Soft Regime Change in America
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?
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Anonymous
In 1957 President Eisenhower federalized the Arkansas National Guard to give the Little Rock Nine the protection they needed to exercise their rights. Please consider signing this petition that I authored on the White House's website that urges President Obama to federalize the National Guard in any state where police are interfering with people's ability to exercise their rights: http://wh.gov/T5L
Anonymous
In 1957 President Eisenhower federalized the Arkansas National Guard to give the Little Rock Nine the protection they needed to exercise their rights. Please consider signing this petition that I authored on the White House's website that urges President Obama to federalize the National Guard in any state where police are interfering with people's ability to exercise their rights: http://wh.gov/T5L
compass.ent
Can we start a website that distributes and tracks our tax dollars? A website that gives the taxpayer options for distribution.
This way we can know where our tax dollars are going and so we can actually choose what to spend it on.
compass.ent
Can we start a website that distributes and tracks our tax dollars? A website that gives the taxpayer options for distribution.
This way we can know where our tax dollars are going and so we can actually choose what to spend it on.
Anonymous
Yes, exactly!
Anonymous
Yes, exactly!
Anonymous
Didn't all you folks vote for the Obammy spendathon? . . . now 4 TRILLION in 3 years . . .
There is no 99% . . . only 9% . . .
Who flushed the economy . . . the friggin Govt.
Was it not the Klinton adm that deregulated the banking industry by eliminating Glass/Stegal? Was it not the Klinton admin. that put the Community Reinventment Act on steroids . . . forcing banks to give mortgages to all . . . even folks that could never pay? Trillions of worthless mortgages piled up at F&F . . . put into Derivitives and sold all over the world by Brokers . . . Wall Street certainly contributed . . . but did not create the problem . . . the Federal govt did . . . back in the 90's!!!
Anonymous
Didn't all you folks vote for the Obammy spendathon? . . . now 4 TRILLION in 3 years . . .
There is no 99% . . . only 9% . . .
Who flushed the economy . . . the friggin Govt.
Was it not the Klinton adm that deregulated the banking industry by eliminating Glass/Stegal? Was it not the Klinton admin. that put the Community Reinventment Act on steroids . . . forcing banks to give mortgages to all . . . even folks that could never pay? Trillions of worthless mortgages piled up at F&F . . . put into Derivitives and sold all over the world by Brokers . . . Wall Street certainly contributed . . . but did not create the problem . . . the Federal govt did . . . back in the 90's!!!
Anonymous
Hey buddy, you're halfway there. Or maybe 1/4 way...it's not either party, or a president. Nafta proves this, as it was a bipartisan effort to subvert the working class in the US. Somebody lobbied the hell out of washington to get both parties to support 'free' trade. Solution? We need an alternative to capitalism, and we need a directly democratic political system.
Anonymous
Hey buddy, you're halfway there. Or maybe 1/4 way...it's not either party, or a president. Nafta proves this, as it was a bipartisan effort to subvert the working class in the US. Somebody lobbied the hell out of washington to get both parties to support 'free' trade. Solution? We need an alternative to capitalism, and we need a directly democratic political system.
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