THE INTRODUCTION

The Permanent Occupy is Coming

This is a DRAFT introduction of my forthcoming book.  There are two parts released as two posts:  (1) The Introduction; and (2) The Chapter Outline.  

This is post 1 of 2:  The Introduction. The Chapter Outline will follow.

What is typical of all writing works-in-progress is that it can be expected to undergo some changes along the way.  No exception here.  

I am a writer - it is the best skill I have to offer for our efforts to chart a new world for us all.  Putting this into written form is the one thing I am best equipped to give.  I had plans to pursue another book in the philosophy and physics realm.  Plans change and this subject is too urgent to just set aside.  I have put my other plans on the shelf.  The priority and urgency is just too immediate.

What I need is your support - your power. I am putting myself out there - doing what I can. My power. But none of it counts unless we put our power together. That is where our power gets fired up and we can move any mountain we face. Because we go together!

This is presented (1) to reserve copies for those that want it, and (2) to seek support to help defray the costs involved of having this written, edited, formatted, published and distributed.

I have already received early encouraging feedback that motivates me to get this done. To a writer, feedback matters.  More feedback is appreciated and is always very welcome.  You can add comments and suggestions below or contact me directly.  We are all in this together.

“Read it. Love it. Gives me hope. It's easy to understand. It doesn't waffle. It gets to the point without verbosity. It's not full of ideology without substance.”    Moira G.

“Your document is a great read and an awesome starting point … wonderful missive.”  Phillip P.

“I think it’s a book that needs writing … I liked the chapter outline a lot and the way the general argument progresses.”  Penny S.

“I think it’s thorough, on point and powerful!”  Brian R.

I apologize for the length … but - hey - that is what writers do - they write! Help me get this done —- because we can do this. We must.

THE PERMANENT OCCUPY

The 99% Are the Ruling Class

INTRODUCTION 

“Welcome to the revolution.  The elites have exposed their hand.  They have shown they have nothing to offer.  They can destroy but they cannot build.  They can repress but they cannot lead.  They can steal but they cannot share.  They can talk but they cannot speak. [...]  They have no ideas, no plans, and no vision for the future.”

Chris Hedges

We need to revolt.  

And we have the power and authority to do so.  

The power to change everything is sitting right at our feet. We only have to take one single step - which is to reach out and embrace it.  We can even look at it. 

Can you see it? It is sitting right in front of our eyes. It is called democracy. “Government by the people; especially: rule of the majority”.

I cannot dispute it. That would involve arguing with a dictionary!  Who would argue with a dictionary?  Not me.  I will accept it as written.

Look at the definition again to emphasize the key operative point: The majority rules. The majority has all the authority. We already have the power and we already have the authority!

We do not have to build it. We already have it!

What we have to do is embrace it. Me standing alone has no power. You standing alone has no power. But - us standing together ignites and fires up the power.

Unity is the lifeblood of democratic power. Unity is democracy’s oxygen. To engage and wield the power of democracy we need to unite. Together we have all the power we need to be free, to be liberated, and to determine the direction of our societies, our communities, and our lives. That is what self-determination means.

Together we have the power and the authority to make all the decisions we want. Engaging the power of democracy elevates each of us by elevating all of us. Every voice gets heard, every issue gets discussed, and every action step taken and decision made is decided by the majority among us. That is how democracy works.

There is no complexity, difficulty or challenge to overcome. And there is only one requirement: We just have to stand together!

Let’s get our asses in gear and stand together!  We can chart our futures together when we come together.

Division is our enemy. It is the kryptonite that keeps the authority of democracy resting powerless at our feet - keeping it just out of our reach. Division renders democracy to be lifeless. Reject division.

Embrace each other. We need to get our strength from the common ground that we all share. We have so much more common ground than we have division. We all want peace, equity, justice, fairness, and equal opportunity. We all want a clean environment, clean air, clean water and to be treated with respect.

We all want a safe and secure future for our kids and the generations that follow them. We all want our societies to be enriched with communities that are vibrant and flourish. The list of what we all want is endless.

We are all individuals and we have our issues, beliefs, and opinions that divide us. But those divisions are few. The commonalities we share far and away exceed the issues that divide us. We need to respect that we have our individual differences and to unite around the common ground that we share.

If we don’t, we will fail to engage the power and authority that democracy offers us. Democracy will remain powerless at our feet. We will fail to pick it up.

