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<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, December 07, 2011 9:50 AM</DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> [socialistdiscussion] OWS links more with working class
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href="http://weknowwhatsup.blogspot.com/2011/12/ows-linking-with-day-to-day-working.html">OWS
linking with day to day working peoples struggles</A></H3>
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<DIV id=post-body-6278331782429964170 class="post-body entry-content">It is
great news. Round the country there is a greater and greater turn of the OWS
movement to the day to day struggles of working people and to linking with the
struggle to stop foreclosures. Last I heard there were scores of occupations and
rallies outside homes that were threatened with foreclosure and with their
occupants being evicted. In my last post to this blog I reported on the refusal
of Sheriffs in one area to evict the people from their homes. Here in Chicago at
one time last year the Sheriff refused to let his department evict people. This
turn of the OWS movement to link with the working peoples struggles is great.
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<DIV>Just a couple of details I would like to raise. One is that we should I
believe take the stance that the owners/occupants of the homes should under no
conditions leave their homes. They are their homes whatever some piece of paper
from a bank might claim. Most of these are fraudulent and even if not, basic
justice demands that nobody can be evicted from their home.</DIV>
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<DIV>The other detail I would like to raise is on tactics. Surrounding a home
and preventing the owners from being evicted is a great step forward. However it
is a defensive tactic. As well as maintaining this tactic we should move onto
the offensive. We should demand the cancellation of all debts to the financial
institutions and the nationalization of all financial institutions as this would
allow us then to see who had robbed what and allow us to cancel the mortgage
debts or at least make them manageable so that everybody could have a
home.</DIV>
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<DIV>We should also go on the offensive in another way. Identify all who are
involved in the decisions to evict people and who made the decisions on the
terms of loans etc. Then go to the workplaces and homes and clubs and churches
of these people and distribute flyer's explaining that these people, name them,
are making the decisions to make people homeless. Get the information also of
how much money these people are making. Go to the neighborhoods of these people
also and ask all those who work in the neighborhoods to boycott these people,
not sell them any goods in the stores, refuse to sell them any gas, refuse to
repair their homes or machines etc., etc. These people are prepared to throw
hundreds of thousands into homelessness. They must be identified and cut off
from the day to day workings of society.</DIV>
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<DIV>As the recent examples I have given of the role of Sheriff's departs make
clear there is potentially support for this approach even among the cops. Here
again is where tactics come in. It would be the greatest mistake if the approach
of attacking the cops at every turn were to be carried out in this struggle.
Many of the cops are in debt over their heads on their own homes. Many of them
are sympathetic to people who are threatened with eviction. As the defensive
struggle to keep the people in their homes takes on a more offensive character
this can also be used to weaken the 1%'s hold over their own state apparatus.
These are some suggestions as to how to take the movement another step
forward.</DIV>
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<DIV>Sean.</DIV>
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