NYC General Assembly # Occupy Wall Street

And here as well: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/22/occupy-national-convention-philadelphia_n_1293858.html#

And here: http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2012/02/22/147260841/occupy-movement-plans-national-conference-in-philadelphia?ft=1&f=1001

And here too: http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/story/2012-02-22/occupy-philadelphia-conference/53208588/1

This level of co-optation is NOT good for Occupy. Especially considering who’s leading this.

Here’s a tweet to send:

OccupyWallStNYC: .@eyderp Please correct the title and @NPRNews tweet about the @99Declaration, which… http://dlvr.it/1Dmrkn #OWS #uk #usa

It appears that the statement “eternal vigilance is the price of liberty” is very apropos for OWS.

Interesting that so many of the comments on the article were along the lines of “Great to see Occupy getting into electoral politics”.

Rather than oppose this sentiment, could it be deflected along the lines of “Electoral politics good, empowering yourself through direct democracy, better”?

@Urbaned We have been contacting the media tirelessly, however some have refused to retract this article. I’ve also reached out to the Media Team, for a statement to be made…gotta nip stuff like this in the bud! No one should want to be associated with this project….

OWS PR released this – http://press.nycga.net/2012/02/23/ows-pr-statement-on-99-declaration/

I think we need much more coordination between occupations and other people working towards similar goals. Even if we all called for a “national GA,” I think most people would not be able to attend anyhow.

I also think that if there ever was to be a “national GA” that it should be in DC and not simply a GA but something along the lines of what I read in the book “An Act of State” which is a jolting book every American should read about the MLK assassination which had this piece of info which I think should be circulated since the idea is a fantastic one:

“By mid-1967, he began to formulate a strategy to address the widening gap between the rich & the poor. The project gradually took the form not of a march by itself but the extensive Poor People’s Campaign and mobilization culminating in an encampment in the shadow of the Washington memorial. The projection was for the establishment of a tent city of some 500,000 of the nation’s poorest and most alienated citizens, who would regularly lobby their elected officials for a range of socio-economic legislation. They would remain as long as it took to get action from the Congress.”