What will tomorrow bring?

After the mandate from the Mayor to egress Zuccotti Park, many hardcore (or "oathkeeper") Occupy Wall Street activists are refusing to budge.  Furthermore, the AFL-CIO has requested that their union members get to the park by midnight, tonight!  We are looking at a showdown here people. 

My prayers go out to the demonstrators, the police and our world.  As the Hacker Manifesto eloquently stated, "this is our world now, the world of the electron and the switch, the beauty of the baud."  I had the privilege of hearing the mentor narrate his words at the H2K2 conference, in the Hotel Pennsylvania.  Back in 2002, the need for this type of movement, begotten by hacktivism, was needed...now it is the only option.  Disaffected peoples from Harlem to Haiti now have a voice. 

My generation first made information (music, media and movies) free to all.  The digitizing of our escapades was more of a prank than a passion-fueled movement.  Now we have coupled the grassroots ideals of direct democracy with what was once known as Cyberspace. 

Occupy Wall Street's savvy looking techno-geek media team was backed by an infrastructure of activists who finally figured out how to mobilize IRL (In Real Life).  Forget Talib Kweli's freestyle and guest appearances by Michael Moore and Kanye West.  The Rhizome of proselytic memes--ideas with no owner, no author and no governing body, generated this movement.  Kanye, Kweli and Moore were only there because our history, written in Cyberspace, dictated their future actions. 

Pursuant to a report on MSNBC, Zuccotti Park is presently spic and span.  MSNBC's footage shows the scrubbing of stone walls, ground and benches, to a shine.  Tomorrow, will the immaculate walls of Liberty Plaza reflect the peace and prosperity that our generation desires?  Or will they reflect more images of defenseless, civil young women being pepper-sprayed in their American eyes?  A violent spit-in-the-face to the face of our cause--the cause for opportunity, freedom and democracy. 

Let us spiritually connect--online, in person or on the phone.  Let us bond over ideas of peace and civility.  Most importantly, let us continue to stay connected.  Tonight and tomorrow call your friends and tell them how much you love America.  In all the OWS movements around the world, turn to your neighbor and get their phone number, give them your's and establish a friendship.  Friendships take work, demonstrations take much more work, but this work is an investment in your idividual future, as well as in that of America's. 

Stay safe.  Stay sane.  Stay peaceful.  Stay connected.