Think of it as a toolkit, a HUGE soapbox that we can all stand on that is rock solid enough to hold us.

IF we adopt this as another tool in our tool box, it would send an incredibly powerful message to the world and would absolutely help us gain another level.

Please, please, let’s make this a priority to at least understand and address it (and hopefully take the powerful step of adopting it). By adopting it, we will prove to the world that we are in fact capable of consensus on something complex and powerful– something that has real teeth that is a cornerstone of a united cause.

Please, please, try to read, understand and share. Urge all to read so that we can have an informed discussion and reach am informed consensus either way. Every day that we do not invoke that document is an opportunity lost to send the 1% a powerful message that will make them have more respect for us.

The document can be found here: http://pastebin.com/gm2UV08D

I would like to see a page on this site with a list of needs, prioritized, for those who would like to help but can’t always be physically present.

It’s time to leave the strategy of occupying city parks behind. Occupying city parks does not serve as a meaningful way to protest the widening gap between the richest 1% and the remaining 99%. Instead, we need to focus on meaningful and direct ways to target greed at among the top 1% and target those who such greed in the first place.

We spent over a month protesting in the park. How much time was spent protesting at our local main branches of big banks? The main branch of Wells Fargo is a block away from our parks and we never made a meaningful protest presence there. It makes no sense. People should be arrested for not leaving the perimeter we create around banks and investment firms, not parks.

It’s time for a new strategy. Call it Occupy 2.0. Direct, meaningful protests in order to get results, even if the only result is making the lives of the greediest of the greedy miserable.

Finally, we need a new strategy for dealing with local media. We need to befriend the media and use them to get our message out. How do we do that? We create newsworthy direct and meaningful protests. And then we invite members of the media to have their members embedded within our group to witness the protests first hand. We need to legally make news. We need to befriend the media and try to do their jobs for them. Remember, the local media are middle class people too. Many of their reporters aren’t even full time. They are the 99%. Excluding right wing radio, most of the local media already agree with what we stand for. We need to help them report it.