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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

Who handed the GOP weapons?

NDAA
Expansion of the Patriot Act
NAFTA growing
NO raise on minimum wages
Tax Breaks for the wealthy
Subjugation of the country and us, the people, for use by Israel. "Can I borrow your mule (for free)"
More bailouts
Complete control of ALL THE COUNTRY'S RESOURCES practically tax free to the One Percent
Allowed financial criminal activity that destroys economies, towns, families, and lives aka Foreclosure
fraud in numbers still not slowing. What are we at ?10million
Endless for profit warsssss
Endless surveillance state,
TSA fondling you kid's junk
Imprisoning heroic whistleblowers
Building the Iron Curtain for America as we speak
GROWING POVERTY.... Growing poverty is not just a freaking talking point.

DEMS DEMS DEMS DEMS

Both parties are corrupt. They are both waltzing us to slaughter per the OnePercents' instructions. Everything the Dems do is made possible by GOP. Everything the GOP does is made possible by the DEMs. The country we have is a Dem and GOP LOVE CHILD. WAke up and demand a break from this tyranny and the false system.

RESEARCHER

Thank you. I'm getting tired of seeing the same tired lies rehashed, that we moved past long ago, in order to form ows.

Anonymous

The difference is not great or even an answer. Vote for the Kochs or Goldman Sachs. Either way it's one gang bang or another. Vote... don't vote... not an interesting topic as it is a dead end. Let's talk about what we can do that will actually make a difference cause voting is just you giving your blessing for being held over a barrel.

Anonymous

Three words: SUPREME COURT APPOINTEES.

Either Romney or Obama will appoint probably three, each who will serve FOR LIFE. Your choice.

Anonymous

Eh, it hardly matters if they serve for life, when revolution comes their lives will be short indeed.

Anonymous

How much are you being paid for posting the same shit over and over you democratic sill? Fuck off already, no one is buying your garbage.

Anonymous

The Weather Underground became a footnote of history and ultimately accomplished nothing the day it rejected 'The Old Left" of its day. It's time to grow up, kiddies. You either build A BROAD SCALE COALITION or become a footnote. No movement in all of history has ever worked who failed to do this.

Anonymous

That kind of negative teacher's pet crap is exactly what got us here today with a corrupt OnePercent doing whatever it wants to the people with impunity. You need to grow the fuck up and do your homework. The same fucking people own both parties and their will....will be done. You're voting for Wall Street with Dems or Gops, just different factions of the same cabal and they blow each other endlessly. That's why Americans have been reduces to chattel. ONly ignoramuses keep falling for this good cop, bad cop bs.

Anonymous

Do I hear this right that Occupiers are seriously talking about boycotting the 2012 elections, or else throwing their votes to no practical affect by supporting some minor third party candidates?

Excuse me, but being "co-opted" by MoveOn sounds like the very least of your worries. It sounds like you've already been quietly co-opted by moles sent by Karl Rove!

Anonymous

There is no candidate for the people. There are two candidates for the OnePercent. Going through the motions to get more of the same is not the answer. We have lost our rights and seen our country drained of resources, jobs, and the social contract by voting in the two parties of the one percent.

Trying yet again to hope for representation is just wasting time as the Decoycrats enact NDAA and mandatory heath care bill further enslaving the poor to the elite without choice while the GOP wants to send jobs overseas, continue a murdering low minimum wage, and cutting back safety nets, all the while both parties giving tax cuts to the wealthiest people on the planet who have simply been handed trillions and while, continuing wars draining every last cent from the people.

How long does a child keep playing the game of "Heads I win, Tails you lose"??.

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