Me and Bas went to the convergence center today to see what's up with housing etc. I met this Greek girl. Glasses librarian type. Social activist from New York. I was taken in a heartbeat for some reason. Met with a guy from smartmeme who is handling all the media from all over the world to connect the world media to all the different orgs that are there. There are hundreds of activist groups there. Direct action committees etc. public citizen, CTC, AFICIO, ANSWER, independent media. All very organized and yet completely unorganized, and a mess at the same time. it is something to see. Something out of the sixties documentaries we grew up watching. But with technology the way it is today, its so much more advanced. All these little groups of thousands of kids mobilizing in this warehouse space to do different things. I went there to confirm housing and to meet with one of the main coordinators of the media communication team. They got a leak from the police that the building might be raided and everyone thrown in jail—of course this would be illegal because they aren't doing anything against the law, but they are just totally doing whatever they can to try to stop or hamper the protestors—which when you think about it is really weird and lame because not only is it the rights of the citizens of the United States, its what the great country was founded on---protest, demonstrations, civil disobedience and a little bit of both violent and non-violent resistance to oppressive powers (namely the King of England, and then later in strikes against labor, big corporate powers, fighting for human rights, civil rights, women's rights, most recently gay rights. Why anyone would try to stop others from protesting or demonstrating in America is beyond me since our entire country is founded on it. Strange. So we are secretly planning on moving the whole media organization over to our building, the TMG Records headquarters in an entirely different neighborhood.

Also the governor of the state of Florida Jeb bush has secretly shut down all the homeless shelters in the entire county so people cannot crash there. Also issued some sort of declaration that the churches cannot house people either. So now there are thousands of people who have come and have no place to stay. Crazy. again, why he would do this when it is only going to cause complete pandemonium is a mystery. When does that happen? when does a civil servant just totally lose sight of the America that we all grew up learning about and loving and decide to sell out to business? and more than that, in the end is it worth it to them? I wonder. When is enough money enough money?