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In reply to the discussion: Zuccotti Park has been re-occupied [View all]marions ghost
(19,841 posts)& "we need something to mobilize the top half of the country." But these days everybody is up against it--even people who are doing somewhat OK are treading water. Everybody is too afraid of rocking the boat. Everybody knows things are fragile. (This reaction is the cowardice of the downtrodden). I agree it's time to mobilize though, or things will just get worse.
Any kind of violence will never solve anything and only gives them the excuse to further marginalize us. There has got to be a revolution from within, but non-violently is the only way. Many of us who have come to the end of putting up with it day in & day out do feel angry enough to storm the barricades. But that is not the right way to do it. We want to be visible and heard, not eliminated. We need to be a constant presence wearing them down with reason, persistence, and the force of a higher morality than they practice. Take a page from MLK's book.
So what do we do? Support any efforts to peacefully protest and practice civil disobedience. Use the internet. Network. Stop nitpicking about OWS or any other group that has our basic liberal POV. Support organizations that are working and speaking for us. Get involved and do whatever you can. Nothing is too small. Just don't do nothing. We need everyone to take a stand one way or the other.