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Battle for the Soul of Occupy

Jump, jump, jump over the dead body of the old left!

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

Obama is the spokesman for the banking elite. For Occupy to be co-opted by Moving on and Ombamabots, is declare the whole Occupy Movement idiotic.

Anonymous

I agree, diversity of tactics is good, but you can't aline with those that are exploiting us, forcing us to bail them out, selling out the University system to the money changers, taking our paid for safety nets, agreeing with us and then empowering the Onepercent. Moving On is the Democratic party and the Democratic party is owned and operated by the OnePercent. Obama serves the OnePercent, end of story.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPQNwM7n-l0&feature=g-hist&context=G24f9377AHT4ttZQAEAA

Anonymous

I agree, diversity of tactics is good, but you can't aline with those that are exploiting us, forcing us to bail them out, selling out the University system to the money changers, taking our paid for safety nets, agreeing with us and then empowering the Onepercent. Moving On is the Democratic party and the Democratic party is owned and operated by the OnePercent. Obama serves the OnePercent, end of story.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPQNwM7n-l0&feature=g-hist&context=G24f9377AHT4ttZQAEAA

Anonymous

Hey, guess what.

Either Romney or Obama after 2012 will appoint probably three supreme court justices, each who will be appointed for life.

Of the three likely to retire or die, two are staunch liberals and one is the moderate swing vote.

With the SCOTUS having decided on the side of unlimited spending by corporations, there is less than a snowball's chance in hell of a third party candidate winning.

So spare us all the crap about how voting does not matter or the mentally stupid inanity about how "Romney and Obama are exactly the same." Voting ain't no panacea by a long shot, but it matters, big time, and all you need to know to see that is three words: SUPREME COURT APPOINTEES.

dravazed

Take care--if we want basic social change, we can neither be palliative-seeking "Democrats" nor sectarian "street fighters." There are temptations to adopt an heroic pose as well as being caught in the gravitational pull of business as usual. Some very good people are in unions, vote for Democrats, and are participating in the 99%Spring deal. We need not to be snotty about this, but to unite around specific actions whenever and wherever that makes sense. If we do it right, that means most of the time--more often than not. Where the Great Divide takes place is over the big-d Dems, the bank teller Obama and most (not all) of the warmongers and liars who populate the D side of Congress.

If we're serious about this, we have to be patient and not indulge in crazy talk. The Weathermen lost--remember? Occupy has been successfully born in hope, creativity, and a spirit of freedom--let's not lose this to paranoia, threats against "deviationists" and related stuff that indeed belongs in the dustbin of the new-turned-old left. So keep dialogue with the 99%Spring folks, many of whom are new activists. Praise them for caring, and don't act superior--because we aren't. That attitude of condescension belongs to the 1% and our own Shadow, "the Vanguard."

GlobalRevOrg

The issues remain the same and the banks and regulators remain vulnerable. Why all the energy expended obfuscating a rather simple message?

Anonymous

I am the 99% and I don't think boycotting an election is going to get us anywhere. We need to work to build the pressure on the democratic party to actually walk the walk.

Anonymous

Boycotting the election? Oh, the GOP will LOVE you for it! As will the three lifetime appointed SCOTUS justices Romney rather than Obama appoints.

But really, let's not be even stupider than that. People in Occupy suggesting occupiers boycott the election ARE GOP MOLES. Don't fall for it.

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