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
No. You should think about staying off the interwebs.
suebasko
NOW ON TO SOME REAL NEWS. WE HAVE ACTUAL PLANS FOR a G8 PROTEST REGARDING CAMP DAVID AT FREDERIck, Maryland, arranged by OccupyFrederick and OccupyDC as well as others, and plans for a NATO protest in Chicago. For info that is regularly updated, please see:
http://occupypeace.blogspot.com
http://occupypeace.blogspot.com/2012/04/update-g8-camp-david-and-nato-chicago.html
davidleal.garcia
Despite the undemocratic and self-defeating norm of consensus, we, as an Occupy movement, still have a sense of what we came here to do. We didn’t come here to sign petitions or to get Obama reelected. We didn’t come here to “have a voice in the system”; we came here to flip it on its head. We will not be co-opted. We should not have our tactics determined by the Democratic Party.
We should not let ourselves be undermined from withinThis isn’t about violence versus non-violence; this is about autonomy versus co-optation. History will not forgive us if we let the 99% Spring Trojan horse into out movement so that the injustices we rose up against can be perpetuated with our own sanction, in our own name.
dravazed
Beware of Democrats bearing gifts.
davidleal.garcia
Is this what we want?
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Anonymously dis...
Hmmm... Left Boot - Right Boot, Left Boot - Right Boot, Left Boot - Right Boot...
Now you're marching to the beat the corporations want!
Don't believe the hype - there is NO chance for the current form of pre-packaged and bottled Democracy to ever provide the average person with anything but what the corporate designers have determined that it shall be allowed to.
RISE UP!
Anonymous
As we become more and more exclusive, the smaller and smaller the Occupy movement becomes. So if the Spring Actions loose impact it will not be because all these other groups sabotaged our movement. It will be because we excluded them.... when our numbers were massive it was because all the other groups identified with Occupy and were apart of it. As we keep saying "we're not part of them, or them, or them we keep getting smaller and smaller with less and less good ideas. What had started as a massive movement whose power was in the combined thought will become an annoyance that can be swiped away with a fly swatter. Unity and Solidarity is the name of the game of change. Not isolation!!!!!
Anonymous
So which will it be, Occupy?
You wanna be a bunch of ideologue anarchists who want to overthrow the U.S. government but marches into historical irrelevance, or be part of a broad scale coalition that actually, you know, brings crucial changes for the better within the system?
BTW, the first group are certainly the minority in OWS. They just seem more vocal because many are basement dwellers and have more time to spend on the internet.
Anonymous
Your comment proves you are not part of OCCUPY and don't belong in this discussion.
Anonymous
I have been part since day one. It's just that certain anarchists, like you, thought this was all about them.
NOT!
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