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#D17

Time to assemble once more.

2012: The Year of the Dragon

Time to assemble once more.

This kid’s got an attitude that you just can’t fix. Pepper spray. Truncheons. Gas. Confinement. Brutality. Nothing works. You tell him he can’t loiter and he pitches a tent. You tell him he can’t assemble and he brings his friends. You tell him to be quiet and he starts a mic check. You raise your baton in one hand and squeeze the trigger on the pepper spray canister in the other. You curse this kid’s existence because deep down you know you’ll have to go through it all again … and even worse, you think he might be right.

The discourse of our world is shifting. Today is the three-month anniversary of Occupy. It’s a time to reflect, to celebrate, to think about what has been achieved already and about what’s coming up next.

From pole to pole, from East to West, people are rising up! It started in Tunisia, it moved to Egypt, then to New York, and now there are rumblings in Russia and the Far East.

Let’s celebrate our successes and dream up new offensives. Out in the streets, in our homes, as we occupyxmas and as we hibernate for the winter, let’s take this day to revel in the birth and ongoing life of our movement. And as we brainstorm this winter, what do you see happening in the next stage? Share your thoughts, tactics, epiphanies, and revelations below … and no matter what … let’s come out swinging when the crocuses bloom next Spring.

Here’s to the Year of the Dragon,

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Anonymous

Start putting MAJOR Pressure on Congress to:

A) Address that Corporations are Not People.
B) No Insider Trading of Stocks should be allowed by Congress.
C) All of those places which have received Bail Out Money should not be allowed to continue business as usual. Shut them down.
D) Corporations are not allowed to own the News Media. It's a conflict of interest.
E) Serious discrimination going on with Corporations who say people "aren't a good culture fit" and doing strange bubble tests which screen people out. Hiring and Work laws need to be updated.
And no, not a round of up to 3 interviews you get ONE. Stop wasting people's time and money.
F) IMMEDIATE Revisement of the Patriot Act.
G) People should be able to "opt out" of having tracking devices in their cell phones, or cameras in technology if they want to. Stop treating every American Citizen as if they are a terrorist waiting to happen. GPS in your car should be optional as well.
H) The Unemployment office currently is better suited to direct people towards welfare and foodstamps than helping them not just find but get a job. It needs to be reworked.
I) The Dumping of Soldiers remains into a Garbage Dump should be made illegal.
J) The building up of infrastructure which helps us rely less on Oil, it's a limited resource.
And that's just a few... Some easy, some not so easy...

shep.glennon

Yes!

And revise the National Defense Authorization Act too, so that America is no longer defined as a "battlefield" that allows for indefinite detention of American Citizens! (this just passed quietly last week)

shep.glennon

Yes!

And revise the National Defense Authorization Act too, so that America is no longer defined as a "battlefield" that allows for indefinite detention of American Citizens! (this just passed quietly last week)

Anonymous

Do you people really think you're changing anything? You're not. 99% of the "99%" think that the occupiers are whiny, coddled, spoiled babies posting idiocy from $400 iPhones. Nothing that you're doing is changing anything, no matter how self-important you hipster douchebags think you are. Real, normal Americans with bills to pay,families to raise and jobs to do think of you as dirty, lazy and spoiled. Grow up, wake up, and start doing something meaningful.

Sincerely
Most American taxpayers, workers, and people.

Anonymous

Do you people really think you're changing anything? You're not. 99% of the "99%" think that the occupiers are whiny, coddled, spoiled babies posting idiocy from $400 iPhones. Nothing that you're doing is changing anything, no matter how self-important you hipster douchebags think you are. Real, normal Americans with bills to pay,families to raise and jobs to do think of you as dirty, lazy and spoiled. Grow up, wake up, and start doing something meaningful.

Sincerely
Most American taxpayers, workers, and people.

gorvis448

Whether you like it or not there are fundamental changes occuring worldwide. Calling people dirty or lazy or whatever won't change that from happening. Of course other people have to go to work and pay bills and do so honestly. Those people on the street are standing up for them, against a system fueled by corruption and greed on a massive scale. They are not going to go away.

gorvis448

Whether you like it or not there are fundamental changes occuring worldwide. Calling people dirty or lazy or whatever won't change that from happening. Of course other people have to go to work and pay bills and do so honestly. Those people on the street are standing up for them, against a system fueled by corruption and greed on a massive scale. They are not going to go away.

Anonymous

You're a tool. You should be happy that you are able to bay bills, and what not. I'm a recent college graduate, and even with my education I haven't had any luck with a job. The economy sucks, the system sucks, corporations suck, and people like you make them all suck more. So go pay your bills and just worry about yourself, which is exactly what we are doing.

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