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Occupy Underground

Joe Shlabotnik

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3. Occupying was just a tactic.

Reply to Oscarmonster13 (Reply #1)

Sun Dec 1, 2013, 03:57 PM

Dec 2013

A very successful tactic, in the opening salvo of whats to come. It created awareness that the 1% are not like us, and we will never be like them.

Now, the next and more difficult step, as you mention, is for people to rethink the significance of institutions such as of our jobs, debt, consumerism, representation and governance, environmental sustainability etc. But before people can band together to change that, they must first change within. "Liberators do not exist. The people liberate themselves" - Che

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First they came for the Sink [View all] Joe Shlabotnik Dec 2013 OP

wow 2011, it's been 2 years? Oscarmonster13 Dec 2013 #1

Occupying was just a tactic. Joe Shlabotnik Dec 2013 #3

agreed Oscarmonster13 Dec 2013 #6

I remember! We had some DU threads, including some poetry... pinboy3niner Dec 2013 #2

. Joe Shlabotnik Dec 2013 #4

Who could forget "The bathtub ratted him out"? pinboy3niner Dec 2013 #5

Remember the Sink! warrprayer Dec 2013 #7