" To occupy mendiola is to assume our place in history-- to activate the space as political and to make it as a platform of our shared aspirations and collective imagination.It is not just all about being in/ at place. it is about the becoming of social change and political intervention. The paranoia and the anxiety of the 1% is to witness that we will once more gather because they know that we are right and they refuse to admit that neoliberal capitalist system have failed. to occupy mendiola necessitates the body as 'the technology of the weak' . The body afterall is tranformed by the dominant social order as obsolete and docile. What use of it, other than going beyond and making it as our technology towards social justice.
For the longest time, our collective aspirations are being dispersed and cracked down by the system. They make us individualists by offering a capitalist utopia of consumerism as personal freedom, spectacle and simulcra through corporatist mediagenics and experience economy. To occupy is the space clearing of the dominant system (a la kaingin system ba) and provide us, the 99% the breathing space for our collective aspirations and dreams.
By occupying mendiola on December 6, we become the cartographers of our collective destinies and destination-- registering our voice in the geographies of em-power-ment and struggle. 2 cents "
- Clod Winter Sun Yambao, Facebook Status, Dec. 2, 2011
