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The Occupy movement needs to let the public be very clear on what it is protesting in favor of in a precise manner.   

There is a huge list of things on the Occupy LA website that it is fighting against (23 to be exact).  

Some of the things it opposes are:  Students held hostage with tens of thousands of dollars of debt for education, which is itself a human right; oil spills that have purposely been covered up; accidents; faulty bookkeeping; and large sums donated to politicians.

A lot of people would agree with this but what are they prepared to do about it?  Listing this is a good step but the public wants to see what the future holds.  

A vision of what it could be like.  We have only heard what the protesters don’t want.  

“Focus on remedies, not faults. ” — Jack Nicklaus     

The Occupy protesters believe they are the 99 percent.  The question is, are they going about it in a constructive manner?

Daniel Strickland of Occupy Pasadena said, “Most of the motivation of Occupy is about the gap between everyone else and the 1 percent (the extremely wealthy).”  

Occupy LA is moving towards not having a hierarchy, but instead handling problems through a consensus.  

A very interesting concept, indeed.  Occupy LA could have been more organized in its protest and what it is working for.    

    Leadership roles serve a purpose if used constructively and not as a dictatorship.  A good leader such as Martin Luther King spoke of what he wanted and then asked others to join him to raise awareness.

 The Occupy movement does this to some extent through protests, general assembly meetings and marches.

But with no one in charge, this is a bit of a detriment because there is no one to lead the people down a clear pathway.  

William Rivers Pitt, Truthout editor and columnist takes three large paragraphs to give a clear statement of the message of the Occupy movement:

“I’ll make it simple: Wall Street has occupied American politics and stolen America’s bright future in an orgy of graft and theft, so America has occupied Wall Street – along with every Main Street in every city and town you can think of – in order to try and set things right,” Pitt wrote.

This is what America and the media want. A simple direct explanation of what the Occupy movement is protesting for.

Occupy supporters then can make up their own minds and decide whether to join or walk away.

“Occupy has raised consciousness, ” Strickland said.  Yes, it raised consciousness but not much else. The Occupy movement needs goals with more precision, more direction and stated in a way the rest of us can understand.

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