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After attending the GA this evening and watching Friday’s on the livestream, following and contributing to the various discussions on the question of whether this is (or should remain) a nonviolent movement, and seeing a lot of strong feelings being voiced but not anything being done about it in a formal way, I decided to draft this proposal. It’s largely a rip-off of a really excellent Greenpeace blog post at http://www.greenpeace.org/canada/en/Blog/choosing-a-diversity-of-nonviolent-tactics/blog/12093/, which contains a lot of great additional information for those who are interested. What I think is important is … Continued

Ugh, not “we are winning.” Shades of Charlie Sheen (“winning“) and George Bush (“mission accomplished!”). It shows a lack of the necessary maturity and equanimity to move the world. The struggle has just begun. And it’s not about winning and losing. 4355

To the admins of the Occupy Oakland site/organizers of Occupy events: I’m a writer and an MFA writing student at California College of the Arts, in Oakland and SF. I’m a resident of Oakland and can’t always participate in the Occupy events because I’m busily working on my thesis, though I am watching the events and reading about them in the news and occasionally stop by Frank Ogawa, in awe of how amazing this is, how powerful this is, and how much we need this. Thank you, Occupiers!! I want … Continued

Yesterday I suggested the movement consider organized bank runs as a non-violent but very effective means of protest against the banks and our would be masters. Today I am seeing evidence that this concept is gaining momentum, but with a twist to simply transfer money from the national banks, to local ones… this will not work! Please understand, the banking system is a huge network. They are all together, supporting each other. If one bank experiences a sudden loss, particularly from bank runs, the rest will support it. Think of … Continued