A Million Man March on Wall Street
Revolutions are not unplanned and leaderless events. Nor do they happen like ‘spontaneous combustion.’ The mass protests that have erupted in Cairo's Midan Tahrir square, and are close to toppling Mubarak's regime, were orchestrated by a handful of Internet savvy organizers known as the April 6 Youth Movement. For two years they planned, strategized, thought things through. Their first act surprised even themselves: in the wake of Tunisia, they called for a day of protest and 90,000 supporters showed up. It was this initial mass, backed by popular enthusiasm, that then propelled the uprising.
To this was added tactical education. A pamphlet entitled "How to Rise Up" was circulated in the days running up to the Friday protests on January 28. The pamphlet, which has been partially translated by The Atlantic, covers everything from what to wear, what march route to take and how to fight back against the riot police.
Could an uprising like this happen in America? Over 25 million folks are now unemployed, 2.8 million homes are in foreclosure while the investment bankers who brought this economic misery cynically reap obscene bonuses and rewards. Blatant corruption rules at the heart of American democracy. And with corporations now treated as people, big business money dictates who is elected to Congress and what laws they shall pass. America has devolved into a corporate state ruled by and for the megacorps.
What would it take for the people of America to suddenly rise up and say "Enough!"? A double dip recession? A crash on Wall St.? A war in the Middle East?
If we want to spark a popular uprising in the West – like a million man march on Wall Street – then let's get organized, let's strategize, let's think things through.
–Kono Matsu
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Abdulraqib
I love you guys, i love this article, and if you can give a person like me who wish to revolt the so called powers that be then lend a helping hand to the resistance.
Abdulraqib
I love you guys, i love this article, and if you can give a person like me who wish to revolt the so called powers that be then lend a helping hand to the resistance.
rattlebone
The Egyptian Revolution has been led by it's educated, middle-class youth.
Better find a way to wake up and inspire ours first.
rattlebone
The Egyptian Revolution has been led by it's educated, middle-class youth.
Better find a way to wake up and inspire ours first.
fuxnet worm
Bringing back the draft should wake a few up.
fuxnet worm
Bringing back the draft should wake a few up.
Anonymous
the middle-class concept must go. Middle-class as it exists is responsible for our current predicament. The middle-class is the way that the hegemon distribute enough crumbs so that people do not revolt. The most likely to revolt are given more thereby pacifying their now comfortable voices.
The civil rights movement, feminism, green/enviro. Every one of these projects have been brought into the fold and institutionalised under the 'guidance' of liberal capitalist society and watered down.
Buy you food from a local grower/producer, pay them directly and in cash. Anything that you must buy that cannot be bought locally buy from the most localised resource, i.e. if you have a regional market, use it. Buy 2nd hand and if you have a resource sitting idle make it available either for sale or loan. Somethings you must buy from corporations but think how best you can exploit that particular resource, i.e. petroleum products, don't drive anywhere you can reasonably walk.
Anonymous
the middle-class concept must go. Middle-class as it exists is responsible for our current predicament. The middle-class is the way that the hegemon distribute enough crumbs so that people do not revolt. The most likely to revolt are given more thereby pacifying their now comfortable voices.
The civil rights movement, feminism, green/enviro. Every one of these projects have been brought into the fold and institutionalised under the 'guidance' of liberal capitalist society and watered down.
Buy you food from a local grower/producer, pay them directly and in cash. Anything that you must buy that cannot be bought locally buy from the most localised resource, i.e. if you have a regional market, use it. Buy 2nd hand and if you have a resource sitting idle make it available either for sale or loan. Somethings you must buy from corporations but think how best you can exploit that particular resource, i.e. petroleum products, don't drive anywhere you can reasonably walk.
Anonymous
We know that the last thing ANY government wants is an educated public: an educated, intelligent and aware public.
It is so easy for us to jump on the band wagon and say 'Let's Revolt'. I mean, I do agree that we need to organize, we need to strategize and we need to think things through.
So let's keep the conversation going and let's keep offering solutions (whatever they may be) to whatever it is we want to change.
You have my support!
Anonymous
We know that the last thing ANY government wants is an educated public: an educated, intelligent and aware public.
It is so easy for us to jump on the band wagon and say 'Let's Revolt'. I mean, I do agree that we need to organize, we need to strategize and we need to think things through.
So let's keep the conversation going and let's keep offering solutions (whatever they may be) to whatever it is we want to change.
You have my support!
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