Tag: Occupation Park

  • Occupy Tacoma honors Martin Luther King, Jr.

    “This is our opportunity to make his dream a reality.” Those words were spoken by Dennis Lucas, a member of Occupy Tacoma and one of the organizers of Occupy the Hood, at a candlelight vigil held in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.  at Occupation Park. The vigil began at about 7:15 PM on October…

  • We are Tacoma

    We are Tacoma

    For the last three months, I’ve been pretty heavily involved with Occupy Tacoma. It’s a movement I believe in, and a movement that I don’t think is going away anytime soon. Unfortunately, between my involvement in the movement, assorted client work and various personal crises (man, the plural for “crisis” really doesn’t look like a…

  • Occupy Tacoma

    Occupy Tacoma initiated its first action eight days ago, on October 7, 2011. I went to this first march expecting no more than a couple dozen at most, a scattered handful being more likely. What I found, instead, was what The News Tribune reported to be around 200 people. I was shocked, and happily so.…