How many of us find the status quo acceptable? How many of us find our current situation and trajectories to be on the path we want to be on? They aren’t and they stink - and we all know it. So … let’s get off our asses and unite and send ourselves in the direction we want to go!

We have the power and we have the authority. Reach down and pick it up!!!

Our current democratic institutions are broken beyond repair - we acknowledge that.

As we unite, we engage our power and our authority. We will determine - together - who represents us in our political institutions. We will do that on a community-by-community basis. And we will select our representatives from among us for who will best represent us where our interests reach beyond our communities.  We will do these things - because we can.

We recognize the failures of our corporate media outlets, our biased legal systems, and our corrupted corporate and economic systems. These too are dysfunctional.

As we unite, we will - among ourselves - have the power and authority to replace and re-design these dysfunctional institutions. The power and authority to change them will come to us because we have selected to stand together and take on the task of changing them.

Nefarious Forces

Our democracy is being stolen.  There is a theft-in-progress.  The global corporate elite have taken the controls of the institutions of our society - and have imposed their will to satisfy their own interests.  They have a  complete disregard for the people that the institutions were designed to serve and represent.  Public funds - representing taxpayer contributions - are directed away from the public services required and channeled to this corporate elite.  Laws, regulations, and their enforcement have all been marginalized to create a ‘wild west’ environment granting complete immunity from accountability to this corporate elite.  

Who is this global corporate elite?  We will delve into that in detail, but suffice to say that it consists of large global corporations that are controlled by the ultra-wealthy - the percentage of the population commonly termed as “the 1%”.  

This 1% group of corporate elites have commandeered the institutions of our society for their own personal motives - which are motives entrenched in greed and the economic ideology of infinite profit growth at levels that are never satisfied and know no end points.  All of this comes at the expense of the rest of us (the 99% that fall outside of this 1% elite population).  The 1% do not create their wealth and power - they take their wealth and power from us.  We are measured as commodities and units of production.  There is a complete absence of humanity to it.

We all see this, experience it, and we all know it.  Polling results consistently show that the levels of trust in our politicians, our media, our legal system, and our corporations are at rock bottom levels.  We all know and recognize that our institutions are severely broken. 

In the pursuit of their endless drive for increased profits, the 1% have presented us with their offer to construct a society in a form that meets their needs. They have told us that “we will own nothing and we will be happy”.  They are not quiet or shy about it - they have actually presented us with their “proposal”.

We are not accepting this quietly.  We refuse to cooperate.  We refuse their offer. Right? 

The problem here is that they refuse to accept our refusal. They proceed anyway - proceeding without our consent and without any authority.

We have refused their offer, so they feel they can just take it anyway.  They have helped themselves to our institutions, our politicians, our media, our economy, our justice system, our natural environment, and our very lives.  They have organized themselves and they have initiated a strategy that will take it by any means necessary.  These arrogant, entitled, and callous individuals feel they can force their will on us.  They refuse to accept our “no”.

Let’s ask ourselves a question:  Why have they put in all this effort and organization in order to take it?  The answer is simple:  Because they have no authority to do so.  They literally have to steal it from us.

Their theft is active, underway, and in-progress.  This theft is underway and it has been underway for a while.  They are actually stepping up their pace and are close to pulling off their crime.

We have to stop them before they complete their crime and we lose our recourse to shut them down.  We do not want to live in their vision of the world order. That would be a nightmare scenario for us all.  We have to stop this crime-in-progress which is the theft of our freedom and liberty of self-determination.  It is the theft of our democracy and our democratic powers and authority.

Up until now, they have pretty well had one thing going in their favor:  Our apathy.  Our failure to nurture, maintain, and protect the democratic powers we have at our disposal. They are literally stealing our democracy right out from under us.

We are asleep.  And that is what has given them the opportunity they needed. It is time for us all to wake up and thwart this crime before we no longer have the power to do so.  It is time to wake up and assert our ownership rights to our freedom, liberty, and future. Wakey wakey time.  

If we choose to wake up, this is a glorious opportunity for us all.  Where we, our communities, and our societies go are up to us to decide.  It is our choice; not the choice of the 1% of those among us.  

There is a wonderful silver lining here.  The 1% have woken us up to take our own action - to actually decide our futures and to chart our own course and direction.  We can end up much better off.  

What do we want?  We want rights to the basics of life secured for each of us.  Housing, food, water, healthcare, and a clean healthy safe environment to live in would be great for starters.  We want meaningful and respectful employment.  We want fairness and justice.  We want equal opportunities for each of us.  We want our communities to be vibrant and to thrive.  

