A memory of Scott Olsen

[rurallib]

I found this article to be a rather touching story of how one person got to know Scott Olsen:

"I find it unacceptable to continue living as usual in a world that commits violence against a person like Scott who having been in Iraq twice and who came to view the wars as illegal, was courageous enough to say so and stand peacefully in defiance of tyranny right here at home.

When we were sleeping on the floor of the rotunda in Madison and eating pizza’s purchased by people in Cairo, sending us messages of solidarity from Tahrir square, we had only an inkling of what might happen in the coming months. We hoped the sleeping giant was waking, we saw the police and firemen and teachers and hippies, and everyone you can imagine out protesting the stripping of union rights from public employees, so we thought just maybe…"

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[Starry Messenger]

1. k&r

[samsingh]

2. is there any word on Scott Olsen?

[rurallib]

3. nothing that I have heard.

[samsingh]

4. thanks for the reply