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patrice

(47,992 posts) Wed Feb 22, 2012, 01:52 PM Feb 2012

Hello from OccupyKochTown - Fight Tar Sands in collaboration with Sierra Club 2/17-19/12 pt.1

OccupyWichita hosted OccupyTulsa, OccupyCentralOklahoma, OccupyKU, OccupyKC, and the Sierra Club. There was community education, marching to the Kansas Policy Institute, Wichita Chamber of Commerce, and a Women's fair in downtown Wichita on Saturday. On Sunday the coalition collaborated in a GA and then marched to and mic checked their message loud and clear, despite a few counter-protestors, to Koch HQ on the outskirts of Wichita. The people's mic closed with a strong unanimous promise to continue to fight the XL Tar Sands Pipeline project and to return to Koch HQ.

Labor historian/journalist Mike Elk from In These Times

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Hello from OccupyKochTown - Fight Tar Sands in collaboration with Sierra Club 2/17-19/12 pt.1 (Original Post) patrice Feb 2012 OP

I'm thrilled to see all these good people and their groups fighting the pipeline! CaliforniaPeggy Feb 2012 #1

K&R.... What a great group of people... midnight Feb 2012 #2

That's fighting the good fight if there ever was one. UnrepentantLiberal Feb 2012 #3

Wonderful!!! I really think there is a 99% "silent majority" Leopolds Ghost Feb 2012 #4

A frequent response I get when I tell strangers about OccupyKC, which I do at any & patrice Feb 2012 #5

CaliforniaPeggy

(152,069 posts)

1. I'm thrilled to see all these good people and their groups fighting the pipeline!

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Wed Feb 22, 2012, 01:59 PM

Feb 2012

More power to them.

midnight

(26,624 posts)

2. K&R.... What a great group of people...

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Wed Feb 22, 2012, 02:03 PM

Feb 2012

UnrepentantLiberal

(11,700 posts)

3. That's fighting the good fight if there ever was one.

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Wed Feb 22, 2012, 02:22 PM

Feb 2012

Great pics.

Leopolds Ghost

(12,875 posts)

4. Wonderful!!! I really think there is a 99% "silent majority"

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Thu Feb 23, 2012, 04:19 AM

Feb 2012

That only feels comfortable and safe speaking out in a (historically populist and progressive) place like Kansas when something like the Occupy movement comes along to change the forum of debate. I mean, how many of us have relatives in Red States who are basically "closet" liberal (at least on some issues) but only feel comfortable telling folks like us, and feel pressure from all their peers to be conservative in public?

Not to mention the media peer pressure even on liberals to conform to certain ideas...

patrice

(47,992 posts)

5. A frequent response I get when I tell strangers about OccupyKC, which I do at any &

Reply to Leopolds Ghost (Reply #4)

Thu Feb 23, 2012, 10:39 AM

Feb 2012

every opportunity, is "I'm glad you're doing that", next most common reaction is polite low-level curiosity.

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