The Reawakening

It’s been a long winter. But growing from the cold snow is a new sense of solidarity. Something has awakened in the American spirit. Occupy everything is back.

Critics of the movement that started in New York in September of 2011 have galvanized their opposition, but the same is even truer for the opposition itself. Like seeds of a dandelion blown from Ground Zero in NYC, Occupy movements are now blooming around the world. The Earth is now a battleground: the war is for our humanity.

In New York, new forms of protest have arisen, and in Berkeley, California, once a symbol of the radical 60s, is again revamping that image. In many ways, Berkeley is now the battleground for our future.

A place as small as Binghampton, New York, or even Sandpoint, Idaho, now has their own Occupy movements. From Perth in Austrailia, to Moscow, Russia, Occupy is everywhere.

With calls for an American Spring, similar to the revolutions in the Middle East, this season, there is a sense in the movement that something big is about to happen. And not just in America, but everywhere.

And here in Spokane, Washington, a seemingly backwater town in the isolation of the Inland Northwest, people are moving. Over the winter, some of the best minds from many different groups have come together to create a network of activism and dissent. Plans are for major demonstrations to take place as frequently as possible. People are once again taking to the fountain in Riverfront Park, ready to risk it all; to tell the world of their grievances; to spread solidarity for the entire planet; to make a real difference; to speak the truth; and to fight for what’s right.

The war for freedom is on the horizon, and Occupy Spokane is ready to take to the streets once more in anticipation of the American Spring.

It couldn’t be any more serendipitous than that.