Houseless man explains how Occupy Atlanta changed his Life.

[babsbunny]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=rOUL7BpO90c

A houseless man from Atlanta explains how Occupy has kept him off of crack by keeping him busy taking care of others.

[Cirque du So-What]

1. Inspiring

K & R

[midnight]

2. All they want is an opportunity... K&R.... That is Congress and the President's job....

The law is on the books... Time for our elected officials to stop skirting the full employment act....

[Fire Walk With Me]

3. There it is: Service to others is the key to serving yourself.

[DLnyc]

4. +1000

Good shit. Maybe change actually is possible.

[OneGrassRoot]

5. Thank you SO much for sharing this. K&R n/t

[Gregorian]

6. A perfect example of why my heart aches. The US is so counterproductive.

We don't need a billion dollar study to discover that the drug war is bull. Just listen to this man. He's hardly one of the 99%. Bottom of the bottom. And he knows. Even he knows the potential that is there when we open our hearts and our minds to be free of the crap, and to be full of common sense. It is self evident. It doesn't take much thought. Punitive garbage must go out into the garbage. The 1% must lose their outlandish amount of control. Government must stop their idiocy. As in, military spending, and legal crap. The people are not free.

I can see how it all works for the government. By crushing the people, it feeds right back into the government's favor.

This man has more brains than most in Congress.

[monmouth]

8. I noticed quite a few people at the OWS in NY who truly looked to me

as if they were having actual interactions with others and you could see the joy in their eyes. In other circumstances perhaps no one would speak or interact with them but now there is a common purpose. I noticed a few on their way to DC and it really made me feel good. All these people (the homeless and ignored) want is to be able to be with others who will understand their plight and get them on a road to some sort, any kind of success. Made me feel good. Small steps.

[Gregorian]

10. I don't think there is a higher purpose than helping each other.

I was just watching TCM, and a woman was talking about her father, some famous actor. He had sunk to holing up in his home and just getting drunk. There was a party where he was obviously missed, and afterwards Marlene Dietrich drove directly to the man's house and announced that she was going to save him. She did. He pulled out of it.

It seems to me that the very reason for declaring independence from King George, as well as the Bill of Rights and Constitution, was the very thing we're seeing today. A carelessness and indifference toward the suffering that is all around us. Except now we actually have good medical care, but yet many might as well be living in the 19th century since they can't get it. The very notion that we are a group is what we're talking about. The economist, Max Keiser (who posts on DU), made a comment on his radio show a few weeks ago. He talked about what we accomplish when we create a society with a government. His argument being that government is necessary. He said that we essentially get a group discount. This is the stuff that makes us happy. To accomplish something. Not to be fighting for the very thing we tried so hard to establish in the first place. Not to be frustrated and frightened of losing what we worked and fought so hard to create and preserve.

I had a talk with someone today. I was angry that my realtor hadn't shown up for a showing of my property. He's the guy I call when I'm upset. It was before I read this thread. We don't know how life works. It's a nervous time for me. I don't know if anyone will buy my place. I don't know where I'm going if I do. I feel out of control. I'm trying so hard to be in control. I don't like just letting things happen. At any rate, what he said was he is the happiest when he lives his life like a servant. And least satisfied when he acts like he's an emperor. Humility. I comes right back to the 1%'ers. These people who live like emperors, and are mostly very unhappy, causing our entire society to fall apart. If we all act as servants, helping each other, and not just ourselves, we will have a better world. The poor person knows this. The rich person needs to learn it.

[BanzaiBonnie]

11. "I slept and dreamt that life was joy.

I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy." ~ Rabindranath Tagore

[Gregorian]

12. I'm glad you shared that.

What an amazing man. I'm always learning something new on this forum. Very unexpected.

So many of us have lost sight of the point of your quote. I certainly have. And currently I am looking for an answer. But that's another story.

[anamandujano]

7. K&R nt

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[sarcasmo]

9. Great story, Thanks.