Forum Post: OWS origins?
Posted 13 years ago on Nov. 8, 2011, 8:13 p.m. EST by nichole
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I learned about OWS through adbusters.org, a Canandian non-profit, more than a month before the Occupation began.
How did this come to being?
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/david-graeber-the-antileader-of-occupy-wall-street-10262011.html
The perfect (?) storm of anarchists and justifiably angry American citizens.
i just heard of it because it was happening.
i am sure there is a pertinent conspiracy theory tho. thats just like anything.
Most flocked to OWS events for drugs, alcohol and sex. Party, party, party!
Not around these parts... nice try.
Kalle Lasn is the puppeteer of OWS.
If he did indeed orchestrate the events that led to the formation of OWS, I would not call him a puppeteer. The American people are now speaking and acting in ways that they have always wanted to do -- only difference now is that the climate is more favorable. I think the term "weatherman" would be more accurate.
And I apply that term with all due respect.
He says of the young people in OWS " While young people can’t articulate what they want, I think what they want is a soft regime change — to depose the corporate-driven state and, ultimately, to reinvigorate American democracy from the ground up" Young people can't articulate what they want, so he'll articulate for you. Kalle Lasn hates America. Everything he writes is geared toward America bashing. Canadians run this site too. This is not an American driven machine: it is a Kalle Lasn/Canadian driven machine.
I get the sense from many in my local movement that they cannot articulate what they want. Older folks who have been engaged in decades of activism are now sharing with them what they know -- a huge development. We have kids calling for violent revolution and they don't even know what that entails. I am certain that Lasn's "hatred" as you say is equivalent to my disgust (I am an American). We do need to change.
Perhaps that is true. However, you asked where the movement came from and I told you: Kalle Lasn. Everything I have read about and by him is anti-America. I dislike him. He dislikes us. We're even.