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Yesterday we 3 occupied Grass Valley along with Steve Scaff. Actually, it's great fun, you talk to people and read very clever signs. I'm so impressed that it is not a political party, it's just the people. I think if I lived in Oakland however, I'd skip it.
I truly love you guys. Occupy Grass Valley. I mean, somebody has to.
Alas, this stuff is getting serious. There's some absolutely disgusting video that just went up on youtube, of cops in riot gear pepperspraying a bunch of UC Davis students who were simple seated with locked arms. Originally, the police chief said is was necessary because the police felt threatened, but the video make a lie of that. It was totally unprovoked.
But what followed was amazing. The students began to chant "Shame on you!!", and it built and built. And you can see in the cops' faces that they WERE ashamed. And they retreated. All their victories are Pyrrhic. But it's going to escalate, and I'm afraid there are going to be martyrs. The Money is frightened.
On a whole other note, I just read a stunningly good novel, Wallace Stegner's "Angle of Repose". It's one of those books that make me slow down, quit worrying about how it all works out, and just bathe in the language.
It's written in the first person, and the protagonist is a crippled historian who is trapped in a wheelchair, assembling a biography of his grandmother, a semi-famous writer and illustrator who followed her engineer husband all over the west, from one mining camp to another as he seeks his fortune. Her story is fascinating, and it illuminates the life of the writer, who is dealing with life and death issues of his own.
He's writing it in Grass Valley, in 1970. Bitching about changes like the freeway they built that bisects the town, and there are vignettes where he has to visit his doctor up in Nevada City. Thanks to the reunions I can visualize it all perfectly.
I've read Angle of Repose twice and had no idea it was set in Grass Valley. Because Stegner lived in the Stanford area, and based the son on someone who lived in Berkeley, for some reason I have always pictured that set somewhere in that area. Never thought to look on a map I guess.
Stegner won the Pulitzer prize for that book, which caused a bit of an uproar because he used the writings of the real writer/illustrator Mary Hallock Foote which he had been given by a member of Foote's family.
Stegner wrote an even greater book about the West, even if it's not as great a novel: Big Rock Candy Mountain.
I watch some of those attacks on video and get sick to my stomach. It won't be long until we have another Kent State.
What astounds me is that US elected officials couldn't wait to get on the "Arab spring" bandwagon in support of those protesters, but they have all gone silent when it comes to using riot geared police and pepper spray on Americans.
Since we follow the same news sources, you probably saw this, but just in case, I LOVED this, projected on the Verizon building while people marched on the Brooklyn Bridge:
"99% / MIC CHECK! / LOOK AROUND / YOU ARE A PART / OF A GLOBAL UPRISING / WE ARE A CRY / FROM THE HEART / OF THE WORLD / WE ARE UNSTOPPABLE / ANOTHER WORLD IS POSSIBLE / HAPPY BIRTHDAY / #OCCUPY MOVEMENT / OCCUPY WALL," then a long list of cities, states and countries and then "OCCUPY EARTH / WE ARE WINNING / IT IS THE BEGINNING OF THE BEGINNING / DO NOT BE AFRAID / LOVE."
I'm going to read "Angle of Repose" I enjoy early books of our area, Crazy times the 1849ers, one little ad in a Chicago newspaper and people from everywhere swept in this area to find the big one! some did, most didn't. Who made the big $ was the merchants who gouged the miners. Grass Valley is on top of 200 miles of tunnels. Then they started making giant cannon type water squirters and washed away mountains until the farmers in the valleys put a stop to it.
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It makes you wonder what in the world is going on in this country. I'll be out there with the 99% today.
Find a bridge. Take a stand.
Yesterday we 3 occupied Grass Valley along with Steve Scaff. Actually, it's great fun, you talk to people and read very clever signs. I'm so impressed that it is not a political party, it's just the people. I think if I lived in Oakland however, I'd skip it.
