9-4-12 DREAM - I was working in a small office with a young woman and my boss
Richard L.
The girl was the typist, and I was the checker/approver and Richard was the
boss who made the final decisions.
There wasn't much to do because no orders had come through, but an
advertisement arrived stating that they would pay our bills and eliminate one of
the bills. That sounded intriguing enough to find out how they could
eliminate one of the bills, so I sent for the information.
Meanwhile, a stack of purchase orders came through, and the young woman
quickly typed them up and passed them on to me. I looked at them to make
sure they were right and passed them on to Richard who ultimately signed off on
them. Richard wasn't happy to have to do 'all the work'.
I still hadn't found out how one bill could be eliminated from that other
company so I was still waiting for that, but now we had nothing to do again.
I went home then, and discovered that some little grey animals had moved into
the neighborhood who were similar to squirrels but didn't have those long tails.
They were noisy little guys who went into an uproar when a stranger came around,
and of course we were all strangers to them.
It wasn't so bad when there was only a couple of them, but they evidently
multiplied quickly and soon there were hundreds of them, and then you wouldn't
believe the uproar that went up when a stranger appeared. The sound was
incredible to hear. So then we didn't like strangers either. It got
too noisy to listen to.
NOTE: I figured the grey animals were political, but when this e-mail
came into my mailbox later in the day, there they were.
(more pictures below)
Braving extreme heat, more than 2,500 people from throughout the South
and across the U.S. filled the streets of Charlotte on Sun., Sept. 2 for the
March on Wall Street South. The demonstration confronted the banks and
corporations headquartered in Charlotte that are wreaking havoc on
communities throughout the country, and raised a people’s agenda for jobs
and justice as the Democratic National Convention convenes here.
Participants came from cities throughout North Carolina, including
Winston-Salem, Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill, Rocky Mount, Greenville,
Asheville, Fayetteville, Greensboro, and Wilmington. Many traveled hours
from cities such as Baltimore, MD; Atlanta, GA; Greenville, MS; Washington,
DC; Tampa, FL; Pittsburgh and Philadelphia, PA and New York, NY. A bus of
more than 40 people, many of whom being foreclosed on by Bank of America and
who are unemployed, spent 15 hours traveling from Detroit, MI.
The No Papers No Fear bus, which left Phoenix, AZ on July 29 with more
than 40 undocumented people to arrive in Charlotte for the DNC, also joined
the march with a spirited contingent against the deportations and
criminalization of immigrant communities.
Also on the march were an unemployed workers contingent, a Southern labor
contingent, a contingent against U.S. wars being waged at home and abroad, a
no war no warming contingent, an LGBTQ contingent, and more.
“This was an historic demonstration that built an unprecedented level of
unity between so many different groups and struggles on a grassroots level,”
said Yen Alcala, an organizer with the Coalition to March on Wall Street
South and Occupy Charlotte. “The March on Wall Street South showed what is
possible when we unite, and pointed the finger at those who are responsible
for the injustices being experienced by the 99% – the banks and
corporations, and a political system that is controlled by the 1%. Building
people’s power from the bottom up is the only solution to win jobs and
justice for poor and working people.”
Along the march, demonstrators stopped in front of the Bank of America’s
world headquarters and Duke Energy’s headquarters. At each stop, people who
have been directly impacted by the practices of these banks and corporations
–whose homes are being foreclosed on, who have massive amounts of student
loan debt, and whose communities are being devastated by coal mining and
energy rate hikes — spoke out and exposed these profit gauging institutions.
“The March on Wall Street South was a tremendous success,” said Elena
Everett, another Coalition organizer. “Our message for jobs and justice was
heard loud and clear by the bankers and the politicians of both parties. But
this is just the beginning. We know that the only way that real change has
ever been won is when people come together, get organized, and build social
movements to raise demands to the powers that be. And that’s exactly what
we’re doing — building a movement for jobs, education, healthcare, the
environment, housing, and against wars, racism and bigotry, deportations,
and jails.”
Throughout the remainder of the week, the MOWSS coalition will be
supporting actions and events being developed by other groups, including the
Undocubus and the Southern Workers Assembly on Sept. 3 at Wedgewood Baptist
Church. The Coalition will also be mobilizing support for the reoccupation
of Marshall Park being led by Occupy Charlotte.
(Click the image above for fliers, buttons, graphics, and other
resources to help build the demonstrations)
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