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Local activists are on their own. Clearly defined goals are needed. Some are articulated, many aren't, and key ones aren't mentioned.
Most important is understanding that money power in private hands is public enemy number one. Returning it to public hands is crucial. Achieving other goals depends on it.
Privatized money control and democracy can't co-exist. Wall Street crooks transformed America into an unprecedented money making racket. Ordinary Americans lost savings, jobs, homes and futures to let privileged elites get richer and more powerful.
Washington is Wall Street occupied territory. Profits are privatized. Losses are socialized. American households are on their own sink or swim. Class war rages. Billionaire Warren Buffet said his side's winning.
Social justice is on the chopping block for elimination. The criminal class in Washington is bipartisan. Complicit with business, they've wrecked the economy and working households for profit. America's resources are earmarked for militarism, imperial wars, banks and other corporate favorites.
Institutionalized inequality is policy. People needs no longer matter. Obama's National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform (NCFRF) recommended deep social spending cuts.
Post-election, they're coming. At the same time, expect more corporate tax cuts. OWS protesters must rally around Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, universal healthcare, creating jobs, ending imperial wars and corporate bailouts, directing America's resources to public needs, making rich elites pay their fair share, and other specific social justice issues.
Workers and those wanting jobs must get involved. Raising the right issues will draw them. Enlisting others to join them is crucial. Strategy entails challenging authority.
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