"[O]ccupy
Wall Street has been criticized for not having a program or a blueprint for change. yet, that
perceived weakness might be its greatest strength.
"When you enunciate a complicated charter, you lose supporters and give others issues to
disagree over. You end up having your own supporters
debating the fine points
of each issue and risk becoming factionalized."
I have
extracted from the book our bulleted list--forgive the many repetitions, but
here it is:
*occupying Wall Street, challenging the power of its economic power ;
*campaign against inequality;
*the issues of joblessness and economic inequality gets on the agenda of media and political institutions;
*an occupation to
challenge the money state;
*to build a community of the dispossessed and discontented;
*opposing rampant financial fraud;
*income inequality, money in politics and Wall Street's influence;
*the loss of jobs, pensions
and homes;
*political disenfranchisement
and social and economic injustice;
and finally,
*mounting inequality, against joblessness and insecurity, against obscene levels of student debt, against anti-labor employers, against police brutality, against foreclosures, evictions, and the lack of healthcare.
I tried to distill this all into a small paragraph:
"Our goal is for
that percentage divide to narrow instead of become exponential as we are forced
to define "tycoons" as "the one percent of the one percent, etc." as does Paul
Krugman, among others."
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