Battle for the Soul of Occupy
Alright you jammers, occupiers and Springtime dreamers,
First they silenced our uprising with a media blackout… then they smashed our encampments with midnight paramilitary raids… and now they’re threatening to neutralize our insurgency with an insidious campaign of donor money and co-optation. This counter-strategy worked to kill off the Tea Party’s outrage and turn it into a puppet of the Republican Party. Will the same happen with Occupy Wall Street? Will our insurgency turn into the Democrats’ Tea Party pet?
It’s up to you to decide if our movement goes the way of Paris ’68, the dust bin of could-have-been-insurrections, or something more daring, more inspiring, something not yet dreamed.
Will you allow Occupy to become a project of the old left, the same cabal of old world thinkers who have blunted the possibility of revolution for decades? Will you allow MoveOn, The Nation and Ben & Jerry to put the brakes on our Spring Offensive and turn our struggle into a “99% Spring” reelection campaign for President Obama?
We are now in a battle for the soul of Occupy… a fight to the finish between the impotent old left and the new vibrant, horizontal left who launched Occupy Wall Street from the bottom-up and who dreams of real democracy and another world.
Whatever you do, don’t allow our revolutionary struggle to fizzle out into another lefty whine and clicktivist campaign like has happened so many times in the past. Let’s Occupy the clicktivists and crash the MoveOn party. Let’s #DEFENDOCCUPY and stop the derailment of our movement that looms ahead.
for the wild,
Culture Jammers HQ
OccupyWallStreet.org / Tactical Briefing #25, #26, #27 and #28 / Check out Oakland occupier Mike King’s take on MoveOn’s 99% Spring
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Anonymous
The Democratic Party is no better than the GOP. Simple people can't see it because, as Chris Hedges points out, they speak in the language of liberalism but they never fight or do anything to back it up. I call the new Dems the Decoy class. They appear to be for the people but they are nothing more than decoys that function as a illusion of representation. This illusion distracts the victims from acquiring the real thing while the OnePercent control every and all possible money streams. The Decoy, lures the simple working people from forming a true voice and an effective team of people standing up to the elite Leaving, said elite, unchallenged on all fronts and robbing an looting to their gorging satisfaction.
Obama/ Romney. Same OnePercent either way. Maybe some BS religious differences. Total Garbage choice. No choice. We have to protest the next election. There is nothing for the people even remotely being offered. Shit sandwich either way.
Anonymous
No better? Are you serious, willfully blind, or do you just not understand basic math concepts like "equivalent" and "greater than" and "less than"? There is a more guilty party http://owsposters.tumblr.com/tagged/There+is+a+More+Guilty+Party/page/3 In case you need a little more help, here are three words that state the difference between Repubs and Dems: THE SUPREME COURT.
Anonymous
Goppers make no bones about serving the One Percent and the Decoycrats pretend to serve the people but never follow through. Effectively wasting the resources of the opposition to OnePercent Rule and Tyranny... on purpose .. Wake UP
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPQNwM7n-l0&feature=g-hist&context=G2d4649bAHT4tAIAABAA
Anonymous
What was it about SUPREME COURT APPOINTEES, most like three of them during the next president's term, each appointed for life, that you did not understand?
Anonymous
What is it about the Financial elite aka Wall Street aka Foreclosures R Us, etc. that own and operate the Democratic party and Democratic WH that you don't understand. Duh, we busted our butts for Obama and the Dems in '08 and they sold us out like a bunch of kittens in a basket. Now, they're giving us a little bit of lip service while filling the coffers of the One Percent and their selves and doing jack for the rest of us.
Anonymous
I understand all that but I don't let it make me so ideologically minded I am no electorally good.
Anonymous
The only reason the OnePercent aren't screwing us harder and faster is OCCUPY. Unfortunately, they're still screwing us and setting us and our children up to be a disposable warrior class for the Chosen People's World Wide Empire of complete and total resource domination..
That's what happens when you lose your sovereignty. Your future is decided for you and that future has nothing to do with your happiness or even your well being.
Win back our country or prepare to turn into a full time disposable cannon fodder animal for the OnePercent who choose this line of money making because it's the fastest and easiest for them. Why earn when you can kill and rob. No one can stop you because you can blow up the planet and anyone that doesn't like it.
Welcome to HELL. And American workers are financing, most even without health care.
DumbBlondePolitical
Best to the point summary I have heard. And why we need all the help we can get, no matter, what Union, 99Declaration, MoveOn, whatever. We need help. Solidarity. Thank you.
Anonymous
Occupy better darn let the "Old Left" in. Broad coalitions are crucial. And they better darn actually vote REALISTICALLY for 2012, see http://owsposters.tumblr.com/post/21105797906/upset-with-democrats
DumbBlondePolitical
I say we need all the help we can get, MoveOn, JumpOn, PartyOn. Whats the big deal? 'Why alienate many of the 99% trying to help us/Ows topple the Govt? When did Occupy become the Gods, Judge and tthe Maker of whose tactics to take out Govt is right? I dont judge anyone, not my place. Peace out.
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