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A frequent complaint of mine and others who have supported the Occupy Wall Street Movement (OWS) from its earliest days, is that it's not demonstrated much interest or skill at organizing the coalitions that have traditonally been the hallmark of progressive political change in America. Merely suggesting that professional organizers become involved was often met with I stumbled across this interview which Sarah Jaffe conducted with Steven Lerner, a traditional labor organizer, and was amazed I hadn’t noticed it when it dropped at Alternet. I’ve been looking for cogent essays that can put #OccupyWallStreet into perspective for progressives who still hear “Unions” or “labor movement,” and see Norma Rae standing on This is simply brilliant. I have three envelopes right in front of me. This kind of creative non-violence is just the kind of thing that generates lots of negative branding, and makes companies crazy. Will it change much? No, not from this alone. But the more of these stunts that we pull, the more expensive Whatever demands may come, I hope the final “99 Percent Declaration” comes to include a bit more about the persistent racial divide in America, and its role in the economic injustices that people of color have suffered for centuries. There was much to heed in Tim Wise’s words on last night’s Maddow show. While warming You don’t have to agree on the mode of protest to agree about the causes of total suck that got us here. This short video does a special job of pointing out the key potholes that we’ve failed to fill on our road to ruin. Pay attention to Elizabeth Warren’s laser guided truisms toward the end.
Occupy Wall Street, The 30 Second Commercial Over ten days ago on Twitter, I was saying that the criticism that the #OccupyWallStreet protest “needed a message” in its early days was nonsense. Americans, nay, most citizens of the world already knew what the message was. And that message was this:
How the Occupy Movement's General Assembly Works Agree or disagree with their concept and tactics, the Occupy protests are gaining momentum, and are going to be around, and growing, whether you, me or Goldman Sachs approves of them. So I think it's important that people know what their process is. It's really rather fascinating. Those familiar See Update1 I am not going to go into my entire history of thinking about the Occupy Wall street movement (OWS). It’s too painful and annoying, but I want to get this out. It’s late, I am tired, and this will probably be filled with really bad typos and worse grammar. It’s going to go out |
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