Strategies for moving forward with the fight to regain control of fundamental rights to life, liberty and happiness from the corporatocracy. Start local, if you our shopping this Black Friday don’t shop at Walmart but instead buy from small local retailers and buy American whenever possible. Instead of using banks like Wells Fargo, Chase, Citibank and BofA, all of whom have been fined or charged with defrauding their own customers through the use of unethical practices that extract fees from those who can least afford them move your money to democratically run credit unions where you have a vote. Be sure to let your federal, state and locally elected leaders know you expect equal taxation across the board.
How does the Occupy Wall Street movement move from “the outrage phase” to the “hope phase,” and imagine a new economic model? In a Democracy Now! special broadcast, we bring you excerpts from a recent event that examined this question and much more. “Occupy Everywhere: On the New Politics and Possibilities of the Movement Against Corporate Power,” a panel discussion hosted by The Nation magazine and The New School in New York City, features Oscar-winning filmmaker and author Michael Moore; Naomi Klein, best-selling author of the “Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism”; Rinku Sen of the Applied Research Center and publisher of ColorLines; Occupy Wall Street organizer Patrick Bruner; and veteran journalist William Greider, author of “Come Home, America: The Rise and Fall (and Redeeming Promise) of Our Country.”
Why is new going to be different?
Everywhere you go, there you are — same old complaints, same old problems. What changes by going somewhere else and calling it something different?
You’ll never accomplish anything running away from a fight.
Been there, done that, it hasn’t worked yet. Time for something new.
Occupy the voting booth.
Occupy the Democratic Party.
Why is it so easy to take over a country? Yet so impossible to take over a party?
The rest is merely window dressing.
http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2011/12/occupy_portland_community_pick.html
It won’t be long before they get us in their sights. promoting coal was to much to bear for all the health issues, that was just being greedy and stupid. it may be to late to stop this movement,The status quo had their shot, it snapped.
I posted back here, just because I think people should start focusing on the movement, before “things” gets worse. Tell the governor to remember, he was a doctor, that swore an oath, before he became a politician. Time is running out.
That was my presentation to the port, I was told “The coal is coming out of the ground and going to China. That is a done deal. Neither you, nor I, nor God and Jesus can stop it.”
Is that true? My summary is this.
http://mgx.com/blogs/2011/06/22/worlds-most-expensive-logs-and-wood-chips-and-corruption-to-boot/
We each have the power of one. Sometimes that’s greater than the power of the group, but in times like these it will take the power of the group to bend the power of one. Kitzhaber is the one who can stop our problems at the port and set the right example for human history, like it or not he alone has the power. Governor use it before its to late, remember your oath. Restore honor to your office. When the movement comes here to stop you it will be too late.
They’re are several people that can stop the occupy movement, democrats have the first and best chance to stop the madness. None of us wanted this to happen, they were warned over and over, to get on the “right track’, Several governors may still have the opportunity to step up and quell the flames, Kitzhaber has the power to set the example that the whole world will follow, but he’s not listening. He can salvage this, and be the hero, or just one of the villains.
Whats next for the movement. It is and will be occupy everywhere, this will not settle until those at the top understand who they are supposed to represent.
ultimately the focus will pinpoint on the oil/gas/coal industry. We are at ground zero, the wave is coming here, not the little protest, the whole world is about to erupt over those resources. Do we really want that to come here? We are the ones that can settle the “fire in the theater” panic. To do that we must get Kitzhaber to be a doctor once again and set an example the whole world will see…He won’t do it without the prod. Help us help yourself.
I remember someone once saying we have to crawl before we can walk/ that was good advice. I suggest we get Kitzhaber to be a real doctor, and dismiss the morally corrupt port and their staff as soon as possible. to put the health of kids in harms way for profit is “morally” criminally negligent. Contact the governor ASAP and remind him of his doctors oath, to do no harm. Do not turn this area into a lung death trap ( childrens asthma and cancer), and make its citizens accomplices to this immoral crime. Governor your reputation can still be salvaged, but you must act soon. Dismiss this port and its collaborators.
O M G
You CAN’T be serious.
RU?
How are you paying for this fantasy? Keep this in mind:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/californias-high-speed-rail-system-is-going-nowhere-fast/2011/11/08/gIQAKni2IN_story.html
The Port is pursuing wind. We already have wave projects in place.
The Koch Bros.?!? Did you not learn anything about my paranoia lesson? You’re not paranoid if everyone really is out to get you. However, if they are not, you really are paranoid.
You will not respond to or suffer reason.
What the port and others won’t consider,why? because the fossil fuel people are in control.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=weWmTldrOyo
when the port has been replaced, this is just one possibility for the types of things possible to create jobs for our area.
Wind power that is currently being suppressed, wave power that could be fast tracked.
You will get no part in any of these exciting new opportunities, because the naysayers will have none of it. They promised our bay to the likes of the Koch brothers.
Tell kitzhaber to send them packing and lets move forward in the right direction for a true change, or we can continue with the plans to poison children with more pollution.
Get ready for those among us who will try their best to crush our children’s future. I will not respond to or suffer fools.