Showing posts with label 99% Spring. Show all posts
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Thursday, April 26, 2012

The 99% Spring: So What?

The 99% Spring: So What?

The 99% Spring is a effort to mobilize the people in support of the current President's reelection.  How can this be, you ask, since President Obama is never mentioned on their website or in their training?  If you compare the major themes of the 99% Spring with President Obama's political statements and the ideas in his book, "The Audacity to Hope," you will see that they are virtually identical.

Their overall plan probably looks something like this:

1. Occupy Wall Street (OWS).  Through mass publicity of OWS protests, bring to the people's attention a vehicle for them to protest their grievances against free-market capitalism and the current form of government.  Provide the current socialist leadership across the United States experience leading protests. 

2. Train protest leaders.  Attract, indoctrinate, radicalize, and train common people who are attracted to the cause of Occupy Wall Street to mobilize the Proletariat masses.

3. Conduct the 99% Spring.  Following in the spirit of the American-backed Arab Spring, bring a larger group of people to the streets executing "non-violent direct action" at specific targets considered part of the 1%.  This gives the new leadership experience leading protests, encourages more people to get excited about the movement and its causes.

4. Assess, train new leadership and new tactics.  Use the summer to assess the effectiveness of the 99% Spring, adjust their messaging and tactics based on the current political situation, and prepare for the 99% Fall.  They may use this opportunity to progress to more disruptive and potentially violent tactics to place the nation in turmoil just prior to the November elections.  Attract, indoctrinate, radicalize, and train more activists.

5. "The Event." A significant event will be orchestrated/facilitated/exploited in the United States that will add urgency to the agenda of the President, and therefore that of the 99%.  The belief is that this event will convince an enormous number of people to join the cause for the President's re-election, as he will be seen as the solution, not the cause, of this great problem.  It is uncertain what this event will be, but it is necessary to garner more support behind the cause.   A potential target will be the youth (college students and recent graduates burdened by student loans?), as they have historically been exploited for radical causes.

6. Conduct the 99% Fall.  Get the re-enforced 99% in the streets to directly impact the national Presidential election with a mass movement demanding the re-election of President Obama as his ideology matches exactly with the issues being protested by the 99%.  Demonstrate the outright anger and disgust the people have with the current ruling elite (business), free-market capitalism, and the American Republic based on the Constitution.  Demonize Romney as the epitome of the oppressive 1%.  Conduct a massive protest at the Republican National Convention.  Call for the institution of socialist practices, policies and regulations.

This is a brilliant strategy, as President Obama's opponent, Governor Mitt Romney, can easily be portrayed as the poster child for the 1% who are blamed for all the nation's ills.  This will provide the 99% with a clear, singular target of their angst as November approaches.  This provides the Obama Administration's re-election campaign a very sharp weapon in their toolbox to influence the electorate, a la Saul Alinsky.  Brother Saul may be dead, but his ideas haunt us to this very day.

On the other side, Mitt Romney does not have any mobilized forces of his own.  Should he co-opt a group like the Tea Party to support his cause, the 99% Spring minions/goons will have much more experience by the Fall, and will be very well prepared to counter and intimidate any force that may surface in support of Romney.  I can foresee the 99% initiating violence between them and Tea Party advocates, requiring a crack down by the government...and the 99% Spring forces will be favored by the Federal arm of Government.

What does this mean for you?  Putting it all together, this is a major push by American socialists to overthrow our current way of life and replace it with a socialist form of government and economy that is "fair" and "just" for all.  They are executing a brilliant bait and switch, by telling you they support all the words of the Declaration of Independence and Constitution, but removing the base upon which it was founded and replacing it with Marxism.  This is the best chance the Marxists have ever had to overthrow the American way of life, and they are going to play for keeps.  This is serious, folks.  They will most likely go so far as to manufacture the crisis as described above and not let it go to waste.

May God be watching over and protecting us this year.

Disclaimer: These opinions are solely my own, and do not reflect the opinions or official positions of any United States Government agency, organization or department.

Wednesday, April 25, 2012

The 99% Spring: Themes and Targets



Themes and Targets

It is crucial to understand the ideology behind, and the objectives of, the 99% Spring.  What follows is a summary based on their website and the training material found therein.

