Welcome BBQ: We Occupied La Jolla Shores!

The call went out, that on Wednesday September 28 all current and potential YAGgers would march to my house and Occupy La Jolla Shores Drive (in past years known as the Welcome BBQ). And more than 50 young adults heeded the message. Even Father Patrick lent his priestly presence.

We protested the unluckiness of the 99% who don't live in San Diego, and celebrated the arrival of Fall and new members of the YAG community.

We raged and set things ablaze--in specific a grill where we roasted burgers and veggie burgers.

We shouted loudly as we sang Nirvana songs on guitar hero--and some of us were not even booed off stage.

We had a list of demands which included both Stone and Karl Strauss beverages. The demands were met, and we consumed both of those San Diego local favorites for which the world has come to envy our Finest City.

At the end of the day, those who had stuck out the protests till the end marched down to the beach to observe the dying embers of the ocean's bioluminescence, and we declared solidarity and the start of something even bigger: a whole year to come of great YAG events with some of the best people you will meet in the best town on the planet.

Even if there was poor news coverage of our gathering, indeed at least it made the blogs...

-by Ben Jammin