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Aviation Pro Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-09-11 12:59 PM
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The next step in OWS (IMO)....
...make sure every participant and sympathizer is registered to vote.

Time to flush the assclown, fucking Republicant party down the toilet like so much waste water.
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Odin2005 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-09-11 01:02 PM
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1. Sorry, we refuse to be co-opted by the fucking DLC Establishment.
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TBF Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-09-11 01:47 PM
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14. + a million. nt
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backscatter712 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-09-11 01:05 PM
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2. I say build the movement until there's enough momentum for a successful general strike.
A strike is what this country needs, to force the fuckwads in power to do something in the interests in the people at least once in a while, but up until now, there's been no movement strong enough to make a strike happen.

Until OWS. I say we continue to build the movement, make it millions strong, and then GENERAL STRIKE!
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elocs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-09-11 01:09 PM
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7. A general strike is a fantasy. It's never going to happen here. n/t
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backscatter712 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-09-11 01:17 PM
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12. And they said a movement as big as OWS couldn't happen here.
Have some imagination and ambition, instead of perpetuating the state of clinical depression the one-percenters want to keep us in...
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elocs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-09-11 01:43 PM
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13. Sorry, I don't ever remember hearing that. There will be no general strike
in the 3rd most populous nation in the world where union membership is at a 70 year low at 11.9% and where the vast majority of citizens are still too comfortable and satisfied to simply walk off their jobs and risk being fired and losing their way of life.

Be real, this is no comparatively small and left leaning European country with high union membership. There will be no general strike but that does not mean that the OWS will not result in potential big changes.
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Odin2005 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-09-11 02:05 PM
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16. You (or your paymasters) will eat your words, soon.
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white_wolf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-09-11 01:10 PM
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8. +100
A general strike is the only answer. It is far less of a fantasy than expecting the democrats to do anything for us.
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DearAbby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-09-11 01:13 PM
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10. +1
SOLIDARITY
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Lyric Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-09-11 01:05 PM
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3. OWS isn't about the Democratic Party.
It's not a partisan political football for people to kick around. It's something entirely new and I pray to god that it stays that way. I don't want either party anywhere NEAR it.
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Desertrose Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-09-11 01:07 PM
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5. Amen!!!! Same here...I don't want either party anywhere NEAR it either! nt
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Odin2005 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-09-11 01:08 PM
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6. The instant OWS becomes associated with the Democratic Party it will rapidly die.
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Vincardog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-09-11 01:06 PM
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4. Time to flush the assclown, fucking Republicant party and the DINO's in the Democratic party
down the toilet like so much waste water.
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kentuck Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-09-11 01:12 PM
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9. Sorry...
Edited on Sun Oct-09-11 01:15 PM by kentuck
They are not thinking of Obama or the Democratic Party. It's bigger than that.

Because once they have a leader or declare a Party affiliation, they will be destroyed by the Republican and corporate media. Any leader's credibility can be destroyed by them and, in doing so, would destroy the movement in its infancy...
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tama Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-09-11 02:05 PM
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15. I love DU
Damn we learn fast!!! :)
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ashling Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-09-11 01:16 PM
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11. YES!
with the appropriate ID card :(
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