Forum Post: Nonviolence an act of Acceptance?

I've struggled with this concept for a while now. I believe in peaceful protest. I always have. As a black person as well, my heritage has great examples of how peaceful protest can work in this country.

but I look at the way OWS is run, and there's this concept of how we protest peacefully. Not over one single goal but many different goals. We can't try to push one single agenda through the political system because it would be like dropping one pure clean apple in a basket full of rotten ones.

I understand that we cannot accept this system. But the simple fact is that OWS has been going on for a while now-it's getting close to a year now- and still our voices have not been truly heard.

[now bare with me, because I'm getting to a point]

If we cannot push a single agenda through the political pipeline because we do not accept the system/machine in which it must go through, [and thusly become corrupted]

then how can we protest peacefully in a system that does not allow us to peacefully protest?

how can we acknowledge the corruption of one part of system and protest the political oppression, but then acknowledge the corruption of another part of the system and put our heads down and accept the physical oppression?

I understand that there is so much at risk because of the fact that the US has used all our own money to fund an endless army to squash any sort of rebellion. but at this point in time, how is anything other than a full blown revolution not necessary? or even inevitable?

did this make sense? please ask for clarification if needed.

Please, let me know what your thoughts on this are.