I do not understand at all this fuss over "demands." I suppose the model is the industrial strike or the building occupation. A group interferes with or s tops the operation of some entity (a factory or a university) and declares that the stoppage will end only when a specific authority which is the target grants certain demands.
But OWS is a nation-wide (even world wide) expression of general repugnance at the current ordering of civic and economic life. To make specific demands (on whom?) would be very nearly a betrayal of the whole outpouring of public anger. If these "demos" are aimed at anyone, it is not any entityu that coudl satisfy such demands but is aimed at us -- at the whole working-class of the United States. The implicit demand is that _we_ join them or, better actually, we go to work to build related actions and organizations in out community. Insisting that OWS make demands is playing in the sandbox. Juvenile. Carrol _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
