The establishment and its advocates in talk radio and elsewhere have painted the participants in the “Occupy” movement as a shiftless bunch, unfocused, with no clear purpose or agenda. This video presents a very different picture. It’s by Occupy Santa Fe, from the relatively small community of Santa Fe, New Mexico—but it shows how one dedicated, effective group can start a snowball.
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Non-Partisan Voter Pledge for the 99%. Occupy the Election Process. http://cs2pr.us/Voter_Pledge.html#99% ,
Talk about a bunch of whacked out people
Excellent people! I’ve shared with Occupy Portland!
Don’t forget to count the votes right, none of those electronic untrackable voting machines.
Dynamite!
It’s vital that we do this while there is still time to turn things around.
BRAVO>>>>OCCUPY SANTA FE!!!!
Thank you for all your efforts!
I volunteered to live in Sta. Fe from March to November 1999…..to help facilitate the Maya prophecy of the Eagle meeting the Condor. iIt was initiated by CIEPA, ( Confederation of Elders and Priests in the Americas) notably the late Navajo Elder, Leon Secatero and Jicarilla Apache woman Lorene Willis. I developed white hairs. It was a life changing experience.
Here’s a rhyme I learned from local Tewa and Dine:….Santa Fe is the fantasay of wannabee Indians!!! Hmmmmm.
If in each community, a core dedicated group of 99% folks presents this PLEDGE personally to all candidates, with multi media as witnesses, it could work.
HOWEVER, most professional politicians are inveterate LIARS like Gingrich, Foley, Reagan, Bush 1 & 2, Clinton, Lieberman, Biden, late T. Kennedy…..
They care NOT, how many promises they have broken and are impervious to criticism because they can always hire NY Madison Ave PR experts or Washington D.C. K St unscrupulous liars, I mean lawyers, to SPIN everything. Money walks!!
Oh Creator, I miss the wrestler senator from MN, Paul Wellstone. He would have filibustered the Patriot Acts and NDAA. Of course, they eliminated him three weeks before his re- election.
I have some simple solutions that are not democratic!!!
BAN LAWYERS & MILLIONAIRES FROM RUNNING FOR FEDERAL SENATORS OR CONGRESSPERSONS. STATE YES, FEDERAL NO.
IT IS THE BELTWAY, WASH DC AMBIENCE (SO CALLED CONVENTIONAL WISDOM) BAH! THAT CORRUPTS ALL WHO GET THERE. STUDY THE SACRED GEOMETRY DESIGN OF WASH DC.
CLOSE THE REVOLVING DOOR BETWEEN BIG BUSINESS/WALL ST AND THE EXECUTIVE (WHITE HOUSE)
BOTH HOUSES OF CONGRESS ( COTUS) SHOULD NOMINATE SUPREME COURT (SCOTUS) JUSTICES INSTEAD OF THE PRESIDENT(WHOTUS).
BEHOLD THE WALL ST APPOINTEES OF OBAMA! NAUSEATING!!
It is a myth that millionaires do not steal…
Btw, guess what Shakespeare said about lawyers?
Love from Firefly
in Geronimo’s stomping grounds,
Truth or Consequences, NM
with all due respect for EVERYONE’s efforts, I don’t think this manifesto or “pledge” is a very meaningful one.
The biggest problem with the Occupy movement was the silly obsession with “consensus decisionmaking,” that prevented its adherents in my city of Tucson from achieving anything except collecting citations from violating City law regarding park hours of operation. Occupy wrote its own certificate of irrelevance. I’ll find another flag to fly. The video’s nice, but also misleading. The most likely cause of a political resurgence that can change anything will be total economic freeze-up due to unrestrained greed operating free of all restraint. Adam Smith’s Invisible Hand becomes the architect of change when self interest is awakened.
Al Smith is my real name, Alan D. Smith of Dallas. I haven’t attacked an “entire people.” I attacked the very psychopaths responsible for most of Humanity’s common problems, and they’re NOT Jews. I have Jewish friends who feel as I do about the Khazarian Zionists. And, there are many Jewish organizations who’re opposed to them and their covert, unlawful rule of this planet.
Learn the truth, before you attack someone who is on Humanity’s side, unless you’re on the Zionists’ side.
Has much as I support occupy and am most certainly part of the 99% this movement has no teeth , and with out teeth it posses no threat to the powers that be , just contributes to the cacophony of citizens demands that are tuned out and ignored.
Pledges and rhetoric will accomplish nothing , never have and never will . The only thing that is going to have any real effect is civil disobedience.
Shut down the west coast again , fill the streets, occupy foreclosures. go back to OCCUPYING ! any thing less is a waste of time and energy.
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Sounds like the good folks of Santa Fe have distilled the issues and message to its essence. Many others, over time, have said as much, but now we have an action step that we can and must take.
I’d like to hear what the general assemblies in other cities and towns have come up with.
Psssst – pass this on.
The 99 Pledge is being spread word of mouth on the internet and will be launched nation wide soon. Already we have received request for info from as close as Albuquerque and as far as Canada
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