OWS. How to increase our base and get reinforcements.

A few days ago Sheriffs in I think it was Florida were sent to foreclose on a house. The criminal vultures who were demanding this were the owners of Chase bank. There were two ladies living in the house. One was 103 years old and the other was her daughter who was 83. When the sheriffs came the lady in her eighties collapsed and had to be taken to hospital. In the course of what followed the Sheriff and his deputies refused to carry out their orders and fore close on the house and evict the ladies. They turned around and drove away. The bank said they would look at the case again. What a bunch of savages and criminals are these bankers. None of them have gone to jail or been evicted. .

Let us draw some conclusions from these events. The OWS movement is also getting evicted in many areas. The movement however continues to have great courage and energy. The big question is where do we go from here. We on this blog have argued that we should orient the OWS movement to the day to day experiences of working class people where they are experiencing the attacks of the banks and financial institutions and bosses system directly. These take the form of fore closures and evictions, firings, wage cuts, lock outs, strikes, school closings, health cuts, repression, racism, sexism, wars etc.

Take this example of the fore closure I mention above. The local OWS should surround this house with the agreement of the ladies who live their and refuse to allow anybody to evict them. It is already shown that there would be a lot of sympathy for this when we see the Sheriff refusing to evict the occupants. The OWS in every area should seek out those places where working people are under attack and transfer their occupations and mobilizations there. This would put down roots for the OWS in the working class and the day to day struggles of working people. I read that there have been up to 1 million people fore closed on in 2011 so far. Imagine the strength of our movement if we move in and advocate that nobody leaves their home and we surround and occupy the areas around the peoples houses and stop any and all foreclosures. The mood in the country is very very ripe for this. Let us take the OWS to the working class struggles and not expect the working class struggles to come to us. This would be a much more successful tactic.

Sean.