#OCCUPYWALLSTREET This Saturday
#OCCUPYWALLSTREET is a people powered movement for democracy that began in America on September 17 with an encampment in the financial district of New York City. Inspired by the Egyptian Tahrir Square uprising and the Spanish acampadas, we vow to end the monied corruption of our democracy.
Dreamers, jammers, rabble-rousers and revolutionaries,
#OCCUPYWALLSTREET is a week old and roaring strong. We, the people, are finding our voice, realizing that, yes we can revive our democracy. It is beautiful. It is an achievement. And it has the potential to grow into something even more wild and wonderful over the next few weeks and months.
This Saturday at noon at the people's assembly in Liberty Plaza there will be a celebration of our incredible first week. Last Saturday, 5,000 people flocked nonviolently to Wall Street … this Saturday there will be 10,000. And then in the weeks that follow, we will swell to 50,000 … and maybe even to 100,000+ by mid-October. Wouldn't that be something!
For those who cannot make it to Wall Street's liberated space, why not organize #OCCUPYCHICAGO, #OCCUPYDALLAS, #OCCUPYSANFRANCISCO, #OCCUPYBOSTON and #OCCUPYDC. This is the perfect moment to expand our movement into financial districts, iconic sites of economic power and branches of Bank of America everywhere.
According to PBS Newshour, 45 percent of young Americans aged 16 to 29 don't have a job. Economists are talking glumly about a "lost generation" but they've got it wrong. We're the generation that pulls off the second American Revolution.
This Saturday at Noon, let's escalate #OCCUPYWALLSTREET into a nationwide peaceful demand for economic justice.
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Keith Olbermann, Democracy Now! and the Guardian have been providing good coverage of #OCCUPYWALLSTREET. To get an insight into how #OCCUPYWALLSTREET got started, check out the July 13 and August 23 tactical briefings.
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Anonymous
"The rich"?! Excellent idea, sir! Bloody revolution ho! Let's skin them alive and draw and quarter them in the streets! What if your grandpa is one of "the rich"? Or your mother? What if you work hard and finally become one of "the rich"? Does that mean you should then be gotten rid of? I think what you mean is "the corrupt rich". Don't forget there are corrupt poor people too.
Anonymous
"The rich"?! Excellent idea, sir! Bloody revolution ho! Let's skin them alive and draw and quarter them in the streets! What if your grandpa is one of "the rich"? Or your mother? What if you work hard and finally become one of "the rich"? Does that mean you should then be gotten rid of? I think what you mean is "the corrupt rich". Don't forget there are corrupt poor people too.
Anonymous
What type of Corporate Structure does your organization, "Occupy Wall Street" have? If you take donations you must have a corporate structure . . . dah . . . so maybe corporations are people, hmmm
Anonymous
What type of Corporate Structure does your organization, "Occupy Wall Street" have? If you take donations you must have a corporate structure . . . dah . . . so maybe corporations are people, hmmm
ArtX
It's called a General Assembly (see http://nycga.cc/ ) -- and it's not a "PERSON," which is what corporations are deemed in our plutocratic society, it is PEOPLE working together to make decisions and get things done -- it's DEMOCRACY! And not the crappy 51/49 virtual/pseudo democracy that allows the plutocratic "parties" to dominate government and society -- it's TRUE DEMOCRACY -- and it's a real threat to plutocracy...
ArtX
It's called a General Assembly (see http://nycga.cc/ ) -- and it's not a "PERSON," which is what corporations are deemed in our plutocratic society, it is PEOPLE working together to make decisions and get things done -- it's DEMOCRACY! And not the crappy 51/49 virtual/pseudo democracy that allows the plutocratic "parties" to dominate government and society -- it's TRUE DEMOCRACY -- and it's a real threat to plutocracy...
T$
PLEASE good people, stop saying democracy! The exact definition of democracy IS the 51/49 crap. The "TRUE DEMOCRACY" you are referring to is pronounced "REPUBLIC". We are a REPUBLIC (or supposed to be). Remember? "I pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the REPUBLIC for which it stands..." Not to the democracy for which it stands...
In 1992, Marvin Simkin wrote in Los Angeles Times,
"Democracy is not freedom. Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to eat for lunch. Freedom comes from the recognition of certain rights which may not be taken, not even by a 99% vote."
And that freedom is held into place by the system of a republic, which means you can't majority vote away someone's rights. Democracy means you CAN. Our founding fathers HATED the concept of democracy. Let's start getting our language right and start fighting for the republic again!
