“Front Groups, Not Issues!”
The real Occupy WS movement is worldwide in potential appeal and further reason for worry to the managers of the empire.
Editor’s Note: Fraudulent is as fraudulent does. We first reported on the MoveOn travesty on March 16. Events have since only confirmed the accuracy of our suspicion. [See 99 Percent Spring: the Latest MoveOn Front for the Democratic Party ]. A word of caution, however. Mother Jones, which can be fairly described as a left liberal/socdem publication, has been running well structured pieces actually suggesting that the opposite is true: that MoveOn may have accidentally detonated a real grassroots movement by injecting formal “nonviolent” training in their usual menu of activism (for the most part hacktivism). It’s damn worth a read as history can indeed take surprising turns so we include it, too, in this dispatch, in our editorial comment/addendum section at the bottom of this article.—PG Continue reading »