Who are the 1%?  The 1% are defined as "not just rich people, but those people who deliberately and intentionally use their power and wealth to rig the economy and co-opt the democratic process."
"Rich people don't need governments...they take care of themselves."
"The 1% attack our democracy and government."
"The 1% want to protect their control over the workplace and economy."
"The 1% are trying to take away the right to vote."
"Those with money supress the many."
"The 1% strategy is to divide and conquer--attack and shut out minorities (Latinos, Muslims, GLBT, etc.) from the economy.  The 1% attack minorities to distract the people from the real culprit of our woes--the 1%."
"The 1% trashes the planet."
Who are the 99%?  Generally, it is supposed to be everyone else, especially those suffering in the current economic conditions which they fully blame on the 1% and their greed.
"This is class warfare."
"Trayvon Martin is the 99%."
"With this economy, if you are poor, you are on your own." (Van Jones using Hurricane Katrina as an example...yes, the exposed socialist Van Jones and former White House czar makes an appearance in the training videos.)
General Themes:
(1) Holding banks accountable
(2) Corporate tax dodging
(3) Shareholder meetings
(4) Getting money out of politics
(5) Local campaigns
(6) Occupy our homes
(7) Workers rights (I believe the issue of illegal immigration will be included here)

Other Themes:
(1) Animal rights
(2) [Illegal] immigrant rights (they will never call them illegal)
(3) GLBT agenda issues
(4) Trayvon Martin, gun control, 'stand your ground' laws
(5) Military industrial complex
(6) Debt from college tuition
(7) FDR's control of the economy was good (centralized, government management of the economy)
(8) Reagan is to blame for the disenfranchisement of Unions (Labor Movement) and thus the workers, the dismantling of FDR's New Deal, and the deregulation of banking.  According to these folks, the free market economy started with Reagan.  (He is bad.)
(9) Corporate control of America is a grand conspiracy
(10) Tax the rich
(11) There has been a deliberate transfer of wealth from the middle class to the rich

...and anything else you can think of that people want to protest as long as they fit the socialist agenda for America.   (In other words, they will not support issues like pro-life, prayer in schools, freedom of Christian worship, etc.  They are absolutely biased in the support of socialist causes.)  With the 99% Spring, socialists are attempting to create the conditions for a mass popular uprising in support of the rejection of free-market capitalism and the establishment of socialism in the United States of America.

Targets That Were Identified Specifically:
(1) WalMart
(2) Banks (student loans, home mortgages...the banks are a big target)
(3) Elections
(4) Wall Street
(5) Restaurants
(6) Schools
(7) Oil companies
(8) Corporations
(9) Wealthy elites

Who are they not blaming or targeting directly?  So far they have not mentioned Christian churches or specific politicians outright.  However, these two groups would make sensible targets if they really want to achieve socialism in the United States.

At no point do they ever blame the current President, Administration or its policies.  The silence in this area is telling, since the 99% Spring movement is being coordinated to assist in the President's re-election.

If you want to see who around you may be involved with these protests, visit the 99% Spring Facebook page and observe who is posting there.


Disclaimer: These opinions are solely my own, and do not reflect the opinions or official positions of any United States Government agency, organization or department.

Monday, April 23, 2012

The 99% Spring: The Organizations




The Organizations

Here is the letter signed by 40 organizations that launched the 99% Spring project.  What follows the letter is a list of supporting organizations--a "Who's Who" of the socialist organizations in America.

Also of note, one of the trainers for non-violent direct action as seen in the 99% Spring training videosKeron Blair from Jamaica, works at the Midwest Academy, which carries the torch in America for the propagation of the tactics taught by the radical Saul Alinsky.  You can view some of my previous posts on Alinsky and his tactics at these links:
Another 99% Spring trainer is Mehrdad Azemun from Iran, who works for National People's Action.

