"Happy Birthday Occupy Wall Street ... thoughts on Year One"
Fifteen years ago, I ran across a book, "100 Most Influential People in History," during one of my dalliances to my local Marin County bookstore. "Influential People" was one man's assessment on exactly that. But how he determined his rankings was the interesting part. They weren't always the reasons you would think. But after thinking about it, they made complete sense. For example:George Washington was ranked in the top 40 of all time. Understandable. But the reason why ... not so much. You…See More
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Wednesday will be good for me.
Did you mean calls to any action or effective action? Are the calls getting urgent or creation of common vision channeling the potential of “Occupy”?
Do you envision any action worth calling for? Have the two parties created duopoly, or has duopoly/duality of every person/citizen created two parties system?
Do you share the opinion about global nature of any problem, interconnectedness of problems?
You must have not noticed that I am eastern European and I have better experience of “revolutionary” actions, reclaiming power. Around me the experiences of French revolution, Soviet revolution, Solidarity revolution are still alive. And yet we live in the same world, ruled by financial system.