Liberty Square has been reoccupied! This is a picture from tonight’s General Assembly.
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Noam Chomsky has advice for the Occupy movement, whose encampments all over the country are being swept away by police. The occupations were a “brilliant” idea, he says, but now it’s time to “move on to the next stage” in tactics. He suggests political organizing in the neighborhoods.
The Occupy camps have shown people how “to break out of this conception that we’re isolated.” But “just occupying” has “lived its life,” says the man who is the most revered radical critic of American politics and capitalist economics.
Chomsky gave his counsel answering questions in a small group after a speech Monday evening, December 12, in the 1000-seat Westbrook Middle School auditorium (a/k/a Westbrook Performing Arts Center), which was filled to capacity. The speech was sponsored by the University of New England’s Center for Global Humanities.
The Occupy movement’s repression, which Chomsky decried, has a saving grace, he said: the opportunity for it to expand more into “the 99 percent” by engaging people “face to face.”
“Don’t be obsessed with tactics but with purpose,” he suggested. “Tactics have a half life.”
ws-1212-1 by stanleyrogouski on Flickr.
Via Flickr:
Occupy Wall Street demonstrator pushed down the stairs of Winter Garden by Police Officer with concealed face and badge number.see the last two posts as well. still want to tell me that they are the 99%?
I can’t believe that a bigger deal isn’t being made of this bullshit about cops covering up their badges. This is our country. You know, the one with “freedom and justice for all”? Right.
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I think the beginning is near. And it’s exciting!
It looks like there were more than 10,000 people in Foley Square this evening. That’s amazing.
We are the 99% and we’ll no longer be ignored.
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Just gonna post this for the billionth time for morons complaining about OWS “disrupting workflow.”
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