| I know many folks had thought, or hoped, that OWS had died a slow and mostly quiet death. |
OWS is still alive and well, just in partial winter hibernation. But they will wake this spring, and they have friends who will accompany them.
One of those friend is, The 99% Spring.
Ive been saying, come this spring or this summer, OWS and friends will rise up. They have been saying so, they have been promising to recreate 68.
They are coming.
They are coming for you, your freedom, any wealth you may have accumulated through your hard work. Any potential for you to accumulate wealth in the future.
Worse yet, they are coming for the future of your children.
They are coming for America.
This spring we rise! We will reshape our country with our own hands and feet, bodies and hearts.
The assault that was launched on Madison Wisconsin is specifically referenced, giving us at least some insight into what sort of tactics these folks plan to employ.
In the last year alone we watched the teachers and fire fighters of Wisconsin stand for the rights of workers.
Youll note the term non-violent from the above image. Dont count on it at all. These folks will without a doubt, engage in violence.
We saw violence in Wisconsin, weve seen it with OWS. We will see it again this spring and summer, and very likely on a larger scale.
Its your freedom they want.
Who stands with this movement?
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Sarita Gupta Jobs With Justice |
Bob King United Auto Workers |
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George Goehl National Peoples Action |
Ai-jen Poo National Domestic Workers Alliance |
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Justin Ruben MoveOn.org |
Joy Cushman & Judith Freeman New Organizing Institute |
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Liz Butler Movement Strategy Center |
John Sellers and Andrew Boyd The Other 98% |
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Mary Kay Henry Service Employees International Union |
Van Jones and Natalie Foster Rebuild the Dream |
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John Wilhelm UNITE-HERE |
Phil Radford Greenpeace |
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John Cavanagh Institute for Policy Studies |
Scott Reed PICO National Network |
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Tracy Van Slyke and Ilana Berger New Bottom Line |
Leo Gerard United Steel Workers |
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Daniel Cantor Working Families Party |
Larry Cohen Communications Workers of America |
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Victor Sanchez Jr United States Student Association |
Becky Tarbotton Rainforest Action Network |
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Randi Weingarten American Federation of Teachers |
Brian Kettenring Leadership Center for the Common Good |
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Randy Jackson UNITY |
Saket Soni National Guestworker Alliance |
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Bill McKibben and May Boeve 350.org |
Sharon Lungo and Megan Swoboda The Ruckus Society |
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Ian Inaba Citizen Engagement Lab |
Patrick Reinsborough and Doyle Canning smartMeme Strategy & Training Project |
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Rachel LaForest Right to the City Alliance |
Brigid Flaherty Pushback Network |
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Richard Hopson Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment |
Tim Carpenter Progressive Democrats of America |
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Bob Callahan Change to Win |
Michael Leon Guerrero Grassroots Global Justice Alliance |
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Roger Hickey Campaign for Americas Future |
Aaron Ostrom Fuse Washington |
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Jeff Ordower Missourians Organizing for Reform and Empowerment |
Karen Scharff Citizen Action of New York |
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Marianne Manilov Engage |
Bruce Klipple United Electrical Workers Union |
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Pablo Alvarado National Day Laborers Organizing Network |
LeeAnn Hall Alliance for a Just Society |
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Leslie Moody The Partnership for Working Families |
Teresa Cheng United Students Against Sweatshops |
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Arturo Carmona Presente.org |