Stories from the Front Lines of Occupied America: Antonio

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Tue, 12/06/2011 - 12:00am
Antonio's story

"Haven't you got something better to do?"

For so many of the hardcore, 'No Retreat and No Surrender' involved with Occupy, there are no other options.  For millions more who find themselves on the outside as the Gates to the Walled City close, there is indeed no option.  History shows that people left with nowhere to turn turn on those who have left them that way.  Alas, the One Percent does not live on Wall Street - nor does it even relally work there.  The oligarchs, the plutocrats, the privateers are a cloud, a miasma dispersed around the world high above the real worlds of war, poverty disease.

And when someone asked an Occupier, "Haven't you got anything better to do?" quite clearly, 'No' is the right answer.  No: there is nothing better to do that occupy public spaces in a privatized world, this is the absolute best thing to do...

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