I'm personally tired of all religions. Thich Nhat Hanh was from yesteryear, not from what we are dealing with today.

Patriarchy keeps repeating itself with all religions being solely headed by males and favoring hero worship (or any worship actually - worship buys into the hierarchical system of superior/inferior - we need to move towards equality now. Not equality the way it has been customarily been viewed but equality of our time - that everyone's time is equally valuable to put it clearly). Buddhism is no exception. 

To be more compassionate and to exercise the Heart at all time in relationship with all beings

Yes - all beings including insects. Therefore we have to rethink the notion of "pesticides". 

To not sale my 2 acre property in Clinton and proceed to develop housing here; to move here, camped out, until completion

That's wonderful Richard, you did good there!

To live Glamping style, in tents, even in the winter, because it forms an extraordinary lifestyle, un-walled from raw nature, the elements, sky & stars

Yes, it teaches us how to return to the web of life, from which we have become hideously disconnected from. 

To plant a pollinator garden, giving over the conventional yard to the most important creatures inhabiting our Eaarth

Awesome!

To build small - am currently finishing my <120 sq.ft. Zen Tea House

I had a look at it, it's wonderful and really speaks to me. Yes get back to nature. We will grow even faster if we do. 

... which has been an educational process, to learn to build

... and acquire all the tools needed

Right, we've become helpless in almost all ways when we are artists and engineers. We can relearn and even surpass where we are now by going back to our natural ways.

... so when completed, I can help others realize "housing as if Nature Mattered"

No need to wait for completion - seek apprentices.

... and make Home Inc the Bank of Richard, keeping all monies out of the banking system and invested in Place

Many ways to do things and I love that - the Bank of Richard! I love it! Everyone should become their own bank! I think you're onto something there!

To continue in the Tradition of Deep Green Resistance a process of continuing education on what it means to resist Capitalism practically day-by-day, transforming human life for long-term sustainability of the Planet

I love DGR. However I wrote a review of Derrick Jensen's Declaration and he was very ungracious. I tried to give him a proposal or blueprint, of how we can go forward despite this asylum we're in and he is not interested I feel. He is only interested in his books and his vanity. 

... and join with, engage with the https://xrmass.org/ folks to bring attention to the 6th Mass Extinction and say no to business-as-usual

Great for saying no  to business as usual. We need to change the narrative - most important. Though I recognize the usage you meant, I'd like to rename business as collaboratives or something like that and have our own register totally separate to incorporating as a "non profit" or other orthodox entity. 

As for mass extinction - we create what we speak therefore we must speak of thriving and morphing this dystopia into a garden both in nature and mind. We must think always in terms of thriving, not extinction. 

To learn to build and maintain an awesome 48 volt 2000 watt eBike as alternative transportation, my preferred mode, so as to reduce my personal carbon footprint

That's great. We need to develop a system that values keeping a low footprint, until we replace fossil fuels with hemp, bamboo and kenaf and decentralize sources of energy. 

The Occupy movement really inspired me too. I am so happy I was in a few, I learned so much and it inspired me in writing my template for a new century. 

I'm so glad you're still plowing away Richard. I live in Vermont now and I live on a one-acre property where I don't need an income, I exchange my work of growing food gardens and helping to improve the house. This gives me all my time available to write and garden and walk my dog. I am immersed in nature here, with fresh water flowing all around us. I live in a house with 5 others and we've had a smashing time this entire "lockdown". It is unbelievable to me how so many have succumbed to this virus pantomime. It's like living in an open air asylum. However we have work to do to show how much better things could be. 

Do you still keep in touch with Antoine in DC? I may have his name not quite right. The one we stayed with when we went to be with Occupy DC...

~ denise

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