RevolutionTruth Panels - Occupy 2012: Battle for our Freedoms

On Jan. 19, 2012, RevolutionTruth hosted a live panel discussion with Michael Moore, Chris Hedges, Kevin Zeese, Dr. Margaret Flowers, Birgitta Jónsdóttir, & Jimmy Holovat.

We discussed The Occupy Movement's complex identity, what it has meant to people, strengths and weaknesses of this nascent movement, and hopes for its future. We explored ideas on how to engender real change in a world where millions understand the imperative of a profound course correction in our systems and the need for real hope and vision for our collective futures.

Category:

Nonprofits & Activism

Tags:

• OWS
• Occupy
• Occupy Movement
• Michael Moore
• Chris Hedges
• Kevin Zeese
• Margaret Flowers
• Birgitta Jónsdóttir
• Jimmy Holovat
• Panel Discussion
• US Government
• Occupy Wall Street

[DynVec]

This feel more like a forum to introduce new militants members than to engaged the public. Even if you do this for the public, they don't think like you do, or they'd be joining you.

[scamp2011]

@sun1one1 I SOOOO AGREE!!

[catwatters4]

Fitness/Yoga is a Great way to learn this! Building,, making healthy,, NOT tearing down. People need to recognize when they've crossed the line and giving to people who Don't deserve it and using it against them.

[newsradiohead]

Absolutely fascinating.

[sun1one1]

Direct democracy makes the mistake of assuming that everyone is essentially nice. We have laws to protect minority rights now because relying on human decency to do so did not work. No sane minority is in favor of direct democracy.

[0legari0]

The only limit to participation in the total democracy of the revolutionary organization is the recognition and self-appropriation of the coherence of its critique by all its members, a coherence which must be proved in the critical theory as such and in the relation between the theory and practical activity." -Guy Debord [Society of the Spectacle]

[0legari0]

"In the struggle between the revolutionary organization and class society, the weapons are nothing else than the -essence- of the combatants themselves: the revolutionary organization can not reproduce within itself the dominant society's conditions of separation and hierarchy.

It must struggle constantly against its deformation in the ruling spectacle." -Guy Debord [Society of the Spectacle]

[0legari0]

"The revolutionary organization can be nothing less than a unitary critique of society, namely a critique which does not compromise with any form of separate power anywhere in the world, and a critique proclaimed globally against all the aspects of alienated social life. " -Guy Debord [Society of the Spectacle]

[RBHMMX]

"If Corporations are people, I guarantee you that a government of those people, by those people, and for those people will continue to exist."