The American author, Francine Prose, is part of a large and growing group of authors who have been vocal in their support of the Occupy movement. She is joined by such literary luminaries as Pulitzer prize winners as Jennifer Egan and Michael Cunningham as well as Alice Walker, Naomi Klein, Naomi Wolf, Johnathan Lethem, Ann Pachett, Noam Chomsky, Al Kennedy, Ursala K Le Guin, and Donna Tartt.
Francine Prose writes, explaining how the movement has changed her immediate reality, “since this movement started, I’ve been waking up in the morning without the dread (or at least without the total dread) with which I’ve woken up every morning for so long, the vertiginous sense that we’re falling off a cliff and no one (or almost no one) is saying anything about it”.
Ms Prose words speak for so many of us. Sitting in the General Assembly this morning, I am again filled with the knowing that I am experiencing what and who we are…our most human selves – cooperative, collaborative, ready and willing to step forward with what ever is needed to keep Occupy alive and kicking.
This is not an expression of hope; this is living the dream.
