The Declaration of Economic Democracy: 6 proposed demands for the #OccupyWallStreet Movement
source: http://tinyurl.com/3p62cno
While you don’t need a spokesperson, that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t have “spokes-principles” — a core set of ideas or answers to the crises of the Wall-Street Empire that speak for you, that communicate who you are to a public that’s tuning in more and more every day.
Without that set of spokes-principles, the public may have sympathy for the protesters’ motives, but it will ultimately fear their objectives. And the organizers will have done the world a great disservice by earning a big public spotlight and failing to shine it on answers that the world urgently needs to know and start talking about if we’re going to have a fighting chance of saving our civilization.
The right spokes-principles can encompass all of the fluid, diverse, populist beauty and verve of the protests and channel it into a vision that the broader public can see itself and its aspirations reflected in....
see this abbreviated excepted list. Which include:
1. People over Profit.
2. Stakeholders over Shareholders
3. Better not Bigger
4. Main Street not Wall Street
5. One employee, one vote
6. Economic Constitutionalism
http://tinyurl.com/3p62cno
Without that set of spokes-principles, the public may have sympathy for the protesters’ motives, but it will ultimately fear their objectives. And the organizers will have done the world a great disservice by earning a big public spotlight and failing to shine it on answers that the world urgently needs to know and start talking about if we’re going to have a fighting chance of saving our civilization.
The right spokes-principles can encompass all of the fluid, diverse, populist beauty and verve of the protests and channel it into a vision that the broader public can see itself and its aspirations reflected in....
see this abbreviated excepted list. Which include:
1. People over Profit.
2. Stakeholders over Shareholders
3. Better not Bigger
4. Main Street not Wall Street
5. One employee, one vote
6. Economic Constitutionalism
http://tinyurl.com/3p62cno
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