Nov 18th, 2011
On Occupy
Recent changes in tactics of Occupy movements make blocking traffic and disrupting flows of commerce a strategy. Not surprisingly,people are being met with arrests. Lots of folks are being cuffed and taken away from building entrances and byways. Both high profile union bosses and ordinary citizens are making the news clips in cuffs.
Moving out, by choice or eviction, of encampments like Zaccotti Park in New York or Grand Circus Park here in Detroit are being taken as defeat by some. No longer will the visual, press appealing pictures of protesters in parks serve as a backdrop to highlight the disparity in our social, political and economic landscape...case closed? I think not.
I agree with Michael Simmons, the millionaire rap-artist/social justice advocate in New York. The elephant in the room will not go away because you change the room. Simmons is a grateful 1%er. In his opinion, their is no beef with the right to earn a lot of income, get rich, trade stocks....It is in the influence that money has on the institution of government that most would agree is at the root of our national and global disparity and disenfranchisement.
Until Washington cleans its own house(s) and chambers, Occupy is not going away. I made that assessment when I announced the David v. Golliath campaign to become a US Congressman. They say I’ll be running in my home district to represent the 9th District of Michigan and will run against long-time incumbent Sander Levin, chairman of the powerful House Ways and Means committee.
I say this: I’ll run against a broken system and have as my dictate the concerns of ordinary people, that there can be no corruption of the peoples government. I will be one of many who will seek to Occupy Washington and return it to the citizens by removing, through the power of our vote, those who would threaten our citizens through the misuse of office for unreasonable personal gain, bought and sold by corporate and big-money interest that would have no issue at tearing down our communities for their own personal gain.
The people are not going away, nor would any rational, grateful, industrious 1%er want them to. As Henry Ford showed us here in Detroit 100 years ago, when you give your workers the dignity and respect of a fair paying job, they will become your greatest asset as a customer.
Keep that mindset with every American having an equal chance, and we shall overcome.
AJ O’Neil
On Occupy
Recent changes in tactics of Occupy movements make blocking traffic and disrupting flows of commerce a strategy. Not surprisingly,people are being met with arrests. Lots of folks are being cuffed and taken away from building entrances and byways. Both high profile union bosses and ordinary citizens are making the news clips in cuffs.
Moving out, by choice or eviction, of encampments like Zaccotti Park in New York or Grand Circus Park here in Detroit are being taken as defeat by some. No longer will the visual, press appealing pictures of protesters in parks serve as a backdrop to highlight the disparity in our social, political and economic landscape...case closed? I think not.
I agree with Michael Simmons, the millionaire rap-artist/social justice advocate in New York. The elephant in the room will not go away because you change the room. Simmons is a grateful 1%er. In his opinion, their is no beef with the right to earn a lot of income, get rich, trade stocks....It is in the influence that money has on the institution of government that most would agree is at the root of our national and global disparity and disenfranchisement.
Until Washington cleans its own house(s) and chambers, Occupy is not going away. I made that assessment when I announced the David v. Golliath campaign to become a US Congressman. They say I’ll be running in my home district to represent the 9th District of Michigan and will run against long-time incumbent Sander Levin, chairman of the powerful House Ways and Means committee.
I say this: I’ll run against a broken system and have as my dictate the concerns of ordinary people, that there can be no corruption of the peoples government. I will be one of many who will seek to Occupy Washington and return it to the citizens by removing, through the power of our vote, those who would threaten our citizens through the misuse of office for unreasonable personal gain, bought and sold by corporate and big-money interest that would have no issue at tearing down our communities for their own personal gain.
The people are not going away, nor would any rational, grateful, industrious 1%er want them to. As Henry Ford showed us here in Detroit 100 years ago, when you give your workers the dignity and respect of a fair paying job, they will become your greatest asset as a customer.
Keep that mindset with every American having an equal chance, and we shall overcome.
AJ O’Neil
