Creative rEvolution day 72:

This morning's Creative rEvolution writing prompt comes from General G on the midwest home front. I've known and loved GG since about 1980 when we were creative partners in high school:

GG: "was wanting more info of what went on during the Portland Occupation....since you were actually there...I believe you, not the news..."
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ME: Yup, I'm an Occupier, been down to oPDX encampment quite a bit--not young enough, physically tough enough, or untethered enough to live down there. I am friends with a some of the tough ones who live, eat and breathe oPDX. My friend K was one of the first ones arrested when they tried to keep Main Street as part of the encampment. (Main runs between the two parks, also known as Alpha & Beta camp).

Me, I'm more of a home occupier and one of thousands of creative organizers (CO) of this rEvolution. So, I know a lot about it and am constantly living more occupied every day. Living Occupied, from this CO, means letting go of ego and it's need to control, living fully in the moment, and planning/playing forward into a small world perspective (aka creative sustainability).

I was one of the COs in the massive email loop with the planners of OWS and have been getting "tactical briefings" every week for about six months now. It's originators are a international group of culture jammers who publish the magazine AdBusters which me and the hub have been reading since it's inception. Then once the moement got started other culture jammers joined the band wagon and now it's an all out creative rEvolution.

A lot of us have been really surprised at the response and the longevity of this "encampment" idea. It was just one tactic, not the whole movement. But I guess so many people are fed up with business as usual that it's become the forefront of this creative rEvolution.

Unfortunately, it's also become the scapegoat issue for the cops, consumers, and fear-mongers. Very scary to see the cops beating people up in America. Thought maybe that went out with the 70's and Kent State. But, the brutality just went underground.

And now that there are cameras everywhere, brutality is getting flashed all over the media--mass and alternative. Which is good, because it's awakening some people, but bad because it scares people and then they hide more.

So...wow...guess I have a lot to say about that..so what specifically did you want to know about oPDX?