On the #Occupy Movement and Homeless Refugees:

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Posted: 10.22.2011

The emergence of the #Occupy Wall Street Movement, still relatively recent on the world stage, has sparked a resonating raw nerve in people who were already angry, discontent and demanding significant fundamental change in the way the US Government governs. It has created what is now a quickly growing global movement against the monopoly capitalist ruling class with global reverberations we are beginning to feel more in our daily lives. It has vast potential for stirring up mass consciousness and collective mass actions. It is developing at a rapid exponential rate ~multiplying within itself. #OWS (#Occupy Wall Street) and a call for #Global_Revolution have become popular hashtags on Twitter. We stand against all unjust regimes and smiling tyrants. Our supporters are growing and we are legion!

All social issues are inherently interconnected and none should be seen in total isolation. The core issues of the #Occupy Movement involves the corrupting evil influence of Wall Street bankers on the global economy in ways that have greatly increased the misery of mass poverty here now and throughout the whole world. This suffering has been an on-going historical problem for all of humankind and gets increasingly worse with the passage of time and developing social-political circumstances. We are an endangered species of life!

As one humane family all our basic needs are common: food, clothing, shelter, medical care and liberating education. Many are going hungry, ragged, existing outside, in need of medical care and lacking education in terms of how to go about seeking liberation from the psycho-social forces of economic oppression, authoritarian repression and humane alienation from nature.

To closely examine the existential reality of a given society one must look closely at how it treats it homeless refugees ~the canary in the mine. People generally do not see the local homeless population as refugees because refugees are generally seen as being from a foreign country. Our homeless in the United States are, in fact, refugees from a failed state, from a failed society, indeed, from a collapsing civilization. They are domestic refugees, that is, originating from our own society and not generally foreign born.

However, in the United States we have the whole question of Mexican immigrants here who roughly number at least eleven (11) million people and who have fled the failed State of Mexico. Exact estimates of homeless refugees and officially illegal or undocumented immigrants are impossible to ascertain. It is the nature of the beast. Many people are under the official radar, constantly shape shifting in the shadows and not under direct targeted surveillance. No domestic drone attacks yet!

Inside the United States, we must first overcome all denial and admit that we are now living under a mature fascist state that allows some basic reforms and some street protests, but will not permit any serious threat to their staying ‘in power and secure’. The official government, its fascist police forces and armed forces are the legal representatives and armed bodyguards for the corporate ruling class. Yes, we still do live in a class society divided by distinct economic classes. The two main classes remain the same: the 1% of the ‘haves’ and the 99% of the ‘have-nots’.

Fascism must allow for some surface economic reform to perpetuate the false illusion of social progress, but the fundamental power relationships between various social forces remains. Reforms will never be enough for what is a fundamentally flawed unjust economic system. For example, it is not a question of mere prison reform that is at issue here, but a larger question. Why does the USA have more prisons and jails than all other countries combined as they feverishly build even more prisons? Who are all those prison cells for?

Yes, there is a class war going on whether one participates in it on either side or not. Every moment present-day society is polarizing more and more between the ‘haves’ and the ’have-nots’. We require a true democracy. A valid democracy requires the active direct participation of all its citizens by our being aware of current events, helping in our local communities and voting on Election Days. As Malcolm X stated: It is the ballot or the bullet!

The various manifestations of the #Occupy Movement are different in each city, town or geo-political situation. Its diversity is a key part of its beauty with the powers of Wall Street bankers it central focus and main target. We are sharing together and learning from each other. We are finding out what is going on here and elsewhere via Internet Power and other forms of mass communications, such as the mobile phone with text-messaging. The Teach-Ins popular in the 60s have been revitalized with new teachings. We are using the power of the word, images and sounds to stimulate mass consciousness and galvanize mass actions.

Here in Sacramento, California a demand for a legal campground site for homeless people ~a Safeground without violence or illegal drugs monitored by the homeless themselves~ has been a central agenda item for a long time for those of us who are part of the #Safeground Movement. Right now the City of Sacramento continues to arrest, harass and intimidate homeless people who camp off the American River and at other locations. Sacramento in Northern California is located at a confluence of the Sacramento River, the longest one in California, and the smaller American River. Sacramento is the State Capitol of California and a strategic nerve center of the Amerikan Empire. We want a legally recognized campsite where we can exist out in the open and be left in peace. Local Emergency Shelters are generally full and are operate like human warehouses without significant social services being offered to clients. We want freedom and the power to determine our own destiny without unjust government interference and law enforcement personnel dismantling our campgrounds evicting us from being outside!

The creation of #Occupy Sacramento centered in Cesar Chavez Plaza Park has become a magnet for many of us who seek relevant social change. Now there is even an active #Occupy Movement in nearby Davis, California ~known as a college town. The #Occupy Movement and homeless refugees should be and are natural allies. So far, the City of Sacramento has not allowed #Occupy Sacramento overnight occupation at Cesar Chavez Plaza, across from the old City Hall building. Mayor Kevin Johnson is now willing to engage in dialogue knowing that the 99% cannot be ignored and will no longer be silent. All elected officials who oppose the #Occupy should be VOTED OUT OF OFFICE come the next election! Our silence when confronted by injustice is a shame for any conscientious humane being. We have mouths to speak up and must speak our minds when the situation calls for it as it does today.

We must seek as many natural allies as possible based upon our common humane needs, despite any ideological differences and conflicts of personal opinions. We must exercise our humane rights as a life-style and protest any violations of our humane rights. Rights are essentially a matter of recognizing our common humanity as humane beings. Being humane is to have care, concern and compassion for all. Our humane rights are endowed to us by the very fact of our existence upon Mother Earth. Our humane rights are guaranteed by the U.S. Bill of Rights. We inherit our humane rights as humane beings as our birthright. Humane rights are not first given to us by any government nor should they be taken away without great protest by us.

Naturally, the #Occupy Movement will continue to grow, develop and expand. We seek to exhaust all legal peaceful methods of struggle. A long-term strategic aim is #Global Revolution by any means necessary, though we deeply desire a Peaceful Revolution without bloodshed. We are the majority 99% of the general population.

The maxim remains: politics is war without bloodshed and war is politics with bloodshed. We strive for Peace on Mother Earth and demand what we deserve: the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable.”
~ President John F. Kennedy

Links:
http://occupywallst.org/ @OccupyWallSt

http://www.occupysacto.org @OccupySacto

http://www.occupydavis.org @OccupyDavis

http://www.safegroundsac.org/ @SafeGroundSac

Venceremos! Che Peta
c/s

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