13-03-2012, 09:55 AM
Magda Hassan Wrote:Peter Lemkin Wrote:10 "Occupy" Candidates Running for Congress
Meet the progressive insurgents who are riding a wave of energy from the Occupy Wall Street movement.
This is great news. Protests and marches certainly have their place but nothing beats getting one's hands on the machinery of state. Especially in the US where there still exists a means of doing so. I often wonder why more don't do it at the local level and control the party. The Christian lobby have done this really well for their own ends. Progressives need to do this too.
In the end, there will be many more and many politicians will be forced to 'side' with OWS positions and issues. What I'd like to see [in parallel with the OWS Movement ignoring mainstream political discourse and circus] are candidates, like those mentioned above. If we are going to win this WAR we will need both guerrilla fighters and infiltrators. Our US 'system' is so rotten and corrupt I believe it is beyond reform. It can only be scrapped and a new system built to replace it; however, again, this needs to be done both from inside and outside in coordination IMHO.
"Let me issue and control a nation's money and I care not who writes the laws. - Mayer Rothschild
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass