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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Anonymous
Love this site! Really awesome!
Mubaruk's rule, wealth and friends are not made in accident.
At least 1200 people will be at the federal building in Los Angeles this saturday it is an international day of action in solidarity with Egyptions.
Any thoughts on the idea of gaurunteed access to materials necessary for sufficient living, gaurunteed access to skills necessary, gaurunteed access to increasing ones education with timeslot options. Perhaps a parralel economy or government. A bottom up. Like the parralel one formed top-down we deal with today.
Some thoughts: The predominance of power here is vast as you said. The fact is that there are many who have obtained massive amounts of wealth and power criminally and use the arm of the military to continue to do so. A real and successful revolution may not be one which takes over the entrenched structure but one which actively supplants it with better roots and greater ends. It could actively combat it by deliberately pulling from one to the other. Something with longer term strategy and yet with a priority to make more immediate impact.
This saturday check your areas. There are alot of cities who will be demonstrating in front of their Federal Buildings. In Los Angeles on Wilshire will be one. This very scenario plays out for the margianalised close to home too, like those in Oaxaca and of course the underclass here. Note the militirization of the border.
Imperialists are attempting keep us from pressing the issue. Right in front of us, they showed a military trained and equiped for a puppet dictator watching as people dropped fire from buildings, essentially sanctioning those actions and murder of innocent people. Just days beforehand reports were that they were ordering people to leave making veiled threats in the first few days.
Corporate militirist 'experts' have been making the rounds here the past few days telling people to expect possible chaotic violence to hit Egypt, perhaps prolonged once Mubaruk leaves. They presented their military as the stablising force. It is essential to help and assist Egyptians any we can.
If one looks at the histories and Congo, Afghanistan, Guatemala, Vietnam, East Timor just to name a few, Egyptians could be in for a very difficult struggle. If forces for democratic, social restructuring and indipendence from world powers does have sway over the revolution then sophisticated counterinsurgency will be waged. Attempts to carve out indipendence from the greater powers, challenging prevailing power structures deemed 'stable' results often in punishment and massive desctruction. One can look also at the fate of African American communities in this country and the policies used to hurt them.
Join the international day of action in support of the Egyptian people:
Saturday, February 5 · 11:30am - 3:30pm
11000 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90024-3602
I love this site. I was just thinking this past state of the union should have been given by Joe Camel.
Anonymous
Love this site! Really awesome!
Mubaruk's rule, wealth and friends are not made in accident.
At least 1200 people will be at the federal building in Los Angeles this saturday it is an international day of action in solidarity with Egyptions.
Any thoughts on the idea of gaurunteed access to materials necessary for sufficient living, gaurunteed access to skills necessary, gaurunteed access to increasing ones education with timeslot options. Perhaps a parralel economy or government. A bottom up. Like the parralel one formed top-down we deal with today.
Some thoughts: The predominance of power here is vast as you said. The fact is that there are many who have obtained massive amounts of wealth and power criminally and use the arm of the military to continue to do so. A real and successful revolution may not be one which takes over the entrenched structure but one which actively supplants it with better roots and greater ends. It could actively combat it by deliberately pulling from one to the other. Something with longer term strategy and yet with a priority to make more immediate impact.
This saturday check your areas. There are alot of cities who will be demonstrating in front of their Federal Buildings. In Los Angeles on Wilshire will be one. This very scenario plays out for the margianalised close to home too, like those in Oaxaca and of course the underclass here. Note the militirization of the border.
Imperialists are attempting keep us from pressing the issue. Right in front of us, they showed a military trained and equiped for a puppet dictator watching as people dropped fire from buildings, essentially sanctioning those actions and murder of innocent people. Just days beforehand reports were that they were ordering people to leave making veiled threats in the first few days.
Corporate militirist 'experts' have been making the rounds here the past few days telling people to expect possible chaotic violence to hit Egypt, perhaps prolonged once Mubaruk leaves. They presented their military as the stablising force. It is essential to help and assist Egyptians any we can.
If one looks at the histories and Congo, Afghanistan, Guatemala, Vietnam, East Timor just to name a few, Egyptians could be in for a very difficult struggle. If forces for democratic, social restructuring and indipendence from world powers does have sway over the revolution then sophisticated counterinsurgency will be waged. Attempts to carve out indipendence from the greater powers, challenging prevailing power structures deemed 'stable' results often in punishment and massive desctruction. One can look also at the fate of African American communities in this country and the policies used to hurt them.
Join the international day of action in support of the Egyptian people:
Saturday, February 5 · 11:30am - 3:30pm
11000 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90024-3602
I love this site. I was just thinking this past state of the union should have been given by Joe Camel.
nonselfisself
Right on! Count me in!
nonselfisself
Right on! Count me in!
vvvalerie
word up, i'm all about it. let's do it.
vvvalerie
word up, i'm all about it. let's do it.
Anonymous
I think the Egyptian revolution has more in common with the French Revolution than other revolutions that media has tried to draw parallels with, such as the Iranian revolution. I believe the youth and the middle class want freedom from the religious class as well as the military/political class. The revolution is about equality, but also the ability to live without control from the state or religion. This may be their age of enlightenment in the middle east. Though it will be different in process and ideas than west, it will change the world as much as the age of enlightenment changed the world in the last 200 years.
Anonymous
I think the Egyptian revolution has more in common with the French Revolution than other revolutions that media has tried to draw parallels with, such as the Iranian revolution. I believe the youth and the middle class want freedom from the religious class as well as the military/political class. The revolution is about equality, but also the ability to live without control from the state or religion. This may be their age of enlightenment in the middle east. Though it will be different in process and ideas than west, it will change the world as much as the age of enlightenment changed the world in the last 200 years.
Allen Green
The rage, frustration and despair is reinforced by our ever increasing alienation. This same alienation will not allow us to see the connection between us to unite in revolt. Unless the enemy is as clearly defined as the totalitarian regimes of the Middle East, we (Americans) will not be able to unite.Define the enemy so we can all clearly be united if not nothing else.
Allen Green
The rage, frustration and despair is reinforced by our ever increasing alienation. This same alienation will not allow us to see the connection between us to unite in revolt. Unless the enemy is as clearly defined as the totalitarian regimes of the Middle East, we (Americans) will not be able to unite.Define the enemy so we can all clearly be united if not nothing else.
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