Forum Post: 5 things every OWS supporter needs to start doing
Posted 13 years ago on Nov. 3, 2011, 10:54 p.m. EST by VladimirMayakovsky
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We all know that the corporations are the root of all evil and needs to be punished for being naughty. We all know that the best way to punish corporations is to stop buying their products. So I have made a list. It's a very short list and will hit the corporations hard.
1) Stop buying gas. Every single drop of gas is pumped by large corporations using equipment from other large corporations.
2) Stop using electricity. See above.
That's it. So who is with me?
Yeah, and while you're at it... stop using the Sun to produce vitamin D, they own that too!
Oh now you've gone too far! OCCUPY the sun! :)
I would but then I wouldn't be posting this comment :-) So I would prefer to reduce my usage of fossil fuels and move to alternative renewable energy. There are many sites that will give you a good idea your carbon footprint. You can reduce your impact by 50-75% - that would be a good start... And you can still post since you will have electricity.
http://www.nature.org/greenliving/carboncalculator/index.htm
How does this punish crooked & deceptive lenders who crashed the economy though?
Five things?
The other three will be automatic.
1) No internet
2) No cell phones and ipads
3) no heating in the camp site
No bottled water? We need water.
you left out no eating food.
Eating food grown by yourself without use of fertilizers (natural fertilizers like shit is OK) is fine, but only if you cook it with woodfire.
100% of people who eat food will eventually die!
lmao. to true.
thanx for the clarification.
And you HAVE food grown by yourself without fertilizers and the woodfire to cook it on? You realize that if everyone resorts to using firewood-it will just turn loggers into millionaire corporations right?
Collect your own wood. Don't be a naysayer. Be an agent of change.
Um....collect your own wood.....would mean that you actually OWNED land that has wood on it. It's called trespassing to venture onto someone else's land and take THEIR wood. And you're going to have to be able to haul it home without using gasoline....
Then lay a big log in the morning and light it.
In a bag?
Wet logs do NOT burn, even in OWS lollipop land.
There Is a War Going On For Your Mind
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tP5yA3RwzOk
And where are you laying this big log? Do you own this big log?
Burning wood = carbon dioxide and oxygen depletion. Wood comes from trees. Trees make oxygen.
OK, then use a solar cooker.
I've done with out electricity before the age of the internet
I could stop buying gas
I have a friend that lives 30 miles away that I visit 3 times a week
the bus trip would cost $5 each which is barely a savings
though I am considering that and bike riding
Sorry MattLHolck , No buses allowed. Go ahead & hoof it 30 miles each way 3 times a week.
that's a three hour ride by bicycle
Comrade MattLHolck,
The Spokes Missing Council has decided your bicycle is need by the Peoples' Revolution. If you want to visit your "friend", the Spokes Missing Council has decided you may walk.
Any disagreement or opposition of Spokes Missing Council decisions is NOT allowed.
Long Live The Revolution !!!
I'm sorry, Dave
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qnd-hdmgfk
wedges looks good
LOL!
Vlad will tell you that "some sacrifices need to be made to punish the big corporation". That includes your calves.
10 pounds grain for 1 pound of beef
3 pounds of grain for 1 pound of chicken
Sorry....that includes your chicken legs?
that's below the belt
Well of course it was!~ That's where legs are!
Um....the bus uses gasoline. And electricity.
sorry I was rationing the energy out
Some dyslexic people confuse 5's for 2's.. ..One day Vlad we may stop using electricity and it won't be voluntary...It would be the best thing for us, in regard to psycho banker prevention . One problem though, many people will die...
Now they're making threats.
I'm giving up food - that'll show 'em!!!
1) Good idea. You lose your job because you can't get to work without gasoline and that will free up the jobs market for the rest of us.
1.A) do you realize how many things in this world are MADE using petroleum? Put that MAC book down and back away Vlad! Here's a list of things you can no longer use that are made out of "gas" http://www.ranken-energy.com/Products%20from%20Petroleum.htm
2) Cool! Less stress on the "grid" for the rest of us which means cheaper electricity bills. Oh, but you guys will need to stop using your laptops, cell phones and anything else that needs to be "charged". And that sucks for you hybrid drivers because you can't use gasoline OR electricity. And all those batteries you'll need to survive are going to raise HELL for the environment.
Sometimes sacrifices need to be made to punish the corporations.
And some sacrifices won't even be noticed by the corporations because there aren't as many of you as you think there are.
You start small and grow big.
And you've got your garden all started....oh wait...it's winter...can't do that. You've got all the produce from your former garden all bottled and stored up somewhere that you don't need gasoline to reach or electricity to cook etc? And all that firewood chopped and stacked? And live where it's legal to use an outdoor fire to cook it?
When there is a will there is a way. If you want to make the corporations suffer then you have to be willing to suffer yourself.
Your "will" has nothing to do with the fact that food doesn't grow in the winter UNLESS you use electric lights. Or that you'll get shot and/or arrested for chopping down trees you don't own. Or that you'll starve to death waiting for your little garden to produce food.
Those are cold hard facts and your will doesn't change them.
Who "owns" the trees then? The concept of ownership really is a strange thing indeed. We use matter, physics and whatnot to our advantage - but why does everything have to be "owned" by someone. I'm really not arguing with you, I agree with most of what you've said on the previous comments. It's just really a sad little hominid reality we've created for ourselves when we speak of owning everything - my trees and your trees, my dirt and your dirt! How about, "our" dirt... "our" planet. Or, how about.. my Sun? Sounds reasonable, I've always wanted to own a Sun!
It may be a sad little hominid reality, but it is reality nontheless. My point is that a group of people trying to reinvent society by taking things that the rest of society still views as private property-will not turn out well for them.
You wanna do that, I might suggest starting with getting a "consensus" from society at large to frown on shooting people who steal.
We'll see how it works out in the long run - honestly I could care less, I've no more stake in humanity. My time will soon be up, and all of this bickering will just be done.
Godspeed on your journey. :-)
Jesus Christ, who said anything about stealing from others.
The S.C.U.M. is so disingenuous.
Socialized Communist Unionized Masses?
Google is your friend but I'm not.
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Like in the USSR?
In Venezuela, gas is 12 cents a gallon.
I can't give up the internet, I'll be unemployed if I do.
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Didn't know that the highway system was once private and was then nationalized.
What does it matter if it was "once" private?
It's public, SCUM, and you use it don't you?
What a disingenuous piece of bourgeois garbage you are.
S.C.U.M.
I love the idea.
That means the McDonald's toilet will be closed in the morning because the employees that keep the doors open for the OWSers could not get to work because of no electricity for the subways.
That means there will be no breakfast for the OWSers in the morning because the chefs that cook the free food & the people that bring you the free food could not do those things without electricity.
I am sure in their hungry & constipated condition tomorrow morning the OWSers will blame their troubles on BUSH !!!
I am shocked to see that OWS supported are not willing to make any sacrifices to punish the corporations. This is what allows corporations to get away scott free as they offshore jobs.