What would an Unpeople's Union Action look Like?

I often sit and ponder what kind of an action would benefit the Unpeople. You know, those people who are left without energy or resource to respond in kind to the wholesale and centuries old oppression of their beings.

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Dry Your Eyes

Dry Your Eyes                                                 All the while a rebellion builds inside I saw it the day you were fired burned rent was due on the …

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T- and Counting

Open a winter window and you may find summer comes, storms raking memories from a musty space toppled in an ancient drought.   He came like that. I braced for it.

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Inter-Occupy Conflict Resolution

The larger the movement becomes, the more people will disagree within it; this is natural.

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Poverty Highway

I lived on a busy highway. Just 25 feet from my front door was a four lane highway. It is a main vein between cities in the northern woods of Wisconsin. And I was happy there.

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Detrementally Determined

I yearn for the days of my youth from only one aspect. All the rest of the days of my youth can stay right where they are. I still to this day bury pieces of it ceremonially. All of the childish @!$%# piece by piece thrown in with a happy hand. I feel more of the woman press into  …

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Severe & Censure

Severe & Censure standing like kings and queens on the dias of power pronouncing the edicts of value upon the heads of the righteous, the chosen, Severe & Censure while smiling curled smiles of pride and pretention. Wield those demoralized cliche' privileges with aplomb. …

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The CutThroat CulTure of Occupy (Final) or "Violence is relative"

It has been a very long four days. What began on Friday at the Occupy general assembly in this little elite conclave i live in, came to its expected end this evening.

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ThE cuTthroAt Culture of Occupy (part three) or "White Privilege is Threatened"

Even Chris Hedges has circled his wagon in the name of all things peace and love. Well, I'm all for peace and love.. just so happens I can't get any of that peace and love to materialize in my unpeopled life.

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thE cUt throAt Culture of OccupY (Part Two)

We're all gathered in the free meeting space in our local community. The agenda is being written on the wipe off board in the front of the room. The facilitator is handing out the volunteer positions of Stacker, Note-taker and Time-keeper.

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The Cut throaT cUlture of Occupy (Part One)

    The last time I felt like a member of the mainstream was in 1979. That was the last time I could call myself a member of the middle class. In 1982 I gave birth to a beautiful baby girl. We entered deep and abiding poverty together and still live there today.

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Revolutionary Warnings

Tug Of War the tug of war ignore the war of words pull yourself from this Service Circus three ring fiasco of status its addictions your addiction to helping your addiction to feeding your addiction to keeping break out of your self induced data seeking refuse to be a tool.

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The Black Bloc That Causes Violence Within OWS Demonstrations is, whether intentionally or not, doing what the 1% welcomes and is, very effectively, doing the work of Agent Provocateurs

The title of this short article is to be read exactly as it is written: the question is whether the black bloc are working as Provocateurs, not whether they are provocateurs.  That's the question.  In an interview with Chris Hedges, a lot of points came up which I'll  …

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A Cancer on Occupy?.... Hedges misdiagnosis of Citizens who've had Enough

I'm a Blue-collar-middle-class-reared-single-parent-welfare-queen-reform-organizer-adult-student-college-educated-turned-unemployed-crisis-counselor-peace-seeking-protester, who won't hesitate to rise to any occasion that leads me to some peace in my life. So, Mr.

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Ground Chuck (poetry)

hard wood floors and a mighty quiet what's a philistine? Quips from granny's mouth cookies from her oven are psychotropics really necessary? a rusted out quarter panel overgrown lawn out back aren't toothpicks kind of a waste? I mean in the big picture..

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She's going to March with me today

For the last 10 years this child has endured many a moment when she questioned her own value. She has learned how some seem to have been taught that she is different.

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U-locks Baffle Police in Bellingham soliarity action to shut down West Coast Ports

If you look at the landscape of your life and find it appalling, unchanged, when those around you, or within your view seem to be experiencing the rewards of their efforts…the obvious response is to ask oneself why it continues to satisfy so much that one exert no effort  …

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Bellingham Police evict protestors in Borrowed Riot Gear

  The General Assembly (GA) was held in the Bellingham city hall on December 28th, a Wednesday, late afternoon, and the citizens of Occupy Bellingham were experiencing everything from exhaustion and let down, to the remains of adrenaline after being evicted from the Maritim …

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Where the Tired PeOple Go

Where the Tired people Go   I've been there seen where the tired limping people have to go....   shadowed watchers hiding fickle tricksters from a progress never spoken only sold inset, like gold smiths forming fascinations of a burnt misery in a two bar molten tension  …

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We prefer our boys, but, we send them to die at unexamined political whim?!

I was watching Mickey Mouse's Playhouse with my grandson. He turned one four days ago. The chirpy music always holds his attention, as does the wonderful array of primary colors and those ever so enticing cartoon voices.

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Wrong Medicine (Occupy Poem)

it was difficult to stand outside a teepeeknowing there was a 'legal' meeting going on inside it...that they were using the 'attorney client' privilegein that meeting in the teepee, ...

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When all I want To say is Screw You...

Some time ago, around 1996, it was undertaken by the powers of the elite and corporate america to end Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC). They did it through the body known as congress. But, I caution you, that is simply my opinion.

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It's the little things... that tell us the most about the Middlers

It was Christmas night, and all through the camp not a creature was stirring, except for the mice. The wind was blowing and canvas was loose, it wouldn't be long until the kitchen was gone. Washington state winds were blowing with a mighty strength. Tents were lost.

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Message to the American People

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To Parents: Do you know if your child got to school?

For parents all across this nation, parents who may work several jobs, the recent 'automation' of school attendance is another hit to the 'security' of their children.

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