WE ARE THE 99%
WHAT KIND A PIE?????
OCCU...PIE.............
We occupied Grass Valley.....
For those who have dish network or direct TV check out "LINK TV" for real news.
Bob
Have you seen a picture of that pie? There is no pie left to occu ...
We need to occupy the polls.
I truly love you guys. Occupy Grass Valley. I mean, somebody has to.
Alas, this stuff is getting serious. There's some absolutely disgusting video that just went up on youtube, of cops in riot gear pepperspraying a bunch of UC Davis students who were simple seated with locked arms. Originally, the police chief said is was necessary because the police felt threatened, but the video make a lie of that. It was totally unprovoked.
But what followed was amazing. The students began to chant "Shame on you!!", and it built and built. And you can see in the cops' faces that they WERE ashamed. And they retreated. All their victories are Pyrrhic. But it's going to escalate, and I'm afraid there are going to be martyrs. The Money is frightened.
On a whole other note, I just read a stunningly good novel, Wallace Stegner's "Angle of Repose". It's one of those books that make me slow down, quit worrying about how it all works out, and just bathe in the language.
It's written in the first person, and the protagonist is a crippled historian who is trapped in a wheelchair, assembling a biography of his grandmother, a semi-famous writer and illustrator who followed her engineer husband all over the west, from one mining camp to another as he seeks his fortune. Her story is fascinating, and it illuminates the life of the writer, who is dealing with life and death issues of his own.
He's writing it in Grass Valley, in 1970. Bitching about changes like the freeway they built that bisects the town, and there are vignettes where he has to visit his doctor up in Nevada City. Thanks to the reunions I can visualize it all perfectly.
I miss you guys.
I've read Angle of Repose twice and had no idea it was set in Grass Valley. Because Stegner lived in the Stanford area, and based the son on someone who lived in Berkeley, for some reason I have always pictured that set somewhere in that area. Never thought to look on a map I guess.
Stegner won the Pulitzer prize for that book, which caused a bit of an uproar because he used the writings of the real writer/illustrator Mary Hallock Foote which he had been given by a member of Foote's family.
Stegner wrote an even greater book about the West, even if it's not as great a novel: Big Rock Candy Mountain.
I watch some of those attacks on video and get sick to my stomach. It won't be long until we have another Kent State.
What astounds me is that US elected officials couldn't wait to get on the "Arab spring" bandwagon in support of those protesters, but they have all gone silent when it comes to using riot geared police and pepper spray on Americans.
How do you spell Hypocrites?
It's unfortunate that for some it's more important to Occupy Best Buy and Walmart.
All things are possible.
Since we follow the same news sources, you probably saw this, but just in case, I LOVED this, projected on the Verizon building while people marched on the Brooklyn Bridge:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxG4g62rnd8&feature=youtu.be
For Helen:
"99% / MIC CHECK! / LOOK AROUND / YOU ARE A PART / OF A GLOBAL UPRISING / WE ARE A CRY / FROM THE HEART / OF THE WORLD / WE ARE UNSTOPPABLE / ANOTHER WORLD IS POSSIBLE / HAPPY BIRTHDAY / #OCCUPY MOVEMENT / OCCUPY WALL," then a long list of cities, states and countries and then "OCCUPY EARTH / WE ARE WINNING / IT IS THE BEGINNING OF THE BEGINNING / DO NOT BE AFRAID / LOVE."
Thanks Diane, my new chant!
I'm going to read "Angle of Repose" I enjoy early books of our area, Crazy times the 1849ers, one little ad in a Chicago newspaper and people from everywhere swept in this area to find the big one! some did, most didn't. Who made the big $ was the merchants who gouged the miners. Grass Valley is on top of 200 miles of tunnels. Then they started making giant cannon type water squirters and washed away mountains until the farmers in the valleys put a stop to it.
The "Zodiac Mine" in "Angle of Repose" is based on the Empire Mine, in Grass Valley.
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