We celebrated Occupy Wall Street’s (OWS) second monthly anniversary in small town Sebastopol,California with its less than 8000 residents, on November 17. We packed a City Council meeting where over two-dozen people spoke in favor of Occupy Sebastopol (OS) and the five-member Council supported it.
Though large cities and police assaults on peaceful occupations fill mass media reports, many smaller and mid-size cities continue with successful, vigorous occupations around the US.
What follows are excerpts from my testimony to the Council, whose five members I all know. As former mayor Larry Robinson says, “Local government is not the arm of the state but the hands of the people.”
Small town Sebastopol, where revolution is happening — Transition Voice
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