PRESS RELEASE: Occupy the East End Rejects MoveOn.org Takeover Attempt

Ted Rall reposts PRESS RELEASE: Occupy the East End Rejects MoveOn.org Takeover Attempt:

We had been silent. We had hoped that the organizations that are attempting to co-opt and dilute the Occupy Wall Street movement would stop. The Occupy movements across the country are fighting for better lives of the 99% of Americans who work for a living. We had hoped that these interlopers would recognize that what they are doing is wrong.

These interlopers, such as moveon.org, can never see their actions as wrong because they firmly believe in the system as it stands. They see the fundamentals of the system as sound and just. Any current problems are just an aberration that requires people to more fully commit to working within the system.

The press release concludes that:

Occupy the East End is in no way affiliated with MoveOn.org, nor does it wish to become so. The attempt to take over OEE is a hostile takeover attempt to capitalize on the Occupy movement as a whole. Occupy Wall Street and Occupy the East End as a movement rejects the political system as a broken structure that needs to be overhauled from the bottom up.

So we see a move to recognise the political system as broken. But there is no awareness of the economic system that requires such a political system. Still, these are still early times.

The consciousness of the masses cannot be forced to change quickly. The people have to learn by their own experiences.