To Anyone Who Wants to Support the Occupy Movement

If you want to participate in the Occupy Movement, come to our encampments and participate as an equal, without expectation of greater access to the podium based on your privilege, experience or skills. If you wish to help guide us, first serve with us and get to know us. We are a young movement, and all of us need time to grow into this.

If you are not able to put in the time to participate as an equal, you can still contribute to this movement and support us in other ways. You can give us your words on the Internet and in print. You can contribute financially to the encampments. How about paying for porta-potties and medical supplies, or a few hundred pairs of socks for the homeless kids with blisters on their feet? You can use your influence to help protect us from over zealous and misguided law enforcement. You can, in short, do everything in your power to create and maintain space for this conversation we have started to continue.

We need space, physical, cultural and emotional space to discover ourselves and each other as human beings. Within this space, we can discover what we are for, and how we can accomplish it.

The Internet is not enough. Some of the people whose help we need the most to solve the problems the Occupy movement is bringing forward are those with the least access to the computer world. People who know how to survive and even thrive on next to nothing have the skills that the newly disenfranchised need the most. Farmers cannot leave their farms untended for long, or the land suffers and we all go hungry. You can find a lot of information online about how to grow food, but you still need soil and helping hands.The Internet cannot make you a cup of tea, or hold you while you cry.

We need shelter from the storm. We need places to rest, heal, talk, work, play and grow together. Most of all we need places to get to know our neighbours as well as the travellers dancing through our midst. Support us in having the space to grow. help us build the world we can all live in. Please and Thank you.