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"What’s going on in these four blocks that shook the world is indeed an
occupation, but it looks nothing like the conquista touted on Fox. It’s
also the “block party” that Mayor Jenny Durkan has compared it to, to
gleeful jeers from Fox commentators. And it’s other things as well—a
protean, issue-focused but conceptually sprawling formative community,
at once silly and serious, spontaneous and disciplined. Over the course
of two evenings and an afternoon in the zone (plus a night observing a
police/protest showdown there the week before), it seemed by turns like
a commune (as in Paris 1871), an anarcho-syndicalist and small-L
libertarian dream, a ’60s-style teach-in, a street fair and street
market, a campout and weekend party, a poetry slam and pilgrimage, a
school service day, a mass healing circle, a humbler urban version of
Burning Man, and of course a protest rally."
Go Seattle!
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://www.xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
http://www.glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
http://www.sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
