Thursday, November 17, 2011

What should Occupy Wall Street's next move be?

What should Occupy Wall Street's next move be?

FROM CNN's Jack Cafferty:
As Occupy Wall Street marks two months of protests, there are questions about exactly what the activists want and more importantly, how they plan to get it.
Patience is wearing thin in cities around the country as officials begin to move against the demonstrators in places such as New York; Oakland and Berkeley, California; Portland, Oregon; and Salt Lake City.
While getting an "A" for perseverance, the occupiers' tent cities are starting to get on people's nerves, which is part of the idea. But some of the tent cities have spawned drugs, crime and violence, things that are not conducive to generating sympathy for their cause.
And speaking of their cause, what exactly is it? With the protesters so widely dispersed, you have to wonder how focused and concentrated their message is. After two months, a lot of us remain unsure of what exactly the message is. More is needed than a vague complaint against corporate greed if they are to remain relevant.
That brings us to something else the movement has been lacking so far: Leaders. Putting a head on this group would perhaps allow them to crystallize their message a little more.
Finally you could make a very strong argument that the major source of our country's problems is Washington. So why are these folks content to wander around places such as New York, Denver, Seattle, Oakland and other places outside the real scene of the crimes.
If you want to fight a fire, you have to go to where the fire is.
Here’s my question to you: What should Occupy Wall Street's next move be?
Tune in to the Situation Room at 4pm to see if Jack reads your answer on air.
And, we love to know where you’re writing from, so please include your city and state with your comment.

Blogger comment:
Both parties will try to hijack the movement now to benefit itself from the next elections. Though the message was mainly that about how the poor paid the rich in wall street take over our money. It should not stop short of writing down our main concerns about our future in America and the future of the world in general. Many of the public including me do not trust a multi-millionaire politician to look after us. That is why our revolt should be against all the politicians. As regular guys many of them are nice and dissent but they are surly not working for us. They working for the interest group and rich mainly. In the time left they fight between themselves. We should not use any violence we are not dealing with the dictators of the Middle East we are working against politicians that did not lift us but let us drown. Thus the movement has to do the following:
1- Stay strong and united, angry but not violent. As we know Americans they stand with the underdog if you become violent you loose and if they become violent they loose.
2- It is not about only fixing the wall street and banking system but about many of our grave problems. Including the health care of uninsured, the absence of good health plan and retirement plan to all Americans.
3- like Jack mentioned the right place to go is Washington. I agree with that but you have to show up in all the states.
4- You need to make leaders among yourselves and you have to believe you still the leaders since you will ask them what to do. You will not give a ride again to Obama and then he dump you after he got in his glorious White House.
5- Make it simple we need to achieve 1 to 6 points and we are not letting politicians brush us off that they will do that in next election.
6- It is very likely it will get confrontational but not violent. They will ask you to go home but you will live poor and die poor if you do that and forget about your future. Stay longer and try to get more of the corporate media to get into your side. They call it the attraction force of the winners. If people found out you are on the message and you are growing, clear and united and make a lot of sense they will feel you are winning and stand with you. Do you remember how USA was reluctant to stand with the Arab revolutions and when America felt the people are determined and going to win they stood with them.
7- I have inspired the Arab revolutions and people followed me and won. I do not care if people see me or not my aim is to get the oppressed and poor to stand up and change his destiny. I could be a man or non-human I could be just an Idea. You can not kill an idea.

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