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A Rant: Occupy Wall Street and Money Not Equaling Activism

Yesterday (8/8/12), I saw one of OWS’s twitter accounts ripping apart Moveon.org for them asking for money and using “Occupy” sayings/logic/platforms to get Obama re-elected, and said, “money isn’t activism,” which I agree with, and I personally dislike MoveOn as well. However, this comes after and while OWS has been asking for monetary donations to support the people working for Occupy, basically. I asked them to stop being such hypocrites. They continued asking for donations. I even mentioned how certain Occupations stopped taking monetary donations and would only accept material donations instead, and that some of us who “work” for Occupy have never asked for a single penny. 

It really just makes me question my involvement in the movement. It also makes me believe “Occupy Wall Street” isn’t the be all, end all decision maker of the entire movement. They were just an idea, and many cities across the world have taken the idea of “occupy” and made it their own. To those cities - keep doing what you’re doing. To OWS - get it the fuck together and stop being a bunch of god damned hypocrites.

Women #occupySD press conf 1.9.12 Women #Occupy San Diego had a press conference on Monday, January 9th, 2012 following the brutal arrest of Stephanie Jennings the weekend before. Mike Garcia also spoke as well as Bryon Pease.

Stephanie is also a kidney transplant patient with a heart condition. A+, SDPD. Great job. Maybe you’ll stop treating us like this after you finally kill someone?

occupysdphotography:

#J07 Occupy San Diego | Federal Wishing Tree on Flickr.

Via Flickr:
The Federal Wishing Tree is a thing of the past after San Diego Police Department removed them from the Civic Center. On January 7, Occupy San Diego marched to commemorate its three month Anniversary and recreated the Federal Wishing Tree at the Harbor. (Johnny Nguyen)

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