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Occupy Chicago Joins Motel Occupation ~ Gapers Block
http://gapersblock.com/mechanics/2011/12/04/occupy-chicago-occupy-the-motel/
At 7p.m. tonight, Occupy Chicago will hold its first overnight occupation on the South Side following a general assembly on property owned by New Beginnings Church. The church is hosting the event in conjunction with its own occupation of the derelict Super Motel at 6625 S. Martin Luther King Blvd, which is across the street from its main sanctuary. Its pastor, Corey B. Brooks, has been camping on the roof of the motel for a dozen days and fasting on water alone.
http://www.chicagonow.com/ndigo-chit-chat-all-that/2011/11/occupy-king-dr-a-pastors-view-from-the-roof-part-2-day-6/
It's been 15 days fasting without food, only drinking water; 6 days and counting, living on the rooftop of an abandoned motel in the cold, rain and now some snow.
This morning I was reading twitter messages and I came across a tweet by LL Cool J that expresses my sentiment, he quoted John Churton Collins, "In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends."
Since I've never had to live on the roof of an abandoned motel and I've never had to raise $450,000 to get rid of a community eyesore, I don't know how to feel about where we are so far. The only thing I can measure our commitment to the cause to is Black Friday, which yielded a total of $52 Billion dollars in sales, in just 1 one day and today, economists are expecting record sales for Cyber Monday (the beginning of online sales for Christmas).
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