Fight Back Bank of America March, March 15, 2012
Photo: Stacy Lanyon
What drew me was that finally we were focusing on the real
culprits of most of the oppression in the world. Realistically and from my
perspective, the corporations have way too much power over the economic systems in the world. Most movements in the past have been focused on government’s
abuse of power. My take is that it has always been the corporations that have
been abusing their power and have actually been controlling the government.
I first heard about it on the news. I was in Seattle , and I had seen
that there was a national movement occupying
Wall Street . They were pretty active in getting
their message across, which attracted me to it. You need that passion to have a
successful movement. I actually didn’t know I was moving out here until I
figured a project I wanted to work on. I was in Detroit taking care of business, and I was
like, “Oh, I want to go work on this project. Maybe I’ll move back to the Bay
Area.” Then, I decided just to move to New
York since this was the starting point of it.
It’s important because the world is at a point now where we
could really be facing potentially the hardest time the human race has ever
faced. Global warming and the advancements in technology are to be worried
about. Some people think I’m joking when I talk about robots, but in fifteen or
twenty years, I think that robot technology will be advanced enough that
they’ll be taking a huge amount of jobs away from the communities of the world.
My perspective is that we really need to get a hold of these corporations in
order to save ourselves from potentially the hardest time the world has ever
faced, especially when you consider global warming and the fact that all the
deserts of the world are expanding right now. We need to get a grip on
our world right now. This may be our last chance to save humanity.
It’s like George Orwell's 1984. People are so used to war, but they’re not used to good shit happening. I saw one article that said that for what we spent on the Iraq war, we
could have given food, health care and basic education for all of humanity.
From my perspective, we could actually create a Utopia on earth, and it’s
really not that far from our reach. I think that we could create a Utopia on
earth where we have food, clothing, education, all those needs met. With
everybody in the world working, we won’t have to work 40 hour work weeks. We
might have to work two or three days a week. The rest of the time, we can work
on educating ourselves, working with family and working on evolving the
character of the human race. Imagine if everybody really had the ability to approach their potential.
Interview by Stacy Lanyon