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ncguy Donating Member (57 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-02-11 09:47 PM
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17. I like their entusiasm
and support their general push, but . . .

If they want any real traction is a world with a short attention span, that needed to be focused into 2 or 3 salient points and a plan of action / demands that would alleviate the problems.

What you have is the limiting effect of a crowd-sourced manifesto. It saps the organization of the power held by a single issue group like the NRA, or the sound-bite worthness of an astro-turf group.
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  -"Declaration of Occupation": Occupy Wall Street movement's statement of purpose. bleever  Oct-02-11 03:11 PM   #0 
  - Fine. Huge job to 'organize' such;  elleng   Oct-02-11 03:21 PM   #1 
  - From the article:  bleever   Oct-02-11 03:25 PM   #2 
     - Thanks  elleng   Oct-02-11 03:31 PM   #3 
  - I suggest that any of us who are activists copy this and fax to CNN -  truedelphi   Oct-02-11 03:33 PM   #4 
  - Also from the article:  bleever   Oct-02-11 03:37 PM   #6 
     - I'm sure the protesters have a purpose in mind  Owlet   Oct-02-11 04:13 PM   #10 
        - But isn't it a travesty that the BIG Shock EVENTS of our times, that have scared us into war,  truedelphi   Oct-03-11 02:00 AM   #22 
  - When the Continental Congress...  Davis_X_Machina   Oct-02-11 03:33 PM   #5 
  - Note to first unrec, and all others to come:  bleever   Oct-02-11 03:45 PM   #7 
  - What you said. +1  WheelWalker   Oct-02-11 03:58 PM   #9 
  - Unrecced for this comment  pintobean   Oct-02-11 08:45 PM   #16 
     - Can you be more specific?  bleever   Oct-03-11 01:10 AM   #20 
  - "no true democracy is attainable when the process is determined by economic power"  Ghost Dog   Oct-02-11 03:45 PM   #8 
  - K&R  jschurchin   Oct-02-11 04:53 PM   #11 
  - Purpose: a simple, short list  JaneQPublic   Oct-02-11 05:08 PM   #12 
  - Those objectives follow neatly from the above declarations.  bleever   Oct-02-11 05:14 PM   #13 
     - Yes, kind of the "sound bite" version. (nt)  JaneQPublic   Oct-02-11 05:17 PM   #14 
  - Nicholas Kristof sees parallels between OWS and Tahrir Square, and suggests objectives:  bleever   Oct-02-11 07:45 PM   #15 
  - In termsof the banking and financial relam, we need to re-impose  truedelphi   Oct-03-11 01:12 AM   #21 
  - I like their entusiasm  ncguy   Oct-02-11 09:47 PM   #17 
  - A fine notification of the problems  Tsiyu   Oct-02-11 10:38 PM   #18 
  - They have also started selling smaller Reese's peanut butter cups.  itsallhappening   Oct-02-11 10:42 PM   #19 
 

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