It’s taken a while, but here’s some of the video I shot when visiting Occupy Dame Street in Dublin, Ireland, on Sunday, 16 October 2011. The interview covers the government, debt, balance between left- and right-wing politics, and hope for the future.
The group was — and likely still is — holding daily General Assemblies for everyone who is part of the local Occupy movement and anyone else who’d like to stop in. Leadership at the site changes on a rotating basis, to give everyone a chance to both lead and to rest.
It wasn’t a huge group camping out while I [...]
Still on Ireland time,
I wake in the wee hours and
want a cup of tea.
Hours and hours to go
of interview transcription,
and still no deadlines.
I’m back in D.C.
Feels disorienting to
be on U.S. soil.
Heading back across
the waves, but still another
two weeks before home.
Another ghost walk
through Northside Dublin scared the
pants of the locals.
Still discovering
choice pubs and tea spots in my
last days in Dublin.
(Creative Commons photo by plur44 / Andrea Re Depaolini)
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