Forum Post: Who is going to.........
Posted 13 years ago on Nov. 19, 2011, 9:17 p.m. EST by RIGHTNOW
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from Carlstadt, NJ
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Who is going to take this movement to the next level? This movement as lots of followers and no leader. No one is going to raise their hand and say pick me I'll be your leader. Someone must be drafted, now! Someone who can turn this movement into the powerful voice it has the potential to become. With out a leader the movement will divide and fall apart. No time to waste. Chose now!!
Hmm, consider this, how many civil rights "leaders" ended up with a bullet? No leader, no target, got it?
Since the movement is made up of tens of thousands of people all of whom have their own view of what should happen next. My own view is consistent with that of Chris Hedges and Naomi Klein that we should keep on doing what we're doing. Once we have 30 or 40 million people in the streets (and we are a long way from that) will be time enough to figure out what next.
I'm good with the 'leaderful' concept expressed by Van Jones and others. What I'm increasingly not willing to quietly allow to continue is people demanding their right to assemble while ignoring even attacking their right to petition the government for a redress of grievances. You're absolutely right, time is short. https://sites.google.com/site/the99percentdeclaration/
Democracy is the leader, a simple idea, not a person or a character.
Government is expected to help ensure equal opportunity for all, not to tilt toward those who already have wealth and power. Even more clearly, Americans celebrate and expect equal democratic rights. Americans fervently believe that everyone should have an equal say in our democratic politics, helping to shape what government does. They embrace whole-heartedly the ideal enunciated by the U.S. Declaration of Independence that “all men are created equal,” which in our time means that every citizen — regardless of income, gender, race, and ethnicity — should have an equal voice in representative government.
I think it is fine.
I will. email me OWSisformorons@gmail.com
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