Hello from OccupyKochTown - Fight Tar Sands in collaboration with Sierra Club 2/17-19/12 pt.1

[patrice]

OccupyWichita hosted OccupyTulsa, OccupyCentralOklahoma, OccupyKU, OccupyKC, and the Sierra Club. There was community education, marching to the Kansas Policy Institute, Wichita Chamber of Commerce, and a Women's fair in downtown Wichita on Saturday. On Sunday the coalition collaborated in a GA and then marched to and mic checked their message loud and clear, despite a few counter-protestors, to Koch HQ on the outskirts of Wichita. The people's mic closed with a strong unanimous promise to continue to fight the XL Tar Sands Pipeline project and to return to Koch HQ.











Labor historian/journalist Mike Elk from In These Times

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. I'm thrilled to see all these good people and their groups fighting the pipeline!

More power to them.

[midnight]

2. K&R.... What a great group of people...

[UnrepentantLiberal]

3. That's fighting the good fight if there ever was one.

Great pics.

[Leopolds Ghost]

4. Wonderful!!! I really think there is a 99% "silent majority"

That only feels comfortable and safe speaking out in a (historically populist and progressive) place like Kansas when something like the Occupy movement comes along to change the forum of debate. I mean, how many of us have relatives in Red States who are basically "closet" liberal (at least on some issues) but only feel comfortable telling folks like us, and feel pressure from all their peers to be conservative in public?

Not to mention the media peer pressure even on liberals to conform to certain ideas...

[patrice]

5. A frequent response I get when I tell strangers about OccupyKC, which I do at any &

every opportunity, is "I'm glad you're doing that", next most common reaction is polite low-level curiosity.