Pizza run anyone? (PIC HEAVY)

[Generic Other]

Last night Crooks and Liars readers sent pizza to Occupy Tacoma. We had about 20 pizzas. That was incredibly cool.

I was thinking if Democrats wanted to do outreach to the occupations, this might be a good way to start. It's been raining like crazy at Occupation Park, in Tacoma, Washington with brief sun breaks.

Our community has been very supportive. Including the men and women in blue. We have had a large nightly crowd as the homeless stop for a bowl of soup donated by kindhearted souls in our community. People drop by to leave tents and sleeping bags, tarps and coffee. One night a wedding party dropped off the extra food from their reception. Tacoma is a blue collar town. Our unions have come down to stand with us. Our churches. Other occupations have sent people. Oakland. Seattle. We have left politics out of it. We are all in this thing together.

Here's the pizzeria across the street from our campsite. We are on Pacific Standard time. After 6 is when we start to get cold and hungry. If you are so inclined, lend a hand and tell them where it came from. The pizza people will write that on the box. http://harmonbrewingco.com/brewery_menus.html

If you can't afford to send a pizza, send your good vibes. Those will also keep us warm!

The DUers at Occupy Tacoma send our warmest regards to all!

Here's a few pictures:



A graffiti artist lends us his talents!



Determined expressions at the General Assembly as we discuss possibility of arrests



Our Peace Tree on Pacific Avenue



Home of the Brave



Radicals on site



One week anniversary of Occupation Tacoma



Occupation Park

[lonestarnot]

1. In Phoenix, it's Five Guys,

[Generic Other]

3. Then I wish for you to grow like a weed in the cracks of a sidewalk!

Five guys doing this alone equals five brave guys to me!

[lonestarnot]

8. They are fantastic. Even staying open until 10 p.m. now.

[Grown2Hate]

11. I think he's referring to the burger joint called Five Guys. :) NT

[Generic Other]

14. oHHHHHH... HAHAHAHA

I was imagining 5 Against the World! I figured Sheriff Arpaio was picking them off.

[Generic Other]

2. I discovered a sad fact about Occupy Tacoma in the past few days

Most of the campers are homeless. We have ex-Marines who were in Iraq. We have elderly women. We have a priest who faces prison time for trespassing on military property to protest nukes. We have young people who were in foster care and dumped by the system at 18. We have students with bright degrees and no jobs. We have the hardcore homeless suffering from lack of proper medical care. We have people who have worked as electricians, carpenters, airline personnel, hospice nurses, teachers, longshoremen. We are a cross section of America.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

6. k&r -- well done and thanks for the info and pics.

[iemitsu]

13. good list generic but not quite complete.

you forgot top mention that at least four DUers are hanging out at Occupy Tacoma too.

[Generic Other]

17. Yes

We are already there.

[Vincardog]

28. The homeless everywhere need to join Occupy where ever they are. The unemployed too. Everyone who

can should get out and occupy. We all are the 99%

[tabatha]

4. The 99ers can spell !!

[Generic Other]

7. Someone wrecked one of my signs by putting the 9's upside down

But we did notice the mistake and correct it! LOL.

[Bozita]

5. Great pics! ... Thank you.

[KG]

9. Solidarnosc!

[The Backlash Cometh]

10. Do they accept paypal?

[annabanana]

12. There's a bunch of North East Occupations that need blankets

and other things to keep them warm!

[iemitsu]

15. did the snow arrive last evening as the weather channel predicted?

[druidity33]

32. YES!

We got 18 inches here in Western Mass. Boston saw 10-12" and NY roughly the same... with nasty winds and early rain to boot.

It took my wife and i 2 and a half hours to drive what's normally a half hour commute. We couldn't make it up the hill to park in our driveway, many roads closed, it was a bad, unexpected scene. 40% of folks around here are without power.

:shrug:

[iemitsu]

33. i hope that you and your family are ok and that you have power.

it is awfully early for winter.

[Generic Other]

16. Good point -- Everyone can spare a blanket or some little thing

It will make you feel a part of your own community in a positive way.

Hard as it is to do, it is time.

Handwarmers are a godsend on cold nights. They are really cheap. And they last 8 hours. In the sporting goods section.

It's getting cold.

Thanks so much for posting this!

[blaze]

18. Any blanket sellers willing to step up like the food vendors? nt

[Generic Other]

20. People are donating like crazy

In our town it's raingear. Garbage pick-up runs. Delivering pallets and plywood. Porta-a-potties. :)

We even have a person working on a solar system using pedal power to generate electricity. We are building a tent city like the Hoovervilles of yesteryear to remind our city fathers that we exist and they cannot gentrify us out of sight much as they try.

[Generic Other]

19. MORE PICS

Putting up the newly donated tent in the pouring rain.



You didn't think we just planned to stand around in the mud, did you? Not with all the unemployed workers to lend a hand. In two hours we dismantled our leaky old tents, erected this new structure, and filled it with our stuff -- all in the pouring rain. Everyone and everything was soaked to the bone. Then the pizza arrived like manna from heaven!

[dixiegrrrrl]

21. How are the cops/city treating you guys?

Looks like the rain is to let up after this weekend.

Pls keep posting pics if you can and let us know how things are going there.

[Generic Other]

22. I don't want to get them in hot water

but there are flashed lights and thumbs up. When we have had issues with the mentally ill, the cops have responded without hesitation. This is a solid working class community. We are the tax base here. The cops know that as well as anyone. Firefighters give us the thumbs up. Transit drivers wave. People in company vans honk.

People shout encouragement.

The only ugliness has been a few teenage boys who yell at us to "get a job" or worse who drove by in a stretch limo after Homecoming and mooned us with their pimply white suburban butts. We sang the South Park song. "We like big butts..."

[lunatica]

23. Thanks for posting the photos!

That's how we get to keep our involvement fresh and enthusiastic!

[Generic Other]

24. I am so glad I can document this movement in my town (MORE PICS)

media tent -- off the grid and online. Someone loans us generator power.


corporate flag


cold


class warfare


General Assembly


99% chance of rain


Mic Check


night pickets

[Odin2005]

25. LOVE the peace tree!

[Generic Other]

26. I think we need more of those

We put them on the branches to prevent injuries. One guy ran right into a dead snag and got an ugly gash on his cheek. But the peace signs looked pretty! I will make more just for you!

[dixiegrrrrl]

27. kicking in memory of my years in Pac NW......

[Generic Other]

29. I did not get a good picture of us eating pizza because I am afraid

I was way too busy eating pizza.

[LiberalLovinLug]

30. Hypocrisy!

Without my corporate made pizza you'd all be starving!!!

[Major Hogwash]

31. Hahahaha!! Poor guy can't get a break. Not even if he delivers in 30 minutes or less.

I love it. I wonder if Herman is humane enough to donate to a food bank.
Probably not.

[Generic Other]

34. I don't think he sent any but hey, he could have spared a few