Where are the 99%?

[TBF]

3. We may not live under a brutal dictatorship

but the propaganda is just as thick. Our union membership is down to maybe 10% now, with many low income people tuning into FAUX news and spouting off about the ills of unions. That really hurts us because it is going to take discipline and some amount of order to mount any sort of defense against the 1% - and unions are a great way to organize. Unfortunately the 1% realize this and own the mass media - so they concentrate on pitting us against each other. It is very effective for them to have us all at each others' throats fighting about whether someone in the next cubicle makes more money than you, has your "family values" etc... it takes the heat off them.

The things we can take from OWS are leaderless organization, mobility, and social network. We can still communicate via the internet (so far), and somehow convincing folks that service employees need to unionize is probably the best thing we can do in terms of organized resistance. I see it getting much worse (economically) in this country before it gets better, but eventually folks will wake up because they have no other choice but to fight back. I'd prefer it be in a non-violent way, but the worse it gets the less likely that becomes.