Prediction: The May 1st "general strike" is going to be an enormous flop.

[Ken Burch]

260. You weren't forbidden to individually work for Dems as a member of OWS.

Why is it so important to you to get the ORGANIZATION to endorse Dems? You do realize that that means 99% Spring can't have its own agenda.

You know I'm right, for example, about what formal endorsement of the Democrats would have meant to the early 60's Civil Rights movement. Even with the connections there were to the two things, you ended up with unacceptable practices like Kennedy Administration officials EDITING the speeches given at the March on Washington in '63-edits that made the speeches they were applied to meaningless(they did know better than to do that to MLK, but they did it to others).

Our party doesn't tolerate groups with their own agendas. It should, but it doesn't.

I still remember the humiliation Dennis Kucinich was subjected to at the 2004 Dem convention, when he was required to clear his convention speech with the Kerry campaign...an requirement that meant he wasn't allowed to say anything that mattered.

This is what I DON'T want to happen to the groups fighting for the 99%-any tempering of what those groups are working for ends up being dilution of the agenda into nothing.