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Vision and Focus
There is historical precedent — in general, it’s true, the good guys are not the ones destroying libraries. It leads to a weaker democracy. A well-educated citizenry makes better decisions.
- Jamie, Occupy Wall Street Librarian
OccupyEducated.org seeks to educate and unite the movement, in order to create the change we need.
As Occupiers around the world are evicted from their local encampments, and as their libraries are being thrown in the garbage, OccupyEducated.org seeks to help the Occupy movement into the next phase, transitioning the movement from the streets to the web, by creating a virtual education center.
OccupyEducated.org serves as an educational and communications hub for local Occupiers to go global, to educate each other on the systemic crises we face, and help plan local actions that will make global change.
Our current focus is on uniting the people, by educating them about the most fundamental problems of our government, economy, and society. We seek to help people sort through the smoke and see the fires; we encourage fellow Occupiers to focus less on plethora of symptomatic problems, and instead seek the systemic problems that created the symptoms we experience.
Once we come together to educate ourselves on these issues, we can have the best base from which to make decision on how our local actions can resolve root-level problems in our system.
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Loved the analogy of the bananas. I keep a quote on my desktop. Here, share:
"Why not go out on a limb? - Isn't that where the fruit is?"
Frank Skully
(Probably some Grifter, but ain't it the truth?)
ps.
Elijah Rising is now used by high schools and colleges as a teaching tool. The manuscript was placed in Teaching Tolerance Library of the Southern Poverty Law Center by Morris Dees under title: Michael’s Journal
I've already been shushed twice and hit with a late return fine.
Man, say hello to the new boss.
I don't think it will get that bad again but when they start suppressing free speech and educational material then we need to watch out before it gets too far out of hand.
--i.f. stone
"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both."
--supreme court justice louis brandeis
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!"
--upton sinclair
"One withstands the invasion of armies; one does not withstand the invasion of ideas."
--victor hugo
occupy party reaches critical mass/seismic effect--now what?