Forum Post: Is the Movement Fighting to still OCCUPY or is that part over?????
Posted 13 years ago on Nov. 20, 2011, 8:25 p.m. EST by Banjarama
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from Little Elm, TX
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Somebody help me out. I'm not sure how to feel about it.
I feel it is no longer about physically occupying a space. It is more about Occupying your mind. Educate yourself and others about what we are trying to do and how we got here in the first place.
We need to educate the masses so that everyone can form their own educated opinion.
As the movement is being forced to unoccupy parks and other public spaces it is pressed to rethink its strategy. While the Occupy Wall Street movement’s detractors may see the banishment from parks as a sign the occupation is breaking up, forward-thinking occupants see it as a moment to change from one tactic that has been very successful as a way of launching and gaining publicity to other strategies that may be more effective for actually making change.
You can read further commentary about the change now happening with the Occupy Wall Street movement on the following page:
http://thegreatrecession.info/blog/2011/11/occupy-wall-street-now-unoccupied-but-stronger/
--David Haggith
I think the full force of 1% is on the OWS. The mayors and police chief are under pressure to get rid of it. They want to silent the majority and this show of force to make sure everyone knows who the boss is. That is the state and rich folk rule.
What is the pressure? Its the favors and cronyism. We just have to find a leak and find out who is paying off who with jobs and cash. Its happening. It always happening.
Thanks, Dave:) I can appreciate the glass half-full perspective, I fear that it is actually half-empty. I will be patient but I am worried.
I guess I feel like the 1% thought they could extinguish the occupation and we let them. We can, of course, continue with the movement but it looks like we are laying down and taking the eviction.
Lets go to Washington,Get the ok from Obama, Party at the Rose Garden, Plant a Rose of Peace, Love and $100,000 for every man, woman and child in this country,the amount the Federal Reserve embezzeled..
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I think that is a silly and "wishful" statement on your part, Friendly Observer. I can understand Banjarama fearing the glass is half-empty, as that is a natural concern when you see the tide turn politically against the movement. However, that turn was inevitable if the movement was effective, and the movement is not based on occupying any particular piece of land but on ideas. So, when you say, FriendlyObserver, that it has gone belly-up just because it has been driven out of places, you must be stating what you WISH is true. The very fact that it is now getting more press again as the police seek to uproot it from territories it occupies is helping it. The very fact that the establishment is trying so hard to get rid of it, shows it has been effective. In short, however, there are now too many voices, too worked up to be silenced so easily.
What will be very important to the movement if it is to succeed is to rise above all of this morally -- to resist the urge or violent resistance toward the police, to resist name-calling to the police, and, most of all, not to break the rules of engagement for peaceful public protest. By "rules" I mean those rules that are established by our government and have long been held to be in line with the Constitution -- the protection of private lands from public takeover, the rights of others to have ingress and egress (whether on foot or by traffic) so their rights are not trampled by the group, the requirement to be non-violent. What damage would it do to the movement, for example, if cars are blocked on a bridge, and an Ambulance or firetruck couldn't get through so that people died because of the blockade. Stay with peaceful, law-abiding protest, and the movement will maintain the public support it has had to date. Go to violence or radically breaking laws, and the movement will become viewed as an extreme fringe.
--Knave Dave http://TheGreatRecession.info/blog
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What is the agenda in your opinion?