"Al Sharpton is the point man for the strategy to keep African Americans in the Democratic fold for the only purposes the party has for them: the 2012 vote."
Veteran journalist Danny Schecter reported that Occupy Wall Street "has now endorsed" the October 15 march. That's apparently a misunderstanding. ALF-CIO chief Richard Trumka visited Manhattan's Zuccotti Park, endorsed the occupation, and asked for an endorsement of the Washington march. But OWS spokespersons insist they did not, and would not, endorse any event, because their platform prohibits it, although expressions of solidarity are allowed. Other key activists tell us there was never any question of endorsing the march for Obama's bill. But Democrats and their operatives may have gone away thinking they had a deal. They'll be back, over and over again.
As we said at the beginning, the Occupy Wall Street movement's contribution to human welfare to date has been to call out the enemy's name and address: finance capital, Wall Street. In time, substantive policy positions will emerge from the laborious process to which the demonstrators are wedded, and new forces and coalitions will appear. But the essence of the movement requires that there be no compromise on the necessity to remove finance capital from the commanding heights of U.S. politics. Absent that fundamental focus, all coherence vanishes. Any collaboration with Obama and his corporate Democrats means the instantaneous death of the movement -- and rightly so.
Ultimately, finance capital must be utterly destroyed, or it will kill us all. But that's a truth that will be learned in struggle, once joined.
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