Yes, yurt. What is a yurt, you ask? According to a website linked by Occupy Pittsburgh, a yurt is "a circular portable shelter used by Central Asian nomads for over 2000 years, recently adapted for Western use." Our local occupiers are asking for assistance building what they're calling "hexayurts". The occupiers want them because they are "wind proof, water proof, and safe for a heater installation." They are also looking for "creative floor ideas." Somebody evidently suggested that wooden pallets would be good, except that if they used pallets with spaces - i.e. most such items - "We may help the rats make a nest for winter." Glad they're worried about that. Plague and other rat-borne diseases can be a real bitch, particularly if you only have a tent and not a yurt to convalesce in. So then, what do our occupiers need to construct their yurts?
Before we get into materials, let's take a look at the occupiers' principles. The Occupy Pittsburgh General Assembly adopted the original Occupy Wall Street statement of purpose on October 12, 2011, no doubt with very fervent "up twinkles". Here's some of the things they stand against:
- They have taken bailouts from taxpayers with impunity...
- They have poisoned the food supply through negligence...
- They have spent millions of dollars...[to] look for ways to get them out of contracts in regards to health insurance...
- They continue to block alternate forms of energy to keep us dependent on oil...
- They continue to block generic forms of medicine...
- They continue to create weapons of mass destruction...
You get the drift. I excerpted the above because they speak to hypocrisy of the occupiers, for, what does it take to build a yurt?
