the dream act walk is today. i really wanted to march with them, but i got volunteered to do shit for occupy. :/
so now i’m basically cooking and preparing a bunch of crap for occufest, when really, i’d rather be in sf at the anarchist bookfair. D;
sigh.
i went to a courage to resist presentation on bradley manning. it was incredibly informative. that’s the kind of job i want. i love being an activist, and working with a bunch of different organizations. if i could get paid for it, that’d be neat.
anyways, that presentation was awesome and i couldn’t donate nearly as much as i wanted to, but with our small group, we managed to raise a few hundred bucks for manning’s defense, so i’m very proud of these fresnans.
i really dig what courage to resist is doing. i talked to jeff paterson after the presentation and i’m going to look into going to DC in late april for manning’s next court appearance and hang out with the occupiers there for a few days. if not, i’m down to do some huge solidarity action here, or maybe go to SF or LA. we’ll see.
either way, i’m stoked to help out.
in other news, occupiers are continuing to piss me off, and i may have been unreasonable with my anger at the time, but in my defense, i’ve been letting everything fester for the last five months.
needless to say, i may have stormed out of the infoshop, saying i was quitting. i didn’t mean occupy, i meant that particular discussion because they were annoying the holy crap out of me, but i think it came off as i was quitting occupy altogether.
anyways, i’ll take a day to cool off before i call the one guy in particular that was annoying me.
blahhhhhh.
i didn’t go to sacramento to occupy the capitol because i had a fever of 103 last night and i’ve been feeling horrible all day.
i’m sad i didn’t go, but i’m glad i decided not to because i know i’d be dying right now, especially since i was going to stay the night.
ohhh well.
maybe next time. ;(
at the rally for education yesterday at fresno state, a couple of refund california people were advocating the millionaires tax. some guy from college republicans, who was on a scooter, was yelling at chucho (one of my friends), about people being lazy and just wanting handouts.
what about accountability and responsibility, he said. why can’t they just work like everyone else. this is socialism!
i was wearing a bandana because of the media, but LBM knew i wanted to blow up on that guy and he said to me “you want to kick that guy’s ass, don’t you? i can practically feel your rage.”
i wasn’t necessarily raging, but guys—people—like that just rub me the wrong way.
i don’t think i need to get into why they piss me off, because i think it’s pretty obvious. plus it’ll make me mad again, so i just won’t.
