Occupy Dallas:

I don't think you can just neatly call the Occupier movement a "liberal" Tea Party.

This is not about Big vs. Small Government.....this movement is about RESTORING VIRTUE in the political class.

Main issue is money in politics.
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This is seen as the root source of a lot of other problems.

There's ample room for debate about the role of government. But debate is just debate; regardless of your theory of government, nothing can be accomplished without the blessing of corporate power.

I refuse to accept this as just the way it is....

and while BCRA was flawed (overbearing in some respects, weak in others), Citizen's United has sent us down a dangerous path...surging towards Fascism.

I have a common sense solution to the problem: Government acting as a buyer and seller in the marketplace can stipulate in contracts with those it does business with that said party to the contract cannot donate to(independently/directly) or be involved with candidate specific campaigns.
In a similar regard, Congress could simply make it a law that you can't lobby government within a certain measure and also contribute directly or indirectly to candidate specific campaigns, as part of its responsibilities to ensure a Republican form of government.

Other problems relate to enforcement mechanisms and separating candidate specific campaigns from issue campaigns. What it comes down to is a need for strict rules...and not crazed Kafkaesque loopholes that allow shadowy political organizations to masquerade as charities and non-profits.
Everybody still has a right to unlimited issue campaigning and to lobby government. They just can't do that and also contribute to candidate specific campaigns.

Government should consider policy ideas based on their merit....not on campaign contributions.

Furthermore, we need a buffer zone b/n public management and private employment, as opposed to the leadership level revolving doors between the public and private sectors, which the elites currently enjoy.

This is how we will restore Virtue...and a government "of, by, and for" the people.

I demand action be taken on this proposal at once.

Power to the People!

This a Revolution....decades in the making. We will occupy. We will protest. We will march. We will establish are own governments. We will learn to self-govern ourselves as a polity again. We will educate ourselves. We will arouse the democratic spirit. We will unite as one people with an inseparable bond between us. We will feed the homeless in the alleys. We will care for veterans. We will stand for immigrant rights. We will bring hope to the disenchanted. We will prove ourselves to be what we have always been waiting for.

And we will be beaten. We will be spit on. We will be denigrated. Our rights will be violated. We will face the hardships of the elements, the scorn of our neighbors, and the hatred of those who oppose us.

But I believe we will find sympathy, allies, and sustenance when we take our case to the broader whole of the American people.

Join us. I beg of you all. Join us.

Occupy Dallas is risking arrest as early as tomorrow night at Pioneer Plaza. The situation is tenuous. The city has indefinitely extended the waiver of park curfew and sleeping rules for one more night, but after tonight...?

We need your help. We need your support. We need your voice.

OccupyNow! Communique #4:
Call to action: Shut Down Port of Houston!

December 6th 2011
It has come to the attention of OccupyNow! that our brothers and sisters from Occupy Oakland have put a call out for all west coast occupies to directly disrupt the economic apparatus of the 1% by shutting down all west coast ports on Dec 12th. OccupyNow! recognizes that ALL Occupy related movements are one. When one of us is raided, we are all raided. When one of us is dispersed, we are all dispersed. When one of us is brutalized, we are ALL brutalized. In the same spirit, when one Occupy movement puts out a call to action, it is the revolutionary responsibility of all able-bodied occupiers to respond appropriately. Therefore, OccupyNow!, at our November 28th Revolutionary Council meeting put out a call to action for ALL Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and other gulf coast occupies to converge on the Port of Houston on December 12th 2011. OccupyNow! has hosted numerous conference calls with Occupy Oakland, Occupy Wall Street, Occupy Houston, Occupy San Antonio, Occupy Laredo, and others in order to coordinate a mass demonstration on the Port of Houston and we have been met with nothing but enthusiasm and optimism. It is the opinion of OccupyNow! that in order to maintain solidarity and cohesion with eachother as a movement more actions like these are necessary. This is an official call to action. Brothers and sisters...it is time. It is time for the forgotten to remind the world that they exist and that they have value! It is time for the working class to rise and remind the 1%, that it is the worker who truly controls the means of production, not the CEO! It is time for the youth to rise and take control of their future, if indeed they desire to have one. It is time...for Revolution. There are those who say that we, as a nation, are not ready, that the world is not ready, that we must wait another 10, 20, or 30 years before real change is enacted. Brothers and sisters, OccupyNow! Completely rejects these sentiments. We believe that the time for justice, the time for freedom, and the time for equality is always RIGHT NOW! Join us at the Port of Houston on Dec 12th. It is time.