Monday 19 December 2011, Olympia—The Thurston Diversity Council presented Occupy Olympia with an award for unique achievement in the area of human rights. Occupy Olympia accepted the award with dignity and grace, and gratitude. OO workers were glad to be recognized for the important work that has been done, and accomplishments that have been achieved. This may be just the beginning, and it was good for OO stalwarts to feel recognized for their hard-work and contribution to the field of human rights. Thank you to the Thurston Diversity Council!

Prior to the OO Human Rights Award, the Council presented Community Youth Services with a Lifetime Achievement Award.

VIDEO 1 (short): www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3UU8SQ2BNI
VIDEO 2 (long—livestream): www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpOQzvFdLtY
PHOTOS: www.flickr.com/photos/69293302@N04/tags/20111219/show/

Had a great conversation at Sizizis under the Jupiter full Moon early Thursday morning about how the socio-cultural-economic harms people, and leaves them hanging. Rampant fear, distrust, disease. The real trickle-downs from the predatory Wall Street style economic system.

The worst part is that the system is set-up so the big corporations actually have a "fiduciary responsibility" to cut throats in order to be most attractive to investors.

Maybe we would be better off eliminating the owner/investor class from our society, if people are not able to refrain from hurting each other, and killing each other, in their quest to accumulate wealth...

And thanks for the hot chocolate!

b

Wednesday, 9 November, 2011
In this photo, the full Moon is conjunct Jupiter.
Airplane crosses from SW to NE in the 7 or 8 o'clock position inside the halo.
There was ground fog in the park tonight.