iamthecrime replied to your quote: To the people of the world, We, the New York…

I agree that’s it’s a badly worded message but that shouldn’t discredit the whole movement. These aren’t politicians or people otherwise in power occupying the streets.

Have you read this by Jessica Yee? I am hardly the first person who expresses a critical view of the movement. Also, the US actually funded the brutal repression that prevented many Latin American nations from raising against dictatorships. When in Argentina we had more than 30,000 people kidnapped, tortured and “disappeared”, the para military in charge of these operations had been trained by the CIA. As a third worlder, I reserve the right to give very intense side eye to anything coming out of a “manifesto” drafted by the same people that benefited financially from the imbalance created by these regimes. My critical analysis will always side with the role that the US had in my neck of the woods and from where I am standing, a call to action to “people of the world”, has to be contextualized with the lack of massive protests back in the day when these same “people of the world” were just trying to survive.

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