This needs to be peaceful. To be taken seriously, the violence needs to end. Allowing the violence to be tied to the occupy movement will only harm the cause. So If you can’t keep the peace, don’t go. You can always stay home and write emails to people to spread the word.
Also, we can not allow people to be violent. So take the power into your own hands, if you see someone destroying property, take pictures, or even video. They need to reported, and they need to be kept out of the group. If they won’t stay peaceful, then the peaceful ones need to go a different way.
This movement CAN NOT afford to allow the violence to be tied to it. So do your part to keep it peaceful. If you truly want this movement to go anywhere then we must all keep this peace one way or another.
I don’t know if anyone is actually reading this, but if so please spread the word to report the rogue individuals responsible for the anarchy.
If there ARE “marginalized voices who feel the same way” mightn’t they be afraid to bring this up? Who wants to be labeled a “snitch”? How do you know who is or isn’t marginalized at a setting like GA?
btw, it’s today @7pm.
Will you be here at the GA downtown to discuss this as a potential response to situations of violence? I’d be curious to see if there are marginalized voices who feel the same way.
Hey Matthawk,
This is actually just a sounding board. You should go to one of the GAs or a strategies open mic in the plaza to express yourself and see if you can garner support for your viewpoint.
Although, I do believe that it’s an official opinion of Occupy Oakland that we’re not recognizing the OPD as a productive avenue for justice because of the fact that they’ve injured and attacked, not only peaceful crowds, but the occupy protesters while they were sleeping. From the last strategy open mic I went to, it appeared that there’s general consensus in that regard, at least for the people who show up.
Because this is direct action, rather than representative politics, if you are not present to represent the methods, views, and strategies that you espouse, they just won’t come up in the discussion to be considered.
Why the mask in your avatar?
The reason folks believe these claims, is because most are truer then you want to admit. The American people as a whole are not stupid. If it walks like a duck, quakes like a duck. Pretty darn good chance you are looking at a duck. One could reach this very conclusion about this movement from reading many of the post on this forum.
This violence has already harmed public view. Media shills, like Glenn Beck have been predicting this would start to turn violent at the hand of Marxist aggression. Now this has proven right, as far as many Americans go. This may not be so, but this doesnt matter, because the average ignorant American, goes by what the media tells them. You all are being labeled nothing but Communists, Marxists and Anarchists, out for free hand outs and even bigger government, backed by the whims of Soros. It is hard for even me to believe that Americans can be such ignorant fools, but aparently we are.
Report the violence.
This needs to be taken seriously.. Report the violence! Don’t be a part of it.