"they hate not being in control, even for a minute"

[marmar]

from the Working Life blog:



by Jonathan Tasini
Friday 14 of October, 2011


.....(snip).....

Lesson Number One: some things are really worth getting up at 5 a.m. for. This was one of them. And I'd do it again--any time. By the end of last night, I knew something big was going to happen--after 10 emails from different organizations and people calling for everyone to come and defend the Square, I was confident that we would prevail.

Lesson Number Two: A relatively small number of people can win and defeat the system. So, when someone says, "we need you"...they do and it's worth it. Sometimes, I personally make a decision not to go to a rally, when it's clear there will be 100,000 people and one extra body won't matter. But--here, now, every body is needed.

Think about it: in percentage terms, we were just a speck in this big city. But, people turned out from every corner of the city--at 6 a.m. That speck turned away an entire police force and a billionaire mayor from sweeping away OWS.

.....(snip).....

Lesson Number Three: Power is an illusion--an illusion that works ONLY when we are unwilling to challenge it. The mayor does not run New York--if we are willing to act. I do not underestimate the power of the police to clamp down. But, as I marched after we preserved the square, you could also see that, with a relatively small number of people--see Lesson Two--we had them unsure of what to do; they hate not being in control, even for a minute, and that's why we are seeing some acts of truly unprovoked violence from the police. ............(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.workinglife.org/blogs/view_post.php?content_id=15316

[SammyWinstonJack]

1. K&R

[lunatica]

2. The hundredth monkey woke up

Among the Arab Spring and the Wisconsin resistance and Occupy Wall Street something happened that just changed the world.

I have my own theory. People suddenly lost their fear and realized their role in what's been happening. We've been letting 'them', the Powers That Be, manipulate us, whether we were conscious of it or not. But somewhere along the line the Hundredth Monkey concept kicked in. There is no crushing this simply because it's too widespread, it's formless and very fluid, and it's based on an idea who's time has come. The police thugs can whack at individuals and at groups, but they can't contain this. Their tactics are reduced to ineffective Whack A Mole actions.

[monmouth]

3. +10000