Revolutions Don't Happen in a Day: 5 Ways OWS Can Stay Powerful and Truly Build a Movement | Occupy Wall Street. December 21, 2011 | Like this article? Join our email list: Stay up to date with the latest headlines via email. On September 17, we took Liberty Square, used it to begin to create the social norms and institutions of a society to come, and became the Occupy movement. We hit the streets fiercely, abandoning the metal barricades they once contained us in, rejecting the marching permits they offered us, refusing their sidewalks. But the season has changed. Winter is here. A To-Do List for the Winter 1. 2. How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the OWS Protests | Politics News. This Is What Revolution Looks Like.
Welcome to the revolution. Our elites have exposed their hand. They have nothing to offer. They can destroy but they cannot build. They can repress but they cannot lead. Our decaying corporate regime has strutted in Portland, Oakland and New York with their baton-wielding cops into a fool’s paradise. Get back into your cages, they are telling us. The rogues’ gallery of Wall Street crooks, such as Lloyd Blankfein at Goldman Sachs, Howard Milstein at New York Private Bank & Trust, the media tycoon Rupert Murdoch, the Koch brothers and Jamie Dimon at JPMorgan Chase & Co., no doubt think it’s over.
The historian Crane Brinton in his book “Anatomy of a Revolution” laid out the common route to revolution. Truthout doesn’t take corporate funding - this lets us do the brave reporting and analysis that makes us unique. Despotic regimes in the end collapse internally. The process of defection among the ruling class and security forces is slow and often imperceptible. Occupy Stories - First-hand Stories and Observations from the Occupy Movement. Occupie_nl. Adbusters Culturejammer Headquarters | Journal of the mental environment.
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