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'Occupy Sacramento' blasts City Council
by Ed Fogle, published on November 3, 2011 at 12:24 AM
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'Occupy Sacramento' blasts City Council during the public forum of the Tuesday, November 1, 2011 meeting.
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Bottom line: People are no longer willing to tolerate the abusive growth of others. There are those who lack the power and have been supporting the growth of the abusers and received very little in return. And those that are being abused are now occupying the streets and rightfully displaying their dissatisfaction.
To me that's a good thing. "The best in art and life comes from a center- something urgent and powerful, an idea or emotion that insists on its being. From that insistence, a shape emerges and creates its structure out of passion. If you begin with a structure, you have to make up the passion, and that's very hard to do." Roger Rosenblatt
We have already seen that movie.. It starred Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge and ended rather badly.
Really, how can any serious movement allow someone to walk aroud with a "Class Warfare" banner? Reverend MLK would have punched guys like that in the nose and told them to never come back.
Dr King and Malcolm X didn't always agree on techniques... but no punches were exchanged. They both agreed change was possible. Just because someone (or a few) held a black class Warfare banner doesn't mean it's a reflection of the entire group. Heck and even Malcolm started in one direction and towards the end of his life he was addressing it differently. Not to mention Yin/ Yang positive force; negative force both are needed for change.
I attend many group forums we don't always agree with one another on how to get from point A to point B and some have their own agenda but we agree on the cause we're addressing.
Almost a month ago Occupy Sacramento published the declaration of intent.
http://occupysac.com/?p=292
I read this with interest in what they would do next. But in reality the last month has been a waste, as Occupy Sacramento has marched around in circles against non-union hotel maids, against Sac City park ordinances, and even up to the state capital for reasons still unknown.
Occupy Sacramento could quell a lot of this "discredit" by picking up their MacBook Air and agreeing on the follow-up to their declaration of intent, and then agreeing on specific directions of pursuit. Name candidates you support (or oppose), laws you want written (or overturned). Name criminals on Wall Street and demand their prosecution. Tell us how much you think rich people should be taxed, or if the rich should be banished to a leper island.
Not everybody will agree of course, probably not me. But at some point please lay your cards on the table and stop complaining about park ordinances.