Tuesday, January 1, 2008

"Be the Change that you want to see in the world"...we are

“This is a struggle for the soul of the Democratic Party, which in too many cases has become so corporate and identified with corporate interests that you can't tell the difference between Democrats and Republicans.” -Dennis Kucinich

It resembled the Black Panther safe house from Forest Gump, that and a combination of a punk rock squat house. In the living quarters area people are sleeping in bunk beds, air mattresses, and beds on the floor. Some of the tables consist of two boxes and a piece of plywood. The cleanliness was that of a stereotypical college dorm, well that is if the room consisted of 10 people with ADHD. Oh yeah did I mention that this is a campaign headquarters? Well it is, but the crazy thing is that.......I like it. I like how grass roots this is and while some of the people there may be, well lets just say that they are over driven, there is a passion there that I have never seen before. These people want to make this country....NO make that this world, a better place and they are doing it by dedicating there time, and in some cases a small portion of their live to campaigning for Dennis Kucinich One person has been living there for 4 months and after that he will be going to North Carolina.

Sometimes it is the little things in life that I like the best, after going on the initial tour of the Squat, I mean the campaign headquarters I was shown the kitchen, he showed me the food that they bought and that other people had donated and he said that I could have anything in here "as we are very Communal," I liked that.

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