Class Diary #2

What a week! I have slept less than 20 hours, I have eaten and not even remembered eating, I have spent more hours on a train then on facebook and I couldnt be more jazzed. The above photos are from Occupy Boston;s Dewey Square camp where I have been for a week. In the context of our course material arguments about the intersection of class and other identities, and the invisibility of class have been rocked. The Occupy movement is not leaderless, it is a movement of leaders, and the conversation of class has become visible on signs, in chalk, on the news, in the policing of civil rights. Kevin said it best yesterday- we have already won in some way because we are on the table of the national dialogue. The statistics we have encountered in our readings, the conversations about tuition and the industrial complex applied to education based on age and not ability, on production over intellect, and the social and cultural capital reproduced to maintain class are all concerns of the 99% and the movement.