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This is the time where people are starting to grab onto the reigns of consensus and pulling toward goals and specific shared focuses that will test the Movement’s vindication. Can a group of unaffiliated members possible start an entirely new social system, while remaining fixed to goals that perpetuate the existing one. Supporting Labor Unions seem like a move to the left and from the numbers that have appeared, under that guise, would suggest socialism isn’t a mutual theme everyone’s behind supporting.

Occupy, in it’s raw form (GA), isn’t itself a political system. It is however a very advanced form of communication that can help make better decisions about our society and how to best implement them. It seems to be a natural inertial response to “Austerity”. In the countries that Horizontalism has been most successful, it has literally been born out of the fringe of society that are shaved off the duty roster by austerity measures. This is an important factor when you consider that the majority of the thinkers and artist in most societies exist as close to the fringe as possible. It’s a very interesting counter balance that will lie dormant as long as this thin layer of society isn’t ruptured.

Political transitions are in America have been viewed historically as a swing from left to right and back. The difference being the political Party who wins the election represents the mandate of the people. This is really different.  The one thing that makes this different is a bit of the history behind it. The bailouts, the horrible state and economy, and unemployment aren’t totally unusual. What is unusual about this is the state of the state. There are an equal amount of people that believe in opposite outcomes, and when you consider the wealth base of this passing era, I think half of them are correct. This past era of wealth came from flipping real asset values into debt. Several members of my family owned there homes in 1980, when the deregulations started. Now 2 of 3 owe more on their mortgage than there house is worth. That factor has now expired.

It’s not surprising that Occupy in the US doesn’t have more support from the greater community. It also doesn’t surprise me that the Media and the Mainstream have condemned the movement for being homeless or worse, which somehow seems to offer them the option of considering the group unimportant, or worse, a “Class War”. What’s a shame is a society that betrays any member of that society. It was far less of a luxury as hunter gatherers to neglect members of their own tribe. The health and survival of the tribe demanded total support of the entire tribe, while modern society is somehow removed from this rule, seemingly, when in fact it isn’t. Every society in history that have fallen into economic imbalance have eventually collapsed, whether it was self-inflicted or not.

Occupy, over the last month, has proven it’s legs long, and buckled in for the long winter, not like the dormant bulbs, frozen and waiting for the thaw, but more like the entire genre catalog of caterpillars, that will spend the quiet season metamorphosing into thousands of unique butterflies. This time has been set aside for reflection and growth, that will reinvent itself again this coming Spring, but what is success considered along these lines of interest. Is it changing the face of Capitalism, or giving the Middle Class back their voice. Will we move past central banker control and somehow reestablish a true republic governed by the people. Or is this really the failure of Capitalism. Is it suffering the same fate as Communism did in the Soviet Union when it failed? Will it fall into the abyss of disinterest, falling short of it’s massive hunger for productivity and growth, as is becomes less and less capable of providing the same level of abundance equally across society. Failing to influence the loyalty of the public; temptation of  treasures and greatness, when it cannot even support the fringe, the social class most notorious for fostering change.

Some of the things I noted during the speech was that this disconnect between the support for business and a relationship with the people just seems infinitely vast. Especially when you describe the “regular” American’s as “they”. And it’s not just a simple careless phrase, it’s a symptom of the real issues facing this country.

The real problem in the US is the disconnect authority has with it’s own members. Obama spent the entire speech addressing the wrong audience. His focus and language was entirely meant for congressional members and NOT the American people, or they, but rather itself technically; USA.

To me Obama and his political will is missing the real point of leading the “people”. He is a populous president, under the guise of his campaign promises, that is completely ignoring his power base. The Republicans have actually suggested that Obama is behind the Occupation, which is just insane. The fact is that the so called “liberal” media has successfully ignored any social interest in the movement. They have tried to demonize it, covering the events that may finally turn into the Seattle WTO convention. That’ll spike ratings!

If Occupy Wall Street has succeeded at anything it has succeeded at exposing the divide between America the television program, and America the reality. It seemed much easier to breeze through the day content to get by until it became obvious that the left was quite right of the center, an amazing lie!

So essentially, knowing congress will deny any hope to improve his campaign position, Obama makes a lame duck request, to help America see the lame duck, and get a sense for the lameness of the duck! But what does that make the populous president, whose promise for changed filled so many with a hope that would eventually turn that hope into anger and resentment. I knew when he was running that he was just another politician, but for the people who really believed in him, he was more than just a little disappointing.

The problem with Washington is it’s full of politicians. People with the power to support Americans, lost to the tide pools of wealth deciding bailouts and buying earmarks and it all hurts Americans, that have placed their trust in the issues and the people, trust in their judgments as fellow human beings living in this miracle of time we share on Earth. The problem is that our president is wasting time with political games intended to get himself re-elected, instead of embracing the America will for change and yielding it. This is someone who could have done that and didn’t! And, it could actually cost him the race.

This year isn’t really all that different for the Republicans. Last week, for a short few days, Ron Paul was leading the polls in Iowa by a small margin, yet most of the media was reporting that Mitt Romney was leading by the same amount, and that the new threat was Rick Santorum. What amazes me is this deadly accurate prediction, and something else. Reports on the ground in Iowa said this year had far less yard signs than usual, and, ironically, Iowa is claiming a record number of votes this year. And though it may seem like the same old thing, this year is going to be a little bit different. Not because the media will be different, and not because the election will seem more real than usual, but rather there is no telling what the occupiers will do next.

Frank Luntz and the Tea Party are so concerned, with this issue, that they worked out talking points to meet with this dangerous class war. In November the PR firm of Clark, Lytle, Geduldig and Cranford sent a memo to the American Bankers Association, titled, “Occupy Wall Street Response“. The concern, that sparked the proposal, was more about the Democratic Party co-opting the movement and converting it into a support vehicle vs. an Occupy wild card scenario. The irony here isn’t so much the idea that their candidate might possibly win, but rather that Occupy was even co-optable. They’ve obviously never tried to get consensus, on a less than interesting topic, in a General Assembly.

Personally I like the Wild Card scenario possibilities. In fact why not take it to a crescendo and announce the #OccupyParty, introduce a Horizontal Candidate. And if that’s too extreme for an anarchist movement, what about supporting a candidate who won’t send in the troops or coordinate with the states to suppress Freedom of Speech. Even asking people to vote “undecided” overlooks the realities behind what these caucuses really represent. The fact of the matter is that the caucuses and the elections that follow are so animated by the media and their controllers (the 1%) that believing in elections as the outcome of peoples, well informed, conscious choice, is just slightly naive.

Occupy has incredible political advantages in its grass roots. Obama won the last election with a similar infrastructure that had similar energies behind it. The biggest advantage it has is the existing national movement with groups in every city, that could easily put all their energies into campaigning and engaging the greater community. This is a powerful point and I think you’ll begin to see more creative energies and activities, coming out of Occupy, when the culture figures out the secret to building a new society is to build it. Purely resisting what is can’t possibly change anything. In fact, I believe it only succeeds to validate the issues we resist. As the Borg say, “resistance is futile” and if you think about it, their actually right. The fact is that if you plan on destroying something unfashionable to society it has to be replaced with something better. In this instance, better is the horizontal. Better is direct democracy.

The Wild Card factor of Occupy Wall Street, coming into play during this election, is almost more powerful than what’s really happening so far in Iowa. It’s a needle in the minds of everyone engaged in the process, on every level. Its potential is being realized in retrospect of the plans and agendas set in play by the 1%, and Occupy would do well to put together a strategic political analysis teams and consider activities that build political infrastructure, while at the same time fulfilling the fears of the Tea Party for them. At this point the act of disruption, which is a great tool for gaining exposure, has already succeeded. Now it’s time for the infrastructure, and the populace synergy behind it, to step up into the Presidential Election of 2012 and consider what’s to be gained by bridging the gap between the 99%.

In Argentina, international corporate politics are consider a hinderence to occupier goals of self-determination. It would be easy to say that the Occupation itself is a class endevor, but really it’s something deeper. It’s struggle lies in its very own structure, but is this really an issue worth solving or just an attempt to hold on to past ideas, no matter how well we know the past for its outcomes, but where will we land?

Occupiers in America right now have an interesting set of options that could, by exercising them, strengthen their political value and complement their own goals by supporting an official that is friendly to the cause. There are a few political options that have surfaced, in all the events, to side with the support of the Occupy Class including; Barry Sanders, Ron Paul and a few others that could be of more help, advancing the occupation, than the current leadership.

But is this selling out the core of anarchy to simply fit in with a aging system for the political comfort of the half hearted or less? Even though it has fantastic strategic implications. Another brilliant tactic to promote a richer structure for the occupation is to call for a Constitutional Convention; demand our goals be included in the v2.0. On the other hand it promotes the structure of the state run political will, or local will, but is that a needful avoidance? Shouldn’t part of the goal be to occupy local politics?

Another, more significant option, is to stregthen the community base and set further reaching future goals to take back local resources. Cities may “obtain” possession of real estate for local projects and or “other” use, etc. The bottom line is that it seems, to me, advantageous to strengthen the ideas of what Occupation can accomplish and organize around developing the infrastructure, and a sustainable business plan, for those goals. Ones that include filling the gaps of a decaying system as the need might arrise, and eventually occupying everything.

