Also, the 99% Spring, after the Arab Spring. This spring kicks off the election year protests and civil unrest by the left. I received another move on.org email inviting me to a protest rally in Canton at some bank on Thursday, 3/15 at 2:30 in the afternoon. Did they learn nothing from '68? Maybe they've developed a new strategy.
They’ve got “5 million members” but only 335,000 “like” them? That’s some pretty crappy math right there. Somebody is flippin’ lying.
There are almost certainly numbers that are more up-to-date, but from a November 16, 2011 report on a poll by Public Policy Polling:
“The Occupy Wall Street movement is not wearing well with voters across the country. Only 33% now say that they are supportive of its goals, compared to 45% who say they oppose them.”
So please, any FReepers reading this, if you get into a discussion with anyone about the “99%”, be sure to refer to them as the “33%” (and even that’s probably being generous).
I’m not sure I would believe “admissions” from moveon.
Its definitely worth some research though.
No. They are taking credit for Rosa Park’s brave stand, in an effort to profit from it.
Highlander Research and Education Center (Wiki)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highlander_Research_and_Education_Center
The Highlander Research and Education Center, formerly known as the Highlander Folk School, is a social justice leadership training school and cultural center located in New Market, Tennessee. Founded in 1932 by activist Myles Horton, educator Don West, and Methodist minister James A. Dombrowski, it was originally located in the community Summerfield in Grundy County, Tennessee, between Monteagle and Tracy City. It was featured in the 1985 documentary film You Got to Move.
Highlander has provided training and education for the labor movement in Appalachia and throughout the Southern United States. During the 1950s, it played a critical role in the American Civil Rights Movement. It trained civil rights leader Rosa Parks prior to her historic role in the Montgomery Bus Boycott, as well as providing training for many other movement activists including the members of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), Septima Clark, Anne Braden, Martin Luther King, Jr., James Bevel, Bernard Lafayette, Ralph Abernathy and John Lewis in the mid- and-late 1950s. Backlash against the school’s involvement with the Civil Rights Movement led to the school’s closure by the state of Tennessee in 1961. It reorganized and moved to Knoxville, Tennessee, where it reopened, later becoming the Highlander Research and Education Center.
I'm surprised to see them admit this. Certainly not how it is taught. MLK was also 'trained'.
There’s also a more powerful and direct difference between Rosa Parks and the Occupy movement.
Rosa Parks was protesting an obvious injustice that was apparent to everyone looking at it. Segregation, racial separation, and the entire edifice of race-based preference was obviously immoral on its face.
The demands of the Occupy movement, on the other hand, are just rehashed Marxist beliefs pasted onto the faces of the clueless and the politically motivated. There’s a Grand Canyon of distance between tearing down segregation and tearing down capitalism and the American civic society.
Most of us see that, too.
The Occupy movement is holding out hope that they’ll be the 21st century Bolsheviks, a small group of cadres who will be able to take over the reins of power when the system is in chaos. Occupy hopes to forment that chaos. They’re waiting for their moment, true, but they’re also making sure to hasten the day.
God help us.
This moral equivilence is laughable. Saying that if a righteous movement uses certain tactics then one becomes righteous by using them also does not follow. It would be like saying the American Revolution used guns so we are justified in shooting anyone who opposes free contraception.
A couple of weeks ago I heard George Soros claim credit for the “Arab Spring” and he is also behind this occupy stuff. I do think that it’s time that those of us who care should stop paying for cable TV since they are basically our enemy. Hit em where it hurts.
wow, never heard of the Highland Center.
I’m actually disheartened, I never knew the extent of the Marxist influence in the civil rights movement.
Where do we go from here? There is an entire generation that has been brainwashed.
I’ve got to go watch an escapist movie on Netflix or something, spent this morning “discussing” with a black man on facebook with a black fist as his profile picture claiming to be a Christian. My head is exploding!
The other thing TV won’t tell you about the civil rights movement is that it was pitted, first and foremost, against the laws and policies of Democrats in those state.
Yeah, how many democrates were against it
They’re going to protest on TAX DAY?!
LOL. Stole that idea from the Tea Party.
It's worth more than $5, but I've got a few magazines of .308 that I'll, er, contribute.