If you are one of those that don’t know how or what to do to help the occupy movement, perhaps you may want to try what I just did. -What about writing about your thoughts and or experiences and sharing them with your friends.
Well, you could try by writing on your Facebook wall, yes, write to you FB “friends” at least. So here I am sharing (pasting) mine:
FB Friends:
I just wanted to share with you, that for the about last two months, I have witnessed several Oakland Police Department (OPD) officers abusing the authority that they have been giving. The OPD has been harassing and violently arresting Occupy Oakland protesters; for not particular reason.
Some OPD officers been forcefully pulling and dragging women and men to the ground. In one instance even a young mentally disabled woman did not escape that abuse. She also ended up on the ground, after an officer pushed her on the stomach/chest.
I personally have been pushed with their hands, batons, yelled at my face while observing and or video/photographing their illegal actions. During those moments I have kept my cool but staying silence, most of the time, so they don’t have an excuse to arrest me.
Anyways, I wanted to start the New Years with this news to you, because the main stream media is not reporting these actions. It seems that they don’t want the public to know; it makes me wonder why. Do you know why?
Tonight I am not so afraid to speak up and I am sharing this with you. I felt that it was my responsibility to let other know.
It seems that many of us are afraid to speak and even more to go out and protest against the social injustice.
So, if that is the case with you, please at least try to educate your children about the right and wrong, and share with them what you have done for this world to be a better world for all of us. Perhaps then they will thank you for that, and they will go out and say and do what you are afraid of.
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I’ve been posting about Occupy on my facebook page all along. I even made a big post on 12/12 after I got home from the 5:00 a.m. morning march before I went off for the afternoon march with my wife. The only thing is, to try to keep a balance so that people don’t just “tune out.” I post stuff about a lot of things that I’m doing, like going to shows, or some funny stuff that I saw on the way home from work, and then I talk about stuff I’m doing at Occupy. I try to make it part of my life, supporting people who are Occupying 100% but showing that you don’t have to actually be sleeping downtown all the time in order to actually be there physically and have great experiences with people. And I talk about the police abuse that I see as well. I don’t try to overwhelm people about the cops, just to show that this negative experience is interfering with the democratic experiment that we are trying to have here in Oakland.