As thousands open their eyes everyday to the real struggles in their lives, the #OccupyWallStreet movement has spread…

Starting early this year from Tunisia to Egypt and neighbouring countries to Spain and EU countries, the spirit of revolution has arrived to North America.

I see people trying to define this movement. I hear people trying to make sense of it all.

From my perspective, as each life and each one of our struggles is unique to our own circumstances, trying to define this movement necessitates a true reflection on humanity and what constitutes it…

My views on #OccupyVancouver…

Personally, this movement will be a movement of soul searching. When I stand in the Vancouver Art Gallery in solidarity with those around me, it will not be unseating Harper nor Clement that would preoccupy me… it would rather be a commitment to find myself in those around me, to find in their daily struggles, my own, my own self, my own life.

This won’t be a protest like any other. I do not wish it to be a protest, personally. I wish it would be a chance for us, as Canadians, to engage with each other at a personal level.

How many times have you smiled and greeted a stranger on an elevator or on the bus just to find out that such actions create suspicion in those around you? How many times do you find yourself judging others based on race, appearance, age, or even the way people walk?

We have grown into a society where the standard has become to doubt and suspect one another, to forget others are just like us: people with family, with problems, with hopes, with friends. We are a society of lonely individuals where all our relationships are based on trust that we have only built from childhood or through long terms relationships at work or school. We find ourselves in a position to judge others and expect others to constantly have to prove themselves… but why?

So I will #OccupyVancouver, for we are in desperate need to connect with each other, to learn to trust and love each other… we have to create a space where you and i can foremost interact as human beings. Within this space, my hope is that the narrative that drives our movement will not be political rhetoric, it will be our stories, each and every one of us, as human beings, as members of our society. Within this space, the discussion will not be centered around partisan ideologies, it would be centered on what we wish to share with others in our attempt to find our true connections.

This will be a human revolution, the main goal of which would be to reclaim humanity and to share our life experiences and hopes for our future. It will be a revolution in the sense that reclaiming humanity, dignity, and freedom have become the major threat to those who wish to divide us… those who wish we never found within each other the same sense of alienation as well as the same hopes and dreams…

Perhaps, I will add more posts on #occupycanada as I prepare for it in the coming days…