OCCUPY WALL STREET

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Originally Posted by SoNotHer

While I understand the operatic appeal of this, I don't know that I believe that most parade watchers are really interested in reevaluating their political ideologies. I think they just want to see a parade. It also occurs to me that at some point I would like to see an America more focused on substance than fluff. I'm not sure that making your presence known and shown at the latter is very effective.

Occupying homes about to be foreclosed and small stores on the brink of bankruptcy and frankly small farms that are struggling to survive makes more sense to me. Two things I would like to see OWS be more prominently -

1) The best of America through volunteerism, activism and civil change.

2) The next of America through exactly the same.

I volunteered in DC with a queer group called Burgundy Crescent which matched queer-identified volunteers with a wide variety of volunteer projects within and outside our community. I never regretted a single experience, and I thought we do more good work and fostered more goodwill than anything I had ever participated in.

I think OWS could do the same and create goodwill and effect real change by ensuring that people stay in their homes, their businesses and on their farms. This kind of action is immediate, positive and effective. What do you think?

I agree with you!
I am glad that the actions of the autumn got the public's attention, but I believe that the changes we all need will only come from a MOVEMENT, and that takes a lot of community relationships. I think these modern times are being propelled by sound bite and spectacle, but I have been part of successful community organizing, and it took a lot of time, long conversations, and visible and invisible commitment to the long term.
Kind of like any healthy relationship.

I am happy to see the actions against foreclosures and in support of small businesses and farms. I think they will prove successful tactics.