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lil  ·  3900 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Lil's Book of Questions: When Have You Felt the Most Free?

the Occupy was an amazing time...when people get together like that, to share, discuss, create, protest, imagine alternatives, it seems as though anything is possible.





Owl  ·  3900 days ago  ·  link  ·  

It really was something amazing. It was a time when I think everyone was caught off guard and people felt like they could freely air out their long-held grievances with the way things were going. It had supporters the likes of Judith Butler, Lemony Snicket, and I personally will never forget this one by composer Philip Glass:

In those times you could really figure out who to look up to.