T$
PLEASE good people, stop saying democracy! The exact definition of democracy IS the 51/49 crap. The "TRUE DEMOCRACY" you are referring to is pronounced "REPUBLIC". We are a REPUBLIC (or supposed to be). Remember? "I pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the REPUBLIC for which it stands..." Not to the democracy for which it stands...
In 1992, Marvin Simkin wrote in Los Angeles Times,
"Democracy is not freedom. Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to eat for lunch. Freedom comes from the recognition of certain rights which may not be taken, not even by a 99% vote."
And that freedom is held into place by the system of a republic, which means you can't majority vote away someone's rights. Democracy means you CAN. Our founding fathers HATED the concept of democracy. Let's start getting our language right and start fighting for the republic again!
ArtX
My language is fine. This is about DEMOCRACY! Who cares what some guy wrote in the Los Angeles Times in 1992? And more particularly, who says "the exact definition of democracy" is 51/49? Democracy, which existed for tens of thousands of years before self-righteous white guys started insisting they had all the answers, is PEOPLE GOVERNING THEMSELVES. True democracy exists when anyone who is affected by a decision has the right to participate in the decision (as the golden rule demands). True democracy strives for consensus, but when that is not possible, and about 2/3 agree on some course of action, the other 1/3 should go along with the group, or else break away.
Just because you were brainwashed to pledge allegiance to a "republic" (and a flag) doesn't mean the rest of us are not free to strive to enact the best society and government we can, whether or not it fits your authoritarian "exact definitions." Not that it's necessary, but it is convenient that the Declaration of Independence gives us the fundamental right to DEMOCRACY -- the right to "throw off" any government operating without our consent and "to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to [US] shall seem most likely to effect [OUR] Safety and Happiness." See? It's up to us! And our fundamental right to organize our societies as we see fit is unlimited -- it cannot be taken away by the failed 1789 Constitution (which was, surprise surprise, written by and for the plutocrats of the time and has since then facilitated our society's domination by a wealthy overclass that has trashed the earth and turned the majority of citizens into wage-slaves and debt serfs).
The problem is plutocracy -- the solution is democracy!
(The phenomenon of "republic" fetishism is interesting, encompassing, at least, libertarian-plutocrats [Go Galt! Please! Go!] and Stalinist Worker Party ideologues. Perhaps not surprisingly, most of the republic-worshippers I have encountered seem to be both slightly brain-washed and masking some hidden agenda. Which makes sense, because any time someone says something like "We're not supposed to be a democracy!," you know they're already down some terribly wrong, sad path...)
!Viva Democracy! !Viva Liberty Plaza!
ArtX
My language is fine. This is about DEMOCRACY! Who cares what some guy wrote in the Los Angeles Times in 1992? And more particularly, who says "the exact definition of democracy" is 51/49? Democracy, which existed for tens of thousands of years before self-righteous white guys started insisting they had all the answers, is PEOPLE GOVERNING THEMSELVES. True democracy exists when anyone who is affected by a decision has the right to participate in the decision (as the golden rule demands). True democracy strives for consensus, but when that is not possible, and about 2/3 agree on some course of action, the other 1/3 should go along with the group, or else break away.
Just because you were brainwashed to pledge allegiance to a "republic" (and a flag) doesn't mean the rest of us are not free to strive to enact the best society and government we can, whether or not it fits your authoritarian "exact definitions." Not that it's necessary, but it is convenient that the Declaration of Independence gives us the fundamental right to DEMOCRACY -- the right to "throw off" any government operating without our consent and "to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to [US] shall seem most likely to effect [OUR] Safety and Happiness." See? It's up to us! And our fundamental right to organize our societies as we see fit is unlimited -- it cannot be taken away by the failed 1789 Constitution (which was, surprise surprise, written by and for the plutocrats of the time and has since then facilitated our society's domination by a wealthy overclass that has trashed the earth and turned the majority of citizens into wage-slaves and debt serfs).
The problem is plutocracy -- the solution is democracy!
(The phenomenon of "republic" fetishism is interesting, encompassing, at least, libertarian-plutocrats [Go Galt! Please! Go!] and Stalinist Worker Party ideologues. Perhaps not surprisingly, most of the republic-worshippers I have encountered seem to be both slightly brain-washed and masking some hidden agenda. Which makes sense, because any time someone says something like "We're not supposed to be a democracy!," you know they're already down some terribly wrong, sad path...)
!Viva Democracy! !Viva Liberty Plaza!
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