Note: see post from April 26 and two from yesterday, April 29.

17-year-old puppy Shadow and I decided to walk 1.5 miles again to the, I presume, now “authorized” encampment, to see what we could see. Would we see anything? Would the encampment be gone?

Nope. Not even the steady rain, for about four hours yesterday evening, seemed to have dampened spirits.

Graduation ceremonies slated for May 2 and 3.

It will be interesting to see if the protest, with encampment, extends beyond the academic year, and if so, will it morph?

I’m put in mind of Occupy Bloomington, back in 2011-2012. I must have put up 100 posts during that time on exopermaculture.com, all featuring that memorable protest movement that began in New York City and spread and spread until it appeared it might become truly a national revolution. Until one weekend, when all of a sudden, some hidden central authority apparently dictated to the police in all the cities and towns that held those encampments, that they must go. NOW.

Here’s one of the posts I put up back then.

Final Visit with (first) Occupy Bloomington encampment

The Occupy Movement gave us the “We are the 99%” slogan, ignited by David Graeber (now deceased), who gave us, among other works,

and, with David Wengrow, this monumental opus, composed via their ten-year email text exchange, after which, upon publication, Graeber suddenly (and mysteriously) died . . .

I devoured them both, in 2012 and 2022.

Okay so here’s four photos from today’s walk.

It’s about the same size as before, not very big, and today holds a peaceful aura.