For those of you expecting a treatise on the perfect Progressive Reform candidate, you'll just have to wait. Sorry, but I'm a little "occupied" tonight.
In just 27 days, a small group of people got together after linking up through social media, the crown jewel of the Shiny Objects Distraction Program, and today it goes global. Yes, global. Demonstrations are to be held all over Europe tomorrow, as well as the Middle East (I hear) in solidarity with the Occupy Wall Street movement. I'm freaking stunned.
Stunned that it has caught on so quickly and so well. And for all the talk of their lack of organization, they sure seem to have a pretty clear understanding of how to protest peacefully. I find it amusing that the media is fond of calling them (us) "hippies" both derisively and even fondly sometimes. And these "hippies" are confronted in Denver with police in full riot gear against a few dozen unarmed, peaceful, citizens. Irony? If that cop hadn't shot the pepper spray at the four girls, this probably would have been over with by now.
More than 1100 cities and towns have Occupy demonstrations going on. Eleven Hundred communities. In 27 days. 951 cities around the world are expected to participate today. Already underway in Japan, Korea, Australia, and the Taiwan. According to MSNBC.com there are about 2000 in Sydney right now. More than 2000 protests worldwide with essentially the same message.
We need a fundamental global paradigm overhaul because what's been isn't what needs to be. Democracy only works when the People are the voice. And no, Virginia, corporations are not people. This democracy is ours as bequeathed to us by the Founders and Framers. We have let it be taken over and as other countries around the world struggle get their democracies functioning, we may yet be able to show them how it's done.
We have an election coming up, and I say it's time for a completely new way of doing things. And to do that, we're gonna need a bunch of new people to do it. The perfect candidate on the next post.
(Circumstances prevented me going up to LA this week, but I am going and sooner rather than later).
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