Occupy Wall Street

Here's a collection of unedited photos that I took while walking around Zuccotta Park in lower Manhattan last night.  The energy was intense.  There were a lot of people, either participating in OWS or walking around observing them.  I am not used to such an intense focus of humanity - the crowd, a lot of energy, a lot happening.  Drumming.  It was getting dark, it was Friday night.

This is not the Tea Party - or what I imagine the Tea Party to be - but seems strangely similar.  The Tea Party and Republicans distrust big government, and the Occupy Wall St.group distrusts big corporations, otherwise known as the 'private sector' (perhaps better labeled as the 'secretive, trans-national sector.'  Despite the seeming political divide, I am not sure there is a distinction.  I am sure that the only way to wrest power away from both is with huge public outcries calling out the massive lies.  Distrust and lies are grinding the economy to a halt.  The recession is as much about selfish profits, inflated values, and failed trust as it is about jobs.  Enough of my rant ...

 

The community altar (sacred space)

 OWS Knitters ...