We've still got a long way to go. It doesn't matter what the movement is called, as long as people are still out in the streets protesting and organizing. It's easy to beat down an encampment, but it's not so easy to beat down revolutionary thought, even with all the propaganda we're fed every day by the corporate media.
It is actually kind of funny. Some people thinks it's revolutionary to expect representative democracy, progressive taxation, aid for the poor, affordable education, and single payer health care from our government.
Of course, these aren't really revolutionary ideas at all. You shouldn't have to be dubbed a radical if you choose to push for any and/or all of the above.
But here we are. Bishops are being arrested for protesting the wars and social injustice, retired officers are going to jail because they think the system has been so deeply corrupted, veterans are coming home from the war only to be be permanently brain-damaged and beaten by local police forces, and 700 peaceful protesters are arrested in one day for marching in opposition to America's evergrowing income disparity gap.
Or were you being sarcastic? Because if you were I have a laundry list of cause and effect Occupy stories for you that don't even include the generally accepted truism: "OWS changed the national dialogue."
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Of course, these aren't really revolutionary ideas at all. You shouldn't have to be dubbed a radical if you choose to push for any and/or all of the above.
But here we are. Bishops are being arrested for protesting the wars and social injustice, retired officers are going to jail because they think the system has been so deeply corrupted, veterans are coming home from the war only to be be permanently brain-damaged and beaten by local police forces, and 700 peaceful protesters are arrested in one day for marching in opposition to America's evergrowing income disparity gap.
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Since the effect of OWS can be summed up as "being loud and annoying," I guess you spamming up my inbox = you keeping up the spirit of the "movement"
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God, I hate the fact that I couldn't be in NYC today.
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