"Power concedes nothing "

[nadinbrzezinski]

I want you to remember this famous line from Frederick Douglass. Whatever your view is of OWS, the fact that media has concentrated, understandably given who they serve, on the violence and not a successful general strike...should tell you one thing...OWS is now perceived as a real threat.

I'd like you to pay attention as how the powerful will try to redirect the conversation from dirty hippies to commies and anarchists. I swear, my calendar does not read 1888 but some things never change.

[MedleyMisty]

1. I also recommend reading Douglas

My Bondage and My Freedom is an amazing book. I tell everybody to read it, and bought my mother her own copy.

Back in February and March, when I first got interested in the Arab Spring and was learning about Egypt and getting really deep into Libya's revolution and checking out some stuff on Syria and learning all about Anonymous, I realized what was going on.

I posted it on my blog, but my friends said I was crazy and stopped talking to me. I took great joy in posting an Oakland general strike poster on my blog and saying "Remember when I said the revolution was coming here and posted a general strike poster in March and you guys said I was crazy?"

This is World War III. It's humans versus corporations.

Might make an OP later stating my case for that, with images from Oakland. The "Don't fuck with Oakland" graffiti on a bank. The giant "Death to Capitalism" banner. The wording of the poster - "Liberate Oakland".

I hope everyone's sending winter supplies to their local Occupy camps, because they're currently the frontline soldiers for us humans and we need to support our troops and keep them well supplied.

[Fire Walk With Me]

2. Definitely deserves an OP!

[RKP5637]

6. Exactly!!! This is World War III. It's humans versus corporations. n/t

[nadinbrzezinski]

7. None likes Cassandra.

Been saying this for a few years.

And great book btw.

[GliderGuider]

10. Please, please do an OP. This is an important meme.

This is World War III. It's humans versus corporations.

[Fire Walk With Me]

12. "This is World War III. It's humans versus corporations." Reminds me of this album cover:

[Fire Walk With Me]

3. K&R

[Taverner]

4. Emma Goldman would be proud!

[Uncle Joe]

5. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, nadinbrzezinski.

[kentuck]

8. Amen to that..

:fistbump:

[GliderGuider]

9. Can you feel it growing? There's nothing in the world more powerful than idea whose time has come.

:thumbsup: :toast: :fistbump: :thumbsup::woohoo:

[nadinbrzezinski]

11. I know it is

I also know the violence will increase, as well as fear tactics. It's the arc we are in.

No, not our violence, for the record.

[nadinbrzezinski]

13. Kick