OWS PR working group statement on the 99% Declaration

[Leopolds Ghost]

1. It's a shame, because...

As an anti-authoritarian of sorts myself, I can see the potential in a National Congress for redress of grievances so long as it is truly representative of both Occupy and the public, but the way they are going about it is not representative of Occupy and is too similar to the existing problems with our representative elected officials to be a serious threat to any system other than Occupy itself. A truly representative Congress for petition to redress grievances would be a spokescouncil from the bottom up, not elected in a black box election by a privately owned nonprofit to conform to the existing gerrymandered congressional districts (which, by the way, are totally undemocratic since each congressional district represents like 10 times as many people as it did in the 1700s) -- but this raises another issue -- it seems to me that our local elected officials, even small time neighborhood aldermen, are also completely unresponsive to the will of the people and only listen to their friends and financiers. Is there any way a town hall structure, like in New England or a caucus, can result in delegates who actually represent anypony? Caucuses, if done by consensus of some sort, would seem more in keeping with the structure of Occupy.