Live or Die?

Occupy is a movement that I think everyone has heard of by now. But it is losing support across the US. People are not satisfied with where this movement is headed. So will it be strong like “The Civil Rights Movement” or will it crash and burn like “The Tea Party?” Obviously, only time will tell.

I think that this movement has the ability to be the movement of our time; The movement that creates real change. People are angry and for the first time in my life, they are trying to do something about it. The people of the movement continue to say there is not a leader and it is not political, but damn it, why the hell not? I think the time has come for some leaders to emerge. We need some people who can articulate what we want and can be spokesmen to the rest of the country on how we plan to get it. Each city that is occupying is meeting every weekend for a general assembly. But what is so wrong with having that every Saturday, then having the spokesmen from each of the cities meet or speak on the phone on Sunday and figure out what they want to do.

 I think we need to get people on the inside of congress to get real change as well as continue the fight from the streets. We don’t have the leaders in congress who listen to us; they only listen to their wallet. As much as we may want to avoid playing their game, we may have to. People don’t listen to a guy who sleeps in a tent, they listen to the figure on TV. We need some people who stand with us to get in there and fight. Because if that doesn’t happen, I believe this movement will die. Without fighting the political battle, all we will accomplish is breaking into smaller fundraising and activist groups and fight the small battles. We need to act now. We need people on the ballot for 2012 that are sick of the status quo. We need people who think like we do. People who are the 99% and fight for the 99%. It is time to fight the big battle. The war was waged on us, and it’s time for us to win!