DATE: February 15, 2012
TO: America
RE: The 99% Spring

Things should never have reached this point.
Every day, the American Dream seems a little farther away. More of our grandparents are being thrown from their homes. Our mothers and fathers can’t retire because their pension funds tanked. Our brothers and sisters are burdened by student loan debt. For our children, budget cuts have resulted in crumbling schools, skyrocketing class sizes, and teachers being denied the supports they need to do their best. Our friends and family are being denied collective bargaining rights in their workplaces and are falling further and further behind. Our neighbors are being poisoned by pollution in our air and water.
The numbers are staggering: in recent years, millions of jobs have been destroyed, homes foreclosed, and an unconscionable number of children live in poverty.
And worst of all: this is no accident. It is a result of rampant greed—the deliberate manipulation of our democracy and our economy by a tiny minority in the 1%, by those who amass ever more wealth and power at our expense.
We are at a crossroads as a country. We have a choice to make. Greater wealth for a few or opportunity for many. Tax breaks for the richest or a fair shot for the rest of us. A government that can be bought by the highest bidder, or a democracy that is truly of the people, by the people, and for the people.
The choice is in our hands. This spring, we will act on that choice and rise up in the tradition of our forefathers and foremothers. We will not be complicit with the suffering in our families for another year. We will prepare ourselves for sustained non-violent direct action.
From April 9-15 we will gather across America, 100,000 strong, in homes, places of worship, campuses and the streets to join together in the work of reclaiming our country. We will organize trainings to:
  1. Tell the story of our economy: how we got here, who’s responsible, what a different future could look like, and what we can do about it
  2. Learn the history of non-violent direct action, and
  3. Get into action on our own campaigns to win change.
This spring we rise! We will reshape our country with our own hands and feet, bodies and hearts. We will take non-violent action in the spirit of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Gandhi to forge a new destiny one block, one neighborhood, one city, one state at a time.
We know great change is possible. We inherit a history of everyday people standing up for their own dignity, freedom, and self-determination, shaping our direction as a country. The seamstress in Alabama who launched a bus boycott. The farmers in New England and Virginia who imagined we could be a free nation. The workers in Flint, Michigan who occupied their plant to win collective bargaining rights. The farmworkers in California who liberated our fields. The women in New York who dreamed they could one day speak with equal voice. The mother who stood up in Love Canal to stop the poisoning of her community. And the students who risked their lives during Freedom Summer to register voters.
In the last year alone we watched the teachers and fire fighters of Wisconsin stand for the rights of workers. And we joined those who Occupied Wall Street, inspiring us to stand with the 99%.
We will rise this spring, because we DO hold these truths to be self evident—that all men and women are created equal, that we are endowed by our Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.
Will you rise with us? Can we count on you to join us April 9th to 15th to stand with the 99% for America?

Signed:

Sarita Gupta
Jobs With Justice
Bob King
United Auto Workers
George Goehl
National Peoples Action
Ai-jen Poo
National Domestic Workers Alliance
Justin Ruben
MoveOn.org
Joy Cushman & Judith Freeman
New Organizing Institute
Liz Butler
Movement Strategy Center
John Sellers & Andrew Boyd
The Other 98%
Mary Kay Henry
Service Employees International Union
Richard Trumka
AFL-CIO
Van Jones & Natalie Foster
Rebuild the Dream
Rashad Robinson
Color of Change
John Wilhelm
UNITE-HERE
Phil Radford
Greenpeace
John Cavanagh
Institute for Policy Studies
Scott Reed
PICO National Network
Tracy Van Slyke & Ilana Berger
New Bottom Line
Lawrence Guyot
Veterans of the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement
Julian Bond
SNCC Legacy Project
Leo Gerard
United Steel Workers
John Stocks
National Education Association
Daniel Cantor
Working Families Party
Larry Cohen
Communications Workers of America
Victor Sanchez, Jr.
United States Student Association
Becky Tarbotton
Rainforest Action Network
Randi Weingarten
American Federation of Teachers
Brian Kettenring
Leadership Center for the Common Good
Randy Jackson
UNITY
Saket Soni
National Guestworker Alliance
Bill McKibben & May Boeve
350.org
Sharon Lungo & Megan Swoboda
The Ruckus Society
Ian Inaba
Citizen Engagement Lab
Patrick Reinsborough & Doyle Canning
smartMeme Strategy & Training Project
Rachel LaForest
Right to the City Alliance
Brigid Flaherty
Pushback Network
Aimee Allison
RootsAction
Drew Hudson
USAction
Richard Hopson
Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment
Tim Carpenter
Progressive Democrats of America
Bob Callahan
Change to Win
Michael Leon Guerrero
Grassroots Global Justice Alliance
Roger Hickey
Campaign for America's Future
David Donnelly & Nicholas Nyhart
Public Campaign Action Fund
Aaron Ostrom
Fuse Washington
Jeff Ordower
Missourians Organizing for Reform and Empowerment
Karen Scharff
Citizen Action of New York
Marianne Manilov
Engage
Bruce Klipple
United Electrical Workers Union
Pablo Alvarado
National Day Laborers Organizing Network
LeeAnn Hall
Alliance for a Just Society
Leslie Moody
The Partnership for Working Families
Teresa Cheng
United Students Against Sweatshops
Arturo Carmona
Presente.org
Robin McGehee & Heather Cronk
Get Equal
Gerald McEntee
American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees
Hugh Espey
Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement
Patti Lynn
Corporate Accountability International
Bob Nicklas
American Federation of Government Employees
Aparna Shah
Mobilize the Immigrant Vote
Celia Kutz
Training for Change
Chris Gabriele
People Organized for Westside Renewal (POWER)
Chris Hicks
Student Labor Action Project
Corrine Fowler
Colorado Progressive Coalition
Phaedra Ellis Lamkins
Green for All
Lillian Walker Shelton
DC Jobs with Justice
Tom Swan
Connecticut Citizen Action Group
Sarah Weintraub
Vermont Workers' Center
Judy Hertz
Midwest Academy
Sondra Youdelman
Community Voices Heard
Eric Byler
The Coffee Party
Victor Menotti
International Forum on Globalization
Joe Hansen
UFCW International Union
Sulma Arias
Sunflower Community Action
Don Carlson
Illinois People's Action
Jennifer Ritter
Lakeview Action Coalition
Kirsten Moller
Global Exchange
Bob Fulkerson
Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada
Rev. Bruce Wright
Poor Peooples Economic Human Rights Campaign
James P. Hoffa
International Brotherhood of the Teamsters
Elspeth Gilmore and Jessie Spector
Resource Generation
Pamela J. McMichael
Highlander Research and Education Center
Pamela Twiss
TakeAction Minnesota
Maura Cowley
Energy Action Coalition
Steve Kretzmann
Oil Change International
Will Tanzman
Southsiders Organized for Unity and Liberation
Jodie Evans
CODEPINK: Women for Peace
Steve Schnapp
United for a Fair Economy
Ethan Rome
Health Care for America Now
Arlene Englehardt
Pacifica Radio
(I have not researched every one of these groups, so I highlighted those that are either well know as marxist/progressive, or have a pretty obvious name that advertises their beliefs.)

