Paul Rogat Loeb

Society

From Occupy Wall Street to Occupy your street

The movement and its allies now need to keep spreading this message to that majority of Americans who are sympathetic but have given up on the possibility of change. It needs to make the physical occupations not just ends in themselves, but bases where more and more people can participate, and find ways to publicly act. To find continuing ways for people to act without dissipating their energy in an array of fragmented efforts. And, although some participants would disagree, to become part of a broader movement that without muting its voice help bring about a better electoral outcome in 2012 than the disaster of 2010, when corporate interests prevailed again and again because those who would have rejected their lies stayed home.

November 21, 2011

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