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Leopolds Ghost

(12,875 posts)
Tue Aug 7, 2012, 04:57 AM Aug 2012

Hello fellow Occupiers, hows tricks? Check-in thread perhaps?

Last edited Tue Aug 7, 2012, 06:33 PM - Edit history (1)

Everything is hunky dory where I am at.



OK, not really. Wish I could go into more details but everything my community is or was working on, is tied up in detailed negotiations over finding spaces to, well, exist.

There's not a lot of activity in the past three months, it seems?

The people who know what's going on, don't tell, because there's so little involvement in activist stuff right now that it's hard to post news unless you're willing to specify what you yourself are doing IRL. Which most people don't like giving their personal info on a political forum, of course. That is actually more the case because we all post under a handle. So if we didn't commit to post about politics under our name and address, then we committed to say, well, not so much about anything that isn't public info. Of course, Occupy was founded on principles of complete openness. How do you reconcile that with declining participation and an increasingly fascist popular mentality in the nation?

I posted more info on latest news in my neck of the woods, but I thought better of it because what there is to report is not ready for prime time. in the sense that it's not news yet. I wish I could give the rundown but it is a public forum...

Anyone care to check in?

It wasn't such great news anyway. Well, I had good news on the project I'm directly involved in but that's even more IRL. I guess some ponies read it anyhow... before I posted this. Everything else is so-so to not-so-great hereabouts. I wish I could say "Ask Me Anything"...

...but yeah, if you are curious, go ahead and I will try to answer...fortunately I don't think anyone's interested but the media likes to jump all over every setback we experience at Occupy, or so they say.

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Hello fellow Occupiers, hows tricks? Check-in thread perhaps? (Original Post) Leopolds Ghost Aug 2012 OP
If anyone is wondering why my avatar is sulking, :-p Leopolds Ghost Aug 2012 #1
Checking in. Zorra Aug 2012 #2
checking in Joe Shlabotnik Aug 2012 #3

Leopolds Ghost

(12,875 posts)
1. If anyone is wondering why my avatar is sulking, :-p
Tue Aug 7, 2012, 06:32 PM
Aug 2012

It's because I can't post about all the interesting news hereabouts... yet...?

Media leaks and all that. Sorry.

Joe Shlabotnik

(5,604 posts)
3. checking in
Tue Aug 7, 2012, 09:18 PM
Aug 2012

In spirit anyway. Still always on the lookout for any positive news about Occupy, when I'm not busy being poor.
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