They say shut up or we’ll toss you in the lock up
We say Sit Down, Occupy the whole town
Think your army’s big enough Mike
When the 99 percent all go out on strike?
As we sit and take our ease
Unplugged from cell phones and TV’s
In assemblies ‘neath the trees
We’ll talk of how to bring
This rotten system to its knees
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By Maikel
By Frances
What does a Farmers March starting out from a long-loved community garden – La Plaza Cultural Community Garden in the East Village – and ending up in Occupy Wall Street’s Zuccotti Park have to do with Occupy Brooklyn? Plenty.
Before Occupy Wall Street was even a call to action in Adbusters and Zuccotti Park was famous worldwide, Brooklyn was already growing a strong foods movement. It was expanding community-supported agriculture, CSA membership, farmers’ markets, home of the Park Slope Food Coop, Added Value Farm in Red Hook, the Brooklyn Food Coalition, and a surfeit of foodie retailers in the gentrified sections.
Before Occupy Wall Street, the local, accessible, and aspirationally just foods movement was to my mind the most inclusive, promising, and potentially transformative thing going. And, much as the labor unions did on the Solidarity March of October 5, the March last Sunday brought out people to Occupy who might never have come except as foods movement advocates. Kudos to the Food Justice Working Group of OWS and Food Democracy Now for producing this wonderful event.
It’s been over a week since Alfredo Carrasquillo, accompanied by a group of Occupy Wall Street organizers, moved in at 702 Vermont Street, in the Brooklyn neighborhood of East New York.
Alfredo Carrasquillo mic checking at 702 Vermont Street / Photo by Andrew S. Adler
And in many ways, it shows: Christmas lights twinkle from the windows and around an artificial pine tree sitting on the tidy front patio. Continue reading
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