Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Occupy Wall St. and evictions

I posted the following on a Coffee Party Facebook item encouraging people to decry the eviction of OWS from encampments on public spaces.

Consider that OWS has behaved just like corporate America; they have taken over public space for their private interests. It doesn't matter if OWS thinks it represents the 99% or not; it is the few who are making it difficult for others to use public space.

A much better tactic would be to have demonstrations all over town at rush hour and at noon. When I stood with about 100 others at a busy corner in Duluth, we got lots of friendly honks.

Then the action (or inaction) moved to the Civic Center that does not see as much traffic and that busy corner only had one or two people.

A second thing to do is to encourage people to vote, either actively with registration or indirectly by reminding people again and again to vote. Let's stop government by 51% of the less than 60%.