#demand nothing

Several Occupy Homes activists have been charged with rioting after linking arms and sitting down to defend a family from an unjust eviction. They currently face up to 2 years in prison and a $7,000 fine. The man stepping on them is the chief of police. REBLOG if you think this an outrageous attempt to scare neighbors fighting to keep families in their homes. REBLOG if you think we should be arresting the criminal bankers who crashed our economy through fraud and theft instead of peaceful protesters. More info here. Donate here to help cover the legal expenses of this ridiculous attack on the occupy movement.

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TheStreet: Obviously, many have criticized the movement for not putting out a single demand or list of demands. If the incentive to keep it vague was to make it easier for people to join the movement, why not make the message more specific now that the protests have gained steam?

Graeber: We don't want to give up the broad-based appeal. I do think every Occupy group has brainstorming groups coming up with this stuff, so there is a very long process of how we are going to come up with alternative visions democratically. That's being done. But people have been trying to put out demands and protest since the 2008 collapse and no one shows up. We say the system is f---ed and suddenly we get hundreds of thousands of people.

I think that people are much more interested in radical change. People really don't like the way things are arranged now. Yes, they have to actually get food for their children and that's a priority and if there is an immediate [political] measure that can do that then they want it, but there is an anger at the way things are structured. It's not a matter of how far people want to go as it is how far people think they can go.