Occupy Your Ecology

I have been giving a lot of thought to how I can best offer my skills to the (de)occupation of my city, how I can integrate the work that I spend my life doing into the vibrant movement that is springing up around me, around all of us, right now. Down at the camp, people are asking me about gardens, about greywater, about what we can do there to build our self-reliance and resilience, to get down in the dirt and build what we want on the land we are (de)occupying. After all, that’s what this movement is about: asserting our right, as the 99%, to build the world that we want to live in instead of fitting ourselves into the world that we’ve been handed that only works to serve the 1%.

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