Forum Post: One unified voice - One list of demands
Posted 13 years ago on Oct. 15, 2011, 10:27 p.m. EST by SadieRose
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Libya and Egypt each had a specific demand - they wanted a regime change. OWS has 1000 signs with as many complaints. It's sad to say that without a focused message, this is a gathering full of sound and fury but accomplishing nothing. This will be remembered as a movement that could have caused great change beyond merely the awareness that people are unhappy with many facets of the current economic system. Get serious and get a realistic list of demands while the movement still has momentum.
Time to get money out of politics on both sides of the aisle and fix our corrupt and bought out trade, tax and banking system. http://www.getmoneyout.com/
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http://www.dylanratigan.com/2011/08/03/job-wanted-jobs-ending-rigged-trade/
http://www.dylanratigan.com/2011/08/04/jobs-wanted-ending-rigged-tax-code-jobs/
http://www.dylanratigan.com/2011/08/05/jobs-wanted-ending-rigged-banking-jobs/
Here's a demand that everyone could understand: End the tyranny of capitalism.
we need to have the same demands. end this system
"The gap between a privileged few 100's and the rest of Americans is being maintained, and widened by, and manipulation by control of the media, government lobbying and political funding ... we, and you, the people have had enough and we need a voice!.....this is our voice!" .
Agree...keep it simple! ... take the following statement. Post it on every blog, every interview and every news comment....the same statement..consistently.
"The gap between the privileged few 100's and the rest of Americans is being maintained and widened by and manipulation by control of the media, government lobbying and political funding ... we, and you, the people have had enough and we need a voice!.....this is our voice!"
Here's my demand: STOP corporate America from selling out the American Dream and the Middle Class all in the name of more and more corporate profits. The retail industry has sent millions of jobs to China and other slave wage nations purely out of corporate GREED. WE MUST STOP CORPORATE GREED FROM DESTROYING THE AMERICAN DREAM!
I'm sorry, but I disagree. I don't think you need to fall into the trap of submitting a hard list of demands. Who are you going to give them too? To what end? I firmly believe that your mere presence on Wall Street, and across the country strikes real fear into the hearts of your enemies, and will move the Government to do something. Anything. And, if that doesn't satisfy you, lock arms & stand strong. Stay strong till you get something from them that satisfies the majority of OWS, then, and only then should you vote to depart.
It is your job, as I see it, to continue to stand tall and air your grievances. It is the job of the politicians to come up with a plan that is satisfactory to you!
What you have accomplished so far is a result of your genius move not to have one leader, or to submit a list of detailed demands! your insistance in Democracy is stunning to behold, very, very effective, and the World is watching. So, If it aint broke don't fix it!
Your genius lies in the fact that as you may have already seen, the moment you list your demands, or choose a leader, will be the moment that your enemies will have something solid to attack. No leader, nobody to attack. No list of demands, no list to attack. A Million people in the street expressing their anger in a Peaceful way!!! Any attack is doomed to a Public Relations failure.
OWS is doing just fine doing what your doing. You can judge your success by the Anger of your detractors. The more effective you are, the more they Howl!
Power to the people! Keeop on Keeping on!
Eugenius, - I respectfully disagree.
"Who are you going to give the demands to?" - Your government "To what end?" To cause change - not just noise.
If there is no list of demands you are correct that there is nothing to attack, there is also nothing to change. If Egyptians had shouted "we're angry about STUFF but we don't know what we want done," they would have accomplished nothing.
http://occupywallst.org/forum/steps-to-success/
You guys should Recruit the ACLU to help write some Serious demands. They are bunch of hard core Lefty Lawyers and their H.Q. is right in N.Y. Don't let them take over the movement though. I think you can trust them but nothing is guaranteed.
But just imagine all that fire and ice and raged, bottled up and waiting to be let out and focused. When a demand, or list of demands are made - though it is so hard to say now how to go about that - just imagine the impact of all these voices.
What is your list ?
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