Comments on: Global May Manifesto of the #OccupyWallStreet Movement https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/global-may-manifesto-of-the-occupywallstreet-movement/2012/05/20 Researching, documenting and promoting peer to peer practices Sun, 20 May 2012 12:07:37 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.15 By: Matthew Slater https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/global-may-manifesto-of-the-occupywallstreet-movement/2012/05/20/comment-page-1#comment-491686 Sun, 20 May 2012 12:07:37 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=23945#comment-491686 I congratulate #Occupy for distilling such a coherent statement from such a cacophony of opinions.
However as one of the citizens of the world being addressed here I don’t understand why all these demands which are usually made at governments are being communicated to me. Nor do I find the call to the streets to face off uniformed goons a very appealing prospect. My thoughts echoed here:
http://endthelie.com/2012/05/19/worldwide-protest-movements-are-they-helping-or-hurting.

#Occupy doesn’t have to agree on policy until or unless they have political power, which they are explicitly not seeking. I believe disaffected people must stop consuming and stop demanding and start producing and start giving.

The producers, the workers, are the real power base, but by cooperating with corporations their power is taken away and used against them.
Corporations derive their power from our dependence on them, both for jobs, and for life provisions. While we depend on corporations for work, food, work, water, communications, shelter, entertainment, well-being etc etc, the power relationship will not change.

That’s why we need to denominate work and exchange with money that they don’t own and control. Independent currencies support new, abundance economies from which the 1% cannot extract.

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