Adbusters

Soft Regime Change in America

Will #OCCUPY Spark a Wildcat General Strike?
Soft Regime Change in America
How I feel, as a United States Marine, about what occurred in Oakland. (Reddit)

The #OCCUPY movement is entering an ominous new phase.

Police attacked #OCCUPYOAKLAND on Tuesday with tear gas, rubber bullets and flash grenades. Scott Olsen, a two time Iraq war veteran, was critically wounded in the assault. Graphic pictures of an unconscious Olsen, his skull fractured, being carried by fellow protestors to safety have reverberated from Zuccotti to Cairo and escalated the movement. On Wednesday, three thousand protestors reclaimed the square, reestablished their encampment and held a general assembly that called for a General Strike.

"We as fellow occupiers of Oscar Grant Plaza propose that on Wednesday November 2, 2011, we liberate Oakland and shut down the 1%... All banks and corporations should close down for the day or we will march on them."

There are signs of occupations in other cities taking up Oakland's call. A tantalizing possibility hangs in the air: Could a wildcat general strike spread across the nation? Are we witnessing the first clues of how a soft regime change might begin in America?

occupywallstreet.org / occupytogether.org / Twitter / Facebook

262 comments on the article “Soft Regime Change in America”

Displaying 21 - 30 of 262

Page 3 of 27

Anonymous

You're nuts dude. Besides you weed smoking hippies would get decimated by our military. One dude gets his melon cracked by a tear gas canister and you guys are all riled up. Maybe you're gung ho enough to stand and fight. But look to your right and your left. The dude with purple hair and the half burned joint hanging out of his mouth playing the bongo drum who had nothing better to do but come pretend to care about something will be so long gone when a real "revolution" starts. He loves his unemployment, and social security checks way too much. That's the thing about hippies, they lack balls.

Anonymous

You're nuts dude. Besides you weed smoking hippies would get decimated by our military. One dude gets his melon cracked by a tear gas canister and you guys are all riled up. Maybe you're gung ho enough to stand and fight. But look to your right and your left. The dude with purple hair and the half burned joint hanging out of his mouth playing the bongo drum who had nothing better to do but come pretend to care about something will be so long gone when a real "revolution" starts. He loves his unemployment, and social security checks way too much. That's the thing about hippies, they lack balls.

Anonymous

And what have you offered but criticism and apathy? You argue well and attack well, but you offered no solutions that anyone would want.

Anonymous

And what have you offered but criticism and apathy? You argue well and attack well, but you offered no solutions that anyone would want.

archangelmatrix

HERE IS THE YOU TUBE LINK..THIS IS THE FRONT LINES OF THE BATTLE AGAINST CRIMINAL TYRANTS..AND THEY ONLY UNDERSTAND ONE THING..A BOOT (OR RUBBER BULLET) SMASHING INTO YOUR FACE..THINK SCARFACE.."MEET MY LITTLE FRIEND!!"
http://youtu.be/9lbbWAgBy7E

archangelmatrix

HERE IS THE YOU TUBE LINK..THIS IS THE FRONT LINES OF THE BATTLE AGAINST CRIMINAL TYRANTS..AND THEY ONLY UNDERSTAND ONE THING..A BOOT (OR RUBBER BULLET) SMASHING INTO YOUR FACE..THINK SCARFACE.."MEET MY LITTLE FRIEND!!"
http://youtu.be/9lbbWAgBy7E

Pages

Add a new comment

Comments are closed.