History of the future: "In those days before the revolution, living places stood empty & people lived on the streets." #D6 #OWS #OccupyHomes

RT @ayeshakazmi CBS photo from Chile "The universe is indignant w the system of a planet w slaves" #ows #15o http://t.co/scOLgoQP

Comment on CBC site reporting on #Tahrir: "Events in North America have given the green light signal to authoritarianism elsewhere." #ows

If you had told me a year ago that 2011 would see a general strike in the United States I would have thought you were out of your mind #ows

RT @blogdiva http://t.co/Qvjut53F "Tactics have no meaning outside their relationship to strategy." #OWS

Hvnt been shoved since gradeschool playground until shovd from behind by a cop w a plastic shield for walking a sidewalk in my own city #ows

@ayeshakazmi Part of it's that she looks white & middle class & what's happening to her usually happens to people who are brown & poor

RT @blogdiva http://t.co/Qvjut53F "Struggles cannot be successful without the active participation of large numbers of people." #OWS

#Messages2Syria I sit in Manhattan & think of someone by a window in Syria who hears the crowds in the streets & is afraid & walks with them

#Messages2Syria Someone traced my mitochondrial DNA once & the line went back through all my mothers from Manhattan to Ireland to Damascus

#Messages2Syria Did you hear us, the people all over the world weeping for your suffering & your courage last night

I stood there in the cold looking over the tents between the cathedral & the stock exchange & thought: The future looks like this #ows

I saw Zuccotti torn apart in Novembr, such joy to see the Occupy village on the steps of St. Paul's tonight, the joy in the faces there #ows

So #ows #NDAA mic checks are dangerously interrupting the usual Grand Central peace & must be stopped by arrest? #IsItFascismYet?

Nikky Finney won National Book Award for poetry last night: her book's epigraph, Toni Cade Bambara: "Do not leave the arena to fools." #ows

A strike is a way of saying "You've taken so many of my ways of speaking but not this one." #ows #oo

RT @mrdaveyd Letter frm Oakland Police Officers http://t.co/aIyKzkjn Wow This sounds like the splits before a coup #generalstrike #ows

@aliabunimah Re yr great 'both sidesy' : a friend used to call this the 'And Mr Goebbels what do You think?' school of journalism

From Mandelstam's poem about Stalin: "He pokes out his finger and he alone goes boom." #NoDrones

Who sat around a table & said Hey, wait: we could kill people in other countries more easily if we did it from pilotless planes #NoDrones