The climate change movement has gone nowhere overall. The climate continues to degrade from all sorts of assaults on it by the corpocracy.
The anti homophobic movement seems to have been successful, but for a small proportion of the overall US population.
The "occupy" movement was mostly sound and little fury. Leaderless, poorly organized, underfunded, and internally contentious the movement fizzled as I predicted it would. It did get the attention of the corpocracy, which responded by strengthening the police state.
An exceptional movement that deserves mention is the one mobilized to stop and apparently has stopped Congressional ratification of the Trans-Pacific Partnership or TPP.16 It sounds benign but it is a wolf in sheep's clothing as it would enhance corporate globalization and control over nominally sovereign governments. The victory needs to be qualified, however. Corporate America has fared very well without the TPP because of lax government regulations, NAFTA and the like. Stopping TPP, therefore, does not stop America's corpocracy.
Anti corpocracy movements are likely to fail in general because of the corpocracy's super power to rebound an retaliate, and particularly if movements are poorly organized, poorly mobilized and are issue specific, as was the albeit successful TPP movement, and thus do not form a coalition of coordinated movements targeting all parts of America's corpocracy, the overarching, umbrella issue. It needs to be the unifying target if there is to be any chance for an anti corpocracy movement to succeed in changing America's corpocracy into a full-fledged democracy, the ultimate goal of any serious and comprehensive challenge to America's corpocracy.
The apparent certainty of the corpocracy's supremacy is why I proposed several years ago and tried to implement what I named "two-fisted democracy power," with one fist being a coalition of numerous segments of our society (e.g., existing grass-roots movements) to provide the political pressure behind a coordinated plan of strategic reforms to be carried out by the other fist, a US Chamber of Democracy, an on-line network of numerous NGOs that claim to be seeking to change the status quo but are not united in their efforts and clearly are not changing the status quo. I contacted 176 NGOs, most of them twice or more with follow-up reminders. Only five endorsed the idea. I belatedly realized that America's NGOs had been co-opted by the corpocracy.17
Petitions, Internet Activism, and Protests
Petitions, Internet activism, and protests are a dime a dozen and basically worthless, including my own petitions and Internet activism.
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