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
Let's talk child's math.
EQUALS - two numbers or expressions have exactly the same value, 1 + 1 = 2 + 0
GREATER THAN - one number or expression has a greater value than another, 5 > 4
LESS THAN - one number or expression has a lesser value than another, 4 < 5
INEQUALITY - one number or expression is not equal to another number or expression, x ≠ y
And another important one:
PROBABILITY - the measure of how likely an event is
Democrats and Republicans, are not EQUAL.
Republicans are GREATER THAN Democrats at enacting policies for the 1%.
Republicans appoint conservative SCOTUS justices; Democrats, more liberal ones, and probably three justices, who each serve for life, will be appointed during the next presidents term.
The PROBABILITY of a third party candidate winning is ridiculously tiny this cycle.
Do activism like crazy. Vote realistically and practically, using basic math. Then do more activism like crazy!
New Old Left
"Republicans appoint conservative SCOTUS justices; Democrats, more liberal ones..."
Sez who? Our current "liberal" President upholds policies like this:
http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/eric-holder-yes-we-can-kill-american-citizens-without-trial/
Anonymous
If you're trying to convince me that the Dems are a very, very, very long way from ideal, spare your breath. I agree.
If you're trying to convince me that Obama will appoint conservative justices, or that who is appointed to SCOTUS is irrelevant (hint: Citizens United, Roe v Wade), STFU. You're just a raging idiot or a GOP mole inside OWS.
Anonymous
Yeah, everyone who won't vote for the Democrats is a GOP mole. I guess that's 1/2 the voting age population of the USA.
Some of us don't care and won't vote for your Wall St owned candidate. And we're far from being on the side of the GOP. We just don't think the choice between CORRUPT or CRAZY is a choice.
Anonymous
Good one.
Dems and Repubs dance to the same piper, they just have different styles and different favorite songs.
Anonymous
"Front groups, not issues!" should be Obama's rallying cry.
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Yes-The-99-Spring-is-a-F-by-Charles-M-Young-120413-809.html
Anonymous
That piece is completely demolished here: http://tech.nycga.net/2012/03/25/reportback-the-99spring-training-for-trainers-and-the-plot-to-coopt-occupy/#comment-376
New Old Left
"Somebody even called me all the way from San Francisco to make sure I was a sincere seeker on the left and would be attending, along with 120,000 others in training sessions around the country."
Wow, that's a committed volunteer footing the bill for a cross country confirmation call.
Anonymous
I have unlimited long distance for $30 per month.
Anonymous
Holy shit - there have been 1000+ trainings, with people tweeting about them and posting pictures on Flickr and reporting back on Facebook - and one guy had one shitty training where a person sold Obama buttons, and we're so one-track-minded we just re-share the same single account of that one training over and over again?
Whenever anyone shares an account of an Occupy GA meeting or associated event that doesn't go well or they didn't appreciate, we're the first to say to naysayers, "Dude, look at the bigger picture - look at all the accounts of Occupy doing great things on an individual basis, and at the larger effect we're having." For a few occupiers to so blatantly adopt the standards of our adversaries when its suits our most paranoid impulses is kinda shameful.
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