Forum Post: The Whole World Is NOT Watching now.
Posted 13 years ago on Oct. 26, 2011, 8:17 p.m. EST by jdelassus
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The tactics used back in the 60s will not work today. The wealthy ruling elite have wised up. They are not going to continue covering OWS. If questioned about this they will simply say we covered it...it doesn't seem to be going anywhere and to a certain extent they are correct. Somebody out there needs to come up with some kind of non violent stunt that the media can't simply ignore.
These comments get 0 to 1 points. Go figure. But they are relevant. OWS is on life support right now. Good luck to them.
I don't think we need stunts, I think people are looking to us to get some real unity, realistic goals and demands and stop appearing to be a big disorderly mob. We need to progress and evolve from our early stage into something that most people can see is heading somewhere and actually going to accomplish something. The public is going to get burned out on watching us and consider us a joke if we don't evolve into something meaningful.
i agree. lets get some people in office.
Yeah, thanks. I'm thinking Green Party.
Good point - I agree
As long as WE are covering it I don't worry. We dont need the media. We need each other, bro.
It's a question of time. Yeah, eventually we become the media but that's off into the future. This thing will fizzle if you don't attract the attention of the mainstream mass media. Of course you can take the long view and maybe your children or children's children will see change.
tenacity time
A couple weeks ago when the war veteran stood up to the police talking about their awful treatment to the peaceful protesters in New York... did you see how those police reacted?! They could not lay a finger on that man, not only because he was absolutely correct but because he served time in Iraq, he was wearing the uniform, and if any one of them touched him they would get in so much trouble because he is a veteran. So here's an idea.... lets call more and more veterans. Tell every single one of them to wear their uniforms and march all around us. They fought for our country to protect the people and our rights, lets allow them to continue to protect us. No one can ignore that. Thousands of veterans uniting with the people! Its truly pure democracy, all together for one cause. Plus, if the police see that hopefully they will see they are part of the 99% we are occupying for and maybe they will join us. So many people are saying that they have never been so proud to be an American, well lets show the world why! We need to get their attention and get more and more people on our side, especially the media. Remember years ago when the Berlin Wall came down? Eventually the police forces joined with the people to bring it down because there was nothing more they could do to keep them in, the people were uniting and couldn't be defeated and the police knew what they were doing was wrong. We have to show these officers that they work to PROTECT the people, they truly work for us. One day, the money they are getting to protect the 1% isn't going to be enough.... they will know in their hearts that they have to join the occupiers. Lets get more interesting. You're so right by saying they aren't going to continue covering OWS. Lets do something different, we already have an incredibly powerful number of people..... lets use it to our advantage. Keep it peaceful, keep it productive.
Is it a tactic that is needed or a FOCUS...I realize that this movement is without leadership and has organized in its own way but what is the end point? To get the attention, the movement needs to ask for something....ask for the outing of Congress....I'm not an expert but something substantial and realistic needs to be pushed for. I'm sure there are experts on our constitution and what we as a people have a right to expect from those that we put in power and the corporations that fund them!
Plain old real democracy is what we need. The rich, ruling elite has hijacked democracy through their mouthpiece - the mass media. Alvin Toffler wrote about the de-massification of the media and that is taking place at the same time the powerful elite has put a stranglehold on democracy. Our job is to break that hold. People working in the media are just as frightened of losing their jobs as everyone else. It's a question of jobs and distribution of wealth.
Agree. I have been talking about this continually.
Yeah, I see this all over the place. Everybody talking and nobody listening or in this case, everybody typing and nobody reading
Just keep typing (and don't forget to smoke a few joints in the mean time).