Ithaca

On Saturday, October 15, the Global Day of action, about 300 people showed up to “Occupy Binghamton,” a protest that is part of a grassroots movement organized by a large group of people, including Binghamton University, Broome Community College, and the union AFO-CIO.

Inaction is a form of action. You are either there with this movement or you are not there with this movement. The time is now to let yourself hope. We may well lose the battle, but if we win, you do not want to have to ask yourself, “Where was I when they needed me?”

On Thursday, Ithaca College joined an Occupy Wall Street movement with over 92 other colleges. Close to 200 students, as well as some faculty members, participated in a walkout and rally, one of the most well-attended student protests in the college’s history.

I can still take pleasure in one of the few events I’ve made a point of attending every year since I first came here: The Apple Harvest Festival, an annual autumn celebration of everything that is quintessentially Ithacan.

Ithaca College’s Theatre Department kicked off their fall season strong with Plumfield, Iraq, a sobering play showing the horrors of the Iraq War overseas and at home.

A group of Ithaca protesters in solidarity with the Occupy Wall Street movement met in Dewitt Park on Sunday, where they will continue to meet each week. The meetings are examples of democracy at work.

Svante Myrick, a 24-year-old member of the Ithaca Common Council, is leading as the democratic City of Ithaca mayoral candidate after winning Tuesday night’s primary.

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