Well, this is our opportunity for all of it.  Yes, we need to formally and completely purge out the 1% and rid ourselves of their curse.  We need to reject their nefarious intentions to enslave us all with their monetary measurements of life in order to ingratiate themselves with complete power and authority over us.  We will do that because we can and we have the power to do so.  And - by doing so - we realize that this also gives us the opportunity to reset our lives.

This is the time for our awakening.  

We need to put on our rebellion hats and get two things done:

1. We need to stop the crime-in-progress and formally purge the 1% from the institutions of our society; and

1. We need to build the new society we have always wanted and imagined.

The 1% have created themselves an elite global club called “The World Economic Forum” with formal annual events where they all gather to solve the big problems of the world.  They have created and presented their vision - and they even gave it a name:  “The Great Reset” and a slogan:  “You will own nothing and you will be happy”.  What this entails is that the 1% elites will own everything we could ever want and need, and rent it back to us.  They will decide our lives. And we will be required to comply.  Somehow, that will make us happy.  I am sure it will make them happy but it does not make me happy at all.  Does it make you happy? 

Let me be clear:  They are doing this.  It may be a formal organized initiative as presented by the World Economic Forum as their “Great Reset” or it could simply just be a more non-formal corporate profit-driven result of insatiable greed among the 1%. Either way - organized or just an infinite trend of motivated greed - it is harmful and dangerous to us all.  

Our apathy is their enabling tool to actually do it.  Our apathy is manifested in our failure to undertake our civic responsibilities and that is what is giving them the opportunity to steal our democracy - and our own self-determination with it.  Our apathy is fatal.

We have rejected their vision and offer.  They have not taken kindly to our rejection of their gracious and considerate offer, so they are now insisting on it like a 2-year toddler having a hissy-fit.  Fine - we will remove them with the powers and authority we have. This book addresses how we go about that.  

This book provides the blueprint for us to unite, remove ourselves from the straitjacket of our own apathy, engage the powers we - still - have, and chart the course of our own vision for our future. We can do this.  But we have to unite and leave our complacent cocoon that has wrapped us in our own apathy.

This removal of the unauthorized 1% from dictating their terms on our society is only the first part.  The second part of this journey gives us our future - and places it directly into our hands.

The removal of the 1% from our institutions - along with their enablers - is going to create a whole lot of empty institutions.  We are going to have to restore them. This is where we are blessed.  We will have an empty slate to work with so we can build them back in the form we want.  We will have our own “Build Back Better” initiative. Since we will be completely organized - which removing the 1% entails - we will all be civically engaged so we can quickly come together to decide how our new societies, communities, and lives will be designed.

This is a wonderful opportunity.  We will Build Back Better (our version) and we will be happy (our version).  

The Revolution

We are led to believe that there are safety regulations and checks and balances within our governments and institutions designed to prevent reckless, harmful, and even criminal  behaviors that are unfolding around us.   At minimum - we should expect to hold the 1% to account for their actions when they violate basic human rights.  Well, apparently that is not the case. The 1% have gutted and emptied out all the checks and balances that would hold them to account. 

When our governments and institutions fail us on such basic levels there is only one course of action we must take.  It is time to revolt!

If you are reading this, you know that this shift of power is necessary or - at minimum - you have a gut feeling that something has to change. You know it is time.  All of us do.  It is time to revolt!

Welcome to the revolution!  Welcome to your revolution!  Welcome to our revolution!

This book outlines a blueprint for the revolution we need.  This is about power and who owns the power.  This is about defining the current situation that has us mired in a destructive direction that will ultimately be fatal to us all and the generations of life that follow us.  It will review how we got here.  It will outline a path to shift the power away from the 1% who have - without them ever having been granted any authority to do so - taken the power as their own.  

This is about power.  Technically, we hold all the power.  Democracy ingratiates the power to us.  However, the 1% elite have taken on a concerted, organized, and determined effort to usurp our power for themselves.  And they are close to finalizing their nefarious theft of power.  It is through our own civic complacency that we have opened the doors for the 1% to even attempt this theft.  

Yes, the 1% are close to completing their theft of our democracy - taking unauthorized control over our societies, our communities, and our institutions for themselves.  But “close to completing” is not a final state - not yet.  We might be a little late to the party, but we still have a window of opportunity to stop this theft-in-progress.  The power of our democracy remains in our hands for now.  What we need to do is assert our ownership of this power before that window closes on us.  

