Forum Post: A must read!
Posted 12 years ago on Oct. 12, 2011, 6:24 p.m. EST by htorres1107
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I propose that the charts in this article: http://www.businessinsider.com/what-wall-street-protesters-are-so-angry-about-2011-10?op=1 be put into wide circulation among the movement in order to help us come up with a powerful fact-based message for Americans who are not currently with us.
I also think that it's important for use to start to think about becoming political.
What's stopping us from becoming a force in Washington? Our beliefs (i.e. campaign finance reform, the reinstatement of Glass/Steigel, ending Corporate Personhood, Environmental Stewardship/clean tech innovation, and reinstating the American Dream) are winning positions and have the power to purge Washington of the corrupting power of undue corporate/industry influence.
Exactly, but we need a comprehensive strategy that implements all our demands at the same time, and although I'm all in favor of taking down today's ineffective and inefficient Top 10% Management SYSTEM of Business & Government, there's only one way to do it – by fighting bankers as bankers ourselves. Consequently, I have posted a 1-page Summary of the Strategic Legal Policies, Organizational Operating Structures, and Tactical Investment Procedures necessary to do this at:
http://getsatisfaction.com/americanselect/topics/on_strategic_legal_policy_organizational_operational_structures_tactical_investment_procedures
Join
http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/StrategicInternationalSystems/
if you want to be 1 of 100,000 people needed to support a Presidential Candidate – such as myself – at AmericansElect.org in support of the above bank-focused platform.
this is a protest at wallstreet, stop trying to redirect. take your tea and you keep protesting the gov. the W in OWS is for wallstreet.
this post is bias bs. the charts came from here
http://research.stlouisfed.org/
the actual stats are here
http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS14000000
Good stuff.
I think it would be hard to "become political" without evident leadership. You can maybe derive from this event something like you discuss, but the actual OccupyWallSt event itself is kind of created and supported along the lines of autonomy and lack of "centralization/leadership"
In order for any organization to work towards fomenting concrete systemic change, there has to be some form of "centralization/leadership" directing the process.
The challenge we face as a movement, I think, is in working towards a system of governance that removes the incentives towards corruption in government. First and foremost, we MUST severe the ties that our government has formed with industry/corporations/the 1%. The best way to do this, in my view, is to get money out of politics through campaign finance reform to enact public financing of political candidates & thereby ensure, to whatever extent possible, that congressional reps are looking out for our interests over those of the 1%/industry/corporations; as is currently the case.
I feel that as long as politicians have to get on their knees to beg for money from the 1%/industry/corporations to even think about running for political office, concrete systemic change is going to be much harder to attain.