NP - OWS is Winning

[Ian Livingston]

> Just sayin' that standing up doesn't make you
> right and (hopefully) doesn't automatically give you power.
>
> That the occupancy movement has generally been peaceful in most locations is
> to the credit of the countries in which it has mushroomed.  In countries
> where they have been demonstrating against serious repression or incredible
> levels of unemployment, there have been clashes between understandably angry
> mobs, yes mobs, and the armies and the police.

Right, and then, Henry, does being among the thus oppressed masses
make them "mobs" deserving of the implied derision of the term? That
they stand against their oppressors and the oppressors' thugs even
come push to shove does not cheapen their intent any more than it did
the progressive movements of the 60s and 70s. All of these movements
are composed of individuals at differing stages of development. That
"the People" of so many different calibers agree that the current
regimes must either self-correct or go speaks volumes to the nature of
the problem. And, yes, you can say that the people are the problem if
you refer to overpopulation; but, I do not think the people's response
to oppression is the problem.


On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 12:58 PM, Henry M <scuffling at gmail.com> wrote:
> Miley Cyrus?!  Didn't see any of those thousands of Beck supporters and
> Rally to Restore Sanity attendees who peacefully stood "up for what they
>
> AsB4,
> ٩(●̮̮̃•̃)۶
> Henry Mu
> http://astore.amazon.com/tdcoccamsaxe-20
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 3:23 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Ovs0fpFgeqw#!
>>
>> The new video for Miley Cyrus’s “Liberty Walk” single goes out in
>> support of the Occupy Wall Street movement with clips of protests from
>> all over the world. A caption at the beginning reads “This is
>> dedicated to the thousands of people who are standing up for what they
>> believe in…”
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 1:59 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/11/28/1040514/-Occupy-protests-invade-GOP-primary?detail=hide&via=blog_1
>> >
>> > Over the weekend, the wingnut (but influential, supposedly) Union
>> > Leader in New Hampshire endorsed Newt Gingrich. The publisher
>> > explained their decision to Fox News:
>> >
>> > "I think — and this is crazy, but so are we — that Gingrich is going
>> > to have a better time in the general election than Mitt Romney,” said
>> > McQuaid. “I think it’s going to be Obama’s 99% versus the 1%, and
>> > Romney sort of represents the 1%.”
>> >
>> > This is a tacit confession that the Occupy message is working.
>> >
>
>



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"Less than any man have I  excuse for prejudice; and I feel for all
creeds the warm sympathy of one who has come to learn that even the
trust in reason is a precarious faith, and that we are all fragments
of darkness groping for the sun. I know no more about the ultimates
than the simplest urchin in the streets." -- Will Durant