Occupy Wall Street 2012: No More 'Mr. Nice Guy'
The occupy movement isn't ready to pack it in and head for home just yet. They have a lot plans for the coming new year...
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No more peaceful tent encampments in parks. No more Mahatma Gandhi nice-guy stuff. Not enough. Escalation time. Wall Street, the superrich and their Washington lobbyists are tone deaf, blinded by greed, trapped in their post-2008 business-as-usual bubble.
Warning; OWS tells us America's going to be shocked by not one but hundreds of wake-up calls in 2012.
How? In a recent Washington Post column, OWS leaders say they are accelerating their battle strategy in 2012. In what amounts to a new declaration of war that promises to electrify the 2012 elections, OWS will be using new asymmetrical warfare strategies, write two of the men who have been the driving force behind the movement since early this year: Kalle Lasn, the editor-in-chief of Adbusters magazine, and senior editor Micah White.
Listen to some of the specific guerrilla tactics they warn will be used in their 2012 "American Spring" assault: A "marked escalation of surprise, playful, precision disruptions, rush-hour flash mobs, bank occupations, 'occupy squads' and edgy theatrics." And in a New Yorker magazine interview shortly after New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg's "military-style operation," Lasn warned: "this means escalation, pushing us one step closer to a revolution."
Thanks for snagging that article.
The author's attitude is a bit snarky at times (Gandhi played hardball, he wasn't just "mr nice guy" .. and so did MLK) but the conclusions are spot-on.
It's gonna be an interesting year!
More than anything else the Occupy Movement has empowered both groups and individuals to step up and challenge the Powers That Be. Day after day in this section of C&L we hear about groups who have been working for years for social change that only now are getting the national spotlight because Occupy has made their work apparent - like the groups fighting foreclosures and occupying abandoned homes.
And the Occupy Movement has also awakened millions here in the US and abroad that we are not alone in our despair and frustration, and that WE outnumber THEM, not by a little bit but by a lot. What THEY need to do is join us, make it the 100% working for the 100% instead of the way it is now.
Creative Civil Disobedience.
When will government of the people, by the politicians, for the corporations perish from this Earth?
Not soon enough!
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