Today is Occupy Wall Street’s one-year anniversary. There
are some protests in cities around the country today but it’s obvious this
movement has died.
I think it failed because OWS became all about people camping
out in city squares and fighting for the right to squat on public property. It
looked like the activists just wanted to bring the country and the economy to a
standstill. It appeared to promise only chaos and anarchy and destruction. No
wonder most people rejected it.
What we need is for the people of this country to wake up
and remake our political system with a new consciousness. And at the same time
bring this new consciousness into our local business community, town by town. I
feel like that is what many people are doing in many cities around the nation,
including where I live (Asheville, NC).
I marked OWS’s anniversary by contributing to a local group
who are acting, not occupying: an anarchist collective that runs a café called
Firestorm Café and Books. They are financing a renovation by putting out
“bonds” that will return 10% on your investment in a couple of months (in the
form of a gift certificate).
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