the American Spring: a time for Occupy to Blossom

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http://www.nationofchange.org/american-spring-time-occupy-blossom-1331906460

Many in the cor­po­rate media like to think the Oc­cupy is over, but those of us in­volved know bet­ter. We do not rely on the cor­po­rate media to val­i­date the work of Oc­cupy, we see it in our com­mu­ni­ties. And, we know to look to our own media for ac­cu­rate in­for­ma­tion. The Oc­cu­pied Wall Street Jour­nal re­ports on the ac­tions of the Oc­cupy, it’s weekly “Re­ports from the Front Lines” is some­thing many of us look for­ward to so we can see the move­ment tak­ing ac­tion across the coun­try.

An­other vis­i­ble pres­ence of Oc­cupy will be ev­i­dent this spring in Wash­ing­ton, DC when the Na­tional Oc­cu­pa­tion of Wash­ing­ton, DC be­gins on March 30th. The event, which will con­tinue through the month of April, is being or­ga­nized by mem­bers of dozens of oc­cu­pies from around the coun­try. Twenty-five Gen­eral As­sem­blies have passed state­ments of sol­i­dar­ity for this na­tional oc­cupy event.

NOW DC be­gins with a lot of ac­tiv­ity. On the first day, Oc­cupy the EPA, will bring peo­ple to­gether to pro­tect the planet for a sus­tain­able fu­ture. It will fea­ture Helen Caldicott, a pe­di­a­tri­cian nom­i­nated for the Nobel Peace Prize, known for her anti-nu­clear ac­tivism, Dr. Mar­sha Cole­man-Ade­bayo an EPA whistle­blower and Mar­garet Flow­ers, also a pe­di­a­tri­cian, noted for her ad­vo­cacy for sin­gle payer health care among oth­ers. The march will in­clude a pack of al­paca’s, a giant Earth and a giant polar bear pup­pet.