Forum Post: What should we do with all this People Power?
Posted 12 years ago on Nov. 26, 2011, 10:29 p.m. EST by captfuxx
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The power is to the People but it seems like no one is strategizing how best to use this people power to affect our status quo.
This is just me, but I think this movement has to go to Washington in a big way. The federal government is involved in this in a big way and much of it is that our 'leaders' are working for corporations and bankers and not for us.
http://liberaltalkingpoints.wordpress.com/2011/11/20/poverty-in-america-is-soaring/
People power can change the world! For the better!
The movement needs to stay in the public eye, it needs to continue to mount successful demonstrations, and it needs to grow. There are some hard realities to face. Most of the population has a good job, has a home, they may dislike or distrust the government but they are no where near ready for revolution or major change. OWS can educate and win people over, and should bring pressure to bare on government, but it's not going to be a simple task.
I liked this comment. Essential to this is the issue of safety and peaceful assembly of the OWS manifestations. If OWS is deemed to be violent or unsafe, the growth of the movement will hit a wall.
Educating and winning people over is an interesting point. I wish it could be done more than one person at a time on the street corner.
I'd suggest running candidates for office. Stating a few simple goals at first and making it a campaign issue. The population is no where near ready to "storm the Bastille", but you might get voter support for candidates and make progress that way. It has to move beyond mic checks in a park and loose the image of spoiled, unemployed, clueless kids that majored in comparative religion.
Anything imaginable to create positive change. Someone should write an Occupy broadway musical. Open an Occupy office in every major city.
Implement proper online consensus GA type something or other. I have seen some sites discussing this and its inspiring to see.
Make a full length Occupy documentary, use old footage, give a history then update it by going to different cities and explore what it is from different sociological or philosophical perspectives.
Go on a country wide Occupy tour, and hit every little town along the way to connect, educate people from all over.
Occupy outside wherever they are holding Bradley Manning.
Hold Occupy conferences, lectures, or continue to do so. Have patience and keep the dialogue pertaining to all things Occupy circulating.
I dunno, out of ideas. Good question though.
That is why it is important that we gain more control of our food production and bring back local farms. We can't fight for anything if we are starving in the process. The food production must be taken out of the control of government and the elite and back to the people.
http://occupythiswiki.org/wiki/Issues_%2B_Political_Platform_Items
form a new third political party and take every office in the land.
It's time I think, to start thinking BEYOND financial economies, and more about resource-based economies and get rid of this gross imbalance of things.. get rid of the greed and corruption. And it is the only way to effectively strip the 1% of their power over us.
http://www.unitinghumans.com/2011/11/global-world-unity-working-together-to.html#.TtGZFwElbPc.facebook
Step one. We need to hold our elected officials to task. Suggest to everyone that they write their representatives and ask for censure of the super committee members. We have to do our jobs. So do they. It's the economy.
I agree but too many of these Marxist twits just refuse to see that. Or they are afraid of displeasing their controllers.