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<DIV><B>Subject:</B> [New post] How Do You Get An Occupation Event
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<DIV>Wherever you are, of whatever sort?</DIV>
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<DIV>The possibilities vary greatly, from urban to
suburban to rural areas; the economic state of the
region; the predominant politics and political
conflicts; whether there's an immediate proximate
struggle which is part of broader structural
issues; what forces could possibly be mustered for
the action; whether those forces exist ready for
action at the moment or if educational and
organizational work is needed, and if so,
what.</DIV>
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<DIV>Someone I know wants to get an event going
here in suburbia, but so far there's been a
disappointing response to feelers sent out to
e-mail lists, and we're mostly at the stage of
casting about for a specific rationale. (Then
there'll be the nuts-and-bolts logistics of it,
"permits" and such, but first we need to know we
wouldn't be "giving a demonstration and nobody
came".) There are several specific corporate
assaults in this town, like a federally imposed
pipeline (taxpayer money, federal thug enforcement
including overriding of state law, "private"
profiteering). It seems like people are mostly
glum about things but not particularly ready to do
anything about it. (I personally experience it as
a foreign invasion.) There's some other general
swinishness going on. Verizon recently informed
the town it would no longer pay taxes on its
properties because it just dipped below a 50%
market share, and some law allegedly exempts it
from taxes if it doesn't hold this m ajority
share. The law actually means the opposite (though
it does sound like a very stupid law to have
written in the first place), but this is an
example of something we've discussed previously,
how corporations are increasingly simply refusing
to pay bills and taxes and forcing creditors and
governments to sue them. There's also a flap over
the municipal water authority, with privatization
looming in the background. We know the record is
100% across the board - no matter what the public
water utility was like, privatization always
brings far more expensive water with worse
services. That's what's happened everywhere
privatization has won out.</DIV>
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<DIV>So there's a few examples of possible hooks
upon which to hang a participation event. There's
also the broader question of the future of the
town. For the moment it's "legally" safe from
further development, but that of course can
change. The subdivision onslaught is just about
economically spent anyway, but the barbarians of
suburbia can still do lots of damage yet, even in
a fairly short period of time. If we're going to
resist and overcome the vandals, we need a
coherent plan of our own for the post-oil
agricultural future of the area. Maybe an
Occupation event could become a participatory
assembly to discuss this future. Well, that's a
pretty far-out idea, but it could at least impress
upon people the need for such a plan. So far as I
know the only plans that exist still assume
infinite growth. These are impossible, of course,
but can still accomplish great destruction.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>In the meantime, it sounds like lots of
preparatory work needs to be done even before we
can get a good turnout for an acute event. People
need to be reminded of everything that's
happening, and have it all be presented as one big
picture, with each specific feature placed in the
big context. We also need an ongoing media project
to keep people aware of all these things. We
already have the building materials for that -
websites, cadres, a base to build upon (although
even this base seems lethargic at the moment). We
just need to put it all together to function the
right way, to generate its own energy.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>So if the issue here is chronic, and people
"aren't ready" to come out for an acute Occupy
event, that'll have to be changed systematically.
Of course, OWS itself seemed to be falling short
on its first day, and even I thought it was
fizzling out. So if we could get something
started, who knows what kind of enthusiasm it
might spontaneously call into being? </DIV>
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<DIV>So there I was talking about how to use
existing forces to get an Occupy event going. And
perhaps for the longer run we could use an Occupy
event as a consciousness raiser and recruitment
tool for the vaster arc of the general democratic
movement. At our farmers' market we have a
dedicated space where a non-profit organization
can set up a booth and engage in those two
activities. So an Occupy event itself could serve
the same purpose for any number of food, energy,
transportation, health, education, political, and
anti-corporate struggles. Just as these proximate
struggles can be the rallying point for a broader
occupation, so the Occupation can teach and
recruit for the struggle.</DIV>
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