The only problem I ever had with the Occupy Movement is that they were blaming the 1% for things the 99% are doing. Take Steemit for example - people are Volunteering to use Facebook and other platforms that keep 1%'ers wealthy; rather than tap into streams like these where we have a chance to Distribute money better ....
People do not support their friends' business ventures --
People do not get together with friends to discuss business ideas, or purchasing real estate, or even investing in Cryptocurrencies.
But people will turn around and blame those 1%'ers for not giving them more money??? For not making health care a better option for more people?? Well why would they when our society puts NO Pressure on them to change, or improve??
We saw just how much of a threat to society it was for these people simply to assemble; But they stopped?
Why? -- and there in lies the entire problem. Society itself is made up of too many people who seemingly Do not have what it takes, to go up against Systematic levels of Oppression; and in fact often society participates in the very issues we 'should' be against.
Good point on not practicing what you preach but it's kind of a generalization, I think the people who were deeply involved avoid McDonald's and support local business.
I have always wondered why there hasn't been more of an effort to rekindle the flame, but I think going underground might have been a better decision in the long run.
You're right about that as well; While in the public limelight too many opportunities for greed emerge; I.E. an issue within the 'black lives matter' organization; which isn't all that organized; there are several people who use it as a great way to collect a check for photo opps; while they get absolutely nothing done; and accomplish no progress at all.
A lot of the people who "represent" black lives matter seem like a fringe of the movement who make them look a lot more wacky than they are, it's a pretty common tactic from the media. So this may be why we don't see ows2.0 but I think if you seek it out you find the movement lives on today, however fragmented
Please give me a specific example of a person who represents black lives matter, that makes them look like a Fringe of the Movement; also if you don't mind explain how someone you label as a 'fringe of the movement' - can also make the movement look wacky; when they are clearly not part of the movement (by definition that's what fringe means) ---
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I can't give specific examples. I don't know of anyone who was supposed to represents the movement, from what I know it was a decentralized movement like ows. But the media often doesn't know how to comprehend something that doesn't have a leader so they create leaders or heros to interview. I was not in the US st the time so it's hard for me to figure out exactly what was happening....But the few times I saw it on mainstream news, it seemed to be represented very differently from what I was seeing on Facebook, which isn't surprising. I just remember some white people who are a bit culturally isolated talking how nuts the movement was always referring to really overly dramatic instances, videos of people from the movement making really ridiculous remarks and such to defend or explain the movement...meanwhile the friends who were part of the movement posted stuff that seemed really balance and justified. This seems to happen to every movement. The media and even social media find ways to make it look nuts.
It's kind of like how he media will make you think anarchists are all violent when in fact many of them are community driven peaceful people....represented as being more fringe than it is.
I can't say that I was 100% behind everything OWS was doing, hell, they used Deutsche Bank's lobby as meeting space, a slight conflict of interest. It is near impossible to keep a protest movement when TPTB have decided to systematically remove it. They will attack from every direction. Society ends up backing the oppressors.