Forum Post: TO THOSE OCCUPYING DC or considering it: Here are TACTICS that will work to Occupy CAPITOL HILL and achieve significant and lasting results.
Posted 12 years ago on Nov. 23, 2011, 12:35 a.m. EST by therising
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First a quote. Then the methods.
"By treating money as an analog for speech, the court's post-Buckley jurisprudence has figuratively allowed the rich to speak through microphones while the poor can barely whisper, and tolerates a situation in which the voices of contributors are amplified to the point that they drown out the opinions of mere voters.
** I have never understood how permitting the wealthy so much greater influence over the political process can be squared with the vision of equality on which the country was founded."
Award winning author Scott Turow
More of what he said here: http://occupywallst.org/forum/heres-what-might-be-next-for-ows-award-winning-bes/#comment-403888
Here's one method we could use to occupy Capitol Hill and win: http://occupywallst.org/forum/proposed-list-of-demands-please-help-editadd-so-th/
Nonviolence is key.
Let's occupy congress with massive protest and then occupy it with 99% winning candidates!
Congress with proper pressure will put up serious guardrails to keep Wall St from taking economy again and also help prevent environmental destruction.
Let's rise and shine
Mindset is as important as tactics and large crowds. 300,000 people in the right mindset using coordinated nonviolent tactics could shut down Capitol Hill for a day so the voices of the American people could be heard. Nonviolence is essential.
With supercommittee failure and rise of support for OWS, it may be the right time over the next few months to occupy Capitol Hill.
We must remain active, vigilant, strong and nonviolent.
Momentum is with us. Let's rise peacefully.
Humanity is rising.
With serious reforms we can get the foot off our collective neck to allow us the ability to then go after wave after wave of even more important reforms.
Time to occupy Capitol Hill
I want you to go to this post. I want you to speak truth to power!. Say it once, say it twice. Say it loud. Say it proud. I'm down with the KTC. The Revolution starts here!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGaRtqrlGy8&feature=related
http://occupywallst.org/forum/make-a-stand-join-the-clan/
The Revolution starts here! No one can silence the Revolution!
Too late. SEIU has taken over and is doing it for you next month whether you want them to or not.
What makes you think that it's the same thing?
Doesn't matter what I think. That's the way that they're playing it.
That's your interpretation.
Well, when they're calling their protest "Occupy Congress," setting up tents, and using the 99% meme, yeah, that's my interpretation. As it will be for most others. lol
Keep laughing and stay tuned :)
Get your 99% sign yet?
http://www.seiu.org/
; )
The very phenomenon you make fun of is the one that guarantees success for the OWS movement. :)
Guarantees that you've already been co-opted. Welcome to the Obama 2012 election campaign!