Today, I was (am) reading NPR about the occupy rally in Charlotte, NC. Best statement: "The absence of a clear strategy hindered the Occupy movement for months." Dear god, Occupy, I think I have your solution.
Overall, if you broke out into separate groups
of people who would specialize in a certain issue, maybe more changes
would start rolling. Right now y'all are just a bunch of people standing
around with a million different signs that all point in a million
different directions. You know the cartoon that walks up to a sign post
and never figures out which way to go? That's what you're doing.Say, for example, you don't like how women are being treated. How their rights to their bodies are constantly fought over, taken away, given back, rinse and repeat. Get a leader who is well voiced in the problem, promote a group, and specialize in gathering people around and discussing changes to be made to that issue. NOTE: That group will only work on one issue: Women's rights. "The Women's Rights Branch of Occupy."
You want people to focus more on protecting the environment, you say? Again, find that leader who's willing to take on the issue, gather others who'd like to participate in effecting change on the issue, and only specialize in issues dealing with harm to the environment and ways to protect it. "Environmental Protection Branch of Occupy."
I'm not saying members (or even leaders) should be confined to one group. Take on two, three, four groups! But realize that you're going to need a chain of command in the one issue to get anything done with that certain issue. Standing around in a mix group of people who have no sense of direction, no overarching purpose, and thinking "something" is going to come out of that, is the exact wrong way to do anything. Occupy is losing participants, funding, and credibility with the rest of the world, because all we're seeing is people circlejerking around this word: Change. Sorry, but that word is way too arbitrary and superficial to base an entire world (or country, or city) innovation on. Remember how well "change" worked for President Obama? Oh wait, he's actually a huge disappointment. Just like you are becoming, Occupy.
In the 60s there were groups of African Americans working on one thing - more rights for African Americans. Some would educate others to broaden their minds, others would organize sit-ins, bus boycotts and the like, and they had a leader, MLK. Don't believe me? Read a book. Oh, and guess what? The blacks of this country succeeded. No longer are they (openly) segregated, no longer do they have to sit at the back of the bus, and no longer can they (openly) be denied a job. Yes, I realize people still discriminate and target the black community of the United States, but christ, we've come a long way from slavery and lynching, haven't we? And it was all because of the ORGANIZATION of the African American community.
Organize yourselves, Occupy.
Organize, or get the fuck out.
NPR: http://www.npr.org/2012/09/02/160393442/occupy-movement-targets-charlotte-for-resurgence
3 comments:
I don't really understand the "get the fuck out," part. I mean, I understand what you're saying by it, but I don't understand where it's coming from. You're angry enough to put it like that over...organization? That doesn't seem like something people get truly angry about--regardless of the truth content of the claim--a lack of organization? What are you really angry about?
I see where you are coming from on this. Right now, people have been too complacent in today's society and have stood behind the government for so long pointing at problems and telling the government to take care of it. Even the petty things to where you don't even get the rights to buy artificial butter in new York city because of the trans fat. As we look at our society there is so much wrong with it that you can't just point out on thing and focus on it. The media can't just have that nicely packaged 5 to 7 word headline, in order to publish it. It saddens me to see how we are leaving this for our kids because we always had problems but none like we have now. Police can use probable cause, intent, and suspicion to get away with almost anything. Politicians can just make blank bills with a "I'll fill that out later," like a blank check. Speaking of blank checks, road workers are paid by the hour and not by job, another mistake. Electoral college is broken because it allowed George Jr into office the first time when it is supposed to be based off popular votes and that wasn't him. The rich keep getting to a point where the are untouchable, point being paris hilton proved this by saying itis too rough for me to be in jail and and was let out early. Police at this point are only higher revenue gaining city parking meters that take advantage of laws that no one studding in the drivers hand book. No warnings are given out for clean records. TOO MUCH WRONG TO FOCUS ON ONE THING. If it weren't for the fact I need to get back to my middle class job to support those that take advantage on the lower totem pole, I could go on for days.
The Civil Rights struggle - to which you sited - took much longer than *a year* to affect racial equality.
Before MLK hit the scene --- President Eisenhower integrated our Armed Forces. That did a lot to help spark The Civil Rights Movement.
I, too, am somewhat perplexed by your anger.
Occupy's main 'message' is summed up well by our name: OCCUPY WALL ST.
Again: Affecting Revolutionary Socio-Politcal CHANGE . . . takes a persistent effort, which is born of resolute patriots.
Revolutions take time.
P.S. . . . When last I checked -- a lot of what OWS is on the streets fighting for . . . is simply battling for their First Amendment Rights to Free Speech & Free Assembly - which are still under attack.
P.P.S. Hey, look at this << http://whatthefuckhasoccupydone.com/ >>
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