Forum Post: Once we awaken to our common ground, drop fear and realize we're the 99%, we will be making DECISIONS from a position of unity and strength rather than making DEMANDS from a position of divided weakness.
Posted 12 years ago on Oct. 12, 2011, 4:40 p.m. EST by therising
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Once we awaken to our common ground, drop fear and realize we're the 99%, we will be making DECISIONS from a position of unified strength rather than making DEMANDS from a position of divided weakness.
It will then be the plutocrats, the 1%, who are making lists of demands, camping out in parks trying to get the attention of the 99% they once exploited. I can picture them now in their fancy shoes and navy blazers trying to figure out how to set up a tent. It goes without saying that this second paragraph is merely written in fun. We would of course invite them into the "big tent" of the 99%. Someday, if we work long and hard, the 99% will be the 100%. Imagine.
Kindness and forceful active non-violence are both paramount. We MUST remain non-violent. Expect provocateurs (minions of the 1%) to attempt to incite violence for the plutocrats know that will help them easily bring down the movement. If you're near when one of these jokers pulls a stunt, please encourage everyone to sit right where they are and say "This person is not one of us. We are non-violent.". Then the provocateurs will look like fools that night on the network news and we'll have even more sympathy from across America.
Violent regimes like the 1% whose only bottom like is money will do anything to retain their power and ill gotten gains. But they don't have a clue how to deal with non-violent active resistance. Anything they do just looks mean on TV when they're doing it to peaceful protesters.
Keep an eye out. These provocateurs won't be police. They'll likely be from private security firms so they'll be very smooth operators, very good at blending in. We won't be able to stop them. What we can do is control our reaction when they strike. We need to practice the above reaction so it becomes second nature. Make no mistake. The provocation is coming.
Peace, calm and love are our fuel. We must remain true to non-violent principles. Please spread the word to all you know.
Those two paragraphs hold much wisdom. Thank you!
PS - As they say, there's nothing so powerful as an idea whose time has come. And the idea whose time has come is the realization that we have more things in common than we have things that divide us. We are waking up to realize how silly it is that 1% of the people are exploiting the other 99%. We are rubbing our eyes, talking to one another and wondering aloud how we could have been asleep for so long. We've had the power all along.
It wasn't by accident that we've been sleeping. We have been placid because we've accepted what has been given to us- no more, let's make our own change.
Rock n roll :)