Is "Spring99%" a rejuvenation of Occupy Wall Street, or a false flag psyop aimed at absorbing OWS into the elite-controlled, false-choice Demopublican facade?
IS THE 99% SPRING INITIATIVE AN ATTEMPT TO ABSORB THE OCCUPY MOVEMENT INTO THE CORPORATE-CONTROLLED TWO-PARTY SYSTEM?
co-opt (verb): To absorb, assimilate or take into a larger group. See also co-opted, co-option, co-optive, co-optate, co-optated, co-optation, co-optative, coopt, coopted, cooptive, cooptate, cooptated, cooptation, cooptative, taken in, taken over, annexed, appropriated, subverted and screwed.
Here you will find the letter that launched the "99% Spring" initiative and the signatories of the 40 organizations who are openly behind it:
http://the99spring.com/who-we-are/
There is no question that Justen Ruben's MoveOn.org, Van Jones' Rebuild the Dream and many if not most of the other groups listed there have ties to the Democratic Party and the Bushbama re-election circus. Consequently, it would be prudent for all concerned to question the real agenda behind 99% Spring, as many are:
"There are accusations from Occupy folks that Spring99% is trying to co-opt the OWS movement. That MoveOn is a front for the Democratic Party. And there are denials both from activists within the Spring99% network and members of the Occupy movement itself. It is a needed debate, even though it's probably under the radar for many progressives and irrelevant for mainstream politics – except for the accusations that Spring99% is a front for the Obama re-election campaign. Meanwhile, paranoia of being co-opted has been a mainstay within the anti-Wall Street movement for months."
http://obrag.org/?p=58223&cpage=1
"In an interview, activist and author John Stauber - who founded the Center for Media and Democracy in 1993 and ran it until 2009 - laid it out: 'Democratic donors and unions have - since the 2000 Nader/Gore/Bush election - flowed millions of election year dollars into non-profit organizations and liberal media to rally progressives and create an echo chamber that can impact politics in favor of Democrats... 99% Spring's activities will surely be carefully and quietly coordinated behind the scenes to have a maximum positive impact in defeating Republicans and re-electing President Obama," he continued. "These groups will claim independence from the 2012 Democratic campaign agenda, but the fact is that funding will flow to them simply to create buzz and the appearance of a movement that dovetails perfectly with Obama's campaign rhetoric.'"
Clearly, Stauber suspected Spring99% to be a false front. Charles M. Young attended one of their "nonviolent direct action training" sessions this week, and brought back ample proof that it is:
"The first clue... was the sign-up table, where there were a bunch of Obama buttons for sale and one sign-up sheet for the oddly named Community Free Democrats (are they free of community?), which is the local Democratic clubhouse. That killed the 'inspired by Occupy Wall Street' vibe right there... Over half the crowd left early. Most of those who stayed appeared to be angry and mystified that they had received no training whatever in nonviolent direct action. I doubt that the Democrats or MoveOn succeeded in co-opting anyone, and I predict that they will be inventing more dreary front groups as the election year grinds onward."
http://thiscantbehappening.net/node/1126
I have not attended - and I refuse to attend - any 99% Spring or other Demopublican indoctrination sessions. I would never waste my time charging windmills with third parties, but neither will I allow them to sucker me back into the two-party fold. I have been actively supporting the Occupy Movement since day one (9/17/2011) ... Morpheus gave me the Red Pill in Washington DC two years before that (9/11/2009) ... and I've been waging a personal rebellion against the Kleptocracy empowered by 9/11 ever since. And based on what I've seen first-hand in venues like the OccupyWallSt.org Forum, if I still had any left I would bet my entire savings that Spring99% was not the first and will not be the last attempt by the corporate fascist elite and their puppet president Bushbama to co-opt OWS. AdBusters says much the same:
http://www.adbusters.org/blogs/adbusters-blog/jump.html
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1 Comment
YES, we should be concerned. NO, they will not co-opt us.
Submitted by TechnoZeus on
It's rather simple. We're bigger and more inclusive than they are. They simply CAN NOT co-opt us, although yes I do feel that we should be aware of the fact that it will likely be attempted repeatedly. WE SHOULD CO-OPT THEM is what it comes right down to. No secracy about it... those of us who choose to take the time to attend such things, in my opinion, should state straght out that our intention is to make sure that any movement or organization claiming to represent the 99% or to be trying to make a better life for everyone will not get away with making such a claim and then trying to divide the people against each other. If they get some funding from a political party and have to advertise that party in return, that's fair enough. If they have anything good to say about a party, there's nothing wrong with that. On the other hand, we can pick and choose what we believe as we would do anyway and we can communicate with each other and debunk anything we see as false or misleading. As long as we are communicating with each other and sharing our thoughts and ideas and opinions and viewpoints, no attempt to co-opt us is going to work... and if any attempt to co-opt us is trying to pass itself off as supporting us, they will have to ACTUALLY SUPPOR US in order for us to believe it, and even then we'll be skeptical because it's in our nature as a diverse movement with many hairbrained ideas of our own to filter through healthy skepticism. Hey, if corporate funding is going into attempts to co-opt us for political reasons... let 'em spend all they like. There are worse things they could be doing with that money. Meanwhile, if anyone decides to vote for a Demopublican candidate, let that be their own personal choice... but at least hopefully not oblivious to the reality of the one party system that tends to support. Personally, I think anyone who supports any Demopublican candidate should send a clear message to that candidate that dropping the party would gain them even more support, because electing Demopublicans has not gone very well in the past on the average. Heck, if Obama would drop the Demopublican party and start repairing some of the damage he's done in the name of keeping the Demopublican congressmen and senators happy, I would certainly stand behind the gesture... and maybe a bunch of Demopublican senators and congressmen would too... and they could all start to undo the damage they've done to our country in the name of corporate support. Who knows... some of them may even be able to gain some of our votes that way... but one thing they will NOT do is get our movement to stand behind a party or candidate, because that would mean we no longer represented the 99% and we're just not about to let such a thing happen. Simple fact.
Donald A. Kronos
Adventurer and problem solver by reputation, Actor by profession and peaceful Activist at heart - Donald Arthur Kronos, Ph.D.
http://DonaldKronos.info
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