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In reply to the discussion: Occupy Wall St Says 'Rolling Jubilee' Raises Enough to Abolish $6 Million in Debt [View all]graham4anything
(11,464 posts)I am not going to comment on your MLK analogy as I think that is totally the opposite of what needs to be done.
And both Lincoln and Johnson needed votes from the other side to pass the historic bills.
And the civil rights marches worked because blacks and Jews marched in unison and in the Vietnam days, business owners shut their business, or allowed their workers a day off to protest.
Longterm being underground (or) anonymous is like Abbie Hoffman, who came back and found he was irrelevant, intead of sticking around and working within (like say Tom Hayden and others).
It will come back to haunt the people if they cannot later provide proof of employment in the OWS on their resume.
Education should be free. period. It should not be a rich person's sport. Which is why there should be no private education, just public for all.
To be honest, being anonymous is like a terror organization wearing a mask.
V was a great movie, but the mask just hides the person.
Masks scare me. The KKK wore masks.
If they are so noble, then they should be proud of their name and face.
(Do you think Karl Rove cultivates anonymous people nationwide to run for every single office you can think of?
If the best young minds are anonymous, we lose out on them being those candidates to run against the Bush/Rove ones.
That is the shame of it all.
OWS should be like a union. Power for the people so to say.
But working with the party that offers more than the other party.(Which is also if you go to his website what Mark Rudd said in 2008 when supporting Obama.)
and realistic expectations.