NP - OWS is Winning

[Henry M]

That OWS is a mob (a large or disorderly crowd of people) did not detract
from the message going into month two of the occupancies.  That it never
became more than a mob, and has not since developed new ends or means (with
the exception mic-checking) has.

There is no comparison with the sixties.  There is no draft.  There is no
carpet-bombing.  And in the sixties, we expected to be arrested when we
broke the law.  I'm down with the goals that came out of OWS; out of the
mouths of babes, and all that, but OWS has been seen, and there is now very
little worth hearing.

AsB4,
٩(●̮̮̃•̃)۶
Henry Mu
http://astore.amazon.com/tdcoccamsaxe-20


On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 4:12 PM, Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com>wrote:

> > 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.
> >> >
> >
> >
>
>
>
> --
> "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
>
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