Forum Post: Focus and Mobilize!

After attending the local "Occupy" protest in my local metropolitan area, I can offer these observations:

This movement should not allow itself to be co-opted by manipulative political forces with large amounts of money. No one should trust MoveOn.org, Nancy Pelosi, or anyone else from the establishment. That goes for mainstream media too. All of these power centers are interconnected and should be considered the institutional organs of the 1%.

1) These protests should be motivated and fueled by the middle classes and we should mobilize ourselves from our residences and neighborhoods. No more street camps. Utilize mass transit and get food from home and from our own resources. Having open kitchens and handouts is attracting parasites and unwanted sorts of unrelated activities.

2) This isn't time to have a drunken party with street people. Let's get ourselves out of the parks, gutters, and homeless camps and mobilize. Protest in shifts, every day, taking breaks to go to work and attend the realities of life that we need to, and focus our efforts on the criminal enterprises behind these social injustices. Use our resources that we earn from our jobs - face it, being jobless and homeless isn't going to provide the foundation of social change.

3) Educate our membership. Noisy protests aimless wandering around business districts are useless. How many of us understand the banking system, or even the federal reserve system? Who can explain how these systems relate to our society and can outline how their influence has destabilized our economy and caused the 99% to suffer?

4) Focus! This should not be a carnival of social unrest. Make good signs with clever slogans, give sharp talking points to reporters, provide media-friendly opportunities to help draw in the middle class - after all it's us in the middle that have suffered the most under these criminals.

5) Go independent! We don't need leadership from top-level funded political action groups, we need communication and cloud organization. Don't trust people without regular jobs as your leaders. They are probably not your friends, and if they don't understand (can can describe) the current social situation with government and the banks, they should not be accepted as your leaders.