Isabell Moore

Isabell Moore is an adjunct professor in Greensboro, NC, who teaches history part time at the local community college and Women and Gender Studies part time at a local university. She is a member of Southerners on New Ground and Project South, serves on the National Committee of the War Resisters League, and has worked with Resource Generation. She is honored to be a part of the Occupy Greensboro group.

Why I Occupy: An Open Letter

 

October 7, 2011

Dear Extended Families,

As many of you may know, I’ve been getting super excited about all this “We Are the 99%” and “Occupy Wall Street” stuff. Coincidentally, as these protests have been spreading we’re covering the American, French, and Haitian revolutions in the community college history classes I teach. Examining past revolutions has inspired me to remember that “the arc of history is long,” as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said, and that things can and have changed rapidly and even recently.

Young People Take Charge

 

"When I was in high school, recruiters seemed to be everywhere: at the school, calling at home, at the mall. I was raised by a single mom and had a twin sister looking at college, too, and I didn’t know what my options were to pay for college and to find work,” says Terri Johnson, a war resister who now works as a truth-in-recruitment advocate. “If I had known about other options, I might not have joined the military in the first place.”