Jessica Shearer - ‪From the Tea Party to Occupy Wall Street and Beyond‬

Jessica Shearer, labor and faith organizer, speaking at Personal Democracy Media's From the Tea Party to Occupy Wall Street and Beyond on December 12th, 2011.

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About the event: Across America and the world, millions of people are entering the public arena and, using social and collaborative media, forming powerful new networks for change. The result is a rising wave of challenges to the political order that are expanding the boundaries of political discourse and forcing new issues into the conversation. At this event, we heard from leading organizers and observers of these new movements, and explored questions like:

-Are these movements leaderless, or leaderfull? And either way, how do they make decisions?
-Are these movements working within the system or trying to create a new one?
-Getting co-opted: A danger or a sign that you're winning?
-Is a group still its own worst enemy?
-New media and over-communication: how do these movements manage the cacophony they help create?
-Is networked democracy to top-down politics what citizen media is to broadcast media?

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[dsm19581]

I'm happy that her Mother and sisters seem to have found the truth that only Jesus can bring. I'm sad for Jessica that she has put her hope/faith/life in the Union rather than the God of the universe. She has no idea how deceived she is. She's pitiful.

[hitcharide1]

Ok, I survived nine min of this woman...rarely have I heard such self pitying whining, lots of talk about ppl who crap on cars and do drugs in "protest." This woman is so misguided, so confused...reality is not her friend nor does she want it to be. She's in the tank for obummer, no matter how destructive he's been, no matter how much harm unions have done. She doesn't just have blinders on, she's really blind to anything resembling the truth.

[hitcharide1]

Hm...does this mean that all the liberals claiming the union has nothing to do with the occupy "movement" will now shut up? She's looking for a "movement moment," and I suspect the only one she'll find is after a large dinner. I feel for her personally but after getting screwed by a union, she still willingly drinks the kool aid. What can you do with such people who will go to any length to lie to themselves? She's lost and beyond finding, folks...

[Nanoenergetic]

This far left bimbo says don't engage in civil democracy OWS, just keep being economic terrorists. She's delusional. The US is overwhelmingly against her and OWSs far left Neo-Marxist agenda, that's why "representative democracy" doesn't work for these lunatics; everybody disagrees with them. So they resort to trying to rig things in their favor and deny and ignore the rights of everyone else (the real world 99%) who believe in what the Founding Fathers created.