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This morning, I changed the world. It was amazing.
Four days a week, I leave my car at the garage that valets my car and I walk to Rittenhouse Square. For those of you who don't know the area, Rittenhouse is one of the enclaves of the 1 percent here in Philadelphia. The law firm I work with is one of the premier class action firms in the nation. They litigate anti-trust violations, price collusion, unsafe products and other class actions.
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From the garage, it is four blocks to the office. I walk from just past Dilworth Plaza, the site of the original Occupy Philadelphia camp, to Rittenhouse Square, the home of the few and land of the elite. I often pass several homeless people on my way to and from the garage, and always try to give them a few dollars each week. I wonder how they ended up on the street, and worry about the friends I made at Occupy Philadelphia, the homeless that found a home at OP camp now scattered.
Today I decided to change the world. I invited one woman to come to a coffee shop and let me buy her breakfast. Just five minutes of my day, that is all the time it took to change the world.
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For a few months, Occupy camps nationwide were feeding and caring for the homeless, and more than anything, that respite is needed.
At Occupy Philadelphia they not only fed the homeless, they provided warm clothing, medical care and companionship. I am sure the other camps did the same.
We need to reinvent the Occupy camp concepts. Find a way to work with city and state government to have permanent Occupy sites that work with existing services and organizations to provide shelter, solace and sustenance to those in need.
The woman I bought breakfast for had all her blankets stolen last night, she was in the hospital with bronchitis and a UTI. When Occupy Philadelphia had its camp at Dilworth Plaza she could get free medical care, three meals a day, clean water, dry clothes and a safe place to sleep. Without the camp she has nothing and nowhere to go.
I am asking each one of you who reads this to join me in changing the world. We can find a space to setup an Occupy Camp Shelter, we can care for each other.
If we don't stop and change the world, who will?
