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Forum Post: occupy twitter

Posted 12 years ago on Nov. 29, 2011, 7:48 p.m. EST by stephenadler (118)
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We need to start a campaign which will flood the twitter feeds of the congressmen and women and senators. The messages should be concise and focused. To start, everyone should tweet to every congessman and woman the following

We are the 99%

and that's it. It would act as a wakeup call to our government that we are out there and getting ready for real change. As the movement moves forward, the messages should become targeted.

who's with me?

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[-] 2 points by gawdoftruth (3698) from Santa Barbara, CA 12 years ago

what are you going to link them back to? noise? You need to occupy the wiki FIRST and then you will have something meaningful to twitter them ABOUT.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPR3GlpQQJA

I have been active here since the very beginning, and since the very beginning I have been trying to make some core points. These points clearly have not been digested or fully understood by the mob, and so I'm going to try to make a further attempt here again.

  1. Merely protesting in the streets will not bring change. In fact merely protesting in the streets is in fact a means to the end of avoiding the real work of a revolution, which consists of the evolutionary solutions, answers, problem solving process, and new political alignment we create.
  2. This forum is absolutely disorganized. It won't be read by most people and it won't and can't function as a core organizational system.
  3. Back at the very start of this, I petitioned the admin to add multiple sub forums and a wiki. Multiple sub forums were promised but have never arrived. I think that this tells us that the intention actually of this forum is message control and containment. The entire purpose really of this forum has always been to keep us spinning in disorganization. We are hanging out on a forum that expressly exists to actually keep us confused and disorganized.
  4. The real work of a revolution isn't going to happen on forums, it needs to happen in a much more organized fashion using collaborative software.
  5. The assorted other details about how to collaborate, how to work open source direct democracy, how to focus in on science instead of isms, how to become hyper rational about this, are details which are essential and crucial, without which we can predict the movement to fail.
  6. Technically speaking we are not 99 percent, we are one tenth of one percent attempting to represent the 99 percent. Our core mission must be to communicate to and with the 99 percent, and get them to join us. This forum will not accomplish that and neither will any of the other main websites.
  7. You can follow other people out to other wikis and other websites, where they will try to get you to get involved with what they want and their program, but frankly speaking, there is no other website and no other operation out there which understands the complexities involved with meaningful organization. In short, everyones being led to get involved here there and everywhere else, scattering the movement in directions which ultimately do not gain us critical mass, criticial momentum, or critical systemic lucidity.
  8. I have managed to get a wiki put up and have already put on that wiki evolutionary details which make it more organized than anything else. I can't do this alone. There are 10 or so wikis now out there, most of which were created in response to my pleas for a wiki, and several of which are in domains owned and operated by some corporation, (wikia, etc) And which we can thus assume will simply be closed, shut down, or deleted if they become useful to the movement.
  9. Probably at least half of the invites you have to go participate at some other site are people who are scamming everyone to waste time and energy, distort the movement, co opt it, and etc. When you walk off into a closet ask yourself how you know that the closet isn't created by some fed, or by some republican, or by some democrat, in order to sway things in their direction.
  10. The only meaningful strategic option we have for real change in this country is to create a new third party, and take every political office in this country.
  11. Once that is done, we can have an article 5 convention. If we have an article 5 convention before getting rid of the oligachs, that just opens the genie from the bottle for them to abuse that process with their corruption and evil.

For these reasons, I beg of you to please immediately join me on the wiki. We need to have all of these details and all of these ideas put together in an organized fashion, rather than posted in a long scrawl which will never be read.

http://occupythiswiki.org/wiki/THE_99%25_POLITICAL_PARTY

http://occupythiswiki.org/wiki/Main_Page

http://www.followthemoney.org/?gclid=CMbY87bB-qsCFUPt7Qod9HE8mQ

http://maplight.org/us-congress/guide/data/money?9gtype=search&9gkw=list%20of%20campaign%20donations&9gad=6213192521.1&9gag=1786513361&gclid=CP61oYbB-qsCFQFZ7AodcTF0jw

http://www.opensecrets.org/

http://occupywallst.org/forum/our-new-wiki/

http://occupywallst.org/forum/non-violence-evolution-by-paradigm-shift/

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[-] 1 points by stephenadler (118) 12 years ago

Thanks for the long post. I totally agree with you that this web site will not function as a way to truly organize. It's more of a propaganda site where people can vent in this one forum. I've bought the occupybillofrights.com and .org domain names. I've also purchased a few other domain names targeted an open democracies through the development of a world constitution and voting system. Personally, the two pillars of our society are its constitution and a method of guaranteed free and fair elections. That was during the Arab uprising in Egypt and Libya.

We need to be able to fully organize across the internet using the tools the web provides to do so. I can't join the GA meeting in NYC etc. I'll spend some time on your sites to see what you've put together. Cheers.

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[-] 1 points by ZenDogTroll (13032) from South Burlington, VT 12 years ago

way ahead of ya my good man.

corporations do not have tongues!!

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[-] 1 points by PamKat317 (5) 12 years ago

I've been Tweeting this video. I think it's very well done and the song is perfect! What do you think? http://youtu.be/EFNcEXFS7wU

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[-] 1 points by stephenadler (118) 12 years ago

Inspiring video. "They have the money, but we have our soles" will only last for a while. Eventually, those with the money will take our soles as well. It's called slavery. Only we can put a stop to this craziness going on in our market economy....

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[-] 1 points by JesseHeffran (3903) 12 years ago

if they take my soles, i'll go to good will and by a new pair. jokin', my soul is full of love for you.

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[-] 1 points by JahonA42 (4) from Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark 12 years ago

Easy, effective. Should consider most congressmen don't ever check their twitter personally. But every effort has an impact, whether or not it ever reaches the ears of the working class

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[-] 1 points by stephenadler (118) 12 years ago

If done right, it'll be all over the 5pm news.... The news media can't get enough of twitter.

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[-] 1 points by gnomunny (6819) from St Louis, MO 12 years ago

Excellent idea, Stephen. Good thinking.

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[-] 1 points by stephenadler (118) 12 years ago

So how do we push this idea to make it happen? Start an occupy twitter web site?

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[-] 1 points by gnomunny (6819) from St Louis, MO 12 years ago

Unfortunately I'm the wrong guy to ask. I know absolutely nothing about Twitter. Nothing against Twitter personally, I just don't have an account. Starting an Occupy Twitter website does sound like a good first step, luckily anyone can start one. No one needs any kind of 'official' permission to do so. I'm kind of surprised no one has done it yet. How about you?

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