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City of Cleveland Passes Emergency Vote to Support OWS | KenBurridge.com (http://kenburridge.com/city-of-cleveland-passes-emergency-vote-to-support-ows/2631 - broken link)
I just see a bunch of words that will have the same effect as OWS in general. BFD.
They are still a gathering of non-directional beings with nothing to show for their efforts aside from wasting taxpayer money to babysit and disperse them once they wore out their welcome.
This "MIC CHECK" stuff is totally stupid. I'm all for the general idea of eliminating bank bailouts, jailing corrupt CEOs, ending lobbying, ending the Federal Reserve and all that, but the WAY the OWS movement gets its message out is TOTALLY lame. The songs, drum circles, waving fingers up or down in agreement or disagreement, and human microphone chants make them look more crazy than they are. Nobody wants to listen to a dirty white guy with dreadlocks and a soy latte in his hand... not even those of us who might even agree with the general cause. OWS needs to get better organized and CHOOSE a well-spoken leader to do the interviews and get funding. Being leaderless makes the movement completely impotent. Nothing will get done if these are the tactics that will be used.
This "MIC CHECK" stuff is totally stupid. I'm all for the general idea of eliminating bank bailouts, jailing corrupt CEOs, ending lobbying, ending the Federal Reserve and all that, but the WAY the OWS movement gets its message out is TOTALLY lame. The songs, drum circles, waving fingers up or down in agreement or disagreement, and human microphone chants make them look more crazy than they are. Nobody wants to listen to a dirty white guy with dreadlocks and a mochaccino in his hand... not even those of us who might even agree with the general cause. OWS needs to get better organized and CHOOSE a well-spoken leader to do the interviews and get funding. Being leaderless makes the movement completely impotent. Nothing will get done if these are the tactics that will be used.
Being "leaderless" is quite smart.
They are very organized, get out of LSM and learn. There are great links here to utilize, you can use the search tool for them.
And if they were "impotent" they would have lobbyists scrambling to shut them up and they wouldn't have lindsey graham of all people offering to meet with some of them. LOL!!! And they wouldn't have all of us talking and thinking.
How is being leaderless smart exactly? Nothing is getting accomplished! It's been months already! At least elect a media-savvy speaker who can outline some demands. Have a general strike that lasts more than 1 day in one city. Educate more undecided people instead of putting these hippies up front.
It's frustrating to see a group with a good cause blow it with silly tactics and poor organization.
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