If the 99% are dumb enough to get all emo over this flag flap (pun)

[dana_b]

7. a letter from an interfaith protestor detained for over 50 hours on this:

The following email was received from a faith leader in OO.

On Jan 31, 11:30 am, Sri Louise <[e-mail]> wrote:
hello all,

i am too tired having been held hostage for the last 50 hours under
florescent lights, sleep deprived in a an air-conditioned room going cold
to share my coat with others so that they could feel warmth...
...
please do not talk about gandhi or satyagraha until i actually see those
talking about it dare to confront the system in the way that gandhi and his movement did....
where is our moral courage? not morality. i do want our classist, religious
morality. i am asking where is our moral courage?
... i was in detention for 54 hours, effectively disappeared.
where is your outrage? we have a new national defense bill that could make
this more common place than it already is and what we continue to focus on is
always some minuscule vandalism? really people? ... are still going to go on about this?
the only life i known is one in which capitalism has destroyed everything i
hold as dear, just and beautiful. look around. look at the mountain tops,
at the forests, at our oceans, our air, we live in a disappearing world. do
not stand idley by while they allow life form and your civil liberties to
become extinct.extinct! not broken windows or some bullshit graffiti, EXTINCT.
we are talking about a climate change that is already too far gone for us to
reverse it. we will inevitably lose entire nation states. islands, their
culture and their people will vanish...when are we going to get out of our
privileged denial; we are in catastrophic times...hello?
the suffering of the world is unbearable and we are going to go on about a
fucking burnt flag in city hall after they illegally kettle hundreds of
protesters, make illegal arrests, hold these people in hand cuffs for 6
hours, detain them without charge or booking so their name, their very
being is denied by system for 48 hours? torture them in custody, deny them
a phone call for 36 hours...the stories that continue to emerge will make
you shake your head and heart in such deep despair.
i successfully carried an orchid the entire day yesterday...it was ripped
out of my hands by the OPD for no reason other than they cannot stand to
see me in my beautiful defiance...luckily an angle, a comrade, someone who
many of you want to dismiss as violent or separate yourself from, this very
same person, the one i call my guardian angel pulled me from behind. that
person risked arrest so that the police were not able to grab me and beat
the shit out of me as they did molly, so if anyone wants to talk about violence
or property destruction, can you please start talking about that?
i am ever more committed to occupy oakland and do you know why? those
people who you dismiss, who you turn your nose down at are the very same
people who spent 24 hours outside of santa rita cheering their comrades as
they walked out. there was a huge buffet of food and beverages and they made
sure that everyone had a ride home. those "anarchists" and diversity of tactic
folks, who everyone dismisses, could really teach the interfaith
group a lot about love, brotherhood and community...
in prayer,
sri