US Capitol January 17, be there or be square!
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Submitted by DCblogger on Mon, 01/02/2012 - 12:59pm
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Occupy Congress - U.S. Capitol - January 17
I'm telling you now, it's coming! People are starting to become furious that we have in effect lost our representative democracy. It's time for a revolution. Not a physical one, but a political one. A revolution that turns over the establishment's apple cart, challenges this corrupt system and brings back our democracy. Get ready for 2012.
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We never had representative democracy
in the Federal government and maybe shouldn't. No person can really represent another, said Edward Carpenter. (Early lefty). And this nation is way too big to govern from a far. Better to Occupy Everywhere! And form co-operatives.
I am trying to do a crash course in the different forms of anarchism and the main tenets of each i.e. libertarian communism, green libertarianism, anarcho syndicalism , etc.
Looks like they all believe that "mutual helpfulness and trust underlie our social life". That's what Occupy has shown the world. First identify our values, then figure out how to get there.
Watched Gene Sharp piece on Current TV last night "How to Start a Revolution". And before that watched a documentary on Occupy Wall Street.
Yes, "Camera.... Action....
Cut to the revolution!"
“mutual helpfulness and trust underlie our social life”
David Graeber, the “anarchist anthropologist,” with Debt: The First 5000 Years and his involvement in Occupy, seems to be single-handedly propagating the idea that “we're all communists” most of the time—where “communism” means from each according to his ability to each according to his needs. (You can see his thoughts in this paper "On the Moral Grounds of Economics"; you don't have to read Debt.)
It's fascinating because it strikes at the heart of the assumptions of not only economics but what human beings are and how societies are ordered. It elevates human behavior above economic self-interest (Homo economicus) and even reciprocity (Homo reciprocans) to something else (Homo altruans reciprocans), perhaps even to the level of rats.
I leave two weeks from today for DC.....
Riverdaughter (from The Confluence) is also going to Occupy Congress.
We would LOVE to have lots of you there, too!
Occupy Everywhere!
Is that you Marsha?
I am so excited! I have a ticket for the Trenton bus and I can't wait to meet all of you. Let's have a sleepover and paint each other's nails.
It's me!
And I am also extremely excited about this event. I'm going to send you an e-mail in a little while to coordinate things.
Oh, Goody!
It's going to be so much fun.
Put me on that list, would you?
Now I can travel if I have a place to crash, and there must be one.
I'll paint my own nails, however, thank you very much.
Expect an e-mail!
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Ok, but I get the left side of the bed
Partay!
Tomorrow Night
It's going to be really interesting to see the results of the Iowa caucuses - I read that if Paul wins it is going to set off shock waves in the MSM. Good!!! We need to shake the tree really hard and watch all the yes-men fall to the ground, where we can stomp on them.
Wouldn't get your hopes up about a Paul win
the media really pounded him and that sort of thing has an effect. As for meeting in DC, you just cannot do better than the Luce Center, on the third floor of the National Portrait Museum
http://americanart.si.edu/luce/
Most gorgeous meeting room ever, complete with free wifi.