"If you try to hinder this growth because you claim it will destroy the movement, you will only be left behind while a more radical autonomous platform is built. The new platform will center the experiences of people of color, of women, of other groups that have been marginalized by a white majority.
We are not asking for permission to rename the movement anymore. The movement—the wave of empowerment that people are waking up to internationally—does not belong to you. It was around before the occupy movement and it will be around long after it leaves us. Resistance is only truly sustainable if it holds sacred the struggles of the most oppressed and we will call our movements, our resistance, our struggle, whatever we want.
Thank you for taking the time to watch this film and reflecting on what role you wish to play in making movements truly liberating."
COMMENT:
This is the work of self-proclaimed Communist leader of Occupy Oakland, Boots Riley, and his anarchist cohorts. Occupy Oakland is now "Decolonize Oakland." I think this is the nightmare every populist movement hopes to avoid: co-option by fringe elements who care only for their selfish agenda and "don't give a fuck" for the good of the whole.
The Occupy movement should disassociate itself completely from this negative, self-serving spin-off lest the whole, hopeful Occupy movement goes down with these self-righteous, judgmental, arrogant people.
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