What Makes Nonviolent Movements Explode?

[sabrina 1]

7. That is a very good post, thank you. I think OWS scared them to death. That was obvious.

Because the media kept their secrets, they probably thought the people were fooled. OWS grew so rapidly across the country and the globe, rather than the one city they had planned on, it became apparent that the public was seething at the corruption, that they do know and that they are capable of organizing.

The brutal crackdown made no sense. They were not violent, not promoting any kind of revolution, just exercising their constitutional rights to speak.

They succeeded beyond their wildest dreams. Their clever marketing of their message has created a new language explaining succinctly the inequality created by Wall St.

AND most of all, they exposed the police state even as they tried to silence them. And that has created even more anger.

I think boycotts and strikes should be the next phase. No point in going out on the streets and allowing them to bring out the tanks again.

That part WAS successful. Now it is necessary to conduct protests that do not provide them with the opportunity to arrest and harm people.

'Don't buy their stuff'. Corporations depend on money to hold on to their power.

When they start losing money and their stocks fall, THAT will affect them more than anything else.

And they can't very well arrest people for not buying their garbage, well, I don't think they can.