Disclaimer: These opinions are solely my own, and do not reflect the opinions or official positions of any United States Government agency, organization or department.

The 99% Spring: Forewarned is Forearmed




Forewarned is Forearmed

It is Spring in America, and MoveOn.org, et al, claim to have trained 100,000 people from 9-15 April 2012 for non-violent direct action.  Their advertised national action days are as follows:
April 24 Wells Fargo Shareholder meeting, San Francisco
April 25 1T Day: Breaking the Link between Higher Education and the Banks on the day student loan debt passes $1 Trillion
April 25 GE Shareholder Meeting, Detroit
May 1 May Day (support Occupy and Immigrant rights groups) [this is International Workers' Day, which is a celebration of the international labor movement and left-wing movements; this day will most likely be enormous throughout western nations to advance the cause of global socialism]
May 3 Verizon shareholder meeting
May 5 Connect the Dots
May 9 Bank of American Shareholder meeting, North Carolina
May 24 Sallie Mae Shareholder meeting, Delaware
June 1 Walmart Shareholder meeting, Arkansas
Notice how they are targeting shareholder meetings.  They are taking a page from Saul Alinsky's "Rules for Radicals."  (By the way, the Midwest Academy which is the current day repository for teaching Alinsky tactics is a participating organization, along with a Who's Who of socialist organizations.)
"We know that we are predominantly a middle-class society living in a corporate economy, an economy that tends to form conglomerates so that in order to know where the power lies, you have to find out who owns whom. For some years past it's been like trying to find the pea in the shell game” but now there are strobe lights flashing for further confusion. The one thing certain is that masses of middle-class Americans are ready to move toward major confrontations with corporate America. 
 "College students have argued that their administrations should give student committees the proxies in their stock portfolios for use in the struggle for peace and against pollution, inflation, racially discriminatory policies, and other evils.... 
"The proxy idea first came up as a way to gain entrance to the annual stockholders' meeting for harassment and publicity, and again accident and necessity played a part....
"Soon I was intoxicated by the possibilities. You could begin to play the whole Wall Street Board up and down. You could go to, say, Corporation Z, point out your proxy holding there, mention that there were certain grievances you had against them for some of their bad policy operations, but that you were willing to forget about them (for the time being) if they would use their stock to put pressure on Corporation Q for the sake of influencing Corporation X. The same muscle could be applied to Corporation Q itself. You could make your deals up and down. Always operating in your favor was the self-interest of the corporations and the fact that they hate each other. This is what I would call corporate jujitsu....
"Proxies represented a key to participation by the middle class. But the question was how to organize it. These people, the vast majority of Americans, who feel helpless in the huge corporate economy, who don't know which way to turn, have begun to turn away from America, to abdicate as citizens. They rationalize their action by saying that, after all, the experts and the government will take care of it all. They are like the Have-Nots who, when unorganized and powerless, simply resign themselves to a sad scene. Proxies can be the mechanism by which these people can organize, and once they are organized they will re-enter the life of politics. Once organized around proxies they will have a reason to examine, to become educated about, the various corporation policies and practices both domestic and foreign because now they can do something about them.
"There will even be "fringe benefits." Trips to stockholders' meetings will bring drama and adventure into otherwise colorless and sedentary suburban lives. Proxy organizations will help bridge the generation gap, as parents and children join in the battle against the Pentagon and the corporations." (from Saul Alinsky's "Rules for Radicals")
FOREWARNED IS FOREARMED.


Disclaimer: These opinions are solely my own, and do not reflect the opinions or official positions of any United States Government agency, organization or department.
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