This book outlines what our power is and how it is activated and engaged.  Democracies do not offer power to any individual - they provide power to the majority of individuals organized under the umbrella of a community. That requires one simple action from us:  We have to unite ourselves and our voices to fire up and engage the power we have available to us.

If we engage, we will have two “superpowers” to leverage:  (1) the power of our vote, and (2) the power of our labor.  Both of these superpowers do not accrue to any individual - you or me alone hold no power.  Only by uniting with others do these superpowers manifest to us. The more of us that unite, the more power they give us.  Every single one of us possesses the additive energy to add to our overall power. That energy is stored in each of us - but standing alone it is only power at rest.  it is unleashed in the very moment that we join together.  

This book presents a blueprint for unifying ourselves to ignite and fire up those powers that we have.  The approach is non-violent but it requires proactive action.  It requires a movement to active civic engagement - which is the lifeblood and the energy source that ignites and fires up our superpowers.  It is only our apathy towards civic engagement that is the kryptonite to diffuse our superpowers and has opened the doors for the 1% to steal our powers for themselves.  It is time to rise up, proactively engage, slam that door shut, and enforce our democratic rights and authorities that our power gives us.

The 1% corporate elite have weaknesses - many of them.  They have fears.  They know very well that our assertion of power will cause their ambitions to fail.  They have weaknesses that are primarily rooted in their own (lack of) moral character.  Their greed and motives are focused on only one metric - economic profit growth.  They are pure corporate capitalists - completely void of any positive character traits.  Their path is the destruction of everything and everyone of us for the sole purpose to extract every penny of profit from them.  They themselves do not create their wealth and power.  Every penny of wealth and power they take comes at our expense.

Capitalism is not a community-oriented ideology - it is a purely economic ideology. It is rooted in profit maximization at all costs with a complete disregard of inclusiveness, decency, fairness, justice, and equity.  It is about monetary profit and profit alone.  And it is cancerous in its manifestation.  Just like cancer will pursue endless growth until it completely consumes its host that nourishes its very existence, the capitalistic ideology of the elite will consume us and every resource on this planet until there is nothing left. It is an insatiable ideology that is infinite - it has no brakes that brings it to a halt. 

The 1% has one mission:  Consume every resource to maximize their wealth and power.  Their mantra is infinite profit growth on a finite resource. Their mission is based on failed math; and a failed direction that ultimately leads to their own demise (there is no evidence that the 1% are smart). Their mission is their biggest weakness and we can exploit it.  

We need to unify ourselves to engage our two superpowers. Their efforts have no legal democratic authority. Our democratic rights to self-determination will cancel their efforts because we determine the rules and laws and can direct their enforcement.  We have that authority.  Our labor is required for them to derive their precious profits. The withholding of our labor stops their insatiable drive for profits dead in its tracks.  We have that authority.  Our two superpowers are our weapons. If we choose to unite and engage them.  And we must.

Remember that we need to reject our own apathy.  That is what allowed this cancer to infect our democracy.  Civic engagement is democracy’s immune system and - in this case - is also democracy’s cure. Civic engagement will reject this cancer and restore the health of our democracy.  It will give us life to choose how we live our lives.  

It is time to reject our own apathy and engage to assert our power and defeat the cancer that the 1% has placed on our lives.

This book is a call for every one of us to wake up to our civic responsibility and to unite and organize ourselves to restore our democracy back to health. It is a call for us all to meet at our “Town Hall” together.  This book presents an action blueprint based on a blend of civic action, assertive tactics, and historical precedence.  We need to unite as a community of people - because it is unification that engages our superpowers.  It is our power if we stand together.  So … let’s stand together and assert our power.  Let's gather together at our Town Hall.

The geographic scope of this book is focused on the democratic, legal, and economic systems of Canada and the United States of America - but it is transferable to all developed democracies that are experiencing the same scourge.  

The 1% weaponized themselves through the deployment of massive global corporations that operate worldwide.  This war is fought on a global battlefield and scale.  The direct focus on Canada and the US is solely a reflection of my own knowledge and exposure to the Canadian and American political, economic, legal, and societal systems.  However, my attempt will be to keep it open to be readily transportable to all democratic societies.  We are all victims of this global metastatic cancer infestation.

The layout of the blueprint for action follows a logical path that attempts to explain how we arrived in our current place and time - how we arrived to find ourselves placed on this battlefield.  We need to understand ourselves and how we got ourselves into this predicament so we can reject the conditions that placed us here. 

