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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]sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)Is Tom Morello anonymous? Is Jesse LaGreca anonymous?
Don't worry about OWS, they are in their infancy. The Civil Rights Movement took years to develop. You seem to be living in a fantasy world where all the ills that are addressed by Social Justice Movements were addressed overnight.
That is not realistic. OWS are realists. They understand it will take years to undo the Economic Injustices that it took decades to put in place. The Global Economic Terrorists have destroyed the economies of the world, not just the US. Which is why this is a Global Movement. OWS was late to the movement but now they are a big part of it.
I don't think you understand what is going on frankly. Injustice of any kind cannot be ended in two weeks. The Economic Terrorists that destroyed Third World Countries will not give up without a fight. No one expected them to.
This will most likely take years, maybe even decades. But for a long time they had free reign, there was no significant opposition to them. Third world activists were brutally pushed back. NOW there is, in the form of the Global OWS Movement and they are not going away anytime soon. Because the results of the Global Economic Terror is only now manifesting itself in the First World and now there is finally a unified, Global resistance to it, and that resistance is being joined by countries in the Third World who had no real voice until now.
There is no comparison between Abbie Hoffman and OWS. He is a perfect example of what you advocate, someone who put himself out there and as a result became an easy target. A 'leader'. He was successfully marginalized, something they cannot do to OWS.
You should read up on the history behind the strategy of 'Leaderless' NOT 'Anonymous' movements. You seem to be confusing the two.