Forum Post: Enough with the "Demands"
Posted 13 years ago on Oct. 8, 2011, 5:04 a.m. EST by iseeamuse
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What we should really be doing is stating our list of grievances, deliberate on proposals, nominate a proposal, campaign, and vote. This is democracy.
The first and only demand should be to dismantle the FED, being the root cause of everything else. With the FED in control anything else is futile.
I will not get tired advocating the documentary 'The Money Masters' - essential to understand what's really behind today's crisis. Only once the FED is dismantled and the power is taken over by the People, we can start building a new society. It really will take a Second American Revolution to get there, nothing less will do.
Watch ' The Money Masters" !
The FED is not the root cause. The root cause is our flawed valuation system, and our penchant for exploitation.
Our 'penchant for exploitation' (which we have, I agree) is closely tied to the fact that we're all deeply in debt and have to repay our dues plus interest through our labour. In fact, we're all slaves to a financial system which either has to grow or go bust. We're forced to act as predators, we're tied to a system that regards the planet as a source of personal gain. We're forced to compete, we're constantly being set up against each other. Our currency consists of nothing but debt and is being issued by a privately owned institution with the sole purpose of making profit for the 1%. As long as this is so, we will never be free.
That's basically what's been going on at the GA's.
Is there a way that we can combine the debates going on in the GA's with the discussion going on around the internet? The whole movement needs to be consolidated and protected online. Possibly by using http://www.occupytogether.org/ as they are now reconstructing their website.
More people need to know that. Personally, I'm not turned off by the word but there will be those that are.