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1. struggleforfreedom on October 30th, 2011 at 12:52 pm #

   Strategies and Expectations (new improved version)

   Dear friends,

   In my opinion the #Occupy Movement has done everything right by so far only using non-violent protest and organizing. We have to remember that the #Occupy Movement which is increasing in size in the US, but also around the world, is in a growing phase right now. We have to think in long term perspective. Big changes arn´t going to come over night, we´re not going to get total freedom and democracy in a few weeks, this is going to be a long hard struggle. This is the beginning of something huge! Now we´re in a time where we have to GROW: and we grow by doing exactly what we´re doing right now: protesting, making ourselves heard, organize, convince, getting more people to join, enlighten etc. We should also start thinking about organizing sit-down strikes in different areas where the movement has a lot of community support. Then when the Occupy Movement has become a dominant force in different communities and nationwide we can start making big changes thru general strikes, worker´s takeover of workplaces and communities, and in general establishing a more democratic, solidaric, just society.

   During this struggle for a free democratic society we have to expect lots of opposition from the elites and their supporters and servants. Not only do we have to expect and prepare ourselves for media-propaganda, we also have to expect more of what we´ve seen lately: police brutality. Its a natural reaction of the finacial elite who are getting more and more scared of the #Occupy movement. The police is a tool of the business-run state to try to crush the ones who want to take back from the wealthy what has been stolen thru bailouts, exploitation and speculation at the stock exchange. The elites are starting to feel threatened, they want to keep all that they have stolen, so naturally they want to stop #Occupy movements with police force. These tendencies are however an indcation that we´re on the right track: The elites are getting scared, and react by increasing their effort in trying to crush us.

   The finacial elite will however fail. Police brutality is counter-productive, it just leads to more support and sympathy for the #Occupy Movement among the general population. Besides, as the system we have today affects more and more people, and naturally evolves in an unsutainable way, – like it always has – it will eventually sooner or later collapse in on itself. Increasing exploitation, increasing gap between rich and poor, the huge increasing concentration of private wealth and power, the destruction of the environment, this cannot continue much longer. The world and its inhabitants desperately need a new and better society, and this is the beginning of the end. We´ve had it! We want real change, and we must take action ourselves. The #Occupy Movement will grow for each day, and the more we grow the more the non-democratic finacial elite will understand that their time of controlling our lives and destinies is over . The people will privail, because we are more powerful than private tyranny and its servants.

   Videos to watch while taking a break from activism:

   Noam Chomsky on Corporations being private tyrannies

   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqlTyAMVDUk

   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpd3grtjkK8

   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxPUvQZ3rcQ

   Noam Chomsky on today´s society and how to make changes:

   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HvGy2gY0eM

   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MN2Q6sdh6Bg

   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27gfHU6G-hI

   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cdSoMbwTA4

   Noam Chomsky on where we go from here (at #Occupy Boston):

   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHse0oaddr8

   (Entire #Occupy Boston lecture + Q&A: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZbNT62aprM&feature=related )

   Alternatives to capitalism:

   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJnX96id-xI

   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDHBvQRyOr0

   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YftlB3AxBws

   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vu8J_UKKa-c

   In debth:

   Chomsky on today´s state-capitalist society, April 2011

   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iebK7VVDayY

   Chomsky on Libertarian Socialism

   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOTBGrrDeXg

   Also read my #ows forum post here: http://occupywallst.org/forum/replace-capitalism-with-democracy/

   Keep on fighting, keep on growing! Yours S. sff
2. Samson on October 31st, 2011 at 10:09 am #

   You won’t get traction with soda. You need heroin.
3. JB on October 31st, 2011 at 2:44 pm #

   Are you still taking donations for plates? Because I don’t have any to give you
4. TR on October 31st, 2011 at 3:08 pm #

   I stand in solidarity with my brothers and sisters of the 53% who actually pay taxes in this country. Some of us might even do our own “zombie marches” by way of long days at work (two or three jobs), raising kids on limited resources, or taking care of terminally ill loved ones. One thing we do not do is whine or complain about it. Do I wish I made a ton of money so live was “easier?” Sure I do. But I sure as hell don’t fault people for working their butts off to achieve financial success. I know many of the so-called “1%” who work more hours, work harder, and work more efficiently than the entire Occupy movement put together. Should we fault them for that? And should we fault them for donating millions of their own personal fotunes to charities, needy families, friends, etc. just because they can deduct some of those donations from their monstrous tax bills?

   It seems easy to fault those with more money, but the ease of doing so is simply fueled by jealousy and a lack of work ethic.

   Now put on your zombie costumes, cut class/work, and march down the street crying “end the fed,” “tax the rich,” and “take from the rich to give to me so I don’t have to actually work hard” – the “new” American dream.