We have to keep money out of occupy because that holds it in check only to grow as a true grassroots and populous movement. Money begets agenda…
- When necessity for money (e.g. bail funds, etc.) the populous will rally around cause and quickly bring funds forward. When fundraising is a motive to store up cash then the money is a forethought and agenda is directed toward that. And we all know what happens after that don’t we? Poop.
- If we want to get past a monetary system (which begets evil, 1% sorta thing!) we act as without that system (i.e. live our ideology directly) and without doing so only are doomed to repeat the continuous mistakes of past “revolutions”. Paradigm shift, not reform. Fuck reform.
- Keep money autonomous. One-time use, etc. when needed. Not appropriate to make an agenda that’s formulated around allocating money. Same ol’ same ol’ and does nothing to exemplify the change we desire. If we do not want an economic system which begets inequality, etc. (all the issues we harp and protest around) then we have to minimize our participation in such a system. Having a job is not a fault, especially when it’s to maintain a familial unit, but the fault is found in organizing in methods all too familiar to failure or exploitation. Example: let’s not ever lobby congress or raise money to have the funds to battle an issue. This creates alienation and marginalization of those who disagree. To remain grassroots one has to remain fiscally inept, “under-funded”, etc. so it cannot act as the corrupting/manipulating power that it is. The true rallying point is not the money raised and the direction that money takes when agenda is created, but rather, the ability to remain loosely organized, transparent, all-inclusive, etc. Money corrupts and takes us away from those grassroots principles. Money in Occupy will not get anymore of the 99% out in the streets than any other lobbying group, mainstream media news source, bourgeois NGO, etc. Occupy will then be lost to those elite groups pushing their own agendas rather than the agenda of the 99%. They will no longer be an appendage of this movement, i.e. the global paradigm shift.
- AGAIN, lack of money creates broad and general rallying cries which unify the 99%. On the other hand excess money creates competition between affinity groups who view their cause as more important and pressing than another. Let affinity groups store and constantly raise money and do with it as they wish.
- OCCUPY IS AN IDEA, IDEA’S ARE HARD PRESSED TO KEEP A FORM AND THAT IS ONE OF THE KEY SURVIVING ELEMENTS TO A MOVEMENT THAT OCCUPY SHOULD BE SYMBOLIZING. IF OCCUPY FAILS TO SYMBOLIZE THAT THEN ANOTHER SYMBOL WILL EMERGE AND THE REFERENT WILL REMAIN THE SAME.
