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14 Nov 2011 @ 15:21, by Shreepal Singh
When challenged, people’s bravery and ingenuity know no bounds. OWS is people’s direct action against the corporate greed and its political support base. In their struggle against an already fearsome opponent, now the people in this nascent stage find one more unusual foe lending a helping hand to their bitter opponent: the winter weather. The winter has added more – and is going to add still more – woes to the embattled people.
The question is: how do we overcome this natural impediment and emerge at the end of the ordeal intact in our body and soul of the movement? It is possible for the people to wear out this winter unscathed and emerge even stronger at the end of the trial. The secret of this success lies in the way of our working and thinking about this movement.
We must recognize that OWS is a people’s action against the corporate greed and its political support-base and that it seeks to replace this duo with something better with the aid of people’s power. We should also recognize that this something better has to be discovered or invented by the people themselves to solve their problems in hands and cannot be borrowed in a ready-made fashion from our opponents; this something better to solve our problems cannot be supplied to us by the so-called researched SOLUTIONS of these opponents.
Let us put this question in a straight forward way: what do we want to do, supposing we win in our (OWS) efforts? Perhaps, a major part of us at the OWS would agree that we want to replace the present corporate greed nurtured and protected by our political establishment (s) with the sovereign governance “of the people, by the people, for the people” – this time in EFFECTIVE MANNER.
If this be our aim, then we would be called upon to change our attitude – the working – towards OWS: we can no longer afford to view this movement as something negative, a mere protest, an opposition to something (like corporate greed) that we do not want to remain in our country; a negative stand and nothing more. This view is half-truth. The other half-truth is that we are a people’s movement aiming at positive things; that we are struggling to replace the present rot with the people’s governance; that we have the right to assume that we have the sovereign right to govern ourselves; that we have the RESPONSIBILITIES to perform like a sovereign government to MANAGE our things in a better manner than the management imposed upon us by our opponents.
In simple words, this calls for our engagement during this winter in constructive works; we should take in our hands constructive work of improving the people’s lot; we should occupy ourselves (as if we are running a government of the people, by the people, for the people) with the jobs aimed at resolving the people’s problems (that we are currently facing). These constructive works would include:
1. Occupy all available houses/buildings to shelter the OWS participants; make an appeal to all those who may offer their properties free of charge (this is opposite to greed and would be people’s reply to this greed) to OWS movement to house the participants. This step would help reduce the harshness of winter, enhance the unity and goodwill among participants and would be people’s reply to the devil’s creed of greed. This step would facilitate the movement to survive the winter and emerge in spring more strong – morally and politically.
2. Learn to enforce self-discipline: OWS is crucible of social experiment of people’s self-governance in all matters of their lives, albeit for a short period of winter season. There may be (rather would be) scarcity of food, cloths, medicines etc. during this trial and people should learn to give preference in supplying these necessities to weak, old, infirm, children, women and those in more need over those who can wait for these supplies. This step calls for sacrifice, love and compassion to others on the part of OWS participants, which is just opposite to the evil of greed. These values, when practiced by people would be a harsh reply to our opponents’ greed and their animal instinct of celebrating over other people’s miseries. We the people are the sovereign rulers – and we shall rule ourselves directly and effectively rather soon than expected. Let us replace people’s regulation by corporate greed with their own self-regulation with discipline. This way, we shall emerge this winter triumphant and more robust in our popular appeal in coming spring.
3. Learn to control crime, drug-abuse, sexual crimes, racial hatred etc.: These are grave problems being faced by OWS on day to day basis and we have to learn to correct these social maladies in a better way than the one adopted by our opponents. Let the competent volunteers among the OWS participants invent social and/or psychological tools (like offering personal examples by volunteers of amiable behavior) to help the afflicted persons to improve himself or herself and bring a beneficial change in their life-style. In a self-regulating society (like OWS), these drug-addicts and deviants should be taken the victims of circumstances created by the corporate greed – these circumstances being the bye-products of the hot-pursuit of more profits by the greedy corporate. Let the people use their ingenuity during this difficult period – winter season – to work constructively and find ways and means to cure our society of these ills. Any achievement – even a small one – by people on this front would be enough to demolish the claimed validity of the insensitive methods that have so far been used by our antagonists to tackle these problems. And, this our method would establish the superiority of the people’s self-regulation and governance in solving their problems over the methods of devil’s creed.
4. Organize voluntary and parallel health services: This is another field of experimenting with the idea of creating a better alternative voluntary and cooperative health services for the OWS participants. Let us pool our health related resources – expertise and means – and use them efficiently without the element of greed. This service is the most essential to make OWS survive through this winter.
Good luck from Indian People's Congress
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