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By Josh Healey

As a associate of the self-identified “slash profession” – author/organizer/educator/whatever pays the rent that month – I have scholastic how to wear multiple hats. How to move between different worlds and code-switch my headgear to into a particular place and community. Alright, I got this big event coming up tonight…should I weary the Kangol, the fitted, or the yarmulke? (Correct answer: all three.) Sometimes, though, it’s a struggle figuring out which trim to bring out in which situation. Take Occupy.
I got back in Oakland full-time last month, and right now jumped into the beautiful chaos that is Occupy Oakland. I joined the big West Seaboard port shutdown on December 12, started attending the alternatively substantial and painful General Assemblies, and connected with the two committees I’ve begun organizing with, Reside the Hood and Labor Solidarity. It’s been great, and I’ve gotten to tour of duty some of activist muscles that I hadn’t used in years. (Sometimes line for line – holding one side of a 30″ banner with that wind whipping off the bay is harder than it looks.) But while I’ve been bringing my organizing and drilling experience to the table, sometimes I leave behind the thing I do that I’m doing fitting now on this laptop. Writing. Telling stories. Creating culture.
Source: AlterNet (blog)