This is a war - a class war.  We need to mobilize ourselves for this war so we can win it. That requires strategies and tactics that reflect a war environment.  Our strategies and tactics are not based on violence and destruction - but they do need to be effective, targeted, and be designed to inflict damage on the enemy.  We need to neutralize the weapons they are wielding against us.  That means, we need to understand our enemy - their motives, their plans, their strategies and their tactics.  

We need to assess their strengths so we can effectively anticipate their tactics and successfully defend against them.  We need to assess their weaknesses so we can effectively exploit them.  We need to understand the weapons we have at our disposal.  We need to develop and execute strategies and tactics that lead us to victory.  We are in this to win it.

Always keep in mind that we have the moral high ground here. We did not initiate this conflict - we have been attacked and we must defend ourselves from that attack. We have the advantage of our numbers - we are the majority.  They represent 1%, while we represent 99%.  The numbers are not even close (and the 1% knows this by the way).  We have the authority because democracy gives us that authority.  We are not thrusting new ideals and authorities onto society - we are engaging the ideals and authorities that are already in-place.   

We have the powers, the authority, and the moral high ground. 

The focus of this book is on uniting and organizing ourselves for this war.  The battles are numerous - and everyone has ideas. But - one thing is consistent across every idea - they will require us to be united and organized as one powerful voice so every one of those ideas has the opportunity to succeed and to move us closer to  victory.  The focus of this book is to get us united and organized - so that every battle we take on we can win.

We WIll Own Our Futures

Let’s envision what our victory will look like. 

By unifying into one loud and organized force, we will apply the required cure that restores and heals our democracy.  What does a healthy democracy give us?  It gives us the power that liberates us and gives us the freedom to determine our society’s future.  That is what a healthy democracy gives us. That is what self-determination means!

We will have a lot of work to do after we purge the 1% from our lives.  With their removal, our revolution will deliver us a pristine but very empty infrastructure of democratic institutions.  That gives us a clean canvas to work from and to paint our futures upon.

Wouldn’t that be fantastic?  What a glorious future we face in front of us!  Yes, we will have a lot of work to do - but the work will be about determining our future - and we will all be doing that work together.

Our democratic institutions will be vacant awaiting a new set of representatives that truly represent their communities.  Our mainstream media outlets will be empty screens, silent sounds, and blank pages awaiting the arrival of ethical and responsible journalists. Our legal systems will be waiting for a new set of revised laws that are rooted in justice, fairness, and equity and leveraged with enforcement authority.  

Our parks and natural spaces will be quiet from the continuous roar of the machinery of extraction. Our vacant buildings will be filled with the lives of those previously denied shelter.  Our schools will spring to life as funding invigorates and empowers their learning culture. Our prisons will become less crowded as those held unjustly are liberated.  Our inner cities will feel a vibrancy awaiting the energy for people to invigorate them into communities. Our health facilities will once again focus on the care and well being of their patients.  There will be a calm as despair is lifted, and there will be an energy as our communities bustle into life.  

And we will all be together.  Our revolution will have succeeded and we will have a lot of work to do.  We will gather around with each other and chart our paths forward.  Paths will be charted at the local community level, and broader issues will filter up.  Yes, decisions for each community will be made at the local community levels, and those requiring broader consensus will filter up.  Policy direction will filter up from the community level instead of being mandated by unelected political authorities down to the communities!  Sounds completely backwards, doesn’t it?  But I am sure we can all agree that it is a much better alternative than what we have been experiencing.  

Every idea will be heard.  Every policy idea will be considered.  Actions will form around majority approval.  Everybody gets to participate and be heard.  Our infrastructure and institutions will spring into life to bring everything the majority decides upon to become the reality.  

The threats we face from global heating and an endless trajectory of war and no peace will be addressed. The military budgets will be slashed as the investments in war will transition to investments in peace.  

Basic human rights will be liberated from the violence of poverty with guaranteed minimum incomes that permit dignity.  Tax reform will eliminate massive income disparity and reflect economic justice. The creative arts will flourish and enrichen every community.  Our political houses will be filled with cooperation and an urgency to implement laws and regulations that ensure the safety of every person, every community, and our natural environment.  Corporations too big to fail will be dismantled and spun into manageable ventures.  Workplaces will be revived with employee ownership across cooperatives that no longer set monetary profit as their sole guiding force.  Our communities will become our homes surrounded with neighbors engaging with each other.

