I've just discovered the local segment of the Occupy movement, so I'm catching up a bit. Has anyone made any contacts with KUHF?

Thanks for the welcome John. And I just ran across the new thread. I'll keep an eye here to see what's happening. Not sure if I have a contact with KUHF, but it is quite likely that I do. Will start hitting the address book.

While I agree with you Katie, that the majority of supporters are likely to come from neutral/liberal media, I hope we will be careful about ostracizing the other half of the country. I've seen enough of the hate-mongering in the forums here to know that your fears are well-founded, but in my experience most people are good and few will actually mean harm. The internet invites the most dramatic of statements on any side of an issue, because we're all tucked away behind our computer screens. Read enough YouTube comments and I tend to lose all faith in humanity. It's in public that faith will be restored and where real action will begin to take shape.

Anyway, as KUHF has transitioned to a 24 hour news/information station, I'm sure that they would be interested in following the local movement. If not, there are always the broadcasts such as Talk of the Nation that invite listener response. As long as the call is on point with the topic of conversation (and well thought out, no point in presenting ourselves as loons with an agenda), I see no reason the producers would be adverse to someone slipping in a tag line, "This is so-and-so calling from Occupy Houston in Tranquility Park."

Another question. I'm not sure that this is the best place for posing it, but I'd rather keep from posting a new thread. I've been reading over some of the material for the OccHou and, hopefully this won't hurt anyone's feelings, much of it is in desperate need of editing. At this stage in its infancy, gross misspellings and typos could hurt the credibility that the group is trying to rebuild. I'm not a grammarsmith, but I would be willing to edit the pamphlets and such as I am not yet able to get down to the park.

I think a systematic study of the nation's current zeitgeist would be really beneficial to the movement at large. Getting the pulse of the nation would help a lot in creating unison and in getting voices heard.

As for the danger aspect– I'm familiar with the area. Have there been any safety issues thus far? I read somewhere about a problem with theft, but has their been any violence? I've traveled abroad to some pretty sketchy places by myself and have found that instinct and preparedness go a long way in self-defense.

As for the editing, John, I sent you a private message, but in case that failed (I had some problems with the page), I will just start copy/pasting some of what I see and submit it back to you (or is there someone else I should send it to) when I'm done. I'll get started on that tomorrow morning.