The Real Point of the OWS - Free Yourself From Corporate Ownership.

The Occupy Wall Street movement has tried to make people understand, but their message is being corrupted by others. The real point of the OWS movement is to bring attention to how much of your life is controlled by those with all the wealth and how far they will go to maintain that control. This is a worldwide problem and it must be stopped.

However, there are those of us who are working on removing those chains. I thought I would post some links about how you can help free humanity from the slave masters that are the corporations.

1. Creative Commons: The creative commons is a form of open source protection that makes the information available to all. Wikipedia is licensed under the Creative Commons license. It affirms your position as creator without poisoning all other creations that can feed off your work.

2. Linux: Free yourself from slavery to the software producers who have fed of the creative power of the designers and programmers while denying them control over their own work. The most basic attack on the control of the software industry is to stop using their proprietary operating systems where they overcharge you for access and refuse to give you access to the inner workings of their software. The best version is Ubuntu, but there are plenty of other versions.

3. Free yourself from proprietary software. There are open source versions of all major software programs being used today. Why pay $750.00 for a software license which fills the pockets of the greedy while denying ownership to the creators. List of Open Source Software.

4. Information should be free. There is a global movement dedicated to making information available to all. The MIT Open Course Ware, Khan Academy, CK-12 Foundation, and many other education resources are being opened up. Many scientist are pushing for opening up all scientific knowledge to everyone.

These are just a few of the options available to you. Some others are
The Open Ecology Project: Dedicated to open sourcing all production equipment.
The Open Hardware Project: Dedicated to open sourcing computer hardware.

The corporate propaganda artist have convinced people that we cannot survive without them. One of their most pernicious lies is that progressives want to return people to the dark ages by throwing away all the technological progress which has been made. We are their lifeblood and they are leeches. Without the fruits of our labors they starve.
Free yourself from their chains and cut off their food supply.

 

I have seen nothing about any of these issues coming from the OWS movement. Are you sure you're following the right people? If any of these things are what the movement encourages or fights for, then why are we not hearing this from their leadership--do they even have a leadership? The OWS movement needs to fade away and be replaced by something more effective and that speaks with more clarity.

 

The statement they released is all about getting out from under control by the corporations.

http://www.nycga.net/resources/declaration/

Sounds to me like they are advocating getting out from under the corporations.

 

That's not a statement. That's a laundry list of vague accusations aimed at no one. It doesn't give the slightest hint of movement forward or represent what an organization stands for.

 

Thanks for the suggestions, I'm aware of most of them. The one worry I have about open-information is in some cases that openness leads to abuse by hackers. Google is a prime example. Their security protections are far too weak for me. Allowing hackers easy access is just stupid.

 

This is exactly how true movements incubate and develop and leaders and goals emerge. If OWS had kind of suddenly appeared as an organized entity with a defined set of goals and a leadership structure in place I'd have written them off in a second. I have no idea how things are going to play out with OWS going forward. I don't know what shape or shapes it will eventually take or what if anything will crystalize. But the anger and the frustration that these people feel will be made manifest in some form either as OWS or as something else. It won't go away.

 

...but their complaints seem so random. You can't lump everybody together who has a beef & call it a movement.

 

As much as I agree with Takiji that movements tend to gel as they develop, you've stated what I meant exactly, David. I don't like living on food stamps--does that make me a member of the OWS movement? I haven't been able to get a job in town for over a year and a half now--should I be angry at "the system?" Wall Street has nothing to do with Hurricane Katrina coming through and destroying all of the agricultural work available here (excluding one commercial employer) or the high gas prices that have made the cost of doing business skyrocket, to the point where small business after small business has closed shop. The town I live in is a ghost town, but I own my house and can't afford to move before I graduate next year in August. So who do I blame? Every one of my complaints (only touched on here) fits the OWS movemen"t to a T, but I don't identify with that movement at all. A movement, in my opinion, needs a rallying cry--a single identifying concept that unifies them--that can have a list of narrowly defied ideas associated with it. The OWS "movement is too broad to make much sense.