Forum Post: How can we keep this alive??
Posted 12 years ago on Oct. 11, 2011, 6:24 p.m. EST by TLydon007
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http://www.google.com/insights/search/#q=occupy%20wall%20street&geo=US&date=today%207-d&cmpt=q
From the link I posted, you can see that overall attention started decreasing on Friday, October 7th.
The main areas that have thrived are New York(of course), Portland, Boston, and DC.
Can we think of any ways to focus attention on these bastions of hope so other cities continue to have somewhere to draw inspiration from??
My ideas... -if you live in one of these areas, please contact news organizations/columnists and encourage them to report on it. -contact or write to your representatives (state/federal) asking them to speak about it. (positively... negatively... it really doesn't matter.
If you think my ideas suck, that's great because it means you have better ones to share.
Interest in the movement will only wane as time goes on. People get curious, they take a look and then move on.
Interest will spike as clashes with police rise. That is what gave the NYC OWS a lot of attention last week.
However, with increased clashes with police, overall support from the public will rapidly decline.
It takes two to screw us! Politicians to hold us down, so then the Corporations can do the screwing!!! Politicians need better rules to follow to prevent lobbying! We tax payers should also fund important elections, so the best person wins and not the one with the most money!!! The movement needs at least these 2 demands!!! Politicians need to be fair and keep it balanced for all and not start class warfare! They all need fired so we can start over but next time they work for everyone and not favor one group over another. Write it down and pass the word!!!
Article V of the US constitution can address all issues. Learn about it and why congress IS AFRAID of it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convention_to_propose_amendments_to_the_United_States_Constitution "Congress acted preemptively to propose the amendments instead. At least four amendments (the Seventeenth, Twenty-First, Twenty-Second, and Twenty-Fifth Amendments) have been identified as being proposed by Congress at least partly in response to the threat of an Article V convention." http://algoxy.com/poly/article_v_convention.html