All things considered, it might help benefit the Occupiers to support a presidential candidate for 2012. It would only take a few days to make our force a condition of the next presidential race, that would have to be met with by any candidate running. Ignoring Occupy is impossible at this point. It has become an institution and should begin acting like one politically! And, if there was a move to grease our own candidate for a run in 2012, I bet we could pull it off! Wouldn’t that be an interesting revelation for folks…

In Argentina, the movement was called Horizontalidad. It was a public direct response to a catastrophic economic event that can be seen having it’s roots in IMF loan policies being advanced by Argentine president Carlos Menen. One of the first actions taken in this sideways movement was to blockade one of the main highways and demand concessions from the government for having sold out their jobs. They held the position for several days and made all their decisions in a General Assembly, in order to be more efficient.

While the concept of Horizontalism was coming to life in Argentina it was later used in Tunisia, Egypt, Spain and Greece, before landing on the shores of North America. Several members of these actions abroad were brought together over the 10 years at a place off the Bowling Green called 16Beaver Street. !6Beaver has been hosting anarchist panels and meetings, over the years, to discuss occupation as a viable means for change. A few of the original group on August 2nd, who gathered for the first GA Meeting, were directly responsible for some of the core elements that made this movement so very successful. First and foremost, it’s collective agreement to a Horizontal model.

One thing that has been a difficulty for many writers has been to put Horizontalism into context, when I think the real difficulty lies in our construct rather. We want things to ride along a course we can plot, with points of references we’re familiar with and Horizontalism isn’t a goal. It is a method or means for collective decision making. The real power behind it is its simplest factor, which is communication. When people gather around ideas, they can learn from each others perspectives of events much faster than they would if the information were to carry along the normal routes of communication. It promotes exchange and compounds insight with discussion. I doubt we’ve seen the end of it.

The Occupation at Zucotti Park which spawned a global movement under one banner is a direct expression of the shift in human consciousness. It’s a subtle effect, inspired by our current Internet culture, that has taught us to question our social constructs and explore other regions of information; to reignite the question of why we exist together on this planet. Is it to produce and consume the natural resources or is it something else? We yearn on a very deep level to know what everyone else thinks; whether they agree with us or not, or what other options might exist. I have even noticed that when I tell people about what Occupiers do, they express a sense of relief that seems to come from their inner sense of hope.

I doubt if history will tell the story of how a group of artists from NY hi-jacked a movement that changed the world. It’s not that we aren’t fascinated by the culture behind it, really. It’s rather, the very nature of the movement itself. It positions everyone together on one level playing field. In this way everyone is the silent leadership of their own actions. It’s self learning through a round house discussion of the life and experience of occupiers, sharing their experiences and reflecting with each other, learning from those actions, and putting the result into action.

It has become abundantly clear since the subprime fallout that the current Global socioeconomic model is ruled by Method. It has the lens of capitalism by which this model is etched and fixes our perception to see the World through this agreement. Capitalism fails the true test of phenomena, which is nature; to be a self sustaining, symbiotic equilibrium. Yet it has awakened something new in all of us. It is widening our perception to include possibilities that have previously remained just out of focus, through the unique challenges it manifests. It is boring and redundant and the desire to move on to something more substantial is over-whelming!

The Internet is a highly effective window into the history of information; the accumulative wealth of experience condensed into insight. This has a powerful resonant effect to increase the mass awareness, through the specialization of information compiling. Each new generation of information adding more resonant frequency to ideas.

In a simple form it offers, everyone connected with this information, the opportunity to discover variables hidden by acclimation or innocence. If people in Tim Buck Two are successfully accomplishing their goals, we tend to share that information with each other, and invention is necessities child.

We are actually quite ahead of the curve when it comes to new things on the Internet. In fact, a lot of the things we think are new have been brewing for years in different people. The future of our experience hasn’t caught on yet. Its still a new site with a small but dedicated membership. It may have a time in the sun eventually. It just needs a reason.

The very nature of a World Wide Web is a cauldron for innovation and anarchy. It unlocks the vales that hide the real reason behind most things, and offers us more and more ways to take action. We are uniquely entitled to make our own choice about everything, and if we find something interesting we can share it with close circles and grow more aware together.

Occupy Wall Street is the outcome of the imbalance behind the truth and lies of the media, and the capitalism behind it. It is a catalyst of ideas and experience that has proven successful for others. It is a process of learning compressed from infinite individual angles to increase the efficacy in realization, and it just opened it’s eyes!

The core message that makes this one different from other types of protests we’ve seen is the culture it forms. Without a core group setting the pace there can be little longevity in any kind of movement that stirs up the mainstream. It is designed to resist everything accept true change, which it is committed to destroy. The trap is trying to destroy it gives it strength; feeds it intent.

