From:  Daniel
To:   all York students, workers, strikers and friends
Date:   Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 9:15 PM
Subject:  Dispatch #12 - Taking it Big, One Raindrop at a Time

Monday, January 5, 2009

We are each of us a raindrop. Together, we can be an ocean.

We were a torrential downpour of 80 raindrops this afternoon, when the rally passed through the ninth floor. At the rally, raindrops talked about the sit-in, the General Strike in Greece, the New School Occupation in New York City, and the 2005 Quebec student strike. We were reinvigorated by the rally and the energy of our fellow raindrops. Thank you!

Rain continued to seep into the ninth floor during teach-ins on Video Activism and Possibilities for Anti-Colonial Feminist Organizing. Some raindrops also created a video based on MTV’s “Cribs”: a synopsis of a day in the life of a ninth-floor raindrop.

We are now about 20 raindrops. Enough to make a large puddle. Maybe even a small pond. Enough to soak the ninth floor. Enough to make President Shoukri wear galoshes. Maybe even hip waders.

And we will become icicles with you on the picket lines. And if you need to thaw out after your picket shift or want to sleep somewhere before your 7:00 a.m. shift, we have a puddle for you.

So come add your raindrop to our raindrops.

Let’s make a lake.

A sea.

An ocean.

Let’s cover 70 percent of the Earth’s surface, baby.

Raindrops of the world unite!

All power to the picket lines!

The Ninth Floor Sitters
NinthFloorSitters@gmail.com