Alexander Stuart

I was just blown away by this YouTube video yesterday of thousands of people singing Beethoven's Ode To Joy in Madrid's main square (the Puerta del Sol)  to support the first  global day of the Occupy movement (OccupyWall Street, also known as O15 for yesterday's date)  - so beautiful, such wonderful music and so many people assembled peacefully together in unity. (Linus would have approved:) Spain/Madrid is where the Occupy protests actually started several months ago to the day - May 15, 2011 - in sympathy with the Arab Spring and to protest Spain's crumbling economy, ransacked by bankers like everywhere else.  This video yesterday symbolized to me the first truly global day of the Occupy movement...and the fact that hopefully the whole world of the 99% is waking up, waking from a dream (or nightmare) and realizing that this is the time to take back power, to fundamentally change how our societies function.  That's idealistic and incredibly har...