So besides getting to ride the Bus up to NYC with Pete Tridish and getting to meet a lovely young person Julian who asked me about my knitting as i waited for Cara Jennings to materialize. And getting to improvise a Birthday Pinata out of cardboard boxes and streamers and getting to dress up Audacious Year for Cara and her own birthdays. Besides all this it was fascinating to be at OWS. The chaos is amazing and i still find the Mike Check business not the easiest method for me to understand. There is a diversities of peoples at OWS that only a big immigrant, visitor megapolis can turn out. That said what i saw and heard was both inspiring and tragic. There were two marches that happened while we were building the pinata and dressing the cake. The first one was a mostly silent march with signs about sexual assault and responsibility and not being silent and so forth. There were every once in a while a chant and more frequently a single voice entreaty to "Join the Rape March!" At maybe the 3rd round of the block it became clearer that the march was aimed at OWS itself and that a sexual assault had happened within the Occupy space itself.
And then the other March was a more boisterous affair with much yelling to "JOIN THE MARCH!!" and after they has circled the Park a few times, we asked someone what that was about and we told that they thought it was in support of the Food committee because the General Assembly hadn't provided enough money for food needs.
The third more fun and funny happening was the French Aristocrats looking for Cake to distribute. We (as in Cara very graciously) ended up providing the Audacious Year Cake that i had baked for her birthday (it was suppose to be a Pre-Occupied Cake) and we had decorated. It was pretty fun watching the dressed up folks play there part and distribute the bounty of the day...
Can't wait to hear about how the pinata smashing went!
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