I scroll down a few more emails, David Swanson reports that an occupy the senate action yesterday kept senators and their staff from working for several hours and kept visitors from entering the building. I'm not sure how much efforts will be directed to legislators though. Most of the people at the Occupy locales are sick and tired of the failure of elected legislators to represent them, instead protecting the interests of the big corporations. Even Swanson has written about extra-legislative activism, which is where I think most of the Occupy energy and power will be focused.
Others, like former health Care PR exec Wendell Potter, are calling for occupy health insurer actions.
The ideas are going to be coming fast and furious and there are plenty of angry, unemployed students and workers who have the time to engage in "direct actions," what are becoming a key factor in the occupy movement.
The occupy movement isn't even fully out of the birth canal. For banksters and plutocrats and people who defend the corporations that have infested and corrupted government for and by the people, the Occupy/OWS movement should be looked at as a dangerous monster, far more dangerous than they've so far imagined. But it is too late to put it back in the bottle. What started with a self immolated Tunisian who was abused one time too many, and with Egyptians who had thirty years too many of demagoguery has become a world-wide awakening that will do a lot more than just shake the world.
occupier at Occupy Wall Street, NYC photo by Rob Kall
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