OWS: Noam Chomsky endorsing the 2012 US Occupation Movement, aka, American Spring

OWS: Noam Chomsky endorsing the 2012 US Occupation Movement, aka, American Spring

Mar 29, 2012

 

It's a privilege to be able to endorse the launching of the 2012 US Occupation Movement.  It's called the American Spring.

As with the civil rights struggle and other genuine popular movements, the American Spring provides all of us with an opportunity to become involved at the grass roots level, and to challenge the right of the 1% to destroy the earth, foreclose on our homes, and undermine the well being of the poor and oppressed today, and of future generations.

They are counting on our silence and apathy and we should not grant them that lethal gift.

The spring renewal of the occupy movement is being launched at the Environmental Protection Agency, which has a sordid record of discrimination and retaliation against whistle blowers, and also policies that harm the poor and communities of color.

It's a record, that lead Congress to pass the "No Fear Act".  The events are extensively documented by Marsha Coleman who spearheaded the struggle in her book "No Fear".

Over the past months it's been impressive and heartening to see how people from all walks of life have joined the occupy movement to engage in the struggle to free the country from corporate domination, government repression, and subordination to private power.

We should not stand idly by in the face of this assault on basic values and rights and the renewed occupy movement provides a framework to resist and to overcome in working our own communities and beyond.

We are the 99%.  We have the chance to take power back and rescue the country and the planet, from a grim fate.