OCCUPY OKLAHOMA NEWSLETTER On October 6th, 5 citizens from NEOklahoma traveled to Washington DC to participate in the beginning of the struggle to attain a country where all are equal under the law and our main exports are not weapons and death. Following is part of the recruitment page I created on Facebook. Stop the War Machine! Thursday, October 6, 2011 at 7:00am until Monday, October 10, 2011 at 6:00am Where: Freedom Plaza, Washington DC, 1331 Pennsylvania Avenue Northwest Description A non-violent protest demanding a return to democracy from corporate rule. Sign the pledge to be there at: http://october2011.org/ Group leaves Tulsa on the evening of October 4th Many of the most experienced activists in the country will be there as well as some celebrities, Cornel West, Cynthia McKinney, Dave Rovics, David Swanson,Deborah Sweet, Dennis Trainor, Bill Moyer, Code Pink and many more. This was possibly the most exciting, satisfying week+ of my life. I traveled to DC with 3 wonderful ladies who wanted to make a difference (One more flew and met us there). I met dedicated activists from all over the world who wanted to participate and improve this world by protesting at the seat of power of the most powerful country. I created two videos to help promote the event. Here’s a link to one. VIDEO I was honored to sit and plan with organizers I had looked up to for years. David Swanson, Medea Benjamin and Alli McCracken of Code Pink, Ann Wright, Dennis Trainor Jr, and more. We participated in two marches (“Banks Got Bailed Out, We Got Sold Out” and “Whose Streets, Our Streets” etc) shouting for all we were worth and I stayed over two days to participate in shutting down the Hart Senate Building. Drum circles, Ralph Nader, Chris Hedges and many more celebrities. What a trip! “Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.” Fredrick Douglass Stephanie Lewis of Occupy Tulsa suggested we might consider doing a newsletter for Occupy. It just so happened that someone signed up to go to Washington DC on the trip I was arranging had pointed out software that would be perfect for the purpose. Of course there are other complications than software when you write about Occupy. One of the biggest is, what can you tell. I mean the government has to be assumed to be watching all the time so certain things need to be kept silent. Then there are always the internal power struggles. It wouldn’t do to give out more than I just wrtote about that. Still, communications are important in any organization, especially one as diverse and spread out as Occupy Oklahoma so I feel this will be a helpful effort. I hope you think so too. Stop the War Machine! An Occupy Newslewtter? Contact Tel: 918-406-9514 | E-mail: [email protected] | Web: freedom-one.org/smf1/index.php