What color was your balloon today?
Orange. It's easy to see. We usually use yellow and I wanted to use something different.
Why do you bring a balloon to Occupy events?
So that we are visible to the other occupiers and the police so they're easy on people having the balloons.
What was the focus of today's Disobedience School?
Grounding. It's to be aware of your surroundings and the other things around you. It's also so you can maybe de-arrest someone if you're able to. Arresting is when the cops take you. De-arresting is when your friends take you back without handcuffs.
A way of grounding is, for instance, if someone takes you by the leg and tries to lift you up. If you're grounding, you put your weight on both feet, knees bent just a little bit. While you guys were grounding I was eating my McDonald's.
What was something you learned?
Mainly it was about the grounding and the hopping which I did a little bit. I did help with the wall, as well. (LittleMan) came, too. I think he learned about the hopping. He's really good at the hop thing. I think I'm best at the wall. It's not too hard but it's not too easy.
Where did we go after Bryant Park?
This week we did marching. We used Broadway songs and wrapped them up a little bit to make relations with Occupy.
Which song was your favorite?
The last one on the sheet. "Super Catastrophic Economic Ponzi Schemes. Leave it up to Wall Street and they'll go to the extre-emes." (singing) It was kind of silly. I think we ended up at the fountain thing... on 50th street. After I was done singing I blew bubbles.
What sort of action would you like to do next week?
Next week I want to march to Wall Street. Do a little singing about banks being wrong and bad stock exchanges. If it's too far to march, then I'd want to go over to the Chrysler Building. It's a famous building, so it's got a lot of power with the government and the protestors are against corrupt government.
How do we fight corruption?
We march and do things like that. It makes people want to join occupy, and the more people we get the more powerful we are. Soon, we might get lots of hearts to rise up to occupy. And once we get to there, at that day, I think... I hope that day...we'd have enough people to defeat the government that's corrupt.
Do you know what corrupt means?
Well, no. It's not a good thing, that's all I know.
Corruption means they don't listen to the people they're supposed to serve, they just listen to the people with money.
We need enough people that we can influence... and have them listen to the occupiers, not just the rich. Not just the 1%.
Orange. It's easy to see. We usually use yellow and I wanted to use something different.
Why do you bring a balloon to Occupy events?
So that we are visible to the other occupiers and the police so they're easy on people having the balloons.
What was the focus of today's Disobedience School?
Grounding. It's to be aware of your surroundings and the other things around you. It's also so you can maybe de-arrest someone if you're able to. Arresting is when the cops take you. De-arresting is when your friends take you back without handcuffs.
A way of grounding is, for instance, if someone takes you by the leg and tries to lift you up. If you're grounding, you put your weight on both feet, knees bent just a little bit. While you guys were grounding I was eating my McDonald's.
What was something you learned?
Mainly it was about the grounding and the hopping which I did a little bit. I did help with the wall, as well. (LittleMan) came, too. I think he learned about the hopping. He's really good at the hop thing. I think I'm best at the wall. It's not too hard but it's not too easy.
Where did we go after Bryant Park?
This week we did marching. We used Broadway songs and wrapped them up a little bit to make relations with Occupy.
Which song was your favorite?
The last one on the sheet. "Super Catastrophic Economic Ponzi Schemes. Leave it up to Wall Street and they'll go to the extre-emes." (singing) It was kind of silly. I think we ended up at the fountain thing... on 50th street. After I was done singing I blew bubbles.
What sort of action would you like to do next week?
Next week I want to march to Wall Street. Do a little singing about banks being wrong and bad stock exchanges. If it's too far to march, then I'd want to go over to the Chrysler Building. It's a famous building, so it's got a lot of power with the government and the protestors are against corrupt government.
How do we fight corruption?
We march and do things like that. It makes people want to join occupy, and the more people we get the more powerful we are. Soon, we might get lots of hearts to rise up to occupy. And once we get to there, at that day, I think... I hope that day...we'd have enough people to defeat the government that's corrupt.
Do you know what corrupt means?
Well, no. It's not a good thing, that's all I know.
Corruption means they don't listen to the people they're supposed to serve, they just listen to the people with money.
We need enough people that we can influence... and have them listen to the occupiers, not just the rich. Not just the 1%.
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