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[la_rainette]

HOKAY. What I know about Boston would fit on a small stamp, guys. I spent exactly two hours of my life there (I had a job interview in Boston eons ago for a job that I decided not to take).

This means that tonight I am too far away to do more than spread the word: things are happening in Boston and occupy_boston needs you down at Dewey Square.

No, I don't know where Dewey Square is. But I am reading @occupy_boston tonight, and following #occupyboston (oh God please let me not mess the tags up), and I am feverishly refreshing spiderine's page.

Listen.

The day I turned down the job in Boston, I did it because of the conditions they were offering. The money was good, but (among other things) I had lived with a universal healthcare system all my LIFE, and I could not imagine letting go of that. We made a good choice for our family the day we decided to pass on the job offers in Boston. We could be one of the 99% today. And I am incredibly thankful today (Canadian thanksgiving!) that I am not.

But I look at them, all these people who did everything right and do not deserve any of the shit and disrespect they're getting every day, and it makes me angry, and frustrated, and so sad.

So in solidarity with the 99%, I think that if I were in Boston tonight I would be on my way to Dewey Square RIGHT NOW. (hell, if I were in Boston I would BE one of them anyways. So there.)

Though obviously, I'd need a really solid map to find my way.

Good luck to you, Boston.

eta: He says it better than I do Or at least he knows what they need better than I do.

Comments

[whatistigerbalm]

I tend to forget how fundamentally different the north of the US border is to the US. Thanks for this!

[la_rainette]

Well, it's hard to remember it when you live in Europe. :) I didn't know until I actively tried to find out (prior to our move here). But yes, they're fundamentally different, that's for sure.

[bill_sheehan.livejournal.com]

I'd be there, but I'm in Texas at the moment.

I'm liking this movement more and more.

[la-rainette.livejournal.com]

*nods* I hear you. I am liking it too.

[bill_sheehan.livejournal.com]

Oh, and just let me say that Boston's loss was Canada's gain.

[la-rainette.livejournal.com]

Aw, thank you! :)

[lonespark.livejournal.com]

I'm in Boston. Well, subway distance anyway. Unemployment runs out at the end of the month, and we don't have our foodstamps yet...

I thought about going down there earlier, but I don't know what to do with the kids. I don't know where Dewey Square is, either, although I have been in the financial district a few times...

[la-rainette.livejournal.com]

*hugs* Well, if you manage to go at some point, post about it, yes? :)