Empowerment, not destruction
Today there is a general strike in Oakland. I would like speak out against such actions. Why? Because strikes are another form of centralizing power and then proving that power by showing how much destruction you can do with it. In many ways it is no different from the power imposed by Wall Street or the police.
As they say in the commercial, “That’s old school thinking baby!” Strikes, like police tear gas, are inherently destructive to all. We basically cut off our nose to spite our face.
The Occupy movement is not about old school destruction, instead it is a 21st century idea about empowerment of the individual. We need to leave destruction behind. Instead, let us look at empowerments like Bank Transfer Day that is coming up. There, we are engaged in destruction, but instead engaged in transfer and empowerment, both of the individual and the small community bank.
