Occupy Nation: Let's take back the country — starting now, by planning a tour to occupy the country
Source: San Francisco Bay Guardian
... We chronicled and actively supported the Occupy movement from its early days through its repeated expulsions from public plazas by police, particularly in San Francisco, Oakland, and Berkeley. We supported the right of the protesters to remain — even as we understood they couldn't and shouldn't simply stay forever. Occupy needed to evolve if it was to hold the public's interest. The movement would ultimately morph into something else.
That time has come. This spring, Occupy is poised to return as a mass movement — and there's no shortage of energy or ideas about what comes next. Countless activists have proposed occupying foreclosed homes, shutting down ports and blocking business in bank lobbies. Those all have merit. But if the movement is going to challenge the hegemony of the 1 percent, it will involve moving onto a larger stage and coming together around bold ideas — like a national convention in Washington, D.C. to write new rules for the nation's political and economic systems.
... If the date is right and the organizing effort is effective, there's no reason that Occupy couldn't get close to a million people into the nation's capital for an economic justice march and rally.
That, combined with teach-ins, events and days of action across the country, could kick off a new stage of a movement that has the greatest potential in a generation or more to change the direction of American politics.
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