Monday March 18

Half a dozen of us through the hour. We had normal support and opposition from the folks driving by, but today much of our attention was within the vigil. As I remember, I heard a couple of stories: one about an Occupy activist proclaiming that "cops are machines"; another about the graduation address of a Benton County high school valedictorian, encouraging his classmates to work to improve our society but noting that his/her own possibilities were limited because he/she was an undocumented immigrant. The stories provoked impassioned conversation about how best to engage with society and with others.