This is all doable. Because it is ours.  On every single issue; the math is simple.  One person is one vote.  The majority is defined as 50% + 1 on any matter.  That is how decisions are made in our democracy.

Our leaders will be leaders.  They will be guides and facilitators selected from among our communities and be representative of our communities.  They will report to their citizens and be tasked to deliver the actions presented by the majority of the people.  They will reflect the responsibility and guidance required to keep people, their communities, and their environments healthy, vibrant, and safe. And the people have the authority to replace any political leader - from among candidates they themselves select - not some candidate thrusted upon them by an unelected arbitrary central political party establishment.

The list of what has to be done is endless. The challenge will be for the people to gather together and decide what is on that list.  The people will decide because that is how free people do it in a democracy.

We Need You & You Need Us

It is my hope and intention that this provides a motivation for you - and every one of us -  to rise up and join the rest of us.  To unite with each other so that we can ensure our futures.  It is my hope that you will join with your neighbors and together we can move together as one community that empowers equity, justice, freedom, respect, compassion, liberty, and peace.  It is my hope that you participate in deciding what our future will become. 

What we dream our futures to be is not a dream if we make it the reality.   We can make it the reality by all uniting with each other.  It really is that basic.

Many of us are standing in our own little bubbles - aware that we need to act; yet not acting.  But let me make one thing clear:  We must get our act together before the blight of this cancer on our freedoms consumes us and takes away our right to determine our futures - which it is actively intent on taking.  

If we choose to remain on the sidelines; feeling that false sense of security that staying in our little bubbles of existence makes us cling to - then the 1% will succeed in their theft and hold power over us and our futures will be dire.  The 1% are not compassionate, empathetic, just, or reasonable people.  They are criminals.  They are monsters. Humanity is not a consideration to them. They are taking our right to self-determination away from us, because they want to dictate what our futures are.  They want to exploit us for our labor in order to enable their insatiable pursuit of profit.  Let’s tell them “no!” and let's make sure they hear us!  

We all have our own fears and hesitations.  A lot of them have been placed upon us intentionally; which will be detailed in this book.  But we must rise above those fears - each one of us needs to find that grain of courage that lies within each of us to remove the hesitation of taking that first step.  

“You don’t have to see the whole staircase.  Just take the first step”  Martin Luther King Jr

What are the next steps?  That is up to all of us to decide.  But we can only do that by taking the first step.  

I can promise you that every step you take after that intimidating first step will become so much easier because you will no longer be standing alone. You will be taking every subsequent step with someone else - an individual just like you walking directly to the left side of you - and another to the right side of you.  And so many more surrounding you in every direction.  That is the power of unification.  You will feel that energy - that energy of the very power that democracy gives us.  You will feel it.  It will energize you and it will energize us all.  Our democracy will be freed from its cancer and its health will have sprung back to life.   

We need you.  You need us.  We need each other.  That is how our communities will flourish and grow.

We already have come a long way to becoming the unified force we need to be.  A long way.    We have activist groups by the thousands among us and they are varied across size, geography, and purpose.  Let’s face it - each of our activist groups all face the same enemy: The 1% who have commandeered our institutions, media, and politicians for their own profit-motivated agenda.  Human rights activists face the same exact enemy as do environmental activists, social justice activists, economic justice activists, political activists, and many others.  

We need all of these activist groups to unite into one voice now.  Right now.  Our combined victory will offer each activist group the path to addressing their mission. The strength of thousands of groups and the thousands of individuals that make up their organizations will be a very powerful force.  All their objectives will be finally heard, discussed, considered, and addressed.  Remove the common blight that fails each of them and we gain the power we need to fix them all.

We need to unify into one group, one voice.  We need to focus on restoring the powers of the democracy that we own.  We need to fire up our superpowers so we win this class war.  We must rise up.  All of us.  This is a class war - it is a war placed on us (the 99%) by the corporate elite (the 1%).

Welcome to your revolution.  We all go together.  We will win this class war and restore our freedom and liberty to self-determine our future.  We are good for it.  And we can do it.  Because we go and do it together.  It is time to rise up.  We go together.

“There are no excuses left.  Either you join the revolt or you stand on the wrong side of history.  You either obstruct through civil disobedience, the only way left to us, against the plundering by the criminal class on Wall Street and accelerated destruction of the ecosystem that sustains the human species, or become the passive enabler of a monstrous evil.  You either taste, feel , and smell the intoxication of freedom and revolt, or sink into the miasma of despair and apathy.  You are either a rebel or a slave.”

This is our revolution.  We go together.