Message to the Occupy Wall Street (Occupy Everything) Movement
Rare are the moments when a rising social consciousness confronts the established order.
We are living in one of those moments today. Throughout the land, we hear
from oldsters who experienced the sixties saying, this feels like the real
deal. The sense of hopefulness, joyfulness, inclusiveness, righteousness,
creative purpose — don't forget these early moments; treasure them always.
There will be mistakes down the line; dialectics prepares us for inevitable
change. But at this moment, you have struck the main line of an underground
current of opposition to a world of commerce and power that has probably
been in humankind's cellular memory for millennia.
And that is the point of this screed. History is our retained memory of
events past. History — not fiction — is based on sources that record those
events. The historian's role is to preserve the past and bring it to life
again. To accomplish this task, the sources need to exist that recorded the
events in question.
Dear reader, you undoubtedly have uncovered the moral of this tale. This
is a plea to ye occupiers. Save the archives of this movement. That flyer
you read on the statue at Liberty Square*, the one you later saw laying on the
sidewalk at Broadway and Cedar, and you picked up, shoved in your backpack
and brought home. Take a snapshot of it on your phone and send it to us:
sfdigger@yahoo.com. Or make a copy
and send it to the Digger Archives, PO Box 40391, San Francisco, CA 94140
(Shasta Bioregion). Or better yet, start your own archive. Let a thousand
People's Archives bloom.
*or at the Embarcadero, SF, LA, Denver, Portland, Athens, Lisbon, ...
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