An Open Message to US Occupy/*

Occupy Wall Street [OWS], Decision Time: Movement or Mob?

For several weeks now I and others have been trying to identify electoral reform points of contact across all occupy groups, and in passing, finance points of contact. This has proven to be next to impossible, and revealed the dirty little secret of Occupy: outside of New York, Boston, Chicago, and Oakland, Occupy is more mob than movement.

Message to OWS Activists: Use Reddit to Organize

New York is the best of breed, and the New York spokes initiative is a superb model. I suggest that Occupy turn its attention inward for a week, get on Reddit, and get its shit together nationally.

Electoral Reform: the Best Way to Rein In Wall Street

1) Whether you agree with this idea or not, electoral reform is the one thing that the Independents, members of the 63 parties shut out of the process, and moderate Republicans & Democrats might agree with Occupy on. All other issues including corporate personality and campaign finance pale in comparison. I recommend that the entire "Movement" turn its attention to helping the NYC GA working group on Politics & Electoral Reform identify a point of contact in every Occupy movement, and they in turn should turn to identifying a point of contact in every Congressional district, all toward the day when we can organize a simultaneous Occupy of the offices of every Senator and Representive while they are home for the holidays fund-raising.

IndieGoGo: Ready Resource for the Fledgling OWS Movement

2) Finance is a mess, even in NYC where transparency is down the tubes and chaos reigns, at least in the perception of the public--this despite the fact that NYC is again a superb model in its relation with the community bank. I have spoken to the owner-managers of IndieGoGo via their business development chief. IndieGoGo is prepared to immediately create a campaign for every Occupy movement, and to provide the tools of accountability, transparency, and collective action that are needed to make the most of the public's considerable interest in seeing Occupy succeed on substance. I believe that Occupy is capable of inspiring $500 million in donations if it will get its act together at the strategic, operational, tactical, and technical levels. Certainly I will help if asked.

To Build a Movement, Build Momentum: Adapting OWS Strategy to Changing Circumstances: Working Smart

In my view, Occupy needs to shift from encampments that got public attention and forced media attention, to a strategic winter campaign that focuses on movement building, electoral reform as the singular demand, and finance as the sustaining foundation for assuring that Occupy/99%'rs are elected in 2012.

Breathe New Life Into This Movement Before it Falters

Time is the one strategic variable that cannot be bought and cannot be replaced. In my view, Occupy has crossed the line from meaningful action and is now is a descending spiral toward impotence. That descent can be stopped. Occupy must ascend by FOCUSING.

Semper Fidelis,
Robert David Steele (Vivas)

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[Thesniper21]

Youre right, electoral reform is doable and great 1st step back to our America.

When the good citizens awaken from their media induced coma they'll realize how

vulnerable we are to undue manipulation by those who care only about their private objectives

and not about preserving our inalienable rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Let us hope that govt of the people, by the people for the people shall not perish from the Earth.

2 party system is flawed, money pollutes politics

[RobertDavidSTEELEVivas]

consider a small donation at BigBatUSA (org). What kills me is that despite my best efforts as an individual, writing to other individuals allegedly leading mass movements, they have all blown me off--they are part of the two party tyranny and like things just the way they are--labor unions, NGOs, think tanks--all corrupt.

[RobertDavidSTEELEVivas]

I just realized I was thinking of flash mobs when I thought of the word mobs. That was precisely what I think will be needed for the Occupy Movement to be tactically effective. The encampments worked--finally--but now there needs to be a constantly changing asymmetric confrontation that is also--not a contradiction--carefully focused on one big issue. I think the big issue should be electoral reform because it would resonate with two thirds of the voting public in the US.

[RobertDavidSTEELEVivas]

I have a low social IQ in that I pick my words based on my own sense of the meaning, without thinking about how each word might strike another. I am what I am. I *have* responded to early criticism of the word from reddit as well as here, and changed it to the more clever /* for "all other" in search language.

I would not be investing so much time in this electoral reform thing if I did not think it was a do-able do. I know of no other course of action that bodes as well for the Republic.

[RobertDavidSTEELEVivas]

I have modified the title to make it more obvious that I am addressing this to the US Occupy network only. I have no way of understanding your degree of access to all the Occupy encampments--all I can say is that I have hundreds of people telling me of their experiences across the country and I believe them. Mob is not meant to be the pejorative you take it as. Right now, most of Occupy is a mob rather than a movement. You may not be interested in reality, but reality loves you as you are.

[Ty Hopp]

BEAR!

[DrTruthiness]

In my experience with the West coast during Occupy, Robert Steele nailed it. Oakland and Berkely had sparks of potential (Seattle was a joke). Initially, I think many on the west side were looking to New York for leadership in the beginning, but two things happened.

1) Occupy never advanced their symbolism beyond tent-cities And 2) they refused to allow a leader to be the face of the movement. With elections a month away, it's disheartening to see their effort lost for nothing.

[TOMAS SURIA]

And Republic and Democracy don't mix....

[TOMAS SURIA]

That is the problem; the OW is the left's puppet...

[0123eye]

Occupy was planned prior to 2000 just as all other movements and oppositions, groups, on each side; so as it is with the labor protests, unions, used with state agencies, as either democratic, republican, and the fist logo for workers movements and each with state agencies, s america, argentina, egypt, greece, concocted uprisings for more excuses for crime on citizens.

[marniespeaks]

why doesn't this channel exist?

[TheMrJaggasingh12]

Does this channel exist?

[Mectrixctic]

@RobertDavidSteele

Why is your channel on private?