OWS general assembly......"The occupation. Is. Dead" (radical, death, Obama)
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From the OWS general assembly. It appears some sanity has taken over somebody here.
"Buy-Out Buy-In
proposal for GA: Dec. 18th, 2011
One month ago, we were kicked out of Zuccotti. Today, we had a major action at Canal St. Regardless of whether you support an eventual occupation at that location, it feels like this chapter of Occupy Wall Street is coming to a close. Regardless of the success our movement has in the future, the forceful and criminal eviction of November 15th still hurts. It hurts to be holding GA’s here in an empty park. It hurts to stand here in the cold, fighting for nothing. I do not mean that we don’t stand for principles.
I mean that we don’t have a physical home.
There is nothing here. There are no structures. There is no sign of our community. There is no life. Yes, we are here. But we have become tourists. We visit the park, we do not occupy it. I don’t care how hard core you are, you eventually leave to seek shelter somewhere else. You have to. The park has been, to use Bloomberg’s term, sanitized. The germs, the occupiers, the us, have been scrubbed clean.
One month ago I proposed that we take all of the funds in the general fund and divide them among the occupiers. A lot of people thought this was a crazy idea. A lot of people aren’t thinking it’s such a crazy idea anymore.
Immediate questions come up: How would you split up the money? Who would get it? How would you give everyone access to the tools to spend it wisely? How would current projects continue to be funded? Why would you do this?
I can’t answer all of these questions. But I can answer the last one. Why should we make an effort to give the money that Zuccotti was donated to the people who occupied the park? Because the park is dead. Look around you.
The occupation.
Is.
Dead."
From the OWS general assembly. It appears some sanity has taken over somebody here.
"Buy-Out Buy-In
proposal for GA: Dec. 18th, 2011
One month ago, we were kicked out of Zuccotti. Today, we had a major action at Canal St. Regardless of whether you support an eventual occupation at that location, it feels like this chapter of Occupy Wall Street is coming to a close. Regardless of the success our movement has in the future, the forceful and criminal eviction of November 15th still hurts. It hurts to be holding GA’s here in an empty park. It hurts to stand here in the cold, fighting for nothing. I do not mean that we don’t stand for principles.
I mean that we don’t have a physical home.
There is nothing here. There are no structures. There is no sign of our community. There is no life. Yes, we are here. But we have become tourists. We visit the park, we do not occupy it. I don’t care how hard core you are, you eventually leave to seek shelter somewhere else. You have to. The park has been, to use Bloomberg’s term, sanitized. The germs, the occupiers, the us, have been scrubbed clean.
One month ago I proposed that we take all of the funds in the general fund and divide them among the occupiers. A lot of people thought this was a crazy idea. A lot of people aren’t thinking it’s such a crazy idea anymore.
Immediate questions come up: How would you split up the money? Who would get it? How would you give everyone access to the tools to spend it wisely? How would current projects continue to be funded? Why would you do this?
I can’t answer all of these questions. But I can answer the last one. Why should we make an effort to give the money that Zuccotti was donated to the people who occupied the park? Because the park is dead. Look around you.
The occupation.
Is.
Dead."
Obama,...movie stars,....Mikey Moore,....George Soros,....and the main stream media tried to breathe life into a losing theme. Alas, the "bowel movement" died due to the lack of interest by the public at large.
It's funny how the OWS people support the violation of the rights of others yet when their rights are violated they feel like they are being singled out and picked on.
The entitlement camps broke down after the donations allowing them to squat and be fed by other people's money dried up? I'm shocked, shocked I tell you!
My guess is Obama put the word out to his radical friends that this was taking a toll on his numbers.
It's funny how the OWS people support the violation of the rights of others yet when their rights are violated they feel like they are being singled out and picked on.
It's good that the author recognizes the irony of the same hierarchy within their movement that they criticize in society.
Also, the author doesn't mean this statement as a call to surrender, for what it's worth - you'd have to actually read it. The intention is interesting, but it won't work anyways.
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