The Time Magazine person of the year is the Protester, the person who speaks their truth, and risks everything in doing so. I had the opportunity to teach a couple of yoga classes for the Occupy LA troops when they were camped out in front of City Hall. I knew many of these people. They had homes and families. They were living in a tent in downtown Los Angeles to try and change a system that they believe to be corrupt, spent and malicious. Living in a tent in downtown Los Angeles is this alcoholic’s worst nightmare. But they did it. People all over this country, in cities much less friendly, are taking the future of our people into their own hands; people all over the world. I know people that found their voices in this movement. For many of us, we found our common Voice, and no longer feel politically powerless. Some are on the ground, beaten, bleeding, tearing from pepper spray, but no longer powerless, for they are speaking their truth.
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