Forum Post: We are All Leaves of Grass, How Do We Reach the Roots?

The real problem is that we are so severed as a society yet so hopelessly connected to every miniscule detail ordering our daily routines and reasons for living. How are we going to occupy Wall Street when people have to go to meaningless jobs and work from 9-5 or get fired and lose their way of feeding themselves and their family? There will never be a complete revolution unless if we can solve this problem of how do we allow people the time and money to get to a certain specified location. There are many millions of Americans that would gladly rise up a sign against our wars or our corporate monopoly over our food, our energy, our media, our education, and our entertainment. To truly break the bonds with a past wrong, people will have to suffer and survive if they want to make a stand, and I am not sure that we can all commit to this course of action under the circumstances that are present. It is idealistic and impressive that people are impassioned enough to create this movement far, but in the capital drenched world we live in one must fight back economically. In order for this movement to take hold, we have to learn from what has already worked in the past. There must be coordinated migrations of people systematically done to alter the very fabric of history being woven by those in power. We are leaves of grass, and in order to make a stand we must gather together our roots, our local communities to prepare to protest. Many often forget the power of religion in politics and the sway that the Church has over the direction of American ethos. One of the most successful strides made constitutionally and civically came from the marches of King who organized people who believed they were destined for something better. The only damage corporate America will feel is in its purse. We must declare a national day of striking, with workers from McDonald’s to Wal-Mart all leaving their respective jobs for a single day to show the strength of boycotting as our bargaining chip. And on this fateful day there should be a pilgrimage made possible through contributions and fund raising to get all of the brave souls, who were willing to risk their jobs, to a place where they can make their voices heard. When should the next march begin? Where would we get the best turnout?

We need to make a consensus fast, for time is the evil when waging a war of words.