Category Archives: Occupy Wall Street

Occupy All the Harlems, to Save Ourselves from the Dictatorship of Wall Street

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via Black Agenda Report

by BAR executive editor Glen Ford

The question for Black America is not what’s going on in the heads of young white people in Zuccotti Park, but how WE will organize in our own defense against Wall Street, which has “done more damage to Black people than anyone else” in the country. Barack Obama, “most of the traditional Black organizations, and the entire Black Misleadership Class” are all bought and paid for by finance capital. “Our job is to wake our people up, so that we don’t sleep through this moment.”

Read more at Black Agenda Report

RE:#OccupyWallSt, TO: those of us sitting on the fence….

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Let’s support the Occupy Movement by considering ourselves part of it. Which we are because we are the 99%. Eliminate the us and them dynamic I’m hearing. Let’s do what we need to do as individuals or as members of an organization by considering yourself a leader in the movement, which we as Black people have always been in struggles for justice in this country. As Black people ONLY we have the experience and legacy of leadership needed to take this movement to the next level. We are the leaders of this movement. We only need to take our place.

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