WS2MS: OCCUPY THE LANDSCAPE: MAY 26, 2012

Photos by Ellen Davidson

OCCUPY THE LANDSCAPE: MAY 26, 2012
A 22-MILE WALK
ROUTE: WOODSTOCK TO SAUGERTIES TO CATSKILL, NY
Walk for Human Rights and Social & Economic Justice

On May 26, 2012 people gathered on a path to walk 22 miles from Woodstock through Saugerties to Catskill, NY carrying a collection of Human Rights.

The first mile marker suggested, in the words of Dorothy Day, that "the greatest challenge of the day is: how to bring about a revolution of the heart..."

We dedicate this slideshow to all those that walked and to all those for whom we walked. It was a profound, collective public action, a call for the recognition of universal Human Rights. Whether walking one mile or 22 miles, every step we took together counts.

At the end of the day Adrienne Rich's poignant words "It will take all your heart, it will take all your breath. It will be short, it will not be simple" remind us that all living species are on a similar path.

May we Reclaim The Heart for each and every one of us.


QUOTES OF THE DAY: MILE MARKERS

"My address is like my shoes. It travels with me. I abide where there is a fight against wrong."

- MOTHER JONES

"Wake up arms
Delicate feet
For as one
To march the streets"
- PATTI SMITH

1 "The greatest challenge of the day is: how to bring about a revolution of the heart..."
- DOROTHY DAY

2 "We don't set out to save the world; we set out to wonder how other people are doing... to reflect on how our actions affect other people's hearts."
- PEMA CHODRON

3 "I came to explore the wreck. The words are purposes. The words are maps. I came to see the damage that was done and the treasures that prevail."
- ADRIENNE RICH

4 "Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else."
- MARGRET MEADE

5 "Walking... is how the body measures itself against the earth."
- REBECCA SOLNIT

6 "You're walking. And you don't always realize it, but you're always falling. With each step you fall forward slightly. And then catch yourself from falling. Over and over, you're falling. And then catching yourself from falling."
- LAURIE ANDERSON

7 "You have to make a way out of no way."
- GRACE LEE BOGGS

8 "When we can't dream any longer we die."
- EMMA GOLDMAN

9 "We cannot tire or give up. We owe it to the present and future generations of all species to rise up and walk."
- WANGARI MAATHAI

10 "Life is short and what we have to do must be done in the now."
- AUDRE LORDE

11 "What are we longing for?
Where does all this yearning come from?"
- PINA BAUSCH

12 "Go to where the silence is and say something."
- AMY GOODMAN

13 "We know the road to freedom has
always been stalked by death."
- ANGELA DAVIS

14 "...You can cut down the flower, but nothing can stop the coming of Spring."
- MALALAI JOYA

15 "Hope has never trickled down, it has always sprung up."
- NAOMI KLEIN

16 "Action is the antidote to despair."
- JOAN BAEZ

17 "Each alone, each part of another Your steps shall ring Shall raise the cloud And they that will hear, Will hear, will hear..."
- PATTI SMITH

18 "Another world is possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day I can hear her breathing."
- ARUNDHATI ROY

19 "The only tired I was, was tired of giving in."
- ROSA PARKS

20 "Never give up, for that is just the place and the time that the tide will turn."
- HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

21 "We are the one's we have been waiting for."
- JUNE JORDAN

22 "Things can change in a day."
- ARUNDHATI ROY

"It will take all your heart,
it will take all your breath
It will be short, it will not be simple"
- ADRIENNE RICH

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