Overview...

What started as an awareness raising and ethnographic styled walk through Sierra Leone, this site now details the encounters of a not so academic academic who spends more time occupying Wall Street and squats than a university...

The Current Situation

So while this all started out as an effort to learn more about the "developing world", it has turned into a place to discuss and reflect on developments anywhere throughout our world.  Or more so, on developments in the world that I am currently inhabiting.

In the beginning of October 2011 I decided I'd had enough of hearing about Occupy Wall Street and went to Liberty Plaza (Zuccotti Park), never to return.  I quit my job, left my home, and moved into the park.  It is the most profound single thing I've ever done and set me on the trajectory I always should have been on.  It brought me to Rutgers anthropology program, back to the Czech Republic, to squatting in Stockholm at the Hogdalens Folkets Hus, and now again in Prague at the Autonomous Social Center Klinika. I have become connected to and surrounded by an incredible group of people and friends that are all trying to enact an incredibly caring and alternative world to the discriminatory and unequally one we currently live in.



Life however, is far more complicated than simple happiness.  There are a million things that should be discussed in the context of living, occupying, working, playing, studying, and everything else happening in my world right now.  That is really what this blog has now become. Funny though, I am on basically the same journey as before, its just different.  A different place, different people, yet it's all the same.  We need to bring about the same changes while we are fighting the same issues, the same people, and the same scenarios.  So please, take some time and engage with the reflections of an occupier, a traveler, a thinker, a want-to-be academic, and a soon-to-be who knows what!