Tuesday, January 17th, 2012 - A day I get to cross off 2 things on my DC Bucket List.
1. Had a pizza party dinner with Congressman Carney from Delaware.
2. Went to an Occupy DC protest on Capitol Hill.
tell me the last time you have heard of a big time politician spending two hours with 20 college students eating pizza and soda for dinner and asking us what issues concerned us the most so he could give us his honest feedback. Carney is a great role model for politicians and I would be honored to work with him in the future.
since today was the first day Congress was back in session, the OccupyDC movement made sure their presence was noticed. apparently Occupy protestors threw a smoke bomb over the White House fence tonight!! I don’t support that.
But some of my roommates were following the Occupy movement today on Twitter. They saw rumors of the OccupyDC movement traveling from the White House to the West Lawn of the Capitol at night all through Twitter. So being the rowdy and spontaneous political students we are….we were on a mission to occupy capitol hill.
we made it - and it was awesome.
“decolonize your mind, occupy your heart, represent yourself”
this movement is purely symbolic, in my opinion. but damn, it was pretty surreal to be standing on the hill with a ton of occupiers and literally a hundred cops surrounding the perimeter - yet they were not intervening at all. the occupiers here had a stage set up with loudspeakers and people jammin and singing all night. i was getting ma grooove on with my fellow gypsies! yeah they dont have a clear and insightful political message or solution to government issues - but the idea that people from all over are gathering together to be heard by government, to be noticed, to make sure that power is returned to the people of this country - to me this is the beauty of America.
we then came home to Fox News covering the OccupyDC movement on Capitol Hill. we saw scenes of where we just were. what a surreal feeling to know that i participated in something that is on the minds of people all over the country.
power to the people.