The call behind the cultural shift around us is information. It is opening more eyes and predicating intelligence about it. It’s a chance to talk about what is happening, to share more information directly instead of relying on the media to provide it. It’s a chance for us to call into question the very ideas that form the model of our society, scrutinize them in the light of more truth, make consensus based choices as a society of self determined individuals! Truly experience direct democracy, horizontally!

You know what I think? I think it’s a response to the structure shutting down the Camps. Think about it. A portion of the occupiers is a homeless crew that had more to lose from the breakup of the parks than others, add the frustration of Police enforcing rules to “silence” Freedom of Speech. Then add in the general feeling in America, the unemployment and college debt, with no hope in sight, and Boom!

It’s a shame we even have these types of interaction in our culture; our community, incommunicado. Such resistance to the freedom of happiness.  Why on Earth do we interact with such trepidation. Whose loyalties do you serve? Shouldn’t you serve your own first, and around you form a trust, just to talk…  Much can be learned from a chat! This is the position that occupiers seek to yield, but it’s a two-edged sword.

The people who are asking the question ‘why the ports?’ are right in asking this! To me it seems obvious the system, made up of so many rules and sub-rules that interlock to form the degree of perception it holds is fact! Trying to break it alerts the structure, and the structure fights back, but if one moves with the flow of water, one will eventually see the horizon.

Since the fall of Chapman and Lownsdale squares and Terry Schrunk Plaza in Portland, their GA has expanded their online and community presence. NYCGA has turned their focus to the community and led a National shift, when they stopped the first foreclosure. It should be the federal government that’s actively stopping foreclosures, but it’s not! It’s the occupy movement that finally realized the  solution to bad lending habits!

Other occupy groups have followed with there own internal restructuring. Building their own solutions like office space and public spaces for meetings. Each group has begun to follow the leads of NY’s stand against foreclosures. This is a two pronged solution to the problem that the camps had inadvertently created unknowingly. Occupy now belongs to the whole 99% by submerging into the community.

Think about it. Occupy, in essence, is a simple platform that allows a community of people to engage. Engagement was the core of the general assemblies intention. Society should be chosen by the people living within it! And not the banks or the politicians that work for them.

The other thing this may effect is housing prices. Slowing or stopping the foreclosures has been the goal all along. It’s the salvo for stabilizing the dollar. If housing prices started to climb again, it would likely bring back lending and we’d be off to the races again. Highly unlikely, but that’s the theory the Fed’s betting on when they print mad cash and monetize the debt with it. The come back! It’s coming!

But consider this! The banks and the US created this issue by failing to regulate the banks, that were directly creating the mess. Then, they got together and, right in front of us, agree to solve their issues with “our” flippen money. Then… They turn around and start taking homes our men and women built with their sweat and labor, and the US let’s them! WTF!

Well, at this point, all I can say is apropos. They say that necessity is the mother of invention and I give you the inertial response to reckless policies. Occupy Our Homes was born out of a void left from the camp raids. It is motivated by an imbalance of political will and rhetoric, while exasperated by the shear desire for true change. And, it might just be the correct move to right the economy.

But… as an anarchist movement, we should definitely give the event some of the natural colors so famous for the dirty homelessly disorganized krusties that just took hold of the entire planets curiosity. OMG! What do they want?!

And there lies the beauty of the entire movement in a nutshell. The divine power of silence. Truth is that we aren’t enough of the whole to make decisions for the rest of us. What is Occupy, is very easy to answer! It is the chance to talk about our society with each other.  It’s not so much a direction that occupation holds, it’s the way.

The Call to the Ports should be a call to something worthy of the entire movement. Set an example to others in the World of what true value holds for a public gathered. What our society has as its strength and core value is the people who call it home! The foundation of this event called America is the Constitution that proclaims our intentions as Americans, and what we expect as a culture!

Why isn’t every event like its own Burning Man? Why don’t we gather to celebrate our culture. Instead we are met at the gates of our serenity by Police in Bad Costumes for anything fun! Buzz kill, if you ask me! Remember the good old days? Well don’t feel bad, neither can I. All I know about the World around me started with Vietnam, so the whole Freedom things seems a bit theoretical if you were to ask me!

Here’s the thing I have never understood throughout my life. The World around me seems effortless to define, and we all go along with it, but what if it’s the wrong description of the events were seeing? What if it’s something other than the one were reporting to each other, confirming? What if it’s a progression that is leading us through the events and revealing the path along the way! Seems a bit obvious, but what if the change is already happening to us as we figure it out, which innately changes our environment, and we adjust to the change.

Straight up I can tell you that I don’t have a lot of faith in the idea that the Man is going to fold in on itself. Or that we will ever secure substantial or lasting change with the cooperation of  the current system’s momentum. Our goal is not perfection, but rather the principles of freedom be expressed. To stand against this in any way is just silly, and frankly that is my feeling on the way authority practices position, and whether they like it or not, they ultimately serve the people.

We are a Star Fish!