Forum Post: One goal which everyone in the 99% can stand behind
Posted 13 years ago on Oct. 17, 2011, 11:05 a.m. EST by OnePeople
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Sever the chords that bind wall street to capitol Hill. o End corporate campaign contributions. o Restrict lobbyists access to congress.
These are two simple things everyone in occupy wall street can stand behind. So unite under this front, use it as your platform, become a serious and organized movement. These two simple things will help eliminate the effects of corporate greed, they will take the majority of the voice back from corporations and return it to the majority of the people in america, where it belongs.
I think it would be interesting to stay towards the silent side, just stating our dissatisfaction. Like a silent partner in a conversations, this may drive interspection by all parties outtin them in the roll of voicing their own sins to fill the slience.
But isn't this about regaining our voice?
I think if the OWS crowd got behind a movement to bring online voting to national elections, it would enable the people's voice to drown out big money, corporations, unions, and lobbyists.
I'm not sure of all the implications of corporate personage but if you can't complete the latter without the former then I would agree with that
This one might be tough, though slowly over time the third point would effectively make this happen.
This point effectively shows what the lobbying is capable of. There have been so many legislation created or negatively effected by bad, or self interested lobbying, such as the partial repeal of the Glass Steagall act in 1999 or the Hawley Smoot Tariff Act of 1929 both of which preceded and helped the cause of large scale economic downturns. Anyway the third should be slowly implemented over time so that in 6 years it's completely reinstated
Right on.
I've been remembering protests of the sixties and early seventies, and how it took awhile to get a clear enough mass demand that no one could fail to hear it.
I think that both your anti-war and your anti-poverty feeling would benefit from a specific demand: that it be made illegal for any Member of Congress to hold investments in any industry related at all to defense. This is a clear conflict of interest - especially when it comes to any vote related to war or potential war.
I hope this makes sense to you, and best of luck!
Makes sense.
let it be about fascism then a fraction of 1% will rightfully have a problem with it and then there will be those rejecting what they don't understand,which will still be a small minority.
that's what I'm saying
If everyone unites behind it they will be heard. The media will pick up on the fact that there's a united goal, and those who dislike the movement or think lots of the people are crazy or indecisive about what they want will give it a second thought.
I notice you're already being heard now -- in the New York Times for god's sake! Bravo!
Got any links, I'd be happy to see what they are saying.
Some of these are NYTimes blogs, etc. Do all the demonstrators realize that there are demonstrations all around the globe? Do they know that much of the world was screwed by the same Wall Street execs? Here's a small bunch of items: http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/12/corporations-people-and-truth/?ref=occupywallstreet http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/12/occupy-wall-street-occupies-headlines/?ref=occupywallstreet http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/16/opinion/sunday/kristof-americas-primal-scream.html?src=me&ref=general http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/17/opinion/krugman-wall-street-loses-its-immunity.html?src=me&ref=general http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/o/occupy_wall_street/index.html
think about it
I think most don't experience it as 'fascism', so that would get a smaller response. The beautiful thing about it is that people are finally doing what they should have been doing since before 9/11 -- standing up and participating in a democracy. It's like people have been asleep (or lazy) letting one crime after another go by. Now you're hopefully all rising up and saying "no more!". The law needs to change, and some criminals need to be jailed. And your Members of Congress absolutely must not benefit from war - or poverty.